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By Emily [email protected]

Rumors were confirmed on Sat-urday Sept. 19; “SportsCenter on the Road” will make its way to Colleg-eville to preview the Johnnie-Tom-mie matchup on Sept. 26.

The unique opportunity present-ed to CSB/SJU was made possible through the efforts of the SJU Athlet-ics Department, the vast network of Bennie and Johnnie alums and the cooperation of ESPN. Though the original intent of contacting ESPN

was to have “College GameDay” take place at SJU, Athletic director Tom Stock is nonetheless pleased with the result.

“We knew it was probably a long shot,” Stock said. “But if we didn’t push hard enough it wasn’t going to happen. We didn’t get ‘GameDay’ but we got the next best thing.”

It was the legendary rivalry and small town atmosphere of Colleg-eville that drew ESPN to St. John’s. In recent years “SportsCenter on the Road” has been on location to vari-ous heralded sporting events includ-

ing the NFL draft and NBA Finals.“Driving in it really hits you,” said

Michael Fountain, senior coordinat-ing producer of “SportsCenter on the Road.” “This is a small town that cares about their athletes and foot-ball.”

The “SportsCenter on the Road” crew decided on SJU after conclud-ing that although St. John’s is small, it still resonates with people outside of the community. It is a setting that many of SportsCenter’s viewers can relate to.

“We jumped at the opportunity to

take the show to people who actually watch it,” Fountain said.

ESPN crews arrived Thursday to begin set up and film some pre-re-corded portions for the show at CSB. Additional segments to be used for the broadcast were filmed on Tues-day, including a look inside a John-nie football practice. A piece shot on Friday will look into the life of DIII athlete, senior Drake Matuska, which will air live on Saturday.

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Members of the Johnnie football team storm into Clemens Stadium amid cheering fans. Administration expects record crowds for the game on Saturday.

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johnnie-tommie previewBy Tom [email protected]

In 1952, a young man named John Gagliardi walked into an interview for the head football coaching posi-tion at St. John’s University. He was immediately asked two simple ques-tions. The first question regarded scholarships, as NCAA didn’t estab-lish Division III athletics until the 1970’s.

The second question: “Can you beat St. Thomas?”

“I replied, ‘I think so’”, said Ga-gliardi, the winningest coach in

NCAA football history. “I was a young and cocky guy at the age of 24 coming off three conference champi-onships [at Carroll College] so I liked my chances.”

The rivalry on the football field between St. John’s University and the University of St. Thomas be-gan in 1901 with the story of Igna-tius O’Shaughnessy. The 16-year old student paid $100 to attend St. John’s, following his older brothers up to Collegeville. That same year, O’Shaughnessy lead the Johnnies to a 16-6 win in their first contest against the St. Thomas Tommies.

N o t l o n g a f t e r w a r d s , O’Shaughnessy infamously skipped Sunday evening prayer at St. John’s to tap a keg in the woods with some friends. He was caught by adminis-tration and expelled. O’Shaughnessy left campus on a train and ended up in St. Paul, where he met with the St. Thomas president who accepted him into the University. O’Shaughnessy developed into a star player and served as captain of the football team until his graduation in 1907. Later in his life, he donated millions of dollars to St. Thomas and has many build-ings on campus entitled after his

namesake, including the UST foot-ball stadium.

Over 100 years have passed and 83 games have been played since O’Shaughnessy wore the white and red of St. John’s in 1901. And on Saturday, September 26th, St. John’s University will meet the University of St. Thomas once again on the grid-iron.

With both teams undefeated and Clemens Stadium hosting the ESPN

By Gretchen [email protected]

Much of downtown St. Joseph has been the same for years.

Gary’s, The La Playette, and The Middy have been mainstays for de-cades.

Things changed, though, on Au-gust 25 when a fresh face quietly opened its doors on College Avenue.

Sliced, a deli-style pizza restaurant and grill, is the brainchild of Tanya Finken and Jason Streit. Finken is the owner of Kay’s Kitchen, another long-standing St. Joseph restaurant, while Streit was the kitchen manager there.

Finken came up with the idea to open Sliced after getting frequent re-quests from customers at Kay’s.

“We kind of threw around the idea of adding some flatbread pizzas to our menu [at Kay’s], and some lunch and delivery service options,” Finken said. “We just weren’t really able to do that in addition to what we had going at Kay’s already.”

Finken and Streit say they used the customer demand as an opportunity to be creative, while filling a hole in the St. Joseph food market.

“I think Gary’s does a great job, but truly, someone who does pizza during the day in St. Joe doesn’t exist,” Finken said. “Where there’s a delivery service, where people can come in and enjoy it, whether it’s by the slice or having a whole pizza, I think that’s where we’re trying to hit that market a little more.”

The owners say they added features to cater especially towards conve-nience. A take-out window near the entrance for late night hours and by-the-slice pizza were part of that.

“I grew up in St. Joe, I’ve seen kids standing outside Gary’s for two hours,” Finken said. “I think that was my first strike, what aren’t they doing

►See PIZZA Page 2Sliced draws attention in St. Joe

By Bridget [email protected]

Over the summer, St. Ben’s and St. John’s were each awarded a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. The grants extend over 18 months and will be used to help faculty members attend workshops and conferences to learn how to better teach an increasingly diverse student body.

In effect, St. Ben’s and St. John’s hope to improve experiences at the college for all students. The grants themselves were written by the of-fices of St. Ben’s President Mary Hin-ton and St. John’s President Michael Hemesath.

Jean Keller, a CSB/SJU professor of philosophy and gender studies, will be overseeing the implementa-tion of the St. Ben’s grant, while Kyhl Lyndgaard, the director of First-Year Seminar and the CSB/SJU Writing Centers, will be managing the St. John’s grant.

Practice gear is lined up and ready for the rivalry on Saturday.

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Sept. 16 - Gorecki Dining: medical/burnsSept. 16 - McGlynn’s: medical/allergic reac-

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dominal painSept. 17 - Lottie Hall: medical toe injurySept. 18 - East Apartments: drugsSept. 19 - Gorecki Bus Stop: underage con-

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Millstream Arts Festival highlights talent in St. Joseph

Located across the street from each other, Gary’s and Sliced both offer various pizza options for CSB/SJU students

By Maddy [email protected]

Wednesday’s Senate meeting start-ed off with guests from the Climate Action Club. They will be traveling to France in November for the United Nations Framework Conservation on Climate Change (UNFCC) meet-ing to get more involved on Climate change on a national level.

The co–funding board report-ed that $200 was allocated to the Asian Club for a guest speaker visit, $1,840.80 was allocated to the Swing Catz club for dance lessons, and $1,200 was allocated to the Buddhist Meditation Club for meditation class-

es on Wednesdays. The senate allocated $225 during

Wednesday’s meeting for poster mak-ing for the Johnnie-Tommie game this weekend. The top 10 submitted posters will be printed.

The Senate also spoke about the Sports Bra Petition. President Ryan–Mosley said that it was decided that both CSB students and SJU students must wear an appropriate T-shirts or tank tops at the CSB recreational areas.

The next Saint Ben’s Senate meet-ing will be held on September 30. Trustee Knudsen will be attending the next Saint John’s Senate meeting on September 28.

Sept. 16 - St. Bernard Hall: recovered prop-erty

Sept. 16 - St. Gregory House: medicalSept. 16 - St. Mary Hall: medical Sept. 17 - Quadrangle: medicalSept. 17 - St. Mary Hall: open doorSept. 17 - St. Vincent Court Apts.: fire alarm Sept. 18 - Sexton Bus Stop: (2) alcohol vio-

lation Sept. 18 - St. Bernard Hall: alcohol violationSept. 18 - St. Thomas Hall: alcohol violationSept. 18 - St. Thomas Hall: drug violationSept. 18 - St. Vincent Court Apts.: fire alarmSept. 18 - Warner Palaestra: matter of infor-

mation Sept. 19 - Sexton Bus Stop: alcohol violationSept. 19 - Sexton Bus Stop: medicalSept. 19 - St. Benet Hall: fire alarmSept. 19 - St. Elizabeth Apts.: (3) alcohol

violationSept. 19 - St. Elizabeth Sexton Apts.: prop-

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mation Sept. 20 - St. Thomas Hall: medicalSept. 21 - Quadrangle: medicalSept. 21 - St. Vincent Court Apts.: fire alarm

By Leah [email protected]

The Millstream Arts Festival is an outdoor arts festival that features local and regional artists from all aspects including ceramics, painting, draw-ing, photography, jewelry and more. It even features authors and poets in a booth called The Bookend. There is live music, including songs from the CSB/SJU Jazz Ensemble and Stearns County Pachanga Society. Volunteers from St. Joseph run this non-profit organization. It takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27 on Main Street in downtown St. Joseph

The purpose of the event is to of-fer a venue for local and regional artists to exhibit and sell their art to a large crowd. But it also is oppor-tunity to bring art and music to the community and to benefit businesses downtown from having the festival on Main Street, because the festival gets an attendance of around 8,000 to 10,000 people.

There has always been a connec-tion between CSB/SJU and the Mill-stream Arts Festival. It began back in the early 1980s and took place on St. Ben’s campus. The festival took place under one huge tent and inside the old horse barn that no longer exists. Since 2007, the Millstream Arts Festi-val has taken place downtown.

The other role that CSB/SJU has in the festival is that some of the board and planning committee members are faculty, staff and alumnae. Molly Renslow, the director of college rela-tions, is one of the members on the board. The Office of Sustainability and the Sustainability Club members have helped with recycling efforts for the past 4 years.

“CSB Facilities Maintenance has kindly hung our banners. St. Ben’s is a major donor,” Mary Niedenfuerm,

the Department Director for Hispan-ic Studies at St. Ben’s said. “St. John’s offers in-kind promotional assistance. Also, St. John’s Prep Honor Society students have helped with cleanup for many years.”

The art that this festival showcases has to be made a certain way.

“All of our art must follow a certain criteria [such as being handmade or hand-done],” Niedenfuer said. “Work is reviewed by an independent group of jurors who are representatives of the art community. We try to main-tain a high standard and a good bal-ance of media.” The artists that get featured are the ones that the board has gathered.

“We gather information of artists’ work [that] we like and send out in-vitations to apply,” Niedenfuer said. “We also put out a call for artists. We will consider any artist or media, in-cluding folk art.”

The board both seeks out artists that they like and considers artists that come to them.

“Without CSB/SJU, there probably wouldn’t be a Millstream because it was so integral to its beginnings and its history.” Niedenfuer said.

The fact that the festival started on college grounds and continues to be held around a college atmosphere changes the way that the festival is run.

“We like to think of Millstream as a community-run festival, but the fact that St. Joseph is a college town means that there is a certain culture that is [friendlier] to art and music,” Niedenfuer said. “This is a true artist community and a lot of that is thanks to the college and university atmo-sphere,”

The average college student can get a lot out of it, according to Nieden-fuer. “There is so much to see and do,” said Niedenfuer. “The music is phe-

nomenal. There are a lot of free things to do. There’s no admission price,” This year, the festival has an artist do-ing sidewalk chalk art and others will be able to play around with chalk as well. Students can also volunteer to help with Children’s Art.

“We have so much to offer, so much diversity, that even someone who doesn’t think they know any-thing about art will quickly come to

know it when they see it,” Niedenfuer said. “Art isn’t just what you see, it’s what you feel—how it makes you feel. We hope that there is something for everyone to be moved by it,”

Niedenfuer believes that there is more to art than a painting. The way a piece of wood is carved to how a piece of glass is shaped, if it’s pleasing to the eye, touches your heart or brings you joy, it’s art.

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A poster advocating for the Millstream Arts Festival on the CSB/SJU campus.NICOLE PEDERSON• [email protected]

By Michael [email protected]

This week’s senate meeting began with a lot of talk about the arrival of ESPN on the SJU campus. Dean of Students Michael Connolly voiced his concerns that students would be-gin drinking earlier in the day for the new event. The senate brainstormed ideas for alternate activities to incen-tivize “classy” conduct at the Johnnie-Tommie game.

They allocated $470 to the Asia club for a social event and a speaker about North Korea, $1,894.08 to Swing Cats for instructors, $200 to Chinese Cross Cultural Communica-

tion Club and $1,200 to the Buddhist Meditation club for instructor costs. The senate denied a reimbursement request to the ELAC club.

Motions to allocate $1,550 to the OLC for Fall Semester Funding, $100 to Peace Studies for WeAreOne in St. Cloud, $650 to Basketball for Halftime Entertainment, $550 to the Rat Pak, $130 for Johnnie football posters and $1,000 to campus life for breakfast on Saturday morning were passed unanimously.

The next St. John’s Senate Meeting is at 9:20 p.m. on Sept. 29 in Brother Willie’s Pub.

here that the town could really use?”

“Quick services are kind of up-and-coming still,” Streit said. “[Cus-tomers] want something quick and fast, and they want it to taste good, and be homemade. That’s some-thing that I think we’ve accom-plished pretty well.”

The restaurant is aiming for traffic from CSB/SJU students. Last week, they sponsored a fundraising event for student group Extending The Link, which brought in new busi-ness.

Students are already talking.“I think it’s great,” senior Billy Ga-

gliardi said. “It’s a good spot to go for a bite. The people are really nice there, and the food is delicious.”

Sliced has a notable neighbor. Gary’s, a pizza restaurant popular

with students since the 1980s, sits directly across the street. But Sliced says it’s taking a different approach from its next-door neighbor, and Gary’s isn’t worried.

“Their business model is so differ-ent than ours,” said Roger Steichen, Owner of Gary’s Pizza. “It’ll affect us, but I don’t think that it’ll change the way we do things. I actually think it’ll work out for both of us.”

Part of the difference in business models, Streit says, is the unconven-tional types of food Sliced plans to offer. This week, they had mac and cheese pizza. Streit says he’s on the lookout for more ideas.

“I’ve got a notebook, I’ve got maybe thirty ideas so far written down,” Streit said. “Eventually, I’m gonna get to all of them. It’s just a matter of time.”

While starting a new business can be daunting, Finken says the first few weeks have been well-received.

“It’s a risk, but St. Joe is a great testing community, and a great population of both locals and stu-dents. It’s a melting pot for trying things.”

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By Ellie [email protected]

Within the last decade, the use of drones has become more positively viewed as these tools have been able to collect valuable information and data for various types of projects.

From Sept. 16-18, a drone was brought onto the St. John’s campus by Jay Karst, videographer and sole proprietor of Nomad Images, in or-der to collect footage and high defini-tion photographs that will help with maintenance planning, preservation and future construction of the Al-cuin library, the Abbey church and the Preparatory School.

Kristen Buckland, Associate AIA at CSNA Architects, assisted Karst during the excursions of the drone. She described the process of the con-struction and how the renovations are made possible by the $150,000 grant awarded to the institution.

“The university has just been awarded a Getty Foundation grant to renovate the Abbey church,” Buckland said. “So, with that, we have to figure out what is wrong with the church. Some people have never been on the paint or the glass or the marble or the facade itself, so we needed to actually get up there to figure out, are they falling apart? Are they decaying? We figured we could send up a drone that photographs in 30 seconds. So, we had Jay come in and fly all over the building so that we could actually get photos.”

Karst’s company, Nomad-Image, is based out of Golden, Colorado and has been in business for three years. Karst is personally licensed to fly the drone and is in-tune with the safety qualifications needed to operate such a machine. In fact, he created the en-tire drone that was used on campus by hand.

Any student purchasing a drone and attempting to fly it around cam-pus would be cautioned by Karst as the process of flying the drone re-

quires much knowledge of the me-chanics of the drone and also how

to maneuver it while being pressed with conditional struggles. Despite

the gusting winds and the nearby buildings the day Karst flew the UAV,

there was no question as to whether or not it was safe to use.

“What I do is videography and with this new technology I have ac-tually used drones,” Karst said. “We utilize this technology, but we didn’t use it until about two years ago. We are more focused on commercial. We don’t do weddings or things like that. We have a very high standard of safety. I don’t fly over people. You saw the email go out, we have a long line of permission to maximize safety ef-ficiency and cost effectiveness.”

Through the use of the drone, Buckland and other team members working on the project, get to see close up shots of the concrete and other parts of the Abbey that are not easily accessible. In addition to the images, they were able to capture vid-eos that will help to create a model of what the addition of Alcuin will look like. With this technology, they will be able to predict traffic flows and other conditions before the addition is even completed.

The drones also allowed for the project team to look at the Prepara-tory school which is hoped to also be renovated years down the road.

Though the UVA did play a large part in facilitating planning for con-struction of new structures on cam-pus, it also allowed for the preserva-tion of the current structures, par-ticularly the Abbey church.

“The beauty is that it’s a way to catalog and preserve art, if you will,” Karst said. “You can see every inch of this thing and that information can be passed and streamed and send to people so you can use it as working points. Our goal and our mission is that we can be safer, more effi-cient and more effective by the use of UAVS. This is just one tool in the quiver that actually takes a shot from good to great. As the footage will show, we’re arrived. It’s here, it works and it is fantastic.”

By Catherine [email protected]

Sophomore Mary Esker wears him around her neck, and senior Will Jude has shaken hands with him, but Friday 30 St. Ben’s and St. John’s students will have the opportunity to make their dreams reality and be in the presence of Pope Francis in Philadelphia.

Jude, along with Fides et Ratio and St. John’s Campus Ministry has been working since February to send a group of students from our campus to Philadelphia to bear witness to Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families.

Students leave Friday, Sept. 25, fly to Philadelphia and attend Papal events including speeches and Mass. They will return Monday Sept. 28.

Fides et Ratio hopes to see par-ticipants filled with Christ’s light and the joy of the Gospel and be able to radiate that joy upon returning to campus.

While abroad in Rome, Jude be-came inspired with the idea for the trip. Carefully connecting with on-

campus clubs and organizations in-cluding Fides et Ratio and St. John’s Campus Ministry, Jude began the process of organizing the trip.

“[It is] frankly the largest event the club has ever done,” Jude said. “It was a lot of work. Months of work.”

It was a large undertaking, to say the least. First, Jude had to get ap-proval from Campus Ministry and the co-funding board, and later pur-chase airline tickets, bus tickets, hotel rooms and organize in-city transpor-tation. More recently, he has had to cope with the ever-changing game plan for the event, and snag tickets for Pope Francis’ speech and Mass at Independence Hall.

Jude has had the pleasure of seeing Pope Francis on multiple occasions, including shaking his hand while abroad. He is most excited to see the students encounter a man who is clearly living out the Gospel in such a Christ-like way.

According to the World Meeting of Families website, the topic for the event is “Love is Our Mission: The Family is Fully Alive.” Jude expects Saturday’s speech at Independence

Hall to be focused on freedom of religion and immigration, and most likely to emphasize the importance of the traditional family in today’s changing society.

“He talks a lot about how children need a mother and a father in their lives,” Jude said.

This view may not be shared among all participants on the trip, or among all members of the CSB/SJU community, but for most trip-goers this is an exciting opportunity to ex-plore the teachings of Pope Francis.

Esker is “pumped” for the experi-ence and looks forward to being “in the presence of such a holy man.”

For Esker, this will be her first time seeing Pope Francis and she looks forward to building community with a number of other students who she hasn’t met. She loves the idea of surrounding herself with a group of Catholics and growing in her faith, which she intends to bring back to campus and share.

Like Esker, the students set to de-part for Philadelphia are anxiously waiting for the moment to be in the presence of a well-known and transi-

tional figure in the Catholic Church. Both Jude and Esker emphasized

that if students are interested in this one of a kind opportunity, they should get involved with Fides et Ratio or another Campus Ministry program. At this point there are no other similar trips planned, but Jude said FOCUS Missionaries usually puts on retreats throughout the year.

“If you want to support the group, the best thing is prayer,” Esker said. “For those of you who are religious, the group would appreciate your prayers as they embark on this pil-grimage, and for those of you who aren’t, a thought would be appreci-ated too.”

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ASHLEY GROEBNER• [email protected] Students who plan to attend the trip to Philadelphia gather for meeting.

Students who plan to attend the trip to Philadelphia gather for meeting.SEAN DONOVAN • [email protected]

Students venture to Philadelphia to hear Pope Francis speak

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Drone offers an advance in rennovations

Kristen Buckland and Jay Karst pose by drone used to capture images and videography of buildings at St. Johns.

By Gretchen [email protected]

In tiny, brick-covered Luke Hall—connected to the quad, but hardly visited by students—there’s a cozy corner office, filled with bookshelves to the ceiling—and an electric keyboard next to a desk.

It’s where you can f ind Fr. Anthony Ruff, a monk at St. John’s Abbey, and a musician of sorts.

“I do some composing,” Ruff says.” “I do more arranging, and I do mostly playing and conducting.”

A 1986 St. John’s grad and current professor in the theology de-partment at St. John’s, Ruff teaches liturgy, liturgical music, Gregorian chant and directs the Gregorian schola, or choir.

He’s also written every single psalm melody for the abbey, for every day of the year, for the past 12 years. It’s an important job—psalms are a crucial part of the Benedictine tradition. But his audience is usually familiar.

This week, he got the chance to

compose for an unfamiliar audi-ence—Pope Francis, during his his-toric visit to Washington, D.C.

The opportunity came one day back in April, when Ruff got a call from the music director at St. Mat-thew’s Cathedral in Washington.

“He said, ‘Anthony, I have to plan a liturgy with the pope, can I pick your brain?’” Ruff said. “’It’s not mass, it’s mid-day prayer. You monks do mid-day prayer every day, so you know what that is. Can you help me select good music that’s appropriate?”

The director asked Ruff if he could compose one of the three sung psalms for the Pope’s service.

“I said, ‘I will try writing some-thing, and I will send it to you and see what you think,” Ruff said.

The psalm was a hit. On Wednes-day, it was used in the Pope’s service in Washington, D.C. for U.S. Bishops, and sung by both the congregation and the choir.

Because Ruff’s psalm was used, he flew to Washington to be in at-tendance at the service, which was closed to the public.

Composing a psalm isn’t simple, Ruff says. Although it’s a frequent part of a standard Catholic mass, and uses lyrics that are hundreds of years old, there’s still an artistic quality to the process.

“More technically, I start with the text,” Ruff said. “I recite it, and I try to

hear the natural rhythm and lilt and the poetry of the text, and then the melody grows out of that, then the harmonies and the choir parts grow out of the melody.”

The writing process happened back in April and May. Wednesday, then, was the culmination of a lot of hard work and excitement.

“As a monk I’m supposed to be-lieve in humility, but as a human, I’m thrilled.”

While writing the psalm was an honor, Ruff says his hard work wasn’t about receiving any sort of recogni-tion.

“It’s supposed to be a service, and it should really be about, ‘How do these

people pray well?’ and, ‘can I help them to pray?’ and not, ‘can I be the rock star?’ And actually, my name is only in the back of the program, so most people won’t even see it.”

Ruff ’s composition for the psalm can be found at Praytellblog.com.

The Pope’s visit to D.C., New York, and Philadelphia this week is his first in the United States, and the first U.S. visit by a pope in over 50 years.

Thirty students from CSB/SJU will leave Friday for Philadelphia to at-tend the Papal events there, and staff members from the colleges and ab-bey will be in attendance at events in both D.C. and Philadelphia.


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Comedy group Attention Starved Children continues practice and performances amid issues securing practice spaces

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What: Johnnie-Tommie GameWhen: 1 p.m. Saturday Where: Clemens FieldDescription: Support the Johnnies as they face their biggest rival of the yearCost: Free for students

What: Sean Jones QuartetWhen: 7:30 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Gorecki Family Theater, CSBDescription: Bandleader Jones will play selections featured at the top jazz festi-vals in the world. Cost: $10 for students

What: Fall Concert: Jon BellionWhen: 9:00 p.m.Where: HCC Field House, CSB

What: SJU Rugby v.s. St. ThomasWhen: 10:00 a.m. SaturdayWhere: Radio Tower Drive

What: Chinese Moon FestivalWhen: 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.SaturdayWhere: Quad 170, SJU

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By Danny [email protected]

L e t ’s s t a r t w i t h a w o r d association.

Danny Gillis: “Johnnies and Bennies.”

Nick Harbeck: “Coconuts indeed.”DG: “Bigfoot.”NH: “We have a few”DG: “Attention Starved Children,” NH: “The best.” When talking to an improv

comedy group, it’s always fun to start with a little word association game, in the same manner that the Attention Starved Children (ASC) perform similar improvisation games for their audiences.

ASC is a group of Johnnies and Bennies who perform improvised comedy skits. The group is rather unique on campus, as their perfor-mances for the CSB/SJU community are unrehearsed. Harbeck, who has been a member of the troupe since his sophomore year, explained this.

“It’s a huge creative output, I think. As far as comedy goes, there’s not really a whole lot of other ways for student to effectively do that through traditional means. I think it’s impor-tant to have that because the student body wants to laugh,” Harbeck said.

ASC typically meets once a week to practice, and meets more fre-qu e nt ly w he n t he y have an upcoming show. But recently, the

group has run into problems with their practice and performance spac-es. In the past, ASC often practiced in the CSB dance studio, but last spring, these privileges were revoked after the group tore up and left a cardboard box in the studio.

“We have a classroom we practice in too,” SJU senior Patrick Latterell said. “Last year they started telling us we couldn’t get a classroom un-locked and practice there. There’s no real voice in the matter.”

When it comes to performances, ASC likes to explore their options on where they can perform and are looking to pack people into Sexton Fireside in place of needing to pay the $250-plus fee to perform on a stage,

as they put on free performances.`The Attention Starved Chil-

dren’s name may suggest that they devour attention like competitive eater Joey Chestnut eats hot dogs, but Harbeck sees a bigger role for the group on campus.

“At the end of the day, what we want is for people to just come and hang out with us, chill with us, shout things at us to do things like little dancing monkeys” Harbeck said. “We have a very distinct brand of humor, but the people who enjoy it I think re-ally enjoy it.”

“We’re on campus to make people laugh,” Latterell said. “And it’s frus-trating that we can’t bring a free show to our community.”

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As a monk I’m supposed to believe in humility, but as a human, I’m thrilled. -Fr. Anthony Ruff

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NICOLE PEDERSON •[email protected] Sophomore Rita Gangl, junior Erin McGlinch and junior Nick Harbeck find weirdness and odd quirks to be a unifying characteristic of members of ASC

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CSB/SJU professor, Rebecca Berru-Davis, travels to Peru to work with rural women and art to tell their stories

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NICOLE PEDERSON• [email protected] multi-demensional cuadros by Peruvian women represent their life stories, hopes and dreams. These cuadros are displayed in both the Haehn Museum/Art and Heritage Place and CSB library.

By Lauren [email protected]

“Poverty means parents can feed and shelter their children, misery means they can’t.”

This quote was very real to many people in Chile, Brazil and Peru, but with the help of Benedictine sisters and Rebecca Berru-Davis, their lives have greatly improved.

The “Testimony of Courage and Hope through the Prism of Latin American Women” is an exhibit at the Haehn Museum/Art and Heri-tage Place this year. This exhibit highlights life in Chile, Brazil and Peru through photos, stories and artistic pieces from the Benedictine sisters, Berru-Davis and the women from Central America.

Sister Madonna Kuebelbeck traveled to Brazil to visit missionaries that she knew, and then invited other sisters to join her when she realized they could facilitate positive changes for the Central American people.

When the sisters first arrived in Brazil, they entered a country

governed by a military dictatorship that disliked Catholic missioners, so they had to be careful not to get too involved with politics. They were able to do that because their goal was to simply walk with them.

“We called ourselves ‘missioners’ instead of ‘missionaries’ because a missioner ‘walks with’ and does not ‘do for,” said Sister Kerry O’Reilly, one of the first sisters to go to Brazil.

“We did a lot of listening,” O’Reilly said. “People needed to talk about their reality. We learned a lot about people’s faith and their capacity to survive. We got back so much more than we gave them.”

Each Benedictine sister that traveled to Brazil brought her own talent to share. O’Reilly brought great leadership skills, which is p or t raye d in photos in t he e x h i b i t . S h e h e l p e d l e a d w o m e n’s s u p p o r t g r o u p s because the women of Brazil were vital components of change; they stepped out of their comfort zones and made positive differences in their communities.

“It wasn’t so much us support-ing them, it was them supporting each other,” O’Reilly said. Although the men of the community were vital members as well, they often had to leave to search for work, so the women did most of the legwork and the Benedictine sisters helped make that possible.

Another part of the exhibit focuses on Berru-Davis’s work in Peru. Berru-Davis is an art and theo-logical educator and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Louisville Institute. She began working in Peru doing field-work for her art history degree. She was interested in the art that ordinary people created. She learned about the

“cuadros” that the Peruvian women made — handmade fabric squares that tell stories about the women and their lives. Berru-Davis became inter-ested in these pieces and helped give the women a voice by allowing them to communicate through art.

“These women are normally not heard, their art is not seen,” Berru-Davis said.

Berru-Davis’s questions have in-spired amazing cuadros to be made; one is even the size of the wall it is displayed on. Each of these hand-made pieces of art is sold in the Unit-ed States and the artists receive 100 percent of the profit. This project has helped pull some Peruvian women out of poverty. The exquisite fabric pieces have created a positive lifestyle for many families.

Taking all of these experiences and stories into consideration, Sister Ruth Feeney and her fellow sisters worked together to put the museum together.

“We all help each other out, it takes many people to get this done,” Feeney said.

They started gathering stories,

photos, artifacts and interviews that portrayed how the people of Central America became resilient.

“Community is a part of it, church, creativity, then we noticed what was happening in every place: women were rising up and supporting their families. They were making church happen when there wasn’t a pastor. They set up soup kitchen, set up art cooperatives; they were the orga-nizers and the leaders. That was the thread that strung all of this together.”

There were many important sto-ries to share.

“I am so proud of this community. These sisters left their homes and became so immersed in the life of South America that they were truly in solidarity of South America. I am proud that this church is bigger than just this campus,” Feeney said. The exhibit is open to the public, free of charge, until December 23. There are also cuadros displayed in Clemens Library at St. Ben’s, which include stories from the Old and New Testa-ments.

We learned a lot about people’s faith and their capacity to survive. We got back so much more than we gave them. -Sister Kerry O’Reilly

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Over the past 15 years, the student bodies of both St. Ben’s and St. John’s have become increasingly diverse. In 2004, American students of color made up 4.3% of the student body, while, ten years later, in 2014, they made up 16.4%.

The concern is found when ex-amining past surveys and studies. In the graduating class of 2011, between their first and second years, white stu-dents had a retention rate of 91.2%, while American students of color had a retention rate of 87.1%. In the grad-uating class of 2013, between their first and second years, white students had a retention rate of 89.1%, relative-ly similar to the class of 2011, while American students of color had a rate of 82.6%. From these statistics, CSB/SJU has found a retention rate gap be-tween white and non-white students.

Upon seeing the statistics, the pres-idents have taken action.

“Both grants are aimed at faculty development, which generally means workshops, travel opportunities, and outside speakers for faculty members to learn more about the best practices for their classrooms,” Lyndgaard said,

“The goals of the grants are to work on finding best practices for the teaching and advising of American students of color given the retention gaps and the different experiences in the classroom. Ultimately, the goal is to create a more welcoming and in-clusive classroom environment spe-cifically for American students of col-

or,” said Jean Keller. “Our school has always worked well for our traditional population, which has been over-whelmingly white, from the region, Catholic, and a lot of people whose family members have come here. Now we have a broader demographic that we are bringing onto campus and we want to make sure the campus works for the newer students and by having it work for them, it will work better for everyone. It’s a multicultural world out there, so this will help bet-ter prepare the more traditional de-mographic for the workplace and the world beyond St. Ben’s and St. John’s.”

If the grants are successful and the retention gap decreases, St. Ben’s and St. John’s hope to apply for and receive even larger grants to create a more substantial difference for all students.

“This is an opportunity as well as a challenge,” Keller said. “It has become clear from conversations with stu-dents of color in my classes that they have not always experienced St. Ben’s and St. John’s as the warm, welcoming community that my white students describe, Now, this is St. Ben’s and St. John’s saying that we need to take this seriously, this is consistent with our mission as Catholic, Benedictine in-stitutions.”

Jon Bellion TO perform fall concert

By Meredith [email protected]

Even though there is tension on the football field, this year’s fall concert looks to make bonds between John-nies and Tommies.

On Friday, CSB/SJU welcomes Jon Bellion for the fall concert, hosted by JEC. Two of the three Concert Ex-ecutives for JEC, sophomore, Cole Timko and junior, Logan Pedersen, explained how JEC made the deci-sion this year.

“The whole thing was that we had student input, and then JEC is student run, student led,” Pedersen said. “It’s literally students picking these con-certs.”

Along with a new artist like Bellion, JEC has more new aspects to offer for the fall concert. Timko and Pedersen decided to change things up and host the concert during Johnnie-Tommie weekend as opposed to homecom-

ing weekend. The main reason for the different date was based on concert attendance.

“A lot of it came down to how we can include more people,” Timko said. “Not only do we have our [CSB/SJU] students, but we have our St. Thomas students who are coming for the game, and they can enjoy the con-cert as well.”

With a mix of Johnnies, Bennies and Tommies in the audience, JEC hopes to have a large crowd for the concert. Despite an early morning start for those who wish to arrive to the football field early for ESPN’s “SportsCenter On The Road,” JEC isn’t worried about attendance for the concert.

“If you’re sitting in your dorm on that night, you’re not going to be in bed before midnight, it’s just not re-alistic,” Timko said. “You can still go to the concert and be in bed by a rea-sonable hour and wake up the next

morning.”JEC is also welcoming a new twist

on the opener but with a familiar face. That familiar face is student DJ Timko, and he will open for Bellion. Compared to past openers at CSB/SJU concerts, a student DJ is some-thing new for concert-goers.

“[The opener is] a DJ, which is something we really haven’t done be-fore, and it’s a student,” Pedersen said. “It’s just more interaction to get the crowd pumped up that’s something different, and that was our whole goal with the concert this year.”

Tickets can be bought at the door for any students that are still debating whether or not to attend. Sometimes students shy away from campus con-certs if they are unfamiliar with the artist or their genre. Pedersen and Timko urge students to look past their prior knowledge of the artist and to step outside of their comfort zone.

“It’s like a ‘just trust us’ thing,” Tim-

ko explained. “We’d love to see that crowd that’s on the fence.”

The concert is on Friday in the HCC. The theme is floral, so students are encouraged to wear Hawaiian shirts, leis and any other floral outfits. The doors will open at 8:45 p.m., and the concert begins at 9 p.m.. Prior to the concert will be the Noteworthy BBQ and Blues gathering on the mall from 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

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By Kaitlyn [email protected]

Not only will this Saturday be one of the greatest days in Johnnie football history, but it will also be an incredible weekend for all St. Ben’s and St. John’s students, faculty and fans. The excitement started yesterday, when ESPN arrived on our beloved campus. Now through Saturday, there is only more excite-ment to come.

This weekend isn’t for sleep or studying for that long-awaited first exam; this weekend is for making memories that will last a lifetime. From the Jon Bellion concert on Friday night, to ESPN’s “SportsCen-ter on the Road” broadcasting live at 6 a.m. on Saturday in Clemens Stadi-um, to SJU claiming the “Holy Grail” once again— this weekend will be

one Bennies and Johnnies will never forget.

Friday Night FestivitiesFriday’s festivities start off at 5

p.m. in the Clemens Stadium. ESPN will be filming a live segment of our students decked out in their CSB/SJU gear, getting pumped for Satur-day’s game! After the pep rally at SJU, students are welcome to head over to CSB to enjoy BBQ and Blues, put on by Noteworthy and the Joint Events Council. The live student performers and barbeque starts at 6 p.m. on the CSB Mall. Also on the Mall, starting at 6 p.m., will be supplies for students to make their own posters for the ESPN broadcast and football game.

Then, fresh off a victory over St. Thomas, Blazer volleyball will be competing against Bethel in the Claire Lynch Gym at 7 p.m. Go Blazers!

Following the game, CSB/SJU’s fall concert will take place in the HCC Fieldhouse at 9 p.m. on Friday. Grab your friends, wear some floral, and enjoy Jon Bellion.

Saturday Morning PreparationsSaturday kicks off with donuts and

coffee at the Gorecki and Sexton bus stops starting at 5 a.m. In addition to the breakfast provided, Sexton will be open for sales at 4:30 a.m. With continuous buses from St. Ben’s to St.

John’s starting at 5 a.m., Bennies are more than encouraged to attend the Johnnie football pre-festivities.

Not only are they wanted, Bennies are needed. Without St. Ben’s, there would be no St. John’s. Without St. John’s, there would be no St. Ben’s. We are privileged to go to a school that has a unique, powerful and amazing atmosphere. So, Bennies: set your alarms, curl your hair, throw your game day skirts and Converse on, and be ready to cheer on our favorite football team! Johnnies: paint on your victory red and white and be ready to support your fellow Johnnies! The Joint Events Council has graciously provided face paint that will be distributed by the Blazer softball team at the Sexton bus stop from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. There will also be thousands of rally towels dis-persed to the student body for the broadcast and football game.

The Big Moment6 a.m. is when the real party starts;

ESPN’s “SportsCenter on the Road” will have a live broadcast in Clem-ens Stadium. From 6 a.m. – 8 a.m. Johnnie football fans will fill our stands, cheer their hearts out, and show America what Johnnie foot-ball Saturdays are all about. After the broadcast at 8 a.m., Johnnie Java and the SJU bookstore will be open for

business. If students want to go back to St. Ben’s before the 1 p.m. kick-off, the Link will run on a continuous cycle between campuses starting at 8 a.m. The gates to Clemens Stadium will re-open at 10 a.m. There will be no capacity limit in the stadium, but the student section will fill up quick. Dress yourself in victory-red and enjoy the sunny and 75 degree weather.

This is the time of our lives; let’s make it count by showing the nation that we are not only the most enthu-siastic students in the country, but also classy and whole-heartedly in love with this incredible school. Go Blazers. Go Johnnies. Go CSB/SJU!

By Brendan [email protected]

Think back to last school year. A certain dual-colored dress hit social media and instantly divided our country. As you might have guessed, I am referring to the white and gold (or black and blue) dress that ruined friendships and created disbelief in many of us that so many people could be colorblind.

While the dress controversy even-tually faded away, other controversies don’t. For instance, politics. Increas-ingly we find that politicians focus on what colors the other is seeing, creat-ing division and animosity. I would

like to suggest that as a nation we look not at what divides us, but rather what unites us.

If we go back to the dress, all of us would agree that yes it was a dress, yes it was striped, yes it was a rather pointless argument. So how do we translate this approach to unity in huge, national debates that do matter? As I said before, we should look at not what divides us, but what unites us. Everyone, Republicans and Democrats alike, want better educa-

tion, better health benefits, better work environments, better security, and a better life. Sadly, we get caught up in how we “see” these goals being accomplished, which ultimately stops us from actually accomplishing them.

That is the first mistake that we should address. A good leader should be able to understand that others don’t see things the way they do. Their effectiveness is created by their willingness to work with their’s and others vision’s and combine them into a unified picture. Under that defini-tion I don’t think I would classify all of our current senators and represen-tatives as “good leaders”.

The second mistake is that we force ourselves to see two colors. There is a lot of gray area that comes into play when we debate national issues. Take immigration for example. There are those who believe in amnesty, others in deporting all illegal immi-grants. But what about an in-between solution? How come that never seems to take center stage? The Ameri-can people continually get forced to choose between two choices when it comes to politics. If you went to the

grocery store to buy soup, chances are the choices won’t just be chicken noodle or tomato. We must diversify our political discussion in order to create progress and work together.

Thirdly, we must be willing to learn why others see events differently than we do. Food is going to mean something else to someone who is homeless than it is to you. If we could understand that at the national level, imagine how much more effective government could be.

Finally, we must realize that not everything has to remain the way it is. Views change. Many of us saw both blue/black and gold/white. Politics should be the same way. Challenge yourself to see both sides, have an open mind, and treat other’s views respectfully. A more open, under-standing world is a better world. That is something we can all agree upon.


Opinion OPINION EDITORNicole Koonce • [email protected]

Women workout to be healthy, not cute

Bernin’ Up

This weekend isn’t for sleep or studying for that long awaited first exam; this week-end is for making memories that will last a lifetime.

Kaitlyn LudlowCSB junior

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Make the most of Johnnie Tommie

We need to accept cardio and light weightlifting as strong choices, too

This is the opinion of Brendan Klein, an SJU first-year

By M. Austin [email protected]

When he entered the race for the White House in early 2015, many scoffed and ignored a Democratic Socialist as president. Time has gone on and people have actually heard his message, Bernie Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, has surpassed Hillary Clinton in polls from Iowa and New Hampshire.

Now that he is becoming the front runner for the Democratic nomination, he is getting his fair share of media coverage and people are taking him seriously. With that, he has some tough questions to answer about his plans.

The first, and most obvious, is the definition of “Democratic Socialism.” Sanders wants a kind of government that works for the business/middle-class instead of the billionaire class of citizens. The true definition is: “a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribu-tion and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.” He uses other countries (like Demark and Sweden) as examples where healthcare is a universal right, tuition is free and there are strong programs for child/elder care and climate change.

In many ways, the U.S. has socialist tendencies already. For example, in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act established a 40-hour work week, minimum wage and outlawed child labor. This got to congress with the help of socialist labor unions. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was labeled socialist by its critics (which most people credit for bringing the U.S. out of the Great Depression). FDR stated in 1937 that “the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” This mentality needs to be adopted to help our children in poverty and the shrinking middle class.

Another mentality that needs change is American Exceptionalism. Many people have this sense that the U.S. is better than other countries and that we have to be different. There are things we are doing well, and others not so much. “Smart people look around and see what other countries do that work well, and not so well, and we should not be afraid to emulate what works well,” Sanders said in a recent interview with Seth Meyers.

The last piece Sanders has to answer is how he will pay for free public college tuition and higher minimum wages. The answer is simple: make sure people are paying their fair share of taxes. In the same interview, Sanders states that the U.S. is “losing over 100 billion dollars each year because profitable corpora-tions are stashing their profits in the Cayman Islands.”

After he live-tweeted during the most recent GOP debates and was on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he gained 45,000 twitter followers and more than 100 celebrities, including Apple inventor Steve Wozniak, pub-lically endorsed his campaign. He also has raised money from 450,000 different regular people averaging $31 a donation. It seems like America is feeling the Bern.

By Meg [email protected]

Last week there was an article in the paper about CSB students and weight training. I will start out by saying that I don’t have a lot of experience with weight training; only in the last few years have I started to expand my knowledge. And as someone who only lifts because she’s required to with the CSB lacrosse team, I understand the mindset of a girl who doesn’t “lift heavy”.

After reading the article I had a few reactions. First of all, I agree with the author that one of the reasons

women don’t lift weights is because they are misinformed. However, I also wanted to point out that the three pieces of “misinformation” cited all focused on the woman’s appearance as a motivator.

It is true that weight lifting is not as prevalent an activity in female cul-ture as it is in male culture. Because of this, it is also true that many wom-en don’t know how to lift weights. Sure, many high school gym classes require lifting, but how many of them actually teach benefits and proper form? I know of at least one, because high school class didn’t.

It is not true, however, that the pri-mary motivator in a woman going to the gym is her appearance. We don’t go to the gym to “get toned,” we don’t avoid lifting because we are afraid of “getting bulky,” and we are definitely not worried about how we look while exercising. The red faces and sweaty T-shirts achieved while running or biking are not pretty, either.

Obviously these are gross generalizations; I’m sure there are a select few out there who avoid

weights for the reasons cited by the previous article’s author. However, I believe that the majority of women in the gym are there to stay healthy.

Most of us have heard that 30 min-utes of exercise daily, no matter the intensity, is good for a person’s health. Any kind of movement, from high levels of resistance, like lifting heavy, to no resistance, is better for a person than nothing at all. So, lots of women opt for cardio because it is familiar, not because they fear the masculine stigmas that go with lifting.

Also, exercise is said to be a re-ally great stress reliever. I myself have experienced this, even by taking a break for a simple walk to my mail-box and back. That pause put on studying and worrying about an exam or paper in order to go for a short run can be rejuvenating.

None of this is to say that Bennies don’t lift. There are plenty of women in the weight room who seem to know exactly what they are doing with a dumbbell in their hands, and no, they don’t necessarily look pretty doing it.

But exercise is not about how we look, it is about how we feel. So, Bennies, do what you’ve got to do to be your best, whether it’s lifting heavy or lifting nothing at all.

This is the opinion of M. Austin Mack, an SJU senior

Students should focus on the many opportunities for upcoming memories

Increasingly we find that politicians focus on what colors the other is seeing, creating division and animosity.

Brendan KleinSJU first-year

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Seeing both sides of an issue furthers meaningful discussion on issues that matter

Lots of women opt for cardio because it is familiar, not be-cause they fear the masculine stigmas that go with lifting. Meg Anderson CSB junior

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This is the opinion of Meg Anderson, a CSB junior

This is the opinion of CSB Senate Allocations Chair Kaitlyn Ludlow, a CSB junior

“The dress” is a useful metaphor for political thinking

Editorial

OUR VIEWTaking steps forward to expand school spirit

EDITORIAL EDITORNicole Koonce• [email protected]


Jake Schultz Editor-in-Chief

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“Our view” is prepared by the Executive board and

should be considered the institutional voice of The

Record

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Dear Editor,

READERS’ LETTERS

Football is the most popular sport because it’s familiar

Senates encourage community to take advantage of spotlight

QUESTION OF THE WEEKWhat do you miss about being five years-old?

Raina QuinnellJunior

“Watching Disney Channel and not being judged.”

Joe Buysse, Senior & Cole Timko, Sophomore

“Not having to shave.”

Kendall JohnsonSophomore

“I would say scootering, but I still do that.”

Steve KimbleCSB Soccer Head Coach

“Naps and snacks and cartoons.”

Tess TroyakJunior

“Being tucked in by my mom and dad.”

New HCC furniture is not conducive to napping

Dear Editor,

Michael SwearingenManaging Editor

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Submission Policy We welcome contributions from our readers in the form of letters and

guest columns. Letters should be brief, up to 250 words. Shorter letters of around 100 words are encouraged.

Please submit letters no later than Tuesday. Guest columns are welcomed but published only as needed. Columns should be more than 500 words. Please specify whether your article is intended as a letter or

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Laura ComeeSenior

“Being entertained by the little things.”

Today the idea was brought to my attention that no sports teams are supported as much as the football team. I’m not here to say that I disagree. In fact, I’m here to say that I agree, and I’ll tell you why. There are over two hundred dedicated players on the football team. Roughly one quarter of them actually spend time playing in varsity games, yet this does not break the spirit of those who don’t get to step out onto the field. This grand union of brutes extends into countless clubs, classes and friend groups—so deeply that you’re extremely unlikely to find a single student on either campus who doesn’t know a football player. We, unfortunately, cannot say the same for the other sports teams at either CSB or SJU. It is not that we don’t want to go and watch the Blazers

kick some butt, it’s that we don’t have thirty or so friends on those teams to go and offer our support to. Furthermore, the phrase “Johnnie Football” is deeply, deeply rooted in the history of this over 100-year-old campus. Saturday football games are a set tradition. Blazer volleyball games often happen on busy weeknights. Nobody should take offense to the fact that their sport might not get the support they desire, it simply is the way that it has always been.

Dear Editor,

Dear Editor,

Sincerely,Nate McKeehanSJU sophomore

I am writing in to have my voice be heard on an issue of the most dire importance. A change has occurred on campus that must be addressed immediately, before it gets out of hand. This particular change has completely shattered the plans I had for the year and there is no possible way for me to regain what I have lost. Naturally, I am talk-ing about the removal of the glori-ous, illustrious slice of heaven that was the black sofas of the HCC. I am sure I speak for the entire CSB/SJU community when I say that the poor excuse for furniture that has replaced them does not even come close to filling the gap in our hearts that the old sofas left. No longer can a group of five friends all plop down on the couch and just chill. Instead, we now have to sit up and look all proper in individual chairs sitting in

a circle as if it was a board meeting. I argue that these new chairs are not an improvement upon our much-loved black leather sofas. I was look-ing forward to the 20 minute nap I would get in between classes thanks to the sofas that are the perfect length to sprawl out on. But that op-portunity was cruelly stripped from me thanks to the “improvements” made. Although I could still nap in O’Connell’s, it is just not the same, as that space is generally used for group projects and the constant aroma of the blended coffees is distract-ing. Therefore, I argue that the old, reliable sofas that formerly adorned the HCC lobby area should be re-turned to us.

Sincerely,Jacob Wankel

SJU sophomore

If you haven’t heard yet, the Entertainment and Sports Program-ming Network (better known as ESPN) is coming to a Division III school for the first time since this year’s first-years were in fourth grade. After an eight-year hiatus from DIII, only one school out of 450 could draw them back. That school is your school.

We’re writing to encourage every single Bennie and Johnnie to help us take advantage of our moment in the national spotlight. If we all pull together and knock tonight and tomorrow’s broadcasts out of the water with insanely high attendance and energy, we WILL put CSB/SJU on the national map. Once they air 3,500 screaming CSB/SJU students at six in the morning, it is highly likely that they are going to want to see what we can do on prime time next year. That solidifies our image on the national map, and then there is no

telling how the unique story of two gender-divided-but-unified schools in Central Minnesota will be soaked up by the country.

This is bigger than CSB or SJU. This is bigger than football. This is about being a part of something bigger than all of us, and sharing the magical place we call home with the world.

Sincerely,Erin Ryan-Mosely,

SBS President & Alex Wald, SJS President

MORGAN DURBIN • [email protected]

It’s always been Johnnie-Tommie or Tommie-Johnnie. Either way, it excludes some very important peo-ple, at least in the title: the Bennies. Bennies make up more than half of CSB/SJU’s student population and they are nowhere to be seen. Why the injus-tice?

While St. Ben’s has no football team, they match the Johnnies in school spirit.

The voices heard at every game are of all pitches; the color red is worn by all genders. Bennies aren’t passive participants—they are just as much the heart and soul of any CSB/SJU sport, club or event.

The ESPN bus has arrived, and what the crew and the rest of the nation will see is a united community. Heck, that’s why they came here. We are a group of incredible individuals and—beyond that—an unstoppable community. It’s time that we start acknowledging the major role that Bennies play in the great tradition that, at times, defines our football program in much the same way that Gagliardi does.

The two biggest moments of school spirit are Johnnie-Tommie and Homecoming—both of which are football-centric, and thus Johnnie-centric. While it’s not bad to celebrate the most popular sport between our institutions, we need to remember to celebrate Blazer sports in the same way.

The rivalry against St. Thomas? It continues in Blazer sports as well. Meet up with friends and watch the highly ranked Blazer volleyball, soccer, basketball and hockey teams fight our familiar rival.

Hundreds of Bennie and Johnnie students and alums plan their week around the football game. Why can’t they plan around Blazer sports?

Picture the fields around the St. Ben’s campus, flooding with students and alums before home soccer games. Posters of the best players are held high in the air. A Rat Pak with both Johnnie and Bennie members leads the crowd in cheers. The field is stormed after a last-minute goal and fans rush to celebrate with the athletes.

It’s not too hard to imagine, but it doesn’t happen often.

But we can get there. Some of the Johnnie-centric attention needs to shift to Bennie events. Alumnae need to honor their Bennie roots as much as their Johnnie ones. The Rat Pak needs to expand its roster to include the Bennie half it represents. Students need to show up in support of our Blazer sisters as much as we do our John-nie brothers. The school spirit that is currently so focused on Johnnie football needs to get distributed equally among both halves of our community.

Twice the school spirit leads to twice the fun, after all.

Anchors Matt Barrie and Sara Walsh will be hosting the tele-cast. The “SportsCenter” stage will be facing the main grandstand in Clemens.

“[The program] will show how the legacy of John [Gagliardi] and St. John’s football continues to grow,” senior defensive back Trevor Warner said.

Other measures have been taken to ensure the event runs as smoothly as possible. With stadium gates opening at 5 a.m. and the live broadcast running from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. shuttles will begin at 5 a.m. to transport alumni, family and students from Gorecki to Sexton. To accommodate the size of the expect-ed crowd, nearly 20 sections of the fences will be taken down around the stadium. There are no plans to cap at-tendence.

Transportat ion has been a major concern for safety offi-cials from the state and university. Campus parking lots at St. John’s

will be filled first and additional off campus parking will be provided along with a shuttle to get fans to the game. The Minnesota Department of Transportation will be using digital billboards to alert other drivers on I-94 of potential delays due to the amount of traffic exiting Collegeville.

Though this is not the first time St. John’s has been featured on ESPN, it is a rare opportunity for Johnnie foot-ball and their fans to be displayed on a national stage.

While excitement swirls around campus, the Johnnie football play-ers and coaching staff are keeping an even keel. Head Coach Gary Fasching has kept the team focused and they are preparing for the game the same as any other.

“It ’s awes ome t hat we are getting this recognition,” senior running back Sam Sura said. “But I think as a team we are doing a really good job at just focusing on the game and not any of the other stuff going on.”

The program brings exposure to the Johnnie football program as well as the unique community created between CSB and SJU.

The presence of a national

audience has only increased the hype surrounding the already high-ly charged game. Representatives from ESPN as well as staff from St. Ben’s and St. John’s cannot stress the importance of a strong fan presence enough.

“Fans, come out in force and wear

red,” Fasching said. “Be positive, be loud. Be classy.”

By Annie [email protected]

When the College of Saint Benedict cross country team steps onto the big stage, they perform. And they perform well.

The Blazers traveled to South Bend, Indiana for the National Catholic Invite at the University of Notre Dame last weekend and finished fifth out of 25 teams.

Of those 25 teams, 12 were Division I programs.

“That’s the cool thing about our sport,” Head Coach Robin Balder-Lanoue said. “We compete against Division I and II programs all the time. There’s a lot of good that comes from competing against people you don’t know, and I think a lot of times you end up racing in ways you never thought you were capable.”

The Blazers did exactly that. Four of CSB’s top five run-

ners clocked in with personal best times, as sophomore Brooke Rasmussen finished first for the Blazers, third among Divison III teams and 46th overall.

“I wasn’t as focused on time as I was place,” Rasmussen said. “I knew if I stuck with the other runners that things would turn in my favor.”

The invite had a different for-mat than what most teams were used to, where they split the meet in two different races. The top nine runners of each team ran in the second group, and the rest of a team’s runners raced first.

“It was a unique situation because not everyone was on the line

together,” Balder-Lanoue said. Junior Emma Weber finished

second for the Blazers and 88th overall.

“It was a very intense environ-ment,” Weber said. “I competed at this invite my first year, and did not have the same experience as I did this year. It seems like the older you become, the more prepared and excited you are for that kind of intense competition.”

Senior Kiley Green, junior Mat-tia Hendrickson and senior Laura Comee followed in the Blazers’ top five.

“I’m proud of how the team did after a long bus ride like that,” Balder-Lanoue said. “The returners trained really hard this summer, and I think we’re going to be successful because of the work they did.”

After the race was over, the Blazers headed to the dining hall for a team meal. When they returned, however, the bus driver informed them of some bad news: the bus was not functioning.

“We didn’t really know what to do at first,” Weber said. “The bus had no electricity and it was pitch black. But it ended up being really good bond-ing time for us.”

Some of the team ran in the rain; others stayed on the bus and played games and told stories.

After a four-hour wait, the Blazers finally boarded the bus with rain-covered bodies and a myriad of memories.

“We made the best of it — that’s for sure,” Weber said.

Still, Balder-Lanoue has high

expectations for her team.“I think the biggest thing is

that our team is going to be a lot stronger than people expect,” she added. “The fact that we had so many PRs at Notre Dame is

reflective of their hard training in the off-season. I’m excited to see what they can do this year.”

The Blazers re turn home Saturday at 9 a.m. Sept. 26, on the prep school hill at St. John’s.

Trading the talent

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This is the opinion of Brett Zallek a SJU first-year.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CSB CROSS COUNTRY FACEBOOK PAGESeniors Laura Comee and Cathleen Gross compete at National Catholic Invite.

By Brett [email protected]

As sports fans, you hate to see your favorite players leave your favorite team. As Minnesota sports fans, we are all too used to this hap-pening.

On Sept. 12, David Ortiz, aka “Big Papi,” became the 27th player in Major League history to hit 500 home runs. But he hit his first 58 of those 500: as a Minnesota Twin.

Big Papi was re le as e d by the Twins in 2002, which was obviously a glaring mistake. In addition to becoming one of the best designated hitters of all time, Ortiz has won three championships with the Boston Red Sox (2004, 2007 and 2013).

Our depth in championships is noticeably short. The Twins haven’t claimed the World Series title since 1991, the Vikings have never won the Super Bowl, the Timberwolves have yet to even make it to the NBA Finals. We are called the “State of Hockey,” yet have never hoisted the Stanley Cup. Our only recent taste of a championship has come thanks to the WNBA Lynx who won it all in 2011 and 2013 and are on the hunt for another one.

Ortiz has been joined by many other notable fan-favorites to leave Minnesota and win cham-pionships elsewhere, including: Kevin Garnett, Marian Gabor-ik, St. Paul native Matt Birk and several more. We even watched Kevin Love nearly secure an NBA championship aside LeBron James this year, just a year removed from the Timberwolves.

Perhaps the reason we affection-ately sent Love off to Cleveland as opposed to Cleveland fans’ riots when LeBron left for Miami is be-cause we are simply used to it by now. We might need to turn off our “Minnesota Nice” qualities and act in a little bit of self-interest.

All I am asking for at this point is that we hang onto our talent. Minnesota teams are all receiv-ing praise for their wealth of young and talented players right now. The Twins are making their playoff push led by young stars Brian Dozier, Miguel Sano and Byron Buxton. The Vikings are considered a “team on the rise” as Teddy Bridgewa-ter develops at quarterback and head coach Mike Zimmer bolsters the young weapons on defense. The Wild have locked up Parise and Suter for years to come, and they are joined by Jason Zucker, Mikael Granlund and Matt Dumba, among others, who look to have a high ceiling in their careers.

The Timberwolves’ young depth is also very exciting, led by Rookie of the Year Andrew Wiggins, Slam Dunk Contest Champion Zach LaVine and 2015 No. 1 overall Draft Pick Karl-Anthony Towns. And finally, the Lynx have arguably some of the best players and coach in the league with Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen and head coach Cheryl Reeve.

The players are here; it is an exciting time for Minnesota sports. As bittersweet as it was to see our former stars win championships with other teams, I would love to see them win a championship sporting a Minnesota uniform sometime soon.

Blazers take on tough competion

PHOTO COURTESY OF ESPN MEDIAAnchors Sara Walsh and Matt Barrie on location Sept. 5 at Notre Dame.

More Johnnie-Tommie Coverage on page 10

Sports Scoreboard

SPORTSPAGE 10 • THE RECORD csbsjurecord.com • SEPT. 25, 2015

CSB SoccerLast GameOpponent: Luther CollegeL 2-1Sept. 20

Up NextWho: CarletonWhen: 3:30 p.m., Sept. 26Where: NorthfieldFootball

SJU SoccerLast GameOpponent: Luther CollegeW 1-0Sept. 20

Up NextWho: Carleton When: 1 p.m., Sept. 26Where: Northfield

VolleyballLast GameOpponent: Macalester W (18-25, 25-14, 25-19, 26-24)Sept. 23

Up NextWho: BethelWhen: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 25Where: St. Joesephy

FootballLast GameOpponent: ConcordiaW 24-16Sept. 19

Up NextWho: St. ThomasWhen: 1 p.m., Sept. 26Where: Collegeville

Cross CountrySJULast MeetEvent: Luther College Invitational3rd of 7 teamsSept. 12

Up NextEvent: SJU Alumni MeetWhen: 9 a.m. Sept. 26Where: Collegeville

CSBLast MeetEvent: National Catholic Invite5th of 25 teamsSept. 18

Up NextEvent: Alumnae Meet When: 9 a.m., Sept. 26Where: Collegeville

MIAC StandingsMIAC Overall

Augsburg 2-0 6-0Gustavus 2-0 2-3-1St. Ben’s 1-0 3-2-1S. Thomas 1-0 3-3Carleton 1-1 3-3-1Concordia 1-1 4-3Macalester 1-1 2-1-1St. Catherine 1-1 3-2-1St. Olaf 1-1 1-3-2Bethel 0-2 2-4Hamline 0-2 2-5St. Mary’s 0-2 2-4


Concordia 2-0 8-3Gustavus 2-0 10-2St. Ben’s 2-0 9-4St. Mary’s 2-0 13-2Augsburg 1-1 11-3Bethel 1-1 11-5Hamline 1-1 7-6St. Thomas 1-1 6-6Carleton 0-2 7-5Macalester 0-2 11-3St. Catherine 0-2 8-5St. Olaf 0-2 8-9


Augsburg 1-0 2-1Bethel 1-0 2-1Gustavus 1-0 3-0St. John’s 1-0 3-0St. Thomas 0-0 2-0Carleton 0-1 1-2Concordia 0-1 2-1Hamline 0-1 2-1St. Olaf 0-1 1-2


Augsburg 2-0 4-3St. John’s 2-0 6-1-1St. Olaf 2-0 0-3-4Hamline 1-0 2-4-1Macalester 1-0 3-0-3St. Thomas 1-1 5-2Bethel 0-2 1-5-1Carleton 0-1 3-3-1Concordia 0-2 1-7Gustavus 0-1 5-1St. Mary’s 0-2 2-4

Two institutions born to become arch rivals in Division III football meet once again on the gridiron this weekend in Collegeville.

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national audience in the early morning, this matchup is possibly the most anticipated and highly-covered athletic event in the rivalry’s history.

One of the biggest rivalries in Minnesota collegiate athletics takes the national stage for the first time, but it is no stranger to those around the two universities.

Defensive line and special teams coach Damien Dumonceaux was the starting nose tackle on the 2003 national championship Johnnie team and also son of legendary math professor Dr. Bob Dumonceaux, has been around the rivalry for his whole life. The Dumonceaux family was well-known for their work as part of the “chain gang” on Saturday

mornings.“I’ve been on the home field since

I was eight years old,” Dumonceaux said. “My earliest recollection was in ’91 when both teams were undefeat-ed. It was the loudest I’ve ever heard Clemens Stadium. I remember stand-ing shoulder to shoulder to my Dad and we couldn’t hear each other talk.”

These two schools were meant to be rivals since the very beginning. St. John’s, established in 1857, and St. Thomas, founded in 1885, were built on Catholic roots and liberal arts concentration for their institutions.

“It’s like we were made to have a sibling rivalry,” said Michael Heme-sath, president of St. John’s University.

Another reason for the timeless rivalry is the familiarity of the two schools. A large portion of students from both schools are from central

and metro Minnesota. High school athletes get recruited by both the Tommies and the Johnnies athletic programs.

That was the case of St. John’s Head Coach Gary Fasching, who was

recruited by both schools, but chose the Johnnies and played from 1977-1981.

“We’re two similar Catholic in-stitutions that everyone has heard of, but we’re different: one country

school and the other in the city,” Fasching said.

Just like anything else, though, competition brings out the best.

“Having a great rival like UST in academics and athletics makes us a better school,” Hemesath said. “The great part of the story is the rivalry is done with enthusiasm and energy, which progresses us as institutions.”

Although it may seem like the universities have nothing in common on Saturday when the bleachers are full of clashing purple and red t-shirts, tank tops and painted faces, the two schools that are practically siblings face off for the eighty-fourth time on the football field to fight for the Holy Grail trophy.

And the rivalry lives on.



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