HERALDBY AND FOR THE STUDENTS OF HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES

ISSUE 9 November 9, 2001 VOLUME CXXV

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Saturday November 3 – PiggySue waited patiently her snoutglistening in anticipation as

she gleefully grunted preparing toreceive two halftime kisses all in thename of charity. This was the sceneat halftime of the Hobart vs. Fisherfootball game, as the HWS chapterof the Make A Wish foundationhelped to raise $336 for their cause.

The event pitted Iva Deutchman,Scott Brophy, Barry Robinson andDavid Craig against each other in arace to see which faculty or staffmember could raise the most moneydonated to Make A Wish in theirname.

AlthoughI v aDeutchmanwon the con-test by thenarrow mar-gin of $6, shewas unableto participatedue toevents be-yond hercontrol. In-stead in anact of nobleself-sacrificeB a r r yR o b i n s o nand ScottB r o p h ystepped inand took onefor charity.

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Piggy Sue GetsSmoochedIan SchlangerNews Editor

Barry Robinson, Head of Student Life and Leadership,puckers up for Piggy Sue.

Miller co-founder of the HWS MakeA Wish Chapter, “I mean they reallydidn’t have to do it, but they helpedus out anyway.”

President Gearan also chipped inallowing the Make A Wish studentsto ask for donations at the footballgame. As Miller notes, “Everyonewas really helpful and we really ap-preciate everyone’s support.”

Piggy Sue who hails from PenYan, NY put on quite a show grunt-ing for the crowd and happily pos-ing for her kisses. The event was ahuge success and many studentsagreed it was some of the best half-time entertainment they had ever ex-perienced.

photo courtesy of the Office of Communications

William Smith Soccer powered past Union College this past Sundayto advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division IIIchampionships, which will be held next Saturday, November 10, atnoon on Cozzens Memorial Field. For story, see Sports, page 12.

I t’s not too often that you find artmajors and science students, sitting side by side, captivated by

the samespeech. Butthey were,along withhundreds ofother facultymembers, stu-dents, andcommuni tymembers dur-ing thespeech givenby StephenGould last Saturday night.

Gould, an esteemed writer andProfessor of Geology at HarvardUniversity, spoke to a packed housein the Albright auditorium on thesubject of integrating art and science

Liz KenneyNews Contributor

Speaker Compares

Arts, Sciencesfocuses. An advocate for liberal artseducation, Gould emphasized theimportance of “breaking the bound-aries of categorization,” and pursu-ing a truly interdisciplinary study.

“People must rebel against massgroup deci-sions; theymust breakthrough andoppose thep r e c e d e n t .That’s whatmakes scien-tists great,”Gould insistedto a wide-eyedaudience.

Why so wide-eyed? Maybe theywere in awe of Gould’s many honorsand achievements including the No-table Book Award and his first of twoAmerican Book Awards in Science

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“People must rebel against massgroup decisions; they must breakthrough and oppose the precedent.That’s what makes scientistsgreat.” Stephen Jay Gould

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for his book, The Panda’s Thumb.He followed these with a NationalBook Critics Circle Award and theSchubert Award from the Paleonto-logical Society.

Gould’s gripping speech was ac-companied by incessant witty rep-artee, proving that not only is he anintellectual but a comedian at that.

“You’ve got to be arrogantenough to be honest...I’m an arro-gant S.O.B.”

Gould used an analogy of a stampcollection throughout his entirespeech to argue the futility of cat-egorization. While some may thinkthat “there is an objective stamp al-

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Campus LectureCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 bum, there is an objective set of pi-

geon holes, a hat rack,” and one’sjob is “putting things in the rightspace,” Gould argues that there isnot. He states that one must lookbeyond the hat rack and look at the“constructions of the outlook of thehat rack.”

Gould concluded his speech witha powerful reading from his recentarticle in the New York Times on thetragedies of September 11th. First-year enthusiast Morgan Wentworthstates, “I remember reading an articlebased on the same topic that hewrote for the New York Times. It wasa disparate approach; I hadn’t seenit from that angle”.

Spring 2002 Registration beganMonday, November 5th withthe Senior Class.

With a beginning timeset at 6:00 AM, many frus-trated students were un-able to begin their webregistration until 7:00AM.

As Peter Sarratori,Registrar, adamantlystates, “[This had] noth-ing to do with the net-work.” He cites the prob-lem, as having occurredwithin the Registrar’s office as the“internal setting,” needed for themain computer had not been in-stalled. Sarratori explains their com-puter serves as the main registration

Online Registration PosesProblems For Seniors

Dina PaulsonNews Contributor

vehicle, which functions upon rec-ognition of “statuses.” These sta-tuses cover Scheduling, Registra-tion, and Grading codes, and are setrespectively throughout the year.

When Senior registration com-menced Monday morning, the com-puter was “probably set to Schedul-ing status,” Sarratori claims. Oncecorrectly set to “Registration Spring

Juniors Wednesday, November 7th – 8th

Sophomores November 8th – 9th

First-Years November 13th- 14th

Registration Times

2002”, students were able to be-gin registration from any com-puter on campus.

During the hour in which thesystem malfunctioned, ten stu-dents came to Sarartori’s office

with their forms. As soonas the code had been in-stalled, Sarratori “pro-cessed each order as they[originally] came in.”From 7:00 AM onward,the morning of registra-tion continued problem-free, and remained assuch throughout theirsecond registration dayof Tuesday, November

6th. Sarratori points out this is,“only the 2nd time we have doneWeb registration,” illustrating theRegistrar’s Office newness withthe procedure.

The Syracuse University Student Association votedunanimously Monday to ap-

prove a rape assistance bill thatwould loan rape victims money foran examination.

Victims must currently go to theSU R.A.P.E. Center, which providesa rape examination and rape kit.

The kit is a collection of evidenceremoved by doctors from the victim’sbody, said Geri Weinstein, one of thebill’s sponsors. It can range fromgathering urine samples to semen,she said. Every year, five or sixpeople visit the center and requestthat a rape kit be collected, she said.

If the student’s health insurancedoes not cover the rape examination,it is billed to the student’s bursaraccount. This could lead to astudent’s parents learning of therape before the student is ready totell them, Weinstein said.

The bill would permit a male andfemale Assemblymember, appointedby the president and confirmed byCabinet, to authorize up to $1,000 to

loan to victims for a rape examina-tion and kit.

The examination and kit costsabout $800 to $900, Weinstein said.

“You need a male or female be-cause vic-tims of rapecan be meno rwomen, ”s a i dWeinstein,a juniorh i s t o r y ,po l i t i ca ls c i e n c eand educa-tion major.

SAcurrently provides a bail-bond pro-gram to all students who pay the $110Student Activity Fee.

Under this program, SA postsbond for any SU student who is ar-rested in Onondaga County.

“(The rape assistance bill is) amatter of fairness,” Student Asso-ciation President Ben Riemer said.“People that are accused of rape willget help from us, in a way.”

Like the bail-bond program,there is no enforceable way of mak-ing students repay the cost of therape examination.

If a student is raped and wantsSA to loanmoney for a kit,he or shewould call oneof the Assem-bly representa-tives ap-pointed by thep r e s i d e n t .Riemer said hewould solicitapplicants forthe position.He added that

he thought Weinstein would make agood representative.

Victims who receive the loanmust be willing to prosecute after therape examination is done by the hos-pital, the bill stated.

Because the two representativeswould need to be available 24 hoursa day, they would need to carry cellphones or pagers, said Riemer, a se-nior public policy and economics

major. “I’ll ask them if they’ll have a cell

phone or pager,” Riemer said. “Notthat it would be a litmus test, but itwould be nice if they already did.”

Riemer did not know whethermoney must be paid to doctors be-fore rape examinations are adminis-tered, or whether they could be paidthe following day. If an examinationneeds to be performed at 3 a.m. andmoney must be paid up-front, moneywill be loaned, he said.

“As soon as they need medicalassistance, they’re going to get medi-cal assistance,” Riemer said.

The SA loan will be publicizedthrough announcements in classes,posters in the Rape Center and pos-sibly ads in The Daily Orange,Weinstein said.

“The bill successfully gives themthe support they need to get throughtheir difficult situation,” said Assem-blywoman Jennifer Moy, a sopho-more information studies and tech-nology major. “A lot of victims canbe very scared and it’s a very emo-tional time.”

Syracuse Student Government

Passes Rape Assistance BillShawn AndersonU-Wire Contributor

“(The rape assistance bill is) amatter of fairness,” StudentAssociation President BenRiemer said. “People that areaccused of rape will get help fromus, in a way.”

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Address Current EventsWar in Afghanistan and AmericanForeign Policy Explained, debated

FBI Director Robert Mueller’surgent call Sept. 17 for translators to join the Bureau was

more than a plea to the Americanpublic; for many, it was confirmationof the country’s lacking proficiencyin foreign languages.

“I think those of us who do thisprofessionally who areinvolved in foreign lan-guage education havebeen acutely aware of thelack of national expertisein many of the world’s for-eign languages,” saidCynthia Martin, actingchair of the University ofMaryland’s Departmentof Asian and East Euro-pean Languages and Cul-ture, which offers pro-grams and courses on “less com-monly taught languages” such asRussian and Chinese. “We’ve al-ways been really aware that there hasbeen a crisis of national capacity inforeign languages.”

The 2000 General Social Surveyrevealed that 25 percent of Ameri-cans speak a language other thanEnglish at home. On the campus, lessthan 10 percent of College of Artsand Humanities students are foreignlanguage majors, said a representa-tive of the college.

The events of Sept. 11 promptedMartin, School of Foreign Lan-guages and Literature Director JamesLesher and professor Shukri Abedto meet for a discussion on expand-ing an instructional program in Ara-bic language, literature and culture.

“We all looked to each other andsaid we better get together and talkabout expanding our course offer-ings in Arabic,” Lesher said. “Obvi-ously [Arabic] is a front-burner is-sue, students may want to takecourses in Arabic, there may be anational movement in this direction,and we ought to be thinking aboutwhat we’re in a position to do.”

Interest in Arabic had been grow-ing prior to the terrorist attacks,Martin said. Last year, Martin’s de-partment began offering courses in

Tyisha ManigoThe Diamondback

Sept. 11 Inspires Push for Foreign Languages

“We feel strongly that this universityand other universities ought to bebuilding and expanding their foreignlanguage programs,”

the Arabic language and added asecond-year Arabic language coursethis semester.

“There was growing support fromdifferent areas on campus for Ara-bic and there was awareness cer-tainly among language educatorsthat a first-rate university really hasto have an Arabic program,” Martinsaid.

Abed, the campus’s only profes-

sor of Arabic studies, said, “interestin Arabic at the [campus] was won-derful before these tragic events,”and was only heightened followingthe attacks. He said hours after reg-istration began for a history courseon war and peace in Islam next se-mester, he had students asking tooversubscribe.

Bill Rivers, associate for languagepolicy at the campus’s National For-eign Language Center, said his cen-ter has seen more recent interestwhen it comes to foreign language,partly because Sept. 11 altered manyAmericans’ perception that Englishis the global language.

“While it’s true the rest of theworld speaks English, they speakother languages as well,” Rivers said.“They can choose which languageto use and that means they controlcommunication in a way that wedon’t, [and] we’re putting ourselvesat a subtle disadvantage.”

Student interest in foreign lan-guages exists, said Lesher, and isevidenced by the increasing numberof students earning certificates ordoubling as majors in foreign lan-guage. However, the ability to meetthose interests is limited by finan-cial constraints, he said.

“We feel strongly that this uni-versity and other universities ought

to be building and expanding theirforeign language programs,” Leshersaid. “The difficulty is that this broadsense of agreement ... conflicts withthe economic realities of life withinthe state of Maryland at the mo-ment.”

The state’s economy and rev-enues have declined, Lesher said,causing a hiring freeze that preventsthe school from expanding its Ara-

bic program.Junior government and

politics and Spanish majorAliaia Subasinghe said sherealized in college the impor-tance of studying foreignlanguage.

“It’s a skill that’s going tobe needed in the next cen-tury,” Subasinghe said. “It’shighly marketable, and I likethe ability to communicatewith people from other cul-

tures. As the world becomes moreinterconnected, the need for foreignlanguage [becomes] greater.”

Abed added that language skillscan foster cultural understanding.

“The best way to create a condu-cive atmosphere [of tolerance] is tostudy and learn about others,” Abedsaid.

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On Thursday, November 1, five members of the HWS facultywere part of a student organized “teach-in” to discuss issues re-lated to the attacks on September 11 and the subsequent war inAfghanistan launched by th

Moderated by Professor Craig Rimmerman, of the political sci-ence department, moderated the the teach-in, which fielded stu-dent questions and allowed faculty members to respond to variousparts of the events in the last few months. Professors on the panelincluded David Ost and Virginia Tilley of the political science de-partment, Steven Lee of the philosophy department, and DanielSingal of the history department.

Opinion/Editorial

I have found that this schooldoes not care about its students; theycare around them. By this I mean, policyis created with the in-surance, financial, andliability of the schoolat its crux, not the pro-tection and support ofits student body. Iwould like to say here,very clearly, that thisdoes not apply to thefaculty, staff, adminis-trators, and studentswho implement policy.In fact, with few excep-tions, I have found the opposite to betrue. As an eternal optimist, the employ-ees of this school, for the most part, laythemselves out in the interest of the stu-dents here. However, it is also importantto say that in many cases it is the faculty,staff, and administrators who create thesepolicies. In their defense, they are forcedto create it with the interests of insurance,finances, and liability as the primaryguide. In effect, these ‘interests’ are de-veloped with the assurance that they aresome how separated from human irratio-nality.

The two best examples are thesame two that have been in the forefrontof the students’ minds: the war in Af-ghanistan and the Rees fire. The war inAfghanistan, prompted by the events ofSeptember 11th, has been only superfi-cially confronted. By this I mean that theschool has planned community wideevents and panel discussions. Moreover,a couple of students have formed an or-ganization called the Coalition for Peace-ful Justice. To those students, I commentyou for your efforts; I truly recognize and

appreciate your commitment to confront-ing the issues that surround theseevents. However, I believe that studentsare still in shock and desperately needan outlet to discuss their confusion, fear,

and frustrations. I believe that this schooland its administration did an outstand-ing job of supporting the community inthe days immediately after this tragedy. Iwant to recognize that because I thinkthat it is so important. However, by Mon-day of the next week it was business asunusual, with very few exceptions. I haveheard that Professors, in the name of thisschool’s policy, refused to discuss theissues students were struggling with be-cause, they contended, that it was im-portant to return to normalcy and thatthey had a job to do. Meanwhile, the mis-sion statement of the colleges, foundwithin the Hobart and William Smithcourse catalogue, states on page 9,“Throughout the curriculum, the Col-leges are committed to the study of glo-bal interdependence and intercultural un-derstanding…. We undertake these tasksas part of our continuing effort to en-gage the traditions of Western and non-Western cultures and the challenges tothese traditions that are raised in the con-temporary world. Faculty members en-

courage close interaction between them-selves and their students are dedicated toteaching in ways that promote imagina-tion and curiosity, demand intellectualrigor, and interrelate the pursuit of intel-lectual goals and reflection on the social

consequences of theirknowledge.” I fail to seehow the event of Septem-ber 11th and in turn, the warthat is currently raging inAfghanistan does not fitthis piece of our mission?Our mission juxtaposedwith policy, allows the wellbeing of students to fall bythe wayside. Additionally,as an RA I have never seenmore alcohol and drug

abuse on this campus as I saw the weekfollowing September 11th. How can all ofthis possibly be in the best interests ofthe students?

On top of the war in Afghani-stan, students were hit even closer tohome with the fire that broke out on Rees1. First, I would like to say that this schoolis so lucky that no one was hurt. How-ever, much of this so-called luck boilsdown to the students who put themselvesin harms way to save the lives of theirfellow classmates. So many questionscame out of this fire like; why are the firealarms in JPR not up to current fire code?Instead of the code at the time it was built?(Which, by the way, is legal). Why did wenot heed the warnings of Seton Hall, likeso many other institutions of higher learn-ing? Why is it that every initiative for oursafety is taken after the fact? However, asmall minority of, students on this cam-pus have pulled fire alarms because theyare either mentally deficient or inebriated.These students’ behavior should not cre-

Policy Manufactured In Order ToProtect School Not Students

Dane Miller

The Support and Safety of HWS Studentsoverlooked in the Name of Policy

Our mission juxtaposed with policy, allows the well beingof students to fall by the wayside. Additionally, as anRA I have never seen more alcohol and drug abuse onthis campus as I saw the week following September 11th.How can all of this possibly be in the best interests of thestudents?

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The Herald OPINION/EDITORIAL November 9, 20016

Since I’ve been here, residing atHWS, I have noticed all of these“cool” trends that I just don’tfeel “cool” enough to practice.And honestly, I really do wish Iwere “cool” enough to performthem.

I wish I were “cool” enoughto wear my hat sideways. I mean,they’re not supposed to be wornthat way, so you got to be “cool”to style it that way. You have tobe rebellious; I just don’t feel re-bellious enough. It would makeme feel asymmetrical.

I wish I were “cool” enoughto wear Oakley’s. I see people walk-ing around with them on, and its noteven sunny. I am definitely not“cool” enough to do that; I wouldprobably walk into a tree. And youknow that they’re not blocking thesun, they just want to look tough. Iguess I’m not tough.

I wish I were “cool” enough towear a leather jacket. I feel that themost important characteristic, onemust have to where one, is maturity.But it seems like everyone on cam-

pus has one. I just can’t doit; I can’t fake the maturity. Ijust don’t feel that I have thesame “coolness” as every-one else on campus wearingleather jackets.

I wish I were “cool”enough to be one of those kids who

hops in his car, turns on the ignition,and screeches away at a million milesan hour, blasting his woofer so thatthe whole car shakes. What they’retrying to prove, I don’t know. All Iknow is that I am not “cool” enoughto do it.

And finally, I wish I were “cool”enough to see an article in the news-paper, disagree with a view, and com-pletely rip off the article in order toget in the paper. Well, I’m not “cool”enough to that either.

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Epitome of “Cool”Hobart Student QuestionsHow “Cool” He Really Is

I wish I were “cool” enoughto be one of those kids whohops in his car, turns on theignition, and screeches awayat a million miles an hour,blasting his woofer so that thewhole car shakes.

I would like to respond to the ar-ticle, “Snuggle Up to This,” that ap-peared in the Herald last week. Be-fore Dave’s article went into the pa-per, I personally read it and foundno problem with it. I honestlythought it wassomewhat re-spectable thathe thought theperfect femalebody actuallyhad some meaton it, as op-posed to a stickthin girl.

To start off, before you think I’msome super bitch on a mission, youshould know a few things about me.Where I come from physical appear-ance counts for a lot. I have morefriends than I can count on both myhands who have succumbed to sometype of eating disorder. I have friendswho are still struggling, and I havefriends who have remarkably recov-ered (hopefully for the long run).During my sophomore year in highschool, I did a multi media presenta-tion that won my group and I honormarks on the effects the media hason girls regarding eating disorders.The stats and stories were remark-

ably depressing, and taught me howmuch of a mental disorder “eating”disorders really are. They are lifelong sicknesses that basically de-stroy the body. And although manypeople think of women when they

think of eating disorders, men arealso very widely effected. I alsohave at least a handful of guy friendsat home who have fallen into thehorrible traps of eating disorders. Itjust comes to show that men alsohave extreme pressure on them to bea certain weight, and acquire a cer-tain look. Knowing this, I in turndon’t find a problem to wanting tobe a certain way, as long as you re-main healthy. I, just like everybody,worry about my weight, probablymore than I should, but I also knowthat there’s a limit. I know that Iwouldn’t look right if I was as skinnyas Christina Aguilera. Considering

that however, my best friend Emilyform home is a size zero, and caneven fit into kids pants, but shedoesn’t have a problem at all. That’sjust the way she’s built. I know lotsof people who work out everyday,

and eat veryh e a l t h i l y .They don’t dothis to look acertain way, orto perceivethe “perfectfemale body”,but to takepride in their

bodies and feel good about them-selves.

So, yes I do agree that the mediacan tend to go overboard, and thatthere are a lot of people who are sickand shouldn’t be, but I don’t see aproblem in people wanting to beskinny, and honestly, even guys.The question I leave you with, andthis goes for everybody, don’t weall just want to look good naked atthe end of the day, and also, whosays fat people have better sex justbecause they’re not worried aboutwhat they look like? I’m not a stick,but I’m not fat, and I know that’s notwhat I think about.

Looking GoodDoes Not HaveTo Be An IllnessSara Hoverson

Knowing this, I in turn don’t find a problem to wanting tobe a certain way, as long as you remain healthy. I, just likeeverybody, worry about my weight, probably more than Ishould, but I also know that there’s a limit.

In last week’s Herald article, “StaffSupport Protests,” The Heraldreported that Sandy Gerlachprovided comments to The Herald.In fact, those comments wereprovided by Deana Fox. The Heraldregrets the error.

CORRECTIONThumbs Up/Thumbs Down

The Her-ald gives athumbs up toB a r r yR o b i n s o nand Prof.Brophy forpuckering upto kiss a big

pig named Peggy Sue! We are surethat it was not much fun, but it wasfor a great cause. All the moneyraised for this event went to Make-A-Wish. Thanks for sucking it up togrant these kids their last wishes. Acouple of mouthfuls of Listerine andyou will be as good as new!

Another Thumbs up goes out toMatt Goodro and Cassie Pustilnik fororganizing the faculty panel that ad-dressed the war in Afghanistan andalso for forming a student organiza-tion called the Coalition for PeacefulJustice. Your leadership on these is-sues has impacted this communityin the so many ways; The studentsof HWS thank you for all of yourefforts. In addition, the Herald wouldlike the thank professors Ost, Lee,Tilley, Desai, Sengal, and Rimmermanfor taking time out of their busyschedules to participate in such animportant discussion. This is onlyone example of your continual com-mitment to the student body, to

which we are sincerely grateful.

T h u m b sdown thisweek goesout to allthe mem-bers ofthis com-m u n i t ywho are ofvoting agedid not vote! Your vote is so impor-tant to change in this community andit is not something that we can af-ford to give up on, especially in thesetimes. So rock your vote!

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-ate policy for the rest of the stu-dent body, as I believe that it has.Meanwhile, as these questions arisewe have side stepped the fact thatstudents’ lives were in danger andthat could have been prevented, re-gardless of a fire.How is it possiblethat the policy ofthis schoolpreaches studentsupport followedby a list all thethings it does to in-sure the safety ofeach resident (pgs.88-92 of the Hand-book on Commu-nity Standards) inthe event of a dormfire and yet most of the 34 residentswho lived on Rees 1, and those thatlive in either Jackson or Potter, feelneither supported nor safe?

Policy Does NotProtect Students

“Why is there a large pair of scis-sors digging into the lawn beside thelibrary?” I asked my friend HunterL i p p i n c o t twhen I came tovisit the HWScampus inApril of 2000.While Idowned aFriendly’s de-luxe burger,Hunter beganto explain thec o o r d i n a t esystem that we have here. In a nut-shell, he explained that, each bladefrom the pair of scissors could do itsjob alone, but that together they doa much better job. That’s how Hobartand William Smith work. They arephenomenal colleges separately, buttogether they make one amazingschool. Unfortunately, I do not seethe men and women of these collegesbalancing each other out the waythat the colleges are supposed to.

There are only two men in my Dis-courses of Rape in ContemporaryCulture course. I suppose that most

men get the idea that it is a brutalcourse for a man to be in consider-ing, the fact that it is a class that dealswith rape. On the contrary, we thriveon the opinions of the male membersof the class. It is important for

women to understand where men arecoming from, because females knowhow women feel. Although mostpeople think of rape as being a crimecommitted by a male against a fe-male, but we try not to look at it thatway. We need your input, guys!!

In addition to the small numberof males in my class, there was alsoa sad number of men at the march toTake Back The Night. Out of the 824men enrolled at Hobart, 820 appar-ently had better things to do thansupport rape and sexual assault vic-tims (who, may I point out, are not

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1,800 college students in upstate NewYork are filled with fear, confusion,anxiety, and frustration, and it is themoral obligation of this institution toassuage those feelings, not merely actwithin legal boundaries to coverthemselves.

all women). So where were all themen (not including the ones who areabroad)? Maybe you guys weresleeping, maybe you had pledgingobligations, maybe you had a lot ofwork, or maybe you guys don’t think

that these is-sues have todo with you;wrong an-swer! In fact,they haveeverythingto do withyou.

I knowthat themales on this

campus are far from being misogy-nistic, ignorant, or obsessed withsome phallocentric, patriarchal lifestyle. Of course you guys care! I ampositive that every single one of youhas a friend who is a woman, even awoman who’s enrolled at WilliamSmith. So, with that said, to all theHobart men out there, the women ofWilliam Smith, not to mention womeneverywhere, need your input andsupport. Let’s attain the balance thatthis coordinate system proposes, notthis deranged seesaw where we findeach gender fighting to have thehigher seat.

The Coordinate Scissor TheorySystem That Snips Gender Imbalance in the Bud

Mary Herman

So, with that said, to all the Hobart men out there, the womenof William Smith, not to mention women everywhere, needyour input and support. Let’s attain the balance that thiscoordinate system proposes, not this deranged seesaw where wefind each gender fighting to have the higher seat.

Does this school ever love their safety-semi-nars? The official biggest waste of my time thisweek, has been the ‘fire safety’ seminar, that wasrequired for all Odell’s units, and I’m sure therest of campus as well. My favorite part was thescary video aimed at people with an IQ of eighthgraders. I’m a senior! I don’t think it’s neces-sary to insult me by requiring my attendance atsome event that is this school’s way of coveringtheir ass!

On another note, good luck to the honorsstudents who are writing their fall exams thisweek and next!

Fire Safety Seminars Are AWaste Of Students’ Time

I write this in an effort to compelthis school to create policy that caresabout its students, not around them.1,800 college students in upstateNew York are filled with fear, confu-sion, anxiety, and frustration, and itis the moral obligation of this insti-

tution to assuage those feelings, notmerely act within legal boundariesto cover themselves.

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Arts & EntertainmentHERALD FLICK OF THE WEEK

Rush Hour 2Friday Flix, 10 pm, Geneva Room

Sweden may beknown to mostas the land of

great booze and beau-tiful women but its lat-est export is climbingthe charts. Eagle-EyeCherry whose famegoes back to his charttopping single “SaveTonight” has just re-leased his first new al-bum since 1998’s Plati-num album Desireless.After a world tour andsong collaborationwith the great CarlosSantana, on the latter’sSupernatural album,Eagle-Eye was back inthe studio to work onhis latest creationPresent/Future.

Eag le -EyeCherry may be more ofa household name inEurope, but the Cherryname is far from uncommon. Son ofthe great jazz trumpeter Don Cherryand brother to dance-pop singerNeneh Cherry, Eagle-Eye was bornand raised into a world surroundedby music. His latest album Present/Future displays Eagle-Eye’s explo-rations into new sounds and styles.He deviates from his previousstripped down acoustic sound topump up the volume with the fullelectrifying rock riffs of this new al-bum. His lyrics explore all newdepths and take on a more upbeattone that correlates all to well withhis new-electrified melodies.

The album’s fast pacedtrack “Feels So Right” would put justabout any skeptics foot to tapping.It invokes that classic rock feel that

Eagle-Eye Cherry Leaves thePast in the Dust as He Explores

his Present/FutureJonathan Widmark

A&E Contributor

If when walking into a movie looking for your seats all you can seeis a seaful of preteen and teen-

age girls, you know you are introuble. Such was the case when As-sistant Arts edi-tor Shauna Bill-ings and I (shetook notes forme) attended“On The Line,”the new film star-ring *NSYNCh e a r t t h r o b sLance Bass andJoey “Fat One”Fatone.

While thefilm has likeneditself to “Sleep-less In Seattle”in its ad campaign, “On The Line”doesn’t even manage to live up tothe low standards of the Tom Hanksfilm.

Sure, the plot is incredibly pre-dictable (boy meets girl, loses trackof girl, gets girl back) and the jokeshackneyed (anybody for a good of-fice joke about how the copy ma-chine doesn’t work?), but that isn’tall that derails “On The Line.”

The films self-nemesis is its one-dimensional characters, poor dia-logue, production, plot, and yes,

even acting. Bass plays Kevin, adown on his luck guy, who can never“seal the deal” with the opposite sex.Just to get this point across to theaudience, this is mentioned at leasta half dozen times. Fatone plays astereotypical “party animal,” thatalso happens to be a musician withpoor hygiene (hilarious).

An equally weak plot accompa-nies the weak characters. After meet-ing the proverbial girl of his dreams(Abby played by Emmanuel Chriqui)on a subway, Kevin doesn’t botherto get her name or address, andspends the rest of the film trying tolocate her. But don’t worry, you getyour big movie screen kiss at the end— like you didn’t see that coming.

Fatone at least seems comfortablein his role, while Bass looks like a

‘NSYNC stinksup screen Kurt PoleskyMassachusetts Daily Collegian

no matter how hard you try, just hasto be played LOUD! Cherry exploresother realms of musical genre. “OneGood Reason” starts off with a soloblues riff and is followed by a verychill downbeat vocal that after sev-eral verses is joined by a drumbeatthat sets the song to a more funkbased tempo. When putting to-gether “Long Way Around” Cherrysaid: “I had originally envisioned TajMahal duetting with me on that song,but when we were recording it withRick (Rick Rubin, Producer), it justhit me, it’s a party song and Nenehis a party girl.” Arguably, anythingthat includes Taj Mahal is going tobe fantastic, but the duet with sisterNeneh works much to his benefit.Those of you who really loved his

last album and that stripped downacoustic sound, fear not, he has notforgotten you. There is plenty ofthat old feeling in the trend of “SaveTonight” on this new album.

If you find yourself perus-ing the shelves of Area Records oneafternoon looking for somethingnew, give Present/Future a try.There seems to be something for fansof all genres on it, whether it is rock,jazz, blues, or funk. Sit back, chillout, and play it loud!

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When fellow *NSYNC’er JustinTimberlake appears in a cameo role asa feminine-acting makeup artist, one canonly question why Bass, the leastcharismatic of the groups members, wasthe one cast in the lead role.

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deer caught in headlights (which ishis normal look anyway). His styleseems incredibly forced and awk-ward at times. The amazing aspectto this is that his line delivery seemspoor even after post production. Onecan only shudder to think what therough cut of the film must be likewith no editing to mask Bass’ lack ofacting acumen.

When fellow *NSYNCer JustinTimberlake appears in a cameo roleas a feminine-acting makeup artist,one can only question why Bass, theleast charismatic of the groups mem-bers, was the one cast in the leadrole. Timberlake’s performance wasseriously hilarious, and there is al-ready talk that the producers of“Friends” want to cast him on theshow playing a similar character tothe one he portrays in the film.

Another noticeable and embar-rassing aspect of the movie is thedubbing out of “bad” words suchas “ass” and “screw”. To see char-acters clearly saying one word, whilethe sound of another comes out isalmost unheard of in first run largescreen showings of movies. Thatwas until “On The Line” broke thetrend.

The cheesiest moment in moviehistory also occurs when Bass be-gins shaking his hips while stand-ing by the copy machine. The tee-nybopper song “On The Line”(soundtrack available now by theway) is blasting, while the light fromthe copy machine lights Bass up ingod-like fashion in the darkenedroom. The result is a truly an avant-garde film moment. Bass has hismoment of Zen in the scene, wherehe decides to make an ad (how bril-liant, he’s an ad executive after all.)to find his subway lover. Thisteaches us the life lessen that teeny-bopper music = self-inspiration.

Our moment of Zen was whenexiting, we were walking behind agroup of 10-year-old girls gigglingafter they had been royally enter-tained for the previous 90 minutes.When did we become such highfalutin movie critics unable to enjoythe simple pleasures of cinema, likea movie starring the incomparableLance Bass? I’m not sure, but I dohave one question, when is O-Towngoing to have a movie?

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‘NSYNC Stinks It Might be Funny Turns Out to be Hilarious

Where can the average Hobart and William Smith studentlearn about the development of Krispy Kreme doughnuts,sheep shearing, and monkey hunting? While the Warren

Hunting Smith Library is one viable option, a better – and funnier –place is at a performance of HWS’s own improv group, It Might BeFunny.

On November4, 2001, IMBF packedthe Wasey Room withpeople and laughs intheir first performanceof the semester. Skitsincluded classics like“the dating game,”“3-2-1 kill me,” and“freeze.”

Improvcomedy, or impro-visation in gen-eral, is a form oftheatre in whichno script isused. Actorscreate the dia-log and ac-tion them-selves asthey per-form, withhelp fromaudience suggestions.

IMBF, founded fiveyears ago, works with a core group of sevendedicated students lead by seniors Tristan Tan-ner, Shay Fitzpatrick, and Matt Abramson.

“I thought it was really funny,” saidsenior Renee’ Conklin, who has attendedIMBF shows since her first year.“Tristan Tanner was absolutelyfabulous; she is truly a star,”said Conklin, Tanner’s faith-ful roommate.

Melissa RobertsEditor-in-Chief

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I t was one for the ages. It livedup to its name, the “Fall Classic”.What started in October spilled

into November, and did not disap-point. It was a series so unbeliev-able, so mind-boggling, so strange,it will be sliced, diced, gouged, ex-amined, studied and analyzed foryears to come. Baseball is alive inArizona, and the World Series cham-pions reside in a ballpark famous forstreakers and skinny dippers in it’sseven-grand-a-seat-by the poolballpark, referred to by the famousacronym, the BOB. Just four yearsold, the Diamondbacks were able todethrone the kings of all sports, theinfamous New York Yankees in thegreatest World Series ever. Period. Iwill be so bold to say it was the great-est of all time, and I feel that a hugemajority of the people who put awaythe books, and had the beers coldfor each game will agree. It was amatch up of two complete opposites:Tradition vs. Arizona baseball. 27vs. 0. History vs. Present. Andwhen Luis Gonzalez lifted a softfisted single over the drawn in Yan-kee infield off once invincibleMariano Rivera, baseball had a newchampion. Rivera, who had beencalled one of the greatest post-sea-son pitchers of all time about a tril-lion times by the vile duet of Joe Buckand Tim MaCarver, proved beyond

Baseball is Fun Againthe shadow of a doubt that’s he ishuman, and capable of losing on thegreatest of scopes; Game 7. I won’ttake anything away from Rivera; his0.70 postseason ERA, saving 24 ofhis last 25 games is quite impressive.But now his line will read 24 of 26,and that will sting for a long time.This World Series had heroes, andgoats. It had heartache and jubila-tion. One moment you were crack-ing a champagne bottle, the next youwere downing shots of Cuervo. Itwas that good. Any time you go toa game seven, you know you are infor a treat.

The first two games went as ex-pected. Curt Schilling and RandyJohnson confirmed their pitchingbrilliance, with 9-1 and 4-0 victoriesin ‘Zona. Roger Clemens won a cru-cial game 3 by a score of 2-1 as theYanks looked to anyone to give themsome offense. And then the fun be-gan (but not before a few dozen heartattacks, and questioning of God).The D-Backs and Spanks would giveeveryone two of the most incredibleand unfathomable games in the his-tory of baseball. The Yanks, not oncebut twice rallied in the bottom of the9th only to win games in extra frames.It was four different heroes for theBombers: Tino and Jeet in game 4,and Scott Brosius and Soriano ingame 5. But it would be the inabilityof 22-year-old Byung-Hyun Kim toclose a game, coupled with the ever-

questioned managerial “skills” ofBob Brenly that could have giventhe Yanks these games. Comingback to the BOB, needing two victo-ries, things looked grim.

Game six will always remain anenigma to all baseball fans. Fifteenruns, on twenty-two hits for Arizona.Knocking out big game pitcherAndy Pettitte out in the 3rd. A pun-ishing score of 15-2, forcing a game7 for all the marbles. And the imagesof game 7 will remain in every base-ball purists mind forever. CurtSchilling, for the second time in theseries going on 3 days rest, retiring18 in a row. Roger Clemens, the age-less one, pitching a gem in his ownright, striking out 10. Both teamsexecuting perfect relays (Jeter andCounsell) to gun runners down try-ing to stretch a double into a 3-bag-ger. Randy Johnson, all 38 years and83 inches, pitching 1 and 1/3 inningsone night after he threw over 100pitches. Rookie sensation AlfonsoSoriano golfing a 0-2 splitter off histoes for a 2-1 lead in the 8th. MarianoRivera blowing away the side in the8th. And of course, the bottom of the9th, which was the culmination of thegreatest World Series of all time.Single, error, force out, pinch runner,double (tying score at 2), hit bats-man, and then Gonzalez. Hit.Ballgame. Series. Season. Lightsout, drive home safely....

Ben KennaSports Editor

Dallas at Atlanta 1 PMGreen Bay at Chicago 1 PMPittsburgh at Cleveland 1 PMTampa Bay at Detroit 1 PMMiami at Indianapolis 1 PMCarolina at St. Louis 1 PMBuffalo at New England 1 PMKansas City at NY Jets 1 PMCincinnati at Jacksonville 1PMSan Diego at Denver 4:05 PMMinnesota at Philadelphia4:15 PMNY Giants at Arizona 4:15 PMNew Orleans at San Francisco4:15 PMOakland at Seattle 8:30 PM

MONDAY NIGHTBaltimore at Tennessee 9 PM

WEEK 8 PICKSChicago 2Green Bay 0

San Diego 24 (Magic Flute)Denver 21

Pittsburgh 21 (Bus rolls on)Cleveland 10

Indy 31Miami 14

MONDAYTie 0-0(Kearse and Lewis injureeveryone)

William Smith vs.Amherst

NOONNCAA

Tournament

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Statesmen Topple Cardinals, Eye RPI

Once again the HobartStatesmen football teamwill close their season with

the Red Hawks from RPI, and onceagain there will be major playoff im-plications on the line. With a win,the Statesmen will most likely findthemselves receiving an invitation tothe ECAC Playoffs. Whereas a lossto the Red Hawks, will vault RPI intothe NCAA Tournament, and sendthe Statesmen into an early off sea-son.

Hobart has positioned them-selves at 6-2 overall with one gameleft to play, after sending the vocif-erous Boswell Field crowd homehappy on Senior Day, defeating St.John Fisher, 28-18. First-year TyGodinho led the way via the ground,tallying 86 yards on 31 carries.Sophomore quarterback CraigSwanson was 12-28, throwing for 165yards and 1 touchdown. On the de-fensive side, Junior Tim Booth con-tinued his sensational year by record-ing 10 tackles, 4 for losses, an inter-ception and a blocked punt, whichwas recovered in the end zone for aHobart touchdown. Junior defensiveend Matt Daley also notched 10 tack-les in the winning effort.

On a cloudy day in Geneva, thingsstarted out gloomy on the playingfield for the Statesmen, as Fisher Jun-ior Gerald Dias ran the opening kick-off of the game from Eric Ampuja,back 89 yards to pay dirt, to makethe score 6-0. The Cardinals botchedthe extra point, and shortly thereaf-ter saw their 6-0 lead evaporate intothe chilly autumn air. Following aStatesmen punt, Fisher went threedowns and out, and needed to kickaway from deep inside their own fiveyard line. Booth stormed through theline and blocked punter SeanReardon’s kick perfectly onto theground, and First-year Skip Grantlingwas right there to clean up the messand recover the ball for the score.Ampuja’s PAT gave the Statesmen a7-6 lead they would never relinquish.

When Cardinals special teamswoes persisted on the followingdrive, as Reardon botched the catchof the snap, Hobart recovered on theFisher 19 yard line. The Statesmenneeded just six plays, and one mam-moth offensive linemen/fullback totake care of business. Larger thanlife First-year Alex Bell plunged infrom the 1-yard line stampeding Car-dinals defenders on his way, to put

Hobart on top 14-6. Bell notched his2nd touchdown on what has been amagnificent first year in the orangeand blue. Hobart struck again in theopening seconds of the 2nd quarteron a Godinho touchdown to make it21-6.

A Jason Meyers score madeit 21-12 Hobart at halftime. Hobart,resilient as always, would strike backas Craig Swanson lofted a lovely ballinto the corner of the end zone tojunior tight end Ryan Adams, whohung on in coverage to make a fabu-lous catch for the touchdown. TheStatesmen led at that point 28-12,and a late fourth quarter touchdown

for the Cardinals would conclude thegame’s scoring, and give the gameits end result of 28-18. Fellow juniortight end Jeremy Archer turned inone of his many fine performanceson the year, reeling in 2 catches for20 yards. Sophomore Joe Pirozzoloadded 3 catches, tying Adams forthe most Statesmen receptions onthe day.

Another winning season forStatesmen Head Coach Mike Craggin the books, as well as another im-pressive conference run. A run which

could be made much more impres-sive, with a win over the Red Hawkstomorrow in the 2001 season finale.The Statesmen defense should havetheir hands full with the undefeatedRed Hawks (7-0) who average 32points per game and feature passhappy Sophomore quarterback DanCole. A Statesmen upset, will mostlikely propel them into the ECACplayoffs and top off the secondstraight Hobart football season, andthe second in school history, result-ing in postseason gridiron action.Now that would be impressive.

Chris ConnorsLivin’ it Up

PHOTO:First-year DanSuozzi (22) isfired up after abig play

photo courtesy ofDavid Gordon

Field Hockey Fall in Thriller;Repeat Hopes Placed on Hold

Repeating as a national champion is a feat that is oftenimpossible to perform. Af-

ter last year’s incredible run at aNational Title, reeling off 20 con-secutive victories, including a thrill-ing 1-0 triumph over Springfield, theWilliam Smith Field Hockey teamwas poised to return to glory. Afterrunning wild over UCAA foes, theteam headed into the post-seasonwith every gear clicking. Defeatingtheir first round opponent, Wooster,by a score of 4-1, the Herons wel-comed the Thoroughbreds ofSkidmore College for a NCAA tour-nament 2nd round contest. In theearly stages of the first half, the of-fense was relentless for the Herons,knocking shot after shot againstSkidmore goalie Kristine Osmond.Osmond knocked away 12 shots inthe first half alone. For the Herons,sophomore Jess Kulesa was equallyimpressive, stopping an earlybreakaway, as well as several otherintensely fired blasts. The Skidswould net the eventual game win-ner after 18:01 played, as a redi-rected shot would find the back ofthe goal for the ‘Breds. Fighting val-

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iantly, the Herons could not break theimpenetrable goal by Osmond, andtheir dream of a repeat was thwartedby Skidmore and Osmond’s 17 saves.Kulesa was equally impressive, stop-ping 8 shots in goal. For the Herons,it was only their 5th loss in the pasttwo seasons, and the stats they putup this season were staggering.Observe:

*The team allowed a miniscule 24goals, while totaling 49.

*Kulesa, in her first full season ingoal, let under a goal per game pasther (0.92 GA), stopping over 100shots on the season.

*Seniors Jackie Hall and NicoleLivingston close out their amazing4-year careers with over 225 pts com-bined, as they became the 7th and 8th

Herons to have over 100 pts for theircareers (Hall with 118 is good for 4th

place, and Livingston holds therecord for most career assists (38),and most assists in one season (17).

The Herons thank everyone forthe support through the entire sea-son, and coach Scatton and companywill expect big things next season.

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SPORTS

Lots of home games thisweekend. Check one out andsupport your school, ya dig?Sports schedule is on page 12.

SportsHERALD GAME OF THE WEEK

Hobart Hockey vs. ElmiraSaturday, Nov. 10 at 7 PM

You could have cut the tension with a knife. The penalty kick tally is tied at 3 and

junior forward Kristen Perrigo stepsup trying to pierce the ball throughthe rain and into the net past goal-keeper Carolyn Stead of Union.Perrigo and her teammates alongwith Union had played 150 minutesof grueling soccer plus 4 penaltykicks. Perrigo reached down andplugged the ball in the back of thenet leading the William Smith Her-ons to victory and to the NCAAQuarterfinals. If you were at the gameand you said to the person standingnext to you “this is the most excitingsoccer game I have ever seen,” thenget in line because there are manyothers saying the same thing.

Union struck first on a re-bound goal by Lauren Bryne veryearly in the contest. From then onthe game of Union was characterizedby defense. The players get the ballout of the 18 quickly and they willnot mess around, led by VictoriaKuzman. William Smith, on the otherhand, seemed throughout the gameto have a sickly love for the cross-bar and post as they hit it multipletimes. The Dutchwomen would re-tain this 1 – 0 lead all the way to theend of the match. With ten minutesleft in regulation the Herons werestarting to feel the weight of the pos-sibility of being sent home from thetournament. Now, most teams wouldlet this feeling get the best of themand make rash mistakes. WilliamSmith, though, crumbling under pres-sure? No way, this is where they ex-cel. If you will please all jump intoyour Doloreans and accelerate to 88mph we will go back to last year, theNCAA Regional championshipagainst Oneonta. The clock is wind-ing down to under six minutes andthe Herons are down 1 – 0. Crumbleyou say? Never, freshman at the timeStephanie Leveille scored and sentthe game into overtime. Ok now backto the present. Under a minute left,the pressure is on, the season is onthe line…and another first yearscores the game tying goal for the

Penalty Kicks Propel HeronsHerons, this time in the form ofMichelle Smith using her head in acouple of different ways to get theball in the back of the net. Then therains came, and so did the overtimes.Four of them to be exact resulting innothing more but tired and wet Divi-sion 3 soccer players, and a few moreclangs off the post for the Herons.William Smith had dominated thegame play, but they couldn’t seemto get past that defense. One hourworth of overtimes later the referees

decided to surpass the ritual rock pa-per scissors method and go right tothe penalty kicks. In this round theHerons were just too much. The com-bination of four years worth of expe-rience in goal for Leah Cornwell, anda fiery offense made the Herons un-stoppable. On Wendell! OnStachura! On Greiner! On Perrigo!And that would do it, the Heronslocked up their spot in thequarterfinals and a place in the heartsof many William Smith soccer fans.

Matt JohnsonSports Contributor

William Smith Soccer showed what poise and class mean in their epicovertime match against Union. photo by Dave Gordon

Last Saturday at the head ofSeneca Lake, the WilliamSmith Herons hosted the 5th

annual Heron Invitational CrossCountry meet. The conditions wereexcellent; gusts up to 45 knots, freez-ing rain, and temperatures aroundfour degrees Kelvin. This weatherproved to be no match for the awe-some strength of the Statesmen.Senior captain Steve Chaboo was theStatesmen’s first with a career besttime of 27:44 for the five-mile course.Next for the team was freshman Jus-tin Siuta (29:04), followed by Scott“Road Flame” Thoms with a per-sonal best time of 29:21, Rob “I wantsome Pesta” Portik (30:16), androunding out the top 5 was fresh-man Drewbercrombie Fitch with apersonal best time of 30:27. Sopho-more Hardcore Navikonis, freshman

Maximus Desimus Zimmerly, andsophomore George Kay closed outthe Statesmen for the day. With theresults final, Hobart had secondplace locked down, edged out nar-rowly by a swift and strong Clarksonsquad. When asked how he feltabout his 3rd place finish, captainSteve Shaboot responded: “a Chabotabove any other.” There is much tobe said about this controversialquote as we feel that someday, he isgoing down. The Statesmen have ashowdown this Saturday at MountGreylock High School inWilliamstown, MA. If anyone is in-terested in a ride to the race, pleasemake a check out to Scott Thoms foran amount of $8,000 and I can seewhat can be arranged.

Cross Country Cleans up at HeronScott ThomsSports Contributor

William Smith Basketball

11/10 vs. Niagara 2 PM

William Smith XC

11/10 NCAA Regional

Championships @NYC

TBA

HWS Sailing 11/10-11

Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championships @Charleston

Atlantic Coast Women’s Championships @Navy

Atlantic Coast Freshman Championships @Brown

William Smith Squash

11/11 @Colgate 1 PM

William Smith Swimming & Diving

11/10 vs. Alfred, Canisius 1 PM

Hobart Basketball

11/10 vs. Niagara 4 PM Hobart Cross Country

11/11 NCAA Regional

Championships TBA

Hobart Hockey

11/10 vs. Elmira 7 PM

(first home game of season)

11/15 vs. Fredonia 7:30 PM

Hobart Football

11/10 @Rensselaer 1 PM

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