Bryant’s CEO organization recently held its thirdannual Purple Cow Competition. The competition,designed to help local businesses enhance their mar-keting plans and find new ways to compete, teachesstudents about real world business challenges andallows students to combine what they learned in theclassroom and adapt it to help companies. Theevent was organized by Emily Murphy and HaleyTrenholm.

This year, All That Matters requested that Bryantstudents help them re-tool their marketing plan.The company’s owner, Joan Dwyer, dropped out ofcollege in search of her passion and “learned a lotfrom trial and error.” According to Dwyer, the truespirit of an entrepreneur is the “spirit of independ-ence” and that it is important to act with conviction.Her company is currently in its 15th year of opera-tion and is the largest yoga studio in New England,employing more than 60 workers and offering addi-tional services such as healing and self-developmentworkshops.

In response to All That Matter’s need for newmarketing perspectives and ideas, students submit-ted a written proposal to the CEO Executive Board,and six teams advanced to the final round to be

judged by company representatives and CEO advi-sor Mike Roberto. Participants were asked to de-velop a logo that is simple and elegant and to createan alternative to the relatively ineffective catalogthat All That Matters dedicates 95% of their adver-tising budget to. In addi-tion to the need for aredesigned logo and newadvertising media, AllThat Matters also wants tofocus on changing theirmessage to appeal to amale audience.

Caitlyn Vandervelde(Class of 2011) suggestedthat the company expandinto the radio or TV mar-ket by developing a com-mercial that highlightssome of the company’score competencies. Shealso suggested the use ofmonthly specials and dis-count cards that wouldhelp create an incentivefor people to visit and be-come customers. Van-dervelde proposed that one way to attract more

male clientele could bethe company’s work-place stress manage-ment program, whichcould be expandedrapidly by coordinat-ing with other busi-nesses.

Daniel Janis (Classof 2010) developed

his marketing proposalaround a theme of“what matters to you?”and emphasized the im-portance of taking risks.Janis suggested that thecompany should domore in the public rela-tions sector by havingan event in Providence

that features live music, healthy foods, and freeyoga lessons. He also suggested using viral market-ing by engraving the company’s website address infour different live strong wristbands. Janis empha-sized that the occasional use of flyers and radio is

important, butshould not be thecompany’s majorfocus. According toJanis, one way toattract men is touse humorous bill-board advertising.

Katie Colton(Class of 2012) con-cluded that thecompany couldsave monetary re-sources by e-mail-ing their catalog tocustomers insteadof printing them.By regularly e-mailing customers,Colton felt thecompany couldstay in touch with

existing customers. Colton also likes the company’suse of mini calendars, but felt the company shouldfeature their name and logo more prominently. Shealso felt that incentives like referral programs andcoupons could result in more effective viral market-ing. Colton suggested that the company could at-tract more men by planning an open house thatconveys the benefits of the company’s stress reliefprograms.

Burr Tomlinson (Class of 2011) felt that to in-crease male participation, All That Matters couldseparate males and females in the classrooms andworkshops. Tomlinson proposed that the companycould cooperate with the University of Rhode Is-land’s sports teams to treat injured athletes. Further-more, Tomlinson mentioned that the catalog in itscurrent form was too lengthy and that it should bestreamlined.

Margaret Gorman (2011) & Timothy Lagarce

Volume 76, Issue 19 April 24, 2009Smithfield, RI

Bryant hosts Special Olympics on May 3Bryant University will host the Northern Rhode

Island Special Olympics on Sunday, May 3rd. TheSpecial Olympics committee held the first ever Kick-Off event in the Rotunda on April 8th, which provedto be a huge success. The student body at Bryantclearly showed an interest in the Special Olympicsevent on campus, and over 120 students signed upto volunteer at the event.

The Special Olympics committee has been hardat work planning, promoting, and raising money forthis event for months. The volunteer committee hasplanned numerous events to raise money for theNorthern Rhode Island Special Olympics, includingan Uno’s fundraiser on Thursday, April 23rd at theSmithfield Crossing Uno’s.

The committee cannot wait to see all of their hard

work finally come together on the day ofgames. “I think this event sends a very posi-tive impact on Bryant. It gives students achance to come and be a part of an amazingorganization,” says Assistant Games Director,Stephanie Kirk.

The games this year will be dedicated toMack Qualls, a former athlete from the Lin-coln North Stars who recently passed away.His coach, Barbara Crosby, attended one ofthe committee’s meetings and told us ofMack’s story and brought pictures of him, histeammates, and family. He was a very dedi-cated and positive athlete, who continued toparticipate in all of the Special Olympicsgames, even after he lost his ability to speakand walk. His teammates all loved him andwill greatly miss him at this year’s event.

People with intellectual disabilities andtheir families have many obstacles to over-come, yet the athletes in Special Olympics and theother people involved with this organization are sodedicated to these games and are an inspiration.“Too often people at Bryant, including myself, com-plain about small and insignificant tasks, yet no oneever stops to think about what life is like for thosewith intellectual disabilities. I can only imaginewhat these athletes and their families have over-come in their personal and social lives… This eventhas helped me keep faith that there are good peopleout there who are willing to give their time and ef-fort for nothing in return,” says Lauren Gainor,Games Director.

These obstacles have been experienced firsthandby Nick Mancuso, this year’s Student Senate Liai-son. “My brother Thomas was born with Down Syn-drome. Since then I have worked tirelessly forinclusion, creating support networks for peoplewith special needs, and making sure that we all getafforded the same opportunities regardless of ourabilities and disabilities.”

Lauren Gainor has been on the Special Olympicscommittee in the past, and looks forward to watch-ing the event come together this year. “When I sawthe games take place in my freshman year as a gen-eral volunteer, I couldn’t get over the smiles of theathletes, families, and volunteers. So for this year Ican’t wait to see the smiles and look of accomplish-ment on the athletes’ faces. Many athletes look for-ward to this event all year, and the fact that I helpedmake this happen means so much. I can’t wait to bearound hundreds of other individuals who are aspassionate about Special Olympics as the committeeand I are. The Special Olympics committee hasworked endlessly to put together this event, and Ithink to see this day take place would mean somuch to them.”

If you would like to volunteer at this event,please contact Todd Degnan at tdegnan@bryant.eduor if you would like to donate money please contactTom O’Connor at toconno2@bryant.edu.

Lauren Gainor, Games Director, Nick Mancuso,Student Senate Liasion, and Stephanie Kirk, As-sitant Games Director make up this year’s Spe-cial Olympics E-board. (Jenna Morris)

By Jenna MorrisStaff Writer

Got marketing? Purple Cow moooves into BryantBy Ma'hew Juszczyk

Contributing Writer

See ‘Purple Cow’ on page 2

(Courtesy of Rhode Island Special Olympics)

(Amanda Dunn)

april 24, 2009page 2

(2011) thought that the company’s ho-listic aspect would be useful for hospi-tals and to those who are sick andthreatened by major diseases and thatphysical therapy offices could usesome of the services of All That Mat-ters to create long-term customers. Toattract men, Gorman proposed target-ing golf courses and shops throughthe use of flyers. With regards to thecompany’s dependence on the catalog,Gorman suggested that separating the

catalog and organizing it by serviceswould likely lower costs and make itmore readable.

Tyler Murphy (Class of 2011) con-ducted market research when he de-veloped his marketing proposal forAll That Matters. From his research,he determined that four words enterthe minds of potential customerswhen they view the company’s adver-tising materials: peaceful, harmony,spiritual, and meditation. Murphy

wants to see the company repositionits brand to focus on: power, serenity,and fitness by pursuing a major fit-ness intensive, edgy atmosphere to at-tract a male audience. He suggested abalanced use of TV, radio, newspa-pers, and flyers to convey the newcompany brand.

The company representatives fromAll That Matters and CEO advisorMike Roberto used a rubric to deter-mine the winners of the competition.

First place winner, Daniel Janis won$100.00 for his proposal, second placewinner, Burr Tomlinson won $75.00,and third place winner Tyler Murphywon $50.00. The judges thanked theparticipants and were appreciative ofthe creative and feasible ideas thatwere presented by the participants.CEO would like to thank all those inattendance, with a special thanks tothe participants.

Purple CowContinued from Front Page

The Seventh Annual Media Banquet took placeon Thursday, April 16th in Bello Grand Hall. TheMedia Banquet allows students involved in themedia organizations on campus to come to-gether and be recognized for their greatachievements with an award presentation.

This year’s Media Banquet featuredSusan Hogan as the keynote speaker. Hoganis a reporter on WPRI’s Eyewitness News.She has earned six Emmy Nominations, in-cluding one Emmy for her investigative re-porting. Hogan described her journeythrough the world of communication, begin-ning with college. She graduated from Syra-cuse University, with a degree in ConsumerStudies. She later began her television ca-reer working at WCVB-TV in Boston. Hoganspoke of her desire to produce and reporther own stories. Her desire brought her toBangor, Maine where she began her on-aircareer as anchor and consumer reporter atthe ABC affiliate. In September of 1992,Hogan joined the Eyewitness News Team asthe consumer reporter, where she has beenever since. Hogan is admirable for her driveand dedication to the world of communica-tion.

After Hogan concluded her inspiringspeech, the seniors within each media organ-ization were acknowledged for their effortsthroughout their time at Bryant. Each wasgiven a round of applause for their achieve-ments.

Following the recognition of seniors,awards were presented to the students in-volved in each media organization. Each organiza-tion—The Archway, The Ledger, the MediaProduction Club, and WJMF 88.7FM—presented itsown awards to its members. The Archway, Bryant’sstudent-run newspaper, presented awards to five of

its members. The New Staff Member of the Yearaward was awarded to Kaleigh Durkin. Writer ofthe Year was given to Cristine Cox. Staff Member ofthe Year was given to Michael Yakavonis, the Editorof the Year award was given to Michael Adams, andJessica Miles received the Editor’s Choice Award.

The Ledger, Bryant’s yearbook, presented three

awards to its members. Section Editor of the Yearwas given to Monica Ryl. Staff Member of the Yearwas given to Erika Rybiki and the Editor’s ChoiceAward was given to Christina Knips.

The Media Production Club presented five

awards. The Production Assistant of the Year wasgiven to Dan Agostinucci. Best Frame Up Awardwas awarded to Jeff Smith. Most Reliable Cine-matographer Award was given to Alberto De CosteCalla and Lani Aulicino. Show of the Year Awardwas given to Jessica Clark, Devon McCarty, andChristopher Claude for the Morning Delight show.

Production Excellence Award went to MarkLaslo.

WJMF 88.7FM, Bryant’s radio station, pre-sented four awards. New Show of the Yearwas given to Eric MacCarthy for his radioshow “The Mac Attack.” Outstanding Showof the Year was given to Ali Duncan, KaleighDurkin, and Daniel Hackenson for their show“Double D and the Hack.” Board Member ofthe Year was awarded to Chris Macksey. TheGeneral Manager’s Choice Award was givento Erik Archila and Kevin Javier.

The Media Student of the Year is an awardgiven to one student involved in one ofBryant’s media organizations that recognizesoutstanding achievement. This studentdemonstrates leadership in the campusmedia, shows a commitment to the campuscommunity, emonstrates responsible and ethi-cal decision making in the student media, pro-vides new and creative ideas to improve thepublication or broadcast, and fosters enthusi-asm and dedication amongst other staff mem-bers toward the campus media. The MediaStudent of the Year was awarded to JohnCrisafulli, the Editor-in-Chief of The Archway.Crisafulli has been a member of The Archwaysince he first arrived at Bryant four years ago.He has grown to be a tremendous leader sincehe first became involved. His dedication andleadership are only a few of his qualities to be

admired.Congratulations to the award recipients and to

all of the students involved in each media organiza-tion for their outstanding achievements and efforts.

Students recognized at Media BanquetBy Brigit Clancy

Variety Editor

Meagan Sage, Archway Advisor and Larry Sasso, Archway TechnicalAdvisor honored Editor-in-Chief, John Crisafulli with the Media Stu-dent of the Year award. (University Relations)

Do you have secret dreams ofbecoming an artist or professionalphotographer? Or perhaps evenaspire to be the next Kat Von Doff of L.A. Ink with your impres-sive collection of tattoos? Thenyou should display your work(and body!) of art at the upcom-ing Art Expo 2009 this April 29th,organized bythe Arts andCulture Club.

The annualArt Expo willbe running inits third yearhere at Bryant.The brainchildof members ofthe Arts and Culture Club, theevent was first started to promoteart at Bryant in a unique and un-conventional way. “It’s definitelya new and interesting way toshare art with your peers,” saysArts and Culture Club PresidentDiana Morey. With categoriessuch as photography, art andeven body art, it’s no wonder thatthe judges have received a recordnumber of entries for this year’sevent!

Why an Art Expo at Bryantyou may wonder? “Even thoughBryant is a smaller campus andmany people know each other,

this event allows students to seetheir peers and their own friendsin a fun, new light,” says Morey.“With regards to the body artportion, every time we organizethe Art Expo, we get a lot of greatentries with really interesting andengaging stories behind them.”

So see, maybe you’ll finallyfind out why your friend reallygot that tattoo at this year’s ArtExpo. If the anticipation of find-

ing a familiarname among theart pieces on dis-play is not reasonenough for you,don’t fret. Moreyadds, “this yearwe’ve made it aneven bigger event

with more submis-sion categories, a ton of greatfood, various prizes and a winebar.” All proceeds from the eventwill also help fund the SpecialOlympic, says Morey. “Not onlywould we like to promote aware-ness for our club and this particu-lar event, but all of it is going fora really terrific cause!”

Interested in submitting yourart? The Arts and Culture Club isstill accepting entries! Mail yoursubmissions to aculture@organi-zations.bryant.edu. To get yourtickets to attend Art Expo 2009,contact Diana Morey atDmorey@bryant.edu.

Art Expo shows stu-dents in a new light

By Fira ZainalStaff Writer

‘The event was first startedto promote art at Bryant in aunique and unconventional

way.’

(Nick Poche)

Kinsey SicksA beautiful success

On Wednesday, April 20 SASS hosted the Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet TheKinsey Sicks in the Main Gym for SASS’ final event of the year. The quartetper-formed several numbers singing about political satire. (Left to right) Kinsey

Sicks’ Trixie, Nick Poche (Laverne DiFuzzio), Mike Adams, Michelle Thompson,Kinsey Sicks’ Winnie, Meagan Sage, Kate Rosales, Kinsey Sicks’ Rachel,

Cristine Cox, Brian Waddell (Shirley Queeney), Kinsey Sicks’ Trampolina, andKelly O’Connell.

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On Friday, April 17th Relay for Lifetook place on the Bryant UniversityTrack. The event began at 4:00pmwith the Survivor’s Lap. There were19 Survivors in attendance this year,walking because they are fighting, orhave won the fight against cancer intheir own lives. A new addition to thisyear’s lap was the virtual survivorwhich allowed over 12 students towalk to honor cancer survivors whocould not attend Relay because of dis-tance, illness or other reasons.

The emotional Luminaria Cere-mony was held at 9:00pm, where Lu-minaria bags lined the track and werelit with candles. Bryant Alumni ’08,Pat Sullivan was the honorary speakerduring this ceremony. He delivered atruly memorable, and touching speechabout his mother’s battle and ultimateloss of the fight against cancer, ex-plaining the true reason why he Re-lays. After the touching speech, aSmithfield resident who resides nextto Bryant and was moved by thespeech came to the track to make a do-nation in honor of Sullivan’s mother,which was presented to Sullivan.

Colleges Against Cancer SecretaryStephanie Barone commented “Patgave an incredible speech that touchedevery person standing in front of him.He is a wonderful inspiration to theBryant community and we all knowhow truly proud his mother wouldbe.” A silent lap in memory of all ofthose who have lost the battle to can-cer concluded this ceremony.

Amongst all of the emotions tied toan event such as this, there was timefor fun. Fun Enterprises was aroundall night drawing caricatures andmaking photo key-chains for Relayparticipants to take home. Amazingperformances by Bryant’s very ownProfessor Swift, Rich Ferri, MandieDunn Band, Professor Houston, DJKevin Javier and WJMF were enjoyedthroughout the night. The first annualRelay for Life Dodge ball tournamentwas held at 1:00am, and Team PinkKitties took home the prize

The Fight Back Ceremony was heldat 6:00am, and was a time to gathersupport of all participants to takecharge and really learn how to battlethe disease. Survivor Sarah Riskofrom Bridgewater State Universityspoke about her life as a cancer sur-vivor and why it is important to beaware of the dangers of the disease.The ceremony ended with participantsknocking down piñatas labeled cancer,to symbolize how we are all workingto fight to find a cure for the disease.

The event was a huge success, shat-tering all previous Bryant Relayrecords. This year over $80,000 has al-ready been raised, and donations arestill coming in through August. Thesuccess of this event was in large partdue to the amazing director, BridgetMcNulty and Assistant Director KatieShea who devoted countless hours toplanning this event.

Vice President of Colleges AgainstCancer, Nickie Archambault had noth-ing but positive comments about thisyear’s committee. “The Relay commit-tee chairs continue to expand thisevent with creative ideas to get thewhole Bryant community involved. Iconsider myself very fortunate to beable to work with Bridget and thisyear’s Relay for Life committee. I havenever had the opportunity to workwith a group of more passionate anddedicated individuals. Our event wasa huge success because we had an ex-cellent leader and a committee whocontinuously supported her efforts todo more for the cause. Everyone in-volved should be very proud of them-selves”.

Each year, Relay for Life gains moresupport from Bryant University. Interms of fundraising, participants andteam, numbers increased tremen-dously this year. On behalf of Col-leges Against Cancer and Relay forLife, thank you to all who participatedand supported this event. Truly knowthat every dollar raised goes towardsfighting this disease, and every dollardoes count. We hope to see you allback on the track next year.

Bryant’s Relay for Lifesha)ers records

By Amy AngeloniContributing Writer

On Wednesday afternoon, members of Bryant’s Army ROTC par-ticipated in their annual helicopter training, as two Blackhawk

helicopters flew over the Bryant campus and landed in therugby field behind the Unistructure. Students from New England

area universities also participated in the training.

(Amanda Dunn)

Blackhawks descend onBryant for ROTC training

april 24, 2009page 4

Maddie Archambeault (’10), Katie Gorham (’10),and Kathryn Varis (’09), all members of Bryant’schapter of Amnesty International, have worked tire-lessly for almost a year to collaborate a service tripto Peru, planned for this summer. Twelve students,accompanied by two professors, will travel to Peruto volunteer at a local women’s shelter from May21st to 31st.

“We wanted to do an event for Amnesty [Interna-tional] this year that was bigger than any we haddone before,” said Archambeault, the Vice Presidentof Amnesty. “We were interested in doing a servicetrip and initially thought about Haiti or Kenya but,after speaking with a friend who travelled to the[women’s center] in Peru we became really passion-ate about this cause.”

The group will be working eight hours each dayat the women’s shelter. “We will be varnishingfloors, cleaning, cooking, and various other tasks,”said Archambeault.

While the trip is mostly to volunteer at the shel-ter, Archambeault said they will also have some funand tour Peru. “We are also going to spend sometime in Lima and travel to Machu Picchu!”

Archambeault, Gorham, and Varis had to devisea way to raise money to fund the trip. “We haveheld some successful fundraisers as well as send let-ters to businesses and home to our families askingfor donations,” said Archambeault. “We held a pan-cake breakfast in Smithfield last weekend and soldDunkin Donuts in the Rotunda. We are going tohold a scavenger hunt for tons of raffle prizes rang-ing from Visa gift cards and gift cards to restaurants

near Bryant. We will also be hosting a Ronzio’snight where we deliver all the pizza and potentiallywill be doing a song and dance as we go…. We alsodid a Paddington Bear fundraiser where we sent astuffed Paddington bear (which was originally cre-ated in Peru) as well as a book and a jar of mar-malade around to the faculty suites to get donationsfor Paddington to return to Peru. The majority ofour money, however, came from the Special Initia-tives Committee after reviewing and passing ourproposal.”

The three members of Amnesty made a presenta-tion to the Special Initiatives Committee a couple ofmonths ago to request money for the trip. “We

wrote a proposal that ended up being around eight-een pages long with details about the country, safetyissues, cost, why we are going, every detail youcould imagine,” said Archambeault. “We then metwith Rich Hurley (an Assistant Director with theCenter for Student Involvement) a bunch of times torevise the proposal. We finally presented to thecommittee and answered their questions.”

Archambeault and Gorham expressed their ex-citement about travelling to Peru and about volun-teering. “I get more excited every day!”

Archambeault said. “I cannot believe it is inonly a month. We have a great group of dedicatedpeople coming so I am sure it is going to be a huge

success. It is so exhilarating to know that we havethe potential to help these women who at one pointhad close to nothing. After speaking with a fewpeople that have been to the [women’s shelter], I amso excited to meet the women and be able to givethem the hopefully fourteen suitcases of donationswe are planning to bring for them.”

Gorham said, “We are all excited about going.This has been such a long journey and knowing thatwe are actually going to be there in a month is so ex-citing after almost a year of hard work. Even better,the group we have attending is absolutely fabulous,and we are all confident we will be able to make apositive impact on the casa.”

Archambeault stated that this trip made her ap-preciate Bryant and its resources offered to stu-dents. “This trip has really made me appreciatebeing at Bryant. The fact that this idea Katie,Kathryn, and I had in September has become a real-ity reminds me what a good choice Bryant was. Thiswould not have even been plausible at most otherschools but because of the dedicated staff and stu-dents here, 12 students and two professors get totake our resources to Peru and help women whohave close to nothing.”

Gorham also articulated her appreciation to theindividuals involved in the planning of this trip.“Thank you to everyone, on and off campus, whosupported us along the way, including Rich Hurley,Toby Simon (Director of the Women’s Center), Pro-fessor Enos, Professor Gomez, Professor Houston,and our families. We never could have made thistrip a reality without them!”

Students devote time to Peru women’s shelter this summerBy Brigit Clancy

Variety Editor

‘It is so exhilarating to know that wehave the potential to help these womenwho at one point had close to nothing.

The Student Senate wishes all students good luck on finals and to have apeaceful and relaxing summer! We look forward embarking on the 2009-2010 academic year! Remember, we love to hear from you, so send anyideas, suggestions, or concerns to AmyAngeloni, Student Senate Secretary

at aangelo1@bryant.edu.

Good luck to all seniors in the future, and see everyone else in the Fall!!Bryant University Student Senate

And the Winners Are...As Greek Week came to a close this past weekend, the Greek communitygathered for a recognition banquet to honor award recipients in myriad cat-egories. Greek Week was won by Delta Kappa Epsilon, on the fraternityside, and Delta Zeta, for the sororities. Not only were the winners ofGreek Week announced, but also many other award winners were recog-

nized.

Some awards won include:Most Spirited Fraternity – Phi Kappa TauMost Spirited Sorority – Sigma Sigma Sigma

Best New Member (fraternity) – Justin Trelegan (Phi Kappa Tau)Best New Member (sorority) – Lindsay Gonsiorowski (Delta Zeta)

Greek Man of the Year – Mike Barnett (Delta Chi)Greek Woman of the Year – Rachael Hylan (Delta Zeta)

GGrreeeekk CCoorrnneerrBy Andrew Pantuosco

Entertainers of today are some of themost highly paid individuals in ourworld. The reason why athletes and mu-sicians have become so wealthy is be-cause they have exorbitant numbers offans and followers who pay their bills.We pay to watch them, to hang up theirposter and to wear their shirt. We lovethem so much because they are good atwhat they do, but sometimes this causesus to lose perspective and get lost in theirfame. We judge them based on their tal-ents, but is this truly the best way tochoose our idols? We really should bejudging these icons based on how theyuse their (well, our) hard-earned money.

Chad Stokes Urmston, of well-knownlocal bands Dispatch and State Radio,chooses to put his hard-earned money to-wards a worthy cause. His personal expe-riences in the slums of Zimbabwe openedhis eyes to a new world of hardship. Weare blessed here in America while otherparts of the world are in sheer turmoil.Chad uses his high-energy rock concertsto spread awareness and call his fans toaction. He became so inspired to createchange in the world that he formed Call-ing All Crows, an organization dedicatedto mobilizing musicians and fans to pro-mote human rights. They are commi8edto promoting public service and have seta mission to end violence against womenand bringing peace to Darfur. ThoughChad was the founder, the foundation ofCalling All Crows is its fans.

This year, WJMF and the Spring Stockbands are teaming up with Calling AllCrows to spread awareness and raisemoney for this worthy cause. Just bygoing to the concert and cheering on thebands, you will show support. You canalso purchase tickets for the raffle withsome pre8y sweet prizes like a NintendoWii and an iPod Nano, with all proceedsgoing to the charity.

Musicians are icons. They are heroes,and to be a part of something that theymake themselves a part of is an absolutethrill. We love Chad for “The General”and for “Mr. Larkin.” But we should lovehim more for his selflessness and advo-cacy for equality and for love. Last sum-mer, Dispatch reunited for three sold-outMadison Square Garden shows, and theydid it for the love of their fans. They alsodid it so that they could make a differ-ence and donate every penny to Zim-babwe relief efforts. Chad’s on tour rightnow promoting Calling All Crows anddonating all ticket and merchandise salesto the cause.

We all love the feeling we get fromphilanthropy and giving to somethingthat is bigger than ourselves. Relay forLife last weekend was a great success,but the dollars raised were not the onlyreward from the event. Even more re-warding was the satisfaction of joining ateam and coming together as a commu-nity to make a difference. Over 1,000Bryant students came out to walk for acause last weekend. And now as we enterSpring Weekend, WJMF calls on you toget out there and rock for a cause. The2009 Spring Stock stage is set with threeawesome bands and the best weather wewill have all year! Please come out andshow your support for Aston, Baylock,and Crash Romeo. And also show yoursupport for charity and help such a funweekend event make a difference forpeople in this world who need help themost.

Students can purchase raffle tickets onFriday a7ernoon and also at the concerton Saturday, two for $1, or ten for $3. Theraffle drawing for the prizes will takeplace at noon at Spring Stock and win-ners must be present with their tickets towin. Check out CallingAllCrows.org tolearn more about Chad Stokes Urmstonand his commitment to compassion andequality. Thank you all so much for yoursupport and enjoy your Spring Weekend.

Spring Weekend musiciansraise money for a worthy cause

By Kevin DouglassContributing Writer

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Name: Ledia Dulaj and Roslyn Fu-celloClass of: 2010University: Universidad Pablo deOlavideLocation: Sevilla, SpainPartner:APISemester Abroad: Fall 2008

Reason for going: Ledia: I wanted to improve mySpanish but also emerge in a culturedifferent from mine and truly takeeverything in. I chose Sevilla becauseit was a very traditional Spanish cityin the south where it was warm allthe time with palm trees which iscompletely different from New Eng-land. Roslyn: I chose to study abroad be-cause I really wanted to see if I couldlive in another country. Sevilla was aperfect fit because of its climate andits location in Spain. I really wantedto live in a place that was rich in cul-ture and where English was not spo-ken. Best experience/memory:Best experience was living with ourhost mom and dealing with many ofthe cultural differences whether itwas eating dinner past 9 pm or hav-ing a strict siesta time at 2 pm. Ourhost mom always wanted to talk andbe one of the girls and any timespent with her was one of our bestexperiences. Funny cultural experience:When we were buying our train tick-ets to Madrid to go home there wasonly one “cheap” ticket left and therest were offered at the expensiverate. The guy selling us the tickets atthe train station told us to “pelear”(or fight in Spanish) for the cheapticket right there at that moment inthe train station. We were a little

confused as to why were being toldto fight, but then it clicked that hewas joking with us. It didn’t matterto us because we were splitting thecost of the tickets anyway.How was the school different fromBryant University?The school was much bigger in sizeas it had 10,000 students. Most of thehallways are outside and studentshang out on the lawn. Also, if youthink the Bryant quiet section in thelibrary is quiet you haven’t been tothe Pablo Library.How did this experience changeyou?Ledia: It changed me in a way that Ilearned a lot about myself and Ilearned to be truly independent byliving in a different country andtraveling to different countries everyweekend. It was truly a life changingexperience but also a self discovery. Roslyn: Studying abroad has mademe realize that sometimes it’s okayto take a step back and relax. I ammore independent now and comfort-able with traveling on my own. Would you study abroad againgiven the opportunity?Ledia: I would definitely studyabroad again given the chance. It is awonderful opportunity that teachesyou a lot about yourself but alsoabout others. I made many friendsthat I still keep in contact with andliving in a different country trulymakes you appreciate all the thingsthat you take for granted in yourhome country. Roslyn: I would most definitelystudy abroad again given the oppor-tunity because it is a once in a life-time experience. Living and learninganother culture is something thatyou can’t get just from visiting aplace.

Study Abroad Spotlight: Ledia Dulaj and Roslyn Fucello

Ledia Dulaj

Roslyn Fucello

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Obama advocateshigh speed trainsin the U.S.

President Obama recently made public his wishes for high-speed passenger trains in the United States in the upcomingyears. The idea, which many Americans look at as European, isquickly becoming a reality in this country. This comes a4er thefederal stimulus package which passed in February includedseveral billion dollars specifically for this reason. High-speedtrains are among several environmentally friendly ideas whichthe Obama administration is trying to put in place.

There are several possible corridors for the trains, includinga local, New England rail. The government has identified 10potential locations for development, including a line connect-ing Florida to Washington D.C. and a major Chicago hub net-work. These will all have tremendous effects, not only on ourcountry, but on our environment.

President Obama looks at this project as a “legacy” mission,something that will define his Presidency. "Imagine whiskingthrough towns at speeds over 100 miles an hour, walking onlya few steps to public transportation, and ending up just blocksfrom your destination," the President mused while unveilingthe plan April 16. His eagerness towards the venture suggeststhat the rails should be completed in the upcoming years.Obama hopes that this will solve problems such as climbing oilprices and clogged highways. Such issues, which have plaguedthis country for decades, may now have a resolution.

Trains won’t be zooming around the country tomorrow. Thiswill be a several year, $10+ billion dollar project. But, in theopinions’ of many, it is a worthwhile investment. In my opin-ion, high speed trains can change our country for the be5er.Today, we rely far too much on cars which are guzzling gaso-line at astonishing rates. These cars not only raise oil prices, butcontribute to the deteriorating environment. The fuel efficienttrains will solve many of these issues. Internationally, countriesuse public transportation more and more every day. In Europe,many families don’t even own cars, using trams and trains toget around cities and towns. The high-speed trains will be agood start for the United States in a transition to public trans-portation.

By Michael SlafskyStaff Writer

Regulators give go-aheadfor offshore wind farms

The federal government has cleared theway for developers to plant wind farms in off-shore waters on the Outer Continental Shelf.

The regulations were published Wednesdaya4ernoon in the federalregister and promotedby President BarackObama at an Earth Dayspeech on a wind farmin Newton, Iowa.

They lay out therules for leasing, siting,permi5ing and build-ing wind turbines andother types of renew-able energy in federalwaters, at least threemiles offshore.

Wednesday's an-nouncement was wel-comed by bothenvironmental groupsand companies whohave long wanted todevelop wind energyoffshore.

"We're very encour-aged," said JacquelineSavitz, senior cam-paign director forOceana, an international marine conservationgroup based in Washington. She said the or-ganization long has wanted to reduce the useof fossil fuels because of climate change's im-pact on the oceans.

She said, however, that work should moveforward carefully.

"We support wind energy," Savitz said. "Itdoesn't mean we want to go willy-nilly inplanting wind farms everywhere. They shouldgo through the normal environmental impactprocess."

Potential hazards for the wind turbines,

which can tower 300 feet or more, include hur-ricanes, the threat of bird strikes and the po-tential impact on military training that occursin the Atlantic, said Dennis Scanlin, a seniorresearch scientist with the Energy Center atAppalachian State University, in Boone, N.C.

The publication of the federal rule Wednes-day follows years ofwork in the Bush ad-ministration to begindeveloping the regula-tions.

Michael Olsen, a for-mer Bush Interior De-partment official, saidthe rules will allowprojects to move aheadin both Massachuse5sand Rhode Island.

"This is very signifi-cant," said Olsen, alawyer for the firmBracewell & Giuliani,who represents a windenergy company calledDeepwater. That com-pany is working inRhode Island.

"There are compa-nies right now ready togo," Olsen said.

The federal ruleruns more than 500pages long and in-

cludes details about not only wind but alsoprojects to capture wave and ocean current en-ergy, known as hydrokinetics.

"This will open the door to major invest-ments in offshore clean energy," Obama said inhis Iowa speech.

In a plan similar to some offshore oil andgas drilling leases, states would get about 27percent of the revenues sent to the federal gov-ernment from offshore wind and hydrokinet-ics leases.

By Barbara Barre"MCT Campus

House panel to target ‘predatory’ mortgage lending

Once again, Congress will take up legislation tobar mortgage companies from steering homebuyersinto houses they can't afford.

The House of Representatives voted on the mat-ter nearly two years ago, but the measure died in aSenate commi5ee. Since then the economic and po-litical landscape has changed dramatically.

The foreclosure rate has skyrocketed, the nationalunemployment rate has jumped, and most of theAmerican public blames financial institutions forthe recession. Democrats have increased their num-bers in the House and Senate, and they now holdthe White House. Also, Congress has twice voted tobail out banks that are foundering because of thetoxic housing loans on their books.

To prevent more bad mortgages from being ap-proved, two North Carolina representatives — De-mocrats Mel Wa5 and Brad Miller — are againpushing a "predatory" lending measure. The bill,based on North Carolina law, aims to do a simplething: Make sure that homeowners can afford theirloans.

"It seems inarguable," said Julia Gordon of theDurham, N.C.-based Center for Responsible Lend-ing, who will testify about the bill Thursday beforethe House Financial Services Commi5ee. "Peopleare surprised that wasn't required before."

The bill, called the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2009, would end bonusesfor brokers who steer borrowers into higher-pricedloans. It would require brokers to confirm borrow-ers' income, and it would prohibit brokers frommaking new loans or refinanced loans that don'toffer tangible net benefits to borrowers.

In the past, brokers o4en failed to confirm in-comes or homeowners could get away with lyingabout their salaries. Borrowers o4en signed off on

new or refinanced loans with adjustable rates, notrealizing that their monthly payments soon wouldescalate beyond their means.

Consumer advocates also say that lenders o4enpaid brokers bonus fees, including some known as"yield spread premiums," for steering borrowersinto higher rates than those for which they'd quali-fied.

Buried in the bill's legalese, however, are detailsthat could make a difference in whether lenders orinvestment companies down the line shoulder therisk, whether homeowners can recover from badloans before or a4er going into foreclosure, andwhether state laws will protect homeowners orleave them to a weaker federal law.

The details have led some consumer advocacygroups to withhold their support, at least for now,and the mortgage industry is still trying to exert itsinfluence.

"I think there is a deeper level of understandingabout the need for more aggressive regulation oflenders," Wa5 said this week in an interview. "Thewhole industry needs a set of good regulationsaround it."

But in the current economy, more regulationcould hurt borrowers if lenders lose flexibility onthe types of loans they can offer, said Rep. PatrickMcHenry, R-N.C.

"When you restrict lending opportunities you re-strict people's access to credit," McHenry said.

McHenry, a member of the House Financial Serv-ices Commi5ee, said he supported ge5ing rid of"bad actors" in the mortgage market, but that thisbill wouldn't do that.

"It's moving in the wrong direction at the wrongtime," he said.

The practices that the bill targets affected not justhomebuyers but also borrowers who refinancedtheir mortgages.

In the first three months of this year, the numberof families threatened with losing their homes

jumped 24 percent over the same period last year,according to RealtyTrac, which tracks foreclosures.

Dean Baker, a co-director of the Center for Eco-nomic and Policy Research, a Washington researchcenter, said that lawmakers and the public realizednow that predatory lending didn't affect just low-in-come borrowers.

"Two years ago there was this idea it was a poorpeople's issue, and if these people can't look out forthemselves, it's just too bad," Baker said. Now, hesaid, "people realize how widespread this problemis."

Against this backdrop, consumer advocacygroups and mortgage industry representatives willtestify about the bill Thursday before the House Fi-nancial Services Commi5ee. The commi5ee's chair-man, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is a co-sponsor ofthe bill.

A commi5ee vote could come as soon as nextweek, with a full House vote to follow.

"They're going to feel a need to do something,"Baker said. "And then the question is, will it besomething for show or will it have teeth?"

By Barbara Barre"MCT Campus

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DogsAllison Faiola

Year: Junior

Sport: Women’s Lacrosse

Faiola scored eight goals andhad two assists in two games lastweek with four goals againstLIU. She currently has 101 goalsfor her career and is 2nd on theteam with 30 on the season.

Bryan KaufmannYear: Senior

Sport: Men’s Lacrosse

Kaufmann scored his 200th careerpoint with a goal and an assist in a14-8 win over Presbyterian last week,becoming just the third Bulldog toachieve such a feat. Kaufmann addedfour more points off three goals andan assist on Saturday vs. Bellarmine.

Greer, Hoagland lead rout over Bellarmine Courtesy of Bryant Athletics

Led by four goals apiece from captains ZackGreer (Whitby, Ont.) and Kevin Hoagland (Glaston-bury, Conn.), the Bryant University men’s lacrosseteam earned its ninth win of the season with a 14-4victory over Bellarmine University at Bulldog Sta-dium Saturday afternoon.

Greer’s seven points on the day paced the Bull-dogs (9-5), while line-mates Hoagland andfellow senior captainBryan Kaufmann (Put-nam Valley, N.Y.) (3goals, 1 assist) chippedin four points apiece.Bryant would hold theKnights (6-7) to just onegoal per frame while theBulldogs stayed on theoffensive for much of thecontest.

“Looking back on our previous 13 games, Ithought today was without question one of ourbest,” said Bryant head coach Mike Pressler. “It wasjust a complete effort from everybody. We playedwell in every phase of the game and that was ourgoal from the beginning. It was good to get outthere, get ahead early and get a win against a goodteam, especially a good offensive team.”

It didn’t take long for the Bulldog offense to getto scoring, as Greer turned a strong early Bryantpossession into a 1-0 lead just 39 seconds into thegame with an unassisted tally after curling aroundthe right side of the cage for a low shot.

Bellarmine would even the score in the fourthminute off a Jarrett Davis goal, but that was as closeas the Knights would get to the Bulldogs all after-noon.

Back-to-back goals from Kaufmann (unassisted)and Hoagland (assisted by Kaufmann) came within37 seconds of each other for a two-goal Bulldog ad-vantage less than five minutes into the contest, butfrom there the teams would play to a draw throughthe remainder of the first quarter.

Bellarmine’s Jordan Wong notched his first goalof the season to start the scoring in the secondframe, taking a spectacular pass from Alex Porterfrom out front and landing right on the doorstep ofBryant rookie netminder Jameson Love (Darien,

Conn.) to cut the home lead to 3-2. But it would take Max Weisenberg

(Long Beach, N.Y.) and Greer 61 secondsto respond, as Weisenberg took Greer’spass from the right side just as he hit thetop of the crease, bouncing the ball pastKnights goalie Scott Bowles.

Greer and Rob Maiorano (Easton,Conn.) tallied goals just 12 seconds apartto give the Bulldogs a 6-2 lead beforesophomore Gary Crowley (Scituate, Mass.)sent Bellarmine to the locker room downby five, 7-2, with his only goal of the gamewith just 10 ticks left on the clock.

“With a good team like this, you don’twant to let them hang around into the sec-ond half,” Pressler said. “I think with a 7-2lead at halftime and by getting the firsttwo goals of the third quarter, we reallyput the game away.

“But I’ve seen Bellarmine score inbunches and come back, and to hold thisteam to only four is just a great credit toJameson Love and the entire defense.”

After the break, Bellarmine came backwith a new goalie, David Haas, but stillcouldn’t keep the Bulldogs out of the netas Kaufmann came out with the first twogoals of the third frame.

Davis scored a man-advantage goalwith 5:52 to play in the third to make thescore 9-3, but just 10 seconds laterHoagland notched his first of three-straight tallies to get back a seven-goallead. The senior attacker scored his second of thetrio with 3:39 to go in the frame after his ball drib-bled past an unaware Bellarmine goaltender, andscored again to open the fourth quarter, again unas-sisted.

“Obviously when you’re pulling goalies in andout, playing musical goaltenders if you will, thattells you they aren’t happy with their play in goal,”said Pressler of Bellarmine’s numerous goaliechanges. “They tried to keep us off-balance tradingbetween a righty and a lefty, and I thought our guysadjusted to that very well.”

With 12:12 to play in the contest and Bellarmineback to its starting goalie, Greer struck again, as-sisted by Robert Stufano (Garden City, N.Y.), tobring the score to 13-3. Austin Bright’s goal with8:30 to play would be nullified by Greer’s - and the

game’s - final tally seven seconds later before thescore went final, 14-4.

Faceoff specialist Andrew Hennessey (WadingRiver , N.Y.), fighting the flu and questionable fortoday’s game, continued his stellar play, winning 17-of-23 faceoffs on the day with a trio of ground balls.

“Just think an unbelievable effort from AndrewHennessey,” said Pressler, citing the severity of hisillness. “And he still goes 17-for-23 with threegrounders and only one turnover. Just an unbeliev-able effort from No. 40 when we needed him themost.”

The Bulldogs outshot the Knights, 46-31 on theday, picking up 44 ground balls to Bellarmine’s 29.Bryant played well in clearing situations, going 21-for-25, while forcing seven failed clears from the vis-iting Knights.

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Greer led an impressive Bulldog attack on Saturday, net-ting four goals and three assists while Hoagland and Kauf-mann added four points each. (Bryant Athletics)

URI sneaks past Bryant in extra innings SaturdayCourtesy of Bryant Athletics

The Bryant softball team waged battlewith the University of Rhode Island for thesecond time this season, and for the secondtime the Rams came away with an extra in-ning win, taking a 4-3 win over the Bull-dogs in Kingston on Saturday. It was thefifth win in the last six games for the Rams,who took the season series two games tonone after beating Bryant, 3-2, in nine in-nings back on March 28.

The Rams were able to get on the score-board first, putting together a short two-out rally to go up 1-0 in the third inning.After Courtney Prendergastt was hit by apitch to reach first with two down, LeahDiBussolo hit an infield single to shortstopto move Prendergastt into scoring position.Wilson followed with a single to center,scoring Predergastt to put the home teamon top.

Stephanie Mirando (North Haven,Conn.) knotted the game up at 1-1 in thetop of the fifth, hitting a solo home run, herfirst of the year, over the fence in left field.The blast pushed the senior’s hitting streakto a season-best four-straight games. URI reclaimed the lead in the bottom ofthe inning, scoring one run on three hits to grab a 2-1 edge. With the basesloaded and one out, Darci Borden flew out to Kim Leonard (Milford, Mass.) infoul territory down the right field line to score Prendergastt for the second time

in the contest. Bryant evened the game again in the top of the

sixth, as Ali Chouinard(Swansea, Mass.) came in toscore on a wild pitch by StaceyStanovich to tie the score at 2-2. The junior drew a one outwalk, moving to second on asingle by Laura Bowen (Hud-son, Mass.) and then to thirdon a groundout by AshleyCoon (Levittown, Pa.) before racing home to score on thewild pitch.

Bryant starter Samantha Houseal (Mount Joy, Pa.) wentthe distance in the contest, going all eight innings whileallowing four runs and striking out four. The sophomorewas able to get two big outs in the bottom of the seventh,getting a fly out and a strike out with the bases loadedand one out to escape the jam and send the game to extrainnings.

Playing in their third extra inning game this season, theBulldogs were able to take the lead in the top of theeighth, as Bowen hit a single to left field that scoredLeonard from third to put Bryant up, 3-2. Bowen was two-for-three with an RBI. Coon also had a hit in the inning toextend her hitting streak to a team-best five games.

After Stefanie Poedubicky sacrificed Alison Hartzellover to third, Jackie Kampmeier hit a game-tying tripledown the line in right, knotting the teams at three apiece

in the bottom of the eighth. Houseal got Amanda Sbei to fly out to left for thesecond out of the inning, but a passed ball allowed Kampmeier to come homefrom third and give the Rams the win.

The Bulldogs had yet another close contest with instate rival URI. (Bryant Athletics)

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By Sco3 M. ReidMCT Campus

The Mountain West Conference on Tuesday formallypresented to Bowl Championship Series officials a pro-posal that both sides agree would "fundamentally"change the way college football determines its nationalchampion.

While Mountain Westcommissioner CraigThompson acknowledgedBCS adoption of the pro-posal that includes aneight-team playoff was alongshot, he said it was im-portant that the BCS atleast consider decidingwho plays for the nationaltitle with a "more perform-ance" based procedure.

Under the MountainWest plan, an eight-teamplayoff would determinethe national champion. Thefour existing BCS bowlgames would serve as thefirst-round sites for theseeded tournament. Thewinners of the four bowlgames would advance to asemifinal round, and thosewinners would meet forthe national title. The semisand national championship game would rotate betweenthe four BCS bowl sites.

Additionally a fi8h non-playoff BCS game would beadded. Seven automatic bids would come from the con-ference champions of leagues playing at least 20 gamesper season against other top-tier conferences and main-taining a combined 40 percent winning percentage inthose games. The remaining three berths would be de-termined by a 12-person selection commi9ee made up ofrepresentatives from 11 conferences and Notre Dame.

The plan, BCS coordinator John Swofford said, repre-sents "a significant change on a number of fronts fromgovernance, to revenue distribution, to selection processand more. It would be a significant and fundamentalchange to the process and consequently it deserves a de-liberative (consideration)."

A8er listening to and questioning Thompson for 90minutes Tuesday at the BCS' annual meetings at The

Langham hotel, the commis-sioners from the BCS confer-ences will present theproposal to their confer-ence's schools at leaguemeetings this spring.

The commissioners willthen report reaction withintheir conferences at a BCSmeeting in June held in con-junction with the CollegeCommissioners Associationmeetings in ColoradoSprings.

Swofford, who also is theAtlantic Coast Conferencecommissioner, said it's "pre-mature" to say if the pro-posal has any traction withinthe other BCS conferences.

The BCS last year rejectedthe so-called Plus One planthat called for a single gameplayoff following the BCSbowls.

The Mountain West pro-posal comes at a time of mounting Congressional andpublic support for a college football playoff. Even Presi-dent Barack Obama said in a "60 Minutes" interview lastyear he supports an eight-team playoff. The plan coin-cides with the conferences scheduled signoffs on a four-year deal BCS bowl package with ESPN starting inJanuary 2011. So far the Mountain West has not signedthe ESPN contract but likely will regardless the BCS'final stance on the conference's plan, Thompson said.

By David J. NealMCT Campus

NFL coaches and scouts give the Zapruder-filmtreatment to any game tape involving quarterbacksthey might dra8. They scrutinize expression and in-flection in every potential quarterback's interviewanswer. Everything measurable gets measured. Per-haps no athletes in any sport get so thoroughlystudied.

Why then do NFL teams let future Hallof Famer Tom Brady languish until thesixth round while spending high first-round picks on busts Akili Smith and JoeyHarrington? Why will whichever quarter-back who goes higher — Georgia'sMa9hew Stafford or USC's Mark Sanchez— no kind of predictor of who will havethe be9er NFL career? (if both aren't busts,that is) How can they get quarterbackswrong, even early in the dra8, as o8en asthey get them right?

Myriad reasons, to which you can nowadd the proliferation of spread-option of-fenses in college football. But the annualtradition of teams blowing the call on thegame's most important position, the play-ers they theoretically know the mostabout, began long before colleges beganmodernizing the single wing.

Former NFL coach Steve Mariucci saidthere's a consensus on what teams look forin other positions so it's easier to identifythe physical a9ributes. For example, Mari-ucci said, almost everyone wants an offen-sive le8 tackle who's 6-5 or 6-6, weighing300 to 330 pounds with long arms. Butsuccessful quarterbacks come in all shapesand sizes these days. "The parameters ofother positions are narrower," Mariucci said.

Also, he said, miss on a cornerback, you can shi8him to being a nickel corner and he still might havea long NFL career. Miss on a le8 tackle and you canmove him somewhere else on the line (Oakland didthis with 2004 first rounder Robert Gallery). Miss ona quarterback, though, and, well, you've just got aquarterback bust.

"Forget the physical abilities," said former Oak-land and Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden, a well-known quarterbackphile. "You've got to evaluate theintangibles — pocket presence, leadership. Thoseare things that are tough to evaluate on tape or in a

workout without anybody rushing you."As former Baltimore coach Brian Billick said

Monday, all the busts — Ryan Leaf, Jim Drucken-miller, et al. — had physical ability. Yet nobodyknows how they'll handle the money, the media andfan scrutiny, likely being the franchise's most promi-nent player. And there aren't many ways to projectthat.

According to Michael Holley's Patriot Reign, aNew England scout got suspicious about UCLA's

Cade McNown when they had a problem ge9ingenough receivers for his workout. The scout accu-rately figured issues had mushroomed between Mc-Nown and his UCLA teammates and thoseleadership problems manifested themselves inChicago a8er the Bears took McNown in 1999's firstround.

The vicious cycle comes into play with quarter-backs, also. First round quarterbacks o8en go to badteams. Bad teams o8en have subpar players andcoaching staffs in flux. The surrounding jetsam andthe flotsam sucks the quarterback down until he be-comes one with it.

Former Houston general manager CharleyCasserly insists quarterback David Carr, the Texans'first ever dra8 pick and 2002"s No. 1 overall, didn'tdevelop partially because Houston's offensive linefell apart even before the franchise's first game. Carrgot ba9ered into NFL backup status. The same thinghappened to 1971's No. 1 overall, Jim Plunke9, inNew England before he revived his career withOakland in his 10th season.

Back then, NFL teams had to translate wishbonequarterbacks to the NFL asthe formation swept the na-tion. Spread option quarter-backs add another degree ofdifficulty to the dra8.

The first quarterbacktaken in 2005, No. 1 overallAlex Smith out of Utah, andthe first one taken in 2006,No. 3 overall Vince Youngout of Texas, spent their col-legiate lives destroying de-fenses out of a spread optionoffense. Neither will beginthis season as a starter.

Also, you be9er believelongtime NFL scouts thinkthey've seen this before. TheRun 'n' Shoot boosted thenumbers of University ofHouston quarterbacks DavidKlingler and Andre Ware,two early 1990s first roundflops for Cincinnati and De-troit, respectively. None ofthe University of Floridaquarterbacks to come out ofSteve Spurrier's Fun 'n" Gunhad great NFL success.

Gruden said he wanted to take one of the spreadoption quarterbacks to add an element to TampaBay's offense similar to the Wildcat formation theDolphins helped popularize last year.

But, he also said, "I just don't know how manyhits a quarterback can take. I don't know that I'veseen a quarterback other than Florida's Tim Tebowwho can take the hits you'd take in the NFL."

Many teams annually blow the most important position in the NFL Dra2

Mountain West submits proposal that could alterthe Bowl Championship Series

The Mountain West would greatly ben-efit from their playoff proposal, withtwo teams from the conference endingin the final AP Top 25 polls.

1. Florida (48) 13-1 1,606 2. Utah (16) 13-0 1,5193. USC (1) 12-1 1,481 4. Texas 12-1 1,478

5. Oklahoma 12-2 1,391 6. Alabama 12-2 1,264

7. TCU 11-2 1,193 8. Penn State 11-2 1,153 9. Ohio State 10-3 1,013

10. Oregon 10-3 997 11. Boise State 12-1 938 12. Texas Tech 11-2 916

13. Georgia 10-3 903 14. Mississippi 9-4 857

15. Virginia Tech 10-4 713 16. Oklahoma State 9-4 534

17. Cincinnati 11-3 506 18. Oregon State 9-4 467

19. Missouri 10-4 435 20. Iowa 9-4 317

21. Florida State 9-4 246 22. Georgia Tech 9-4 223 23. West Virginia 9-4 144

24. Michigan State 9-4 138 25. Brigham Young 10-3 137

(Courtesy of ESPN.com)

Playoff Possibilites?

The Utes went undefeated and still didn’t get a shotat the championship, thanks to the BCS. (MCT Campus)

As many NFL owners and coaches can attest to, there is no such thing as a “surepick” when it comes to drafting a quarterback. Just ask San Diego. (MCT Campus)

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Sophomore B.J. Aponte (New Britain, CT) rushed for 68yards on 18 carries but it was the Bryant defense that stoodtall Sunday as the Gold (Defense) defeated the Black (Of-fense) 39-26 at the annual Black & Gold Spring FootballGame before more than 2,000 sundrenched fans on a gor-geous afternoon at Bulldog Stadium. The game concludesthe spring football season for the Bulldogs who will openthe 2009 season hosting Southern Connecticut State on Sep-tember 5. The Bulldogs return 10 starters back on the defen-sive side for sixth-year coach Marty Fine. The nucleus heldopponents under 100 yards rushing per game en route to a7-4 record last fall, Bryant's first competing in Division I.Kevin Menawonu (Providence, RI) led the way with eighttackles while Nick Candito (West Boylston, MA) had six forthe defense, which finished the scrimmage with 13 tacklesfor a loss and forced four fumbles.

The Bryant University golf team combined to shoot afinal round of 294, 15 shots better than their first round per-formance, taking home third place out of 13 teams at theMount St. Mary's Spring Invitational on Tuesday. Fog de-layed the final round of play, but it did not put a stop to theplay of Jason Thresher (West Suffield, Conn.), shooting evenpar for the tournament with his 71 in the final round.Thresher finished tied for second individually. Mike Pyne(Foxboro, Mass.) also had a top-15 finish, shooting a 77 to tiefor the 12th spot. Alex Daley (Hudson, Mass.) and ScottCongdon (Foxboro, Mass.) came up big in the final round, asthey each shot one-over par for the day with a 73. Daley wastied for 14th overall with a 153 for the tournament whileCongdon tied for 20th with a 155. Kyle Hoffman (Pawtucket,R.I.) rounded out the scoring with a 160 overall, shooting a79 on Tuesday to tie for 38th. Bryant plays its final tourna-ment of the year, as they compete in the Northeast Confer-ence Championships for the first time in the history of theprogram starting on May 1.

The Bryant University women's lacrosse team equaled aseason-high 20 goals but came up short falling to Long Is-land University 22-20 Sunday afternoon. The Bulldogs led11-9 at the half but couldn't hold on as the host Blackbirdsused a 13-goal outburst in the second to pull out the win. Bryant (3-12) fell behind 21-16 with just over four minutes toplay in the game but four consecutive goals, two by DeliaGlover and one from Allison Faiola and Lauren Sheridanwith a minute left pulled the Bulldogs to within a goal at 21-20 heading into the final minute. But LIU's (4-12) AnnieKalata scored with 33 seconds left to put the game away.Bryant standout freshman Mary Green had five goals in thegame to give her 25 on the season while Glover and Faiolaeach finished with four goals. For Faiola, her four goals inthe game gives her 30 for the season but more importantly,marked the 100th of her career. She now has 101 careergoals. Glover also had three assists in the game to give herseven points on the afternoon. Along with the 42 combinedgoals, the two teams combined for 84 shots on goal in thegame. Bryant freshman goalie Lauren Filippone made 10saves. Bryant scored 20 goals in a game earlier this seasonagainst Central Connecticut.

Boston College scored nine times in the first two inningsto put the Bulldogs in an early hole that they could notclimb out of, as the Bryant baseball team fell, 16-8, on a wetand rainy day in Chestnut Hill on Tuesday. The Eagles, whoentered the week ranked first in New England, were able toeven the season series at one game apiece after falling toBryant, 8-5, earlier this season in Smithfield. The Eagles’ An-drew Lawrence and Mickey Wiswall combined to go eight-for-ten with five home runs and 13 RBI. Wiswall startedeverything in the first inning, as the Eagle clean-up hitter hithis first of three home runs in the game by driving a grandslam over the fence in right center field off of Bryant starterChris Foundas (Needham, Mass.), putting Boston Collegeup 4-0 in the first. Wiswall homered again in the fifth, thisone a solo shot, and then smacked a two-run bomb in theeighth. He finished with three long balls and seven RBI.

Bulldog Bites

Mark your calendars!

Saturday, April 25:Women’s Lacrosse HOME vs. Villanova, 1:00 pmBaseball at Le Moyne, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm

Sunday, April 26:Baseball at Le Moyne, 12:00 pm, 2:00 pmSo2ball at Fairleigh Dickinson, 12:00 pm, 2:00 pmTrack & Field at Brown (Brown Spring Invite)

Tuesday, April 28:Baseball HOME vs. UConn, 3:30 pmSo2ball at UConn, 4:00 pm

Bryant On Tap

Golf finishes 4th at Mount St. Mary’s Invite

By David NilesStaff Writer

When it came time to write my last articlein 2008, Boston/New England was at the pin-nacle of the sports world. The Red Sox weredefending WorldSeries Champions.The Patriots hadjust come off a per-fect regular season,Super Bowl ap-pearance and TomBrady won his firstMVP. The Celticshad just had theirbest regular seasonin over 20 yearsand were on theirway to winningBanner Seventeen.Oh, how things canchange.

The Red Soxhave traded ar-guably the bestright handed hi9erin their team’s his-tory and theirother long de-pended-on sluggercan’t catch up to afastball. Dice K ison the DL, J.D.Drew is a 14 mil-lion dollar a yearpart-time player,the team is withouta real option atshortstop, and Ellsbury hasn’t developed theway he was projected to. Mike Lowell andJason Varitek are aging before us and thepitching staff has been inconsistent at best.

Remember when Danny Ainge traded forRay Allen and Celtic fans not so silently ex-pressed their mystification? Then Ainge com-pleted the process by swindling his formerteammate, Kevin McHale, in a trade for KevinGarne9. Well, with KG sidelined this postsea-son, the Celtics are that team that didn’t make

any sense. Rajon Rondo has developed into apotential star but the team is still extremelylacking a defensive and inside presence. Ateam built around two aging swing men isn’tgoing to cut it. The Celtics have gone fromChampionship contender to a team that couldbe upset in the first round. It had looked as if

the Cavs had surpassedthem and now there is noquestion it is the case.Compound this with therumors that KG’s injurymay be worse than previ-ously thought (longterm). Could the Celticsrun be over all ready?

Then we come to thePatriots. Can Tom Bradyreturn to form? Will theloss of Sco9 Piolo haveeffects we haven’t consid-ered? Is Randy Moss get-ting old or unhappy?How come there hasbeen such a shi8 awayfrom developing playersand towards free agency?Is the Laurence Maroneyexperiment over? Whathas happened to theonce-dominant defense?

Maybe it’s not alldoom and gloom. A8erall, who wouldn’t makethe Garne9 and Allentrade if it only amountedto one great (champi-onship) season. And aslong as there is no salary

cap in baseball, the Red Sox will always becompetitive and in the running for a World Se-ries. The Patriots are ge9ing back their MVP,they still have one of the greatest coaches ofall-time and their division still is lousy.

Maybe this past year wasn’t as spectacularor successful as the one prior, but who knowswhat the upcoming season will bring? That isthe reason we will continue to watch, cheer,live and die with our teams. And that is whatmakes sports so great.

The years can’t compare

Defense wins in Black & Gold Spring GameCourtesy of Bryant Athletics

Several Bryant University track & field ath-letes posted personal and season-best marks asthe Bulldogs enjoyed yet another successfulweekend. Competing at the Holy Cross QuadMeet, the women finished seventh while themen, behind three first-place finishes tookhome second inthe team stand-ings.

A week a8eran abbreviatedmeet at BrownUniversity thatsaw severalevents cancelleddue to an icy-rain, the Bulldogstook advantageor more spring-like temperaturesto turn in one ofthe best overallperformances ofthe season.

The men fin-ished second toHoly Cross, butcame out on topof Central Con-necticut, Maine,Colgate, AIC,Stonehill andHartford. Plus,with the NewEngland Cham-pionships loom-ing on the horizon in a few weeks, Saturday’sperformance by the Bulldogs is a good sign ofthings to come down the stretch.

Junior Alex Engel captured first-place hon-ors with a personal-best mark of 48.29 secondsin the men’s 400 meters. Engel, in posting theteam’s best mark of the year in the event, wasnot far off from Hafiz Greigre’s 400m schoolrecord of 48.31. Teammate Mike DiBella alsoran a personal record (PR) with a fourth-placetime of 49.67.

Thomas O’Connor also placed first in the200 meters, finishing in a personal-best time of22.20 seconds. The mark also meets New Eng-

land Championship qualifying standards.Engel took seventh in a time of 22.85. O’Con-nor would also earn a top-10 finish in the 100meters, finishing fi8h in 11.51 seconds.

Andrew Fitzgerald ran a season-best 56.78in the 400 meters, finishing second overallwhile teammate Zach Perron was third (57.06).Other highlights include John Mi9on’s fi8h-place finish in the 800 meters in 1:55.99, just

shy of the New Eng-land standard of1:54, and freshmanDrew Clark’s run-ner-up finish in the1500m, blisteringhis personal best of4:02 with a greattime of 3:59.87 sec-onds. The schoolrecord is 3:57.

The men’s 4x400meter relay teamtook home first-place with a besttime of 3:20.01.

The women alsoposted several out-standing marks inthe meet. FreshmanKim Warner en-joyed her best jumpof the season in thelong jump, placingsixth in the eventwith a new PR of 16feet, 7 inches – wellahead of her previ-ous best of 15-2.

Casey Fenwick turned in Bryant’s best timethis season in the 1500 meters as the seniorplaced 12th overall in 5:00.60. Classmate Jus-tine Douvadjian also posted the team’s bestmark in the 400 meters this season with aneighth-place finish in 1:01.74. Katie Pelletierwas 10th in a new personal-best time of1:02:57.

In the sprints, Sherika Nicholas turned inthe team’s best time in the 100 meters at 13.59,good enough for 13th overall while also run-ning a season-best time in the 200 meters aswell at 28.17.

The teams will compete at the BrownSpringtime Invitational Saturday.

Bulldogs shine on track

The men’s side was highlighted by a first place fin-ish from the 4x 400 meter relay team, which posteda personal best. (Bryant Athletics)

Women put up 20 goals, still fall to LIU

Just ask Tom Brady if he preferred the last 15NFL minutes he has played in comparison tothe 2008 season. (MCT Campus)

Boston College downs Bryant, 16-8

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When our parentswere in school, I amsure that professormeant something com-pletely different thanhow we view professorstoday: what they teach,how they teach it, andthe role they play in stu-dent’s lives. It’s no

longer the days ofwriting on the blackboard in medievalcursive, or lecturing

the entire period. We demand much more ofour professors. We want them to be our men-tors, to engage us in conversation, and to sup-port us in our non-academic adventures. Therelationship is more or less give and take,rather than a position of absolute authority.While these professors are certainly hard tofind, many schools, including Bryant, are mak-ing a step in the right direction.

I am not advocating for a complete overhaulof every academic department here on campus.I am simply advocating for a new perspective.Teaching is an ever-evolving discipline. Newtheories are constantly being developed andimplemented, strategies are being created, andlearning environments are being turned upsidedown. To me, this is positive change. Adaptingto the next generation of students is somethingthat every professor should be doing on a con-stant basis. Our brains are like sponges, wait-ing to be filled with information; informationto fuel our needs and wants, our desires andexpectations. Information that is relevant tothe world around us.

What needs to be realized is that studentsare unique—it’s no longer one size fits all. Stu-dents have different needs, wants, interests,learning styles, and views on the world. Em-brace this diversity, and create lessons that cul-tivate the undying passion our generation has

to learn. Create a community, where studentsare not afraid to speak up, where every stu-dent tries their best, and where failure is notthrown at student’s faces. Instead, encouragesuccess. If professors believe in us, then we be-lieve in ourselves. College is no longer a ver-sion of Animal House. We work hard for our

grades, and it needs to be recognized that wedo our work, want to get involved, and workclosely with professors to bring positivechange to our surroundings. It’s like the ‘60’s.I’m sure you remember. We want to reshapeeverything around us, and make it better forthose that come after us. With this studentchange, should come a shift in teaching style.

A ten page paper may not be the way to drillconcepts into our heads. Maybe, it’s a hands-onproject, actually applying those bolded wordswe read in our textbooks or maybe it’s bring-ing in more real-life experiences, questionsthat make us think, and not just power-pointsfrom the textbook publisher. Wipe the bore-dom off student’s faces and do something in-teractive, something that catches theirattention. We’ve already read the book (at leastsome of us have), so why does it need to be re-gurgitate the following morning? We come to

class to learn and to apply what we are readingto the world around us. We know you’ve gotyears of experience under your belt, storiesfrom the corporate world, and stories fromyour own family. Humanize yourself. Do notbecome the professor of bolded regurgitation.We’ve been there, and done that, all throughhigh school. Bring in information that is rele-vant, or we’re quick to zone out. The secondwe leave your classroom, we want to applywhat we just learned and discuss it at lunchwith a group of friends. We’re sick of beingbored and sitting in a desk all day, drilling outpapers that will be rendered useless when wegraduate. Bring on the projects that encouragestudent creativity and give us a chance tothink for ourselves.

With all of this being said, I think a selectgroup of professors has taken this new per-spective of teaching to a level above and be-yond my expectations. Professors are gainingfeedback on how the course is doing, wherethey are excelling, and where they could usesome help. If professors give us the outlet togive feedback, we will give it to you. Profes-sors are using the whole class period for a dis-cussion on current news, bringing in You Tubevideos to demonstrate class theories, makingtheir own power points, and even creatingprojects that help us apply what we havelearned inside and outside the classroom.While there is a small movement here of what Iwill call the “next generation of professors”,this movement needs to spread. Set an examplefor fellow professors, regardless if professorshave been teaching for one semester or fortyyears. Everyone has experiences, even stu-dents. Listen to the people around you, andembark on a journey towards improvement.Make a positive impact on students, and wewill come back clamoring for more. Send amessage that you could care less about makingan impact, and we won’t.

By Michael AdamsOpinion Editor

Teaching is Evolving

Americanculture hasevolved into acritically

flawed system of consumerist individ-ualism. We no longer use our personalrights as a powerful force to inspirechange but instead file them awayonly to be spoken on when we feelthey have been violated. Our focus isnarrowed so much on ourselves thatwe cast ballots based on personal in-come tax advantages rather than ex-tended policies incorporating benefitsfor masses of fellow human beings.Has our culture really become so ma-terialistic and self-centered that wehave lost our connection to humanity?Though I personally hope this is notthe case, the evidence of today is nottoo promising.

Our nation today is at a criticalpoint. We continue at war with anenemy whom we do not entirely un-derstand, together suffer in an econ-omy that is at a despairing low, andstand divided on the important socialissues of gay rights, gun control, abor-tion, and environmental protection.Though a new war, a new economiccrisis, and new issues, our nation hasundoubtedly been at similar pointslike this before.

The strongest comparison is thelate 1960’s when the Vietnam War, theCuba controversy, voting rights, andpoverty initiatives were all still burn-ing hot. America as a nation is not farremoved from this era; why thenshould we be concerned about comingout of such a similar situation today?

The most obvious difference is theapproach we are taking to current is-sues in the political activism of themajority. Sociology Professor Dr.Gregg Lee Carter remembers the early1970’s as a time fuming with participa-tion from students, parents, andgrandparents in forms of publicprotest, formal organizations, and out-ward civil disobedience through draftdodging and destruction of property.Carter recalls college campuses asplaces where it was impossible towalk down a pathway without receiv-

ing a flyer inspiring some sort ofcounteraction to governmental policy.It was simply a time incomparable totoday where involvement has beenlimited to presidential elections andrelatively toned down lobbyistgroups.

Professor Carter attributes the dif-ference in reactions among collegestudents and their relatives to the lossin personal connection that the mili-tary draft brought to households inthe 1960’s. He suggests that if reinsti-tuted today, the draft would bring outactivism amongAmericans very sim-ilar to that of theVietnam era. Inorder for the unitedhope for peace andequality that existedback then, Carter be-lieves that a modi-fied system forforced involvement be initiated by thegovernment - one that allows for opt-ing out of combat in Iraq in exchangefor a commitment to community serv-ice either here in America or abroad.Another Bryant professor, Thom Bas-sett, agrees that such a policy may in-spire participation.

Additionally, however, Bassett sug-gests that the real problem lies in thecorporatization of culture that has oc-curred over the past decade. By thisProfessor Bassett implies that we as anation have become too focused onour own personal bottom line benefitto realize that communal goals canstill be attained. He interestinglypoints to former President Bush’s sug-gestion that the best thing an Ameri-can could do after 9/11 involved goingout to shop as an example of how wenow feel like consumerism contributesto something much greater than theindividual.

Bassett instead holds that in realitya much more effective form of changewould be something similar to thoseof the 1960’s. The problem, he pro-poses, is that conservative and corpo-rate America have twisted thishistorically significant method of ac-

tivism almost into a joke of an excusefor drug use even when such was asmaller part of a greater movementthat brought about much positivechange for our nation.

Professor Basset is surprised thatmore action is not taking place on col-lege campuses today. He points outthat even while he was attendingschool in the 1980’s, protests againstthe United States’ policies in LatinAmerica had a strong presence amongstudents. Asking me of my input as astudent myself, I responded that

though I do participate in events hereon campus that inform me of impor-tant global issues such as the recentIshmael Beah and Raise Your Voiceevents, little was being carried out byindividuals after becoming informedon the subject matter. Bassett connectsthis observation back to the consumernature of Americans today, suggestingthat we as students have brought thephilosophy to the educational arenawhere we simply consume informa-tion for our own personal benefit ofpossessing the knowledge on the is-sues rather than using it as a source ofpower and initiating progressivechange.

Through these conversations withmy professors I have gained both abetter comparison to the past and un-derstanding of today in regards to po-litical activism in our culture. Justknowing why activism has droppedoff, however, is not enough, in that italone will not carry us out of this cur-rent crossroad which our nation is at.Instead I feel compelled to urge you asan individual to step out of this trendof individualist perspective and real-ize that communal participation simi-lar to the 1960’s can indeed lead to

progress in bettering humanity bothdomestically and abroad.

The United States is still in a posi-tion of great global influence as seenin the current global effects of our eco-nomic folly. Foreign nations are, how-ever, beginning to criticize thecontinued self-centeredness of our na-tion through acts of terror, publicprotest, and a general consensus ofmistrust in our governing bodies. Inorder to keep our respected status andthese opponents at bay, we must makeprogress back to universal welfare andaway from our individualistic focus oftoday.

As students we have the advantageof both freedom from life commit-ments such as careers and familiesand a wealth of information at our fin-gertips in campus libraries and facultymembers. As a united educated force,we also have the ability to form coali-tions that have an easy reach to onand off campus media outlets in ourarea. Instead of merely acting outwhen we feel that our personal rightshave been violated, we should use ourpersonal right of free speech to voiceour concerns on the issues of today.Our current President Barack Obamahas continually shown a respect forcollege students since the beginning ofhis campaign, so it can be expectedthat we would have his attention inour calls for governmental action.

In the end perhaps Dr. Carter isright that it is necessary for a draft tobe reinstated for large scale participa-tion to occur as it indeed did fuel par-ticipation in the 1960’s. Since we havethe attention of the President, how-ever, I feel that by merely stepping outof the consumption philosophy byusing our knowledge as power, wehave the ability to save the globe fromits current crash course with wide-spread suffering. There simply is nobetter way of insuring a better futurefor humanity than speaking up today;so we need to take advantage of ourgreat blessing of a democracy and in-dividual rights to inspire the changesfor our universal well being.

By Bryan RegeleStaff Writer

Knowledge is more than information; it is power

‘Through these conversations with myprofessors I have gained both a better com-parison to the past and understanding oftoday in regards to political activism in

our culture.’

(MCT Campus)

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ObservationsCompiled by Bryant Students

Bridge (no longer) Over Troubled WaterThe bridge is open now! It’s looking mighty fine,with the shiny new brick, too. Now campus doesnot seem twice as big!

Just Dance!We would like to congratulate the Velocity DanceTeam on a job well done at the dance expo. It wasdone very well, and we loved all the “single ladies”.

Kinsey Sicks was Downright AmazingThose of you unable to make the performancemissed out on quite possibly the funniest and mostentertaining act to ever hit this campus. We wereVERY impressed.

Spring Weekend Guest Rate is OurageousWe’re all for celebrating on spring weekend, but ifwe want to bring a friend on campus $30 is a li5lesteep. It seems that this rate increases with inflationevery year. Hmm....but, people are still buying them.

Have you found anything new or interesting oncampus? If so, send it to madams@bryant.edu.

Bryant Said What!?Compiled by Bryant Students

“Good Evening, Archway Office. . . I’m not a homeowner!”

“You have a penis, but you don’t! Which one of youis lying? Who is Kinsey Sicks?”

“Have you ever reached so far inside your belly but-ton that it hurts?”

“I could entertain the masses just by myself. Stop it!”

“How is that not a child? I mean, what is that?”

“Sex is like jelly beans. . . sometimes you just want toknow what you put in your mouth.”

“I would like to dropkick a goose. I think it wouldmake a cool sound.”

Prof: “MIM is coming!”Class: “MIMS!”Prof: “All of the MIMS are coming!. . . Who the hellis MIMS?”

Send quotes to madams@bryant.edu

Dear Editor,

I felt compelled to write this letter after reading the April 10th “Observations” column. There was anobservation made about the @Bryant announcements, and since I am responsible for sending out the ma-jority of those announcements, I wanted to respond. The first line: “We get a truckload every week.”made me laugh because there really is a truckload. Not to mention the multiple emails that have been de-nied that you don’t see. The irony here is that I collect these requests from various student clubs, organi-zations and departments on campus. These are the same groups that continually complain about receivingthem. You are the driving force behind these emails, yet most of you claim to delete them before you evenread them or block them completely ahead of time. Most of the clubs and organizations are completely dependent on the @Bryant announcements to ad-

vertise their events, and are often dismayed if an email is denied due to not meeting the deadline or be-cause it is a repeat request. Some students do not accept this denial, and have even gone to differentoffices to enlist help in sending their message. For a University that has Marketing as a major, I find thisdependency troubling. Where is the creativity? Since the majority of the Bryant community deletes theseemails, why not try a different approach? The @Bryant system offers an easy way out.As for the second point in the observation about offering up a better way to distribute these three years

ago, I believe at that meeting we discussed an option to the current system and came to the conclusion thatit too contained multiple flaws. It was suggested that all of the emails be put into one giant @Bryant an-nouncement. The only pro to this plan, that I can remember, was that it would limit the number of emailsthat go out. The cons were multiple and heavily outweighed the pros. An example would be: Monday isthe most requested day, and sometimes I have 25-30 emails to go out. If I put all of those emails in onegiant @Bryant, which one goes first? Which announcement goes last? Will the members of the commu-nity read through 25-30 announcements to see what might be of interest to them, or will they give up afterreading about 5? How unhappy will the people running an event be if their announcement is number 23on the list and they get poor attendance? I believe that the solution lies in reducing our dependency on the @Bryant system, and in return the

number of emails will be reduced. I challenge the student clubs and organizations to come up with newways to advertise their meetings and events and put to use what they have learned as a Bryant student.

Judi Rix

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How Do You Define Torture?A secret is a secret

for a reason. Peoplekeep secrets to pro-tect against a back-

lash of accusations. The same is true for thememorandums that were recently released byPresident Obama detailing the various tacticsemployed by CIA operatives in interrogationscenarios. There are many issues with the re-lease of this information. First, it raises yourmoral belief of what you consider torture. Ifyou do not consider near-drowning torturethen you probably would believe that the tac-tics used were justifiable under internationaland domestic law. That is all interpretation oflaw and an individual’s concept of what tor-ture is. For the Bush administration, tortureobviously did not incorporate such tactics assimulated drowning. Maybe my contrastingview is justbecause Iam toomorallystrict as aliberal tosee that ag-gressivelyharsh inter-rogationtechniquesthat notonly simu-late, butcreate a sit-uation ofclose tofully experi-encingdrowning ison somelevel inhu-mane and a violation of human rights. What-ever the circumstance the Obamaadministration has already condemned thetactics used by the CIA during the Bush ad-ministration. The next step could be to sanc-tion the people responsible for the policies.

While Obama has not said he will do eitheror, there is a chance that a commission will beset up to deal with the CIA operatives respon-sible for the implementation of the tactics. Ad-ditionally, the policy makers could besanctioned for their role in the creation ofthese former policies. It is an interestingprospect to see if either of these happens. Al-though, the people who committed these vio-lations in policy and action had declared themnot to be torturous that is the only means bywhich they are not tortuous; confusing, yes.

The issue is that the domestic laws that dealwith torture – which is forbidden – are not tooclear in terms of what is torture. The vague-ness allowed for the Bush administration tocircumvent the laws by giving their interpreta-tion of what torture was. The question I haveis whether the Obama administration’s recent

condemnation of the tactics used by Bush canbe enough to sanction the actions of the CIAoperatives or the policy makers that enabledthe operatives’ tactics. This issue deals specifi-cally with how to define the abstract notion oftorture. This is also all speculation of whatcould come and will be dependent on Obama’sfurther dealings with the prior policies.

In the mean time the administration needsto deal with the fact that they released thesememos and that their release has – and willcontinue to – spark the argument of whetherthe decision was in the best interests for thecountry. This is not just an argument that therelease of the memos in some way increasesthe danger posed to the United States, but thatthe information needs to be detailed further.These two opinions are obviously the poles ofan argument that centers on national security

versus humanrights.

The release ofthese memosshould not proveto be Obama tak-ing a stance ofhuman rightsover national se-curity. However,some of the infor-mation regardingthe tactics – whilenot specificallynoted – was par-tially admitted bythe Bush admin-istration.

What theproblem eventu-ally boils downto is gathering in-

formation versus morality. If enough qualityinformation is obtained through aggressivetactics, then should we forego our morality toprotect the country? It is a perplexing questionand one that places the defendant of eitherside in a situation to be criticized for theirviews in regards to the other. Although theBush administration found ways around theissue by classifying the techniques describedin the memos as non-torture tactics, it is a hardsell to claim that any kind of induced physicalor mental harm of another person for the pur-pose of gathering information is morally just.This may be too general of a way of interpret-ing what torture is, but really I, nor anyoneelse who has not experienced torture, knowsthe true definition of torture. It’s not the re-sponsibility of the person being interrogatedto determine what is tortuous, but the respon-sibility of the people who make the laws thatdefine interrogation techniques to understandthe moral consequences of their actions.

By Drew GreenStaff Writer

Leon Panetta, Director of CIA (MCT Campus)

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About a year ago, one ofthe Today Show anchors wasinterviewing a devastatedmother as she talked aboutthe death of her 21 year-oldson. Her son was a collegestudent and had participatedin “21 for 21.” Forthose of you readingthis familiar with thatphrase, no explanationis needed. For thoseof you not familiar,simply put, it is con-

suming 21 shots of alcohol on one’s 21st birthday.This woman’s son died as a result of complicationsdue to this behavior. Surely this tragedy did nothave to happen. As a Health Educator who happens towork on a college campus, I was overwhelmed with feel-ings ranging from sadness to anger. Sadness because justlistening to this woman and watching her body languagewould make anyone with a heart feel her pain. Anger be-cause based on all we know about the dangers of bingedrinking, this behavior continues to occur. Even worse, itis rationalized as a “rite of passage.” Abusive drinking re-sulting in violence, injury, and worst case, death is NOT arite of passage. The lines seem to have become blurredbetween drinking socially or moderately, and a no-holds-barred approach to alcohol consumption. As we close inon Spring Weekend, may the following serve as educa-tional points to remember well beyond the upcomingweekend. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse

and Alcoholism (NIAAA), overconsumption of alcoholcan lead to irreversible brain damage. Final exams areright around the corner. I’m sure many of you can dowithout any damage to neural connections and memory.

Researchers at Duke University found that those whobinge drink could be risking serious damage to theirbrains now and increasing memory loss later in adult-hood.Binge drinkers have the highest risk of injury, in-

creased risk of violence, and impairment in decision mak-ing. Binge drinkers also increase their risk of heart

disease, high blood pressure and type II diabetes. A studyin the American Journal of Epidemiology associated 4-5glasses of alcohol a day with elevated risk of developingliver cancer in both men and women. College drinking contributes to 1,700 deaths of col-

lege students between the ages of 18-24 each year, alongwith: •Almost 100,000 students between the ages of 18-24 be-coming victims of sexual assault or date rape•400,000 students having unprotected sex•More than 150,000 students developing a health problemrelated to alcohol•25% of students reporting academic problems caused byalcohol use (NIAAA, A Call to Action: Changing theCulture of Drinking at US Colleges)A study in the Journal of Nutrition reported those who

binge drink had more abdominal fat than those who con-sume moderate amounts of alcohol or those who abstain.Other physical side effects of binge drinking include pre-

mature aging, liver problems, and a jaundiced appear-ance. Five drinks at a typical bar can cost anywhere from$20 - $50. Five 8-ounce margaritas will run you about2,000-2,500 calories. Consuming five 10-ounce rum andCokes will cost you roughly 1,600-1,800 calories. Not tomention hangovers, dry mouth, and other physical sideeffects. That headache that comes with indulging in one

too many cocktails is a result of the brain’s bloodvessels dilating, causing a throbbing pain. Dehy-

dration causes the brain to pull from its lining, inten-sifying the pain – OUCH! A heavy bout of drinkingaffects nearly every system of the body for up to 24hours. For more information on the Anatomy of aHangover, stop by the Office of Health Education lo-cated in Health Services, Hall 16. Should someone exhibit any of the following signs

and symptoms of alcohol poisoning, call DPS or 911immediately: •Unconscious or semi-consciousness•Slow respiration (breaths) of 8 or less per minute orlapses between breaths of more than 8 seconds•Cold, clammy, pale or bluish skin•Vomiting•Confusion or stupor•SeizuresDo not leave the person alone! Try to wake the person up,continue to check breathing, turn the person on his or herside to prevent choking on vomit. Enjoy the spring weather and all this time of year has tooffer. As a reminder, the legal drinking age in the US is18. If you don’t drink, there’s no reason to start, if you dodrink, do so in moderation keeping yourself in control.And above all, look out for one another.

Happy spring! Be safe and be well!

WOW: To Binge or Not to Binge…..

By Jennifer DiPreteStaff Columnist

‘Binge drinkers have the highest risk of injury, increased risk of violence, and impairment in decision making. Binge drinkers also increasetheir risk of heart disease, high blood pressure

and type II diabetes.’

This weekend is SpringWeekend. This month alsohappens to be Sexual AssaultAwareness Month. AlthoughI’m not sure the creators ofthis month had college springweekends in mind when theyinvented the month., but theyshould have. I’m not going to mince

words in this last column ofthe year. Why? Because I’mfrustrated and angry.Frustrated that after all

these years of sexual assault awareness and talkingmore openly about sex, rape on campus is still waytoo prevalent. Men are still behaving badly andwomen are still reluctant to come forward to reportthese incidents. And when women are braveenough to come forward to report, they are stillbeing treated like they’re to blame for what hap-pened or worse, that they’re making it all up.Sadly I find that many of the Bryant women I talkto who have been assaulted, don’t want to reportthe incident because as they say “I don’t want toget him in trouble.” Oh really? He’s just ruined your life, but you

don’t want to inconvenience him? You think thatfor some reason, because you passed out from toomuch booze-- and he decided it was ok to have sexwith you-- that it was somehow your fault? Or be-cause even though you told him, as you were walk-ing back to your dorm that you didn’t want to havesex with him, he didn’t seem to get the messageand managed to pin you down on your bed andpenetrate you. Or worse, you trusted a guy friendto not take advantage of you, yet he did anywayand somehow you wonder whether you were toblame. So yeah, I’m upset that after twenty five years of talk-

ing about this, not a whole lot has changed. Hey guys-- avoiding being a perpetrator is not rocket

science. If you really want to be a better lover (because Iknow you all think you are already good lovers) followthese simple rules. Talk to a potential sex partner aboutconsent. It is a turn on for women. Ask her if she’s okwith what you’re doing sexually, find the words you needto get consent, whatever those words may be. Use theChris Peaks approach if necessary but please, make sureyou get consent to sexual activity before engaging in it. This means that you can’t have sex with someone who

has passed out from too much alcohol. Duh. If she’spassed out or asleep, she CANNOT give consent and ifshe doesn’t, it could be rape. This also means that if she

is impaired from too much alcohol she can’t give consent.Impaired is different from tipsy, and I know you knowthe difference between the two states. You need to beaware of someone’s level of intoxication. OK Toby, but what if both people are drunk? Well

guess what? Two people may be drinking but usually oneperson is trying to up the sexual ante. And usually thatperson isn’t as drunk as the other person no matter whathe or she says. If both people are drunk and going at it,then it may be hard to tell who is upping the sexual ante.But one of you (in heterosexual situations) is trying topenetrate the other person. Most rational people would

say that’s the person who is upping the ante. And that per-son better get consent. And if guys are really and trulywasted, they are not going to get it up. So there’s no anteto be upped is there?Drunken sex is sloppy sex. It usually isn’t very good

sex. Why take the risk that you may be having sex withsomeone who is too impaired to consent? Trust me, therewill be other opportunities to engage in sexual activity, inyour life time. Most likely within the week you’ll haveanother chance. Spring weekends are notorious for risky and danger-

ous sexual encounters, sexual misadventures, and sexualassault. Don’t become a statistic. And while I’m at it, it is important to know how to re-

spond to someone who tells you he/she has been sexually

assaulted because you may be the first person they aretelling. It's also important because your response will ei-ther help the person to heal and hopefully seek counsel-ing or, may hinder the person's ability to get help.Because the incidence of sexual assault is far too com-mon in our culture, it's worth the space in this column totalk about the best way to respond to a disclosure.

The best thing you can do is listen. Just listen. Whensomeone trusts you well enough to disclose an incidentthat was painful and assaultive to them, it's a good idea tojust be there, be in that moment. Sure, you may wonderabout the circumstances surrounding the assault. You maywonder why your friend chose to drink heavily on thatnight, why your friend trusted someone they just met,or why your friend didn't report the incident to the po-lice. But it's best to keep those thoughts to yourselfwhen someone has shared their sexual assault experi-ence with you. Remember that bad judgment is not a rape-able of-

fense. And after just listening, one way to respond is tolet that person know that you are glad he/she has toldyou about the experience. The next best thing to do is ask a simple question:

How can I help you? Or what can I do to help?Chances are that person may not know what you cando, but asking the question that way versus assumingyou know best what to do for your friend, will reallyhelp a victim move in the direction of regaining con-trol over his/her life.

Someone who has been sexually violated has hadthat highly personal and intimate decision taken awayfrom them. They have lost all sense of control overtheir life, their body and their decisions. As peoplemove from being a victim to becoming a survivor ofsexual assault, they often work on the issues of how toregain a sense of self as well as power and control intheir lives.As we head into Spring Weekend, I hope that every-

one has a terrific time. I really do. The weather fore-cast is great so let’s make this a weekend to remember.Please don’t contribute to national sexual assault statis-tics. To quote a great police drama back in the day: "Let’sroll and let's be careful out there."

If you or someone you know is sexually assaulted, call theWomen On Call at 401-258-4209. This is a 24/7 sexualassault response team staffed by Bryant administrators.All calls are confidential. Call any time, day or night.

Simon Says: Let’s be careful out there

ByToby SimonStaff Columnist

Have something to say? www.bryantarchway.com

(MCT Campus)

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Bulldog Flicks: 17 AgainThe film 17 Again

initially had a lot ofthings working againstit. A predictable plot

and an ex-Disney Channel star were only a coupleof them. In spite of this, the movie turned out to besurprisingly good, and even though I didn’t want to,I ended up an Efron fan by the credits.

Mike O’ Donnell (Matthew Perry) is a middleaged pharmaceutical salesman who was just turneddown for the promotion he’s been working for overthe past 16 years. On top of this, his wife (LeslieMann) wants a divorce, his kids barely want to seehim, and he’s living with his nerdy best friend Ned(Thomas Lennon) who sleeps in a bed shaped like apod racer. Flash back 20 years ago and you see a dif-ferent Mike O’ Donnell, this time played by ZacEfron. In his high school days he was a good look-ing and popular basketball star who had the girl ofhis dreams and a bright future ahead of him. Sohow did everything end up so badly for Mike? Atthe last game of his high school career, with talentscouts looking on, Mike had to make a choice. Doeshe play the game of his life and go on to play for theSyracuse Orange, or follow his (recently discovered)pregnant girlfriend out of the stadium and tell herhe loves her? You can imagine what happens.

Many critics had many reasons to be biasedagainst this movie, and it shows in the reviews. Forone, Zac Efron is still the kid from High School Musi-cal, and unfortunately for him the immense popu-larity of the franchise is inversely proportional tohis respect as an actor. Also, the film’s premise isclearly quite generic, the classic body switch do-over deal that we’ve seen a hundred times before infilms like Big, 13 Going on 30, and Freaky Friday, toname a few. Admittedly, this is what I thoughtgoing into the movie and fortunately I was wrong.

One thing that this movie does extremely well isthat it stays original where many similar movieswould have fallen into the cobweb of repetition. Themovie explores some of the different aspects of

what a situationlike Mike’s wouldentail, such as hiswife’s inexplicableattraction towards aboy who looks ex-actly like her highschool sweetheart.The movie is consis-tently funny too,such as a scenewhen teenage Mike(with the brain ofadult Mike) un-leashes a tirade on aschool bully whohappens to be dat-ing his daughter.Any scene betweenthe school’s princi-pal (Melora Hardin)and Ned are guar-anteed to be hilari-ous, especially theirfirst date. Sceneslike these and many others offer unexpected twiststhat make the movie worth watching. It’s well pacedand never becomes too heavy, two things that usu-ally kill movies in their attempt to reach beyondbeing merely “entertainment.” This movie is okwith just being a diversion, a distraction, and does agreat job of it.

Of course, I cannot say the movie was perfect.The biggest flaw was the staggering number of plotholes and inconsistencies. For example, would it notbe reasonable to believe that Mike’s old basketballcoach would at least be a little shocked by a kid wholooks exactly like the Mike he knew from 1989 walk-ing onto the team twenty years later? Also, teenageMike tells (adult Mike’s) wife that he’s her brother-inlaw’s kid in order to explain the striking similaritybetween him and her husband. Wouldn’t she have

met her husband’s brother at some point, or at leastknown he had a kid? I guess it doesn’t really matterthough, because this movie isn’t Back to the Future,it’s a throwaway.

To me this movie was like going to Salmo everyday. It’s good yet inconsistent, and we always wishit was better. I be-lieve that Efron hasa future in film; I’mjust not sure whereyet. Most likely, he’llbe a leading man inromantic comediesand possibly dra-mas. But I digress. Igive 17 Again 3 outof 5 Bulldogs.

By Luke StankiewiczStaff Writer

This movie earned 3 out of 5 bulldogs

Celebrity Round-UpParade maga-

zine has releasedits annual “WhatPeople Earn” issue

for 2008. It seems as though the eco-nomic recession is not affecting the pay-checks of the celebrities in Tinsel town.

Beyonce and Jay-Z earned a com-bined $162 million, while Tyler Perrywith his entertainment ventures earnedan amazing $125 million. But no onecomes close to an iconic doll that hasbeen around for 49 years; Barbie andMattel made a whopping $3.3 billion.

The race to reach one million follow-ers on Twitter came to an end last weekwhen Ashton Kutcher became the firstTwitter to reach this historic mark.CNN and Britney Spears later followedin reaching this mark.

Many new couples announced theyare expecting a baby. Congratulationsto Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeoand her husband Chris Ivery, and Fan-tastic Four’s star Ioan Gruffudd and hiswife Alice Evans. Meanwhile, countrystar Brad Paisley and KimberlyWilliams welcomed a baby boy last Fri-day.

Tennis pro Andy Roddick and swim-suit model Brooklyn Decker tied theknot last Friday in Roddick’s hometownof Austin, Texas. Guests were treated toa musical performance by Roddick’slongtime friend Elton John.

Miss North Carolina Kristen Daltonwas crowned Miss USA 2009 this pastSunday, but Dalton was probably over-shadowed by first runner-up Miss Cali-fornia Carrie Prejean’s answer tolegalizing same-sex marriage.

Her response to the question: “Welive in a land where you can choosesame-sex marriage or opposite mar-riage,” Prejean said. “And you knowwhat, I think in my country, in my fam-ily, I think that I believe that a marriageshould be between a man and awoman. No offense to anybody outthere, but that’s how I was raised.”

At the box office over the weekend17 Again, starring Zac Efron, took thenumber one spot bringing approxi-mately $23.7 million.

In the number two spot was State ofPlay starring Russell Crowe taking inapproximately $14.1 million nation-wide.

Rounding up the top three was lastweek’s number one Hannah MontanaThe Movie starring Miley Cyrus bring-ing in approximately $13.4 million, al-most a 59% difference from the movie’sopening weekend.

Just two weeks until the summerblockbusters start appearing in theaters.Movies opening nationwide this week-end include: the Disney documentaryEarth, Fighting, Obsessed, and The Soloist.

By Carlos RamosStaff Writer

WJMF SpringStockWJMF’s annual concert during Spring Weekend is fast approaching check out some of the bands we

have scheduled for this year’s show.

HeadlinerCrash Romeo: myspace.com/Crashromeo

Opening ActsAston: myspace.com/Aston

Baylock: myspace.com/Baylockmusic

Location: In Back of Koffler BuildingDate: Saturday April 25th

Time: 12 noon-4pm

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iinnttoo

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Harper’s Island killsA group of family and friends travel to

Harper’s Island—37 miles off the coast of Seat-tle, WA—for a destination wedding. It is to be aweek of joy and celebration, but what they don’t

know is that the festivities will be anything but fun. There is a killer amongthem…

So begins Harper’s Island, CBS’s new show that runs on Thursday nightsat 10, from now until July 2nd. Each week, one person—sometimes more—iskilled off, and the audience is left to wonder just who is causing all the may-hem. Anyone can be a victim, and everyone is a suspect. By the time 13weeks are over, everything will be revealed to the audience. And only a fewcharacters will be left.

The story centers around Abby, a Harper’s Island native who left sevenyears ago when her mother and five others were murdered on the island.She is returning for the first time to face her dark past and conquer herfears. Good luck with that! Abby’s estranged father is the local sheriff, butAbby is less than thrilled to see him again. Henry, the groom—and Abby’sbest friend from childhood—just wants his wedding week to go smoothly,while the rest of the people in the wedding party just want to have a goodtime. These include the bride Trish, her rich father and stepmother, thegroom’s fun-loving Uncle Marty, the clichéd bridesmaids and groomsmen,and some island residents who join the fun, among others.

The cast consists of little-known actors, but this works to the show’s ad-vantage. There are enough people playing sizable roles and smaller ones—some of which seem expendable—but you will still wonder who will bekilled next. Warning: there are surprises! The writers have a tendency to de-velop a character who you think will play a big role, only to kill them off inthat episode. This has happened more than once, and when it does, it seemssomewhat self-destructing of the show. If CBS wants to keep viewers, theyneed to keep around characters that we care about.

Thankfully, the show works on a lot of levels, mostly due to the fact thatwe have those well-established characters to root for (for now at least). One

By Coburn ChildsStaff Writer

See “Harper’s Island” on page 15

Zac Efron, who found fame as Troy in High School Musical and Link in Hairspray,stars as Matthew Perry’s 17-year-old counterpart in this new flick. (MCT Campus)

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No more Salmo or Mom’s Cooking, oh no!

Yes, it’s true. If you are moving out on your own(which does NOT mean you’re crashing in your par-ent’s basement) you’ve hopefully realized that alongwith the freedom and fun comes the brutal fact thatyou won’t have the convenience of Salmo or yourmom’s famous mac & cheese to save you from star-vation.Yup, you have to cook – not only that, youhave to go food shopping too.

This may seem like an easy task compared toyour Finance finals or making it to graduationdressed and sober, but you’ll come to find out thatit’s not as easy as you think. Even for you townhouse residents that make Raman noodles andscrambled eggs, you’ll quickly realize that working9 – 5 and living on your own comes with a wholebarrel of monkeys not expected. And I’ve been theretoo – there were many nights when the only thing Iknew how to cook was spaghetti with marina sauce(which isn’t bad, but you need something differ-ent!). After living on my own for… too many yearsto say, I’ve gained a lot of know-how that can helpmake the transition smoother. So, here we go.

My main arena where I have come to be some-what of a pro is the kitchen. Cooking is a great wayto unwind after a stressful day and literally getaway from your all electronics (your eyes will thankyou just as much as your tummy). Oh, and it’s agreat way to save some moolah (very very impor-tant) and not gain another Freshman Fifteen (andyou can even take them the next day to work – beatsbuying Subway everyday). So, here are three ex-tremely easy, quick and cheap recipes that anybodycan do and will help you mix up your nights!

Sweet and Sour ChickenApproximately 3 servings – takes about 20 minutesSo yummy and delicious you’ll forget about order-ing in.1 Chicken Breast

1 Pepper (any color) Vegetable Oil – 2 tablespoons

Jar of pineapple rings with juice1 cup water

1 medium sized Onion1 cup uncooked brown rice

1 handful of broccoli 1/3 cup La Choy Sweet & Sour sauce

First cut up the chicken – set aside – then (on aclean cutting board) cut up the peppers, pineapple,onions and broccoli all into bite sized pieces. Heatup a skillet with the Vegetable Oil and once hot addthe chicken, make sure to cook thoroughly on bothsides. While the chicken is cooking boil 1 cup water– once it comes to a boil add the rice and follow thedirections on the box. Once the chicken is no longerraw (looks white) add the peppers, onion, broccoliand pineapple – stirring every minute or so. The riceshould be done by now so just let it sit. When thebroccoli is dark green and everything looks a bitbrowned and doesn’t feel hard anymore add 4 table-spoons of the pineapple juice from the jar and mixup for 4 minutes or so (putting on a cover whenyou’re not stirring). Finally, add the sweet and soursauce, stir really well and add the rice – let it sit fora couple minutes and EAT! J

Italian Style Pork Chops and MoreApproximately 2 servings – 30 minutes

A dinner to make mom proud. 2 Pork Chops

2 tablespoons Vege Oil½ cup Italian Breadcrumbs

1 Egg Box of Quick Mashed PotatoesAdd 1 tablespoon butter if you want2 cups Frozen Broccoli

Stir up the egg yolk in a bowl and pour thebreadcrumbs into a second bowl – place next toeach other. Dip the pork chop in the egg and then inthe breadcrumbs; this will make the breadcrumbsstick! Heat up a skillet, pour in the vege oil and oncehot add the 2 pork chops and cover – these will takeabout 10 minutes on each side to cook until thereisn’t any pink in the middle. While the pork chopsare cooking boil a pot of water for the frozen broc-coli and cook for 5 minutes. And follow the direc-tions for the mashed potatoes. Once the pork chopsare done you’re all set – bon appetite!

Mandarin Chicken SaladApproximately 2 servings – 10 minutesFor those hot summer nights this will keep you cool. 1 Chicken Breast

Handful of cherry tomatoes1 tablespoon Olive Oil

Can of Mandarin OrangesHandful of baby spinach

Shaved carrots – apx 1 large carrot

Newman’s Own “Raspberry & Walnut Dressing” Croutons

Cut the tomatoes in half and cut the chicken intobite sized pieces. Heat up a small pan with the oliveoil and once hot add the chicken – stirring everycouple minutes. While cooking put spinach, toma-toes, mandarin oranges, carrots and croutons in alarge bowl and drizzle the dressing over – then tosswell! Pour out onto a plate and add the hot chickenbreast (or let it cool first) and you not only have ahealthy meal but it’s really yummy and kinda sweet.

Since none of you are living in the kitchen – whatabout the rest of your place?? Well, to begin with –your first apartment is just that – it’s an apartmentand nobody expects you to have all Pier One furni-ture and perfectly matched curtains and rugs. Havefun with it and make it your own space (especiallysince you don’t have to share or confine yourself toone little room) but keep in mind that you’re reallyonly enjoying your home for a few hours each nightand weekends. So, make it your own personal spaceto relax but don’t feel like you have to spend thou-sands – Ikea is a great place to start (just make sureto read the directions when you build anything –they’re tricky little buggers).

Some other quick suggestions: try to buy in bulkfor meats and freeze the extra that way you alwayshave some in the freezer. Buy extra shampoo, condi-tioner and soap because it really sucks getting in theshower at 6 am to realize that you are out of any (orall) – it’s much easier to get the one under your sinkthan run to the corner store all wet and soapy. Don’tforget to hide a key outside somewhere – this willguarantee you never get stuck outside in yourbathrobe (or worse, all wet and soapy because youran out to buy conditioner!).

Finally, without sounding too corny, this is agreat time to actually listen to your parent’s advice –remember, they’ve lived on their “own” for manyyears and probably have some sprinkling of sugges-tions that can help you get over the bumps of yournew lifestyle. And don’t think of graduation as leav-ing behind the best years of your life – trust me, thenext four years are going to be even better.

So, to all the seniors out there – Congratulationsand Good Luck!

By Erin MadoreStaff Writer

of the things that doesn’t quite work, how-ever, is the scare factor. While the show isbeing marketed as horror, it really isn’t. Ithas some gruesome moments—some ofthem surprising for network television—but overall it is a plot-driven mystery, not amindless kill-fest. Suspenseful? yes. Scary?no. It is an interesting premise that youdon’t often see on television: set up a storythat will only last for one season, kind oflike a reality show. Instead of voting peopleoff, they are killed off. The writers ofHarper’s Island have also said that if a sec-ond season were to be done, it will be anall-new setting with completely differentcharacters.

The action is only a couple of episodesin, and so far it is entertaining. As of thiswriting, five people are already dead. Butmany more are suspects. Could the killer beJD, the shady brother of the groom? Howabout Jimmy, the too-nice-to-be-true ex-boyfriend of Abby? He lives on the islandand seems to be a little too happy that Abbyis back for a visit. Maybe it’s Chloe, abridesmaid who is way too obsessed withthe island’s dark past? Or Cal, herboyfriend who doesn’t seem to fit in withthe rest of the rich, uptight family? Andwhat’s with Madison, the creepy flower girlwho has a fondness for chanting an eerie“one by one” every time we cut to commer-cial break?

The characters on Harper’s Island arevery interesting, keeping you wonderingwho will go next and who just might have amotive to kill. While the writing may not bethe strongest, it works for what it is: an en-tertaining murder mystery that plays out inClue fashion, constantly keeping you guess-ing. Of course, the show has many notice-able flaws. Some cheesy acting, baddialogue, and overly-coincidental situationsare laughable, but what do you expect froma show like this?

While Harper’s Island isn’t a show foreveryone, it is nevertheless an entertainingbit of cheesy fun. Since it only runs for 13weeks, I am going to keep watching—andguessing—until the end. If you are a fan ofmurder mysteries, plot twists, and interest-ing characters, you should watch too!

Spring Awakening takes on PPAC

Winner of eight Tony awards, including “Best Musi-cal of 2007,” Spring Awakening is a contemporary rockmusical about a group of teenagers in a repressive soci-ety in 1980 Germany who are navigating their waythrough the hardships of puberty. Steffi D, who is star-ring in the national tour of Spring Awakening as Ilse,said, “It tells the timeless story of coming of age andhaving questions about the changes that are happeningin your mind and body that are both frightening andexciting at the same time.”

Spring Awakening was originally written by FrankWedekind in 1891; in 1999, singer Duncan Sheik, bestknown with his hit “Barely There,” and Stephen Satercame together and adapted the play to a rock musical.“The juxtaposition of the classical story with the mod-ern rock score is trying to show the dichotomy betweenthen and now and how nothing has changed,” saidSteffi.

In Spring Awakening, Wendla tries to explore themysteries of her body, but is told to be quiet by hermother; Melchior tries to help his friend, Moritz, who isstruggling through puberty. When Wendla and Mel-chior accidentally meet, the two fall in love. Wendlasoon discovers she is pregnant. Moritz drops out ofschool. He cries for help, but does not even listen to hisfriend Ilse. Moritz later commits suicide. Melchior is ex-pelled because the Headmas-ters believe he is responsiblefor the “crime” of Moritz’ssuicide. Melchior andWendla must go against allodds to be together and toraise their child.

Spring Awakening featuresa talented and bright cast.Steffi plays the troubled Ilse,a 15 year-old girl who runsaway from home “to live as abohemian in an artists’colony to escape her fate athome” in the national tour ofSpring Awakening. “Ilse is themysterious, colorful out-sider,” commented Steffi.“She has grown up beforeher time. She is an old soul ina girl’s body. Unlike all thecharacters in the story, shehas gone through her ‘springawakening’ already.Throughout the show, she islike a phantom overseeingthe action of the play and re-mains very mysterious until

the second act. She is a very symbolic character that canbe interpreted in so many ways. She is also the onlycharacter who wears bright green in the show, symbol-izing the flowers blooming and spring. She’s a butter-fly.”

Steffi believes that Spring Awakening is a timelessstory that tackles themes that will always be part ofhuman nature. “Any teenager will recognize him orherself in one of the characters,” said Steffi. “Any adultwill remember how hard the journey through pubertywas. Whether you are going through it or have gonethrough it, you can relate to this story. If you are a par-ent, bring your teen to the show and then have the‘birds and the bees’ talk! Because at a certain age, teensstop believing in the stork!”

Spring Awakening has performances at the Provi-dence Performing Arts Center until April 26th; the tourwill then continue to the Colonial Theatre in Bostonfrom April 28th until May 24th. “Come be moved by themusic that is like poetry set to music,” Steffi said.“Everything is open to interpretations in the songs. Thelighting, the set, the choreography and the direction isso beautiful. We are painting a picture that is so mov-ing and real. Come be entertained and maybe learnsomething... Or just watch and listen to us tell this storythat has to be told.”

By Brigit ClancyVariety Editor

Harper’s IslandContinued from page 14

Don’t miss out on seeing the ‘Best Musical of 2007.’(Broadway World)