[The Stute] September 17, 2010 (Issue 3, Volume CVIII)

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Around Campus:

Stevens Ski Team prepares for season

The Stevens Ski team is looking forward to another exciting season this year. Last year the team placed fourth in the Metro Area league in Men’s Alpine.

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Opinion:

-Editorial-

Fluent Listeners

Why did you get a C in that class last spring? Was the material complex and you were challenged? Was your time management shoddy...

Full op-ed on page 2

-Mind of a Freshman-

The best decision

With every day that passes here at Stevens, I’m finding that my decision to attend this institution was probably the best decision

I’ve ever made. When I first found out about Stevens, I assumed that...

Full op-ed on page 3

-Senioritis-

Let’s get rid of CAL

What classes are you taking this semester? Well, I’m taking Mechanics of Solids, Electricity and Magnetism, Differential Equations, Design III, and a hum. A hum?

Yeah. Okay...which hum?

Oh, uh, a literature. Okay... which literature course?...

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-Cuisine Corner-

Korean Food in Disguise

Today’s Cuisine Corner takes me to another new restaurant that recently opened on Washington Street, “Chicken Factory.” Chicken Factory greets diners with what might seem contradictory...

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World News:

Pope admits church failures in scandal

(AP) - Pope Benedict XVI waded into the hostile atmosphere Thursday of highly secular Britain, admitting the Catholic Church did not act decisively...

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U.S. says North Korea committed act of war

(AP) - U.S. officials on Thursday said they still weren’t sure what motivated an attack on a South Korean warship...

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Sports:

Women’s Soccer

Defeats Vassar

SSI - Freshman Becky Wos netted her first collegiate marker in the 34th minute...

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Logan Named Assistant Coach

SSI - Stevens Institute of Technology Head Wrestling

Coach Mike Clayton recently announced the hiring of Damion Logan as the Ducks’ head assistant coach ...

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Remembering the victims of September 11, 2001

Inside the SGA

A summary of their September 11 meeting

by PETER ZAFONTE

A silent drill at Castle Point

by MATT CSENGETO

On the eleventh of September, everything was beautiful and serene at Stevens’ Castle Point; with nary a cloud in the sky and the sun shining down, the American flag was swaying gently in the breeze, its rope clanging against the flagpole; a few students, eager to start the day, walked to an early breakfast in Pierce dining hall; and, as usual, the cannon kept watch over the Hudson River. It was just like so many other mornings except that Castle Point had an extra feature: even quieter than the cannon and the flag were five young Air Force ROTC members marching a silent drill in memory of the thousands of innocent people who, nine years ago that day, died within sight of Castle Point.

There were few spectators taking note of the ceremony, but Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Devin Deans, a senior at Stevens Institute, explains that his detachment, Air Force ROTC Detachment 490, performs the ritual each year “for the intrinsic value of the ceremony” and not to attract attention. The all-volunteer group, mostly composed of Third Class cadets like Stevens sophomore Mateusz Borek, first performed the drill at Castle Point in 2009. It had been done at Detachment 490’s base at NJIT in the past, but C/Lt Col. Deans says he decided to bring the September 11 Remembrance Ceremony to Stevens, his own school, to fill a void. “Just because nobody else was doing it, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it,” Deans says. “Even if just five people remember because

Office of Student Employment created

by VEENA RAMAKRISHNAN

Students that currently have on-campus jobs have found or will soon find that major changes have been made to the process of finding on-campus employment. Perhaps the most noticeable change is the student employment website, where all students must apply or re-apply online for jobs they may have already held. Those changes were brought about by the newly formed Student Employment Office (SEO). Located in the small annex across the hall from the Pierce Dining Hall in the Howe Center, it coordinates with students, faculty and staff, and departments on campus to create, centralize, and fulfill Federal Work-Study and Non-Federal Work-

Study on-campus employment opportunities.

It was formed this past summer with the hiring of Gabrielle Gomez, the Student Employment Coordinator, to begin handling employment for the Fall 2010 semester. “This office was created to enhance the student experience. The goal was really to create more job opportunities on campus for students, to be a place to enquire about student employment or about problems with [a student’s] current employment. It’s like HR for students.” Gomez formerly worked in a fledgling human resources department for a hospital, defining policies and procedures for hiring and other functions as the hospital’s business was grow-

of this, we did our job.”

Though the weather was excellent this year, in 2009 it rained on the day of the ceremony. Consequently, there were fewer spectators, but Detachment 490 was there performing the silent drill in spite of the rain to remember those who died in the September 11 attacks.

Back and forth they marched, for nearly two hours, in front of the flag. It was the same duration of time which was filled with terrible events in 2001: from 8:46 a.m. when the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center until 10:28 a.m. when the North Tower came crashing to the ground. Two cadets marched for nearly an hour before a changing of the guard cer-

The Student Government Association (SGA) started off the school year with a meeting at 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 11, rather than their usual time (7 p.m. on Sundays) in the Fielding room in the Howe Center. Despite this being their first meeting after summer break, things quickly came to some heavy heated debate when substantive issues arose. The first such issue was brought up by SGA Treasurer Jeffrey Lichtenfeld. Tony Blazini from the Office of Residence Life has been requesting and receiving additional money for midnight breakfast from Student Life without any communication to SGA about the matter. Over the course of a few semesters, this has put the midnight breakfast budget in the red by $1,400. Every semester the SGA allocates $6,000 and cosponsors midnight breakfast with the Office of Residence Life. However, the Office of Residence Life has apparently been going over-budget at the permission of Student Life. Also, according to Lichtenfeld, Residence Life did not know that the Breakfast was over budget; Lichtenfeld saw that the numbers did not add up and made a proposal to the Senate to rectify the situation. The proposal, that the SGA would pay back the $1,400 and add another $500 for this next semester, would set a new precedent for the Midnight Breakfast budget at $6,500. This would

Stevens students and alumni direct Fall One Acts

Now with 100% more student directors

by HOWARD ALLEN

On Friday, September 10 and Saturday, September 11, Stevens Dramatic Society held its annual Fall One Act Festival. The event featured four one-act plays:

“The Philadelphia” by David Ives, “Brothers” by William Gadea, “The Universal Language” by David Ives, and “The Still Alarm” by George S. Kaufman.

What was rather unusual about this particular one act festival is that it was directed entirely by Stevens students and alumni.

“The Philadelphia” was directed by Abel Alvarez, “Brothers” was directed by Edward Delaney, “The Universal Language” was

directed by Frank Riccobono, and “The Still Alarm” was directed by Tom Oliphant. None of them had any directing experience prior to the festival. “It was really interesting to see the casting process,” said Delaney, “To actually schedule everybody, to really have a vision for what the play wanted, and then really work with your actors and tech crew to get it to be what you wanted.”

When asked the reasons behind the change in directors, David Zimmerman, Executive Director of the DeBaun Center for Performing Arts, commented that it was done mainly to increase student involvement. According to Riccobono, “Last Fall we tried to get students more

involved by having studentwritten one-acts. I guess the next logical step was to have student directors this year.”

“The Philadelphia” is a tale of two men in New York who find themselves metaphysically in other places. The main character finds himself metaphysically in “a Philadelphia,” where no matter what he asks for, no one has it. He asks every newspaper stand in town for the Daily News, only to be forced to read the only paper anyone claims to have: The Toronto Hairdresser. The other man is metaphysically in “an L.A.,” where no matter what, he believes things will turn out to be okay - once he makes the events of his life

Students perform “The Philadelphia” in DeBaun. Courtesy Of Cait Kulig

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The Broken Window Fallacy

by MATT CSENGETO

“War! What is it good for?”

This was the question that Bill Kauffman asked the audience at the Campaign for Liberty’s ‘Rally for the Republic.’ The audience shouted back, “absolutely nothing!” Kauffman conceded, “To be fair, it is good for the prosthetic limb industry, the moving van industry, funeral parlors located near military bases.” It’s also good for the people who manufacture instruments of destruction: bombs, tanks, planes, and so on. These few, private gains come at a terrible cost to the rest of society which must pay for the destruction.

Three days after September

11 occurred, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times that “there will, potentially, be two favorable effects” of the destruction of the Twin Towers, setting aside the loss of life. “Now, all of a sudden, we need some new office buildings” and “rebuilding will generate at least some increase in business spending,” Krug-

Fluent Listeners

Why did you get a C in that class last spring? Was the material complex and you were challenged? Was your time management shoddy and your priorities skewed? Was it an early class that you skipped, a late class that you cut, or a long recitation where you signed in and left? These may be true reasons but they are not the justification you used when mom and dad asked you about your slumping GPA. Instead you blamed the professor, and you blamed his accent.

This is a shameful and vile thing to hear from the mouths of fellow students. While our country ends a summer of resurgent Islamophobia, while national politics struggles mightily with xenophobic legislation, in a time when ethnic violence shakes the globe, this must not and should not be tolerated on our campus.

“The professors should learn to speak English.” It was a sentiment that I have heard many times during my five years and one that, shamefully, I had become accustomed to hearing. I absorbed that message, as I absorbed stories full of exaggerated “L”s and halted syllabic pronunciation by these same students as they related in-class events. I did not realize the degree to which I had accepted the sentiment.

It had not shocked me, it had not

jarred me out of complacency, until I heard it shouted this week in a packed classroom. It was stated as fact, absorbed as fact to the room, where it hung uncontested among my peers and I.

We are so much better than this. The breathtaking disrespect and disregard to the multinational professionals who instruct us is a disgrace. When you train as a technical professional in one country, aspire to a career in another country, learn that nation’s language to the point where you can publish professional technical research in its journals, then uproot your family to travel across the ocean, perhaps you can complain. Or maybe you should wait until you then establish enough of a reputation in this new land that you are asked on a job interview, which you successfully pass, then work daily before crowds that prattle idioms and have bafflingly different cultural norms than you do.

And until you’ve managed all that you should pause and consider how you are going to function in a world where the engineers on your team live in India and your client is in Germany. When your boss is Russian and your neighbor is Haitian and you haven’t perfected that time machine to take you back to a 1950s suburbia, then I don’t know how you expect to have a career.

Professors are not always trained in public speaking. It is an irony that the reward for a career of laboratory dedication is a position behind a podium and that the minds fully tilted towards future research are expected to lecture fundamentals to beginners.

I am amenable to a conversation critiquing mumbling lecturers or reading from PowerPoint slides.

But the problem in nearly all of these classes where the guy at the front of the class looks different from the guy in the mirror is not a matter of speaking. It is a matter of listening, of showing up and, god forbid, raising your hand during class to ask the lecturer to clarify or repeat a sentence that was mumbled.

Stevens does not need to hire more people who speak English. Everyone in this community speaks English and many of them speak Spanish, Farsi, Mandarin, Greek and Arabic too. We just need to start accepting students who are fluent English listeners.

Regina K. Pynn Editor-In-Chief The Stute

Inception is a clunker, but lucid dreaming is cool

by JOHN HORGAN

man wrote. Secondly, the attacks allow the government to spend more money on, well, something. Meet the Broken Window Fallacy.

The Fallacy was described as the ‘parable of the broken window’ by Frederic Bastiat and later re-described by Henry Hazlitt in his book ‘Economics in One Lesson.’

In the story, a young boy breaks the front window of a baker’s shop. A crowd gathers to survey the damage. They realize that the baker will need to spend, perhaps, a hundred dollars to repair the window. Therefore, the local glassmaker’s business will increase.

‘This will be a great boon to the economy! There are a hundred dollars being spent as a result of the broken window,’ says the crowd. The young boy’s vandalism has created employment and made society wealthier, they conclude.

Hazlitt explains that when viewed only from the perspective of the glassmaker, the broken window was, in fact, a good thing. His business as a glassmaker does increase.

But the economy as a whole is down one window, now. The baker, whose window was broken, may have been prepared to spend one hundred dollars on a new suit or a new tool in his shop which would better his business. But, because of the vandal, the baker has been forced to replace what he already had: a perfectly good window. The window’s destruction did not create employment; it only directed employment away from the suit tailor to the glassmaker instead. The baker could have had both a window and a new suit, but now he will have only the window. One hundred dollars later, the baker is only back where he started. As Bastiat observed, “Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed.”

Here are a few more cases of the Broken Window Fallacy in real life. First case: after Hurricane Katrina wrecked huge swaths

Inception is an absurdly complicated, clattering contraption of a movie that impresses only in a mechanical, Rube Goldbergish way. My intellect had to work so hard to figure out what was happening that my emotions never got engaged. But the flick gives me an excuse to revisit a topic that’s fascinated me ever since I had an odd dream more than 40 years ago: I was sitting on a stoop with two pals when suddenly I realized we were in a dream: my dream. When I told my buddies, they mocked me. “Yeah, right! We’re not real! We’re just in your dream!” I woke up muttering, “I told you.” Story of my life.

The Dutch psychiatrist Frederik Willem van Eeden coined the term “lucid dreaming” in 1913, but descriptions of dreams in which you know you’re dreaming date back at least to Aristotle. Most people can recall at least one lucid dream, and perhaps one in 10 has them regularly. A half century ago some researchers still insisted that lucid dreaming is a contradiction in terms; if we are aware we are dreaming, we must be at least semiawake.

In the 1970s, however, the psychophysiologist Stephen LaBerge demonstrated the reality of lucid dreams in experiments at Stanford University. He employed lucid-dreaming adepts that he dubbed “oneironauts,” from the Greek words for “dream” and “explorer”. Oneironauts learned to signal that they were lucid with prearranged eye movements while an EEG (electroencephalogram) confirmed that they were in the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep, when dreams usually occur. (Eye muscles can be controlled during REM sleep, whereas most

other muscles are immobilized.)

LaBerge showed that activities such as counting numbers or having sex evoke similar neural and physiological responses in both the dreaming and waking states-and if your dream self holds its breath, your real self does, too. Moreover, events take about the same time to unfold in lucid dreams as they would in real life. Inception posits, and some researchers still believe, that dream time is often compressed so that a dream that seems subjectively to take an hour only takes a few seconds.

LaBerge has written a half dozen books on lucid dreaming, and in 1986 he created the Lucidity Institute, which sponsors research and workshops. He touts lucid dreams as an all-purpose self-improvement tool. A workshop in Hawaii this fall will “present instructions on methods of developing the mental skills that foster lucidity and on directing consciousness within both dreaming and waking states towards fulfillment of personal goals.”

To his credit, LaBerge offers tips for cultivating lucidity without flying to exotic locales. You will lucid dream more often if you think about dreaming while you’re awake. You should also keep asking yourself, “Is this a dream?” And keep an eye out for weirdness: if you are flying or chatting up Lady Gaga, you probably are dreaming. Also, look for text of any kind, because in dreams written words usually look different every time you try to read them.

A technique that LaBerge calls mnemonic induction of lucid dreams, or MILD, involves waking up an hour earlier than usual in the morning, recalling your last dream, and going asleep again while

thinking, “The next time I’m dreaming, I want to remember I’m dreaming.” Lucid dreams occur most often in the morning just before awakening.

LaBerge has experimented with gadgets for promoting lucidity, including tapes that whisper, “This is a dream”; vibrators that gently jiggle the bed; and an electronic mask called the NovaDreamer. When an infrared sensor in the mask detects REM-type eye-twitches, the mask emits lights or sounds that, ideally, make the sleeper lucid without completely waking her up.

I find a couple of LaBerge’s claims intriguing.

One is that we are, in a way, always dreaming.

That is, our neocortex constantly generates scenes and stories based on neural data available to it. While we are awake, neural data come from sensory perceptions of external phenomena; while we sleep, the data are unconstrained-or only slightly constrainedby external input.

I’m even more haunted by LaBerge’s description of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice called dream yoga, which involves becoming lucid in and then mastering the content of dreams. The ultimate goal is to realize that reality is a dream, too. Enlightenment, the supreme goal of Buddhists, is a kind of meta-lucidity, in which you wake up from reality.

This idea once appealed to me, but now it strikes me as the most perverse form of escapism. Maybe that’s why I didn’t like Inception, because it suggests that we’re never really awake; we just shuttle from one dream to another. If life is but a dream, I don’t want to wake up.

John Horgan directs the Center for Science Writings, which is part of the Stevens College of Arts & Letters.

-The Scientific Curmudgeon-

In the September 3 issue, in the article title “Stevens Professor arrested” The Stute reported opinions of groups and individuals as Institute policy. This was inaccurate In the September 7 issue, the Roving Reporter question should have read “What do you think of the freshmen?”

Campus pulse

Roving Reporter: Do you believe in celebrating month anniversaries?

I guess in the first year. After that it’s just silly.

-George Blazeski

No. No. No. 30 days - that’s not an achievement.

Only the first and sixth.

What classes are you taking this semester? Well, I'm taking Mechanics of Solids, Electricity and Magnetism, Differential Equations, Design III, and a hum. A hum?

Yeah. Okay…which hum?

Oh, uh, a literature. Okay… which literature course? I dunno, I just signed up for it because it doesn't start until noon.

REALLY?!?! C'mon, people. "A hum" is NOT a course at Stevens, nor is "a literature." It really disappoints me that "The Innovation University" is overflowing not only with students, but also faculty and staff members who shrug off the College of Arts and Letters as an unnecessary school which has no place within our "Institute of Technology."

I'm baffled at the ignorance of those on campus who preach the importance of progress in the fields of engineering and the sciences, yet say nothing of the necessity of the humanities.

"We don't need these courses here."

"My time would be much better spent in a technical course."

"Why are you pushing my students so hard? They can't do this work."

I'm going to let you all in on a little secret: The college of arts and letters is the most important school on this campus. No, Dr. Sinnreich-Levi didn't bribe me to say that. I am not being held at gunpoint in Peirce. If you are observant, you will notice that, un-

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of land in the Gulf states, US Labor Secretary Chao said of the destruction, “there is a bright spot in that new jobs do get created…in rebuilding.” A second case: President Obama happily signed Cash for Clunkers into law so that we could all (as taxpayers) pay to destroy lots of perfectly good cars only to replace them with new cars. The legislators claimed this as an economic stimulus. Third case: economists and officials go so far as to say that war is good for the economy. This is the belief that expending massive resources to build items for purely destructive purposes can be a good thing.

If these guys are right, then they have really discovered something incredible. We can just destroy existing things and

Anniversary means a year, not a month - it’s yearly not monthly.

-Senioritis-

get rid of CAL

okay. Good luck writing grants using everything you learned in…Heat Transfer? Small problem: the people to whom you are writing understand nothing you're saying. Whoops! No grant for you.

DANI CASTIONI Senior Chem-Bio Major

der my photo, there is a little line that says "Senior Chem Bio Major." I am in no way, shape, or form connected to CAL. Just in case you think I may have made a two-line typo in caps lock, I will repeat myself: The College of Arts and Letters is the most important school on this campus.

Sure, our professors tell us we are going to be some of the leading researchers and innovators of our generation. However, if you aren't comfortable with humanities, your future prospective employer will look right through the gaping hole in your résumé directly to the next applicant.

What gaping hole? You aren't going to fool anyone by using sixth-grade vocabulary and shaky grammar in a professional document. You need a solid foundation in literature and writing courses. A knowledge of thermodynamics can only carry you so far.

Oh, but I am going to be a civil engineer! I will design and build the newest buildings. I know all about stress and solids, etc. etc. Well,

replace them in order to make society wealthier! We don’t have to worry about the recession anymore, then. After all, how hard can it be to destroy what we have worked so hard to build?

Or maybe they are wrong?

Maybe they are all forgetting that, had the destruction never occurred, the resources would have been used anyway, except they would be spent on new uses and society would enjoy the value of the new in addition to the old rather than just the new.

In some cases, the benefactors of the Broken Window are easy to see while the losers are practically invisible to observers. For example, when the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars on various projects, the politicians like to claim that they have created X number of jobs. But where did those millions of dollars come from? They came from taxes laid on those

I am an engineer. I am too smart for these humanities. They are a waste of my time. Oh, you're so right. We wouldn't want you to give up something else like the 16 hours a day you spend playing World of Warcraft. Oh, or the endless amount of time that Star Trek is playing on your computer. Let's get rid of CAL, because it is imposing on my "ME" time…. which, for many of you, is just that. YOU. Just you. And the people in your headset don't count.

I was speaking with Dean Dolling last week, when we stumbled upon the fact that a large part of the students' opinions of CAL is influenced by the professors. Of course we are going to assume the humanities are tedious if our professors are going to the dean and telling her she is giving too-difficult work. Aw, poor things, you can't read forty pages of a book. GROW UP. Just because your teachers are bitter doesn't mean you need to give up your intelligence.

A note to technical professors who may feel CAL is a waste: Dean Dolling would like to challenge you to go sit in on a class. She says you won't recognize your students. You may not need no stinkin’ badges, but you sure as hell need stinkin’ Wharton.

people who actually create employment. Taxes to support spending programs mean that the company you work for (or are hoping to work for soon) had to cut back on investment, payroll, or new hiring in order to pay for the government program. It means that your local hair salon couldn’t add an extra chair to expand their business because they had to pay for part of a government bailout instead. But here is the sad part: nobody sees the jobs that never came to be; we only see the jobs which were the result of spending programs.

The Broken Window Fallacy is always important to remember, but it’s going to become a lot more important as we head into ever worse economic times. We need to recognize the difference between adding to society’s productivity and subtracting from it so that we can detect these politicians’ false claims of ‘stimulus’.

Senior Career Prep Workshop

With every day that passes here at Stevens, I’m finding that my decision to attend this institution was probably the best decision I’ve ever made. When I first found out about Stevens, I assumed that being such a small, predominantly engineering school, it wouldn’t have as much to offer as other universities. I thought that they couldn’t possibly have a crew team, students interested in law, or opportunities to study abroad. Visits to Stevens during my senior year were enough to show me that the school had a lot more to offer than I expected. I was surprised to find out that we do have everything that I mentioned above, as well as much, much more.

So my first criterion in choosing my college was that it had to be in or near a big city like Boston or New York. Well, Stevens definitely satisfies that requirement. What’s even better is that it isn’t right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of NYC. Had I ended up there, I would be spending all my time enjoying everything in the city instead of doing homework. Being a short train ride across the Hudson ensures that I only go into the city

when I actually have time to spend there so that I can focus on my studies when I should.

During my college search, I was also looking for “something new.”

I felt that I needed a big change in atmosphere, from people to location, lifestyle, and everything else. In my hometown, I had to drive my car anywhere I wanted to go. There were essentially no sidewalks because everything was too far to make any use of them and you never saw anyone even just going out for an evening stroll. So in my opinion, the town felt dead and I was looking for a much livelier atmosphere. Mind you, I miss driving around and showing off with my Stevens sticker plastered to the back windshield of my car very much, however I absolutely love that everything is within walking distance here. It’s nice to be able to just go out for a bit of fresh air and some

shopping with a friend and not have to pay for gas!

Every day on my way to class, Pierce, or a meeting, I always glance out across the Hudson to the city and the same thing happens every time: I get a very slight but significant jolt of excitement in my stomach for all the opportunities that I know are within my reach here. Some evenings as I’m fighting to stay awake to finish a homework assignment in my dorm for an 8:00 a.m. class the following morning, I’ll turn my desk chair to face the window and the view of the city lights somehow calms me and helps me focus. It brings me to question what my future will hold and motivates me to work hard now in order to reach my goals.

On one ordinary but memorable evening, I had just gotten out of Pierce with a caffe latte in my hands, preparing for the long night of homework. Three of my friends were with me and we decided to hang out by the cannon for a bit. As one was taking pictures of the New York skyline, the rest of us were silent, enjoying the fresh air and the beautiful scene. This was where I got the inspiration for my Facebook post for that evening, which runs through my mind fairly often now: “This is exactly where I want to be.”

Chicken Factory: Korean Food in Disguise

by TAYLOR SPROUL

Customers can choose between soy garlic or sweet spicy chicken.

Today’s Cuisine Corner takes me to another new restaurant that recently opened on Washington Street, “Chicken Factory.”

Chicken Factory greets diners with what might seem contradictory: a sign that says “Chicken Factory” in large letters, with “Korean Cuisine” in smaller letters. Is this a typical ‘chicken’ restaurant that sells all sorts of fried and grilled pieces of chicken and sandwiches, or is this a restaurant that sells Korean dishes? The answer is ‘both.’

The main menu gives a choice between two flavors of chicken, “Soy Garlic” and “Sweet Spicy,” available as wings or drumsticks or both, in small ($12, contained about 10 pieces) or large ($20) portions, which also included a can of soda, a small container of cole slaw, and a bowl of miso soup. There are also

two chicken salads. There are additional lunch specials from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., which is where the Korean food is hiding. There are six different Korean dishes, all priced around $10, which include a can of soda and some rice and vegetables on the side. There is also a confusing clause “After 3 p.m. additional $3,” which makes it sound like the lunch menu is available for dinner as well, albeit at an increased cost.

I ordered a small “Soy Garlic” wings and drumsticks, a small “Sweet Spicy” wings and drumsticks, a “Bulgoki” lunch special, and a “Japche” lunch special. Again, I summoned my expert panel. Everyone enjoyed the “Soy Garlic” chicken. It was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, without being too crunchy or too soggy. The sauce was sweet

and mild, which was excellent. Next, we dug into the “Sweet Spicy” chicken. This chicken had the same excellent preparation, with the only difference being the sauce. Some members of the panel found the sauce to be too spicy for their liking, but another thought that it was amazing, and would have devoured the entire plate except for the fact that he ran out of soda. He vowed to return with a large water bottle to conquer the hot wings.

The “Chicken Factory” portion of the menu having been decimated, we turned to the “Korean Cuisine” portion. The “Japche” was a mixture of glass rice noodles and vegetables, in a very mild sauce, served over sticky white rice with some more vegetables on the side. This dish was somewhat bland com-

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pared to the other options. The final item we ordered was the “Bulgoki.” Small pieces of beef, very tender and juicy, were served alongside the same sticky white rice and side vegetables as the other lunch special. Everyone on the panel liked this, especially when the beef is mixed with the rice.

On the whole, the expert panel enjoyed “Chicken Factory.” Their preparation of the chicken was perfect, and their sauces were delicious. It would have been even better to see more chicken options available, such as chicken tenders or chicken sandwiches. Still, there’s plenty of poultry deliciousness available in the form of drumsticks and wings. Additionally, the Bulgoki beef is excellent, if you can get over the stigma of ordering beef at a place called “Chicken Factory”.

-Cuisine Corner-

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Stevens Ducks (4-0-1) vs. York College Spartans (4-2-0)

September 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Men's Soccer jumps six spots

SSI – After a 1-0-1 week, the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s soccer team jumped six spots in the most recent National Soccer Coaches Association of America/HendrickCars.com Top 25 Poll, it was announced Tuesday. The Ducks, now 3-0-1 on the season, return to action on Wednesday night 8 p.m. against in-state rival The College of New Jersey. All the action from the De Baun Athletic Complex can be seen live at www.PennAtlantic.com.

Stevens played William Paterson University on Friday night to a 0-0 draw but came back on Saturday night to defeat North Carolina Wesleyan College, 2-0. NC Wesleyan was previously unbeaten, tallying 21 goals in its previous four matches.

The Ducks have yet to allow a goal against this season in over 386 minutes of game time.

Stevens, which is ranked 15th in the www. D3Soccer.com poll, hosts national power York College (Pa.) on Friday night at 7 p.m. The Ducks will be looking to avenge a 1-0 loss at the hands of the Spartans in 2009. That contest can be seen at www.PennAtlantic.com as well.

1. Calvin (Mich.)

2. Christopher Newport (Va.)

3. Carnegie Mellon (Pa.)

4. Williams (Mass.)

5. Johns Hopkins (Md.)

6. Macalester (Minn.)

7. Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas)

Duck Key Points

1. Stevens is 45th in Won-LostTied Percentage (0.875)

2. Stevens is 242nd in total goals (4.0)

3. Nolan Sandberg ranked 188th in total points (6.0), 245th in goals per game (0.5) and 156th in assists per game (0.5)

4. Zach Carr ranked 1st in goals against average (0.0)

8. University of Rochester (NY)

9. Dominican (Ill.)

10. DePauw (Ind.)

11. Salisbury (Md.)

12. Stevens Institute (NJ)

13. Swarthmore (pa.)

14. Trinity (Texas)

15. Wisconsin-Whitewater

16. Eastern Connecticut State

17. Hobart (NY)

18. Messiah (Pa.)

18. Washington (Mo.)

20. Wisconsin-Oshkosh

21. Ohio Wesleyan

22. Whitworth (Wash.)

23. Wesleyan (Conn.)

23. York (Pa.)

25. Richard Stockton (NJ)

Versus the same opponent...

N.C. Wesleyan vs. Stevens

September 11, 2010 at Hoboken

SSI – The 18th-ranked Stevens Institute of Technology men’s soccer team defeated North Carolina Wesleyan College, 2-0, on Saturday night at the De Baun Athletic Complex in the finale of the Stevens College Cup. The Ducks (30-1) controlled the game from start to finish and handed the Battling Bishops (5-1) their first loss of the season. Sophomores Zach Adler and Victor Daza netted the Stevens goals, while senior Nolan Sandberg notched a pair of assists.

The Stevens defense continued its domination, pitching its fourth-straight shutout to open the season, and limiting a NC Wesleyan team that had tallied 21 goals in its last four games to a total of one solid scoring chance the whole night.

Spartans Key Points

1. York is 60th in Won-LostTied Percentage (0.8)

2. York is 74th in total goals (10.0)

3. Mike Gill ranked 255th in total points (5.0)

4. Antonio Bua ranked 219th in assists per game (0.4)

5. Jesse Derksen ranked 51st in goals against average (0.413)

Last time the teams played...

York Defeats No. 10 Men’s Soccer, 1-0

N.C. Wesleyan 0 Stevens 2

The Ducks tallied their first regulation goal of 2010 in the 29th minute when Adler took a throughball from Sandberg and buried it in the bottomright corner for his first score of the season. Stevens controlled most of the first half, outshooting NCWC 11-5 and holding a 5-1 edge in corners. The second stanza was all Ducks and they put the game away 2:52 into the half with another throughball off the foot of Sandberg. This time it was Daza taking the pass on the left side, dodging freshman goalkeeper Javier Hernandez (Lorton, Va.), and putting home the easy tally.

N.C. Wesleyan vs. York

September 12, 2009 at Greensboro

GREENSBORO, NC – Jon

Ports chose a perfect time to notch his first goal of the year Saturday, as he tallied the game winner in the 88th minute in York’s 2-1 victory over N.C. Wesleyan.

The Spartans (2-0-1) topped the Battling Bishops (2-2) in opening game of the Doug Hamilton Memorial Tournament in Greensboro, N.C.

With the match knotted at one, sophomore standout Kemal Nuspahic flicked a header to an on-running Ports. The senior All-American buried Nuspahic’s pass with only 2:57 remaining in the game, eventually giving the Spartans the result.

The Green and White got on the board first as senior Travis Williams converted a penalty kick in the match’s 12th minute.

York had an opportunity to increase their advantage to two on another penalty kick just 1:07 later. However, Bishop netminder Dennis Kommol had different ideas as he thwarted

Nuspahic's attempt, leaving the Spartans with a 1-0 lead.

Williams' penalty held until the game’s 63rd minute when Javier Castrillo netted the game-tying score off an assist from Robert Ivanovich. At the start of the second frame, the Bishops rattled off the half’s first five shots, the fifth of which resulted in Castrillo’s tally.

N.C. Wesleyan’s goal seemed to awaken the Spartans as York tallied six of the game’s final seven shots, including Ports’ game-winner.

For the match, the Green and White posted 14 shots while the Bishops recorded eleven attempts. The Spartans also owned a slight 3-2 edge in corner kicks.

Senior goalkeeper Ryan Hock posted his second win of the year as he notched a pair of saves over his 90 minutes of action. The Bishops’ Dennis Kommol recorded three stops throughout the match.

Senior goalkeeper Zach Carr recorded his 42nd career shutout, making three saves as the Stevens backs did not allow much his way at all. Hernandez made six saves in the loss for the Battling Bishops.

The Ducks ended with a 27-9 advantage in shots, a 9-3 edge in corners, and have not allowed a goal in 393-plus minutes of game time this season.

William Paterson University, who defeated Arcadia University in double overtime (2-1) in the other Saturday game in the tournament, finished 1-0-1 along with the Ducks, but Stevens takes the crown because of a plus-two goal differential (Paterson was plus-one).

YORK, Pa. (September 19, 2009) – The York College (Pa.) men’s soccer team got a goal in the 66th minute of play to defeat the No. 10 Stevens Institute of Technology men’s soccer team, 1-0 on Saturday afternoon in York, Pa. It is the second loss in three outings for the Ducks as they fall to 5-2 on the season. With the win, York stays unbeaten at 5-0-1 and will most likely jump back into the National Soccer Coaches Association Top 25 after opening the season ranked 10th in the nation. The game’s lone goal came from Spartan freshman Antonio Bua.

The game-winner came on a York counter attack. Freshman Cody Pearson made a run down the middle of the field, passed to Bua who netted his shot from 25 yards out after a

9/19/09

Last time the teams faced each other

The numbers 1-0

Final score, a loss for Stevens 3-6

Stevens saves to Ithaca saves

17-3-2

Stevens’ record for the 2009 season

deflection. The goal was the first of Bua’s career.

Stevens’ junior goalkeeper

Zach Carr faced 15 shots and made three saves. York’s senior goalkeeper Ryan Hock made six saves in earning the shutout. The veteran made several spectacular stops to deny the Ducks and help lift his team to the win.

York ended the game with a 15-10 advantage in shots after the Ducks took the game’s first five. The Spartans also ended the contest with a 4-2 edge in corners.

Stevens looked as if it would tie the match in the 87th minute as senior forward Terrence Johnson was in on goal with only Hock to beat. With pressure on his left, Johnson struck a quick, low shot that would have tied the game at one but Hock came up big with a spectacular save to preserve the win.

Last five games...

Stevens is currently ranked 12th while York (Pa.) is 23rd.

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give Residence Life the money they would need to run the operation. The presented cost to the SGA was $1,900 in total. However, this was amended down to only what was overspent, $1,400, and the Senate decided to deal with assessing the new potential needed cost for midnight breakfast at a later date. Senators were divided on the issue. Some Senators felt that Residence Life was not acting carelessly or maliciously, and was simply misled by Student Life letting them overspend. As such, they felt the SGA should cover the cost, forgive the transgression, and attempt to address and fix the communication errors between the Stevens offices and the SGA. The other prevailing view was that SGA should simply say no to the request, which had not been made by Residence Life in the first place. This raised the question as to whether students should be responsible for the mistake of some people in the Stevens administration. The motion was voted down.

SGA also dealt with SITTV, whose studio went aflame last week. Due to the emergency nature of their request, they were late in requesting a place on SGA’s agenda for the

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ing. Having had prior experience with establishing a framework from scratch, her particular skill set and her staff’s efforts were instrumental in the formation of the current system. The results of their la-

week, thus sparking a long debate as to whether or not the SGA should even recognize the request. After much discussion and debate, the SGA voted to

camera equipment they budgeted for is the closest model they could get to the older equipment which is out of production. They also explained that they

Executive Branch

The Cabinet

President - Stephanie Spelman

Vice President - Kendra Appleheimer

CCSI - Kyle Brisson

Treasurer - Jeffrey Lichtenfeld

Secretary - Nicholas Barresi

Legislative Branch The Senate

Sophomore Class

Sheila Ahmady

Kelley Bancroft

Olivia Dunleavy

Sean Fahy

Owen Jappen

Ashley Montufar

Megan Webb

Junior Class

Nicholas Catania

Megan Fix

Larry Giannechini

John Lanigan

Veena Ramakrishnan

Abhay Sampath

Richard Wismer

recognize SITTV’s request for $7,070 to replace damaged equipment. Some Senators complained that SITTV was buying more expensive equipment to upgrade what was damaged. SITTV’s representatives responded that the

bors are rather impressive. Over the course of the last school year, 375 Non-Federal Work-Study student positions were held on campus. In the past two weeks alone, 500 Non-Federal Work-Study job applications were processed. Gomez primarily attributes this to the centralization of information. “Many of those jobs were already there. Students were not aware of where to find

Senior Class

Sean Coyle

John Disimino

Ed Hofmann

Drew Lewis

Keith Roby

Taylor Sproul

Christopher Stoddart

needed a certain quantity and quality of equipment in order to obtain good footage at the required high definition quality for clients such as Stevens.

SITTV’s request was approved. Stevens Dramatic Society (SDS) also came to

them or how to look for them, and departments were not aware of how to recruit students.” The jobs range from research to life-guarding to athletics, with varying levels of prior experience required, but Gomez is focused on ensuring that the jobs don’t only involve swiping Stevens ID cards -

“My goal is to not just have the standard student jobs, but jobs that are interactive with the community, inter-

SGA, not to ask for funding, but rather for more flexibility in how they use their money. Catherine Ricculli represented SDS and stated that there are many on-the-fly changes that get made to how SDS spends money for its shows, as well as the fact that they are not able to choose the show until after the budgeting process. Through much discussion, the SGA decided how to word their request to autonomously reallocate money so that it was constitutionally sound and SDS’s request was fulfilled.

Other organizations that requested funds were WCPR, which requested $1,200 for upgraded equipment, as well as the Co-op Student Council that will be hosting a barbecue costing $233. Both requests were accepted by the SGA. Lichtenfeld was asked how much money was in the Student Activity Fund (SAF), the money that all undergraduates pay to help most student organizations operate on campus, and the Capital Improvement Fund (CIF), a fraction of the SAF that goes toward infrastructure improvements rather than events. Mr. Lichtenfeld noted that he only had approximations, but that, as far as the SGA knows, there is between $100,000 and $125,000 in the SAF and approximately -$4,000 in the CIF.

active with the campus, and academically challenging”, so that it is both economically sound and intellectually stimulating. The SEO is also working closely with the Office of Student Life to create more volunteering and community service opportunities for students.

Gomez also dispelled a common myth about holding multiple jobs on campus. “Students can hold more than one job on campus, but students cannot work more than 20 hours per week. This isn’t our rule; it’s a FICA limit, so

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into a movie.

“Brothers” is the heartwarming tale of a man named Biff, who brings a girl who he met through a personal back to his apartment, only to introduce her to his brother, Ray. The only reason why Ray didn’t call the girl himself is that Ray has no head.

“The Universal Language” is about a woman named Dawn who attempts to learn a new “universal” language called Unamunda from a man named Don. Unamunda

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emony where they handed off their rifles to two more cadets, always keeping their arms on their shoulder away from the flag as

is revealed to be composed of English words that sound like other English words. For example, the word “future” in English would be “furniture” in Unamunda, and “chair” in English would be “cha” in Unamunda.

“The Still Alarm” is easily the subtlest comedy of the four plays, as it featured a burning hotel building and its inhabitants who patiently go about their business on the 11th floor as they wait for the firemen to arrive. Even after the firemen arrive, (and walk right up into the 11th floor room) the characters still only passively acknowledge the existence of the fire with casual remarks about the heat.

they marched. When the time period concluded, their task of keeping watch complete, the Air Force ROTC Cadets stood in a line to give a long salute to the New York City skyline where the Twin Towers once stood before making a formation to march back up the path to the Stevens campus.

that students can stay taxexempt. If students worked more than 20 hours, then they would have to be taxed as regular employees.” FICA, the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, is the payroll tax that funds Social Security and Medicare. There is an exemption built into the regulations that allow students enrolled in a university that are also working part time for said university would be refunded their taxes. If students want to mix and match jobs, arrangements can be made with the SEO

to ensure that students do not accidentally exceed the weekly limit. For students that do not currently have a job, Gomez also has some advice to offer. “If you are a Non-Federal Work-Study student, and you have not found a job yet, I would encourage you to become more involved on campus … so that you can get to know faculty and staff … and really stand out so that when a new job opportunity becomes available, they’ll remember you as being outstanding at what you do.”

As the new semester gets underway at Stevens so does the Student Government Association. Meetings are on Sundays at 7pm in Fielding. Come out to learn more about the SGA, meet the senators and enjoy some Rita’s ices. For those of you who cannot make the

Sunday meeting, we will be having a BBQ outside of Walker lawn next Wednesday September 22 from 3-6pm. Welcome back!

Stephanie Spelman SGA President

Stevens Ski Team prepares for another season

by BRIANA GILMARTIN

The Stevens Ski team is looking forward to another exciting season this year.

Last year the team placed fourth in the Metro Area league in Men’s Alpine. The Metro Area league contains other teams such as Lehigh, Rutgers, and NJIT. Two skiers in particular were of note: Rich Wengenroth placed in league, regions, and came in eighteenth at nationals, while Grace Sack placed in leagues.

“We lost Grace,” says captain, Robert DeMaria, “but Rich will show really strong. Men’s alpine is looking for some freshmen to join the team.” The team currently consists of about 15 to 20 people. They have ten regular season showings followed by regionals, and then nationals. This year regionals are going to be hosted locally at Hunter Mountain in Hunter, New York at the end of February. Nationals will take place in March at Winter Park in Colorado.

The team begins practicing at the end of September and will continue through Thanksgiving break this semester. They already have a training trip planned for the second week of January where they will pick back up through the end of the season.

For those interested in joining the team: they will have a meeting on September 27 in a location to be announced. Any questions should be directed to Robert DeMaria at rdemaria@stevens.edu.

Skier flies down the slalom course. Courtesy Of The Ski Team

Stevens Air Force ROTC Cadets stand at attention.

Courtesy Of Lucas Torres

Awkward Zombie

BY KATIE TIEDRICH

Piled Higher and Deeper

NEVER LEFT

STOO 1.3

BY DANI CASTIONI SAFETY

INSPECTIONS

Around the World And BAck

Pope admits church failures in sex abuse scandal

Great Britain’s previous bitter opposition to the Pope makes this four day tour unprecedented

(AP) - Pope Benedict XVI waded into the hostile atmosphere Thursday of highly secular Britain, admitting the Catholic Church did not act decisively or quickly enough to remove priests who molested children in his strongest comments yet on the worldwide sex abuse crisis shaking his church.

In a visit unprecedented for the bitter opposition to his papacy, Benedict warned against “aggressive forms” of secularism. The German pope recalled how Britain had stood against “Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society.”

Benedict’s historic fourday state visit has been overshadowed by disgust over the abuse scandal and indifference in Britain, where Catholics are a minority of 10 percent and endured centuries of bloody persecution and discrimination until the early 19th century.

The trip is the first state visit by a pope to the U.K., and his meeting with Queen Elizabeth II was symbolically significant because of the historic divide between the officially Protestant nation and the Catholic Church.

Only 65,000 of the faithful had tickets to an openair Mass at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, far less than the 100,000 initially expected. The British media has been particularly hostile to the pope’s visit, noting its $18.7 million (12 million pound) security cost to taxpayers at a time of austerity measures and job losses.

Many in Britain are also strongly opposed to Benedict’s hard line against homosexuality, abortion and using condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. Protests were planned and “Pope Nope” T-shirts were spotted around London.

Still, a crowd of 125,000 in Edinburgh welcomed Benedict warmly as his Popemobile paraded through the streets, with cheers on Princes Street heard from a mile away and well-wishers waving the Holy See’s yellow-andwhite flag.

Only around 20 protesters gathered at the designated demonstration spot in Glasgow, where the pope celebrated an afternoon Mass, their complaints ranging from abusive priests to the pope’s stance on contraception and homosexuality.

While flying to Britain, Benedict was asked about polls that suggest many Catholics have lost trust in the church as a result of the sex abuse scandals. Benedict said he was shocked and saddened about the scope of the abuse, in part because priests take vows to be Christ’s voice upon ordination.

“It’s difficult to understand how a man who has said this could then fall into this perversion. It’s a great sadness,” Benedict said in Italian. “It’s also sad that the authority of the church wasn’t sufficiently vigilant, and not sufficiently quick or decisive to take necessary measures” to stop it.

He said victims were the church’s top priority as it tries to help them heal spiri-

tually and psychologically.

“How can we repair, what can we do to help these people overcome this trauma, find their lives again and find again the trust in the message of Christ?” Benedict said.

He insisted that abusive priests must never again be allowed access to young children, saying they suffer from an illness that “goodwill” cannot cure. In addition, he said, candidates for the priesthood must be better screened.

The crowds that turned out in Scotland were enthusiastic.

“I’ve brought my wee girl Laura to see the pope,” said James Hegarty, a 42-year-old unemployed Edinburgh resident. “She’s only 4, but it’s a once in a lifetime chance to see him.”

Tens of thousands waved flags and applauded as Benedict arrived in his Popemobile for the Mass in Glasgow. At one point, he rolled down the vehicle’s window to kiss a baby dressed all in pink.

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle warmed up the crowd and then fulfilled a dream of singing before the pope, serenading him with “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace.”

In his homily, the 83-year-old pope warned young people against the temptations posed by drugs, money, sex, pornography and alcohol, “which the world tells you will bring you happiness.”

The pope’s first meeting of the day was with Queen Elizabeth II, both the head of state and head of the

Church of England, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, chosen because she spends her summers at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

The medieval castle is the queen’s official residence in Scotland and a potent symbol of the historic divisions that separate Catholics and Anglicans. Mary Queen of Scots lived there during her brief reign as the Catholic queen of Scotland before her execution in 1587 by King Henry VIII’s daughter, Queen Elizabeth I.

Henry had broken with Rome earlier in the 16th century, a division followed by centuries in which Catholics were fined, discriminated against and killed for their faith in Britain.

At their meeting Thursday, the queen told Benedict his visit reminded all Britons of their common Christian heritage and said she

hoped relations between the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church would be deepened as a result. Efforts for closer relations between Catholics and Anglicans have been clouded recently by Benedict’s overtures to conservative Anglicans.

The queen also praised the Catholic Church’s “special contribution” to helping the poorest and most vulnerable people around the world.

The pope, too, recalled the shared Christian heritage of Catholics and Anglicans and said he wanted to extend a “hand of friendship” to the British people during his trip.

Tartan-wearing bagpipers marched and thousands of people watched under blustery, cloud-streaked blue skies. The pontiff himself donned a green tartan scarf as he rode through Edinburgh.

Later, he enjoyed a very Scottish treat: a lunch of haggis — sheep heart, liver and lungs simmered in sheep stomach — at the home of Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien.

The last papal visit to Britain was by John Paul II in 1982, Benedict’s predecessor who was treated like a superstar and drew a crowd of 250,000 for Mass at the same Glasgow park. The bookish Benedict appears uncomfortable before large crowds.

The pope’s visit coincides with the 450th anniversary of the Reformation in Scotland.

In Edinburgh, about 80 protesters led by Northern Ireland Protestant leader the Rev. Ian Paisley gathered at the Magdalen Chapel where John Knox, the leader of the Scottish Reformation, preached.

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Senate recommends nuclear treaty with Russia

(AP) - A major arms control treaty with Russia drew support from three Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, a sign that one of President Barack Obama’s top foreign policy goals might have the bipartisan support required for ratification.

The committee approved the New START treaty in a 14-4 vote. Whether the full Senate would consider the treaty this year, with midterm elections looming in November, remained unclear.

Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the treaty in April. It would shrink the limit on strategic warheads to 1,550 for each country, down about a third from the current ceiling of 2,200. It also would implement changes in current procedures that allow both countries to inspect each other’s arsenals and verify compliance.

“I encourage members on both sides of the aisle to give this agreement the fair hearing and bipartisan support that it deserves, and that has been given to past agreements of its kind,” Obama said in a statement following the committee vote.

Democrats had delayed a committee vote on the treaty as they sought broader support from Republicans. They will need at least eight Republican votes on the Senate floor to have the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.

Some Republicans say the pact does not establish adequate procedures

for ensuring that Russia abides by its terms. They also fear that Moscow could use the treaty to limit U.S. missile defense plans. Some Republicans also are tying their support to assurances that Democrats will provide more money to maintain and improve existing nuclear warheads.

The treaty’s prospects received a boost this week

the treaty became heated at times. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., citing the missile defense concerns, said the treaty would undermine U.S. security.

“If we are going to move ahead with the commitment not to protect the people of the United States, I think everyone in this country ought to know it,” DeMint said.

That provoked the ire of the committee’s chairman, Sen. John Kerry, DMass., and other Democrats, who said that all the lawmakers were committed to protecting the American people.

Kerry and DeMint later compromised on an amendment describing the U.S. commitment to missile defense.

Democrats say the treaty could be considered by the full Senate before the November congressional election. But given the intense partisan atmosphere in Washington, Democratic prospects may be better in the postelection session before the new Congress is seated. Passage could be more difficult under a new Congress because Republicans are expected to pick up Senate seats in the election.

when a Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, endorsed an amendment from the committee’s senior Republican, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, aimed at overcoming his party’s reticence on the treaty.

On Thursday, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., joined Corker and Lugar to vote in favor of the treaty in the committee.

Some Republicans remained unconvinced, however, and debate over

After the vote, Kerry discounted the possibility that the vote on ratification would take place before the election and said there would be a much better chance during the postelection session.

The administration contends the treaty is a sign that its efforts to improve relations with Russia have borne fruit. A failure to ratify the treaty or a long delay would represent a significant foreign policy setback for Obama.

Pilgrims depart from buses parked on the M77 motorway

AP Photo/Chris Clark

U.S.

“ If we are going to move ahead with the commitment not to protect the people of the United States, I think everyone in this country ought to know it ”

-Sen. Jim DeMint R-S.C.-

NYC launches ambitious campaign to ban smoking in parks and beaches

(AP) - New York City is pursuing a tough new policy that would shoo smokers out of public parks, beaches and even the heart of Times Square — one of the most ambitious outdoor anti-tobacco efforts in the nation.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration and city lawmakers announced Wednesday that they will pursue a broad extension of the city’s smoking ban to 1,700 parks and 14 miles of public beaches, plus boardwalks, marinas and pedestrian plazas.

That would mean no smoking in Central Park, no lighting up on the Coney Island boardwalk and putting the cigarettes away if you’re lounging on the trafficfree pedestrian plazas in Times Square and Herald Square.

“When New Yorkers and visitors to our city go to the parks and beaches for fresh air, there will actually be fresh air for them to breathe,” Bloomberg said at a City Hall news conference.

States and cities from Maine to California have banned smoking in public parks and beaches, but New York is pursuing an especially wide-reaching urban ban. While hundreds of municipalities have outdoor no-smoking laws, the largest city in the nation is seeking to force thousands of acres of parkland as well as some busy city blocks to go smoke-free.

By including pedestrian plazas, the Bloomberg administration is venturing into territory most antitobacco bans leave alone: smoking on the street.

The boundaries of the plazas, in most cases, are sidewalks, bike lanes and street corners. If the law passes, it would be easy for a smoker to drift from the sidewalk, where smoking is still allowed, into a plaza, where it is not, without realizing.

Lawmakers said the goal is to keep people from smoking inside the plazas, not to trick smokers into getting ticketed.

“The point of this bill isn’t ‘Gotcha,’” said City

Council Speaker Christine Quinn. “Our goal is not to get a gentleman or a lady who’s walking across the street.”

The city banned smoking in bars and restaurants in 2003. Smokers, long accustomed to being told they are not welcome, shrugged off the news of a possible outdoor ban Wednesday.

Gene Buelow, who stopped for a smoke in a Times Square pedestrian plaza, said it “wouldn’t bother me a bit.”

“I don’t even like smoking around people who don’t smoke,” he said. “And the people who gave it up don’t want smokers around them.”

“It’s a good idea,” said Jason Perez, a restaurant worker smoking at an outdoor table in the plaza.

“I’m trying to quit myself.”

A smokers’ rights group, NYC Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, recently posted a video on its website protesting the idea. The group’s founder, Audrey Silk, argues that

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smoke dissipates quickly outdoors, where “there’s room for everybody and nobody will be affected.”

Officials said they are basing the proposed law on claims that even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can pose health risks.

They cited a May 2007 Stanford University study that found a person sitting within three feet of a smoker outdoors can be exposed to levels of secondhand smoke similar to indoor levels.

The proposed law, which must go through the City Council, would give the parks department the power to slap violators with quality-of-life summonses, which are tickets for minor offenses like panhandling or public urination. Fines can go as high as $250; the city said smoking summonses likely would be around $50.

Council members plan to introduce the antismoking bill Thursday. It has to go through committee hearings before the full 51-member council can vote.

U.S. says North Korea committed an act of war

(AP) - U.S. officials on Thursday said they still weren’t sure what motivated an attack on a South Korean warship that was blamed on North Korea or who might succeed leader Kim Jong Il, calling Pyongyang a “black box” that U.S. intelligence has failed to crack.

Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, senior officials from the Defense and State departments said the attack was an “act of war” that may have been Pyongyang’s attempt to goad the U.S. into making concessions in future nuclear talks.

The attack also could have been retaliation for a November 2009 firefight with South Korea’s navy, or tied to “mysterious succession politics,” said Wallace Gregson, assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs.

“In fundamental ways, North Korea is still a black box,” added Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. “We have some glimpses and some intelligence and the like, but the truth is — oftentimes in retrospect — some of that intelligence has proven to be wrong.”

The lack of insight into North Korea’s motivations, six months after it allegedly torpedoed a

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“This visit should never have happened. We stand here against these abusers. This is a waste of taxpayers’ money,” Paisley said.

Benedict acknowledged the opposition in his airborne comments to reporters, saying Britain had a “great history of anti-Catholicism. But it is also a country with a great history of tolerance.”

The Vatican has been reeling for months as thousands of victims around the globe have spoken out about priests who molested children, bishops who covered up for them and Vatican officials who turned a

South Korean warship and killed 46 sailors, underscores the difficulty facing the U.S. in trying to rein in the communist regime. In addition to pursuing a nuclear weapons program, North Korea has tried to ship military technology to Iran, U.S. officials say.

Gen. Walter Sharp, commander of U.S. forces in Korea, told the Senate panel that North Korea has more than 200 conventional long-range weapons systems capable of hitting Seoul without having to move weapons or ammunition.

While the U.S. could launch a counterattack, “I got to be realistic,” Sharp

blind eye to the problem for decades. In the latest admission, hundreds of victims came forward in Belgium with tales of horrific abuse linked to at least 13 suicides.

Previously, Benedict has admitted the scandal was borne of “sins within the church” but he had never acknowledged in such detail the church’s failure to act. Advocates for victims have long insisted he take more personal responsibility, given that he was in charge of the Vatican office that handled sex abuse cases and was archbishop of Munich when a pedophile priest was assigned pastoral work while undergoing therapy for having abused young boys.

The main U.S. victim’s group dismissed Benedict’s comments Thursday, noting that the only real action the

said. “We’re not going to be able to stop all that artillery, and there will be a lot of destruction if they choose to do that.”

Last year, Pyongyang pulled out of international talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program to protest criticism of a prohibited long-range rocket launch. Tensions escalated this spring with the attack on the South Korean warship.

An international investigation blamed North Korea for the sinking, but Pyongyang denied it was responsible.

On Thursday, Gregson said the U.S. wants to see “meaningful actions” by North Korea before inter-

Vatican has taken has been to tell bishops to report abuse to police if local laws require them to do so.

“Bishops across the world continue to deliberately choose secrecy and deception over safety and honesty in child sex cases,” said Joelle Casteix of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

Vatican officials haven’t confirmed that Benedict will meet with abuse victims while in Britain, but U.K. organizers say arrangements are being made.

After the Glasgow Mass, Benedict was traveling to London.

The highlight of his visit is the beatification Sunday of Cardinal John Newman in Birmingham, which will see the 19th-century English philosopher and Anglican convert take a step on his way to sainthood.

The deer that would not die (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy in Gainesville had to fire 17 shots to put down a deer hit by a car. The Alachua sheriff’s department said the deputy was “horrified” by what happened Wednesday, and would be referred to a victim advocate.

The deputy didn’t know where to shoot the animal, so he called a superior. The sergeant said to aim for the heart, behind the deer’s shoulder. Instead, the deputy fired repeatedly into the stomach until the animal died.

The sheriff’s department said the deputy did nothing wrong and won’t be reprimanded. They now plan to train patrol staff to quickly kill a distressed animal that can’t be saved, The Gainesville Sun reported.

Ambulance travels 950 miles to pick up patient

(AP) — A suburban Philadelphia college student is back home thanks to three firefighters who picked her up after she was stranded at an Ohio hospital. Three East Lansdowne Volunteer Firefighters made the 950-mile roundtrip last weekend to pick up 21-year-old Samantha Rementer.

The Marietta College senior had suffered a head injury last month in a fall. After multiple surgeries, she got caught in the middle of a dispute between the hospital and her insurance company.

Rementer’s family told the Delaware County Daily Times the hospital wouldn’t discharge her without ambulance transport but her insurance company didn’t think she needed an ambulance to get to a rehabilitation facility near her home.

So the firefighters stepped in, making the trip for the cost of gas.

The Rementer family said Samantha is recovering well.

Broom vs. Gun

(AP) — Police said two armed men broke into a home, tied up one man and robbed another, then were chased away by the woman of the house who was armed only with a broom. Police Capt. Stephen Fox said the men broke a window to get inside the home of a family that runs a city convenience store.

He said a 49-year-old male resident went downstairs to investigate and was tied up, then his 80-year-old father came downstairs and was robbed of $50 at gunpoint.

Fox said the robbers started to go upstairs and were confronted by the 43-year-old woman of the house, who chased them out with a broom.

The robbers remain at large. The 49-year-old man broke an ankle trying to escape.

national talks on its nuclear program are resumed.

“We in the Department of Defense believe that it has been North Korea’s history to create a crisis, to conduct an attack and then we make concessions to bring them back to the table for dialogue,” Gregson said. “We’re determined not to do that this time.” When asked by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whether Kim’s youngest son might succeed him, Campbell acknowledged that the U.S. had no idea.

“I will just tell you that we have to be prepared for all circumstances — and I mean all circumstances,” Campbell said.

The Humanist Society of Scotland placed billboards between Edinburgh and Glasgow that read: “Two million Scots are good without God.” It also took exception to the pope’s comment Thursday about the Nazis.

“The notion that it was the atheism of Nazis that led to their extremist and hateful views or that somehow fuels intolerance in Britain today is a terrible libel against those who do not believe in God,” the group said.

The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, responded that Benedict — who was forced to become part of the Hitler Youth — chose his words wisely. “You can agree or not, but I think the pope knows very well what the Nazi ideology was,” Lombardi said.

33” cow recognized as world’s smallest (AP) — A minuscule cow with a taste for contemporary music has been named the world’s smallest by the Guinness World Records book. Guinness said the sheep-sized bovine from the West Yorkshire region of northern England measures roughly 33 inches (84 centimeters) from hind to foot.

The 11-year-old cow is named Swallow and her owner, Caroline Ryder, said she would spend Thursday either grazing with her herd or listening to BBC radio in her cowshed.

Swallow is a Dexter cow, a breed known for its diminutive stature, but is small even by Dexter standards.

She already has nine regular-sized calves and is pregnant with her 10th. Guinness said her youngest calf has already grown larger than she is.

Guinness World Records 2011 was published Thursday in the U.K.

The reverse of catch and release

(AP) — Authorities said a man who got out of the East Feliciana Parish Jail on Tuesday was accused of breaking into a convenience store early Wednesday. Sheriff Talmadge Bunch told The Advocate that deputies arrested 22-year-old Christopher Lee Whitfield after identifying him in surveillance video from a burglarized store between Jackson and Clinton.

Bunch said Whitfield had been jailed on a judge’s order in a child support matter, but was released Tuesday.

Detective Don McKey said Whitfield was booked with simple burglary, but he also is a suspect in three earlier burglaries in the area.

It was not immediately known whether Whitfield has an attorney.

The case of the considerate robber

(AP) — Authorities said a would-be South Carolina bank robber left with a polite “thank you” after a teller told him she didn’t have any money in her cash drawer. North Charleston police told multiple media outlets that 31-yearold Melvin Jesse Blain walked into a Wachovia branch Tuesday afternoon with a note saying he was robbing the bank and asking for $30,000. Investigators said the teller told Blain she had no money and he walked out empty-handed, saying “thank you.”

Not long after, officers stopped Blain walking near the bank. Police said he told them he just finished a nearly four-year prison sentence for bank robbery and didn’t want to go back.

Blain was charged with entering a bank with the intent to steal. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney.

A flag at a rally held against pro-North Korean groups in Seoul, South Korea

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Women’s Soccer Defeats Vassar

SSI - Freshman Becky Wos netted her first collegiate marker in the 34th minute as the Stevens Institute of Technology women’s soccer team defeated visiting Vassar College, 1-0, at the De Baun Athletic Complex in Hoboken, N.J. With the win, Stevens, ranked fifth in the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/HendrickCars. com Division III East Region poll, moves to an impressive 7-0-0 on the season, while the Brewers fall to 3-2-0 on the year.

Vassar’s Sheeva Seyfi (Irvine, Calif.) looked to put the Brewers up early, firing the match’s first shot over the bar in the 41st minute, before again threatening the Ducks’ defense in the 29th minute. The Irvine, Calif. native made a nice run down the left side before finding senior forward Rachel Shea (West Hartford, Conn.) in the middle of the box, but the Stevens backline blocked down the shot to avoid any further danger.

After a pair of Vassar shots following a Keiko Kurita (Scotts Valley, Calif.) corner in the 25th minute, Brewers’ senior forward Carloyn Demougeot (Potomac, Md.) fired a try toward the Stevens’ net after making a run down the far-side of

the pitch, but Ducks’ junior goalkeeper Kaitlin McClymont smothered the attempt to preserve the scoreless tie.

Seyfi again had a chance to put Vassar ahead at 18:11, tracking down a long throughball in the middle of the box, beating out a charging McClymont, but the freshman forward sent the shot over the goal to keep it 0-0.

The Ducks quickly responded, capitalizing on just their second shot of the afternoon to take a 1-0 edge.

Senior Kathryn Stascavage played the ball back from the right endline to freshman Becky Wos who launched a shot from 30-yards out into the top right-hand corner of the Vassar goal, off the crossbar and into the Brewer net.

Stevens very nearly took a 2-0 lead in the less than four minutes remaining in the first period, when senior Mary Chew found herself alone behind the Vassar backline.

One-on-one with the keeper, the West Deptford, N.J. native fed a pass to her left to a streaking Zabella Simos, but Brewers’ sophomore goalkeeper Ali Higgins (Dallas, Texas) made a sprawling save to her right to keep Vassar within one heading into the break.

Vassar senior Elysa Greenberger (San Clemente,

Field Hockey Falls to Montclair State

Calif.) helped create the second-half’s first scoring chance less than five minutes into the frame, sending a cross from the right side into the middle of the Ducks’ box, but McClymont came off her line, gathering the loose ball before Seyfi could send the it toward the Stevens goal.

A persistent Seyfi nearly pulled Vassar even with 22:44 remaining in the second half, eluding a pair of Ducks’ defenders before rifling a shot off the Stevens crossbar, before Demougeot fired Vassar’s fifth shot on goal in the 67th minute, only to again be turned away by McClymont.

Junior Kathleen Schuckers almost put Stevens up two with just under 13 minutes left in regulation when she received a Katria Misilo cross from the leftside, but the Lincoln Park, N.J. native pushed the shot just wide of the Vassar goal.

With 11:17 to go, Seyfi tracked down a pass on the left side of the box, creating a one-on-one situation with McClymont, but the heady Ducks’ goalkeeper made a diving save to her left to keep Stevens ahead. McClymont again came up big minutes later, this time saving a Allison McManis (Oakland, Calif.) free-kick from the top of the 18-yard box following

a Stevens handball, to snuff out the Brewers’ hopes for an equalizer. Vassar held a decisive 2011 shot advantage, with a 4-0 edge in corners. Six different Ducks put a shot on goal during the contest, while

Friday

Women’s Volleyball vs. St. Joseph’s - Patchogue 5:30 p.m. vs. Richard Stockton 5:30 p.m.

SSI - Despite a second-half goal from freshman Caitlin Chamberlain following a Ducks’ penalty-corner, the Stevens Institute of Technology field hockey team fell to in-state rival Montclair State University, 3-1, at the De Baun Athletic Complex in Hoboken, N.J. With the loss, the Ducks fall to 0-5 on the season, while the Red Hawks improved to 4-1 on the year.

The Ducks looked to apply much of the pressure in the early going, firing three of the game’s first four shots over the first 15 minutes of action. Stevens’ sophomore forward Marguerite Chavez and Chamberlain would each test Montclair State goalkeeper Megan Bosland (Boonton, N.J.) in the 20th and 21st minutes respectively, but the sophomore netminder turned away both tries, preserving the scoreless tie.

Ducks’ junior Mallory Swanson also tested Bosland in the 22nd minute following a Stevens’ penalty corner, but the Boonton, N.J. native again made the save, allowing the Red Hawks to head into the locker room with a 0-0 draw despite a decisive 6-3 shot deficit.

After MSU’s Deana Hagel (Fairfield, N.J.) opened up the second half with a shot on the Ducks’ net, Stevens again went on the offensive, earning a penalty corner in the Red Hawk zone

less than two minutes later. Chamberlain would then redirect a Karen Federico shot into the back of the Montclair State goal to stake Stevens to a 1-0 advantage.

However, the Red Hawks would quickly respond, netting the equalizer in the 43rd minute, when freshman Brittany Carroll (Kingston, N.Y.) capped off a 2-on-1 break by sliding a Melissa Flaherty (Fishkill, N.Y.) pass from the right side into the Ducks’ net.

Montclair State then took the lead at the 51:57 mark when freshman Sierra Rauchbach (East Brunswick, N.J.) tipped a Flaherty shot into the goal. With Stevens pushing forward on a Ducks’ penalty corner in the 61st minute, the Red Hawks caught Stevens with a counter-attack, breaking out of their own zone, to tally an insurance tally on Flaherty’s breakaway score.

Stevens finished with a 14-11 shot advantage and a 7-1 edge in penalty corners, but Bosland tallied nine saves en route to her fourth win of the season. The Ducks will look to break into the win column on Saturday, September 18, when they host conference rival Ithaca College to open the Empire 8 schedule.

McClymont made a seasonhigh 10 saves en route to her fifth win of the season.

Stevens opens conference play on Saturday, September 18 when it plays host to Empire 8 rival Ithaca College.

Ducks Pitch Fifth Shutout of 2010

SSI - Sophomore Victor Daza tallied the game-winner in the 75th minute and the defense pitched its fifth shutout of 2010 as the No. 12 Stevens Institute of Technology men’s soccer team defeated The College of New Jersey, 1-0, on Wednesday night at the De Baun Athletic Complex in Hoboken, N.J. With the win, the Ducks move to 4-0-1 on the season and have yet to allow a single goal against. TCNJ drops to 1-4-1. The Stevens defense was phenomenal once again, allowing just eight shots, none of which challenged Stevens goalkeeper Zach Carr. Backs Leonardo Casas, Anthony Roden, Peter Bednarsky, and Bryan De Faria have been stalwarts all season, shutting down each of the five opponents this year. Stevens controlled the ball and field position for 70 percent of the first half but just could not click, misfiring on several decent chances and failing to connect on many long balls.

TCNJ played a few long balls as well but could not get anything going as each team mustered just four first-half shot attempts.

In the second half, the Ducks dominated the action and really began to play aggressively. Senior Michael Quijano lifted several gorgeous corners in front of the Lion goal but multiple headers and attempts just missed for the Ducks.

Both Daza and sophomore Zach Adler had quality opportunities on the left side early in the half, and though those chances did not amount to goals, it felt as if it was only a matter of time before the Ducks would take a lead. That time came at the 74:03 mark when Adler led Daza down the left side into the box. Daza controlled, made several touches, and then fired a laser, against the grain, into the lower-right corner for the score. It was the sophomore’s second goal of the season and Adler was credited with his first assist.

Even with the lead,

Stevens pushed for a second goal and dominated possession and field position. That goal would not come but the Ducks cruised to their third 1-0 win of the season.

Stevens has not allowed a score over 476:19 of game time in 2010 as Carr and the Ducks’ defense has not been scored upon in their last eight matches dating backing to November of 2009. Carr recorded his 43rd shutout in goal for the Ducks, making four saves. Sophomore Aaron Uttman (Hopewell, N.J.) made six stops and took the loss for TCNJ.

Stevens ended the contest with a 17-8 advantage in shots and a 6-1 edge in corners. The Ducks will return to the pitch on Friday night when they host No. 23 York College (Pa.) at the De Baun Athletic Complex. Kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. and all the action can be followed live at www.PennAtlantic.com.

Women’s XC at Delaware 10:30 a.m.

Women’s Soccer

Ithaca 3:00 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball SUNY Oneonta 10:00 a.m. Swarthmore 4:00 p.m.

Women’s Tennis

St. John Fisher 12:00 p.m.

Men’s Soccer

Field Hockey FDU-Florham 6:00 p.m. at Manhattanville 7:00 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball at Muhlenberg 6:00 p.m.

Logan Named Assistant Wrestling Coach

SSI - Stevens Institute of Technology Head Wrestling Coach Mike Clayton recently announced the hiring of Damion Logan as the Ducks’ head assistant coach for the upcoming 2010-11 season. Logan joins the Stevens coaching staff after a successful two-year stint as the head assistant wrestling coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 2004-06.

“Damion adds an additional dynamic to our room to help us ensure that the nation’s top wrestlers are attracted to our program,” said Clayton. “He will help us continue to focus on providing world-class academic support, wrestling training, and character development to our student-athletes. Our team’s success, both on

and off the mats, is due to tremendous efforts on the part of the Stevens community’s support, the support of our growing fan and alumni base, and the amazing work ethic of our wrestlers.”

While at Penn, Logan helped haul in a pair of top-5 recruiting classes in 2004 and 2005. In addition to assisting then-head coach Zeke Jones – now with USA Wrestling – with the day-to-day operations of the Penn program, the Garfield, N.J. native played an integral role in the development of three Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champions, three All-Ivy selections, and a trio of NCAA Division I All-Americans in Matt Feast, Matt Herrington, and Matt Valenti. While at Penn, Logan

also helped produce a pair of All-Ivy Academic honorees during his tenure.

Prior to his time with the Quakers, Logan enjoyed a decorated career at the University of Michigan. As a member of the Wolverines, Logan twice qualified for the NCAA Division I National Championships. A two-time NCAA Division I AllAmerican, he served as the team’s captain in 2000.

“I am very pleased and honored to become part of the Stevens family. I am looking forward to working with the student-athletes, administration, and athletic department at one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country,” said Logan. “I believe Coach

Mike Clayton and I have a great outlook for the future and development of the Stevens wrestling program. I am looking forward to the upcoming 2010-11 wrestling season, and plan on producing a positive experience for our current and future student-athletes.”

A standout at St. Joseph Regional High School, Logan was a three-time NJSIAA New Jersey State Wrestling Champion and four-time NJSIAA state finalist.

Logan received his B.A. in Sports Management from the University of Michigan in 2001. Since graduating he has also aided in the development of the APEX wrestling school, while gaining professional experience in several commercial and educational career fields.

Steven’s Women’s Scocer wins 1-0 at their Duck Country Event.

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