The Pace Chronicle - Volume II, Issue II

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The Pace Chronicle Volume II, Issue II

Inside News............1,3 Feature.........2,4 Health............5 Opinion........6,7 Entertainment.....9,10 Sports...........11,12

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At the Crossroads of Israel and Gotham

Why Shame Sluts?

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Photo from Daniel Revkin Revkin (far left in Israel.

Arthur Augustyn

Feature Editor Arthur.J.Augustyn@pace.edu

Most students got tickets to The Dark Knight Rises to see the conclusion of an epic trilogy. For one Pace student, the search was for something more personal: himself.

Last Sept., junior media and

communications major Daniel Revkin applied to be an extra in the film The Dark Knight Rises.

His application was one amongst thousands, a shot in the dark to say the least. His chances were unlikely but the opportunity would light the way back toward the career he had chosen to leave behind.

After several months of filling

out paper work, costume fitting and waiting, Revkin was finally asked to appear on set. He was cast as one of Bane’s mercenaries, the antagonists of the film. The production needed an abundance of extras to shoot the climatic battles at the end of the film.

Extras were assigned to three different groups. Two of the groups were entrusted to look

flashy, perform stunts and were positioned close to the camera. Revkin’s group were called “whales,” and were intended to take up a lot of space, but not actually do anything important (like a whale).

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IT Officially Launches Pace Mobile Application Is it Better to Forget?

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Blind Ambition

The IT department launched the new Pace Mobile Application last week.

“As of this past week we have received certification with Apple and completed our Android Market App,” the department announced on Sept. 10. “This is v1.0 of our mobile application and as we proceed with future updates and enhancements, we will be working closely with a Mobile Application Committee that includes students, faculty, and staff throughout the University.”

The App is compatible across

a range of platforms including Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices. It currently offers eight modules designed to connect students with campus life and online academic content. The Videos and News modules aim to keep students informed of all the happenings at the university, while the Maps, Links, and Blackboard Learn modules provide useful tools and information all on one dashboard.

The Videos module streams Pace University’s YouTube channel directly to your device, while the News module allows users to read articles from the Pace Pulse feed. Students will also be able to access photo albums from the

university’s Flickr account such as official homecoming and commencement pictures through Images module.

The Contacts module provides phone numbers of numerous university offices and facilities for both Westchester and City campuses. All of the contacts are listed in one scroll-down menu with Emergency numbers conveniently located at the top.

The Links module provides easy access to pages frequently used by students such as the Pace Bus and final exam schedules as

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Photo from Daniel Revkin Revkin in full costume as a mercenary for Bane in TDKR. Disappointed at first, Revkin quickly befriended a cop extra named Paul who was assigned to one of the more important groups.

Paul brought Revkin up to the frontlines where the camera crew and main actors were, including Christian Bale and Tom Hardy.

He was a few paces away from being next to Hollywood actors, but stayed focused on the task given to him.

“We were given loose guidelines for what type of fakefighting we should be doing but eventually we just made up our own moves for fun” said Revkin.

Revkin decided to choreograph his own fight sequence with his partner Paul. Each scene was shot multiple times from different angles which allowed the two partners to be creative with different fight choreography ideas.

Their loose interpretation of the guidelines almost led to an embarrassing situation.

“At one point, Paul had fallen over and when he looked up Batman was walking right towards him. I had to shout to him ‘Paul, we’re not supposed to be here!’” said Revkin. They had gone too far from their initial positioning, but it was easy to get lost in the chaos of the set.

The casting call had very lowbarrier requirements which led to what Revkin explained as “a wide assortment of humanity.” In addition to Batman fanatics and desperate actors looking for work there were homeless bums, random walk-ons and crazy people who ended up on set. “One guy was yelling that Zionists control everything” said Revkin, “it was complete chaos.” The crazy man’s

ramblings reminded Revkin of the life he could’ve been living had fate gone a different way.

Long before Batman began, Revkin saw the movie Jurassic Park at age six and immediately became enamored with film-making. He grew up watching movies and was encouraged by his theater teacher Mr. Whitehurst to act in school plays. His schooling at The Harvey School in Katonah encouraged him to pursue his passion for filmmaking. In his youth, he was dead set on becoming a director and creating the same type of movies he loved watching.

As he grew up, Revkin became more realistic about the possibility of being a director.

“There are a lot of people who want to make movies and not many of them get the chance to,” said Revkin. “Even the ones who do, less than five percent of those people make it to A-list status.”

The field was highly competitive and the dream seemed unlikely, so instead of making action movies he decided to make his life into one. “Since sixth grade the two things I wanted to do were become a director or join the CIA,” said Revkin. Movies were out, being a spy was in.

In tenth grade Revkin transferred from The Harvey School to Westchester Hebrew High School. Revkin’s Jewish mother was deeply invested in the religion and encouraged him to become more religious as well.

Revkin saw this as an outlet for his new goal and applied for a program called Garin Tzabar, which is for young adults who want to join the Israeli army.

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process that occurred during and after his senior year of high school, Revkin arrived in Israel in Aug. 2009. At the time, he already considered himself very religious but the program encouraged members to become more invested in the faith’s ideals.

“They talk about everything in the world being connected. There is no coincidence,” said Revkin.

He adopted these ideals as his own and looked forward to what would happen next.

His new life was a world away.

His time in Israel was a dead zone for his previous passion. Films were released and celebrities had died without Revkin noticing.

“I didn’t know until months after I had gotten back that Brittany Murphy had died,” said Revkin. He was so far off the grid that the hype and release of Avatar completely evaded his life. It didn’t matter. At this point he was ready to put his love for movies behind him.

He excelled in his training and was spotted as one of the promising potentials in his group, but his success was short-lived. During a training exercise, he suffered a medical injury that stunted his military potential. Revkin became very sick and was eventually medically dismissed in April 2010. He was sent back to the United States at a weight of 120 pounds, he had lost 40 pounds because of his sickness.

Without a goal to look forward to, Revkin wasn’t sure what to do with his life. His injury kept him from being in the CIA and movies seemed unlikely. He decided to attend Pace University due to his father, Andrew Revkin, being employed by the school.

He chose to become a media and communications major to see if a life in film-making was still possible, but matters were grim.

Revkin had lost the optimism he had before. The assurance that everything was connected had faded away. He didn’t believe in fate anymore. It wouldn’t be until a year later that he would spot a casting call for The Dark Knight Rises that asked for the one requirement he had spent months gaining: military experience.

It was fortuitous that choosing a military career path away from film-making had sling-shot him back towards it. His experience in the military taught him how to fight and his experience in school taught him how to act, a perfect match for the role. These skills assisted Revkin for the first two days of shooting for The Dark Knight Rises, but the third and fourth days were less climatic.

“The third day I waited in holding for seven hours, then on a bus for two more hours,” said Revkin. “At the end of the day I stood on a bridge and looked menacing for an hour and then they told us to go home.” On his last day of shooting he waited off-

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set for nine hours until a member of the crew told everyone they were done shooting.

Batman was over, but the journey was not. Out of the Batman opportunity, more avenues opened for Revkin.

A friend he invited to The Dark Knight Rises landed a position on an independent film project called Unfit Mother. His friend paid the favor back and got Revkin a production assistant job for the shooting of Unfit Mother. He spent a week working on the opposite side of the camera, learning more about the production of a film.

This past summer, Revkin was contacted by the casting agency that hired him for The Dark Knight Rises and offered him another extra role for the film Noah, a film based on the Old Testament story, Noah’s Ark. Revkin showed up to the same warehouse where he was fitted for costumes for The Dark Knight Rises and was approved to work on Noah, which is being directed by Darren Aronofosky, best known for his previous film Black Swan.

In the coming weeks, Revkin will be missing days of classes to shoot scenes for Noah. This time he’s been given more responsibility and is tasked with following the actual stunt crew and making sure other extras don’t interfere with the choreography that’s been planned.

Revkin also hopes to get an internship for a visual effects house in California. He’s already been approved for the position but the project won’t start until Feb. 2013 and likely won’t be updated on its status until Nov. later this year.

Revkin declined to give details on the project because he’s unsure what he can and can’t say.

It’s worth noting that the names attached to the potential project are within the realm of his previous experiences with The Dark Knight Rises and Noah (or Christopher Nolan and Darren Aronofsky, respectively).

Revkin is thankful for the rollercoaster of events that brought him to today, but remains realistic about his perception of fate.

“I don’t consider myself religious anymore,” said Revkin “Despite my injury, my experience in Israel was very positive.

It teaches you a lot of discipline and patience.”

Patience seems to be Revkin’s current plan. “For now, I’ll just go wherever the wind will take me,” said Revkin.

His story reminds all students that life has a way of figuring itself out. These years during college are more hectic than any weekend party or late-night crunch. Each success opens new opportunities and each failure breeds new possibilities. You may be dead set on a career you’ve decided, but no one can predict where the wind might take you.

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Academic Honesty in the Digital Age: Studies Seuggest Technology Increases Risk of Cheating Among Students

Heather Askildsen News Editor

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BENGHAZI - The United States Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed on Tues. Sept. 11 by a gang of Islamist militants outraged over an American produced anti-Muslim YouTube video. In a statement given on Wed. Sept. 12, President Obama said, “To all those who would do us harm: No act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values we proudly present to the world.” Stevens was the first American ambassador to be killed abroad since 1979.

CHICAGO – While there was enthusiasm earlier in the week from both sides that teacher’s strike in Chicago, hopes that a compromise could be reached soon were dashed on Friday. Negotiations held between union President Karen Lewis and David Vitale, the school board chief, only lasted about 15 minutes. No definitive agreement was reached.

AFGHANISTAN – Two Marines were killed during an attack on military base in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan by the Taliban in their effort to kill Prince Harry of Britain who is currently stationed there.

Zabihullah Mujahhid, a public representative for the Taliban, announced their plans to kidnap and assassinate Harry earlier in the week. The British militarily has announced no plans to remove Harry from the base at this time.

NEW YORK CITY – Bloomberg’s soda ban has been officially voted into law. On Thurs.

Sept. 13, the New York City’s Board of Health approved the proposed 16-ounce limit for sugary drinks. The law was passed with an overwhelming majority vote. Eight out of the nine members of the board voted yes, with only one member, Dr. Sixto R. Caro, abstaining.

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Heather Askildsen News Editor

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Recent studies suggest that cheating among college students is on the rise, but apparently not for the traditional reasons. The New York Times published an article on Sept. 7 reporting the trend of students cheating to succeed rather than to merely get by in their courses, and technology may be to blame.

“I started school in the eighties and nineties, when cheating usually meant copying someone’s homework during lunch hours or looking over someone’s shoulder,” said Peter Bulmer, a second-year Master’s in education candidate. “While it was not difficult, it was certainly a good deal harder than it is now…even among economically disadvantaged students. The internet is at everyone’s fingertips right away.

I think this goes hand-in-hand with a greater access to research tools…it’s also easier to believe you can get away with it. The internet is a rather big place and it’s easy to think that plagiarism would be hard to catch.”

Studies in last few years reveal that the use of technology increases the risk of academic misconduct. In a 2011, the PEW Research Center conducted a survey of presidents from 1, 055 schools and colleges across the nation and found that 55% of them agreed that over the past ten years, plagiarism had experienced an increase, and 89% said “computers and the internet have played a major role.”

An experiment at Duquesne University this year seemingly confirms their suspicions. The experiment’s published findings state “these results demonstrate the significant role of technology in enabling negative behavior and the relative inability of subjects’ use of principled moral reasoning to overcome it.”

So how is Pace dealing with this disturbing trend?

“It has challenged us to try to create assignments that are not completely repetitive and are also very personalized,” said the School of Education’s Prof.

Christine Clayton. “Some of that burden is causing us to rethink how we deliver assignments, how we talk about what is acceptable, and how we structure those as-

signments.”

“My assignments are individual reflective pieces,” said Director of Students Services, Prof. John Di Natale. “Most of my assignments will be original thoughts that have to come from the students. As Freshmen, I want them to think independently… hopefully, as a strategy to become original, students will begin to see the concept of individuality and original thoughts as something that becomes a kind of cure to plagiarism.”

Pace requires all in-coming Freshmen to take UNV 101 and one of the first topics covered is plagiarism.

“I always try to raise the awareness of the freshmen to the seriousness of it,” said Di Natale, but he admits this may not be enough. “I put it in my syllabus; does that mean it is not going to happen? If you are dishonest by trait, you are going to be dishonest your whole life. You can’t cure dishonesty; you can only lead people to the right path.”

As for whether technology is entirely to blame, both teachers and students at Pace remain skeptical.

“As a future educator, I be-

lieve it stems from societal views that strive for the best outcome from the least amount of work,” said senior English and adolescent education double major Fatuma Haydara. “We have become a society that strives to be the best of the best, and this is great.

However, we have also become a society that is not only extremely lazy, but places more merit in the destination than in the journey for knowledge and success.”

In fact, Di Natale suggests that the problem may be much older and deeper rooted than the coverage of the trend has made it appear.

“The study shows that there has been an increase, and the increase is attributed to technology, but because of the technology we are more aware of the plagiarism,” said Di Natale. “I am not really sure, necessarily, that, in fact, plagiarism is on the rise because, in the olden days…I caught a few students stealing because I had read the same article, just by chance, but in those days how would you know?...I think there has always been plagiarism going on…The rise of technology…has made it easier, not only to steal, but also to find out who is stealing.”

Whether or not there has been a true increase, the way that students cheat has most certainly evolved. The question remains how to deal with it.

“We need to, as a University, have clear policies and statements about plagiarism,” said Clayton.

“Things are changing rapidly in the way that students can receive information and can write about information online and that is creating new opportunities for plagiarism to happen. We need to educate ourselves about where those boundary lines are.”

IT Officially Launches Pace Mobile Application ..continued from page 1 well as room assignments. Students can also check updates on classes with Black Board module that allows instant access to assignments and discussion boards.

However, some modules are only available on certain platforms. The Maps module is currently only compatible with Android technology, and iTunes U is available exclusively on Apple products.

The Pace Mobile App can be downloaded through the Pace website by Android and Blackberry. Alternatively, students with iOS devices can find the app by searching “Pace University” in the App Store. IT plans to update the App throughout the year, so students can provide feedback at the bottom of the Links section.

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Involvement Fair Evolves Outdoors Arthur Augustyn

Feature Editor Arthur.J.Augustyn@pace.edu

Last year, Pace’s Club Fair became Pace’s Involvement Fair, hoping to include clubs along with organizations and offices on campus. This year, the change from being inside of Kessel to outside on Shirley Beth’s Way made the effect last.

Before last year’s change, the Club Fair was a means to introduce students to various clubs on campus. Pace has over a dozen clubs ranging from Greek Life organizations to Nature or Psychology clubs.

Typically the fair was held inside of Kessel and focused specifically inside of Gottesman Room.

Any clubs that didn’t fit in Gottesman were mapped out around the rest of Kessel’s three floors and various rooms. The change from Kessel to Shirley Beth’s Way came from the office of Student Development and Campus Activities’ (SDCA) reaction to complaints from organizations.

“There was the impression that if you weren’t in Gottesman that you were getting left out,” said Rachel Carpenter, Di-

Photo by Samantha Finch/The Pace Chronicle Students explore the campus involvement fair. rector of SDCA. Typically during the fair, most active students center their focus on Gottesman,

whereas tables in the Setters and Commuter Lounges mostly saw through-traffic not actually inter-

ested in the fair itself.

Outside, every organization gets equal space and priority as they are all spread down Shirley Beth’s Way next to Choate Pond.

Most clubs are looking for new members to join, but the new offices that attended this year’s fair have different intentions.

“Most people are aware that our office exists, we’re just hoping they have a way to contact us,” said Moriesa Cruz-Tillery, Outreach Coordinator for the Campus Counseling Center. The Counseling Center gave away yoyos, flashlights and back massagers with the office’s phone number and email printed on. “We hope that if students ever need to contact us they’ll remember ‘oh I have that yo-yo somewhere with the number on it,’” said CruzTillery.

The Counseling Center got crowds of people at their table, they ran out of back massagers, and they weren’t the only successful office at the fair.

“We started with fifty flyers and gave them all out, we had to print more,” said Ivy Aviles-Rivera, Assistant Director of Career Services. The table had dozens of students gathered around the office’s table at any given time.

The offices were new to the crowd, but the move to Shirley Beth’s Way proved successful for returning organizations as well.

“We had forty people sign up,” said Janike Bradshaw, Vice President of Programming for SGA. The Programming Committee had more people interested this year by a noticeable amount.

“There was more space for people to see what each group was about,” said Bradshaw.

Reception was generally positive for the new change, but SDCA still sees there’s room for improvement.

“We’ve gotten a lot of people saying it’s too hot and the bees are a problem,” said Carpenter.

SDCA hopes to find a solution to these complaints in future years. They also intend to implement a map for students that show where all the tables are in relation to each other.

The fair took place last Wed. Sept. 12. Any students who missed the fair can still join organizations whenever they please.

The Involvement Fair will occur again towards the beginning of next semester, Spring 2013.

OSA Goes Green Jonathan Alvarez Featured Reporter

Jonathan.Alvarez@pace.edu

The Office of Student Assistance (OSA) has decided to take a paperless initiative and will offer many services online starting this fall.

“The paperless request form submission is one more opportunity for OSA to continue to deliver excellent service to Pace University,” said Senior Systems Process Analyst Matthew Connell in an email sent to students on Sept.

7. “A few benefits for the Pace community of going paperless are: reducing the overall usage of paper, which reduces Pace’s carbon footprint. Electronic requests can be tracked from submission to completion via the Help Desk system, leading to less misplaced or unprocessed documents. And best of all, the turnaround time for request processing will be much faster than before!”

“The paperless initiative is

one of the primary goals of the Presidential Strategic Plan,” said James Curry, Executive Director of Operation & Technological Management. “It’s a fast and direct service…it helps save time, printing, staff hours, and processing costs, which can be used for other university initiatives.”

Students, however, have mixed opinions about the change.

Some, like junior applied psychology major Morgan Allen, are excited by the advantages of going digital and feel it benefits the student body.

“By OSA becoming paperless and having the information directly at the students reach, it forces students to be more proactive, which helps prepare them for the future,” Allen said.

Other students are less enthusiastic.

“It’s good for the environment, however I like holding the document in my hand,” said Victoria Krausz, senior graduate psychology major. “I like to speak to a person, not a robot.”

Students can still call OSA

and use the Help Desk for assistance.

“It’s good to go green, but if they choose to go completely paperless, they should offer a live chat service,” said senior childhood education major Nicholas Lopez. “That way it can be interactive and you can solve whatever problems occur.”

OSA is looking into the possibility of a live chat option; however, at the moment, it does not look like it is coming anytime soon.

“We are not 100-percent ready for that yet, in terms of the software and hardware,” Curry said.

“There are a lot of initiatives that we are working on to make some of the processes we have that are paper format transition to electronic.” Many of these initiatives are not yet complete, and must be finalized before they can be published or announced.

“There is a lot to come in the next year,” Curry said. “Most notably, Degree Works.” Degree Works is degree management

software. “It’s designed to tell students where they are in their academic program at any given time, so it tells you you’re missing a certain amount of courses in a particular category, helping you manage your academics and know what courses to take.”

The university is looking to implement the new software in the fall of 2013.

“Not only does going paperless help the environment and the

university, but it also helps the students save their time and money and printing paper,” said Curry “It’s a ‘we save, you save.’”

Students can visit osapaperless.pace.edu for a full list of available forms for students, faculty, and staff.

“Our main goal is to be student service oriented,” Curry said. “The goal is to eliminate the bureaucracy behind the process of paperwork.”

Corrections Section Corrections from Last Issue

Last week, a photo of Mark Brown was included in an article about new athletic director Drew Brown.

Major League Baseball (MLB) was referred to as NBL. The article “Lip Sync MVP Gets the Gold” was accredited to Heather Askildsen. It should have been accredited to Arthur Augustyn.

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Charity Walks Five Ways to Avoid Around the Area Christiana Lloyd

Health Editor Christian.A.Lloyd@pace.edu

What better way to stay in shape and give back to the community than by participating in a local Charity run?

Westchester County is hosting six local runs in the month of October alone, not to mention a few larger scale ones that are hosted in the City and which many of the organizations on campus help raise money for.

“I did a lot of community service work when I was in high school, but being able to go with a group of my closest friends from college to participate in something that I personally had ties to was amazing,” said junior childhood education major Kristen DeRosa about the Breast Cancer Walk.

In the upcoming month get ready to grab your running shoes and join the locals for a race and philanthropy that speaks to you!

On Oct. 27, the communities surrounding Rockefeller State Park are hosting the Rocky Races to help support the upkeep of their beautiful parks and hiking trails for all to enjoy fresh air and the outdoors in the years to come.

You can find out more information about this race at http://www. rockysraces.org.

Oct. 21 is a day for the animals, literally. Muskoot Farm is hosting its third annual Muskoot Farm Run to increase awareness of the weekly Muscoot Farmer’s market and other local farmer’s markets in the area. So if you are one that loves fresh veggies, jams and farm animals, come to the farm and enjoy a brisk morning walk! Visit http://runthefarm.org for more information.

Harry Chapin once said, “When in doubt, do something!”

It’s these words that the Run Against Hunger charity lives by.

This year on Oct. 21, the Harry Chapin Run Against Hunger will host its thirty-second annual run.

With all the amazing things that they have done, it’s no wonder that it has been hosted this long.

Come out and help raise money for those with empty bellies. Information is available at http:// www.runagainsthunger.com.

Diabetes is something that affects thousands of people today, probably including someone close to you. It is a serious condition; People with diabetes have high blood sugar because their body cannot move sugar into fat, liver, and muscle cells to be stored for energy. This is because either their pancreas does not make enough insulin, their cells do not respond to insulin normally, or a combination of both.

If you would like to help raise money for a cure come and join the Chief Paul J. Olivia Memorial on Oct. 2 in Valhalla for their 5k walk, more information can be found online at http://www.active.com.

The Westchester Medical Center is having its eighth annual running festival on Oct. 7 to help raise money for the Westchester Medical Foundation Center which helps fund the research that takes place at the hospital. To help the many marvels in medical history find its next breakthrough sign up at http://www.genesisadventures.com/ With Halloween around the corner, everyone is out seeking their perfect costume. Grab your favorite then trek down to Sleepy Hollow to participate in their annual Rivertown Runner Sleepy Hollow 10k. This run is unique in that it isn’t for any specific charity. Instead they host this run to help support multiple local charities within Westchester. Join in on the fun at http://www.rivertownrunners.org.

So, ladies and gents, before heading up to the townhouses in those questionable costumes, pay it forward by participating in one of these runs to help those less fortunate.

Cigarettes

Christiana Lloyd

Health Editor Christian.A.Lloyd@pace.edu

As school starts up and the stress levels hit, the cigarettes come out – all we can hear in our heads is our mothers yelling at us saying how horrible they are and to never smoke. With that voice in our head, what is it that keeps us standing at the entrance of Miller and Leinhard puffing up?

Senior business management major Laeh Yang-DiPietro, speaking on her own smoking history, said, “ I bought my first pack of cigarettes my senior year of high school and have tried to quit so many times but the longest I’ve gone without a smoke is 16 days. My mom knows I smoke and now she smokes, too, so she doesn’t say anything. She knows I’m an adult and can make my own decisions but if my dad knew he’d kill me.”

Cigarette addictions are just as bad as that of any illegal drug.

It’s the substance of nicotine that causes users to keep grabbing a pack at the store. Nicotine is a psychoactive chemical that is found in tobacco that can keep a user on cigarettes for years.

About half of cigarette smokers

Photo from ehow.com How many do you smoke per day? Per hour? die of tobacco-related disease and lose on average 14 years of life.

The use of cigarettes dates back to the Mayans and Aztecs but came popular in the 1830s when the French began to massproduce. When originally made, they where not meant to be inhaled. They were supposed to be treated as cigars or pipes. German doctors found the first link between smoking and lung cancer during the Nazi-era in Germany, and it led the first anti- tobacco movement.

Since then the research has grown and traced the links be-

tween smoking to several other health issues such as throat cancer, asthma, emphysema, birth defects in children born to smoking mothers, as well as poisoning the body due to release of radium, even after someone quits smoking.

However, along with the research that has grown, so has the amount of smokers in our country. Each state now has certain bans on public areas and buildings in which you are allowed

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Photo from abcnews.com The flu shot is only one of five ways to keep you healthy.

Christiana Lloyd

Health Editor Christian.A.Lloyd@pace.edu

“The common flu hospitalizes 200,000 people per year and kills 36,000 in the United States alone,” according to WebMD. Hello autumn… ACHOO! And hello flu season!

Along with the turning of the seasons come the runny noses, sore throats, and cranky college students. While it’s extremely hard to avoid being around other people while attending college, there are many steps you can take to prevent getting and spreading the flu.

1. Keep your face - and drinks - to yourself.

While it’s become a very popular way of saying hello, a kiss on the cheek can be the flu’s truck stop right into your system. When people cough or sneeze, small particles and fluid droplets containing the virus are released and stay on the persons face, nose, and lips until washed off. Opt for a high five, a wave hello, or simply a smile before clouding up someone’s personal space.

We have always been told not to share food and drinks with others, but when it comes to your closest friends most of us don’t think twice about it. Once again, pay attention to the fact that you are now in direct contact with someone else’s saliva that might be carrying the flu - and if you haven’t gotten that seasonal shot you’ll be coughing up a storm right along with them.

2. Elbow or hands?

When we were children and sick our mothers constantly said, “cover your mouth!” as we sneezed and coughed, but doctors soon helped us realized that unless you ran to instantly wash those germy paws of yours, you were just insuring that the next toy you picked up or door handle you touched became contagious as well.

Instead, we are being told it’s smarter to cover your face with the crook or your elbow to help lower the chance of passing it along. Pace has sanitizing dis-

pensers in the hallways of dormitories and classroom buildings and also in the public areas like Kessel and Mortola.

3. Wash your hands!

As gross as it may be to think about, many people, even at our age, still do not always wash their hands after using the bathroom… disgusting right?

So why would they think it is plausible to wash their hands after sneezing, coughing, eating, etc? Simple, they don’t. It’s your job to wash your hands as often as possible to counteract all the doorknobs, stair rails, tables, papers, and chairs that everyone has touched.

4. Healthy habits will pay off.

Eating healthy keeps the immune system boosted and more able to fight off any infections that you might acquire. If you aren’t that big on eating your fruits and veggies, go for a daily vitamin to keep your body happy.

Try to stay as active as possible, as well. Every time you walk or run, you are boosting your body’s immunity. The minimum amount of movement needed each day to keep your body happy is 30 minutes of walking. Just remember the more you move the better off you will be.

Catching some sleep will definitely pay off, as well. The body does most of its healing and growing while you’re sleeping.

Finally, try to reduce the amount of stress that you are dealing with. Some stress is good, but know when to relax.

Too much stress impairs the immune system.

5. Get the shot.

As much as it sucked when you were a kid, and as much as you might hate it still, that flu shot is going to protect you from weeks of stress on your body. Head to your family doctor, nearest pharmacy, or free clinic to take a prick in the arm and grab a lollipop for not crying. You’ll thank yourself in the long run.

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Down with the Girl-on-Girl Hate, Up with the Slut Sympathy What’s The-G-Spot About?

"College is run by sexual tension. Many of us like sex, have sex, and have walked in on our roommate having sex. Why ignore it?

Let’s be honest instead. In college, learning doesn’t only happen in the classroom, it happens in the bedroom. Don't be shy, now, welcome to the G-Spot." - Gabrielle Davina I’m what you’d call a slut sympathizer.

What that means is, although I’m not necessarily a slut (shocking for those of you who only know me through this column), I respect women and men shoved into this category the same as I respect the monogamists of the world.

Before going any further I have to specify that when I say “slut” I mean it with absolutely no negative connotation. I do not use it as an insult because I don’t think that the action it assumes of someone (having a sexual relationship with more than one person) is a capital sin.

A girl came up to me at a party one day and said, “Thank you for being so nice to me because so many people here aren’t.”

She’s a very sweet girl, just your typical college student, and although I was sad to hear that people treat her poorly, I knew exactly what I’d heard about her – that she was a “slut.”

This was said by another girl, of course.

But what did she, or anyone, do to be disrespected and insulted? Today, you can do just about anything and get called a slut.

Make out with more than one person at a townhouse party? Slut.

Wear a low-cut shirt? Slut. Get hit on by someone that’s supposedly seeing someone else? Slut.

What’s with all the girl-ongirl hate here? Whenever I hear someone referring to another girl as a slut, whore, slore or what have you, I challenge it – asking, “What’s wrong with what she has done compared to what you yourself did in your first year of college?”

Ask the people around you if they’ve ever had a phase of questionable behavior in college and many will say yes. Then ask them why they hate on the promiscuity

of others and they say, “Even in my slutty phase, I never did [X, Y or Z].”

What makes someone else wearing X, doing Y or talking about Z worse than you doing the same thing?

One of my issues with verbally attacking others based on their sexual actions, commonly known as slut shaming, is the hypocrisy of it all. People make excuses for their own actions while crucifying others for doing the same.

One girl will call another slutty for kissing strangers at a party, and then the accuser will spend her mornings waking up in bed with strangers. Guys will shame a girl for sleeping with five people and then go sleep with fifteen people themselves.

Also, what bearing does someone else’s sex life have on yours? Why would how someone spends his or her evenings matter to you if you’re not the one sleeping with them? That’s their life. If you want others to leave you alone to make your own decisions, give others the same respect and opportunity.

Unless you’re a fly on their bedroom wall, you have no idea what actually happens when the doors are closed. You can accuse and assume someone of slutting around all you want and regardless of whether it’s true, you’re an adult. I hope you have more important things to worry about.

Sleeping around does not make you worth more than others, but it also doesn’t make you worth less. Human beings all have the same inherent value.

Before you badmouth someone based on their promiscuity, let go of your holier-than-thou attitude for a moment and realize that saying slanderous and disrespectful things of others does not make you any better of a person.

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Journalist v. Blogger Ebony Turner

Opinion Editor Ebony.Turner@pace.edu

What is the logic that determines the difference between a journalist and a blogger? It’s a debate that throws the likes of mainstream celebrity blogger personalities and the pseudo-intellectual J-School journalists into the trenches of heated Twitter banter.

membership have the right to claim the title of the up and coming Floyd Mayweather?

Now that this logic is applied to several different situations, it sounds pretty ridiculous which is why I understand why bloggers get annoyed at the sentiment that college makes the difference, when it does not.

To that same effect, breaking stories with third or second hand

subjects of their blog posts, take the photos or even interview the sources. A bloggers interaction with its subject rarely goes beyond their computer.

The copy and paste world has no place in professional journalism, and borrowing is more than looked down upon – it is enough to get you fired and exiled from ever returning to the profession.

Neither the blogger nor jour-

Photo from kid-fury.com (left) deadspin.com (right) Who do you trust, Kid Fury or Stephen A Smith?

Is it a framed Bachelor of Arts degree from an accredited university? Or is it the certain practices, ethics and “into the field” reporting that makes the difference?

If a degree is what separates a blogger from a journalist, than that logic must be applied to anyone with access to some platform of validation for any given career path.

Does the person with a kitchen and chef grade cooking supplies deserve the title of the next Emeril Lagasse? Does the man with a punching bag and monthly gym

sources from the comfort of one’s bedroom is hardly journalism, either. There is something to be said for the very personal and biased method to the average bloggers madness. In no way does that discredit the efficiency at which bloggers produce content, but it does call into question how they receive it, which ultimately separates them from being called a journalist.

While some bloggers are more evolved than others in terms of breaking stories, not all bloggers go into the field and interview the

nalist is more or less biased than the other, because even journalists write from an angle that is within the confines of the publication they are writing for. While that in itself goes against our code of ethics, it is accepted amongst the more established publications in our country.

Ethics and skill are the main differences between a blogger and a journalist. While both frequently dip into the opposing waters from time to time, I think it is best that both stay in their own lanes.

Setter Sound Off: Jonathan Alvarez

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Jason Perez

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What is the difference between a blogger and a professional journalist?

“Blogging is only online, however, a newspaper or magazine is traditionally in print… Blogging is not as professional as journalism – one can simply create a blog at any time of any day, but you have to go to school and major in journalism. Blogs always seemed more personal to me.”

Alexis Romero Freshman, Nursing

“It’s hard to define whether you’re a journalist or blogger. It depends on your credentials and who you are affiliated with. In a way, it goes hand in hand. Blogging can be a form of journalism. Some unemployed journalists blog in order to practice their writing skills, but that does not take away their title as a journalist. It’s hard to define the two.”

Samantha Bassford Graduate Student, Media and Communications Major

“I prefer Journalism. Journalism is more credible and adheres to grammar. It is based on fact, not one’s personal opinion.”

Dr. Mara Rosenblum Public Speaking Professor

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Blessed are the Forgetful

Photo from imbd.com Would you rather be haunted by your past or comforted by your memories?

Ebony Turner

Opinion Editor Ebony.Turner@pace.edu

Emily Wolfrum

Featured Reporter Emily.R.Wolfrum@pace.edu

Some memories, no matter how small in weight or heavy in

emotions, can be daunting when they arrive when we’d rather forget them. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a film that romanticizes the idea of targeting specific memories of past loves that are present memories of heartbreak, explores the idea that while it is possible to forget the memory it is impossible to forget the action

that rehashes it.

Blissful ignorance is the theme of the poem that titled this film - the kind of ignorance that keeps you from understanding the scope of the world because your mind is “spotless.” While this may sound ideal, having a mind that is free of the dangers of the world can keep you from being

able to avoid them when they arrive – hence, the title of this film.

Forgetting the hurt of the past ends up being a disadvantage for all of the characters in the film.

The relationship between Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) resembled that of most tumultuous relationships; filled with doubt, arguments, passion and unconditional love that is scary enough to push you away from one another for fear of losing each other. Their love did just that, and hurt Joel so deep but not as deep as Clementine. Clementine sought out a medical procedure by the fictional Lacuna, inc., that promised to rid their clients of specific memories. Her specific memory: Joel. Joel and everything that reminded her of him, so that she would see nothing around her that would bring back those memories. After Joel ran into her and it had appeared that she was completely unaware of who he was, she handed him a courtesy card from Lacuna, informing him that she had undergone the procedure.

Joel was crushed, but when he decided to go through the same procedure, he was defiant. He realized that getting rid of those memories no matter how bad some of them were did not outweigh the love that they shared.

Even though their relationship was over, those memories com-

forted him enough to appreciate what was no longer.

While both Joel and Clementine deleting the memories of their failed relationship could have opened doors for a fresh, new start, could it also reintroduce the same problems from before? While the memories are gone, the people who caused them are still the same – will the relationship only recycle the same journey that led them to hurt they sought to erase?

For the receptionist Mary: yes. She fell in love with the Lacuna specialist and creator, Howard, and underwent the procedure twice to undo the hurt of discovering his marital status. She falls in love with Howard each time, but is left heartbroken after the journey ends the same way. Mary being a masochist, or glutton for repeated love that turns to pain could be a possibility, but this revolving door of returning to the problem expecting a different outcome is insanity.

The inconvenient truth is that memories, both painful and pleasant, are meant to serve as a cautionary tales – a reference point for the next phase of our life so that we’re not chasing after our own tails. While eternal sunshine seems ideal, the mind was never meant to be spotless.

Chicago Child Soldiers: A Bleeding City

Ebony Turner Opinion Editor

Ebony.Turner@pace.edu It was a disturbing image to see in Full Metal Jacket – the skilled sniper wiping out an entire platoon of men with little to no understanding of where the sniper was. Viewers assumed it had to have been a young Vietnam refugee – someone who was old enough to know how to operate a sniper rifle with impeccable range. The skilled sniper was only a 10-year-old Vietnamese girl. Yet the first images of child soldiers for the black community were not just in Vietnam, but also in Africa.

With every genocide and crime against humanity charge came the horrific stories of children lusting for blood, trained at the same veracity of a U.S. Marine on how to kill, only the enemy was their people. Black culture has a marriage to violence that digs deeper than our motherland roots, yet the explanation for why we engage in violence against our own is lost in a black hole.

The south side of Chicago has become notorious over the past two decades for its blackon-black violence. Youth armed with more guns than the police department, pointing the trigger at the futures of kids that mirror them. The violence has gotten so

out of control that the death toll this year in Chicago, 228, has surpassed Afghanistan, 144. The toll has also surpassed that of Sao Paulo, Mexico City and Kabul – three cities consumed in dying economies, drug trafficking and a non-democratic political system.

Rapper Chief Keef and his crew of friends, who hail from the same city, have properly coined their stomping grounds as “ChiRaq.” However, even Keef is a glaring example of how lost and complacent the youth are in the state of their bleeding city, rapping verses casually describing killing anyone who “disrespects” his friends. His peers fail to realize that they are byproducts of a regurgitated past of ignorance, senseless violence and no foresight for the future – their future.

The irrational hostility consuming the youth is only worsening with every headline, begging the question of whether intervention is even an option. Are these innercity child soldiers the product of an intellectually irresponsible past generation? Or, were we raised into killing one another after years of desensitizing the life of the black male?

Much like the child soldiers in Libya, Sudan and Ghana stripped away from their families and forced to live a life of unfathomable horror, the Chicago youth

Photo from huffingtonpost.com have been lured away from their otherwise stable homes to live the same third-world country reality.

The parallels are striking; even though these youth are brought up under different circumstances, the conclusions are the same. These children do not have a choice that is within arms reach because we would rather harbor ignorance than raise royalty.

While many of the deaths that are accounted for are mixed in range of age and gender, the overwhelming amount of them is young black males killing young black males; a lethal combination

of rage and revenge that mirrors that of child soldiers in West African countries.

Black males are killing the man in the mirror, and this confused narcissism is truly displaced anger of the hatred they have for themselves. From the senseless murders of young black men by police departments across the nation to the lives lost in a systemic cycle of drug dealing and gangs, the life of a black man has no value in societies mind.

Murder is a reflection of a desensitized hate for what ever is being killed – the killer must de-

humanize the face of their victim.

Society’s treatment of black men as less than has consumed the psyche of our youth, displacing their disrespect for themselves in the cold bloody murder of their reflection.

It is a sad state of affairs that a thought piece, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago’s police department cannot repair, but intervening in the minds of these young men and restoring their self-respect is the only way to restore respect for their bleeding city.

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Cigarettes...continued from page 5 to smoke in or around. In the state of New York, bans were passed on smoking in all public restaurants, bars, and parks. As of May 23, 2011, those who are in the city and trying to light up in a highly-populated place have been hit with fines for each cigarette that they choose to light up.

The law, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed in Feb. after it was passed by the New York City Council, has made smoking illegal in the city’s 1,700 parks and on the city’s 14 miles of public beaches.

Smoking will also be prohibited in pedestrian plazas like Times Square.

When interviewed by the New York Times on the smoking ban placed in the city, one woman

stated how much of a pain it is that she now has to take an elevator down 11 stories then walk almost two blocks to take a cigarette break with the pass of the ban, instead of just stepping outside her building.

Another woman responded how grateful she was that the ban had ensured the local parks were now going to be smoke free. “I have three small children and living in the city is already enough bad air without the help of others blowing smoke in our faces.”

What about Pace? Do we have rules against smoking? Are they effective? The University Student Handbook states the following: “Smoking is not permitted in any building, shelter, indoor and outdoor athletic facility, indoor

and outdoor seating area including and not limited to athletic fields, at open-air presentations or performances, outdoor dining areas, and University owned or operated transportation. Pace University prohibits smoking or carrying of any ignited tobacco containing products, within a 50 foot perimeter, to all facilities owned, operated or leased by Pace University, at any University-sponsored event or program, or in any vehicle owned, operated or leased by Pace University.”

What does all that tell us? No smoking in the dorms, no smoking inside of the classroom buildings or Kessel, and you must be within 50 ft of any of these to light up.

“The 50-feet rule should be

better enforced in front of the classroom buildings as well as up at the townhouses,” said senior education major Christine Causa.

Another senior that wishes to remain anonymous states, “I understand why the rules are there and I respect them, especially at a place like Miller where it is very busy, but when it rains there is no place for us to go. I will definitely walk away when it’s nice out, though.”

Law student Oni Mamo takes on the personal view that the ban shouldn’t be in place.

“Smoking is legal; I should be allowed to do it where I want.

If someone doesn’t like it they don’t have to stand near me,” said Mamo.

What are we as a student body

Pace’s ePortfolio System Gets a Face-­‐Lift Users can now create multiple pages and multiple portfolios

to do? While we need to follow the rules that we agreed to when coming to the school, students like Mamo state that if Pace were to bring back smoking sections or place in separate benches and awnings for smokers, the rule wouldn’t have to be enforced anymore than it already is now.

“It isn’t like we are purposefully blowing smoke in peoples faces, we just don’t have anywhere else to go,” said Mamo.

Until Pace takes the time and effort to make smoking sections, it will continue to be a pain to all students – to those who are smokers and need their nicotine hit before going into that three-hour class, and to the students who have to walk past those enjoying their cigarettes.

The Academic Technology department is excited to announce the University’s upgrade to Mahara 1.5, the platform that hosts Pace’s ePortfolio system. This new version of ePortfolio is faster and more customizable than the previous version.

With the previous version, many instructors and students wanted to rename or create their own pages or have various portfolios. With this new version, they can. The latest features enable users to create Pace’s ePortfolio Gets aoFace-Lift entire portfolios known as “collections.”

Students System can create ne collection for academic use and Users can now create multiple and multiple portfolios another to submit to a potential employer.

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With the previous version, many instructors and students wanted to rename or create their own pages or have various portfolios. With this new version, they can. The latest features enable users to create entire portfolios known as “collecLinda Anstendig, English professor and Co-­‐Director of ePortfolio says, "With this upgrade, our user tions.” Students can create one collection for academic use and another to submit to a potential employer. The new verfriendly platform encourages creativity and alter flexibility, enabling students o personalize nd cone ustomize sion also allows users to create their own pages, the names of existing pagestand copy pages afrom collection to another.

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The icons in ePortfolio are now faster and the system has become easier to navigate, allowing users to

Linda Anstendig, English professor and Co-Director of ePortfolio says, “With this upgrade, our user friendly platform jump back creativity and forth between pages, editing content and sharing settings their without as many encourages and flexibility, enabling students to personalize and customize ePortfolios for a“clicks.” variety of educational, co-curricular and career purposes.”

Updated tutorials and ill bthe e available at become www.pace.edu/eportfolio.

With users the ato ddition of and The icons in ePortfolio areresources now fasterwand system has easier to navigate, allowing jump back forth between editing content and sharingassistants settings without as many “clicks.” several new pages, “eTerns,” ePortfolio student on both campuses, the ePortfolio team is able to

provide one-­‐on-­‐one assistance for all members of the Pace community. For questions or additional

Updated tutorials and resources will be available at www.pace.edu/eportfolio. With the addition of several new “eTerns,” information, contact eportfolio@pace.edu. ePortfolio student assistants on both campuses, the ePortfolio team is able to provide one-on-one assistance for all members of the Pace community. For questions or additional information, contact eportfolio@pace.edu.

(Sample of “collections” or various portfolios)

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Does Pace Pleasantville Support Photography Minor?

Samantha Finch

Entertainment Editor Samantha.A.Finch@pace.edu

Pace offers approximately 97 majors on the Pleasantville campus according to the Pace University website. Additionally, Dyson College of Arts and Science offers close to 44 minors that are not linked to either campus. This gives students the chance to consider several majors and minors before committing to one or another.

One of the several minors that is offered is photography, a field that has become increasingly more popular in the past few years and has become an important aspect not just as an art form but as a media form as well.

According to the requirements listed on the photography minor sheet, if a student wishes to be photography minor he or she is required to participate in 15 credits worth of photography classes.

This translates to five photography based courses that are designed to show the student the multiple branches of photography as both an art form and as a visual expression.

These classes include an introduction course that teaches the students the basic camera functions and creative vision and an advance class known as Photography II: Color that teaches the completely different process of color photography.

After the two required courses, the student has the options to pick three of five elective photography courses to complete the minor. Photography II: Creative Photography in Black and White, which focuses on more specialized processes and proceeds to teach students about technique and exploration with materials and elemental processing. Photography III: Experiential photography, aims to explore more unique project ideas. Art History:

Photo from Samantha Finch Is Pace shutting out students?

History of Photography, Photography II, and Special Topics in Advance Photography are also offered.

Of these seven classes that compile to make the Photography minor, only three have been successfully offered at the Pleasantville campus since fall of 2009.

“If Pace Pleasantville is going to offer photography as a minor then they should try to offer more in the way of courses,” said senior English and communications major Amanda Morey. “I realize there could perhaps be financial issues but I think it would be great if they tried to do more. I thought about adding photography as a second minor, but there are only a few courses offered so it’s difficult to complete the minor.”

This semester alone there are 10 introduction photography classes being offered between six professors. Of the 10, six are held on the New York City Campus in addition to three advance classes.

Pleasantville only has four introduction courses.

The lack of classes offered leaves an important question, how does a student complete the minor?

When classes are not offered to fulfill a minor, the student has very few options left to them.

They could give up on the minor if the number of classes is not offered by graduation, they could also travel to the city and take the course at the city campus, they could take the classes at another school and try to transfer the credits over, or finally the student can take independent studies, similar to “creating your own class” to replace the classes not offered.

Chairman of the media communications and visual arts department Robert Klaeger explains the administrative aspect of course selection.

“The problem with offering a minor that can successfully run is that the classes must fill,” said Klaeger. “Without a critical mass of students to run a major, a minor cannot be run. You see, running a course that does not fulfill an Area

of Knowledge (AOK) means that a very committed bunch of students must take it. In other words, if majors take a course, then the course is offered on a timely basis and students can take that course as minors.”

“There are only a dozen or so art majors at Pleasantville, and much as I’d like to see many more, they don’t exist,” said Klaeger. “Without majors to drive the advanced courses they don’t run for lack of enrollment, disappointing both the student and the professor.”

Prof. Klaeger has been chairman of the visual arts department for four years and also states that it is New York City, not Pleasantville, who hosts the photography minor. This is not specified on the website.

“They should lower the number of students needed to make the additional courses happen until the word of photography minor on the campus grows,” said inspiring photography minor and senior media communications

major Nadine Weilersbacher. “I don’t think enough students on campus know that it’s offered ...

I think it will have a really good turnout. We have a lot of creative students on campus that don’t get a chance to express it because the courses aren’t offered.”

Weilersbacher has taken three photography classes and is looking into independent studies to complete her minor.

According to Robert Kozma, an adjunct professor that teaches photography on both the New York City and Pleasantville, there has been a rise in the number of students interested in the minor.

“I don’t have access to official numbers but the past few years I have dealt with many more students looking to study towards a minor in photography,” said Kozma.

There are currently four students at Pace University Pleasantville that are working toward photography minors. Each of them has had to or plans to create their own program to fulfill the requirements of the minor.

Whether it is the campus atmosphere, department money, or a changing medium, photography minors are possible at the Pleasantville campus if the student has the drive to persue it and the administration departments are willing to work with the student.

“Although it is definitely harder to finish my minor without the classes offered, as long as Pace is willing to work with me in order make classes and independent studies to fit my minor, I’m happy,” said senior communication major Allie Olender. “So far, Pace has been accommodating. However, it would be cool to have other classes offered and have more darkroom equipment.”

For more information about majors and minors offered at Pace University, visit www.pace.edu or contact your student advisor.

Faculty Art Show Opens at Pace Samantha Finch

Entertainment Editor Samantha.A.Finch@pace.edu

Pace Faculty Art Exhibition 2012 opened its doors for public viewing last Wed. Sept. 12 and will remain open until Sept. 29.

The focus of the show is to display the creative works of faculty members on the Pleasantville campus.

Each piece that is admitted into the art show is required to go through a submission process that includes a written introduction/description of the art pieces, as well as some artwork from the

artist’s portfolio that is viewable on to a CD. The work is reviewed by a selection of artists who make the final selections.

Staff Assistant for Dyson College of Arts and Science Fine Art Department, Yvette Jones said, “I think it is inspirational for students to see the work of their professors published and on display on campus. It allows them to see a visual example of many of the subjects we offer in the Art Department…Especially if a student has never taken any of the courses mentioned and has a strong interest.”

Jones, along with the event curator and the student gallery as-

sistants, work together to schedule and plan the galleries that are held on campus. After filtering through several factors and ensuring they meet the mission of the art gallery, they form a schedule of which the exhibits will be held.

These include when they will open the art pieces to the campus, for how long will the galleries be up, and during what hours will students, faculty, staff, and visitors will be able to look through the art work.

Junior communications major, Stephanie Figueroa said, “As a gallery assistant, I help build up the Gallery center. I look at many paintings and photography... I

believe that having an Art Gallery give students a more diverse meaning of what Art really is and how much further they can go within the world of art.”

This year’s faculty art gallery contains pieces of art work that cover a plethora of mediums that include drawing, painting, photography, and ceramics. There is a total of 38 pieces on display from 11 faculty members.

Adjunct art professor Kathryn Marohn, who curated several art exhibits across the world including this one, is one of the professors featured in the art show. She has two charcoal drawings on paper that are on display entitled

“Peppers” and “Power Out, July 2012”.

“I became an artist because I have always had a drive to make things,” said Marohn. “Above all, I like the feel of the materials I use and even sometimes the smell. I like the mental focus that occurs when I immerse myself in painting or drawing. I talk a lot in class about this phenomenon of losing yourself in the process of creating.”

The faculty gallery is on display in the Choate House Art

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Hollywood’s Obsession Faculty Art Show Opens at Pace with Re-Release ...continued from page 9 Samantha Finch

Entertainment Editor Samantha.A.Finch@pace.edu

The year 2012 has displayed several advancements in the movie making industry. These incredible strides have altered the relationship between the movie producers and the audience they aim to please.

Films such as The Avengers

by Paramount Pictures in association with Marvel Studios, The Dark Knight Rises by Warner Brothers Pictures in conjunction with Syncopy Legendry Pictures and D.C. entertainment, and the first installment of The Hunger Games, produced by Larger than Life Production and Lion Gate Films, not only have brought people into theaters around the world but also have left a significant mark in box office history, grossing between approximately 672 million and one billion dollars since their release.

As technology is constantly evolving, it seems that the film industry is aiming to display the improvements to viewers across the globe. A recent trend that has become noticeably more prominent in Hollywood is the re-release of an older film equipped with the latest technological advancements such improvements in sound, lighting, and special features. The most common addi-

tion is 3-D. 3-D, also known as three dimensional, is a technique that is used primarily to enhance the visual experience of the film.

In the past year, movies such as Disney’s 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, James Cameron’s Oscar winning Titanic, and Disney Pixar’s animated film Finding Nemo have all been re-released as 3-D films. These films are not the only ones; it has been announced that on Jan. 18 and Sept. 13 of the next year, Disney Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and The Little Mermaid will also be re-released as 3-D motion pictures.

While the movies seem to be doing very well in the box office, it is hard to determine the true motive behind the company’s decision to re-release the films.

This leaves one question unanswered: Are the movie-making companies re-releasing films as a ploy to make more money out of a story they know works or is the film being enhanced to show the potential of cinema in this day and age?

Usually, when a movie is rereleased, there is no change to the actual story, characters, or overall theme of the piece. This can be interrupted as “uncreative” on the part of the production companies who would rather reproduce the same story than invent a new one.

It also costs significantly less to make a film 3-D than it does to film a whole motion picture from scratch.

“They [the filmmakers] make it out to be a way to show everyone a movie in 3-D and allow for them to reminisce about the film, but in reality, it is probably just to make more money,” said freshman business major Kris Boyle.

However, part of the reason these stories succeed and continue to bring in a profit is because of the enjoyment factor of these films. These movies formed and created bonds with many people and it is the loyal fans who want to see it again and again.

The verdict is very indecisive, for the true reason could simply be the combination of both. Perhaps part of the reason is to display the undeniable progression of the film making industry, while conversely it could be a tool to make money as well.

“I think it could be a bit of both. While it’s a way to keep great family movies in circulation with a new twist, the companies would never just put them out with the sole intention of giving it out to the public at their own expense,” said sophomore psychology major Nayda Hall. “At the end of the day it’s still a business.”

Photo by Samantha Finch/The Pace Chronicle This piece is featured int he faculty art show.

Gallery. To view this collection of artwork, please visits Mon., Tues., Wed., and Sat. between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Friday between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. A reception will be held on Thurs., Sept.20 at 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The

exhibition and reception are free to the public.

For more information about upcoming shows or how to become involved, please contact Yvette Jones at yjones@pace.edu.

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Sports on the Side: Head Collision

Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012

Setters Lose at Home

CJ Dudek

Sports Columnist Christopher.J.Dudek@pace.edu

Devon Walker will never play a down on Sundays. He will never win the Jim Thorpe Award for best defensive back in the country. Walker’s team, the Green Wave of Tulane University, will likely never host College Gameday on ESPN. These are just some factors as to why the kid who broke his neck in a game has become a one day story.

On the final play of the first half, Walker went in for a tackle and his helmet met the plastic headgear of a teammate. The resulting collision fractured Walker’s spine, collapsed his lung, and broke his neck.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal and ESPN.com both reported that Walker was in stable condition after

eral well-reported stories relating to concussions in the NFL. Walker’s story, however, had the impact of throwing a pebble into the ocean. In reality, the horrid image of a player dying on a football field looks clearer than ever.

There is a good chance Walker will never walk again— but because he isn’t a deceased Hall-of-Famer, a player on a noteworthy football team, or a kid on Mel Kiper’s draft board, he clearly doesn’t matter.

Not all media outlets were guilty of dropping the story like Terrell Owens. Yahoo!Sports, USA Today, and SportingNews. com did their jobs by following up on Walker’s condition.

Whether or not Walker would ever walk, let alone play football again, was not even on the

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Photo from CSI-Photos Quarterback Jordan Raynor looks to throw against New Haven.

CJ Dudek

Sports Editor Christopher.J.Dudek@pace.edu

Home was not where the win was for the Setters football team this time around.

The Setters got trounced in their home opener 44-10 by the Chargers of New Haven University. Despite the 1,100 fans in attendance, the Setters still struggled in all three phases of football.

The gap in the two teams’ rushing attack was larger than the Grand Canyon. Pace managed a meager 22 rushing yards compared to the Chargers 279 yards on the ground. Pace’s leading rusher junior criminal justice

major Jashon Dawson totaled six carries for 16 yards on the ground.

Six different Chargers beat that mark by themselves.

The ground crew of New Haven gashed the Setters run defense throughout the game. Chargers running back Mike DeCaro, Victor Jones, and Justen Wilson all managed over 11 yards per carry against the abysmal Setters run defense. The Chargers success on the ground is not surprising considering that Pace has given up an average of 341 rushing yards per game this season.

Despite getting stuck in the mud on the ground, the Setters did well through the air. Junior criminal justice major Jordan Raynor completed 27 of his 42 passes

for 224 yards. Raynor completed more passes than Chargers quarterback Ronnie Nelson (27-8) and threw for more yards throughout the game (224-152). Yet the aerial assault was not enough.

Even though the Setters had 71 total offensive plays compared to New Haven’s 51, the Chargers managed 440 total yards compared to Pace’s 246. This difference emerged because the Chargers picked up larger chunks of yardage at a time than the Setters.

The rare instances that New Haven decided to throw, they picked up an average of 14.6 yards per pass. In contrast, when the Setters took to the skies, they managed to average only 5.3 yards per pass.

Pace held a 3-0 lead in the game with 7:16 to play in the first quarter. However, the Chargers went on to score the next 44 points in the game and left the Setters with another loss. Still, those who had Dawson on their fantasy team were happy to see him score Pace’s only touchdown in the waning moments of the fourth quarter.

With the loss the Setters fall to 0-3 on the year with a record of 0-2 in Northeast-10 play. Pace will be shipping up to Boston to take on the Yellow Jackets of American International College on September 21.

Rate of Concussion CJ Dudek

Sports Editor Christopher.J.Dudek@pace.edu

Photo from usatoday.com Devon Walker seriously hurt, and nobody is paying attention. being rushed to a Tulsa hos- home page of ESPN.com on the pital. Both of these sites also following Sunday morning. reported that Walker’s mothEven still, a young man aler watched her son break his most died on a football field and neck on television. his story gets buried in less than The big media outlets filed a day. Meanwhile Tim Tebow, a the Devon Walker story and quarterback who couldn’t hit ceased their coverage. It was water if he fell out of a boat, time to ignore Walker’s con- gets an entire summer’s worth dition and focus on whether of media coverage for taking his to start Adrian Peterson or shirt off in the rain.

Maurice Jones-Drew for your Somebody’s priorities are fantasy team. really messed up.

Expanding on Walker’s inA family almost lost a son to jury and questioning the safe- a game where bone shattering ty of football would have put collisions are encouraged. Ina damper on the NFL’s open- stead of questioning the culture ing day. A multi-billion dollar of America’s favorite collision industry would have had to sports, or filing stories about share the media cycle with the the devastating impacts of heldemons of their game; but that met to helmet hits, the media didn’t happen. turned our attention to bigger The season debuts of the behemoths hitting each other at pro teams were too impor- faster speeds instead. Yet for the tant to the big time networks. most part, the audience turned Peyton Manning playing on a away from the ugliness of the new team, the expectations for game to see something else. the Pittsburgh Steelers, and, What nobody will be watchof course, everyone’s fantasy ing is if Devon Walker will ever teams were more important walk again. This decision to than the life threatening inju- ignore the dangers of football ry to Devon Walker. could lead to the death of someA college senior fracturing one else’s son. Chances are, unhis spine during a game did less Tom Brady dies in a headlittle to continue the national to-head collision next week, it debate about the safety of foot- will be downplayed as someone ball. The death of Junior Seau else’s problem. had a media cycle that lasted Unfortunately, we are all for days, and prompted sev- someone else to someone else.

Football, from Pop Warner to the professional level, faces the same harsh reality: the collisions that make the sport so prominent across the country could be it’s very undoing.

The omnipresent threat of concussions has made several appearances here at Pace. According to the records of team physician Dr. Les Mayers, Pace had diagnosed 106 concussions from 103 different student athletes over a 13-year span. Also, Mayers stated that approximately one-third of student athletes at Pace have suffered a concussion at some point in their playing career.

Mayers has been faced with concussions throughout his career as a sports physician. The doctor made it a point when he came to Pace to arm himself with concussion knowledge.

“I realized I didn’t know much about it [concussions] when I first came here so I became a student of them,” said Mayers. “There are no minimal injuries in the brain.”

As Mayers expected, football has been the most common sport where concussions occur. According to his records, 50 of the total concussed athletes in the past 13 years have been football players.

The rise in concussions across the nation can be contributed to athletes returning from injury too soon. According to Mayers, concussed players at Pace returned to play their sport 15 days after the devastating hit. Still, the doctor and the school take their patients

very seriously.

Each athlete who suffers a concussion at Pace has to undertake a 19-question evaluation.

Then, concussed athletes do not work out or practice with their team unless they are symptomfree for five days.

Even after being cleared, Mayers and his staff follow up with concussed athletes one year post-concussion. Out of the 106 concussed athletes at Pace over the last decade plus, only 8 have had short-term memory problems.

If a player suffers a second concussion at Pace they are done for the year. No exceptions. Yet when it comes to athletes going back to class early, Mayers is a bit more lenient.

“You are a student athlete, student comes before athlete,” said Mayers. “I push the envelope when it comes to education, it is mostly black and white and it is up to them whether or not they want to return to class.”

The safest and quickest adjustment that Pace and other colleges can make is to teach their players to tackle correctly. Sportsconcussions.org states that the second best precaution an athlete can take to curbing concussions is to stop contact of the helmet or facemask.

Not every player on the Setters is ignorant to the imposing dangers of horrid tackling. Sophomore biology major Christopher Archibal is sure the team can be doing more to stop dangerous tackling habits from seeing the field.

“We should practice tackling more,” Archibal said. “We aren’t necessarily doing it in a way that

would injure us, it’s just execution-wise we can do better.”

Archibal also made it clear that Setters defensive coordinator Ted Florio does preach proper technique in practice, even though Florio does not spend extra time on weekdays making sure that his defenders are wrapping up as opposed to becoming human battering rams.

Execution of good tackling could be the difference between a prominent colligates career and being forced into early retirement.

Dr. Mayers said that usually, after three concussions, he sits down with the athlete and their parents to discuss their future.

“The athletes have become much smarter,” Mayers said.

“Their parents always have their child’s best interest in mind and we’ve persuaded a number of them to retire.”

Not everyone is as willing to let concussed athletes sit so easily. Mayers admitted that during his tenure, he has dealt with coaches and parents who expected their kids to return to action in seven days. Mayers maintained his firm stance on concussed kids playing too early.

“Nobody that I know would advocate publicly ‘let’s send the injured athlete on the field’,” Mayers said. “Best evidence suggests that the injury can last for at least a month, and the only treatment that will curb concussions is rest.”

Although the best defense against concussions is to rest, football season across the country continues - even with the specter of concussions haunting football at the sport’s every level.

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Sports

Setter Notch First Win of Season CJ Dudek

Sports Editor Christopher.J.Dudek@pace.edu

Two firsts came off of one foot during the Setters women’s soccer game against American International College.

Freshman midfielder and psychology major Kristiana Padavona put her first goal of her career through the Yellow Jackets net and gave the Setters their first win in their 2012 season.

Padavona’s first goal of the year would not have seen the back of the net without an indirect assist from sophomore nursing major Geena Kooner. AIC keeper Amber McLeen deflected Kooner’s shot and the sophomore’s fellow midfielder got the ensuing rebound. Padavona found the back of the net with three minutes and 96 seconds left in regulation time.

The Howard Beach native joined the short list of Setter goal scorers in 2012. To date, only four other Setters have scored a goal this season. Padavona’s first collegiate goal put her one goal behind sophomore communications major Jillian Ferro for the team lead.

Even though Padavona scored the game’s only goal, the Setters goalie played an important role in the victory.

Senior keeper and marketing major Courtany Hagen recorded her first shutout of the year. Ha-

Photo from CSI-Photos Setters Jubilant over first win this season. gen padded her individual statistics by getting four saves, which brought her season save total to 25. Hagen currently ranks second in the NE-10 in saves behind Moriah Saidel of the University of New Haven and her 37 stops.

In addition to Hagen having her best game of the year to date, the Setters stopped the Yellow Jackets from stinging altogether.

AIC was tied for 11 in the NE10 with five goals heading into their showdown with the Setters.

Ninety minutes and 18 shots later the Yellow Jackets left Briarcliff Manor with five goals on the season.

The Setters corralled the best goal scorers of the Yellow Jackets throughout the entire game.

Although AIC midfielder Devan

Boundy put a shot on goal, neither Caroline Boyce nor Hillary Baker had a shot on net against the Setters. Also, out of 18 total AIC shots, only four of them were towards Hagen.

With the win, the Setters improved their overall record to 1-2-2 on the infant season. The victory was Pace’s first win in the Northeast-10 Conference in

2012. Padavona’s late goal also pushed the Setters into the NE-10 playoff picture for the time being.

The Setters will look to show off their skills in front of impressionable children on Youth Day this weekend. Pace will face St. Anselm away at 1:00 p.m. on Sat. Sept. 22.

The World Through Archie’s Eyes CJ Dudek

Sports Editor Christopher.J.Dudek@pace.edu

The world through the eyes of sophomore biology major Christopher Archibal is both blurry and beautiful.

Archibal, more commonly known as Archie, is a defensive lineman on the Setters football team who is legally blind. He has difficulty seeing in class and is not able to drive a car.

There was no tragic accident in his childhood that robbed Archie’s vision like Stan Lee’s Daredevil. He was simply born with poor eyesight. Archie’s corrected vision is around 20/200 in his better eye.

Despite being legally blind, Archie can see the importance of facing and overcoming the numerous adversities life has to offer.

“Ever since I was small I was always told that I was going to need special help doing normal things,” Archie said. “But here I am; I graduated normal high school, I went to normal college and am taking normal classes - I try not to listen to the naysayers.”

These naysayers might be surprised to learn that Archie has a harder time seeing letters on a smart board than he does seeing defenders. Archie’s proximity to the ball as a defensive lineman enables him to make plays on Saturdays. It also helps that Archie gets a little help from his friends

Photo from CSI-Photos Christopher Archibal sees the world through legally blind eyes.

on the field.

“My teammates help me with the signal calls in practice,” Archie said. “When our defensive coordinator gives us our signals I can’t see them, but I know all the plays. My teammates just relay the play to me and I make the necessary adjustments.”

Even though his teammates have to help him with the signals, few know the extent of Archie’s bad eyesight. Archibal’s suitemate, senior political science major Lamar Francis, was quite surprised to learn his teammate was legally blind.

“I did not know that,” Francis said. “I knew that he had vision problems, but I did not know he was legally blind.”

Archie’s eyesight may not be

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the talk of the locker room, yet that does not seem to bother the Nyack native.

“I think they have a general idea as to my eyesight weakness, but I don’t think a lot of people really know,” Archie said. “I have had more issues doing stuff wrong, like being out of position or late on a play, than with my sight so far.”

Archie’s sight may be far from great. He may even have trouble seeing lessons about how DNA replicates during the S phase of mitosis. However, Archie can see with clarity the strides he has made as a student athlete even though his vision gets blurry.