October 31, 2014

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opinions & editorials‘Liberal View’

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‘Knowing to Cook’owls athletics

Homecoming Football gameRebmann column

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The objective student press of Westfi eld State UniversityV O L U M E V I , I S S U E I X F R E E O F C H A R G E, A V A I L A B L E E V E R Y W H E R E O N C A M P U S

Student Government approves $7,275 proposal to fund new digital patient system for EMS Club

Joshua ClarkEditor-in-Chief

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES CLUB

SCAN TAKEN FROM FORM COURTESY OF EMS CLUB

The Student Government Associ-ation invested heavily in the Emer-gency Medical Services Club on Tuesday.

The Senate approved a fi nance proposal brought to the fl oor by Mat-thew Carlin, vice president of fi nance, for the $7,275 required to fund their license to the AmbuPro software.

The software, which also requires hardware purchases, dramatically improves the service that the EMS Club provides by moving them away from carbon copy forms to a fully-fea-tured software application.

The software works by allowing the EMTs on site to plug in patient information, vital signs, condition, and any other information that they fi nd necessary.

They can also look at prior inter-actions with patients, which will help treat them better at the scene.

Michael Tryon, faculty advisor for the EMS Club, spoke to the Sen-ate about the necessity of the new software.

He said that the software was im-

portant to the work that EMS does because it moves them away from the paper forms.

Tryon also praised the EMS Club for working to get the proposal down from over $15,000 to $7,275.

During the questions part of the motion, there was concern that the amount of the proposal would “break the bank.”

Ryan Losco, junior class presi-dent, asked about the fi nancial sol-vency of the Finance Committee account and if there would be any possibility of looking at the reserves if the account runs out of money.

Carlin answered by saying there was plenty of money in reserves and that tapping into that could be con-sidered if the occasion were to arise.

Losco, representative-at-large Alex Doming, senior class represen-tative JJ Terlaga, sophomore class president Scott Seskevich, and senior class president Rich Darrach all com-mended the work that the EMS Club does.

They were supportive of the pro-posal. Terlaga led the Senate into a round of applause.

Senators fi red off questions back and forth to Tryon, EMS chief Chris

Sorge, and IT director Alan Blair. A couple of the questions dealt with the necessity to move to the electronic system.

Tryon said that the electronic system was more effective for the EMTs, especially when there are pa-tients who have been served by the club before. Also, the paper forms are a security risk, he said.

Blair, who has experience in hos-pital data security, spoke about how

the university could be fi ned many millions of dollars if the paper forms went missing.

The Senate voted unanimously to allocate the money to the EMS Club, which was followed by a lengthy round of applause.

The proposal helped pay for the software and the expenses related to the software license. To use the soft-ware, two ToughBook laptops and one desktop unit were required to be purchased.

Westfi eld Fire donated two ToughBooks and the Westfi eld State IT Department found one desktop for the club to use, which brought the costs down dramatically.

‘9 to 5’ was a performance you shouldn’t have missedNathan Benoit

Voice Reporter

On Oct. 25, Westfi eld State University presented the mu-sical 9 to 5. I really enjoyed the musical. This show was funny, entertaining, and the music was catchy.

The production was per-formed by none other than our very own Musical The-atre Guild.

I never saw or heard of 9 to 5 before, so I was not quite sure what to expect, but this performance defi nitely out did my expectations. I thought the way they transi-tioned from talking into sing-ing was superb, like when Vi-

olet was teaching Judy how to work in the offi ce. It is hard to do, and some musicals, such as High School Musical, are not good at it.

The story was pretty inter-esting, revolving around three girls working at an offi ce run by a misogynistic boss that treats them unfairly. I liked how all three of their stories connected in the song “I Just Might” be-cause it really made us feel for the characters. Everybody in the show sang beautifully and the solos were fl awless.

The show was also come-dic, which worked perfectly – for example, when Violet’s son gave her cannabis or when they needed to tie up their boss.

One character that made ev-eryone laugh was Roz, who was Hart’s assistant. When Roz sang “Heart to Heart,” I swear the whole crowd was laughing because Roz was obsessed with Hart. Every musical needs a love story, and the relationship between Joe and Violet fulfi lls that need.

It was funny how Joe was so awkward with her, and it helped with Violet’s char-acter development as well. Overall, this musical was fantastic, and I will defi nite-ly give it a 10 out of 10 be-cause the music and singing was great and the story kept me interested.

The now-former system of taking information about patients on the scene.

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campus news & life

news from other schoolsdaily collegian

University of Mass. AmherstAfter suspending all study abroad

programs in Israel in August, the University of Massachusetts’ International Risk Management

Committee has decided to resume programs to the Middle Eastern state once again for the spring semester. This decision comes

following “the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel” and the

revised travel advisory from the U.S. State Department.

daily orangeSyracuse University

High demand for affordable housing is now motivating Syr-

acuse University students to begin searching for next year’s

housing earlier than usual, spurring competition between students trying to get the best housing and landlords trying to persuade them to invest.

With high demand for housing options, and some leases be-

ing signed earlier than usual, students now face pressure to

act quickly.

harvard crimsonHarvard University

Several Harvard affiliates are leading the effort to combat

Ebola, both in labs and on the ground, and Harvard’s new

travel restrictions are unlikely to affect their work. Harvard’s travel restrictions to areas of West Africa, announced last

weekend, will help ensure safe-ty without stifling the efforts of

University affiliates to com-bat the Ebola epidemic on the

ground, those familiar with the subject said late last week.

Student Ambassadors throw a well-attended Halloween party for ICE program students

STUDENT AMBASSADORS

Joshua ClarkEditor-in-Chief

photo by joshua clark

The attendees at the party, which was thrown by the Student Ambassadors for the ICE program students. Interim president Liz Preston was in attendance.

The Student Ambassadors threw a Halloween party for the students in the Westfield State ICE program on Monday in the Owl’s Nest.

Complete with hot chocolate, Dunkin’ munchkins, and other desserts, attendees were treat-ed to pumpkin decorating and a showing of Hocus Pocus.

Everyone was encouraged to show up in costume and there

were certainly plenty of which to speak.

The attraction of the event was the donut eating contest.

Participants were lined up in front of a donut, which is tied onto a string. The donuts were sus-pended in the air by Ambassadors president Sarah Varghese and Al Fava.

The participants could not use their hands to eat the donut, but rather they had to use their mouth to grab a hold of it and eat it.

It was a hit; many of the at-

tendees participated and had fun doing so.

One attendee said that party was a fun and had an inviting at-mosphere.

“There were so many people there that were enthralled in all of the activity,” he said.

He added, “While I did not par-ticipate in the donut eating con-test, I was cheering on those who did.”

The ICE program is in its sec-ond year at Westfield State. ICE, which stands for Inclusive Enroll-

ment, takes students with special needs from area high schools and allows them to participate in West-field State classes and activities.

Westfield State students are asked to be ICE mentors, and they guide the students through their time at Westfield. Many find their experience to be rewarding and have continued to the second year.

More information on the ICE program can be found with Lynd-sey Nunes, program coordinator, in her office in Parenzo 214 or via email [email protected].

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On Oct. 21, a liquor law violation occurred at 7:13p.m. in Davis Hall. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 23, criminal ha-rassment occurred between 12:01a.m. and 1:41p.m. in Lammers Hall. The case is closed.

On Oct. 23, counterfeit money was discovered at 12:00p.m. in the Horace Mann Center. The case is under investigation.

On Oct. 23, a rape, as-sault to rape, and indecent assault and battery oc-curred between the hours of 10:00p.m. and 12:15a.m. in the Apartment Complex. The case is under investiga-tion.

On Oct. 23, a liquor law violation occurred at 4:00p.m. in Davis Hall. The

case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 24, a liquor law violation occurred at 12:04a.m. in the Dining Commons. The case was re-ferred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 24, a drug law vi-olation occurred at 4:11p.m. in Lammers Lot. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 24, a drug law violation occurred at 10:26p.m. in Juniper Park Lot. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 24, a liquor law violation and a drug law vio-lation occurred at 11:08p.m. in South Lot. The case re-sulted in an arrest.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 12:24a.m. in Scanlon Hall. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 12:42a.m. in Scanlon Hall.

The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 2:38a.m. in Dickinson Hall. A trespass notice was issued.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 8:28p.m. in Courtney Hall. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 7:44p.m. in University Hall. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 8:00p.m. in Courtney Hall. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 8:44p.m. in Commuter Lot. A trespass notice was issued.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 10:13p.m. in Landsdowne Place. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation and a drug law vio-lation occurred at 11:14p.m. in Scanlon Hall. The case was referred to Student Conduct and a trespass no-tice was issued.

On Oct. 25, a liquor law violation occurred at 11:35p.m. in New Hall. The case was referred to Student Conduct.

On Oct. 26, a liquor law violation occurred at 2:05a.m. on Courtney Hall Road. An arrest was made.

If you would like to read the crime log, you can

find it online at westfield.ma.edu. Click on Depart-

ments at the top, locate Public Safety, and then

click Crime Log. The De-partment of Public Safety

is required to keep and publish a regularly updat-ed crime log in accordance

with the CLERY Act.

crime log

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Japanese studies expert, Harvard professor Ted Gilman to speak at Westfield State

From Press Release

Westfield State University will host Theodore “Ted” Gil-man on Monday, November 3 at 6:30 p.m. in Scanlon Ban-quet Hall. Gilman will present his lecture “Pacifist No More? Japan’s Right Turn under Abe.”

Gilman will discuss Ja-pan’s “reinterpretation” of the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution under cur-rent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and its impact on Japan’s relations with its neighbors and the United States.

Gilman is the executive director of the Reischauer In-stitute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

He sends more than 80 undergraduates to Japan an-nually to take courses, do in-ternships, study Japanese language, and conduct inde-pendent field research.

He has published a book ti-tled “No Miracles Here: Fight-ing Urban Decline in Japan and the United States,” and he has lectured on the topic in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Gilman is a central player in the Sanriku Project, an on-going effort to bolster redevel-opment in the Minami-sanri-ku-cho community.

Hugh Jo, Westfield State assistant professor of political science, said Gilman’s lecture is relevant to modern day Asia.

“The topic is timely and pertinent to the recent devel-opments in Northeast Asia,” said Jo. “Japan’s relaxation of the constitutional prohibition on the use of force has been greeted with anxieties in the region.

Japan continues to over-look/whitewash its wartime atrocities during World War II, and is engaged in territorial disputes with its neighbors.”

According to Jo, this con-flict could also impact the U.S. economy. “A military conflict in Northeast Asia could well affect the United States’ eco-nomic and security interests,” Jo said.

“The United States relies heavily on the region for the

supply of consumer goods; the U.S. is also bound with Japan and South Korea by mutual security defense agreements.”

The event is free and open to the public. The Guest Lec-ture Series is supported by funding from the Academic Affairs budget to enhance stu-dent learning and service to the larger community.

An advisory committee with representation by the faculty and librarians, staff, and students review proposals and recommend selection of proposals for the year.

For more information on upcoming speakers in the Guest Lecture Series, please visit http://www.westfield.ma.edu/speakerseries.

Friday, October 31, 2014

This article was published in the October 30, 2006 issue of The Voice.

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opinions & editorialsAdvanced genetics deteriorate individualism

Ben StohrVoice Reporter

As studies in both genetics and biology continue to advance, the idea of ge-

netic modifi cation is beginning to surface. There might come a day when the question of having a child is not only when to have it but who exactly you would like to have. Maybe humans will eventually have the opportunity to create a child with specifi c de-sirable traits as if he or she was a character in a video game. So whom would you create?

A friend recently showed me an essay prompt for her “Ideas that Change the World” course at UMass Amherst. It read, “If you could genetically modify specifi c traits for your child to have, what would they be and why?” A sarcastic remark with a phallic undertone may have been my fi rst response, but upon further refl ection, I realized this was a much deeper question than I thought. What are the ideal traits for a person living on planet earth? What characteriz-es the term ideal?

I decided to get some input from some students on campus and ask them the prompt. One freshman, who chose to remain anonymous, said how he was go-ing to school to be a gym teacher. He started by saying he would want, “A good athlete… a fast kid that can jump… he can be strong too.” He added shortly af-ter, “But I would want him to be a good kid too, nice and funny.”

Interestingly enough, when asked to only pick one trait, he hesitated and picked a “nice personality,” but would hope he would be “athletic regardless.”

Another student on campus, who is undeclared, said that she would, “want them to be smart… book smart… to get into a good college.” When asked about spe-cifi c looks, she said, “I would want a blonde-haired blue-eyed child; those babies are the cut-est.” After thinking about just one trait to pick, she said, “I don’t know, I don’t think I could ever design a kid… as long as

they were smart, I would love them… It would be really sick to have a really intelligent kid.”

Professor Harry Seymour teaches sociology here at West-fi eld State. I asked him for his input on the topic, and his re-sponse was quite interesting. “I have no desire to manipulate… to make a more perfect human being, it is diffi cult to defi ne what that means.” He did add, however, that he would approve of, “screening for problems that are genetically related, like dis-ease.”

He closed out his statement by saying that “the notion of su-perior is where we fall because there is too much value in diver-sity.”I sat and I thought hard about the question, then tried to visualize the ideal heir-to-the-throne that is my collegiate self. I think I would want a boy, but what would he look like? What would he excel in? These questions weren’t as simple as I thought.

He has got to be good-look-ing, right? Based on my twitter feed’s constant peer retweets of accounts like “@girlcode”, “@tweetlikeagirl”, and “@every-girl”, I could say a mix of Leo Di-Caprio, Channing Tatum, and Matthew McConaughey might get some attention in the female department. My genetically

modifi ed legacy would be a man-crush to all, a lady-killer (in the suave romantic sense, not the OJ Simpson, literal sense of the term). But how good-looking is too good-looking?

It then occurred to me that this might attract some people who only like my son for his looks. So I changed my mind to a perfectly under-the-radar looking guy. Not too handsome, not too ugly. Not too tall, not too short. If his looks were a set of data, he would be the median. Someone that would just fi t in the mix without much initial judgment.

It would be the psychological advantages that would bring my median child to the spotlight. He would have excellent focus and critical thinking skills. He would be very literate, tech sav-vy, and sport a high IQ. All of these things would ensure an almost guaranteed success in practically any fi eld of his choos-ing. But how smart is too smart?

If my modifi ed son was so much smarter than all of his peers, he might become isolat-ed and alone. In anything sci-fi , it always seems to be the “evil scientist who knows too much” that becomes the bad guy and tries to take over the world. Even Bradley Cooper in Lim-itless nearly went insane after

becoming one of the smartest people around, so maybe a ge-netically enhanced super-genius is not exactly what I am looking for. So my son would instead be about average when it comes to brainpower.

Through all this thinking I was left with an average-look-ing guy with average brain-power. What a lame outcome. I could have made anyone, and I made someone quite forgetta-ble. Maybe this is because there is no such thing as a truly de-sirable trait. Maybe there is no such thing as the perfect human being, considering imperfections and errors are what defi ne us as a species.

In my opinion, these genet-ically enhanced beings would ironically end up being the fur-thest thing from human. Histo-ry shows that humans have gen-erally taken the good with the bad and built off their strengths instead of dwelling on their weaknesses.

To my knowledge, Albert Einstein never tried being a su-permodel or tried playing pro-fessional basketball, nor did LeBron James try his hand at a doctoral degree in astrophys-ics. Everybody has something to bring to the table, and we do not need advanced genetic treat-ment to prove that.


Matthew CarlinAsst. Managing Editor

Russian unannounced flights alarm NATO

This past Tuesday and Wednesday, a Russian military aircraft flew into NATO air-space with near radio silence and no pre-submitted flight plan. The increase in both the size and military scale of the aircraft has raised alarm amongst NATO officials, who are already on edge from the recent escalation of hostilities between Russia and Western Powers. Normally this increase in “military exercises” would be received with less scrutiny, but due to the continual support of Ukrainian Rebels and other provocations, NATO is justly alarmed.

According to CNN, multiple squadrons of Russian bombers and tanker aircrafts flew under the disguise of in-border mil-itary maneuvers and were de-tected/monitored over sections of the Baltic, North, and Black Seas. According to an unspecif-

ic press release from NATO, an “unusual level of air activity over European airspace” was detected because of the Rus-sian aircraft.

One of the main causes for the escalated concern was that none of the aircrafts filled the customary flight plans or kept contact with the aviation au-thorities of the respected zones.

NATO officials declared this as a “potential risk to civil aviation” as a result of air traf-fic control having no ability to detect the aircraft and guaran-tee non-interference with the civilian flights.

An official from our govern-ment spoke to CNN regarding recent interactions between our aircraft and Russian pilots as “problematic.”

NATO reported that Nor-wegian F-16s were scrambled and intercepted eight Russian aircraft over the North Sea. Though most of the Russian aircrafts turned and headed back to Russia, two bombers

continued on their undisclosed flight path. The bombers were later identified and intercepted by Portuguese fighters.

Members of the Royal Air Force (RAF) were scrambled as two more Russian planes were detected heading towards the Atlantic. Though the flight path they took suggested they were heading back toward Rus-sia, as of our press time there was no report that they landed in Russia.

Speculation is that Russia will be increasing unannounced air exercises over European airspace. Though none of the planes have committed provoc-ative behavior besides radio silence, NATO officials are still weary of the increase activity.

If my understanding is cor-rect, this is coming alongside a nearing election in the eastern, rebel Ukraine that is unrecog-nized by the EU and US; how-ever, because of Russia’s inabil-ity to withdraw military forces from beyond their borders, eco-

nomic sanctions are expected to stay in place and increase in severity.

My issue with this recent unexpected military flight is that NATO seemed as if they were caught off-guard. In my opinion, which is normally a good one, NATO should be on alert for unusual military activ-ity from Russia. It is the simple idea that if you are in a hostile relation with a nation that can be unaffected by territoriality – the idea that, if a nation was to invade, they would be inflicted with unacceptable losses – you should be on high alert 24/7 un-til the situation defuses.

I understand that the cur-rent situation in Ukraine has raised considerable concerns from all parties involved and that this sort of conflict needs to be sorted out. In fact, this needed to be solved yesterday.

This does, however, raise another alarming question: Are the sanctions on Russia worth it? If Russia is still able to mobi-

lize its military and spend mil-lions on the fuel costs for these aircrafts, the sanctions seem to be too weak. In theory, if you put on sanctions, it should be to disable whatever threats the offending nation posses; how-ever, if Russia (who is consid-ered a threat in Ukraine) only has military power as a threat, would it not be wiser to cripple its ability to mobilize?

If anything, this debacle has illustrated to Russia that NATO is poorly prepared for any hostile action it wishes to take and that the international sanctions are clearly not a de-terrent to the Kremlin.

While the situation contin-ues to escalate, we here in the US must decide what would happen if Russia entered in open hostilities in both Ukraine and the European Union. I be-lieve it is better to be prepared than to be left scrambling and scratching our heads when we are caught off-guard like NATO.

This week, we found out that columnist emeritus Cory

Garwacki ‘14, passed away this past Sunday. Cory was

a member of the writing staff for The Westfield Voice throughout his time at this university. Although we are

sad, we are glad to have known Cory.

People grieve in different ways, and so if students find that they would like to write

and publish their pieces about Cory, please send them

to us via email.

We offer our condolences to Cory’s family in this difficult

time.

Joshua Clark and Andrew Burke, Co-Editors-in-Chief

and the rest of The Westfield Voice staff

THE CONSERVATIVE VIEW

Friday, October 31, 2014

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Let’s face it. The new university website is deplorable.

It is almost comically disastrous.

Navigating to anywhere on that website requires a treasure map and a guest appearance from Nicholas Cage.

When the team came from New City to help the university design its new website, I was initially excited.

My thoughts were, “Anything that can be done to that website would be an improvement.”

Numerous groups sat in on sessions with the team from New City to discuss our opinions of the university and what we wanted to see from the new website.

We were promised that those ideas would make it into the new site and that it would leaps and bounds better.

We all left those meetings highly encouraged.

At the end of one of those meetings, I got to talk to one of the people as they were packing up their belongings.

He asked me what some of my problems with the old site were. I told him that it took forever to find something. I gave him the example of when I was putting the fall semester final exam schedule in this newspaper.

It took me twenty minutes of searching on the website before I gave up and googled it.

He replied back with an affirmation that my concerns were heard loud

and clear.Imagine my surprise

when I navigate onto westfield.ma.edu two or three months later and find what we were left with.

One of the biggest gripes of my focus group was that it took forever for a current student or whoever to find anything.

New and improved for Fall 2014: an even longer wait time!

When I was putting together the Orientation Guide for the first issue of this year, it took me about a half-hour to find where the marketing office had their website.

I must have looked under a dozen different links. When I finally found the “A-Z Offices and Departments” link, it felt like the semester already passed.

While it is true that the websites are supposed to be designed with the prospective student in mind, the new website does not win over the graduate school applicant in me no more than the old website does.

Then again, maybe I am biased.

If you are feeling nostalgic, or wanting to get some actual work done, and you want to visit the old Westfield State website, you can log onto old.westfield.ma.edu.

Most of the links still work and I find its usability is much better than the new website.

Joshua Clark is a senior history major and the editor-in-chief of The

Westfield Voice.


Dorm rooms are usually not the most exciting places to live. Each room has the same furniture and can be very impersonal. I am al-ways finding ways to put a personal touch in decorating my room and finding new ways to make it unique.

Your dorm room is your home away from home, so it is important to make it a place where you feel com-fortable and happy. Do-it-yourself projects are a great way to decorate because you can choose the colors, de-signs, and sayings. Here are two simple projects that are easy and inexpensive.

Painted TV Tray TableOver the summer I found

an old TV tray table that was going to be thrown out. I thought I would repurpose it and use it in my dorm room. I needed a small ta-ble anyway, and this was a great opportunity to recycle something that I already had in my house. This proj-ect took me an afternoon to complete and was very sim-

ple to make. I chose a light pink for the top of the table and white for the legs.

I already had the paint I used at my house, howev-er, at most hardware stores there are paint samples you can buy that are inexpen-sive. Also, at most hardware stores in the paint depart-ment, there is an area with discounted paints. Most of the discounted paints have either been opened or have slight imperfections but are fine to use for small DIY projects.

Materials:- Table - Paint - Brushes- Paint Mixer- Large piece of cardboard or newspapers

Instructions:

1. Wash the table outside

2. Place the table on top of the cardboard or newspa-pers and let dry3. With the table face down, start painting the legs of the table then paint the under-side of the table

4. Let the first coat dry and then repeat step 35. Stand the table upright

and paint the table surface6. Let the first coat of the ta-ble surface dry and paint a second coat.7. Touch up any imperfec-tions

Drawer KnobsThe desk and dresser

drawers in my dorm room have no knobs or handles and opening them can get annoying at times. I thought it would be fun to add my own knobs to my drawers to make it easier to open the drawers as well as give my room a more personal touch.

This project was very simple and took only a few minutes to complete. You can choose any knobs that you like, but make sure they have a flat back. Some knobs have a screw on the back that will get in the way of you trying to put them on

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your drawer. Also make sure the command strips that you use are not the Velcro kind because they will not be strong enough.

Materials:- Knob (with a flat back)- Command strips

Instructions:

1. Cut the command strip to fit the backside of the knob

2. Stick to the desired spot on the drawer.

This year the Feminist Fair was held again, hosted by Dr. Shoba S. Rojgopal and her Ethnic and Gender Stud-ies students.

There were posters rais-ing awareness for breast can-

cer, such as the Ray of Hope Foundation and the 11.6 mil-lion dollars they have raised locally in Western Massa-chusetts in the last 20 years. They also displayed some of the injustices towards wom-en and the LGBQT commu-nity in the past that have been since ingrained in our

culture. Feminism is a global

movement. For thousands of years, women have faced in-equality and are still suffer-ing today.

One group said that 90% of women felt pressured by beauty standards and have been influenced since age 14 or younger.

One table showed how in the last few years gender equality has been incorporat-ed in media. An example was the Netflix series, Orange is the New Black.

Vinnie Daponte, a senior studying ethnic and gender studies, said that this was his third year at the Femi-nist Fair. To him, it is im-portant because he realizes that women still have not reached economic equality to men. “Feminism is for the rights of women, and women earn only 70 to 80 cents for every dollar that men earn [for the same job],” he said.

Other topics the stu-

dents covered were Asian stereotypes in movies and TV shows (as well as video games), women portrayed in post-colonial cinema (based on the course provided here), and body issues.

One table provided “100 actions to improve your self-esteem,” including tips to help others, maintaining a healthy body to feel good, and expansion in the community service. Belitza Perez, also a senior and ethnic and gender studies major, said that she needed feminism because, “It is the fact that people need to be aware of injustice even if it’s subtle.” She uses the example of having someone assume a girl would want something pink because it is associated with femininity.

Caitlyn Allen, a psychol-ogy and ethnic and gender studies double major, said, “My experience is that people who are not involved with the EGST classes or haven’t taken any yet don’t have the

2014 Feminist Fair conveys important messagesknowledge of these issues and how it connects to every-thing else.”

It is true that when you limit half the world popula-tion’s voice, a community is missing out on the talent and service they can provide for the community.

Some students are hope-ful for the progression of women. Rosemarry Torres, a senior and ethnic and gender studies and Spanish double major said, “Many women may be forced to be silent in their actions and words, but their thoughts cannot be overpowered.”

Before writing this arti-cle, I heard a group of guys laughing, saying they wish they could slam another man down and make him feel like Ray Rice’s wife.

Comments like that are why we still need feminism and prove that it still has a long way to go before we can reach the equality women de-serve.

The 2014 Feminist Fair was held in the Ely lobby this year. Stu-dents worked on multiple display boards that described gender equality in television, advertisements, and social media. Gender

equality has made great strides since the movement began.

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arts & entertainmentCOLLEGE MUSIC JOURNAL

WSKB Rocks CMJ’s Music Marathonquick hitstop 10 singles

1. All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor2. Shake It Off - Taylor Swift3. Bang Bang - Jessie J4. Black Widow - Iggy Azalea Ft. Rita Ora5. Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo6. Don’t Tell ‘Em - Jeremih Ft YG7. Animals - Maroon 58. Stay With Me - Sam Smith9. Hot Boy - Bobby Shmurda10. Don’t - Ed Sheeran

top 10 albums1. Anything Goes - Florida Georgia Line2. Old Boots, New Dirt - Jason Aldean3. Ride out - Bob Seger4. rose ave. - You+Me 5. Partners - Barbra Streisand6. In The Lonely Hour - Sam Smith7. Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf - The Game8. People Keep Talking - Hoodie Allen9. Songs of Innocence10. Sweet Talker - Jessie J

box office1. Ouija2. John Wick3. Fury4. Gone Girl5. The Book Of Life6. St. Vincent7. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day8. The Best Of Me9. Dracula Untold10. The Judge

upcoming releases1. ABCS Of Death 22. All You Need Is Love3. Before I Go To Sleep4. God The Father5. Horns6. Big Hero 67. Interstellar8. Missionary9. Maps To The Stars10. The Great Invisible

Jake LehanVoice Reporter

The bright lights, estranged streets, and classic tourist destina-tions frequent the travels of your average NYC patron, but during College Music Journal (CMJ), the city opens its doors to tens of thou-sands of students, music makers, movers, and shakers for an unfor-gettable experience like no other. CMJ writes the charts; artists that make waves at CMJ will champion next year’s headlines.

Last week ten student board members, one alumnus, and two faculty advisors from WSU’s own WSKB Radio Club made their an-nual journey to NYC to test the waters at College Music Journal’s Music Marathon for a cultural event that dwarfs any summer mu-sic festival or concert. This is truly a marathon. For 25 years, WSKB

has been sending a contingent of rockers and music geeks to CMJ to represent and engage with the cut-ting edge of the music industry.

CMJ’s Music Marathon max-imizes five relentless days and nights of back-to-back shows and panels that could change the lives and eardrums of everyone in-volved. The Marathon combines the awesome potential of 80+ ven-ues with more than 1,400 artists from around the world. The sched-ule for live music shows begins in the afternoon and late night acts are scheduled to play even beyond four in the morning for those hearty enough to keep listening.

Members of WSKB are encour-aged to make the most of this oppor-tunity by mingling and networking with music industry professionals, bands, labels, and promoters with a chance to make lasting profes-sional connections.

During the days NYU allows CMJ Badge holders to attend pan-els with topics of discussion like: “Social Activism in the Music Com-munity,” “Reinventing the Steel: Finding Metal’s next Big Bands,” and “Big Names & Beach Balls: Music Festival Marketing,” just to name a few. Of course, there were also a few dozen panels, roundta-bles, mixers, and workshops re-volving around college radio, band management, production, publi-cizing and promotions, graphics arts, and social media. Some lucky WSKB members even got invited to attend a session at Engineer Room Audio with the band Highs and got a genuine insider’s look at how things work in the music business.

When the sun sets on the city that never sleeps, music halls and venues alike fill to capacity with eager enthusiasts in search of the next big name to hit the scene. In this setting, music is the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champi-ons.

Keep your ear to the pulse; WSKB 89.5 listeners should keep their ears open for CMJ 2014 fa-vorites, which you are likely to hear on 89.5 FM in coming weeks and months, including: The Kills, Faded Paper Figures, Highs, Zel-la Day, Cold War Kids, Foster the People, SKATERS, Fat White Family, Bad//Dreems, The Kick-drums, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.


The Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne Fadiman. New York: Farra, Straus and Giroux, 2012, 355pp, $15. (Paper). ISBN:978-0-374-53340-3

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a novel by Anne Fadiman that show-cases the battles of a Hmong family and how their cultur-al differences clash with the American Medical System.

The book revolves around the conflict of Lia Lee’s epilep-sy treatment; the Lee family wants to treat their daughter, Lia, with traditional Hmong epileptic remedies and rituals, whereas the Merced Hospital doctors want to treat Lia with Western Medicine.

Although this book won the National Book Critics Cir-cle Award for General Nonfic-tion, it is not a strong choice for First-Year Students. Fadi-man’s use of Hmong terminol-

ogy, her tedious explanations about Lia’s epileptic condi-tions, the continuous move-ment between Lia’s struggles in and out of the hospital, and Fadiman’s personal experi-ence with the Lee family left me uninterested in reading further.

The first chapter starts off with Lia Lee’s birth, and the reader learns about the Hmong traditions and prac-tice of giving birth to a child. Right off the bat, Fadiman throws out Hmong terms that you are expected to learn and apply to the text immediate-ly. This includes: txiv neeb, which is a “…shaman who was believed to have the abil-ity to enter a trance, summon a posse of helpful familiars,” (Fadiman 4).

The word dab is used quite

often in the novel, which is a “malevolent spirit.” There are many other Hmong terms used, including: nrhuj nrhawv, lis loos, qeej, and roam yeeb. These terms are used fre-quently, which complicates the text, especially for a first-year student. It was difficult reading a chapter that used an abundance of the Hmong language.

While I was trying to read at a normal pace, I would have to stop and go back to the first chapter and look up the meanings again. After look-ing up the definitions of the complicated Hmong language, I would have to re-read the whole page just to make sense of it.

Throughout the text, Fadi-man could have restated the meanings of the words to make the reading a little bit easier.

The novel centers on Lia’s struggle with the Hmong tra-ditions contrasted with Amer-ican healthcare traditions. Another factor that this novel difficult to follow was how the chapters were scattered and did not focus on the plot at all.

It would go from chap-ter eight (Fadiman getting a makeover by Foua to get a husband) to chapter nine (Lia’s daily schedule to follow) without any correspondence.

Reading such different chapters consecutively made my mind wander all over the place and wonder what the real purpose of this book was. As a first-year student, I was expecting a novel that was more organized and that fol-lowed a coherent plot.

Another reason I do not suggest that this novel be read by first-year students be-cause it is very uninteresting, especially for college students. The majority of young adults tend to read teen fiction nov-els or sports magazines. After reading this book, it seems to me that the target audience for this novel is middle-aged people.

It focuses on medicine and culture, which are topics that

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college students do not usual-ly read for leisure. The content of the chapters was extremely boring; I felt like every time I read, I was reading the same thing over again about how MCMC’s (Merced Communi-ty Medical Center) medicine made Lia sick and that she was going to die any second.

For example, in chap-ter thirteen the novel reads, “I was sure she was dying,” (Fadiman 176) and in chapter fifteen, “For more than two years, her doctors had been waiting for her to die, and her parents had been confounding them with their ability to keep her alive” (Fadiman 210). Reading chapter by chapter made the novel much more tedious than it needed to be, which caused the book to be uninteresting.

Although The Spirit Catch-es You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman got great re-views by The New York Times and The New Yorker, I strong-ly believe that this novel is appropriate for a different audience because there are in-teresting topics discussed like cultural traditions and medi-cal terms.

This would appeal to oth-er people but definitely not young adults who are inter-ested in more popular and trending topics such as teen romance and mystery.

Especially for a first-year student, I do not recommend this novel because of the chal-lenging Hmong terminology, scattered chapters, and con-fusing story line.


The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures: BY Anne Fadiman New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, 355pp, $15.00. (Paper). ISBN: 978-0-374-53340-3

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In Anne Fadiman’s debat-ably interesting yet tedious cross-cultural nonfiction, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, a first-year read for students entering their freshman year at Westfield State Universi-ty, Fadiman recounts her own experience with the Hmong culture with a view into their lives, history, and personal ac-counts.

A not-so-fully recommend-able novel, subtitled A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, And the Collision of Two Cul-tures, it seems to sum up the narrative piece to a whole. A Hmong Child, American doc-tors, and a collision between the Hmong and American cul-ture each have their own open-ing and closing in this first-year read and invite readers to gain insight on cultural barri-ers and learn about the preex-isting cultural differences.

College students read about highly educating and debated subject matter that is discussed regularly. Readers are also dragged into a piece that dulls various elongated subjects. Fadiman’s, The Spirit Catch-es You and You Fall Down, is a differentiating read in which the journalist personally drew me in with the epitome of cul-tural barrier controversy and conflicts, yet lessened my own interest with her tendency to switch between the captivating story of a Hmong family and their severely sick daughter Lia Lee and the monotonous background information on Hmong history.

The vividly-written piece by Fadiman introduces the story of Lia Lee, a Hmong child who was put in the hands of Amer-ican doctors, and the effects of Western medicine in an effort to treat her severe case of epi-lepsy, rather than her own tra-ditional Hmong family. Lia’s parents, Foua and Nao Kao Lee, dispute with the doctors quite often regarding how Lia’s illness should be treated.

This puts Lia through a set of preexisting rituals of the Hmong culture to bring her to health. Fadiman tells read-ers how the cultural barriers among Western and traditional Hmong medicine, beliefs, ritu-als, and practices affect curing Lia Lee’s epilepsy. These cul-tural barriers also lead to Lia’s parents’ refusal to potentially cure her with Western Medi-cine.

The American culture saw a cure through western medi-cine, whereas the Hmong saw a cure through spiritual prac-tices rather than medical.

As the nonfiction of the Hmong Lee family routes out-ward, they do not only find a cultural collision with the medical treatments, but the American doctors find error in the spiritual practices and the Hmong culture itself.

The disagreement between the two seems to drag on through the story as the one foreign culture living amidst the American culture creates tension and miscommunica-tion, and Fadiman portrays a refreshing reminder of how difficult existing cross-cultural barriers conflict. The Hmong family brought Hmong culture to Lia Lee in the hospital, and when scared they fled with their beloved child, removing Lia from modern medicine. This upset the American doc-tors and their efforts; however, Fadiman continued the nar-rative by explaining why the Hmong family and their peo-ple did what they did, which lengthened the book with deep family history, heavy research of her own, and detail-orient-ed information, creating a set-back for readers such as my-self. While focusing on how Lia Lee suffered from her severe epilepsy throughout her time among the Americans, Fadi-man also wove in the history of the Hmong people and their struggles. It almost seemed as if Fadiman was trying to weave two books into one, which took away from the main story.

While Fadiman could have proceeded her novel with a summation of the history in short, she dulled the book and

Lia’s story with her historical addition; however, a Hmong history so broad with the spec-ificity to the issues concerning their culture created a back-ground to Lia and her family’s beliefs and brought an image of understanding the Hmong cul-ture. In Fadiman’s The Spir-it Catches You and You Fall Down, as Lia’s illness ends the narrative, leaving Lia Lee still alive yet brain dead, Fadiman concludes her own experiences with the Hmong family, ad-dressing her theme of the is-sue of cultural and profession-al ignorance to her audience.

Although the narrative had a few setbacks, such as heavy research and a lengthy histori-cal background, the life-teach-ing nonfiction sets a foot in the door of Fadiman’s audience.

This narrative of a Hmong family who faces cultural col-lision teaches a valuable les-son on culture that specifically targeted college-level reader. Fadiman ended the narrative with a sense of equality be-tween cultures and gave her audience a cultural experience that could potentially change peoples’ viewpoints, including my own.


Reyan QuichemanVoice Columnist

On Friends and FoodFor the readers of this column, what you are about to read may conjure images of a broken record or one of those annoying ten-hour loop videos found on the internet. I am, once again, talking about how food brings people together. Hope-fully, however, I’ll be able to put a different spin on the reappear-ance of this ever-pres-ent theme.

The main reason I bring up friends and food is because I re-ceived a complaint from a friend of mine last week, which read along the lines of: why haven’t we been in your column yet? Look-ing back over the past eight weeks, I realized she was right.

So often had I writ-ten about friends and family in previously published editions that it became, as stated, a running theme; how-ever, this semester, I have been rather lack-adaisical in writing about friends and fam-ily mainly because I sought not to be repet-itive.

Well, as the great chef and television per-sonality Jacques Pepin once said: “You learn through endless repeti-tion until it belongs to you.”

He was speaking of technique in terms of handling the prepara-tion of food, but I think the quote can apply to writing as well. There are several running themes throughout this column that are about more than just food.

I have often been told by those who read this column that it is written in a way that

is more akin to that of a lifestyle column. In many ways, that state-ment is true. I try to convey to you what I feel to be important in life, and I do that through food.

Food is a connecting point for every human being on the planet. Food forces us to share more than just a meal; it forces us to share an experience. I have of-ten heard it said from those of older genera-tions that some of their fondest memories in-volved sitting around the dinner table and sharing a meal with their loved ones.

So, in many ways, you could argue that the main theme of this column is love. I would not counter or disagree with you in any way. As I have been taught throughout my whole life: food is love. It is always important to remember that food is more than just a means of sustenance.

As many know, I am involved in the Student Theatre Association’s

production of Freak-show by Carson Kreit-zer. I am working with extremely talented ac-tors and designers, all of whom bring great en-ergy to the show. Now, while this may seem like a non-sequitur or a shameless promotion of the show, I assure you that only the latter is true.

My point in bring-ing this up is that it is always important for a cast and crew to bond whilst working on a show, and what better way to do that than through food?

While all of us have been extremely busy with a multitude of dif-ferent things, we are still managing to find those small windows of free time to bond as a cast. I have been told, mainly by my friends Hannah and Courtney, that another Chopped style challenge is on the horizon.

This time around they have vowed to give me more obscure and challenging ingre-dients. I am not wor-

ried; in fact, I am look-ing forward to it.

Even if the ingredi-ents are strange, it is always a joy to have friends actively en-gaged in the cooking process, even if they are just watching.

Having friends over for food is always fun. It can be a little stress-ful when there are too many people in the kitchen, but overall the experience is one to be savored.

I love cooking and I love my friends. Having them over for a meal gives me an impetus to cook and cook well, be-cause there is nothing like a good meal shared with good friends.

As promised, here is a simple recipe for this edition: Bell Pepper Pasta.

Enjoy! As always: Buona

Tavola and Mangiare Bene! And Happy Hal-loween!

BELL PEPPER PASTA (Serves 1) Ingredients: - 1 bell pepper, chopped

fine- ½ an onion, chopped fine- 2 cloves garlic, minced- 6 cherry tomatoes, sliced in half- Pasta (any kind will do) Olive Oil- Salt & Pepper- Basil- Red Pepper Flakes

Instructions: 1. Bring a pot of water to boil. 2. In a sauce pan, over medium-high heat, heat the olive oil and add the bell pepper, onion, and garlic. Cook until the onions and garlic are soft. 3. Add salt to the boil-ing water then throw in the pasta. 4. In the sauce pan, add tomato, basil, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook for the length it takes the pasta to be al dente. 5. Once the pasta is al dente, remove it from the boiling water and add it to the sauce. Mix thoroughly. 6. Serve immediately with good bread.

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Owls drop homecoming game to Bridgewater

Michael BarryVoice Reporter

This year’s Annual Home-coming football game was a fight to the very end as the Westfield Owls lost a heart-breaker to conference the ri-val Bridgewater State Bears 27-23 on Saturday.

Westfield came into the game with a record of 4-2, and a conference victory would have given them a crucial push in the MASCAC standings as they head to-wards the end of the season.

With the added pressure of playing on Homecoming during Westfield’s Alumni Weekend, the pressure was on the Owls to perform.

The game was scoreless after the first quarter as both teams failed to find its stride and put points on the board early on.

Other than a lone inter-ception by Joey Mespelli on the Westfield 22 yard line during the Bears’ opening drive, every offensive posses-sion in the first quarter end-ed in a punt.

The Bears struck first with a two-yard touchdown run by Alex McLaughlin, giv-ing Bridgewater State a 7-0 lead. The Owls answered back with 2:03 left in the half from a nine-yard touchdown run by quarterback Steve Guercio.

Guercio finished the game with an impressive 374 yards passing, a career high for the senior.

The second half began as slow as the first one did with both teams failing to score. It wasn’t until 4:20 left in the

third quarter when Bridge-water’s Matthew Greene scored on a 95-yard touch-down reception to put the Bears up 14-7.

It wasn’t until the fourth quarter that the momentum began to pick up for both teams. The Owls received the kick off from Bridgewater State after their third quar-ter touchdown.

Guercio showed grace under pressure as he led the Owls in a 75-yard touchdown drive that ended in a six yard touchdown pass to senior tight end Peter Knowles.

Westfield completed a gutsy two-point conversion after the touchdown to put them a 15-14 lead, their first of the game.

Bridgewater’s offense took no time in responding to the Owls’ touchdown.

Unlike Westfield’s long possessing drive, the Bears scored quick with a 90 yard heave to receiver Matthew Greene.

Bridgewater attempted a two-point conversion and failed following the touch-down, making the score 20-15 Bears.

The Owls wasted no time as the offense orchestrated another lengthy touchdown

drive. A 33-yard touchdown pass to Colby Bestek to put the Owls ahead 23-20.

Just three plays into the following Bridgewater drive, quarterback Danny Higgins threw a crucial interception to Westfield freshman Jor-dan Brown on the

BSU 43-yard line. With the lead and possession at the end of the game the Owls were in perfect position to run the clock out. However, the Westfield gained just 43 yards on 41 rush attempts, which ultimately led to their demise.

After a disappointing sev-en-play drive Westfield was forced to punt the ball back to Bridgewater with 2:57 left to play on the game.

Starting at their own 14-yard line, the Bears marched down the field on an Owls defense that had no answer for Bridgewater’s passing at-tack.

With just 41 seconds left Higgins hit Greene in the end zone for the third time putting the Bears up 27-23 and sealing an Owl defeat.

With the loss the Owls fell to 4-3 on the season. Westfield plays their next game at Fitchburg State this Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

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Senior midfielder Sarah Sypek (Hampshire Regional/Westhampton, Mass.) scored a pair of goals and assisted on another to lead Westfield to a 5-1 win over Massachu-setts College of Liberal Arts in women’s soccer at Alumni Field on Saturday.

Westfield is now 10-2-2- on the season and is riding a 10 match unbeaten streak. The Owls are 4-0-1 in confer-ence play.

Sypek netted the first goal of the match in the 25th min-ute, running on to a through ball from Ashleigh Chretien on the left side and firing a hard shot that glanced of the hands of MCLA goalkeeper Katy Daly (Cairo-Durham/South Cairo, NY) and into the top of the net for a 1-0

Westfield lead.The Owls’ Amanda Grant

(Westfield/Westfield, Mass.) tallied just 1:47 later, getting a through ball from Sypek on the left side, and firing a shot low to the far side netting for a 2-0 owls lead.

Christina Buonopane

( S t o n e h a m / S t o n e h a m , Mass.) scored her first goal of the season in the 31st minute to goive Westfield a 3-0 edge at halftime. Ashley Bovat (Westfield/Westfield, Mass) and Sypek added goals for the Owls in the early stag-es of the second half to give

Westfield a 5-0 lead.MCLA finally got on the

scoreboard in the 81st min-ute, with Natalie Caney (Belchertown/Belchertown, Mass.) scoring on a penalty kick after a foul in the pen-alty area. Caney’s boot was high to the left side and out

of reach of Westfield reserve goalkeeper Lauren Clark (Whitman/Whitman, Mass.), who played the final 27 min-utes of the match, making two saves. Anne Stack (East Longmeadow/East Long-meadow, Mass.) started and played the first 63 minutes in goal for the Owls, but did not face a shot on goal.

Westfield out shot MCLA 24-7, held a 12-5 edge in shots on goal, and a 5-1 ad-vantage in corner kicks.

Daly played all 90 min-utes in goal for the Trailblaz-ers and made seven saves. MCLA drops to 3-10-1 on the season and 1-4 in the MAS-CAC.

Westfield will face Worcester State in a key MASCAC game next Satur-day at noon in Worcester. MCLA will play Bridgewater next Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

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Women’s soccer continues strong season against MCLA

The Owls fell to 4-3 on the season with Sunday’s loss to Bridgewater. They face Fitchburg on Saturday.

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Tom Brady threw for 354 yards and five touchdowns as the Patriots steamrolled their way to victory, defeat-ing the Chicago Bears, 51-23.

Brady completed 30 of 35 passes in one of the best games of his career, with the five incompletions being dropped passes. Patriots rookie quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo came in to relieve Brady towards the end of the game.

Bears quarterback Jay Cutler completed 20 of 30 passes for 227 yards, three touchdowns, and one inter-ception, while Matt Forte carried the ball 19 times for 114 yards, but no touch-downs. With the loss, the Bears drop to 3-5 on the sea-

son, including losses in four out of their last five games.

Less than five minutes into the game, the Patriots struck first with a six yard touchdown pass from Brady to Gronkowski. From there, the Patriots never looked back.

The Patriots went up 17-0 about midway through the second quarter follow-ing a Tim Wright touchdown pass from Tom Brady. After Forte’s 25 yard touchdown catch from Cutler, Brady an-swered back by hitting Rob Gronkowski for the second time of the night to put the Pats up 24-7.

The Patriots defense was also spot on throughout the night. Linebacker Rob Ninkovich recovered a fum-ble and ran it in for a touch-

down to give the Patriots a 38-7 lead just before the half. Shortly after, on the Bears’ ensuing drive, Patriots cor-nerback Darrelle Revis picked off Cutler’s pass for the last play of the first half.

In the second half, the Pa-triots continued to dominate. Brady threw a 46 yard touch-down pass to Gronkowski to open up the second half. Af-ter Martellus Bennett caught a 20 yard touchdown pass from Jay Cutler that made it 45-15 following the ensu-ing two-point conversion, Stephen Gostkowski made a 27 yard field goal to open up the fourth quarter. Soon af-ter, Alshon Jeffery caught a touchdown pass from Cutler to make it 48-23 Patriots af-ter another two-point conver-sion.

Patriots rookie running back Jonas Gray was the team’s leading rusher, car-rying the ball 17 times for 86 yards. Shane Vereen was held to a mere five carries for 22 yards.

Patriots wide receiv-er Brandon LaFell finished with 11 receptions for 124 yards and a touchdown.

Alshon Jeffery finished with five receptions for 59 yards and a touchdown for the Bears, while Martellus Bennett finished with six re-ceptions for 95 yards and a touchdown.

With the victory, the Patriots have now won 13 straight games against NFC North opponents, includ-ing seven of their last eight against Chicago. Brady is now 99-16 at home includ-

ing playoff games. His quar-terback rating of 98.8 in the game is the highest for him since Week 11 of the 2007 season.

With the loss, the Bears fall to 3-5 on the season. The Bears have a bye next week, but hope to bounce back against the Green Bay Pack-ers on November 9.

With the win, the Patriots improved to 6-2. This week, they host Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, who stand at 6-1 after defeating the San Diego Chargers 35-21. The last time the Patri-ots and Broncos met in the regular season, the Broncos blew a big lead, allowing the Patriots to win the game in the final minutes. The game starts at 4:25 PM EST and will air on CBS.

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North Carolina is currently being investigated by the NCAA for creating fake classes that athletes attended in order to keep them academically eligible throughout their time at the university.

Jon RebmannSports Editor

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is universally known as being one of the top schools in the country, known not only for its superb academics but for its dedication to excellence in athletics as well. With the recent allegations of “paper classes” taken by hundreds of student athletes, the uni-versity has tarnished its long and well-built reputation, not only by academic stan-dards but also athletically.

According to the Wain-stein report, over an 18 year period, as many as 3,100 stu-

dents are reported to have signed up for these classes, primarily those in the Afri-can American Studies De-partment, with nearly half of these students being ath-letes. Since then, the Univer-sity has come into question regarding its academic integ-rity.

As a result of these alle-gations coming to light, five faculty members said to be involved or have prior knowl-edge of the misconduct have since been fired, one has been demoted, and three more have been otherwise disci-plined.

With all of the recent al-legations, it’s easy to wonder

how and why these athletes were even admitted into a school with a 26.7% accep-tance rate in 2014, consid-ering the fact that the clear majority of these athletes are unable to meet the minimal requirements that they have to go so far as to make up classes that, in reality, don’t even exist. Needless to say, who’s to blame here?

The majority of officials will likely put the blame on Julius Nyang’oro, the professor who ran the ma-jority of the paper classes that students enrolled in. Although the professor ran the classes that were under investigation, the majority

UNC faces serious punishment for ‘paper classes’of the blame should go to the NCAA, not only for failing to recognize the issue when it was first brought to light five years ago but also for failing to discipline the student ath-letes or the university.

Since then, many former athletes, including Michael McAdoo and Rashed Mc-Cants have publically come out and stated that they had skipped classes and instead focused solely on basketball. As is the case for many of the football players during the reported time of the scandal, many athletes were often un-able to keep up in the class-room, which raises the ques-tion: How does this happen?

As previously stated, many athletes were unable to keep up in the classroom. Although athletes must have a 2.5 core GPA in high school to become eligible for Divi-sion I athletics, many ath-letes barely meet the require-ments in high school and are often unprepared for the more rigorous coursework when they come to college. With the University of North Carolina being a much more predominantly demanding school in terms of academics, many students who already barely make the minimal requirements of admittance fall even more behind and in turn are forced to take these paper classes just to stay el-

igible. As a result, most stu-

dents remain eligible and earn their degrees without learning much of anything in their time at college, which not only hurts the student athletes but the professors, the school, and any other stu-dent athletes who work hard to maintain their grades and receive the education they work hard for.

The only way we will be able to solve this issue is to make the academic require-ments more demanding for student athletes. Many ath-letes show a lot more lenien-cies when they are admitted, and therefore the minimal re-quirements need to be raised in order to gain admission to the school. By doing this, students will work harder in the classroom in high school and become more prepared for college.

The NCAA also needs to raise the eligibility require-ments while students are at college, therefore when stu-dent athletes get to college, they will need to emphasize their classwork at a much higher standard than now. Hopefully, student athletes will finally be held to the standards that all students are held to in college, and in turn prevent incidents such as this from happening again.

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LeBron James, alongside newly acquired Kevin Love and Cleveland star Kyrie Ir-ving, are heavily projected to win the NBA title this year. James returned to Cleveland this offseason after leaving the Miami Heat following their NBA Finals loss to the Spurs. James made the move in the offseason after opting out of his contract with Mi-ami.

Cleveland was more than excited by the return of their hometown hero. Following his departure, he faced much criticism from Cavalier Na-tion, resulting in fans burn-ing his jerseys and despising the man they once loved. Now, the Cavaliers have lit-tle to worry about, as James is in the prime of his career, winning four of the previous five MVP awards before be-ing edged out by Kevin Du-rant last year.

Four years later with a better supporting cast, James is returning home. James is from Akron, Ohio, where he played for the St. Vincent-St. Mary, leading the Fighting Irish to three state titles in four years. Unfortunate-ly, he was unable to bring a ring to his beloved Cleveland faithful due to lack of a sup-porting cast, resulting in his departure from the Cavaliers in 2009.

In Miami, James flour-ished in a star studded team. James went on to win two titles for Miami, and he re-turns to his hometown in hopes of bringing his beloved fans their first major sports championship since 1964.

After signing James, the Cavaliers revamped their lineup. Love, who was ac-quired as a result of a trade that included 1st overall picks Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, will be a great addition to the now star studded roster, adding

defense and size to this now all-around team.

Although the Cavaliers are heavily favored, the bat-tle for the East will not be an easy one as the Chicago Bulls revamped their roster with the addition of former All-Star Pau Gasol. The Bulls are also looking forward to the return of star Derrick Rose, who has missed the majority of the past three seasons as a result of previous injuries. The Bulls seem to be Cleve-land’s biggest test coming out of the East, whereas the Indiana Pacers and Brooklyn Nets also look to be potential threats.

Chemistry will be a deter-mining factor in Cleveland’s championship run. Because of the drastic changes to the roster, it will be some time before the team will be able to click, unlike the majori-ty of top teams coming out of the East, many of whom have been playing together for years.

Jon RebmannSports Editor

The Cavs face their first test of the season on October 30 at home against the New York Knicks. It should make for a good game as Lebron James goes up against fellow

superstar Carmelo Anthony. The game will begin at 8:00 PM EST and will air on TNT.

*The Cavaliers began their season before this arti-cle was published.

Kevin Love will play for Cleveland this season, hoping to make the playoffs for the first time and win an elusive NBA championship.

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James and Cavaliers hope to win for city of Cleveland


Aries (March 21-April 19):

The winds of change are coming. Wear a parka.

Taurus (April 20-May 20):

You’ve been feeling very content and secure in your latest

relationship. Don’t get ahead of yourself.

Gemini (May 21-June 20):

There has been change brewing for the better at your place of

employment. Keep your head down; there are no good changes in store

for you.

Cancer (June 21-July 22):

That empty void in your life is starting to get the better of you.

Try starting a new hobby, such as knitting scarves or getting an ant

farm.

Leo (July 23-August 22):

You’ve always had a green thumb. Maybe get some Maybeline for that.

Virgo (August 23-September 21):

I know that Halloween is your favorite holiday but try and lay off

the candy this year.

Libra (September 22-October 23): Don’t fret too much over your

costume this year. It’s scary enough if you just go as yourself.

Scorpio (October 24-November 21):

The stars have not been in your favor lately, Scoprio. This week will

be no different.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21):

Avoid all Leo’s who have blatantly threatened you in the past.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19): I know you have been sick of

your long history of long-distance relationships, but no one in proximity to you will ever be

interested in you.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18):

Your love life has been fishy lately. Suggest to your partner that they stop wearing fish oil as perfume.

Pisces (February 19-March 22):

The stars are very hazy in regards to your future, Pisces. They are

either confused or disinterested in your life. Probably the latter.

horoscopes mazegames & leisure

Across 1. These are found in the corners and ceilings of a haunt-ed house.7. A witch’s pet. (5-3)11. Bloody and gross.12. A monster made from bones.14. A monster from Egypt.16. Another word for scary.18. She wears black clothes and rides a broom.21. It looks like a mouse but much bigger.22. What kids wear on Halloween.24. The creature that makes cob-webs.25. Have a ghost inside.27. The Cyclops has one.31. What you get on your skin when you are scared.32. These slam shut or creek open.33. Witches ride this.

34. Vampires hate this.35. Another word for strange.38. October 31st.39. What a ghost says.40. A big black bird.41. A monster with stitches on his face.45. What children carve.46. The month of Halloween.48. Sharp teeth.Down 1. What children get at Halloween.2. Flying animal found in haunted houses.3. The kind of bullet you need to kill a werewolf.4. A place with many tombstones.5. Where you get goose bumps.6. The weather around haunted houses.8. The walking corpse.9. The color of blood. 10. Dracula.13. You can hear these in the hall-

ways of a haunted house at night.15. Little animals with long tails.17. This wears a patch and has a sword.19. This wears bright colorful clothing.20. A big black pot that witches use to make potions.23. The kind of light that vampires hate.26. The monster __________ the stairs. 28. What vampires drink.29. The time when werewolves come out.30. What kids say on Halloween.31. Something that haunts houses.36. A monster that changes from hu-man to wolf.37. Makes me scared; gives me the ___________.42. A monster from space.43. The opposite of good.44. Frighten.47. A night bird.

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Halloween

APPLES

BATS

BLACK CAT

BROOMSTICK

CANDLE

CANDY

CEMETERY

COFFIN COSTUME

DRACULA

FRIGHTENING

May the stars beever in your favor

FULL MOON

GHOSTS

GHOULS

GOBLINS

GRAVEYARD JACK O LANTERN

MASK

MUMMY

NIGHT

PUMPKIN

SCARECROW

SCARY

SCREAM SKELETON

SKULL

SPIDERS

TOMBSTONE

VAMPIRE

WEREWOLF

WITCHES

ZOMBIE


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