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One year later: Remembering accounting Professor Sue Marcum and her legacy By ZACH C. COHEN, PAIGE JONES and REBECCA ZISSER Eagle Staff Writers
AU endowed a scholarship in honor of the late Professor Sue Marcum in July, to be given to undergraduates pursuing a master’s degree in accounting in the Kogod School of Business. This is the first year the scholarship has reached a sustainable level, meaning it can be given to students every year for the foreseeable future. The scholarship was originally set up by Marcum in April 2009 to develop students’ passion for accounting. Marcum was a beloved AU professor for 11 years,
and won Kogod Professor of the Year three times during her life, The Eagle previously reported. Three students have been awarded the scholarship since it started two years ago, according to Lara Kline, Kogod assistant dean for marketing and strategy. The scholarship was started with donations from Marcum. She even asked for her birthday presents one year to be donations to the fund. After Marcum died Oct. 25, 2010, members of the AU community and working professionals in D.C. who knew her raised over $50,000 for the fund, the minimum amount of money needed for a scholarship
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to be endowed. “The school really responded [to Marcum’s death] in a beautiful way,” said Emily Lindsay, who took over Marcum’s previous position as director of the Master of Science in Accounting program. “There was an outpouring of support by students and by the faculty and at the administration level.” Faculty and staff in Kogod see the scholarship as tangible evidence of Marcum’s legacy at AU, though they said she had always inspired passion in students for accounting. Kogod accounting and taxation Professor Don Williamson, a close friend of Marcum’s, regularly hears
stories of her lasting impact when speaking with professional accountants. “There’s a whole generation of accountants, I can’t tell you how many people, I go around time saying, ‘How’d you go into accounting?’ ‘Well, Sue Marcum. Sue Marcum told me to go into accounting,’” Williamson said. One of those students is Kaitlyn Rooney, a first-year graduate accounting student in Kogod, who learned not only skills but also passion for accounting from Marcum. She was the only recipient of the Sue Marcum Scholarship this year. “I’m honored to receive such an award,” Rooney said. “It’s just such a great
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A MENTOR AND A FRIEND Students and colleagues who worked with Professor Sue Marcum said she was a dedicated and passionate teacher. AU endowed a scholarship in her name this fall to be given to students pursuing a master’s degree in accounting. way to remember Professor Marcum.” An ongoing case Montgomery County Police have made no further developments in the case of Sue Marcum’s murder since issuing a warrant for Jorge Rueda Landeros on May 27. Landeros is still believed to be in Mexico. “We have no details on getting the suspect from Mexico,” Officer Rebecca Innocenti said. Landeros was a 41-yearold yoga instructor who was close friends with Marcum and taught her Spanish, The Eagle previously reported. Sue Marcum was a beloved AU professor for 11 years, and won Kogod Professor of
the Year three times during her life, The Eagle previously reported. She was murdered in her apartment on October 25, 2010. Marcum was 52 years old. Police initially identified Deandrew Hamlin as a suspect in the murder when he was found driving Marcum’s Jeep the day of her death. The police dropped charges against Hamlin in May, but later that month the D.C. Superior Court found him guilty of unauthorized use of a vehicle for stealing Marcum’s car, The Eagle previously reported. Innocenti said MCP is still pursuing the murder case. “The public perception is that we’re not doing MARCUM, PAGE 12 ≥
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11 a.m – 3 p.m. / Embassies along Massachusetts Ave / Trick-or-Treat at 20 of the embassies in D.C. The School of International Service Undergraduate Council will be providing maps with opening times for each embassy at a table in front of the SIS building. / sispresident@ ausg.org
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Come on Eaglesecure, step up your game! It’s midterms week! I got crap to take care of, don’t leave me out hanging here! The Tavern workers scare me. OK, so people can get into TDR without being swiped if they flirt with the people swiping? Not fair, not appropriate and totally happening every day. I’ve seen all these New AU posters everywhere and I wish I knew how I could get involved! I wish we had student democracy on campus! [Editor’s Note: You can newaucampaign@gmail. com.] That awkward moment when instead of showing your ID at the front desk you show a condom, then promptly drop all of the others you grabbed at the Health Center. “Wanted: a nice, cute boy. We’ll spend our fall afternoons studying and cuddling together. We can drink tea and hot chocolate together, listen to classical music, have meaningful conversations and go to jazz clubs on weekends.” You have never been in a real relationship. I got an email from AU Central last week stating that I owed this lovely institution over $3k. WHAT. I just got an email 1hour ago saying that I am getting a $4k refund … whaaaat? #incompetency at its best. Yes I did just hashtag in an Eagle Rant.
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I get that Eagle Rants is not a match-making service, but I’m a sorta normal guy compared to the rest of AU’s selection, looking for the right girl. Wow, I’m lame. I hate that class where I speak up a lot and try to say smart things, yet I leave feeling like everyone just stares at me and thinks I’m dumb. You: wearing a sorority sweatshirt and having a super interesting conversation with your professor about feature articles and The Bos-
ton Globe in SIS on Monday 10/10. Me: trying to do my homework but distracted by your coolness. (What class are you in? It sounded SO good!) BTW: I know I’m a nerd. The day the McDonald’s under the bridge closes is the day I drop out of this school. Say goodbye to my $55,000 a year AU, I refuse to be a part of an institution that will not endorse filling my stomach with delicious, greasesoaked atrocities. GBF major with a focus in fabulosity ;) So I’m graduating in December, and over the past few years I’ve developed a number of very innocent crushes here at AU. I am tempted to go up and confess to every one of them if I have the chance … NOT to get/hookup with them, but just to give them a little ego-
box. No shame. To Miss Lonely Lesbian, No you are not alone. There are quite a few lesbians on campus. Most of us just have a penis. Please don’t give up hope. I know there is someone for you. Sincerely, Woman in a mans body Can someone please explain what a biddy is? I would really appreciate it. - A Southerner/Urban Dictionary is Too Vague AU has a place for lonely people to meet up. It’s called Student Government. I hope the guy next to me doesn’t mind me eating in the library. But seriously, Eagle Rants are the only thing keeping this paper in circulation. Cuchina Verde FTW.
My mom told me to stop eating so much McDonald’s, so I got a new mom. boost :) ‘Cause hey, I doubt I’ll see ‘em again! My numb is face. #cashprize Wow. Just read the Letter to the Editor by Students for Israel. They appear quite similar to the Israeli government itself, in that both tend to dramatically overreact to perceived threats. To the Ranter who felt priced out of UPS, There is a post office on Wisconsin past Z-burger and Chipotle. It’s a bit of a walk, but it may be worth it. Sincerely, Fellow broke college student with two jobs Why was my Rant about my Leo RA not posted? I am in love with him! [Editor’s Note: It was probably painfully long, profane, really awkward or named the person.] I love that it’s socially acceptable to sleep in the Mud-
Why does everything have to be political, why can’t we just have a dog lovers club? Anyone else want a dog lovers club? AU Threesome graduated. There’s a guy in my HFIT class who wears cute glasses and looks like a blond Clark Kent. I’d love to be his Lois Lane. Dear person in Understanding Media who is looking to talk to the guy with dark rimmed glasses who is told that he looks like Clark Kent — it may be me. If you have Fahy’s class on Tuesdays and Fridays, come talk to me after class on Tuesday. I’d love for you to introduce yourself. Girls named Cässie are hot. Especially the psych major girls named Cässie. Might I take you to dinner, Madam Editor? [Editor’s Note: Are you a murderer, thief or rapist or
do you have any other criminal inclinations?] Really wish the police blotter would come back so that news of Governa’s extension of justice could reach all of AU.#superliberalgoverna This year’s Eagle Rants editor is much more snarky and annoying than last year’s. Just sayin’. [Editor’s Note: Charlie Szold would be so disappointed to know he has lost the throne of snarkiness.] @last week’s “Disney Land” ranter: 1) It’s “Disneyland” not “Disney Land.” 2) Google the Disney College Program. Lets spread our message from South side to North side to … yeah. #occupynorthwestdc To my roommate, When I text you that I’m bringing a girl back to our room, it isn’t so you can meet her. #awkward Looking good with that infographic in the crime reports story, Eagle! High five. [Editor’s Note: Thanks! Our design editor high fives you back.] @possibly depressed: AU has free counseling! Second floor of MGC, walk past the elevators and turn right, it’s on the end. They are very nice people and can make you feel better. I know because they helped me. Good luck! Re: Are there no lesbians on this campus??? Am I alone here??? HONEY. AU has so many lesbians. All the lesbians! Come to a QWAC meeting! Dear AU, Stop trying to make WONK happen. Sincerely, A Grad Student Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted.
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AU debuts WONK TV commercial, expands Metro print ads By JULIA RYAN Eagle Staff Writer
AU will be expanding its WONK marketing campaign with a TV advertisement and more ads in Metro stations and bus stops this fall. The 30-second TV spot premiered Oct. 16 during the commercial breaks of “Meet the Press” on NBC, “Face the Nation” on CBS, and during “The Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Comedy Central, according to assistant vice president of marketing Deborah Wiltrout. Wiltrout served as producer and assistant director for the TV commercial. The TV commercial The TV commercial shows WONK print ads “coming to life” in various spots around D.C., such as Metro bus stops, in magazines and on the side of moving trucks. A voice-over explains how AU is a center for learning and innovation.
“Something remarkable is happening at AU!” the narrator says. WONK print ads featured in the commercial include Opera Wonk, Academic Wonk and Political Wonk. The commercial will run through Nov. 6 on these TV stations. “It’s a limited run, but it’s targeted at the programs we think people interested in AU would watch,” Wiltrout said. The commercial will also be shown on the TV screens around campus and promoted through AU’s social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter. The commercial will also run during two nationally televised AU men’s basketball games on the CBS Sports Network in February. While the spot normally costs “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Vice President of Communications Terry Flannery said AU was able to get the two TV spots for free because CBS gives each participating school in the basketball game one free TV ad spot per game.
An “overwhelming amount” of participants in the commercial are AU students, staff and alumni, Flannery said. Staff and students in the School of Communications and the College of Arts and Sciences served as the actors, producers, camera operators and sound mixers for the TV commercial project. Using “in-house talent” cut down costs for the commercial significantly, Flannery said. “Most universities don’t have this kind of internal capacity, so they would have to spend two to three times the resources we did for an outside firm to produce a video of similar quality and production values,” she said. Flannery also said this commercial will help “reinforce the AU brand” and show how AU is a growing college. “AU is a place for active citizenship, powerful leaders and a center for learning,” Flannery said. Director of University Video Matt Fredricks said this TV ad is different from other college TV commercials because it shows how AU interacts with the D.C. community. “Most college ads just show the campus,” he said. “But this ad shows how we bring
AU to the world. It shows the city and shows what the AU experience is like.” Metro ads AU is also expanding its outreach through more print ads in Metro stations and at Metro bus stops. The University has “station domination” at Federal Triangle this October, meaning every space for print ads in the station is filled with an AU WONK ad, according to Wiltrout. AU chose to buy out the advertisements for this station because Federal Triangle is an area with many federal workers who might be considering a master’s degree as the next step in their career, Wiltrout said. AU also has a print ad presence at: Q Farragut West Q Foggy Bottom Q Eastern Market Q Judiciary Square Q McPherson Square Q Tenleytown AU’s digital bus shelter ads will run from October to November at over 30 bus shelters across the city. These print ads, the same WONK ads already used in magazines and newspapers in the D.C. area, will appear on bus shelters’ digital ad space on a rotating schedule, once every 12 seconds per minute.
WONKING AROUND TOWN AU bought “station domination” of Federal Triangle, filling every available advertisement space with various WONK print ads. AU has also bought advertisement spaces at Farragut West, Foggy Bottom, Eastern Market, Judiciary Square, McPherson Square and Tenleytown. Members of AU’s marketing team hope this expansion of ads will reach a wide range of students. Advertising costs The WONK marketing campaign is one of three communication initiatives that fall under the “Win Recognition and Distinction” category of AU’s annual Strategic Plan for 2012. The other two initiatives are “increasing our digital media presence” and “offer our Web content through mobile access.” The combined total budget for all three of these initiatives for the 2012 fiscal year is $1 million, according to Flannery. AU’s WONK “media buy” — which includes the cost of placing ads on the specific TV shows, the ads in the Metro stations, online ads and transit shelter ads — is funded by a part of this $1 million budget. The University budgeted $35,000 for the production of the TV ad in their Strategic Plan. This only includes the cost of creating the video, not the cost of purchasing ad space on the TV networks. “Since the campaign is de-
veloped internally by our own AU team, we’re not paying an outside firm for production, so the funds can be focused on getting the messages out to new audiences that we’ve never reached and changing the minds of those who have a dated impression of AU,” Flannery said. She said she hopes these TV commercials and print ads will reach a wide range of people and will showcase AU’s attributes. “The audience for this campaign is very broad,” she said. “We’re reaching out not only to prospective students but also prospective donors, researchers, higher education officials, parents of prospective students and many more. This is an allencompassing campaign.” jryan@theeagleonline.com
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AU neighbors raise objections to East Campus plan By PAIGE JONES Eagle Staff Writer
Six neighborhood groups said they will reject the AU Campus Plan until the University and community can overcome “objectionable conditions.” The conditions raised during the D.C. Zoning Commission hearing on Oct. 13 include: Q Instituting a cap on both AU student and faculty populations, Q Reduce the East Campus plan density and the number of dorms Q Reduce the height of North Hall Q Move South Hall, behind Centennial, to a new site Q Move new housing to the interior of campus, such as the amphitheater Q Reduce the size of the Beeghley addition Q Enforce effective noise control on campus Q Provide effective landscaping screening from neighbors Q Reduce size, mass and traffic of the proposed Washington College of Law in Tenleytown East Campus objections The Westover Place Homes Corporation president said East Campus should be altered so no building is taller than three stories and a sufficient buffer should exist with 100 feet between campus and the neighborhood. Two of the proposed seven buildings on East Campus will have five stories and one will have six. “Students are getting ready to go out when we are already asleep and coming home when we are getting up,” she said. “That juxtaposition sets up a permanent conflict.” Conflicting traffic reports The parties opposed to the plan hired traffic expert Joe Mehra, president of the engineering consulting company MCV Associates, to evaluate AU’s traffic report. The report examines the impact of traffic on the com-
munity if the Campus Plan is approved. Mehra said many of the statistics in AU’s traffic report, conducted by traffic consulting company Gorove/ Slade, were incorrect. He predicted that the time it takes for a person to drive from the Tenleytown Metro to campus will rise 10 percent from 2010-2020, instead of the one percent increase predicted by AU’s traffic report. Parties opposed to the plan included: Q Westover Place Homes Corporation Q Spring Valley Wesley Heights Citizens Association Q Neighbors for a Livable Community Q Robert Herzstein, a resident living near Reeves Field Q Tenley Campus Neighbors Association Noise complaints AU renovated Reeves Field, including the addition of a scoreboard and sound amplifiers, about six years ago without the approval of the zoning commission. Resident Robert Herzstein said the noise from the Reeves Field during games, practices and other events can be heard from inside his house. “The effect has been compared to being in a war zone,” Herzstein said of hockey practices. A certified consulting company of sound engineers took sound measurements from Herzstein’s residence, declaring the sound decimals exceeded those in the D.C. Noise Law. Herzstein sought to resolve this issue by contacting both AU and the Metropolitan Police Department, but said he received little response and no action. Chairman Anthony Hood expressed frustration at dealing with the same issue addressed in the last Campus Plan approval hearings. “We’re having the same hearings about the same thing 10 years later, and that is unacceptable,” Hood said.
Residents speak up for Campus Plan Some residents voiced their support for the Campus Plan during the zoning commission hearing. Joe Vidulich, a 2008 AU alumnus and former Student Government president, said students have a positive impact on the Tenleytown area. “I can speak personally from my own interactions with these students that … the majority of them are well-behaved, well-mannered and well-respected members of our community,” he said. Wesley Heights neighbor Hal Hiemstra said students are good neighbors and even volunteer to help their neighbors. “My 96-year-old neighbor praises the AU students for shoveling his lawn when it snows,” he said. “It’s really a competition between them and me.” Students are also respectful of their neighbors, Hiemstra said. “Never once have I heard loud music coming from those dorms,” he said. “Never once have I been woken in the middle of the night by inappropriate behavior.” Tenleytown neighbor John Wheeler said he was upset by his fellow residents’ attitudes toward students. “I feel very uncomfortable being in the same room with people, and one elected official, who have talked about students as a class being so repugnant, that it’s taken as a given that no one would want to live near them,” Wheeler said. Students express need for more residence halls AU students said the passage of the Campus Plan will allow more students to live on campus. Michael Panek, D.C. Students Speak president and School of Public Affairs sophomore, said upperclassmen are more likely to live on campus if bigger residence hall rooms are available. “After two years of the 85-square-foot room, it gets a little old,” he said. Panek said residence halls are needed to reduce overcrowding on campus, especially for freshmen living in triples. “Freshmen are really vul-
nerable, and it makes a hard transition even harder,” he said. However, building more residence halls will not stop students from living off campus, he added. “There are always going to be students who move off campus,” Hiemstra said. “I couldn’t wait to move off campus when I was a junior.” Addressing off-campus parties Panek said the issues between neighbors and students can be resolved through a dialogue the day after an incident occurs. “[Over] 99 percent of students … they’ll say [they will] be conscious of the fact that they’re disturbing you, and a lot of the time, the relationship is resolved,” he said. Deon Jones, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D commissioner and an SPA sophomore, said the “group homes” that are currently causing problems with neighbors should not set the precedent for all student neighbors. “A few bad apples have magically created a whole bunch of bad apples,” Jones said. “This should not be the case.” Tom Hier, chairman of Ward3Vision, a group of residents working to create a better neighborhood, said older students typically live in the neighborhoods and do not cause such a big problem. “As they [students] get older, they get less and less crazy about partying,” Hier said. This Zoning Commission hearing was the sixth of seven meetings, according to AU Media Relations Camille Lepre. People opposed to the plan and the final rebuttal to the Campus Plan will present at the next meeting Nov. 3. pjones@theeagleonline.com
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OCCUPY AU Students protested outside of Hurst Hall Oct. 20 and delivered a letter of grievances to the President’s Office.
“A New AU” students rally for reform of administration policies By STEVEN MURPHY
Eagle Contributing Writer A group of students staged a march around campus on Oct. 20, chanting, yelling and banging a drum on the Quad to express their grievances against the University. The “A New AU” campaign rallies behind three main points: democracy, transparency and accountability, according to Chris Litchfield, a junior in the School of Public Affairs, president of College Democrats and one of the primary leaders behind the campaign. Members of A New AU are pushing for more student input in important decision making processes at AU. About 20 to 25 students rallied in front of Hurst Hall at the Oct. 20 protest, then continued to make two laps around the Quad. They chanted slogans such as, “When workers and students are under attack what do we do? Stand Up, Fight Back,” and “AU step off it, put students over profit.”
Roots of the movement The Community Action and Social Justice Coalition has been one of the main organizers of the campaign. The movement consists of leaders from a variety of different student organizations who have all had problems with AU’s administration in the past. Ethan Miller, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of CASJ, said a variety of students attended an open meeting about A New AU on Oct. 18. “This shows how there’s really a wide range of people coming together on this, it’s just whatever, hardcore left activist groups,” Miller said. “It’s multicultural groups, it’s Eco-Sense, there’s been a lot of groups coming together on this on campus.” Gaining Board of Trustees student representation CASJ hopes to achieve many wide-ranging goals, including student representatives with full voting rights on the Board of Trustees. NEW AU, PAGE 6 ≥
October 25, 2011 ≤ NEW AU, PAGE 5 The Board has one student member that does not have voting rights. The Board chose this year’s student trustee, Chazmon Gates, from the Washington College of Law. Rachel Mandelbaum, a junior in SIS and member of both CASJ and Eco-Sense, said during the Oct 18 meeting that she would like to see an undergraduate student on the Board of Trustees. “If you’re in the law school, you don’t really know what’s affecting the main campus, so another thing we want is a student member on the board with a real vote on what goes on with our administration,” Mandelbaum said. “Maybe putting in an undergrad because that’s the bulk of the people here and what they represent,” she said. Increasing transparency CASJ members hope that an undergraduate student representative on the Board of Trustees would bring more transparency to AU’s decision-making process, especially its fiscal budget. “The University does not release information on its investments, even though we pay tuition, they’re using our money for investments,” said Michael Dranove, a CASJ member and a member of Students for Justice in Palestine. “The university doesn’t think we have the right to know and that’s insulting.” AU could be investing tuition money in large national banks and corporations, such as Capital One and Bank of America, Dranove said. Student Government President Tim McBride said protesters should focus on the faculty senate and not the Board of Trustees. “I think there are other places where students’ voices can have a larger impact,” McBride said at the meeting. “The faculty senate votes on specific regulations whereas the board votes on very big picture things.” During the meeting, many members of A New AU said they would like to see the University invest money in local banks or credit unions that would in turn re-invest their money in local businesses.
theEAGLE A New AU members think this method would help build sustainable economies, according to Litchfield. Continuing discussion on Aramark workers Members of A New AU will also continue to discuss the rights of campus workers. “The university is continually horrible when it comes to workers’ rights,” Litchfield said. The students are concerned about the expansion of Aramark workers’ workload to off-campus AU offices on New Mexico Ave, said Mitch Ellmauer, a junior in SPA and another A New AU leader. The students in A New AU hoped that, by holding a rally on Oct. 20, they could gain a substantial amount of support and then march to the president’s office and show the administration the amount of students behind the movement. “We want a new AU and that is why we are here,” Litchfield said to the gathered crowd at the President’s office on Oct. 20. “And we are going to be coming back next week and every week after that if we have to until the University responds with progress.” March to president’s office The protestors marched to President Neil Kerwin’s office to present the administration with a typed letter of grievances. David Taylor, Chief of Staff at the President’s office, greeted the group of protestors at the President’s house and said that Kerwin was not in the office at the time. The students then handed Taylor their letter and proceeded to list their grievances and demands. They also stated that they expect to hear back from the University within a week about their demands. Taylor accepted the letter and went back inside the building. Taylor did not respond to requests for comment in time for press. A New AU will be holding another rally on Oct. 27 in front of Hurst Hall. news@theeagleonline.com Staff writer Leigh Giangreco contributed to this report.
UNITED FOR CHANGE Egyptians Ahmed Maher and Waleed Rashed spoke at AU on Oct. 20 and 21 about their participation in the Egyptian democratic protests this spring.
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Egyptian activists recall Arab Spring protests and political turmoil By LOIS NAM
Eagle Contributing Writer Two Egyptians who played a major role in the revolution that removed former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power this spring spoke at AU Oct. 20 and 21 about their experiences in the revolution. Ahmed Maher and Waleed Rashed are co-founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, an organization that formed as a Facebook group in spring 2008 to help workers go on strike in the industrial city of al-Mahalla al-Kubra. The group gained a large following and proved to be instrumental in organizing the spring 2011 Egyptian revolution. Both speaking events, held in the School of International Service Founder’s Room, drew near-capacity crowds and were highly interactive as Maher and Rashed fielded questions from the audience throughout the event. “We love these kinds of meetings better than the formal, diplomatic meetings,” Rashed said. “Whatever comes in your mind, please ask. No limits.” Maher and Rashed did not hesitate to share their can-
did thoughts, which included their dissatisfaction with the rule of Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, a body of senior officers in the military who took power once Mubarak resigned. “To be honest with you, I think we made a big mistake when we left Tahrir Square in the 11th of February,” Rashed said, referring to the date Mubarak officially resigned from office. Abdalla Hussein, a native Egyptian and senior in SIS, attended the Oct. 20 event and expressed similar views about the country postMubarak. “I’m not content with the pace [of change],” he said. “But then again, I always knew that we would go through bad days. During the revolution, we sacrificed stability for change, but change will take at least 10 years. It was the sacrifice we made, and we’re just paying the price now.” Rashed attributed the current slow pace of change in Egypt to a culture that may be hard-pressed to evolve after having become accustomed to life under Mubarak. “If you are planning to make a revolution in your
country, the most important thing is, you’re supposed to study the mentality of your people,” Rashed said. “Mubarak is not a person, he is a culture.” Maher and Rashed admitted that they didn’t have the answers to the multitude of challenges that remain in Egypt, including issues of security, water and food access and unemployment. But they believe activists need to continue to pressure the SCAF and work to change the mentality of the Egyptian people. When a student at the Oct. 21 event asked if the revolution was finished, Maher responded by saying it will be finished when Egyptians are allowed to elect a new president through a fair election. But he quickly added, “That will take a very long time.” A student at the Oct. 20 event asked about Maher and Rashed’s opinions of President Barack Obama and about how Obama seemed to be on the side of the revolutionaries. Maher was skeptical. “They’re [the United States] now meeting with the SCAF and the SCAF have the same behavior as the Mubarak regime,” Maher said. “So I think that anger in the Middle East and Egypt will increase again against the United States. So I advise them to change their behavior.” Maher and Rashed also talked about using social media, such as Facebook
and Twitter, as one of many tools for the revolution. When they wanted to reach segments of the population that were not media-savvy, they got creative and used taxi drivers as another tool to market the demonstrations. Egyptian taxi drivers are known for talking constantly to their passengers, and the movement took advantage of this by spreading the word of demonstrations to the drivers, Rashed said. When the two speakers were asked how they adjusted once the Mubarak regime shut down Internet services to thwart their cause, Maher said the shutdown actually benefited them. “All the families joined the demonstration to know what happened,” Maher said. “So they helped us to spread the demonstrations.” “I really want to thank Mubarak,” Rashed added, evoking laughs from the audience. The conversation turned somber when both spoke of the sacrifices they and their families had to make for their activism, which included being jailed and beaten. But ultimately, the speakers acknowledged that the revolution was brought about by the tireless efforts of the Egyptian people themselves. “We didn’t start the revolution,” said Rashed. “We were only a tool [in the revolution]. The revolution happened by Egyptians, because of Egyptians.” news@theeagleonline.com
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Campus Life amends sexual assault policy By REBECCA ZISSER Eagle Staff Writer
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AU updates bathroom stickers, trains sexual assault peer educators By ALEX GRECO
Eagle Contributing Writer AU has initiated a peer educators program and changed the informational stickers on the back of bathroom stall doors in an effort to further inform students about sexual assault. The peer educators program allows students to volunteer and educate the AU community about sexual assault. These students primarily hold informational workshops. Workshops can be requested by campus organizations, fraternities, sororities or resident assistants, said Daniel Rappaport, the University’s sexual assault prevention coordinator. Over the course of two weekends, each educator went through 20 hours of training on dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The students also meet once a week to review their experiences and go over mi-
nor additional training. The first of the workshops led by the educators was held on Oct. 20, according to Rappaport. While these peer educators can help sexual assault survivors clarify their experiences, they are required to point the survivors to campus resources for further professional assistance, Rappaport said. Lauren Croll, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of the peer educators. Her most important role is facilitating communication about sexual assault and related issues, she said. “There’s so much victim blaming and shame in our society, there’s not a forum and a place for people to talk and to learn,” Croll said. Sexual assault bathroom stickers The new sexual assault stall stickers, which were installed during the first week of October, are designed to
not only point students to resources, but to also help them understand that sexual assault isn’t always easily identifiable, Rappaport said. Previous stickers began, “If you have been sexually assault.” The new stickers say, “If you have had an unwanted sexual experience or are a survivor of sexual assault.” “We wanted them to be more accessible in the sense that more people would be able to read them and relate to the sticker,” Rappaport said. The new version of the sticker also places more emphasis on the formatting of the sexual assault resource information and addresses the needs of people who know they have been assaulted, as well as people who are less sure about their experience, according to Rappaport. Carmen Rios, the director of Women’s Initiative, was pleased to hear about the changes, saying they were
SEXUAL ASSAULT EDUCATION The new bathroom stickers give expanded definitions of sexual assault and provide a stepby-step process for victims seeking help and resources.
initiated based on student feedback about this issue. “I’m happy about the new initiatives, which are survivor-focused and show a lot of support on the part of AU’s administration for their students,” Rios wrote in an email. “This is a great start to the year, in which I hope the university can accomplish many changes for survivors and prevention of sexual assault.” news@theeagleonline.com
The Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution Services made three changes to the sexual assault policy this semester to make the policy more understandable and useful to students. The new additions to the code are: A definition for “coercion” was added. Sexual history cannot be used as evidence against a student in cases of sexual misconduct. The complainant, who files the complaint, can appeal in cases involving sexual misconduct. The changes were based on recommendations made by AU’s Sexual Assault Working Group and the U.S. Department of Education. The Sexual Assault Policy has been undergoing changes for the past three years. Rosie McSweeney, director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, said these changes were necessary. “[In the] Student Conduct Code, the word ‘coercion’ was used several times,” McSweeney said. “For clarification purposes, a definition is necessary.” The policy now states that any sexual act involving coercion will be considered sexual assault, which the Student Code of Conduct now defines as “to force one to act based on fear of harm to self or others,” through, “pressure, threats, emotional intimidation or the use of physical force.” Vice President of Campus Life Gail Hanson said this clarification has helped students better understand and follow the code. “Students really benefit from having a term like that defined so they know what we mean,” Hanson said. The second change was another clarification for what was already in practice, that sexual history, of both the accused and the victim, cannot be used as evidence against a student in cases of sexual assault. “It’s always been the case that the sexual history of the
complainant has not been admissible, but it’s now formally stated,” Hanson said. The changes in the policy’s definition of coercion and the use of one’s sexual history in cases of sexual misconduct were made as a result of recommendations made by AU’s Sexual Assault Working Group. The group was created to research best practices for dealing with issues of sexual misconduct and to make recommendations for improvement. “I had actually put together a group back in January 2009,” Vice President of Campus Life and Dean of Students Rob Hradsky said. The group consisted of AU faculty, staff, students and representatives from the Office of Campus Life, Women’s Initiative and other groups. “The group focused on policy, education and advocacy,” Hradsky said. “[The changes] were additional areas where they thought we could use some more clarity,” he said. The change in appeal cases was made as a result of a “Dear Colleague Letter” issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The letter advises universities on how to interpret existing law, Hanson said. McSweeney said the reactions she received to the sexual assault policy changes had all been positive, but there had not been many. Hradsky agreed. “I think that’s partly because they’re so new and we haven’t really had an opportunity to use them in practice this semester,” Hradsky said. The Sexual Assault Working Group will continue to look at ways to improve the policy and educate the AU community on issues concerning sexual misconduct, Hradsky said. rzisser@theeagleonline.com
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AU librarian calls for library reform on the Hill By PATRICK BURNETT Eagle Contributing Writer
University Librarian Bill Mayer cautioned a panel of congressional aides about the consequences of insufficient library support for elementary and secondary schools at a congressional hearing Oct. 17. The hearing was in support of a pro-library amendment for the ongoing overhaul of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The proposed amendment aims to develop more school library programs for students to learn research skills, according to the American Association of School Libraries.
Mayer believes this legislation, while not immediately applicable to universities, is critical in the long run. “The consequences of not supporting these very critical early-on skill sets amongst the students in elementary and secondary schools have consequences that are quite dramatic at the other end in terms of college and career preparedness,” Mayer said. He said learning effective research skills at an early age are important to undergraduate and career success. “If it’s not for the work of the [elementary and secondary] school libraries ensuring that students today
have these key literary skills, it’s too late by the time they reach [the university level],” Mayer said. The ESEA was originally passed in 1965 and was overhauled in 2001 to embrace President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, according to the Department of Education website. Three school librarians, including Mayer, a parent and an assistant superintendent of a school district attended this event, according to AASL. Mayer became involved with this effort via a recommendation for the AASL from Dorcas Hand, director of Libraries at the Annunciation Orthodox School in Houston, who he worked with previously. Alex Hodges, assistant director for Library Instruction and the librarian
David Gregory and others honored at Alumni Award Reception By JENNI MUNS
Eagle Contributing Writer AU’s 2011 Alumni Award reception on Oct. 22 in Katzen Arts Center honored four notable alumni, including “Meet the Press” host David Gregory, who was presented with the Alumni Achievement Award. The award recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves through their professional accomplishments, according to Tara Lang, director of alumni programs. Gregory graduated from AU’s School of International Service in 1992 and is a member of the SIS Dean’s Advisory Council. He was previously honored as SIS Alumnus of the Year in 2005, according to Lang. The new Alumni Eagle Award was given to Class of 1989 alumni Brian Keane. The award honors an alumnus who specifically provided service for the University’s Alumni Association. Keane is the president of SmartPower, a nationwide nonprofit marketing campaign dedicated to promoting clean, renewable energy. Kean is also a former president of the AU Alumni
Board, and he continues to serve on the board today. “Mr. Keane is an invaluable contributor to our Alumni Association and to the Kennedy Political Union,” Lang said. “He has given countless hours of time and energy to AU.” Keane said he is humbled and proud to receive the award. “We’ve been giving out awards for years and I had no idea how big of an honor it was until I got an award,” he said. Keane says he is so invested in AU because the University provided him with incredible support, both as a student and an alumnus. “AU sincerely believed that if I did well, AU did well,” he said. “They are really invested in their students and they don’t see them solely as people passing through for four years.” This year’s Alumni Recognition Award was given to CAS/BA ’76 and SPA/ MS ’78 alumni Karen Bune, a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences. The award recognized an alumnus who has gone above and beyond in service to others outside of the university. Bune is a victim’s special-
ist in the Domestic Violence Unit of the State’s Attorney’s Office for Prince George’s County in Md. She is also a nationally recognized speaker on domestic violence, Lang said. The Rising Star Award recognizes young alumni who have received their undergraduate degree within the last 10 years and who are already making significant contributions to greater society through professional or philanthropic work. This year the award was given to Class of 2007 alumni Talilia Lewis, a graduate of the School of Public Affairs. Lewis founded the D.C.-based nonprofit organization Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf. She also co-founded the nonprofit organization Deaf Community Friends of the D.C. Public Library. Lewis said it feels amazing to win the Rising Star Award. “It certainly empowers me to continue the work I’m doing,” she said. Her advice to students is to see AU as a place full of opportunities. “Don’t limit yourself, be open to new opportunities,” Lewis said. “Students have
for AU’s School of Education, Teaching and Health, agreed with Mayer’s views on the amendment, called the SKILLs act. “The more you learn early-
“[AU is helpful] especially if [these secondary schools] don’t have libraries of their own ... or even credentialed librarians,” Hodges said. Mayer said the need for
according to Hodges. “If you don’t have the people there who know the resources and who also know the infrastructure of the school or the infrastructure
“[The] first place many districts look to, and universities too unfortunately, when they cut their budgets is the library budget,” —Bill Mayer, University librarian on, the easier it is for you to progress and use the research material to write the papers, to make those value judgments that your professors want you to make and the more higher-order thinking that you can do,” he said. Mayer said AU has helped area secondary schools teach research education.
the SKILLs Act is imperative since libraries typically receive budget cuts. “[The] first place many districts look to, and universities too unfortunately, when they cut their budgets is the library budget,” he said. Cutting funding for elementary and secondary schools will have an impact on future college students,
of information, the students are not going to be able to come to college and move on beyond college in the way we want them to,” Hodges said. news@theeaglonline.com
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the tools in them to change the world. The small things, such as smiling as a homeless person, can have a huge positive impact on people.” AU has held this Alumni Reception event every year since 1948. “Last year was the first time we had a stand-alone event,” Lang said. “Before 2010, the event was folded into another event of AllAmerican Weekend.” Lang said the AU Alumni Board runs a specific process to choose each year’s recipients. AU called poten-
PRESS WONK David Gregory, a Class of 1992 graduate of the School of International Service, was given the Alumni Achievement Award at the 2011 Alumni Award Reception Oct. 22 in Katzen Arts Center. tial nominees in March, and each nominee had to submit a nominee form, a one- to three-page statement establishing candidate qualifications and letters of recommendation. “The purpose of this reception is to honor alumni who epitomize high achievement and philanthropy,” Lang
said. “We have so many outstanding alumni, so it’s really the cream of the crop who receive the awards.” news@theeagleonline.com
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SG Senate votes against return of police blotter By HEATHER MONGILIO Eagle Staff Writer
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Dashboard site shows energy use on campus By KATIE FIEGENBAUM Eagle Contributing Writer
The Office of Sustainability has created a “Building Dashboard” website to show energy use in all campus buildings and to let students to better see a connection between their habits and energy consumption. Dashboard meters that measure energy use were installed in fall 2010. The website showing energy use went online in the spring. The site aids AU’s participation in the nationwide energy consumption contest, Campus Conservation Nationals, according to Office of Sustainability Outreach Specialist Joshua Kaplan. “This was done so we could show students exactly what their efforts were achieving,” Kaplan said. The Building Dashboard website can be found at buildingdashboard.net/ american. It was constructed through Lucid Design Group, a company that creates such systems for companies, institutions and residences, according to its website. Users can view information about real-time energy use and details about energy usage in campus buildings since Oct. 31, 2010 for all of AU’s 12 residence halls and 19 academic buildings. The dashboard also shows how much energy is produced by the solar panels on the roof of the School of International Service. The website also features a “comparison” tab, which can
be used to show per person or per square foot energy usage in the buildings. The Office of Sustainability is also working on getting the recently installed solar panels on six campus buildings hooked up to the site. “This is really cool!” said Scott Berman, senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and Eco-Sense president. “It allows us to see each day if what we are doing is working.” But Berman said the site should be more publicized and made more accessible to students. Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science Kiho Kim agreed. “This is a great idea, but the Office of Sustainability should do much more to let people know this site is out there,” Kim said. “Awareness, when coupled with education, is a great way to involve students, and I think the office should make the connection between what students and faculty do and energy use more explicit, and have people confront this connection.” The dashboard also uses the terms kilowatt and kilowatt-hours, measurements of energy, which can be hard to understand for the average person. The Office of Sustainability is working to fix this problem and to increase awareness of the Building Dashboard, but they do not have concrete plans for either issue at the moment. “On the dashboard, we rely
GETTING GREEN AU’s new Building Dashboard website shows energy use in residence halls and other buildings on campus. on visuals instead to show relative energy use, either between buildings or per capita, as those things are much more relatable, particularly to people not paying electric bills,” Kaplan said. The Office of Sustainability, Eco-Sense and other campus groups will be holding events in the near future to promote energy conservation including a wear-yourugly-sweater competition. Results of the competitions will be posted in the dorms daily and updated online using the Building Dashboard. The Office of Sustainability will also be using the website to tailor specific strategies to reducing AU’s energy emissions and continually track progress of their programs, according to Kaplan. “Evidence suggests that individual behavior changes when it’s linked with consciousness about an issue, so we’re trying to move farther in that direction,” said Director of Sustainability Chris O’Brien. “As a University, we are committed to reducing our footprint as a whole, as well as training students to address issues that will impact their lives.” During last year’s Campus Conservation Nationals in November 2010, AU reduced energy use by eight percent, according to Sustainability Coordinator Emily Curley. This amounted to a savings of $4,000 over a three-week period. news@theeagleonline.com
The Undergraduate Senate did not pass a resolution to work with Public Safety and The Eagle to bring back the police blotter during the Oct. 23 senate meeting. The resolution was cosponsored by Sen. Rob Battaglia and Dan Lewis. Senators debated about giving speaking rights to former Sen. Noah Gray, because he attended the D.C. Zoning Commission
meeting on Oct. 19 about the Campus Plan and he had additional information about the blotter. The former senator was eventually awarded speaking rights and spoke against the Senate resolution, saying the police blotter hurt AU’s image. “Publishing something in The Eagle about what AU students are doing, that isn’t technically legal or the best things that AU should be doing, can present a challenge to trying to work with
Pres. calls for unity at MLK dedication By NICOLE GLASS Eagle Staff Writer
President Barack Obama urged Americans to emulate Martin Luther King Jr.’s will and determination during the dedication ceremony of the MLK memorial on the National Mall Oct. 16. The ceremony was originally scheduled for Aug. 28, but was postponed due to heavy rain from Hurricane Irene. Obama said America should look to change the future and not dwell on the past. “We can’t get hung up on what is,” Obama said. “We’ve got to keep pushing towards what ought to be.” The chanting of “four more years” was heard from the crowd as Obama walked onto the stage. “An earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied,” Obama said, standing at the base of the newly constructed memorial on the Tidal Basin with an audience of about 50,000 people. Obama said the work of BELIEVING IN CHANGE The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial opened to the public in August and was dedicated on Oct. 16, after the original dedication was postponed.
civil rights leaders is not yet complete despite their numerous accomplishments, including the March on Washington. “In too many troubled neighborhoods across the country, the conditions of our poorest citizens appear little changed from what existed 50 years ago,” he said. “Neighborhoods with underfunded schools and broken-down slums, inadequate health care, constant violence, neighborhoods in which too many young people grow up with little hope and few prospects for the ANA SANTOS / THE EAGLE
the community,” Gray said. The resolution was not passed. However, Gray called for the Senate to find a new private outlet for the AU community to receive information formerly addressed by the police blotter, without allowing the outside community, such as AU’s neighbors, to see the information. The Senate also debated Sen. Bart Thompson’s Open Door Bill, calling on senators to leave their doors open during office hours to encourage their constituents to come to office hours. The bill passed. news@theeagleonline.com
future.” The president advised the nation to be persistent to make change happen, using civil rights leaders as an example. Even after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed, black Americans still struggle, living in some of the poorest conditions in the United States, he said. “I know there are better days ahead,” he said. “I know this because of the man towering over us. I know this because all he and his generation endured — we are here today in a country that dedicated a monument to that legacy.” nglass@theeagleonline.com
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RHA celebrates Poehls starts work diversity on campus as new registrar By IULIA GHEORGHIU
Eagle Contributing Writer Rain didn’t keep the Residence Hall Association from putting on the Diversival Oct. 12, a festival celebrating diversity at AU. Students visited various tables set out on the Quad that afternoon and participated in activities set up by student organizations including Women’s Initiative, Caribbean Circle, Citizens for Global Solutions at AU and more. Unfortunately, some of the events scheduled for that day had to be canceled because of the rain, such as the Hawaii Club’s hula and Tahitian dances. “They had a lot of great tables, even though not a lot of clubs made it out today,” said Sabreen El-shrafi, a junior at the School of International Services. Elshrafi’s professional Foreign Service sorority, Delta Phi Epsilon, was present at the Diversival. But the rain did not deter the club from bringing back its popular arts and crafts project, in which they let students who correctly guessed three trivia questions about Hawaiian culture decorate a coconut bra. AU Students for Liberty offered a short quiz to help students find out where their political beliefs lie on the political spectrum. The Student Organization for African Studies challenged students with geography quizzes. “We were supposed to have cultural and ethnic performances going on,” RHA Vice President of Programming Paige Leong said of the events cancelled because of the rain. “So right now, we’re working off an iPod, which is unfortunate, but it’s for the safety of the performers.” The Diversival was stocked with an entirely vegetarian menu made up of different flavors of empanadas, various types of hummus and pita chips, vegetable platters and cannolis. Students said there was much to take away from the activities presented by the
student groups. El-shrafi considered the event a good opportunity for clubs and organizations, as well as for the rest of the campus, to promote diversity. “It’s a great way to really show what we do,” El-shrafi said. “We are the foreign service sorority, so our sisters uphold diversity as one of our values.” RHA also held Diversival last semester. This year’s Diversival was advertised by the RHA through Facebook as a festival to celebrate diversity, social justice, culture and expression. The event is a space for the AU community to appreciate the differences in the student body, Leong said. “We’re trying to represent all types of students on campus,” she said. Leong, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science, organized the festival aspect of the event. “I wanted it to be interactive, not just passing out flyers, Leong said. “Then it would just be another student involvement fair.” The RHA instead reached out to clubs and recruited them with the help of the Student Government’s Ethnic and Cultural Coalition. Leong contacted over 90 diversity-based student organizations and was able to get about 20 of the groups to participate in the Diversival. Georgia Ottoni, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences and a representative of the Disability Rights Coalition, said he considers the Diversival a clear example of why AU stands out next to other universities. “Especially at AU, I think we appreciate and embrace diversity,” Ottoni said. The RHA will help individual diversity groups organize events throughout the year, Leong said. The organization is also planning another Diversival for next semester but has not yet determined a date for the event. news@theeagleonline.com
By KATE FROEHLICH Eagle Staff Writer
Alice Poehls was named the new registrar Aug. 8 and began work Sept. 26 due to a family emergency in August and September. Poehls said her job as registrar includes continuing the reorganization of the registrar’s office and integrating more technology into the office. “I’m learning how we do businesses, getting to know our constituents and their needs and focusing on how
we can use our technology to enhance our service,” Poehls said. Technology updates may include allowing AU faculty and staff access to the data system of the registrar and giving them the ability to see their schedules on Blackboard. “[This is] using our system to the maximum,” Poehls said. She will also address the new academic regulations, which will involve updates to the registrar’s current data system to address the
new rules. Poehls previously worked as the registrar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also worked as director of admissions and records at University of North Dakota. “One thing that stands out to me is the feeling that I have that I’m in the right place and the feeling that I have that people want me here,” she said. The position became available after the former registrar retired in the beginning of the year and no internal successor was clear, according to Vice Provost for Academic Administration Violeta T. Ettle.
The University hired a search consultant to find candidates to present to a campus search committee. This process took three months, according to Ettle. Ettle said the University was looking for strong leadership, practical knowledge, familiarity with integrating student services with the registrar’s office, as well as someone who would work well with the current staff and aid their development. “I think Alice has the experience and expertise in the field of academic records, management and the functions of being a registrar,” Ettle said. kfroehlich@theeagleonline. com
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Students mobilize for Obama re-election By SAMANTHA HOGAN Eagle Contributing Writer
AU students are gearing up for the 2012 presidential election by forming election groups to support Obama and several Republican candidates. Students attended the first meeting of AU for Obama Oct 12 and planned out a list of strategies they could use to spread Obama’s reelection message. Their list included: Q Making sure students send in absentee ballots, Q Direct contact with voters in Ward 3, the district in which AU resides, Q Drawing attention to
Obama’s successes in office, and Q Imploring friends to get involved in Obama’s reelection campaign. Juri Schnoeller, an international student from Germany in the School of International Service, spoke about the importance of going out and being active in the re-election campaign at the meeting. Schnoeller is the campus coordinator and an intern for Obama for America D.C. “To sit and wait would be naïve,” he said. “It is important to do something now, because if we wait until five months from now to ask you to get involved, it might be
too late.” Schnoeller said he believes Obama would be a solid choice for president. “[Obama is] the right man,” he said. “I wish we had politicians like him in Germany. I am proud to do my part in his campaign for reelection.” Patrick Kelly, a freshman in the School of Public Affairs, attended the Oct. 12 meeting and said he was looking for more ways to get involved in Obama’s reelection campaign. He had volunteered in Chicago for Obama’s 2006 campaign for Senate. “I got a better idea about what I could do as an Obama supporter and an AU student in regard to the 2012 campaign,” Kelly said. About 21 students attended the meeting of AU stu-
CAMPUS CAMPAIGN Students created a new group on Oct. 12 to support the president’s 2012 re-election campaign. Many of these students are also involved in Obama’s national campaign. dent Obama supporters on Oct. 12. Phil Cardarella a senior in SPA who organized the event, was not swayed by the lower-than-predicted attendance. He implored the students present to get involved and volunteer. “Obama’s campaign is very revolutionary,” Cardarella said. “Volunteers gain experience and better their understanding of [campaigning] techniques.” Cardarella, a fall fellow with the re-election OBAMA, PAGE 11 ≥
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Eagle Endowment awards FSE grants By IULIA GHEORGHIU
Eagle Contributing Writer Freshman Service Experience students that worked with the nonprofit organizations Lands and Waters and Street Sense were given two $5,000 grants to put toward more work with their respective organizations. The grants, from Eagle Endowment, help students continue the work that they began during FSE, a threeday program of student-led community service that takes place during Welcome Week. The grant will fund public service projects at the organizations over the course of a year, said Katie Zahm, Eagle Endowment coordinator and a first-year graduate student in the School of Public Affairs. The Eagle Endowment council reviewed the grant applications and interviewed FSE leaders and
participants prior to giving out the grants. The Eagle Endowment council is made up of Zahm, several students and a professor, including: Q Lizzie Martinez, a first year master’s student in the School of Public Affairs, Q Laura Olsen, a Juris Doctor student, Q Melissa Sullivan, a senior in SPA Q and Alex Hodges, Associate Librarian The leaders of the two FSE teams applied for the grants and collaborated with the freshmen participants that were interested in continuing their projects. The leaders for Lands and Waters are Emily Lutz, a sophomore in CAS, and Anna Williford, a junior in the Kogod School of Business. The leaders for the FSE Street Sense group are Nellie Mitchell, a sophomore in CAS, and Rebecca Zisser,
sophomore in the School of Communication. Five of the FSE participants for Lands and Waters were interested in continuing work with the organization and the entire FSE Street Sense group was interested in applying for an Eagle Endowment Grant. Street Sense Street Sense is a non-profit organization that publishes a bi-weekly newspaper written, published and distributed by people who are homeless. The newspaper sells for $1 per issue and all of the profits from newspaper sales go to the homeless vendors. During their FSE experience, AU students worked with the vendors to help sell papers. “We’ve got different little grants over the years, but nothing quite like this,” said Mary Otto, the editor-inchief for Street Sense. The Street Sense endowment will help AU students create new badges for the vendors. “The nicest part about this
I think is that it directly helps the vendors,” Otto said. Lands and Waters Lands and Waters, a nonprofit organization focused on watershed protection and education, received Eagle Endowment funding for the second time. FSE students worked at Kimball Elementary School in northeast D.C. and will buy tools, soil and plants with the grant money to continue planting projects with Kimball students. “At Kimball Elementary, we don’t have a lot of financial support at all,” said Kris Unger, vice president of Lands and Waters. “I think that’s kind of an inspiration that we’re filling the kind of gaps that are overlooked,” said Pete Olsson, a freshman in the School of International Service, who participated in the FSE Lands and Water group. Eagle Endowment Eagle Endowment has given out FSE-specific grants for the past six years, said
PAYING IT FORWARD Eagle Endowments gave grants of $5,000 to two FSE groups to continue their work at nonprofit organizations Street Sense and Land and Water. Marcy Campos, director of the AU Center for Community Engagement and Service. The Eagle Endowment grants are entirely made up of donations from various alumni and groups or from fundraising done by past senior classes. Eagle Endowment also includes two other grants, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Grant and the Spring Grant, which are open to students outside the FSE program, Zahm said. news@theeagleonline.com Full Disclosure: Zisser is a news assistant at The Eagle.
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Christian student group revamps outreach By SAMANTHA HOGAN Eagle Contributing Writer
International Christian organization Cru is re-launching its branch at AU with a new staff, new name and a mission of helping students “have meaningful conversations about Jesus Christ with their peers,” according to Cru D.C. and Virginia Team Leader Andrew Powars. Three AU alumni approached Powars during their senior year at AU to reinvigorate interest in Cru, which had been established at AU in 2007 but was not an active group. The alumni included Erin Radomsky, SIS,
’11; Mark Ferren, CAS, ’11; and Megan McCormack, CAS, ’11. The purpose of Cru, a religious organization with over 50 branches around the world, is to touch upon the physical and spiritual needs of students and to help the D.C. community, Powars said. He helps run the D.C. and Arlington, Va., branches of Cru with his wife, Karlayne. Branches of Cru are conducting evangelical work in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia-Oceania and Europe to “spread the Gospel to areas of conflict and places void of the Christian
Metro to finish Silver Line by 2016 By LINDA BENESCH
Eagle Contributing Writer The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is experiencing delays in its multi-phase Silver Line project to link Washington, D.C., with outlying areas such as Dulles International Airport and Tyson’s Corner. This expansion project would eventually allow AU students to access the two areas more easily. Phase one of the project, which has a targeted completion date of mid-2013, will add five stations west of East Falls Church, including several stops in Tyson’s Corner. Phase two of the project, which would extend Metro service to Dulles, is scheduled to be completed in 2016. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which manages Dulles and Reagan Airports, is in charge of the expansion project. Although the most recent projections for the Silver Line show that it is about six months behind schedule, MWAA says that the project will be finished on time as long as there is sufficient funding. Reagan National Airport is currently the only major D.C. area airport accessible
by Metrorail. D.C. residents traveling to Dulles Airport must take a Metro express bus from Rosslyn station or take a taxi, according to the WMATA website. Many in the American University community are eagerly anticipating easier access to Dulles and Tyson’s Corner. “The only reason I don’t fly out of Dulles is that it’s so inconvenient to get there,” said Jill Fitzgerald, a sophomore in the School of Public Affairs “The Metro extension would alleviate this problem. I hope Metro does it while I’m still in school.” Becky Gordon, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she looks forward to increased accessibility to Tyson’s Corner and to nearby airports. Students looking to travel to Tyson’s Corner via Metro must go to Dunn LoringMerrifield and take a bus from the station, according to the WMATA website. “[The Metro expansion] is a good idea in terms of getting to places like Tyson’s Corner, because so many of us don’t have cars,” Gordon said. “In terms of time and logistics the Metro is not the most convenient thing.” news@theeagleonline.com
religion,” according to Cru’s website. Cru is listed under religious life groups on the Kay Spiritual Life Center’s website under its original name, Campus Crusade for Christ. “[Cru] would go to other countries and all they would hear was ‘campus crusade,’ and it would be a point of contention,” said Lauren Kelly, a graduate of West Virginia University and a coordinator of AU’s Cru branch. All U.S. branches will officially change their names to Cru in January 2012. Cru Vice President Steve Sellers mentioned the name change during a July 19 appearance on FOX News and made a formal announcement about the change July 23 to clear up misconceptions about the organization
and its mission. Cru is neither a shortening of the word Crusade, nor is it an acronym, Sellers said in the announcement. “When the organization started in 1951, the word ‘crusade’ was generally not thought of as offensive in the U.S.,” Powars said. “As the country has continued to diversify, concern for the word and its message brought a desire for change.” Powers said Cru’s campus branches are usually student-run, but AU’s branch is not. Rather, Powars is leading the re-launch of Cru on AU’s campus and is looking for students passionate about Cru’s message. Allie Stauss, a sophomore in the School of International Service, became involved with Cru this year because the group and the
leaders gave her a sense of community. “It’s not about religion, it’s about having a community,” Kelly said. “College can be a lonely place, we just want to provide a place where students can come together and be loved.” Kelly said that, while Cru is recognized as a Christian group, it is in fact nondenominational and students do not need to be Christian in order to join. “I think that [Cru] will make an excellent addition to the campus community, and I am so glad that they are providing another community for students to explore faith in,” said Stephanie Municchi, co-director of AU Christian student group The Gathering. University Chaplain Joe Eldridge said he looks for-
ward to Cru’s reappearance at AU. “Cru is an active affiliate with Kay Spiritual Life Center and a wonderful partner,” Eldridge said. Cru holds a men’s community group meeting in SIS Monday at 8:30 p.m., and holds a woman’s community group meeting in Kay Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Cru also meets at noon on Thursday for lunch in the Tavern. Students who are looking to get involved in Cru, want more information about Cru’s missions or are interested in becoming a member of Cru’s student leadership team can contact Powars at DCcru@gmail. com.
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cum was more than just a mentor. Kruzel said she was a very effective accounting professor and that her students benefited from her teaching style and breadth of knowledge. “She made you work, not just pass a course, succeed,” he said. Molly McCafferty, now an Kogod alumnus and graduate of the MPA program, had known Marcum since first taking her class during her sophomore year. She was Marcum’s graduate assistant shortly before Mar-
right choice and picking the firm in which she would best fit. “I know a lot of people who chose accounting because of her or were at least inspired into business because of her,” Kruzel said.
tor for Lindsay, who fondly remembers Marcum’s progress in reinvigorating the MSA program and now holds Marcum’s seat. “It was a tall order to fill, for sure,” Lindsay said. Lindsay said she still tries to emulate Marcum’s warm, welcoming nature to make Kogod a better place for everybody, students and faculty alike. “Now that she’s gone, I try to remind myself that even if you’re very busy and working on your own tasks, if there’s someone new coming to the school … I try to reach out to give them a hand because just that type of generosity can make a big difference,” Lindsay said. Williamson was also particularly close to Marcum, who was an undergraduate student of his when she attended AU. He spoke at a memorial service held for Marcum on Nov. 9, 2010 in Bender Arena, where he talked about her caring nature. Then he threw out his notes from the speech. “When it’s all said in life, all you have is your memories,” Williamson said of his decision to forego notes. “It’s all what it’s all about.”
anything, but we’re doing something,” Innocenti said. “We’re still investigating.” Memories of a teacher Last year, the news of Sue Marcum’s death was met with sadness and shock from her students and the AU community. “She was sort of like an informal mentor to me,” said Kogod undergraduate Will McGauran. He had Marcum as a professor in his first accounting course. “I enjoyed it so much with her that I took her class for the second semester too,” he said. In addition to peaking his interest in accounting, Marcum also managed to make class time fun, McGauran said. “She always used to give out extra credit points, and they used to be physical points. They would say I heart accounting and other stuff,” he said, “It was very distinctive of her class and her sense of just being a fun person.” Mark Kruzel, a senior in Kogod and the School of International Service, also took both of his accounting classes with Marcum and said they were very close. “She was kind of the welcoming door into Kogod,” he said. “She was a mentor in pushing me in that direction, helping me decide what I wanted to do.” Many students say Mar-
Memories of a colleague Many of the professors in the department of taxation said Marcum acted as a maternal figure to students and was deeply involved in the department. “That’s why Sue was so well loved and known by every-
“That’s why Sue was so well loved and known by everyone here: because she really cared.” —Don Williamson, Kogod accounting and taxation professor
cum died. “She was a phenomenal professor, person, teacher, mentor and any other noun you can come up with,” she said. “She was one of those professors who really truly cared.” McCafferty said Marcum played a large role in helping her figure out what to do after graduation. McCafferty loves her current job and said that, when she was deciding what firm to join, Marcum reassured her that she was making the
one here: because she really cared,” Williamson said. Following Marcum’s death, professors quickly took over the classes she was teaching, including Principles of Financial Accounting and graduate-level Financial Accounting. Making the academic switch was easy, but the shock of the situation was the biggest challenge, they said. “Everyone circled the wagons on that one,” Williamson said. Marcum served as a men-
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October 25, 2011
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R&B singer John Legend speaks, sings at KPU event
By MICHELLE TULLO
Eagle Contributing Writer There are many reasons to love R&B chanteur John Legend. He’s charming, talented and has won a bevy of awards. But Oct. 22, he shared a different facet of his career: philanthropy. Legend is a tireless activist on behalf of education reform, and uses his fame and fortune to help those less fortunate. The Kennedy Political Union, which usually brings in politically charged speakers, hosted the singer and humanitarian in Bender Arena. Before the event, Legend sat down for an interview
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THE GIVING TREE AU sophomores Rob Orlowski, Jack Chappen and Noah Friedman produced a dramatic short, filmed in only 48 hours.
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SOC students create eerie short film, win first place in 48 Hour Film Fest By KENDALL BRIETMAN & AVA BLEIBERG Eagle Contributing Writers
What do you get when you mix a jump rope, a white cross and two people out for a countryside bike ride? The answer: Rob Orlowski’s winning short film of this year’s 48 Hour Film Festival. On Sept. 28, Assistant Professor in SOC, Kylos Brannon and Associate Professor Jeff Middents, who oversaw the competition, announced
that first prize went to “Never Say Goodbye,” a dark drama directed by Robert Orlowski, and co-written by Jack Chappen and Noah Friedman, who are all sophomores in SOC studying film and media arts. Each group blindly chose a genre, a prop and a line of dialogue to include in the short films. Orlowski, Chappen and Friedman were assigned a jump rope as the required prop, drama as the genre and the line of
Professor pens book on secrets of marriage By OLUSEYI DEGUN
with The Eagle. He entered the KPU office in MGC looking stylish and suave, wearing a close fitting gray blazer and black skinny tie, serious and unsmiling. Yet, as he began speaking about his current role as an activist, animation quickly replaced his calm demeanor. Legend eagerly described his path to activism, which included three elements: a desire to affect change, a PIANO MAN After making a speech that dealt heavily with education reform and activism, Legend performed some of his hits for a packed crowd at Bender Arena on Oct. 22.
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dialogue. Their winning film focused on a young man, played by Jeffrey Fetzko, battling with the loss of his younger brother. During one of his weekly visits to his brother’s roadside memorial, he meets a young man, played by Joe Carter, who represents his conscience. After the run-in, the main character finally becomes at peace with his fate, creating a surprising and somber ending. Orlowski’s idea for his con-
test entry was inspired by his hometown in New Jersey where he would frequently bike around his house and the surrounding farmland. “When I heard that I had to go home for the festival, I knew I wanted to film it there,” Orlowski said. “And then as soon as I heard the story line and the prop we were assigned, it just all came together.” The contest was Orlowski’s first win. The first place prize this year was a $150 gift certificate to the Adams Morgan restaurant Napoleon Bistro. “I was just thrilled by the end of the contest,” Orlowski said. “I didn’t really care if I won, I just wanted to be a part of it and just the fact that I finished in time was good enough for me.” Orlowski has also filmed, edited and directed two mu-
sic videos for L.A. shoegaze band The Tennis System, for their songs “Hey, We Tried” and “Arcane.” Both videos have attracted nationwide attention, and last week the official video for “Arcane” premiered on the front page of Filter Magazine, a wellknown music publication. “Anyone who knows me knows that I really don’t watch movies,” Orlowski said. “I watch a lot of short films but not many feature length films.” His main source of inspiration comes from Tyler T. Williams, who has directed music videos for bands such as Coma Cinema, Craft Spells and Youth Lagoon. “I don’t know what I plan on doing with film in the long-term,” Orlowski said. “I’m looking forward to doing more music videos, but also I’m looking forward to doing more short films that actually require a budget and planning things out. I really just want to try new things in film.” thescene@theeagleonline. com
When the topic of marriage is mentioned in the United States, the high divorce rate is among the first facts to be cited. But in Assistant Professor Iris Krasnow’s latest novel, “The Secret Lives of Wives,” she sheds light on the other side of the marriage discussion that is rarely spotlighted, revealing the secrets lives that women are leading that allow them to live in successful relationships. Krasnow, who is the academic director of the Washington Journalism Semester and an assistant professor in the School of Communication, has generated a lot of press due to her book, which was released this October. From “O Magazine” naming “The Secret Lives of Wives” one of the “10 Books You Must Read” to appearances on “The Today Show” and the “CBS Early Show,” “The Secret Lives of Wives” seems to have struck a chord with Americans on how to make marriage work. This comes as no surprise as Krasnow is AU’s resident relationship wonk and has been married for the past 23 years. In an interview with The Eagle, Krasnow described how she “looks at relationships from a very academic standpoint,” which is seen through the process she went about to collect the research for her fifth book. Krasnow spent two years interviewing 200 plus women who have stayed married for 15 years of more. “Black women or white women, Jewish women or Muslim women, all these women seemed to come to a general consensus as to how to stay in a healthy relationship, [which is] KRASNOW, PAGE 21 ≥
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D.C. CHILLIN’
MEET THE GHOSTS OF LAFAYETTE SQUARE
SCARE YOURSELF SILLY: HALLOWEEN FUN AROUND D.C.
This is the 11th year that Historic Strolls Tours has hosted The Ghost Story Tour D.C.’s original costumed, guided ghost walk. This $12 bargain Halloween scare takes you through nearly 200 years of the city’s haunted past, intertwining spooks with history books. A portion of proceeds is donated to The Whitman Walker Clinic.
Some classic college kid activities in D.C. during the Halloween season include searching all over town for that perfect Halloween costume, trick or treating on Embassy Row or carving pumpkins with floor mates. However, there are so many “spooktacular” activities taking place all across the city that are more so “treats” than “tricks.” Add some of these Halloween activities to your agenda.
When: Oct. 21-30 Where: Vermont and I Street NW (near the McPherson Square Metro stop) Cost: $12
CELEBRATE DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS AT THE MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
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Join the Mexican Cultural Institute in celebrating the opening of the traditional Day of the Dead Altar, a quintessentially Mexican tradition and one of the institute’s most colorful displays of the year. According to Mexican tradition, the dead return to enjoy the essence and aroma of gifts of food and drink provided for them by their family members. Come learn more about this wonderful tradition! Just grab some Micha’s Sorbet (also a regular vendor at AU’s Wednesday farmers market) and take in the sights.
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ENJOY GHOULISH TREATS AT BUZZ BAKERY This delicious bakery in Alexandria prepares special Halloween and autumnal treats for the season. Indulge in fall flavors such as pumpkin, caramel apple and Guinness along with house-made marshmallow ghosts. There are also Halloween cookie kits with cookies, frosting and sprinkles included. Take part in the annual Boo-Fest party and enjoy a free hot cider.
When: Oct. 30 from noon-4 p.m. Where: Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829 16th Street NW Cost: Free
When: October 29 from 3-6 p.m. Where: 901 Slaters Lane, Alexandria, VA 22314 Cost: $3-10
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GET SPOOKED AT “FRIGHT AT THE MUSEUM” If you think the National Museum of Crime and Punishment is creepy enough with its scare-inducing tales of gore and disturbing crimes, you will be spooked by their annual Halloween event, “Fright at the Museum.” This haunted museum tour is adults only, so the squeamish should be warned. George Washington University drama students become ghoulish characters trying their hardest to make chills run down your spine.
When: Oct. 27, 28, 29, 31 Where: National Museum of Crime and Punishment Cost: $25
COSTUMES GALORE WITH D.C. DRAG QUEENS One of D.C.’s wilder Halloween traditions, the D.C. Drag Queen Race 2011 is not a sight to be missed. Each year on the Tuesday before Halloween, crowds flock to Dupont Circle to watch ridiculously dressed and elaborately costumed drag queens race down 17th Street. Be sure to get there early for a great view and stay late for a fun block party after the race.
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When: Tuesday, Oct. 25 – 9 p.m. Where: 17th Street, between P and S Streets NW near Dupont Circle Cost: Free
BY CHELSEA CLAYS
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
LOOK OF THE WEEK
Menswear made easy
MADELINE BEARD — FASHION When thinking about the clothing men wear, two categories usually come to mind: the first, classic and conservative, just within the bounds of a J.Crew catalogue. The second, edgier, with a hint of high fashion and personal flare. While most men remain in the former category, there are plenty of guys around campus who embrace the latter. Ezra Menelik, a freshman studying public communication in the School of Communication, has developed a style all his own. “Men’s fashion itself is so cookie cutter, and there is a paradigm, a template almost where you can only wear ‘this and that,’” Menelik said. “For women, it’s a little easier.” By combining classic, tailored pieces with unexpected details, Menelik strikes a balance between a sophisticated yet distinctive look. “Sometimes at a store I can go into the women’s section and find things that aren’t specifically for women, but that a man can easily add into his wardrobe.” Menelik said. “I also pick up a lot of accessories like pins or bags because it’s easy for me to incorporate those into my closet.” He acknowledges the challenge in developing a personal style and recommends reading blogs and magazines for inspiration. “I collect Nylon, Vogue and Elle, and even though the editorials usually feature all women, I can still get inspiration from that,” Menelik said. While Menelik shops at Zara, Gap and Nordstrom for many of his basic pieces, he turns to a few local D.C. stores for more unique items. “I like to seek out the ‘hidden stores’ when I’m looking for something out of the ordinary,” Menelik said. “Some of my favorites include Redeemed in Logan Circle, Dr. K Vintage on U Street and Lost Boys in Georgetown.” LET @THEEAGLEONLINE KNOW WHAT YOU’RE ROCKING THIS FALL.
Whether you shop at H&M or Neiman Marcus, Menelik believes that fit is one of the most important parts of creating a successful look. “If I can trace my timeline back, I can definitely observe the increased sophistication of my personal style,” Menelik said. “I’ve learned that the cut and tailoring of a piece makes all the difference.” With autumn quickly approaching, he plans to stock up on some of his favorite trends for fall. “I’m really excited to wear big, knitted, chunky scarves, trench coats, navy blue blazers with gold buttons, boots … I could go on and on,” Menelik said. “I prefer dressing for fall.” Menelik dreams of one day working for a Parisian fashion house, following in the footsteps of his role model, Karl Lagerfeld. “I really love Lagerfeld because I feel like he embodies that designer depth that people don’t know exists behind fashion,” Menelik said. “He’s a designer that really knows and understands the history of fashion.” Regardless of what the future holds for him, one thing is certain: Menelik will continue to make menswear cutting-edge, dressing one step ahead of the curve.
Head to toe HAT
His dad ’s closet
SCARF Etsy
BUTTON DOWN J.Crew
JACKET Gap
KHAKI PANTS
Zara
BAG
Marc Jacobs
SHOES
Urban Outtters
WATCH Burberry
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October 25, 2011
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GOOD EATS
FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH NO PATIENCE FOR COOKBOOKS, CHECK OUT THESE FOOD BLOGS FOR RECIPES AND DROOLWORTHY PHOTOGRAPHS By KELLY HOLLIDAY Eagle Columnist
I realize that my last column may have been a bit outdated. Why would I recommend cookbooks to a generation that’s rejected the printed word for Kindles? In my perfect world, e-readers and digital books don’t exist; but, this is 2011 and I need to get real. As college students, our heads are constantly buried in the glow of a computer screen, so it’s second nature to want to Google some-
thing instead of looking it up in an actual book. Since I realized my passion for food, I’ve spent countless hours online perusing pictures and recipes, and I’ve found some of my favorites on blogs. Here are a few that have been bookmarked on my Mac. Baked Bree www.bakedbree.com I’m kind of a sucker for pictures of cute kids with grape Popsicle juice or brownie batter all over their faces, and Baked Bree always seems to have one. But
that’s not the only reason I enjoy Bree Hester’s blog: I like that she’s an average American wife, mother and woman and this shows in her cooking. Her recipes are unfussy, but they work for food snobs and picky toddlers. The blog boasts an impressive archive of appetizers and desserts, and the photography is perfect. Plus, she photographs each step of a recipe so you can see what the Tandoori chicken burgers and the cheesecake cupcakes are supposed to look like. Amuse-bouche for Two www.amusebouchefortwo. blogspot.com I actually hate using recipes (blame it on my inability to properly measure anything), but I get irritated when bloggers don’t include them in their posts. The two Baltimore bloggers of Amuse-
AU student finds all that is vintage does not equal thrifty in Georgetown
JANE MORICE | SECONDHAND STYLE Ever since I was in middle school, I have had an affinity for thrift stores and vintage stores. Yes, many people only view thrift stores as great places to buy Halloween costumes and to donate their old clothing, yet I have found over the years that, if you look hard enough, you can find some really great quality clothing and even shoes at such stores. Since I arrived in D.C., I have been deprived of my ritual-like thrift and vintage shopping experiences. However, I have slowly been discovering great secondhand shops that satisfy my craving for cute (sometimes eccentric) and usually cheap clothing. One of my initial secondhand shopping experiences in D.C. took place at Annie Creamcheese. Located on M Street in Georgetown, the store is known for its unconventional selection of clothing. The store filled with items from the 1920s to the 1990s, with most of the products either silly or high-end. While I did fully expect
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that Annie Creamcheese would be of a higher caliber than say, your typical Goodwill store, I was still under the impression that since the clothing was secondhand, it would be cheaper. However, this was not always the case. The store advertises that it has clothing from such brands as Christian Dior,
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN D.C. is full of vintage stores, but Georgetown’s Annie Creamcheese isn’t so friendly to a college budget. Chanel and Missoni, and I did notice that all the items that were of that quality were still quite pricey. I even
bouche for Two rarely post recipes, but the format totally makes up for it. Each post, each meal is accompanied by an anecdote; the shopping, cooking and eating of the meal is written in such a way that it’s like you’re reading this couple’s life story. You can tell they don’t write for anyone but themselves, but that’s what makes the blog so charming. David Lebovitz www.davidlebovitz.com Whenever I’m going through my weekly France withdrawal, I just read David Lebovitz’s blog. The former pastry sous chef turned Paris-dweller can satiate any appetite for French food and culture. You’ll regularly find recipes for chocolate gateau and lemon-glazed madeleines, along with posts about oozing Brie, Sauvignon Blanc and Pierre found a new Herve Leger dress at the shop for $550; but this was still a significant markdown from department stores, where the designer’s dresses can cost almost $2,000. I was disappointed by the fact that clothing that wasn’t “designer,” especially interesting or quite as “vintage” was still expensive. I happened to try on a dress from a brand I had never heard of, and I realized that I could buy a similar dress that was brand new from the H&M down the street for cheaper than the used one. There were even a few pieces from brands such as J.Crew and Arden B. that looked like it could have been in stores last season. I didn’t think these were vintage. I was intrigued and delighted by the accessories and the many sequined items in the store, yet I now know that I would have to go to this store with more than a few small bills in my wallet. I really enjoyed my experience at Annie Creamcheese, but I will probably not return here for my basic thrift shopping, seeing that it is not a “thrifty” store but rather a fun vintage shop. thescene@theeagleonline. com
Herme macaroons. It’s the best place to go when you need a crowd-pleasing dessert, because after all, Lebovitz really is our generation’s Betty Crocker. PrettyGirlFood & GastroGirl www.prettygirlfood.com and www.gastrogirl.tumblr.com I love logging on to my Tumblr and being greeted by lip-smacking pictures of Nutella whoopie pies and duck fat French fries. PrettyGirlFood and GastroGirl are two food photography blogs that provide such pictures and never fail to make my mouth water. Their Web pages are like virtual bulletin boards of every thing I never knew I craved and inspire me when I don’t know what to cook. You’ll find few recipes on these blogs, but the constant posting makes up for it.
Foodgawker www.foodgawker.com Ah, the pinnacle of all food porn blogs. Foodgawker acts as more of a meeting place than an actual blog, but it’s a great place for food bloggers to show off their photography and recipes and ultimately gain readership. Every few hours, the site is updated with new pictures and teasing captions, so there’s always something new to see. Instead of Food Network or Epicurious, I now turn to Foodgawker when I’m looking to make salted caramels or a hearty bowl of Bolognese. It’s a great place to find simple and complicated recipes, discover new food trends and just look at the pictures. After all, the site was meant for gawking. thescene@theeagleonline. com
Sex Kits help shy students test at home for STIs
RYAN CARTER | SEX WONK By Ryan Carter Eagle Columnist
Earlier this semester, the Sex Wonk column mentioned “I Want The Kit,” a free service (for D.C. residents) that tests for Chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis through the mail. Because many people are too embarrassed to get tested for sexually transmitted infections, the Kit is like a shy person’s laboratory through the U.S. Postal Service. But it is not quite a mail order doctor’s office as you still have to go in person to get treatment if you are infected. For your benefit, I had the Kit tested by two AU students — one man in the School of Public Affairs and one woman from the Kogod School of Business — who agreed to describe the experience, so you know what to expect if you want to get tested. A step-by-step replay follows:
Who needs to be tested? Anyone who is sexually active. Sexually active means vaginal, anal or oral sex — yes, even oral sex. All sexually active women 25-years-old or younger should be tested annually for Chlamydia, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Untreated Chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to infertility. Ordering the Kit Ordering the Kit requires filling out the form on www. iwantthekit.org. You can also opt in and add a rectal swab in addition to the standard urethral swab. “It took less than five minutes to order the test off the site, which makes it seem like you are only getting tested for Chlamydia, but it actually also checks you for gonorrhea,” said the SPA student. “I also [ordered] an anal swab and felt a little awkward for clicking to say THE KIT, PAGE 21≥
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FILM REVIEWS
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 GRADE: B+ — 85 MINUTES
By CARLO FIORIO
Eagle Contributing Writer One may wonder why, after “Paranormal Activity 1” and “Paranormal Activity 2,” people would go back to see the third installment in the series. However, “Paranormal Activity 3,” directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost (“Catfish”), proves that the horror genre is not dead — and neither is this franchise. The story starts off by bringing viewers back to some of the key scenes in “Paranormal Activity 1” and “Paranormal Activity 2.” After a few minutes, with the intrigue of the movie back in the minds of the audience, “Paranormal Activity
3” begins in the past (1988 to be precise). This prequel’s intention is to shed light on how the strange events surrounding sisters Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Brown) occurred. As the film flashes back to the olden days, new characters come into place: Julie (Lauren Bittner), the girls’ mother, and Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith), her boyfriend. Although the plot is centered on the two girls and their connection with the mysterious presence that is haunting their house, the story really takes off because aspiring filmmaker Dennis has noticed a strange presence on camera after attempting to make a sex tape with Julie (which
remains one of the funniest scenes in the movie). Toby, Kristi’s imaginary friend, is at the center of the horror scenario as he takes on the role of the “activity.” However, there is so much more to this story as it digs into the past to find out not only what is behind the supernatural events, but also who is behind it. As a whole, it is important to point out that “Paranormal Activity 3” and its predecessors succeed in bringing an innovative horror experience thanks to its unique shooting style. By setting the film in the ‘80s and using cameras from the time, the movie embeds realism into its plot by making it seem like this is actually a compilation of home video footage. The acting is also something noteworthy. By choosing unknown actors to play the part of ordinary couple Julie and Dennis, this only fuels the audience’s belief that the footage seen is real. This is the whole premise of the franchise. When you walk into theaters to see “Paranormal Activity” 1, 2 or 3, you are going because you want to see something extremely frightening happen to regular people that could be your friends, neighbors or even strangers that you see on the street. By the end of the movie, not only are you left with questions, but with the desire to know what is going to happen next. thescene@theeagleonline. com
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specific interest to change and the power to change. He later took the stage at Bender Arena. Legend began by thanking KPU for inviting him to speak, admitting that he was intimidated by some of the past speakers the group has hosted, among them Dan Rather, Colin Powell and Janet Napolitano. “Those are impossibly big shoes to fill — it’s a good thing I can sing,” Legend said. The main focus of his speech was raising awareness about education in the United States. Legend himself was home-schooled on and off until high school by his mother, who instilled in him the concept that the more power and influence one had, the more one had to apply it to affect change. In high school, he used his power to tutor other students. However, he made it clear that his life was not always as charmed as it was now and admitted that he was “an exception” where he grew up. Despite the challenges, Legend rose above the ranks. However, the fact that his high school failed to produce a substantial number of graduates provided a haunting visual of the United States’ inadequate education system for him. “I remember standing in front of my high school class as the salutatorian and thinking ‘why is the number of graduates less than half of the number that entered my class?’” Legend said. Nonetheless, he continued his education, attending the University of Pennsylvania and graduating in 1999. He urged AU students to realize just how important a college education truly is. “Consider this education a gift,” Legend said. “Now, I know what you’re thinking — ‘it’s the most difficult, expensive gift I’ve received,’ and you’re right. It’s expensive, it’s difficult … but I think you know it’ll be
worth it.” Legend eventually found his calling in music. Today, as a nine-time Grammy Award-winner, he uses his celebrity status to support campaigns he believes in. One experience in particular got him on the activism trail. “I’ve always wanted to help people in need, but when I read a book called ‘The End of Poverty’ by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, I was deeply moved,” Legend said. “I read about these devastating conditions that were experienced by those living in extreme poverty.” Sachs, an economist who argued that extreme poverty could be eliminated by 2025, wrote “The End of Poverty” in 2005. Sachs eventually reached out to Legend and invited the singer to “join him on a trip to Africa to see their work firsthand.” “For the first time there, I saw what it’s really like to live on less than $1 a day,” Legend said. “I didn’t grow up with a lot of money. We struggled … but this was the first time I witnessed this kind of poverty, and I couldn’t accept that as the way it had to be — I had to do something.” Legend used that experience to found the Show Me Campaign, which is an “organization whose mission is to break the cycle of poverty through solutions that have been proven to improve people’s lives.” The Show Me Campaign has since partnered with Teach for America. TFA’s mission is to get college graduates to teach children in urban and rural areas that are in need of education reform. “Not only does TFA put highly motivated effective young teachers into classrooms across the country, it also produces life-long leaders in the fight to ensure educational opportunities for all,” Legend said. He ended his speech by encouraging students to find their personal interests and the cause that excites them
in the way education excites him. The floor was then opened for a Q&A. A variety of audience members asked questions, from undergraduate students, to George Washington University students, to teachers from New York and Philadelphia. Despite his political fervor and ambitions, at the end of the day, Legend said he was a musician, and it was with his artistic talent that he closed Saturday’s event. Accompanied only by his piano, Legend sang hits like “Green Light,” “Ordinary People” and his cover of Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep.” At first, the audience sat very still, mesmerized by the warm richness of Legend’s voice which is even more impressive live, but no one could sit still during “Used to Love U,” a 2004 single from his debut album “Get Lifted.” Legend’s infectious passion during the chorus incited first a handful of students to stand, and eventually, the entire audience. The crowd continued standing and moving for Legend’s cover of Adele’s hit “Rolling In The Deep.” The screams that greeted the first chords indicated this was another crowd favorite, and most people sang loudly to the chorus. “Dreams,” a new song Legend introduced that will be on his still untitled upcoming spring album, did not have a catchy dance beat, but showed off his vocal range and piano skills. Finally, he ended with his most famous song, “Ordinary People.” Although disappointed to leave, the audience shuffled out of Bender with slightly shocked smiles of people who had just witnessed the passion and brilliance of a truly talented star. thescene@theeagleonline. com Staff writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Yohana Desta contributed to this report.
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theEAGLE PEOPLE ’S REVOLUTION On Sunday, Oct. 23, the Kurdistan’s Worker Party, a group that wants complete government freedom, held a protest in Taksim Square in Turkey. The group is allegedly responsible for killing 24 Turkish soldiers. Hundreds of Turkish people held a counter protest in response.
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AU student gets caught up in Kurdish protest W while studying abroad MADELINE WOLFSON — ABROAD COLUMN I truly wanted to write a traditional abroad article in which I could reminisce about the amazing places I’ve visited, food I’ve eaten and people I’ve met. I wanted to complain about the difficulty in taking 20 hours of Turkish each week and gloat about refining my tea cooking skills! But this was before I heard the helicopters over my neighborhood Sunday morning. For those of you who fail to frequent the Turkish news sites, here’s a super brief rundown. This past Wednesday, one of the largest attacks from the PKK (Parti Karkerani Kurdistan, which in English is the Kurdistan Worker’s Party), a Kurdish political group fighting for autonomy in the southeast, reportedly killed 24 soldiers in eight assaults. The following day while walking home from my Turkish course in Taksim Square, a central area on the European side of Istanbul, I was enveloped into one of the many protests responding to the attacks asking the government for a bigger response to the violence. Since then, at least 49 Kurdish insurgents were killed after Turkey deployed 10,000 troops into Iraq. I should mention that I’m now living in Tarlibasi, or, as locals like to refer to it, “the ghetto.” Tarlibasi is home to a sizeable population of Kurds. The area is very poor and visually a stark con-
trast from the surrounding neighborhoods. It is also a stone’s throw away from Taksim Square. On Sunday, I was leaving for the humungous street market that overtakes our neighborhood every week when my Kurdish landlord stopped me to warn that hundreds had gathered in Taksim to protest the PKK and had started to target Kurds in the neighborhood. I thanked him for his concern and marveled that once more my recklessness had been underestimated. Grabbing my notebook, camera and little yellow Turkish dictionary, I headed uphill to find a mass of protesters sporting the Turkish flag and chanting what could have been mistaken for football fight songs. A circle of all female police officers had linked arms around the square hoping, it seemed, that out of chivalry the mob of outraged Turks would remain in the Square. It didn’t take long for gentlemanly impulses to way to mob mentality. The red-rover style blockade was breeched and the protesters marched towards Tarlibasi. I followed them and they successfully made it two blocks deep into my neighborhood before enough police officers had gathered to stall the group. For an hour, I watched as rocks were thrown and chanting roared down my street. Many people told me to
leave, my neighbors offered for me to wait in their homes until the protesters left. Finally police pushed the protesters back to the square. The streets remained full of officers until night and I could feel the sting of lingering tear gas as I walked around the neighborhood. I wish I could offer some profound thoughts, but I find my mind blank. For the past two months, I’ve strived to find a balanced view of a country that seems to encompass a myriad of contradictions. Turkey appears simultaneously European and Eastern, secular and Muslim, progressive and repressed. The government and military work against one other, and it’s easier to find contrasting conspiracy theories than confirmed facts. Throw in Turkey’s recent move to the forefront of the Arab world, a model to be emulated post Arab-Spring, while internally, many Turks criticize their own lack of political, ethnic, religious and journalistic freedom. It’s a lot to take in. When it comes to politics here, I often feel like I’m watching my friend’s family fight at the dinner table. All I can do is try to understand the conflicts and enjoy the luxury of being “the guest.” mwolfson@theeagleonline. com
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AUDIOPHILE JENS LEKMAN
AN ARGUMENT WITH MYSELF EP
BUILD COLLAPSIBLE MOUNTAINS
THE SPECTATOR & THE ACT
Looking for new music? DJs at student-run radio station, WVAU, share their thoughts on a range of recent releases.
There aren’t many modernday artists who can deliver a one-liner like Jens Lekman. With his witty lyrics and breezy musical accompaniments, Lekman’s latest EP is a whimsical collection that ends all too quickly. While all five of the songs here are enjoyable, none match the title track in terms of pure fun: It matches a “Graceland”-esque arrangement with lyrics such
as, “I’m walking by Bev and Mick’s backpacker hostel on Victoria Street / Where it’s reggae night tonight / And the backpackers are pouring out like a tidal wave of vomit.” If you’re not already sold, then there’s not much more I can say to do so. Recommended if you like: Morrissey, Paul Simon
The title of Zola Jesus’ new album is Latin for “moving forward,” so it is no surprise that we find mastermind Nika Roza D Behind the long name is a very simple album. Singer-songwriter Luke Joyce’s first full-length is an intimate, acoustic affair. The majority of songs consist only of quiet guitar and Joyce’s voice, which carries a subtle Scottish twang and reaches a perfect balance between rough and pretty. When another instrument surfaces, it is only to complement the spare arrangement.
The songs are ephemeral and lonely — their enigmatic lyrics emote well without disclosing any meaning to hold on to with a strong grip. If anything, the closing track gives this album the right to be on the rack: the gorgeous “Wrong Way,” whose melancholic chords and desolate words end the album with a long sigh that you will hear every time you listen. But the sigh will be your own. Recommended if you like: Damien Rice, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine
M83
HURRY UP, WE’RE DREAMING
— BY CAMERON MEINDL
On his fifth studio album, M83 delivers the culmination of years of hyper-dramatic buildup in a bombastic, grandiose and, yes, ‘epic’ fashion. Any fans hoping for a return to his shoegazey
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ALL THINGS UNWIND
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LISTEN TO THE WVAU COLUMNISTS Cameron Meindl — “Rhyme & Reason” on Sat., 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Maxwell Tani — “Baroqueback Mountain” on Fri., midnight to 2 a.m. Jesse Paller — We Like Music with Jesse Paller and Alex Lee — Sundays from 1-2 a.m.
Björk delivers surreal pop on eighth album By ROHAN PAREKH
Eagle Contributing Writer
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DANCER IN THE DARK Swedish singer Björk is well-known for crafting eerie pop music, aided by her custom instruments, like the gameleste.
On her new album, “Biophilia,” Icelandic singer, composer and producer Björk delves deep into her imagination, a place that with each passing song seems to shape her message even further. An hour-long production, Björk’s eighth release is her most ambitious project yet. Björk experiments with variations of icy electronic tunes and acoustic samples melded with digital rhythms and vibrant harmonies that will flow through your ear buds.
“Cosmogony,” for example, features bass rolls, echoed choruses and several universal myths. “Back then our world was a cold black egg / until the god inside burst out / and from its shattered shell / he made the world we know,” Björk sings. “Thunderbolt” resonates like an ancient chant from the far reaches of outer space. The refrain “craving miracles” depicts her yearning to mix sound with the hidden wonders of science. Björk worked with producers over the course of several years to record “Biophilia” on custom-made instruments and software that sought to explore the
roots will be severely disappointed, as the album is a blissful pop explosion of ’80s synthesizers and shoutalong choruses. Any fans hoping for the emotional, removed piano ballads of 2008’s “Saturdays=Love” will also be disappointed, as M83 genius Anthony Gonzalez delivers massive, arguably overblown shameless interstellar-pop that would sound equally at home in a French dance hall or a bedroom floor. But any fans who hoped to see what a fully realized M83 album would sound like are in luck, as “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” is easily M83’s most optimistic, least apologetic and most
stadium-ready record to date. It’s bombastic and larger than life in a way that pushes the meaning of “overdramatic” to a new level. Sure, it’s 73-minute length is as daunting as any double album you’ve sat down to listen to all the way through. But unlike so many bands that find themselves placed under the vague label of “indie,” M83 dares to be sincere and asks you to live your most grandiose and larger than life dreams without shame. Recommended if you like: Depeche Mode, Day & Ageera Killers, any John Hughes soundtrack
The best way of describing Shara Worden’s music as My Brightest Diamond is “quirky.” With instrumentation that includes plucked strings, flutes, trumpets and military drum rolls, Worden has few true contemporaries. “All Things Unwind” mixes all of these ingredients with Worden’s consistently gorgeous vocals to create an album that is, if nothing else, very interesting to listen to. Highlights include opener “We Added It Up,” which initially creates a folksy vibe
with its strummed guitar chords only to pile on classical instrument accents, as well as “Be Brave,” a number that begins quietly before it bursts with trumpets and Worden’s strongest vocal performance of the album. Certainly, Worden has presented listeners with an album that is both delicate and beautiful, but also wonderfully weird at the same time. Recommended if you like: Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens
relationship between nature and technology. Included on the album are a pair of musical Tesla coils and a “gameleste,” a cross between a gamelan (a set of instruments such as xylophones, drums, gongs,
and videos but also an application for the iPad and other Apple products. Whether this marketing approach works will be completely up to her fans. But by constantly pushing her listeners out to the
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Certain concepts that Björk began exploring in the mid-1990s aren’t sparkling on “Biophilia” either. flutes and more) and a celeste (an idiophone similar to a piano), which was programmed to play remotely by a tablet computer. For this album, Björk has become much more innovative, creating not only music
edge, the experimentation at some point is so abstract, that we get lost in her concept. In “Mutual Core,” she sings about the “magnetic strife” of the tectonic plates in her chest. “Dark Matter” BJORK ON PAGE 21≥
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Odd Future Wolf Gang ‘kill’ show at 9:30 club with wicked rap lyricism By YOHANA DESTA Eagle Staff Writer
After crossing the halfway mark on their notorious Golf Wang Tour, the unruly members of cult hip-hop group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are more than just hitting their stride — they’re blowing away the competition. The group performed to a sold-out crowd of mostly teenagers and young adults Oct. 24 at 9:30 club. The Odd Future juggernaut began its vicious roll in 2007, when the group was formed in L.A. by then 16-year-old Tyler, the Creator. The group is currently comprised of a whopping 11 members, almost all age 20 -years-old and younger. Tyler, Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis, Mike G, Left Brain, Syd the Kid (sometimes styled Syd tha Kyd), Matt Martians, Taco and Jasper Dolphin were all at the show.
Noticeably absent was Earl Sweatshirt, who last year was swiftly sent away to a boarding school in Samoa after the release of his highly acclaimed and highly volatile album, “Earl.” Also missing was R&B crooner, Frank Ocean, who has not performed at any of the shows on this tour. Over the course of the past year, the gang has accrued critical acclaim and garnered a slew of followers, many among them rap superstars. Last March, Kanye West tweeted that Tyler’s video for “Yonkers” was the video of 2011. For those who haven’t seen it, it features the 19-year-old rapper eating a cockroach, vomiting and then committing suicide — maybe that’ll give some insight as to what exactly qualifies as Odd Future material. Opening the show was OFWGKTA DJ, Syd the Kid. From the moment she stepped onstage, the crowd
went into panic mode, transforming from a crew of nervously excited youth to a bloodthirsty mob. And when the other members got onstage, a new level of pandemonium was reached. The group opened with “64,” by Hodgy Beats and Left Brain, who’s more hype man and producer than rapper. The track is a part of their OFWGKTA offshoot, MellowHype. The choice of opening song set the theme for the rest of the night: Tyler isn’t the only great rapper in Odd Future, so why would the show be all about him? But, when he kicked off the song “Transylvania,” from his sophomore album “Goblin,” fans made it clear whom they really came for. The frontman wore his now often-imitated uniform of a white Supremes T-shirt, small camp cap, knee-length white socks and sneakers. The 20-year-old rapper has a voice that’s more of a
well-aged deep croak, which often breaks into fits of demonically rollicking laughter. The scarily low voice suits his violent rap style, especially when he spits verses like “I’m Dracula, bitch / don’t got a problem smacking a bitch / kidnapping, attacking, with axes and shit.” And, as expected, he was as crass as ever, manipulating the crowd as he pleased. At one point, Tyler’s pants were sagging a bit too low, so he asked fans to send up their belts. He immediately received four of them, prompting Mike G to ask the audience to send up their newborn babies while they’re at it. Considering how twisted the guys in Odd Future are, the baby thing was probably only half a joke. The group launched fearlessly into each song, performing “Rolling Papers,” “Forest Green” and “Tron Cat” to raucous effect. When they jumped into MellowHype jam, “igotagun,” Left Brain leapt high off the stage, tearing like a missile into the crowd of outstretched arms. Crowd surfing was soon a regular occurrence, with
fans and OFWGKTA members alike riding over the audience throughout the show. Tyler fearlessly chatted with the crowd throughout the show. He eschewed fans that called him Tyler and demanded all night that they call him Toilet instead. When a fan held out a book for Tyler to sign, he grabbed it and looked at her incredulously. “Wouldn’t you want a picture or some cool shit?” he said. He mimed a drawing with his hands over it, and as he handed it back said, “Here, I tried to draw a dick on it.” It was that kind of love/ hate thing that kept fans titillated. No matter how abusive OFWGKTA members were, they clamored for more, mercilessly screaming chants of “Wolf Gang,” “Free Earl” (a common saying for fans at any Odd Future show) and actually calling Tyler “Toilet,” as per his request. When a female audience member asked Tyler to ask the guys behind her to stop grinding into her, he said that he felt bad, but “you at a OF show — what the fuck
did you expect?” The show was split pretty evenly between Tyler, Hodgy and Mike G, who captivated the crowd with his much-needed laidback style, spending half the show rapping in a tie dyed Grateful Dead shirt, and the other half in a basketball jersey, wielding a blue light saber. They interspersed the show with a few verses that Earl rapped on, like the song “Orange Juice.” Chants of “Free Earl” were heard all night, from everyone in the crowd and on stage. Tyler and Hodgy Beats performed crowd favorites, like the hyped up “Yonkers” and “Sandwitches,” undoubtedly the wildest moments of the night. The crew ended the show with Tyler’s incredibly violent, “Radicals,” demanding the crowd to chant the song’s chorus of “Kill people / burn shit / fuck school” over and over again, providing a violently awesome ending to a violently awesome show. ydesta@theeagleonline.com
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
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Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
ACROSS 1 Esther Williams number 12 One who “must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES”: Eliot 15 Stage manager’s exhortation 16 Opposite of hence 17 1870s period costume named for a Dickens lass 18 Grille cover 19 Composer of “The Lovely Bones” music 20 1986-to-2001 orbiter 21 In sequence 23 Mason’s fee 26 Ones waiting for bottle openers? 27 Storm’s dir. 28 Ulster, for one 30 Indicate indifference 33 Printers’ primary colors 34 Debt-laden fin. deal 35 Derisive call 36 Pep rally climax, perhaps 37 Transfer consequence, familiarly 38 Wood used in bows 39 Grinds 40 Auto club recommendation 41 It’s for the dogs 43 Trig. function 44 Like some prescription lenses 45 Took after 50 Establish firmly 52 __ Zion Church 53 Soprano Marton 54 Milne tyke 55 Hippie era swinger? 58 Heel in a bakery 59 Life-support system? 60 Paris’s Pont __ Arts 61 Mona Lisa Vito in “My Cousin Vinny,” for one
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having a sense of passion and identity outside that of their marriages,” Krasnow said. “The question women should be asking themselves is not if they are happy with their spouses, but if they are happy without them.” In “The Secret Lives of Wives,” Krasnow talks about the high divorce rate for Baby Boomers, parents of today’s millennial generation that is now taking its time to get married.
Wait until the Kit arrives in the mail As expected, the Kit arrived a week later in a discreet manila envelope with a Baltimore return label. It contained sterile test tubes, plastic collection bags, forms and detailed collection instructions. It even had a pre-stamped return envelope to make the whole process even easier. The forms were rather straightforward and offered to send results by text message. Experience self-swabbing action “I thought the test was uninvasive and the instructions were easy to follow,” said the female Kogod student. “Overall, it was a painless test and took such little time and effort for such a great amount of benefit.” However, the male SPA student, who ordered both the standard and the rectal swab, said it was not immediately apparent which swab was which. “I decided there was no
LOVE AND MARRIAGE Professor Iris Krasnow’s book sheds light on finding identity within a marriage. “Before our divorce rate in the United States hovered around 50 percent, but the divorce rate is now 43 percent and it is because of you,” Krasnow said, referring to the millennial generation, individuals born between 1977 and 1998. Krasnow was born in the Baby Boomer generation and described it as the “want-it-all-have-it-all generation” that may have possibly created the divorce movement, whose products are children of the millennial generation. “Before, the average age for a woman to get married was 23; now I think it is something like 28,” Krasnow said. Krasnow expressed her excitement over the fact that people were taking their time trying to get married. “You get so excited about getting married,” Krasnow way the Q-tip sized swab was for the front,” he said. “There was a thinner one for that.” Men touch the “swab just at the tip or inside the opening to the penis.” Women insert “the swab about one inch inside the opening of your vagina and rotate it … so that moisture is absorbed into the swab.” Drop into the mail and wait for the results One of the students received a text that read “U R negative” without any other explanation. The other is still waiting. So, although convenient, the test takes a little longer than just walking into a doctor’s office. However, it is quite discreet for the timid population. It is important to remember that this does not test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, so you should get tested for other STIs separately. thescene@theeagleonline. com
said. “It’s a big dress, a big room, you’ve just lost ten pounds and it’s such a euphoric day. But you’re not planning a sweet 16 party; you’re setting the stage for the rest of your life. So, you really do want to get it right.” Although Krasnow believes in marriage as an institution and sticking to it now, she does understand the reality that marriage truly is not for everyone. “I don’t think everyone should stay married,” Krasnow said. But unless women find themselves in relationships where there is abuse or constant adultery, she said believes women should try and make their marriages work because “the grass is seldom greener on the other side.” thescene@theeagleonline. com
≤BJORK, PAGE 19 features heavy gibberish, and the song is difficult to get through. Certain concepts that Björk began exploring in the mid-1990s aren’t sparkling on “Biophilia” either. The single “Crystalline,” for example, sounds like a rendition of 1997’s “Homogenic” with its drum and bass breakbeat. Interesting, yes, but not surprising. That’s not to say that Björk has ceased to be a fascinating presence on the album. “Biophilia’s” focus on technological innovation to produce her sounds and themes of science is unique but it seems as if she tries too hard and falls short of remarkable. If you’re even somewhat familiar with the singer over the last two decades, you know what you’ll be getting musically from her new fulllength project, but the concept behind her work strays far from the ordinary. If you think Lady Gaga is a pioneer, Björk’s style and musical approach will propel you to a whole new dimension.
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OPINION
October 25, 2011
STAFF EDITORIAL
COMING TO A WONK NEAR YOU The WONK-surge has begun. After a year of testing the controversial and occasionally mocked ad campaign, AU’s marketing department has begun to unleash an unparalleled media blitz. Entire Metro stations like Federal Triangle have been wonkified, plastered with posters of the AU archetype headless wonk. In addition to these ads and others at bus stops, AU has debuted a 30-second WONK television ad that will extoll AU’s wonkiness to a national audience. That’s a whole lotta WONK. Is it cheesy? You bet. Oscar winning? Maybe not. An effective ad campaign? The signs are increasingly pointing toward yes. Every AU student knows that our school does not receive its due recognition. While the situation has certainly improved in recent years, AU still needs to elbow its way in between the neighboring Georges for a well-earned reputation. WONK might not appeal to all, but it is clear that AU
needs to proliferate its own buzz. Nevertheless, the initial thought of a college TV ad may give some pause, and rightly so. More often than not, universities advertising on the tube are for-profit schools, hardly the standard with which we want to be associated. However, elements of the overall campaign remain promising. It’s certainly clear that the logic behind the WONK-surge is well developed and thought through. “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “The Daily Show,” “The Colbert Report” — what do all these programs have in common? Their viewership consists of those in the political know, informed individuals aware of current events and looking to actively affect them. Basically, your ideal AU student. Even AU’s WONK-dominated Metro station — Federal Triangle — was strategically chosen to target government workers who may be looking for a place to continue their education. It is encouraging to see that AU has performed the
needed diligence to make the ad theme as impactful as possible. While the campaign is certainly aptly targeted, its national debut should be a referendum on the effectiveness of the word “wonk” itself. Critics of the campaign argue that the word wonk is only understood by, well, other wonks. Comprehension of the term might not have been a problem with the D.C. bus and Metro ads, but with national TV slots it may be. How many people outside of K Street, Capitol Hill and 4400 Massachusetts Ave. really identify with the term? How many can even answer what a wonk is? AU marketing is hoping a good amount. We can only hope that uninformed TV censors don’t jump to conclusions. Despite the clear merits of the overall campaign, The Eagle is concerned that we have received few answers as to how much this WONK-surge has cost. Officials have said that the total budget granted to AU’s goal to
Translations, and the lost meanings within FRANCESCA MORIZIO | SPEAK MY LANGUAGE I’ve talked about language and culture being linked before in this column. Language is how we think and controls everything we can say. Our English phrase “lost in translation” says it all: certain things are going to be left behind when you’re switching from one language to another. The things lost are more than just idioms and plays on words; bits of culture are left behind as well. So if language and culture are inextricably linked, and if language is the window through which we begin to understand a culture, what really happens when we run into those untranslatable words or words that don’t slide nicely from one tongue to another, those words that are so dependent on cultural norms and notions that the true meaning is lost? Try as we might, we can never truly understand something that’s been translated. Whether it is a work of literature or a political speech, we’re stuck in an in-between where it might syntactically
make sense, but something is still amiss. The realm of political rhetoric or poetry is, of course, on a grand stage, but what about words like “cafuné?” It’s the verb “to run your fingers tenderly through your lover’s hair” in Brazilian Portuguese. My personal favorite in Italian is “gattara,” or “the old women who looks after the stray cats in your neighborhood because she has lost all hope of love”; our crazy cat lady summed up in one word. Granted, yes, these words are not untranslatable in the most literal sense, but the translation loses some of its beauty. There is a cultural element in these words that doesn’t exactly cross the boundary from one language to another. Translators have a rough job. They have to be intimately familiar not only with both languages’ structure, grammar and syntactical elements, but also the nuanced phrases while toeing the line between the two major translation types: “dynamic equivalency” or
“essentially literally.” Essentially, they must make a choice: preserve the author’s original words as closely as possible or getting across the general meaning by changing the text for a better flow in the new language. A good translator must constantly be keeping the rhythm and flow of a work from one language to another, while also somehow conveying the meaning of the author. Core meanings can completely change in translations, as the author is no longer in control of the work’s message; everything lies in the pen of the translator. Living in an increasingly global world, we constantly run into this problem. How one can effectively cross cultural and linguistic boundaries through translation absolutely baffles me. I’ve never been good at translations, and I’m in awe of people who do it well, especially when it’s outside the context of the literature department. Documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of
“win recognition and distinction” is $1 million. Nevertheless, we have seen few line-by-line breakdowns of advertising expenses, such as how much the 30-second ad cost to run for weeks on national networks. We think it only fair that students see how their tuition is used. Otherwise, some might assume that WONK is overfunded, perpetuating the student pushback against the campaign. It is certainly tempting to pass sweeping judgment on the WONK-surge. However, the ads’ ultimate goal is to increase the reputation and recognition of AU — a long-term objective. And this cannot truly be assessed until future students are recruited, new professors are hired and the campaign is given time to mature. As a result, The Eagle watches with amused intrigue, eagerly awaiting the results.≠ E Send all responses and reactions to edpage@theeagleonline.com.
Rights and Obama’s State of the Union Address all find themselves in more languages than I could name, affecting real people and real governments. Translation is something that reaches broader borders than the realms of the South American Fiction section of Barnes & Noble; it’s as issue we all deal with every day. I think the issues of translations and things getting lost in translation are something we all forget sometimes. We live in a world where everything is instantly accessible on the Internet and we can have anything translated electronically just as quickly. The art of truly putting another’s words into another language is something that has been reduced to clicking a box on Google Translate. I’m not saying we should all labor over Don Quixote or the newest press releases coming out of Libya with our trusty dual language dictionary at our sides; but what we read can’t be taken for granted. Words can change the world and their true meanings should never be taken lightly. Francesca Morizio is a double major in CAS and Kogod. Please send comments and responses to: edpage@theeagleonline.com
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ATV replies to AUSFI criticism We represent the ATV program Capitol Politics, which has been attempting to organize a debate between AU Students for Israel and AU Students for Justice in Palestine. We were spurred to do this by the issue of Palestinian statehood being brought before the United Nations and wanted to organize a reasonable discussion between the two groups on not just that one issue, but as part of a broader discussion on the conflict. We were very disappointed to see AUSFI’s letter to the editor last issue explaining their reasons for not coming on. Normally, we would not respond to something like this, but the following statement in the letter really caught our attention: “ATV’s proposed program does not provide a welcoming and educational environment in which to engage.” This is flat-out inaccurate, for we could not have been more welcoming in trying to set up the episode. The initial plan we had was to devote one segment of an episode to the discussion. On Thursday, Sept. 29, we met with representatives from SJP and AUSFI, including AUSFI Vice President Jonathan Lipton (one of the writers of The Eagle letter), and spent almost an hour discussing exactly how we wanted the episode to go. At some point during the meeting, we came to the conclusion that, for the purposes of being as detailed and informative as possible, we would devote an entire episode to the issue. There were some concerns that we would only be presenting people’s opinions instead of taking a more educational approach. One suggestion made by AUSFI was to bring on professors to talk about the history of the conflict, which we were certainly open to. We had also discussed doing independent research to present on the show leading up to the discussion. It was brought to our attention that members of the SFI e-board would not be able to appear on camera because of their involvement with other organizations. We ATV, PAGE 23≥
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Honors Program falls short for many AU students DOUGLAS BELL | WRITER OF OUR DISCONTENTS Certainly it’s no secret that AU aspires to be recognized among the top academic universities in the country. What better way to do that than to have an exclusive program that benefits students of the highest academic caliber? Enter the University Honors Program. Each year, 15 percent of admitted freshmen are invited to participate in this program, and other students can go through a self-nomination process to join. But an honors program can only be successful when it is able to effectively cater to the needs of all of the students it serves and add substantial value to their education. Unfortunately, my experience in AU’s Honors Program since my freshman year has shown me that it falls far short of meeting this goal. My primary concern with the program is that its assortment of Honors classes is heavily skewed towards only a handful of subjects, primarily related to government and international
studies. Even though there are 65 undergraduate majors offered at AU, only four subjects have more than three Honors sections offered for them. In my case, there are only two regular Honors courses offered within my major and none for either of my minors. Honors tries to make up for this deficiency by allowing students to add an Honors course supplement to non-Honors upper-level courses. Adding a supplement requires students to do an additional high-level assignment for the course. But considering that a total of 30 Honors credits are required to meet the program’s graduation requirements, that’s a lot of extra work to do on top of your already-rigorous classes if your fields of study require you to rely entirely on supplements. The other benefits that the Honors Program touts are also fairly hollow. AU has recently shoehorned virtually all of the
Honors floors into Hughes Hall, preventing Honors students who want to live on an Honors floor from having a choice of dorms on campus and essentially segregating them from the rest of the on-campus AU students. And then there’s Honors 101, a mandatory zerocredit class for fall-semester freshmen that creates small groups that are supposed to do various social activities throughout the year. But in my experience, everyone in my Honors 101 group was too busy keeping up with classes, getting involved with extracurricular activities and simply trying to get used to living on their own for the first time to have any time to spend doing random activities for a zero-credit class. Now, I’m sure that my opinions of the Honors Program are not representative of all Honors students. For a number of majors, wherein academic skills such as critical thinking and research are heavily empha-
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ted to setting up the debate, we sent another email back to SFI. That email was sent Tuesday, Oct. 4. We received no response from SFI. One week later, we saw that SFI did respond: in a public letter published in this very paper. We have no problem with receiving critical feedback, but we would rather have someone bring his or her concerns to us directly instead of responding through a letter in The Eagle. Every single concern brought up in the AUSFI letter was brought to our attention at the initial meeting. The only reasonable conclusion we can come to is that AUSFI wanted to bring publicity to their organization. We could not have been more accommodating to everyone involved in the negotiations. The purpose of our show is to foster an honest dialogue between students on issues affecting our community, our generation and the world at large. We agree with AUSFI’s sen-
timents that AU is a place for honest, safe and open dialogue, and we regret that they didn’t take this opportunity to actually have one. Suggesting that we were creating a potentially “hostile environment” is personally offensive, given how much we worked to find a compromise acceptable to all parties. We still plan to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on our program in the near future, so we hope that AUSFI reconsiders its position and joins the discussion.
sent out an email the following Monday asking SFI to contact their membership and ask who in the group would be interested in appearing on the show. We particularly emphasized the need to present “an objective and unemotional impression of the historical circumstances” regarding the region. Later that day, we received an email from SFI informing us that no one from the group would be coming on the show, saying “the organization strives to participate in campus activities that would benefit us and our overall goals.” We honestly believed that by having both groups engaged in a televised discussion of the issue, we would be able to provide students with a broader perspective. We regret that Students for Israel felt that publicly discussing their own opinions was somehow not beneficial to their cause. Because we were commit-
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sized, having a diploma indicating that you graduated with honors is a significant reflection of your studies at AU. But I’m a Communications major. The assignments that I do in my classes are not going to matter as much as the skills that I master outside of my classes. My future career aspirations will benefit far more
from the experience that I gain through extracurricular organizations here at AU than they will from an Honors sticker on my diploma. And as such, it’s hard for me to feel compelled to go out of my way to meet the strict requirements of a program that provides few resources of its own related to my fields of study. Perhaps Honors just isn’t right for me; I’ll concede that. But I do believe that the Honors Program needs to do a better job of representing all of the highachieving students at AU, not just those who happen
to study in the School of Public Affairs or the School of International Service. Honors should be more than just tea talks and free cake; it needs to provide meaningful educational value to all of AU’s highachieving students. Douglas Bell is a junior in SOC. Please send comments and responses to: edpage@theeagleonline. com
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“The New AU Campaign” — a call to action for student democracy You may have seen the fliers around campus, with a fist on a background of blue and red. You may have also seen or heard the rally on the Quad this past Thursday, with chants such as “AU, step off it, put students over profit!” and “When workers and students are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” You may be wondering what this is all about. The New AU Campaign is being organized by the Community Action and Social Justice coalition, together with clubs such as the Latino and American Student Organization (LASO), the Student Worker Alliance and AU Students for Choice, among others. We have had many conversations with students from different backgrounds about their grievances with the University and one concern came up nearly every time: the University is not responsive. Specifically, students brought up concerns of worker rights on campus, University investments in unethical corporations, the lack of student representation in University decisionmaking and the confusing process that is accessing information regarding financial aid. Club leaders and other students shared their stories of frustration at our town hall last Tuesday, and a plan of action was drawn up to address these issues. We want to voice our griev-
ances with the University through the most direct and effective means possible, so that we know that they will hear us. All of these points have been synthesized into a few proposals that the University could easily enact if they chose to. The first proposal is for a board to be formed that would consist of students, faculty and staff that would review our own policies of social responsibility and make sure that all contracts the University enters into with outside corporations follow these policies. The second proposal is for an opening of the University’s financial records, so that students would be able to actually see what their tuition money is being used for. Finally, the third proposal is for there to be three student members of the Board of Trustees, representing the undergraduate, graduate and law student populations that would have full rights as voting members of the board. These students would be democratically elected by the student body. All of these structures have either existed at this University in the past or exist currently at other universities. AU used to have a social responsibility board that included students and faculty who set labor, environmental and humanitarian standards and made sure University apparel was being
produced in decent working conditions. At public universities, students have the right to file requests through the Freedom of Information Act, which then releases any or all university documents into the public sphere. Lastly, at many different institutions, including Cornell University, students elect a voting representative to the Board of Trustees. We believe that as the principle shareholders of the University, our concerns should be considered in decision-making processes. The proposals that we have outlined would go a long way to making this University the community that we came here to be a part of. The University professes that it seeks “inclusive participation in university governance.” So far at AU, we have not seen this, but that does not mean that it cannot happen. AU students have a tradition of being politically active. It is time for us to act on this tradition and stand up for what we believe in: student democracy. Ethan Miller, Chris Litchfield, Mitch Ellmauer, Michael Dranove and Rachel Mandelbaum are the organizing collective of the Community Action and Social Justice Coalition. They can be reached at casj@american.edu
October 25, 2011
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Oh, it’s love, true love
By Erin Vail
The Incubator The first love. When does it happen? Who is it shared between? How long does it last? Many would argue that college is often the perfect time to experience a first love. Luckily for me, I’ve already experienced a first love. With the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres. “Wait, what? Your first love is with sports teams? Not even your first boyfriend?” you may ask, but yes, I proclaim that the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres were my first boyfriends and remain my “steadies” to this very day, despite a painful, agony-spurning loss to Cincinnati by the Bills and a grueling shootout loss to the Capitals by the Sabres on Friday. I am reminded of the movie “Fever Pitch,” when Ben Wrightman’s young student asks, “Let me put it this way. You love the Sox. But have they ever loved you back?” To which my response is, pertaining to the Bills and Sabres, yes, they have. No other person has brought me such joy (and, adversely, heartbreak) than those two teams. The happiest moment in my recent
years (if not arguably of all time) was beating the Patriots in Week 3 this season. Other moments, like Jason Pominville’s shorthanded goal versus Ottawa in Game 5 in 2006, make me love the Sabres. You know the song “Your Love Is My Drug?” That song has never applied to a person or crush for me. You know whom it has applied to? The Bills and Sabres. Let’s break down some lyrics for a moment to prove my point: “Maybe I need some rehab, or maybe just need some sleep, I got a sick obsession, I’m seeing it in my dreams.” I definitely need some rehab, as my floor concluded after I did a victory lap after the Pats-Bills game that I may have needed to be hospitalized. My heart was pounding faster than it ever had before, and I was literally shaking for the entire fourth quarter. I’m surprised I haven’t had a heart attack from all of the stress. I also have a sick obsession, as my roommate Sadie has come to learn; I wear Bills and Sabres shirts constantly and the better part of Sunday is spent watching pregame, the game, postgame and listening to phone calls I make to my family to discuss the game at length
(again look at Ke$ha, especially prevalent during losses: “I’m making those desperate calls, I’m staying up all night hoping, hitting my head against the wall.”) So, Sadie, I apologize for the sick obsession. Just wait till hockey season, though. Instead of every Sunday, it’s like two or three times a week. I apologize in advance. The other pinpoint lyrics Ke$ha unknowingly engineered with the Bills and Sabres in mind are, “I don’t care what people say / the rush is worth the price I pay / I get so high when you’re with me / but crash and crave you when you leave.” I’m thinking about how ecstatic I was last week with the win over New England and how anguished/defeated/enraged over the loss against Cincinnati. I also pretty much hate the summer since there’s no football or hockey. I crash and crave them — especially, in the past 11 years, during NFL postseason — because the Bills are never there. Every emotion I assume one would feel toward one’s love I feel for the Bills and Sabres. I’m angry and sad. I’m happy and excited. They bring me gifts, like starting 4-0 in 2008 (this is the Bills), and disappoint me by miss-
PUPPY LOVE For some, first loves are kid crushes or college boyfriends. For this writer, it’s sports. ing the playoffs that year. They commit to winning by starting Trent Edwards, but don’t follow through as he crashes and burns. And now, the happy “new relationship” glow is back, the loveliness is back, as the Bills have one of the highest scoring offenses in the league. The Sabres’ new owner genuinely cares about the Sabres and the city of Buffalo having a championship. I am starting to depend on both teams more heavily, and they sure as hell influence my happiness and wellbeing and attitude following a win or loss. So sorry, gentlemen, I just don’t have time for a real boyfriend right now. I’ve got two pretty strong partnerships going, and I just don’t know if I can squeeze in anyone else or compromise any quality time with them. After all, you never forget your first love, and I can bet that I won’t forget the glee and agony they bring me any time soon. Erin Vail is a freshman in SOC who blogs about dealing with people and relationships of all kinds.
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While the initial thrill of any given internship may provide a great deal of encouragement when entering the work force in college, my advice to all my collegiate classmates is that, good or bad, your internship or job is a learning experience, just one of many throughout your life. I am here to tell you, and thereby reaffirm all your incessant applying to law firms, big name companies, federal bureaus and the biggest news agency in the world, that yes, your pain, anger, frustration, your ups and downs, your phone calls home, your moments drenched in the poring rain waiting for an AU shuttle are so worth it. First off, we all know the big “AU WAS VOTED NO. ONE IN INTERNSHIPS IN THE NATION!” But a fancy shmnacy rating on U.S. News & World Report does not get me past the 3 p.m. lull in my afternoon or pay my cable bill with a nonpaying internship. But what it does do is allow your hard work to actually mean something. Even if you interned or worked for a company without a big name, you can leave knowing you have some experience. That’s something many students around the country can’t say. Secondly, as work begins to pile up in the office, that side of your brain where rationality begins to kick in starts yelling, “HEY! When is your HOMEWORK going to be done? You know, the work that actually matters … the work that you NEED to do in order to GRADUATE?” Yeah, we tend to push our academic lives to the wayside when our business lives begin to pick up. I love to relate my life to that amazing line in “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Let me know when your personal life begins to fail. It means you need a promotion.” But as grades start to slip and things like friendships, relationships and health
start to be pushed into the back of our mind, we need to stop and prioritize. Perhaps the best example I can give is from my time as a White House intern sophomore year. Aside from the daunting and incredible experience as an intern, I was thrust into a very competitive and mature setting. The youngest person in any department, I had to constantly prove that I deserved to be there just as much as the 35-year-old Yale Law grad who spent his summers de-mining Northern Africa. (Not really, but you should see some of the bios my class candidates had; talk about intimidating). On top of that, I was living with three other girls, in a dorm, not giving proper attention to my health, sleeping was the last thing on my to-do list and by the middle of the semester. I was the last person you wanted to talk to. It’s important to do well at work, and to make sure you are enjoying the most of it, but it’s probably more important to make sure school comes first, as does your health. I know many of you have had just an awful day in the office or would trade anything in the world to have a “normal” college experience. Waiting for a tailgate in the cold for the school’s football team or taking a coach bus to some wonderful event the school arranged sounds like a dream. But instead I attended a school that encourages its students to try harder, to wake up with a feeling of anticipation for the future and to be determined for every challenge that life presents us. We intern because we can and we intern because one day we will look back on all of this and say, it was all worth it. Emily Rosem is a senior in SOC blogging about senior life.
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Field hockey splits weekend matches, suffers first PL loss By TYLER TOMEA Eagle Staff Writer
The AU field hockey team suffered its first Patriot League loss of the season Oct. 22 when it fell to Bucknell University 3-1 in Lewisburg, PA. But the team salvaged the weekend with a 3-0 victory over Georgetown University Oct. 23 at Reeves Field on Senior Day.
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Women’s soccer earns draw against Holy Cross, falls to Army on Senior Day By MAYA KOSOVER
Eagle Contributing Writer The AU women’s soccer team hosted two Patriot League matchups this weekend, tying the College of the Holy Cross 1-1 Oct. 21, followed by a 3-0 defeat against the Army Black Knights Oct. 23. Crusaders, Eagles play to draw Holy Cross (2-12-3, 0-51 PL) was able to take an early advantage when Gina Righini scored at the 34th minute. The Crusaders led
≤ VOLLEYBALL, PAGE 28 sets by scores of 25-21, 2513 and 25-13 to give AU its second straight-set victory over Bucknell this season. Crum lead the Eagles’ offense once again with 10 kills and hitting .444 on the afternoon. Crum had a combined 27 kills on the
1-0 heading into halftime, but the Eagles (5-11-2, 1-41 PL) managed to tie up the game in the 61st minute when Jasmine Mohandesi found Michelle Montilio near the edge of the goal box. Montilio drove her shot to the left past Holy Cross goalkeeper Carly McCabe for her second goal of the season to tie the game at one. For the remainder of the second half and in both overtime sessions, the Eagles maintained control of the action, outshooting the Crusaders 20-5.
Holy Cross’ Gaby Ransom’s shot attempt led to an important stop by AU defender Kimberly Kroll, while Michaela Cowgill nearly scored the game winner in the 108th minute, but her shot sailed wide.
weekend while only making three attack errors. Sara Rishell also added 10 kills in the victory, as the freshman outside hitter hit .600 with one attack error. Smidova and Alexandra Hammer paced the offense with 20 and 14 assists, respectively. With the first set tied at
21, AU’s top performers stepped up to give it a 1-0 advantage. Two Rishell kills and a Smidova service ace led to a Crum kill, as the Eagles closed the opening set on a 4-0 run for the 25-21 victory. The Eagles dominated from there, as Bucknell never held a lead in either the
Army holds AU scoreless on Senior Day The 3-0 loss against Army in the annual Phil Reeves match was a disappointment for the team as it had hoped to honor the seniors with a final win on Senior Day. Army (10-3-4, 3-1-2 PL) took the lead early in the
WINLESS WEEKEND Michelle Montilio and the AU women’s soccer team couldn’t pick up a victory in two home matches and will conclude their season Oct. 29 at Colgate.
game when Ruthie Rosenberger scored two minutes into the game off an assist from Joey Molacek. AU goalkeeper Klare Lazor tried making a play, but the shot found the back of the net on a second effort from 15 yards away. AU struggled to gain momentum in the second half, as Army’s Jaclyn Kalik assisted Kim An in her 71st minute goal, followed by Dee Clegg scoring again only 12 minutes later for the 3-0 Black Knights victory. “This was a difficult matchWSOC, PAGE 26 ≥ second or third set. AU will finish off its regular season schedule with five consecutive games at Bender Arena. The first is Oct. 28 against the Navy Midshipmen. ttomea@theeagleonline.com
Bucknell earns first win over Eagles since 2001 Katie Durkin scored two goals and Erica Perrine made 11 saves as the Bison (6-9, 2-2 PL) defeated the Eagles (8-7, 3-1 PL) and snapped their 11-game losing streak against AU. The Bison posted the first goal of the game, as Kelly Stefanowicz shot low on a penalty corner to give Bucknell a 1-0 lead 24 minutes into the game. But AU would answer less than four minutes later, when Natalie Ellenberger knocked in a rebound off a penalty corner to even the game at one apiece. The score would remain 1-1 heading into halftime, despite the Eagles holding a large advantage in shots (135) and penalty corners (7-3). Durkin scored the first of her two goals three minutes after intermission, as she tipped the ball past AU goalkeeper Ashley Dalisera to put Bucknell ahead 2-1. The Eagles again held an edge in shots (11-6) and penalty corners (7-4) in the second half, but couldn’t push across the game-tying goal despite an aggressive attack. With just over five minutes remaining in the game, Bucknell’s strong passing put Durkin one-on-one with Dalisera, and the junior forward pushed across her second goal of the game to put the Bison up 3-1 and seal the victory.
AU Shuts Down Georgetown Alex McMackin scored twice and Shelly Montgomery scored once as the Eagles dominated the Hoyas (2-15, 0-5 Big East) for a convincing victory. “I thought it was important for us to set a tone and to fix some of the things that weren’t going in our favor [Saturday],” AU Head Coach Steve Jennings said. Montgomery struck first, as her goal put AU up 1-0 seven minutes into the game. The early aggressiveness was a theme throughout the game, as AU controlled play by holding a 34-5 edge in shots and a 14-1 advantage in penalty corners. McMackin scored ten minutes later to extend the AU lead to 2-0, which would be plenty for the Eagles on an afternoon when Dalisera only needed to make one save in goal. McMackin would then notch her second goal of the game in the 43rd minute to give the Eagles the 3-0 win. Melissa Casale, Tatum Dyer and Natalie Ellenberger were all honored during a pregame Senior Day ceremony. The trio has won three Patriot League titles and has only lost two conference games during their AU careers. “They’ve been instrumental to our success over the last four years,” Jennings said. “It’s always special when you can get the win on Senior Day.” The No. 1 seed in the Patriot League Tournament will be at stake when the Eagles wrap the regular season Oct. 29 at Lafayette College. ttomea@theeagleonline. com
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Ten things that will be missed if NBA cancels upcoming season By MICHEAL MCELVEEN Eagle Staff Writer
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Men’s soccer can’t overcome early deficit in first conference loss By SAMANTHA RAPHELSON Eagle Staff Writer
The AU men’s soccer team suffered its first loss in Patriot League play Oct. 22, as the Navy Midshipmen struck early and protected the lead late for a 2-1 victory over in Annapolis, Md. Navy (5-7-3, 2-2-1 PL) scored both goals in the first ten minutes of the game, while AU (6-9-1, 4-1 PL) was unable to find the net until the second half rolled around, despite outshooting the Midshipmen 14-11 on the night. Navy came ready to play at the first whistle, as the Midshipmen pushed across the first goal just four minutes into the game. Guy Skord’s attempt rocketed past AU goalkeeper Billy Knutsen and off the left post, but Joseph Greenspan was there to capitalize on the rebound and chip the ball into a wide-open net for the 1-0
Navy lead. Five minutes later, Navy had a little luck thrown its way. David Jackson sent a simple shot towards Knutsen, who mishandled it and let it slide through his legs for the game’s second goal. The mishap gave Jackson his team-high fifth goal of the season and Navy a 2-0 advantage. AU knew there was still plenty of time, so it began to pressure the Navy back line and outshot the Midshipmen 10-5 in the first half. But the Eagles couldn’t capitalize on their shot attempts and headed into halftime trailing 2-0. It was not until the 56th minute when AU’s hard work would pay off, as Tyler Collins came up with a crucial goal to cut the score in half. But just when things were looking up for the Eagles, Alex Tilatti was red-carded in the 70th minute for obstructing Navy’s Alex Wilson, who was on a breaka-
EAGLES EDGED Adem Gokturk and the AU men’s soccer team couldn’t complete the comeback effort at Bucknell, as the Eagles fell 2-1 to the Bison. AU resumes play Oct. 29 against Lehigh. way deep in AU territory. As a result, AU had to play one man short for the remainder of the game, and the Eagles couldn’t find any opportunities down the stretch to push across the equalizer. The Eagles outplayed the Midshipmen for 80 minutes, but the 10-minute stretch to open the game proved too much to overcome for AU. Aaron Dupere made three saves for the Midshipmen in the first half, while Max Renaldo played the entire second half in goal for Navy and picked up two saves. Aside from the two goals to start the game, Knutsen was not tested at all on the night and didn’t register one save. Despite the loss, the Eagles still lead the Patriot League with 12 points, while Lehigh University and Colgate University are tied for second with 10 points apiece. AU will finish off its nonconference schedule at the University of Virginia Oct. 25, before hosting Lehigh Oct. 29 in an important conference matchup. sports@theeagleonline.com
So here we have it: grown men — some athletic, and some not so much — arguing about money. Now, we’re not talking about a work-study paycheck or Eagle Bucks. We’re talking big money, contracts that pay out $10 million per year type money. It’s kind of sad the NBA owners and players can’t come to an agreement and end the lockout. The owners are making millions, and so are the players, so can’t we all just get along? The first two weeks of the season were canceled, and next, the first month will be lost. The way things are going, the first half or the entire season might get canceled. So, here are the ten things I will miss about the NBA if the whole season is locked out. 10) The holiday games. Christmas just isn’t the same anymore. I never get what I want, and I hate waking up early to see my youngest sister open seven presents to my one, which is usually a pair of socks. Sad. So, the Lakers against the Heat, or the Celtics against the Magic, are games I will sorely miss, if Christmas turns into a basketball-less holiday this year. 9) The random tattoos. I must admit, I really wanted ≤WSOC, PAGE 25 up for us because Army really is such a strong team with great attacking players,” AU Head Coach Dave Bucciero said. “Our one-to-one defending was not the best, which can be partially credited to Army. They haven’t given away too many goals this season and had plenty of shutouts.” Montilio came close to scoring in the 90th minute when she ran up the right
a sleeve tattoo. For what reason? I have no idea, but Chris Andersen, or Birdman, as some may know him, sure does make it look cool. Kenyon Martin of the Denver Nuggets rocks a kiss tattoo on his neck. If he can do it, why can’t I? Maybe I can get a tat on my neck of a $5 bill like DeShawn Stevenson has. Yeah, a $5 bill. 8) TNT’s Charles Barkley. Enough said. 7) The All-Star Game. What am I to do without the greatest sports spectacle ever? There is nothing like NBA All-Star Weekend. The NFL Pro Bowl does not equate. The MLB AllStar Game is a joke, and who knows if the NHL even has an All-Star Game. Do they? 6) Kobe Bryant fighting father time. Kobe is getting up there in age, and I don’t think he is the best player in the NBA any longer. It will be interesting to see how the 33-year-old plays during this phase of his career. He can go the Michael Jordan route and find other ways to dominate the game without being the top-flight athlete, or he could go Vince Carter’s way and try to do things his body is not capable of. Nonetheless, I can’t even witness his transformation.
4) The development of Rajon Rondo’s jumper. Will the basketball gods finally bless the Boston point guard with one? Lord knows he needs one. How embarrassing must it be to know that defenders plan not to guard you? 3) The Finals. It’s arguably the best sports series known to man. Every game is crucial, and every game is played like it is the last. How much fun was it to watch LeBron James fail in last season’s loss to the Dallas Mavericks? 2) Free Agency. How frantic was the last offseason? LeBron signed with the Heat to play with his best friend. Joe Johnson got a six-year, $119 million contract for who knows what, and the Lakers lost their youth. The balance of the league could change with upcoming free agents such as Dwight Howard, Chris Paul and Deron Williams. 1) Going to my first Wizards game. Call it a run of bad luck, but the only team I have seen live has been the Los Angeles Clippers. And that was before the Blake Griffin era. Now I live in Washington, D.C. and am ready for my first live look at some kid named John Wall. Please, give me my NBA back!
5) Blake Griffin. Need I say more?
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side past Army’s defense, but Kalik was able to make the defensive save and ensure the Army shutout. “There was a lot of pressure, a lot of emotion and a lot of heart out there today,” Kroll said. “We all worked really hard, but they just capitalized [on] every given opportunity. All we can do now is go out to face Colgate and win for our pride.” Arianna Efstathiou, Kroll, Allison Slattery, Jenna Stasiewicz and Mikaila Weaver
were honored during a pregame ceremony for Senior Day. The group has contributed to 27 total wins and 12 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll selections throughout their athletic careers. The Eagles will be looking to finish the season with a victory when they go on the road to face Colgate University Oct. 29. sports@theeagleonline.com
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October 25, 2011
UPCOMING GAMES Home
WED. OCT. 26 No games scheduled.
SPORTS THURS. OCT. 27 No games scheduled.
FRI. OCT. 28
Volleyball vs. Navy at 7 p.m.
Game
SAT. OCT. 29 Men’s
soccer vs. Lehigh at 1 p.m. Cross-country Patriot League Championships @ Lehigh at 10 a.m. Field hockey @ Lafayette at noon. Women’s soccer @ Colgate at 7 p.m.
Brewer primed to lead men’s basketball team By ERIC SALTZMAN Eagle Staff Writer
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Crum leads volleyball on weekend as team remains atop PL By TYLER TOMEA Eagle Staff Writer
The AU volleyball team finished up the road portion of its Patriot League schedule with two victories, defeating Colgate University 3-1 Oct. 21 and Bucknell University 3-0 Oct. 22. The Eagles (1610, 8-1 PL) remain in first place in the conference. Eagles return to form AU’s win against Colgate comes after its first regular season conference loss since October 2009 earlier this month against Lehigh University. The Eagles returned to their winning ways by defeating the Raiders (10-14, 6-3 PL) in four sets with set scores of 25-23, 25-20, 19-
25 and 25-20. Juliana Crum and Rebecca Heath each posted a gamehigh 17 kills, while Crum, Monika Smidova and Alexandria Miller each tallied at least 10 digs on the defensive end. Kaylee Dougherty and Lindsay Young paced the Raider offense in defeat, as Dougherty totaled 15 kills and Young added 11. Trailing 9-3 in the first set, AU went on a 12-6 run to knot the game at 15 apiece. The Eagles would ride that momentum for the 25-23 set victory, as Heath capped off the set with one of her 17 kills. AU continued its strong play during the second set, never trailing in the game. The Eagles jumped out to a 9-5 lead, and Heath would
SOPHOMORE STANDOUT Juliana Crum was named Patriot League Player of the Week after totaling 27 kills in two AU victories this weekend. The Eagles will return home to take on Navy Oct. 28.
once again register the setclinching kill to put AU up 2-0. Despite scoring six of the third set’s first seven points, AU couldn’t earn the straight-set victory as the Raiders fought back with a 7-1 run and later prevailed 25-19 in the third game. But AU squashed any hopes of a Colgate comeback by going 11-8 in the fourth set and never losing the lead en route to the 2520 clincher. AU completes season sweep of Bucknell The Eagles earned their second conference win in two days by defeating the Bison (6-12, 3-6 PL) in three VOLLEYBALL, PAGE 25 ≥
Just a month after three starters from the AU basketball team graduated, junior Stephen Lumpkins opted to leave school a year early and pursue a professional baseball career, leaving the AU team even younger than anticipated. Between Lumpkins, Vlad Moldoveanu and Nick Hendra, the Eagles will have to replace over 1,300 points and 550 rebounds this season. The one returning starter, and perhaps the most valuable player, is senior guard Troy Brewer. “I don’t feel any pressure,” Brewer said when asked about being the team’s lone returning starter. “I’m excited about it.” The senior’s path to AU has been a notable one. Brewer grew up in Gaithersburg, Md., and played high school basketball at Montrose Christian, one of the best programs in the country. The team was nationally ranked in the top 25 in each of his four years at Montrose, and Brewer was named team captain and averaged 15 points per game during his senior season. In his junior year of high school, Brewer spent much of the season playing behind Kevin Durant, the NBA’s two-time reigning scoring champion. “Playing with Kevin was a fun experience because you see what he was like in high school and you see what kind of player he is now,” Brewer said. “He is one of the best basketball players in the world. I’ve looked up to him; he’s actually one of my friends and he keeps in
touch here and there.” Despite being recruited by the Eagles out of high school, Brewer chose to attend the University of Georgia, where he saw limited action during his two years at the school. In 2009, he decided to transfer from Georgia to AU. As required by the NCAA, Brewer redshirted during the 2009-2010 season. When he made his debut in the fall of 2010, he proved to be one of the Eagles’ best players. He recorded his first career double-double in an early season game against Howard University and poured in a season-high 28 points in the regular season finale against Lafayette College. “Last year ... I was nervous because I hadn’t played the whole year before, but that wore off after the first few games,” Brewer said. While Brewer’s best attribute is his scoring, what the team may need most is a leader. With four new starters, Brewer will take on more responsibility in directing his team on the court. “[Last year’s starters] showed me how the program goes and what the coaches expect of us and they helped me,” Brewer said. “Similarly, this year I’m going to help guys [by doing] the same thing they did for me.” Brewer added that the team’s trip to Europe, during which the Eagles played several professional teams, helped AU develop chemistry before opening practice. “We are around each other every day; we all push each other,” Brewer said. “So each day we develop that chemistry a little more.”
28 SUN. OCT. 30
No games scheduled.
PATRIOT LEAGUE STANDINGS MEN’S SOCCER American
4-1 PL, 6-9-1
Colgate 3-1-1 PL, 9-3-3 Lehigh 3-1-1 PL, 7-2-5 Lafayette 2-2-1 PL, 6-5-3 Navy 2-2-1 PL, 5-7-3 Bucknell 2-3 PL, 7-7-1 Army 2-3 PL, 6-9 Holy Cross 0-5 PL, 1-11-2
WOMEN’S SOCCER Colgate 4-0-2 PL, 11-4-2 Lafayette 4-2 PL, 9-5-1 Army 3-1-2 PL, 10-3-4 Navy 3-2-1 PL, 11-5-3 Bucknell 3-3 PL, 5-9-1 Lehigh 2-3-1 PL, 6-8-2 American
1-4-1 PL, 5-11-2
Holy Cross 0-5-1 PL, 2-12-3
VOLLEYBALL American
5-0 PL, 12-9
Army 4-1 PL, 13-6 Colgate 4-1 PL, 7-11 Lehigh 3-2 PL, 11-7 Holy Cross 2-3 PL, 6-15 Navy 1-4 PL, 6-14 Bucknell 1-4 PL, 4-10 Lafayette 0-5 PL, 7-10
FIELD HOCKEY Lafayette 4-0 PL, 9-6 American
3-1 PL, 7-7
Lehigh 2-2 PL, 5-12 Bucknell 2-2 PL, 6-9 Colgate 1-3 PL, 6-9 Holy Cross 0-4 PL, 1-14
Despite questions about the starting lineup, Brewer and the rest of the team are confident that this current squad will be ready to play come November. “Our expectations are the same as last year, and [Head Coach Jeff Jones] tells us all the time the point of the game is to win,” Brewer said. The men’s basketball team will be in action Nov. 2 at Bender Arena against Randolph-Macon College in an exhibition game before beginning the regular season Nov. 11 at the University of Richmond. sports@theeagleonline.com