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Check out Royal Tweets on page 8 to see what’s trending at The University. Volume 86, Issue 13 The Student Voice of The University of Scranton Thursday, March 14, 2013 HABEMUS PAPAM INSIDE Forum............ 6-7 Arts & Life...8-9 Business......10-11 Sci & Tech........12 Campus Notes......2 News....................3-5 Faith.................13 Sudoku/Ads...14 Sports......15-16 http://issuu.com/theaquinas PHOTO COURTESY OF ASSOCIATED PRESS POPE FRANCIS greets the crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. The College of Cardinals chose Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the Catholic Church’s next pope Wednesday. The College of Cardinals announces Jesuit pope See “FRANCIS,” Page 4 The new Pope is a Jesuit! This is not only quite good (and surprising) news for the Society of Jesus, but more importantly, for the church. And what a fas- cina ting symbolic gesture it is for this first Jesuit pope ever that he takes the name Francis. A son of St. Ignatius, his first act is to recognize the transformative spirit of the little saint from Assisi who has inspired millions of Catholics to live out Fran- ciscan ideals and values of concern for the church and for the poor. St. Francis (1181-1226) is best known for leaving his privileged background and living in evangelical pov- erty, always evidencing his desire to depend totally on God. St. Francis started a movement calling for the rebuilding of the church. By the time he died, thousands of men and women had all left the Christian life to live as he did. Francis and his followers revitalized the church in the 13th century, and they have made incal- culable contributions to the church for hundreds of years. While we are all imme- diately assuming “Francis” refers to St. Francis of As- sisi, could our new pope be referring to St. Francis Xavier? That would be more Jesuit and indicate mission- ary zeal for the spreading of the Good News to all parts of the earth. St. Francis of Assisi or St. Francis Xavier? Typical Jesuit, from the start making us think. Pope Francis is the first pope in more than 1,000 years to hail from a non-Eu- ropean land. He is 76 years young and he comes from Latin America. There are estimates that by 2025 the Catholic Church will num- ber 1.34 billion with some 568 million living in Latin America. In comparison, the USA will have 97 million Catholics. Francis is the son of an Italian immigrant who worked on the railways in Buenos Aires, where he was born. Francis earned a mas- ter’s degree in chemistry and entered the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, in 1958. He served as the provincial of the Jesuits in Argentina from 1973-1979, years of po- litical strife and turmoil in Argentina and throughout Latin America. He spent many years in the 1980s as a seminary rector, and he was named archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998. Some reports indicate that he was the runner-up in the elec- tion that named Pope Bene- dict XVI, but going into the conclave several others were considered more likely candidates than he, prov- ing once again the old ad- age, “He who goes into the conclave a pope, comes out a cardinal.” Although Jesuits are of- ten seen to be the liberal wing of the Catholic Church, Jesuits actually demonstrate The cardinals in Rome have prayerfully selected the new pope. The pope is a transcendent symbol, a prophetic voice for peace and justice. All world reli- gions call us to love one an- other. Like the Dalai Lama, the pope is a global persona who raises our minds and hearts to matters eternal. Who is the pope and what does the pope do? To get a sense of who and what the pope is, get ahold of an old movie, “The Shoes of the Fisherman” (1968) starring Anthony Quinn. It will give you a feel for the history and panorama of the Catholic Church around the time of Vatican II. Much of what is going on in the church now is a result of changes made by those seminal meetings from 1962-1965, when the church, under the impulse and leadership of Good Pope John XXIII, imple- mented vast and ground- breaking changes in church practices, most notably the celebration of Mass in the vernacular (local languag- es) and no longer in Latin alone. After Vatican II in the 1970s and 1980s, many changes in religious orders occurred. Many sisters no longer wore medieval dress and priests and sisters en- gaged in work directly with the economically poor and disadvantaged. Liberation theology, the study of God and church practice from the viewpoint of the poor, enjoyed a brief time in the sun only to fall back into the shadows of current theological discourse due to a pushback from conserva- tive powers in the church. The same thing happened with the discussion of the ordination of women as priests. Still, the advent of lay people in positions of responsibility and author- ity grew to become com- monplace. The chancellors in many dioceses today are women. Seven of the 28 Jesuit universities and col- leges in the United States have lay persons as presi- dents, and Sr. Maureen Fay, O.P., was the first woman to lead a Jesuit university, the University of Detroit Mercy (1990-2004). Questions about Catho- lic social teaching, mar- riage and divorce, abortion, sexual ethics — especially the use of artificial means of contraception, premari- tal sex and homosexual practice — have roiled the church. The never-ending hailstorm of the sex abuse crises continues to pound the image of the church, ob- scuring the deep meaning the church carries in cul- ture, while alienating many who find the church out of touch and, worse, arrogant concerning such matters. Answers as to how we should be Catholic, and what we should empha- size, divide us. Some want more Eucharistic adoration and praying of the rosary COMMENTARY BY REV. RICK MALLOY, S.J. COMMENTARY BY REV. RICK MALLOY, S.J. ROYAL TWEETS @catherineeeeee: Jesuits for the win. #universi- tyofscranton @jcas024: Cause we ta- kin’ over, one Jesuit at a time @VAL_entine_: Jesuit pope #scranton #reppin #letscelebrate @TweetyBear7: I would sleep thorugh the entire picking of a pope. #hiber- nationproblems @FrannyCarillo: Pope Franchise, S.J. @lindsayfluehr3l: the random blizzard is in honor of the new pope, franny! jesuits every- where be jumping for joy! OW OWNOW LETS CANCEL CLASSES #popes #fran @brim91: Jesuit pope!! #AMDG @alex_naf: Habemus Pa- pam. Il Papa Francesco @gwolan30: Jesuit pope what what #scranton- pride @nickpags_47: #jesuit #gosettheworldonfire @collsullz: Jesuit Pope! #AMDG @univofscranton : Con- gratulations to our new #Pope - Cardinal Jose Bergoglio, S.J. from Ar- gentina. And, that’s cor- rect, he’s a #Jesuit @allisonoregan: Can this new pope help his fellow jesuits out and tell the big guy upstairs to cool it with the surprise blizzard @OJStrickland: Allow me to reintroduce my- self my name is POOOPE! #whitesmoke @ConnahTucc: Pope has been announced, com- mence random Scranton blizzard... Argentine cardinal becomes Pope Francis Pope to face challenges in new role See “CHALLENGES,” Page 4
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Volume 86, Issue 13 The Student Voice of The University of Scranton Thursday, March 14, 2013
HABEMUS PAPAM
INSIDE Forum............ 6-7Arts & Life...8-9
Business......10-11Sci & Tech........12
Campus Notes......2News....................3-5
Faith.................13Sudoku/Ads...14
Sports......15-16http://issuu.com/theaquinas
photo courtesy of AssocIAteD pressPOPE FRANCIS greets the crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. The College of Cardinals chose Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the Catholic Church’s next pope Wednesday.
The College of Cardinals announces Jesuit pope
See “FRANCIS,” Page 4
The new Pope is a Jesuit! This is not only quite good (and surprising) news for the Society of Jesus, but more importantly, for the church. And what a fas-cina ting symbolic gesture it is for this first Jesuit pope ever that he takes the name Francis. A son of St. Ignatius, his first act is to recognize the transformative spirit of the little saint from Assisi who has inspired millions of Catholics to live out Fran-ciscan ideals and values of concern for the church and for the poor.
St. Francis (1181-1226) is best known for leaving his privileged background and living in evangelical pov-erty, always evidencing his desire to depend totally on God. St. Francis started a movement calling for the rebuilding of the church. By the time he died, thousands of men and women had all left the Christian life to live as he did. Francis and his followers revitalized the church in the 13th century, and they have made incal-culable contributions to the church for hundreds of years.
While we are all imme-diately assuming “Francis” refers to St. Francis of As-sisi, could our new pope be referring to St. Francis Xavier? That would be more Jesuit and indicate mission-ary zeal for the spreading of the Good News to all parts of the earth. St. Francis of Assisi or St. Francis Xavier? Typical Jesuit, from the start making us think.
Pope Francis is the first pope in more than 1,000 years to hail from a non-Eu-ropean land. He is 76 years young and he comes from Latin America. There are estimates that by 2025 the Catholic Church will num-ber 1.34 billion with some 568 million living in Latin America. In comparison, the USA will have 97 million Catholics.
Francis is the son of an Italian immigrant who worked on the railways in Buenos Aires, where he was born. Francis earned a mas-ter’s degree in chemistry and entered the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, in 1958.
He served as the provincial of the Jesuits in Argentina from 1973-1979, years of po-litical strife and turmoil in Argentina and throughout Latin America. He spent many years in the 1980s as a seminary rector, and he was named archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998. Some reports indicate that he was the runner-up in the elec-tion that named Pope Bene-dict XVI, but going into
the conclave several others were considered more likely candidates than he, prov-ing once again the old ad-age, “He who goes into the conclave a pope, comes out a cardinal.”
Although Jesuits are of-ten seen to be the liberal wing of the Catholic Church, Jesuits actually demonstrate
The cardinals in Rome have prayerfully selected the new pope. The pope is a transcendent symbol, a prophetic voice for peace and justice. All world reli-gions call us to love one an-other. Like the Dalai Lama, the pope is a global persona who raises our minds and
hearts to matters eternal.Who is the pope and
what does the pope do?To get a sense of who and
what the pope is, get ahold of an old movie, “The Shoes of the Fisherman” (1968) starring Anthony Quinn. It will give you a feel for the history and panorama of the Catholic Church around the time of Vatican II.
Much of what is going on in the church now is a
result of changes made by those seminal meetings from 1962-1965, when the church, under the impulse and leadership of Good Pope John XXIII, imple-mented vast and ground-breaking changes in church practices, most notably the celebration of Mass in the vernacular (local languag-es) and no longer in Latin alone. After Vatican II in the 1970s and 1980s, many changes in religious orders occurred. Many sisters no longer wore medieval dress and priests and sisters en-gaged in work directly with the economically poor and disadvantaged. Liberation theology, the study of God and church practice from the viewpoint of the poor, enjoyed a brief time in the sun only to fall back into the shadows of current theological discourse due to a pushback from conserva-tive powers in the church. The same thing happened with the discussion of the ordination of women as priests. Still, the advent of lay people in positions of responsibility and author-ity grew to become com-monplace. The chancellors in many dioceses today are women. Seven of the 28 Jesuit universities and col-leges in the United States have lay persons as presi-dents, and Sr. Maureen Fay, O.P., was the first woman to lead a Jesuit university, the University of Detroit Mercy (1990-2004).
Questions about Catho-lic social teaching, mar-riage and divorce, abortion, sexual ethics — especially the use of artificial means of contraception, premari-tal sex and homosexual practice — have roiled the church. The never-ending hailstorm of the sex abuse crises continues to pound the image of the church, ob-scuring the deep meaning the church carries in cul-ture, while alienating many who find the church out of touch and, worse, arrogant concerning such matters.
Answers as to how we should be Catholic, and what we should empha-size, divide us. Some want more Eucharistic adoration and praying of the rosary
CommENTAry ByrEV. rICk mALLoy, S.j.
CommENTAry ByrEV. rICk mALLoy, S.j.
ROYAL TWEETS@catherineeeeee: Jesuits for the win. #universi-tyofscranton
@jcas024: Cause we ta-kin’ over, one Jesuit at a time
@VAL_entine_: Jesuit pope #scranton #reppin #letscelebrate
@TweetyBear7: I would sleep thorugh the entire picking of a pope. #hiber-nationproblems
@FrannyCarillo: Pope Franchise, S.J.
@lindsayfluehr3l: the random blizzard is in honor of the new pope, franny! jesuits every-where be jumping for joy! OW OWNOW LETS CANCEL CLASSES #popes #fran
@brim91: Jesuit pope!! #AMDG
@alex_naf: Habemus Pa-pam. Il Papa Francesco
@gwolan30: Jesuit pope what what #scranton-pride
@nickpags_47: #jesuit #gosettheworldonfire
@collsullz: Jesuit Pope! #AMDG
@univofscranton: Con-gratulations to our new #Pope - Cardinal Jose Bergoglio, S.J. from Ar-gentina. And, that’s cor-rect, he’s a #Jesuit
@allisonoregan: Can this new pope help his fellow jesuits out and tell the big guy upstairs to cool it with the surprise blizzard
@OJStrickland: Allow me to reintroduce my-self my name is POOOPE! #whitesmoke
@ConnahTucc: Pope has been announced, com-mence random Scranton blizzard...
Argentine cardinal becomes Pope Francis Pope to face challenges in new role
See “CHALLENGES,” Page 4
2 THE AQUINASCAMPUS NOTES THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
DATE - MARCH 14 Provided by
The University Police Offi ce
REPORT STATISTICS:
UNDErAGE DrINkING: 16 countsPUBLIC DrUNkENNESS: 5 countsINToXICATIoN: 1 count DISorDErLy CoNDUCT: 6 countsCrImINAL mISCHIEF: 2 counts HArASSmENT: 2 countsFAkE ID: 2 counts mArIjUANA PoSSESSIoN: 1 countSImPLE ASSAULT: 1 countTHEFT From VEHICLE: 1 count
EDITORIAL
Get your event listed! Email [email protected]
Advertising Manager Marianne Schulmeister
Faculty AdviserKim Pavlick, Ph.D.
Administrative Staff
News Editor Colleen Day
Business Editor Joseph Bruzzesi
Sports Editor Cory Burrell
Science & Tech Editor Michelle D’Souza
Forum EditorBen Turcea
Editorial Staff
Photography Co-Editor Shawn Kenney
Campus Liaison Christian Burne
CAMPUS EVENTS: MAR. 14 - MAR. 20
Chief Copy EditorMaria Cleary
Faith Editor Andrew Milewski
Arts & Life Editor Joe Weitemeyer
Chief Copy Editor Sheila Loesch
Editor-in-Chief Christina Scully
Managing Editor Timothy McCormick
The photograph accompanying the article, “University copes with party school reputa-tion,” in Issue 12 Vol. 86 was incorrectly attributed. The photograph was taken by Shawn
Kenney.
To the campus community,
The College of Cardinals has selected the Catholic Church’s new leader as of March 13. Jorge Mario Ber-goglio, now known as Pope Francis, is an Argentinean Jesuit and the fi rst pope from both the western hemi-sphere and the southern hemisphere. He has been an advocate for the poor during his career, a fact that rep-resents his membership in the Society of Jesus.
After Vatican II, there was a new vitality in the Church. Liberation theology appeared, providing a movement in Catholic catechism directed toward the impover-ished. Liberation theology became especially relevant to Catholics of the global south, which includes pover-ty-stricken Latin America.
It is fi tting that the newly-elected pope has chosen the name Francis for himself. St. Francis grew up in a wealthy family, but was exposed to poverty after beg-ging with the poor at St. Peter’s Basilica. This experi-ence moved him to leave his wealthy life and live a life of poverty. From then on, he spent his life working with the poor. The pope’s selection of the name Francis is appropriate because he shares similar sentiments with St. Francis in advocating for the poor.
As members of a Jesuit community, let this selection of a Jesuit strengthen our internal fl ames to live as men and women for others. Let us be grateful for the unbelivable blessings we have been given: a beautiful school and community, healthful and nutritious meals and loving, nurturing families. More importantly, let us do everything in our power for those who do not enjoy these blessings. Speak for the voiceless. Spread love to the broken. Go forth and set the world on fi re.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,
Christina & Tim
Photography Co-EditorEmma Black
CORRECTIONS
Web ManagerEric Hurd
Thursday - mar. 14+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+IEEE Lecture SeriesLoyola Science Center11:45 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.+Stations of the CrossChapel of the Sacred Heart4:40 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.+CAC RFL Spring Kick-OffDeNaples Center, 2nd fl oor5 p.m. - 8 p.m.+Schemel Forum: Georgia O’KeeffeWeinberg memorial Library, room 3056 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.+The ExamenChapel of the Sacred Heart9:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday - mar. 15+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 1 p.m.+Student Senate MeetingBrennan Hall, room 5003:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.+U of S Players: “Language of Angels”mcDade Center, royal Theater8 p.m.
Saturday - mar. 16+MassChapel of the Sacred Heart12:05 p.m.+U of S Players: “Language of Angels”mcDade Center, royal Theater 8 p.m.+USPB Movie: “Pitch Perfect”DeNaples Center, room 402 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Sunday - mar. 17+Massmadonna della Strada Chapel11 a.m., 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.+U of S Players: “Language of Angels”mcDade Center, royal Theater2 p.m.
monday - mar. 18+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Tuesday - mar. 19+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+’Where are We Now?’ Brown Bag Lunch SeriesDeNaples Center, room 40611:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall12 p.m. - 6 p.m.+Debate Society MeetingBrennan Hall, room 2287 p.m. - 8 p.m. +Spanish Club: “Even the Rain”mcDade Center, royal Theater 7 p.m.+Royal EMSLoyola Science Center, room 1338 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Wednesday - mar. 20+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 3 p.m.+Schemel Forum: The Vietnam WarBrennan Hall, room 5095:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.+Reconciliation madonna della Strada Chapel7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.+USPB Movie: “Pitch Perfect”DeNaples Center, room 402 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
2 THE AQUINASCAMPUS NOTES THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
DATE - MARCH 14 Provided by
The University Police Offi ce
REPORT STATISTICS:
UNDErAGE DrINkING: 16 countsPUBLIC DrUNkENNESS: 5 countsINToXICATIoN: 1 count DISorDErLy CoNDUCT: 6 countsCrImINAL mISCHIEF: 2 counts HArASSmENT: 2 countsFAkE ID: 2 counts mArIjUANA PoSSESSIoN: 1 countSImPLE ASSAULT: 1 countTHEFT From VEHICLE: 1 count
EDITORIAL
Get your event listed! Email [email protected]
Advertising Manager Marianne Schulmeister
Faculty AdviserKim Pavlick, Ph.D.
Administrative Staff
News Editor Colleen Day
Business Editor Joseph Bruzzesi
Sports Editor Cory Burrell
Science & Tech Editor Michelle D’Souza
Forum EditorBen Turcea
Editorial Staff
Photography Co-Editor Shawn Kenney
Campus Liaison Christian Burne
CAMPUS EVENTS: MAR. 14 - MAR. 20
Chief Copy EditorMaria Cleary
Faith Editor Andrew Milewski
Arts & Life Editor Joe Weitemeyer
Chief Copy Editor Sheila Loesch
Editor-in-Chief Christina Scully
Managing Editor Timothy McCormick
The photograph accompanying the article, “University copes with party school reputa-tion,” in Issue 12 Vol. 86 was incorrectly attributed. The photograph was taken by Shawn
Kenney.
To the campus community,
The College of Cardinals has selected the Catholic Church’s new leader as of March 13. Jorge Mario Ber-goglio, now known as Pope Francis, is an Argentinean Jesuit and the fi rst pope from both the western hemi-sphere and the southern hemisphere. He has been an advocate for the poor during his career, a fact that rep-resents his membership in the Society of Jesus.
After Vatican II, there was a new vitality in the Church. Liberation theology appeared, providing a movement in Catholic catechism directed toward the impover-ished. Liberation theology became especially relevant to Catholics of the global south, which includes pover-ty-stricken Latin America.
It is fi tting that the newly-elected pope has chosen the name Francis for himself. St. Francis grew up in a wealthy family, but was exposed to poverty after beg-ging with the poor at St. Peter’s Basilica. This experi-ence moved him to leave his wealthy life and live a life of poverty. From then on, he spent his life working with the poor. The pope’s selection of the name Francis is appropriate because he shares similar sentiments with St. Francis in advocating for the poor.
As members of a Jesuit community, let this selection of a Jesuit strengthen our internal fl ames to live as men and women for others. Let us be grateful for the unbelivable blessings we have been given: a beautiful school and community, healthful and nutritious meals and loving, nurturing families. More importantly, let us do everything in our power for those who do not enjoy these blessings. Speak for the voiceless. Spread love to the broken. Go forth and set the world on fi re.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,
Christina & Tim
Photography Co-EditorEmma Black
CORRECTIONS
Web ManagerEric Hurd
Thursday - mar. 14+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+IEEE Lecture SeriesLoyola Science Center11:45 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.+Stations of the CrossChapel of the Sacred Heart4:40 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.+CAC RFL Spring Kick-OffDeNaples Center, 2nd fl oor5 p.m. - 8 p.m.+Schemel Forum: Georgia O’KeeffeWeinberg memorial Library, room 3056 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.+The ExamenChapel of the Sacred Heart9:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday - mar. 15+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 1 p.m.+Student Senate MeetingBrennan Hall, room 5003:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.+U of S Players: “Language of Angels”mcDade Center, royal Theater8 p.m.
Saturday - mar. 16+MassChapel of the Sacred Heart12:05 p.m.+U of S Players: “Language of Angels”mcDade Center, royal Theater 8 p.m.+USPB Movie: “Pitch Perfect”DeNaples Center, room 402 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Sunday - mar. 17+Massmadonna della Strada Chapel11 a.m., 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.+U of S Players: “Language of Angels”mcDade Center, royal Theater2 p.m.
monday - mar. 18+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Tuesday - mar. 19+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+’Where are We Now?’ Brown Bag Lunch SeriesDeNaples Center, room 40611:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall12 p.m. - 6 p.m.+Debate Society MeetingBrennan Hall, room 2287 p.m. - 8 p.m. +Spanish Club: “Even the Rain”mcDade Center, royal Theater 7 p.m.+Royal EMSLoyola Science Center, room 1338 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Wednesday - mar. 20+Morning MassCampion Hall7:55 a.m.+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 3 p.m.+Schemel Forum: The Vietnam WarBrennan Hall, room 5095:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.+Reconciliation madonna della Strada Chapel7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.+USPB Movie: “Pitch Perfect”DeNaples Center, room 402 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
NEWS 3THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
P.O.D. stores offer convenience at a cost
Public Safety cuts number of offi cers on duty
Students know prices on campus are high, but just how much do they pay for convenience?
Prices in the Provi-sions on Demand (P.O.D.) convenience stores in the DeNaples Center and the Mulberry Food Court are generally higher than at nearby retailers, includ-ing Gerrity’s Supermarkets and Rite Aid.
A 10.5 oz. box of Frosted Flakes sells for $7.19 at the DeNaples store. At Rite Aid Pharmacy in Courthouse Square, the same size box is available for $4.99. At Gerrity’s Supermarkets at 320 Meadow Ave., $3.59 will buy it. That’s a 100 percent increase at the P.O.D. from Gerrity’s and a 44 percent markup from Rite Aid.
A jar of Jif peanut but-ter costs almost 68 percent more on campus than at Gerrity’s and 38 percent more than at Rite Aid. Fur-thermore, a Gerrity’s shop-per can save money by purchasing generic-brand products, which usually have even lower prices. The Turkey Hill market on Mulberry Street offers generic peanut butter for only $2.79. That is $3.40 less than the $6.19 cost of Jif on campus.
The prices are high,
but students continue to patronize the P.O.D.s be-cause of the convenience, sophomore Anthony Gu-lotta said. He also said that most retailers are profit-driven and business is a fact of life today.
“It’s a business strat-egy that is a reality of our society. It’s not necessar-
ily right, but business is about money,” he said.
Gulotta generally buys food and energy drinks on campus, but tries to bring other items from home to save money.
The Dining Services team sets costs based on the retail prices suggested by manufacturers and ad-
justs them according to a “competitive analysis,” Ted Zayac, resident district manager for dining servic-es at The University, said.
Prices are compared to those at nearby stores such as
Turkey Hill and adjust-ed accordingly, and Zayac tries to match prices, he
the AQuINAs photo / shAWN KeNNeyTHE UNIVERSITY’S P.O.D. stores offer students necessities, but the convenience comes with a price. The P.O.D. stores have higher prices than other local stores like Gerrity’s and Rite Aid.
said. The goal is to provide students with the most popular items at competi-tive prices. Popular items include bottled beverages, snacks and frozen food.
“We don’t want to take advantage of pricing,” he said.
The cost of raw prod-ucts is generally 70 to 75
percent of the price paid by consumers in the stores on campus, Zayac said. Prices seem high because the P.O.D. has to pay pre-mium prices for many products, especially those that are not frequently purchased.
Zayac also said that the convenience stores on campus can only compete with similar stores such as Turkey Hill because of their lack of storage and small number of consum-ers. For example, students rarely buy peanut butter, so he only purchases a few jars at a time. Because he is not buying in bulk, prices are higher from the source and have to be higher for students.
Larger stores such as Gerrity’s sell more peanut butter, so they can buy it for less from distributors and sell it for lower prices to their consumers.
Still, the high prices of items on campus add to the many expenses faced by students at The Uni-versity, especially for first year students and sopho-mores, who generally do not have access to cars, senior Shannon Lavelle said.
“Freshmen and sopho-mores are stuck. It’s a dis-service to them that the prices are so high. It’s ri-diculous … It just adds one more thing to a huge pile,” she said.
LAUrA FAyStaff Writer
Seeing the University’s public safety officers has been the norm for many students on campus over the years, but they might have recently noticed a re-duction in the number of officers on duty at a given time.
The 32 public safety offi-cers now work fewer hours per week and start their shifts later in the evening. There are now four officers on duty per shift during the week and eight on duty during the weekend.
Donald Bergmann, di-rector of public safety and University chief of police, said changes were made because the program con-tinues to grow, and he had to manage the budget allo-cated to the program.
“The departments that use work-study students have a budget, and you have to be fiscally respon-sible and you have to stay within your budget,” Berg-mann said. “When we see that we are starting to get towards the end of the school year, we have to monitor it closely and cut back a little bit, stay within budget.”
Cutting back hours and starting later in the eve-ning have never been im-plemented in the program before, and Bergmann attri-butes that to the popularity of the program.
“It’s a popular program, and I think it’s really popu-lar among criminal justice students. For them it’s more than just a job and for them it’s an opportunity to devel-op some career skills and an opportunity to build a
resume,” Bergmann said. Bergmann said there is
no change to the University Police force and that cam-pus will continue to remain safe around the clock.
“I am not concerned. The University police are still out there, the student offi-cers are still out there. The student officers are still go-ing to do the same things,” Bergmann said. “The Uni-versity police will continue to patrol on campus, so I think between both the stu-dent officers and University police officers, I don’t think it will be anything anyone is going to notice.”
The recent changes were discussed between the offi-cers at a meeting, and Berg-mann said both sides came up with a resolution to con-tinue keeping the campus safe.
“They [student officers]
suBMItteD photo: DoNALD BerGMANN for the AQuINAsPUBLIC SAFETY offi cers pose outside Brennan Hall. Offi cers will have their hours cut back and will begin their shifts later in the evening.
jUSTIN DWyErStaff Writer
were concerned about safe-ty, and so we made sure that there were enough students that were working that they would be safe,” Bergmann said.
Bergmann said changes will be made to the pro-gram, including reducing the number of officers and selecting the best candi-dates to become officers.
“I think we are going to go with a smaller program with more select people. I think if we do have more work-study students inter-ested in being student of-ficers that we go through a selection process,” Berg-mann said.
“We came to an agree-ment on what was safe and what was the appropriate number of people to work and that we would be able to meet our budget,” Berg-mann said.
Court debates DNAjUSTIN DWyEr
Staff Writer
A controversial Su-preme Court case could change how states use DNA for law enforcement purposes.
The Supreme Court is hearing the case of Alonzo Jay King, Jr., who was arrested in 2009 on assault charges in Wic-omico County, Md. Under the Maryland DNA Col-lection Act, officials were able to take King’s DNA and eventually produce a match with a previously unsolved rape case from 2003.
King’s attorneys argued that the DNA sample vio-lated his constitutional rights, but he lost and was sentenced to life in prison for the 2003 case.
James Roberts, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology and criminal justice at The University, said this case could be the most important ruling in recent decades.
“This could potentially be one of the more im-portant not just Fourth Amendment cases, but criminal justice procedure cases pertaining in the past decade,” Roberts said.
Roberts said he poten-tially sees a problem when it comes to someone’s personal rights being in-fringed upon, but solving crimes and putting crimi-nals in jail may be the ulti-mate deciding factor.
“I think the issue is that one, you are potentially infringing on persons’ constitutional rights in ex-change for potential con-victions. The argument is that we may be coming
right up to the line on what is permissible on the interpretation of the Con-stitution,” Roberts said. “However, by encroaching on this person’s rights, we are taking rapists off the street and taking potential murderers off the street.”
DNA is not being used at random traffic stops, but Roberts said that could become a reality if there are no restrictions on when officials can at-tain samples.
“If they allow this [DNA sampling] to go forward and cops could do a ba-sic cotton swab of your mouth, let you go on your way, run that into the database and potentially link you to another crime, I think that is what peo-ple are afraid of,” Roberts said.
Roberts said there have been numerous re-strictions on search and seizures in the past few years, but nothing to this magnitude.
“There have been a num-ber of Fourth Amendment cases that have come up. I am not sure which way they will be leaning, but in recent years they have put greater restrictions on searches and seizures on police,” Roberts said.
Maryland is one of 28 states to have DNA laws in place, and the Supreme Court took that into con-sideration when it decided to hear King’s case.
“The fact that so many
states are now doing this,
they certainly need to make a statement. Should we continue moving in
this direction or should
we pull back the reigns a
little bit?” Roberts said.
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among our numbers a quite healthy range of political and theologi-cal views that run from one end of the ideologi-cal spectrum to the other. The old joke goes that if there are three Jesuits in the room, there are at least seven obstinate and loudly defended opinions. Still, Jesuits are united in their love for and ser-vice to the people of God and our grounding in the transformative experience of the St. Ignatius’ Spiritu-al Exercises. Pope Francis is quite familiar with the Exercises. He served as novice master, giving the Exercises to young men entering the Jesuit order.
The Spiritual Exercis-es of St. Ignatius are the foundational experience of Pope Francis’ life. The full Exercises are made over a period of 30-some days. Separated into four stages, or “weeks,” the Exercises lead a person to pray over God’s love for us and the wonders of creation. The person mak-ing the Exercises ponders God’s immense concern for him or her personally, and how he or she has uti-lized all God has given us. This often reveals aspects of ourselves that need or-
dering and reformatting to rid ourselves of self-ish and sinful tendencies. In the second, third and fourth weeks, one con-templates the scenes of Jesus’ life, the crucifixion and the joy of the resur-rection and birth of the church. The Exercises re-sult in one’s having deep and abiding love for Jesus and energy and desire to serve others. To be vibrant disciples of Jesus, we need the graces of the Exercis-es. The Exercises are both a school of prayer and a program that leads us to freedom, “for Freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal 5:1). The Exercises makes us free from all that holds us back from loving God and others, free for the service of God and the church, free to be with the Lord as we live our lives. The daily practice of the Examen, a 15-minute prayer exercise in which we rummage through the recent hours’ contents of our consciousness, keeps the graces of the Exercise flowing through our days.
Pope Francis holds to traditional Catholic val-ues. He opposes abortion and euthanasia. He report-edly upholds the church’s teaching on homosexu-
ality, but along with the Catechism of the Church, teaches that no discrimi-nation against homosexu-als is acceptable, and that homosexuals are to be treated with compassion, sensitivity and respect. He sounds something like Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, who was known to be conservative on matters of church doc-trine and liberal on mat-ters of social justice.
Well known for his holi-ness, Francis is renowned to be a very humble and simple man. He takes the bus in Rome rather than the limos. He lives in a small apartment and does his own cooking. He chastised priests who re-frained from baptizing babies of persons afflicted with AIDS.
As he was introduced to the world, he asked the assembled crowd in St. Peter’s to pause for a mo-ment of silent prayer. Si-lent and listen are spelled with the same letters. Let us take a moment these days to pray for our new Holy Father. May he re-ceive the graces he needs to lead our complex and challenging church into the 21st century.
(EWTN Catholics) while others want to see more serving in the soup kitchen and lobbying of congress-persons (National Catho-lic Reporter Catholics). It seems to me we can both pray and serve the poor, but somehow these practic-es too often separate rather than unite us.
The pope is the person we ask to hold together this rambunctious, rebel-lious, raucous, and in ways, real and mystical “one, holy, Catholic and apostolic” pil-grim people of God. It is not an easy task, and it is made even more difficult by the new twist thrown into the mix by mass and social media. On the other hand, a pope with a char-ismatic personality can use mass media to great effect when preaching the Gospel. John Paul II is the prime ex-ample of a pope as media star, something new in the 2,000-year-old church.
“Lumen Gentium” (Light of all Peoples), one of the two Dogmatic Constitu-tions, i.e., main documents, to come out of the Vatican
II, teaches that the church, the people of God, is orga-nized around bishops. It states that so that the bish-ops “be one and undivided, He [Christ] placed blessed Peter over the other apos-tles, and instituted in him a permanent and visible source and foundation of unity and faith and fellow-ship.”
John Allen’s “All the Pope’s Men” dispels many myths about the papacy and the Vatican. One, the Vatican isn’t all that rich, since it has about as much money as a mid-sized American univer-sity. The Vatican budget is some $250 million a year. Harvard’s is $1.3 billion. Mi-crosoft spends $4.7 billion a year on research and de-velopment alone. Harvard’s endowment is more than $32 billion; the Vatican’s is $1 billion. Harvard is thir-ty two Vaticans! And all the art? Yes, it’s priceless, which means you can’t sell “The Pieta” to pay for pas-ta. The art is held in sacred trust for humanity. Second, the Vatican is a bureaucracy made up of many offices.
The Vatican is much more like a university where the president does not always know exactly what is going on in each department than it is like a business corpora-tion where the CEO knows and controls all. Popes deal with a vast array of curia officials, bishops and as-sorted others who carry on Vatican operations. One question raised by Benedict XVI’s resignation concerns how well, or poorly, the Vatican as an institution is functioning.
It got pretty crazy out there with all the theorizing. Some used Paddypower.com to place their bets on who would win and what name he’d take. No thanks. I’m sticking with the NCAA’s March Madness. The vote for the Vatican will always be too close to call or bet on. And jamming devices were used to prevent car-dinals from communicating with the outside world once they were locked in the Sis-tine Chapel. My question: Could we get some of those devices in the classrooms here at Scranton?
Many have seen the memes and the websites denouncing a degree in English, along with a few other degrees, as a waste of a college education. Ac-cording to thedailybeast.com, English is the sev-enth out of 14 most use-less majors. After spend-ing thousands of dollars on college tuition, espe-cially in a poor economic state, is it a major to dis-regard altogether?
According to Joe Kraus, Ph.D., a professor of the English department and director of the honors pro-gram, English is a viable major for many students who do not see them-selves in majors that are typically associated with a high starting salary, such as business.
“The numbers are lower than they have been. Na-tionwide that’s the case. In times of economic hard-ship we’ve seen it happen that across the country that the humanities in general and English in particular are majors that get hit hard,” Kraus said.
Kraus has seen those articles that claim English is not worth the invest-ment of a college educa-tion, and he tends to dis-agree.
“The covert messages of those articles are to major in accounting or nursing or business. I think those majors are great things if you’re cut out for them, but if you
don’t have those skills, you’re fitting a square peg into a triangular hole,” Kraus said.
The more specific a ma-jor or career preparations are, Kraus thinks the less adaptable the student will be in the future.
“We have some fabu-lous business faculty, but many of the people I know who are successful in business are big believ-ers in the importance of humanities. They want people who can adapt,” Kraus said.
Kraus noted that the skills a student learns as an English major are nec-essary for any job today. Reading and writing are skills that will always be valid.
“We now live in an information economy, which means almost ev-ery job begins to resemble every other job and there are two main functions to that generic, universal job. One is that you have to look though all the existing info, determine what’s relevant and make sense of it; two is that you have to take everything you’ve learned and pass it on to someone else. Those are long-winded ways of describing what we call reading and writing,” Kraus said.
A main reason to ma-jor in English, according to Kraus, is that since it is broad major, a student can do anything with it.
“I’m saddened when I see this advice for majors that really compromise the opportunities you
have. If you major in voca-tional fields, it really lim-its the kinds of work you can do. The people I know who hire are more inter-ested in if you can read or write. They can teach you how to read a spread-sheet or corporate cul-ture in a couple months. If you can’t write or read, they don’t have the tools to teach you to do that,” Kraus said.
There are some jobs that English majors are prone to gravitate toward. This does not necessarily mean that those are the only jobs available.
“Traditionally, of course, we go into teach-ing, publishing or writing. Historically, it’s the classic pre-law major. But we are everywhere in business. Even in tech-heavy fields you see English majors predominating. Newspa-pers are dying in a lot of ways, but then who’s blog-ging? It’s the same skills,” Kraus said.
Kraus argues that the reason most people stay away from being an Eng-lish major is largely out of fear of not finding suc-cess, but he thinks that English is an ideal major for students today.
“If you were nakedly preparing yourself for an unpredictable future you can’t do better than to ma-jor in English. Make your-self the best writer and the best reader that you can. It’s only a bonus that it happens to be more fun than anything else. We are the repositories of our cul-ture’s dreams,” Kraus said.
the AQuINAs photo / shAWN KeNNeyTHE MCDADE Center for Literary & Performing Arts houses the Univer-sity’s English and theatre programs.
kELSEy romANELLIStaff Writer
On this campus, the Jane Kopas Women’s Cen-ter ( JKWC) and other col-laborative offices are join-ing together to recognize Women’s History Month and celebrate women’s unique experiences. The first event was Inter-national Women’s Day, which millions celebrate worldwide on March 8. This year, the JKWC held an International Women’s Day Film Festival. The films not only showed the strides women have made, but the hardships they faced along the way, including honor killing,
University celebrates Women’s History monthdenial of access to educa-tion and gender violence. Other events include Women’s History Month Jeopardy and a Women’s History Month essay con-test in conjunction with the League of Women Voters of Lackawanna. These events focus on the celebration of women’s accomplishments and ask people to become em-powered through knowl-edge.
Many people ask why we keep recognizing Women’s History Month, and it is an easy answer to me. Traditionally, we have ignored women’s personal narratives and their contributions to
American and global his-tory. It is not just wom-en who we are learning about, but our entire culture. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it is a time to reflect on our own attitudes and beliefs and recognize that we should celebrate women every day of the year. The JKWC is here to do just that. The JKWC holds programming in the academic year that focuses on women’s is-sues and gender-related topics, including healthy relationships, feminism, women in the workforce and much, much more. To get involved, check out Scranton.edu/jkwc.
CommENTAry ByjUSTINE joHNSoN
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‘FRANCIS’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
‘CHALLENGES’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
among our numbers a quite healthy range of political and theologi-cal views that run from one end of the ideologi-cal spectrum to the other. The old joke goes that if there are three Jesuits in the room, there are at least seven obstinate and loudly defended opinions. Still, Jesuits are united in their love for and ser-vice to the people of God and our grounding in the transformative experience of the St. Ignatius’ Spiritu-al Exercises. Pope Francis is quite familiar with the Exercises. He served as novice master, giving the Exercises to young men entering the Jesuit order.
The Spiritual Exercis-es of St. Ignatius are the foundational experience of Pope Francis’ life. The full Exercises are made over a period of 30-some days. Separated into four stages, or “weeks,” the Exercises lead a person to pray over God’s love for us and the wonders of creation. The person mak-ing the Exercises ponders God’s immense concern for him or her personally, and how he or she has uti-lized all God has given us. This often reveals aspects of ourselves that need or-
dering and reformatting to rid ourselves of self-ish and sinful tendencies. In the second, third and fourth weeks, one con-templates the scenes of Jesus’ life, the crucifixion and the joy of the resur-rection and birth of the church. The Exercises re-sult in one’s having deep and abiding love for Jesus and energy and desire to serve others. To be vibrant disciples of Jesus, we need the graces of the Exercis-es. The Exercises are both a school of prayer and a program that leads us to freedom, “for Freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal 5:1). The Exercises makes us free from all that holds us back from loving God and others, free for the service of God and the church, free to be with the Lord as we live our lives. The daily practice of the Examen, a 15-minute prayer exercise in which we rummage through the recent hours’ contents of our consciousness, keeps the graces of the Exercise flowing through our days.
Pope Francis holds to traditional Catholic val-ues. He opposes abortion and euthanasia. He report-edly upholds the church’s teaching on homosexu-
ality, but along with the Catechism of the Church, teaches that no discrimi-nation against homosexu-als is acceptable, and that homosexuals are to be treated with compassion, sensitivity and respect. He sounds something like Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, who was known to be conservative on matters of church doc-trine and liberal on mat-ters of social justice.
Well known for his holi-ness, Francis is renowned to be a very humble and simple man. He takes the bus in Rome rather than the limos. He lives in a small apartment and does his own cooking. He chastised priests who re-frained from baptizing babies of persons afflicted with AIDS.
As he was introduced to the world, he asked the assembled crowd in St. Peter’s to pause for a mo-ment of silent prayer. Si-lent and listen are spelled with the same letters. Let us take a moment these days to pray for our new Holy Father. May he re-ceive the graces he needs to lead our complex and challenging church into the 21st century.
(EWTN Catholics) while others want to see more serving in the soup kitchen and lobbying of congress-persons (National Catho-lic Reporter Catholics). It seems to me we can both pray and serve the poor, but somehow these practic-es too often separate rather than unite us.
The pope is the person we ask to hold together this rambunctious, rebel-lious, raucous, and in ways, real and mystical “one, holy, Catholic and apostolic” pil-grim people of God. It is not an easy task, and it is made even more difficult by the new twist thrown into the mix by mass and social media. On the other hand, a pope with a char-ismatic personality can use mass media to great effect when preaching the Gospel. John Paul II is the prime ex-ample of a pope as media star, something new in the 2,000-year-old church.
“Lumen Gentium” (Light of all Peoples), one of the two Dogmatic Constitu-tions, i.e., main documents, to come out of the Vatican
II, teaches that the church, the people of God, is orga-nized around bishops. It states that so that the bish-ops “be one and undivided, He [Christ] placed blessed Peter over the other apos-tles, and instituted in him a permanent and visible source and foundation of unity and faith and fellow-ship.”
John Allen’s “All the Pope’s Men” dispels many myths about the papacy and the Vatican. One, the Vatican isn’t all that rich, since it has about as much money as a mid-sized American univer-sity. The Vatican budget is some $250 million a year. Harvard’s is $1.3 billion. Mi-crosoft spends $4.7 billion a year on research and de-velopment alone. Harvard’s endowment is more than $32 billion; the Vatican’s is $1 billion. Harvard is thir-ty two Vaticans! And all the art? Yes, it’s priceless, which means you can’t sell “The Pieta” to pay for pas-ta. The art is held in sacred trust for humanity. Second, the Vatican is a bureaucracy made up of many offices.
The Vatican is much more like a university where the president does not always know exactly what is going on in each department than it is like a business corpora-tion where the CEO knows and controls all. Popes deal with a vast array of curia officials, bishops and as-sorted others who carry on Vatican operations. One question raised by Benedict XVI’s resignation concerns how well, or poorly, the Vatican as an institution is functioning.
It got pretty crazy out there with all the theorizing. Some used Paddypower.com to place their bets on who would win and what name he’d take. No thanks. I’m sticking with the NCAA’s March Madness. The vote for the Vatican will always be too close to call or bet on. And jamming devices were used to prevent car-dinals from communicating with the outside world once they were locked in the Sis-tine Chapel. My question: Could we get some of those devices in the classrooms here at Scranton?
Many have seen the memes and the websites denouncing a degree in English, along with a few other degrees, as a waste of a college education. Ac-cording to thedailybeast.com, English is the sev-enth out of 14 most use-less majors. After spend-ing thousands of dollars on college tuition, espe-cially in a poor economic state, is it a major to dis-regard altogether?
According to Joe Kraus, Ph.D., a professor of the English department and director of the honors pro-gram, English is a viable major for many students who do not see them-selves in majors that are typically associated with a high starting salary, such as business.
“The numbers are lower than they have been. Na-tionwide that’s the case. In times of economic hard-ship we’ve seen it happen that across the country that the humanities in general and English in particular are majors that get hit hard,” Kraus said.
Kraus has seen those articles that claim English is not worth the invest-ment of a college educa-tion, and he tends to dis-agree.
“The covert messages of those articles are to major in accounting or nursing or business. I think those majors are great things if you’re cut out for them, but if you
don’t have those skills, you’re fitting a square peg into a triangular hole,” Kraus said.
The more specific a ma-jor or career preparations are, Kraus thinks the less adaptable the student will be in the future.
“We have some fabu-lous business faculty, but many of the people I know who are successful in business are big believ-ers in the importance of humanities. They want people who can adapt,” Kraus said.
Kraus noted that the skills a student learns as an English major are nec-essary for any job today. Reading and writing are skills that will always be valid.
“We now live in an information economy, which means almost ev-ery job begins to resemble every other job and there are two main functions to that generic, universal job. One is that you have to look though all the existing info, determine what’s relevant and make sense of it; two is that you have to take everything you’ve learned and pass it on to someone else. Those are long-winded ways of describing what we call reading and writing,” Kraus said.
A main reason to ma-jor in English, according to Kraus, is that since it is broad major, a student can do anything with it.
“I’m saddened when I see this advice for majors that really compromise the opportunities you
have. If you major in voca-tional fields, it really lim-its the kinds of work you can do. The people I know who hire are more inter-ested in if you can read or write. They can teach you how to read a spread-sheet or corporate cul-ture in a couple months. If you can’t write or read, they don’t have the tools to teach you to do that,” Kraus said.
There are some jobs that English majors are prone to gravitate toward. This does not necessarily mean that those are the only jobs available.
“Traditionally, of course, we go into teach-ing, publishing or writing. Historically, it’s the classic pre-law major. But we are everywhere in business. Even in tech-heavy fields you see English majors predominating. Newspa-pers are dying in a lot of ways, but then who’s blog-ging? It’s the same skills,” Kraus said.
Kraus argues that the reason most people stay away from being an Eng-lish major is largely out of fear of not finding suc-cess, but he thinks that English is an ideal major for students today.
“If you were nakedly preparing yourself for an unpredictable future you can’t do better than to ma-jor in English. Make your-self the best writer and the best reader that you can. It’s only a bonus that it happens to be more fun than anything else. We are the repositories of our cul-ture’s dreams,” Kraus said.
the AQuINAs photo / shAWN KeNNeyTHE MCDADE Center for Literary & Performing Arts houses the Univer-sity’s English and theatre programs.
kELSEy romANELLIStaff Writer
On this campus, the Jane Kopas Women’s Cen-ter ( JKWC) and other col-laborative offices are join-ing together to recognize Women’s History Month and celebrate women’s unique experiences. The first event was Inter-national Women’s Day, which millions celebrate worldwide on March 8. This year, the JKWC held an International Women’s Day Film Festival. The films not only showed the strides women have made, but the hardships they faced along the way, including honor killing,
University celebrates Women’s History monthdenial of access to educa-tion and gender violence. Other events include Women’s History Month Jeopardy and a Women’s History Month essay con-test in conjunction with the League of Women Voters of Lackawanna. These events focus on the celebration of women’s accomplishments and ask people to become em-powered through knowl-edge.
Many people ask why we keep recognizing Women’s History Month, and it is an easy answer to me. Traditionally, we have ignored women’s personal narratives and their contributions to
American and global his-tory. It is not just wom-en who we are learning about, but our entire culture. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it is a time to reflect on our own attitudes and beliefs and recognize that we should celebrate women every day of the year. The JKWC is here to do just that. The JKWC holds programming in the academic year that focuses on women’s is-sues and gender-related topics, including healthy relationships, feminism, women in the workforce and much, much more. To get involved, check out Scranton.edu/jkwc.
CommENTAry ByjUSTINE joHNSoN
5THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
Top Chef: Scranton StyleNEWS
USPB hosted Top Chef Scranton as an event for the campus community and a fundraiser for ISP. There were four teams of students, and each team of students was paired
with a chef from the Fresh Food Company from the
third fl oor of the DeNaples Center. The chefs helped each team come up with
ideas and recipes.
The audience was given food as well while the
chefs broiled, cooked and julienned their most cre-
ative dishes.
the AQuINAs photo / eMMA BLAcK SENIOR BOB Law prepares his team’s dish, with the help of Chris. Bob’s team, which also included Victoria McAllister, Katie Tamola and Joe Lofstedt, pre-pared chicken romano.
the AQuINAs photo / eMMA BLAcK RESERVE OFFICERS’ Training Corps enter a team into the competition. From left: Johnny Korgelis, Neil Jayakar, Brian Walsh and Graham S.D. Henderson prepare a “North vs South” dish, juxtaposing Mexican-spiced chicken with a northern chicken breast with bacon, onion and spinach sauce.
the AQuINAs photo / eMMA BLAcK COLLEGE DEMOCRATS’ team prepares chicken fra diavolo. Chrissy (left) helps Colin Brucia, Matthew Gentile, Biren Desai and Elisa Giusto (not pictured) rep-resented the club.
the AQuINAs photo / eMMA BLAcK PAT VACCARO of the Center for Service and Social Justice and Kristi Cordier of the Alumni Relations Offi ce participate as judges. They are served here by the team of Jill Himelrick, Christine Wolff, Sarah Fitch and Keri Carillo.
6 FORUM
Editorial Board
Tim McCormick
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Serving The University and
community since 1931Christina ScullyForumBen Turcea Forum Editor
Many students here at The University may not have known this, but President Barack Hussein Obama is going where no president has gone before. We all need to be aware of who our president is and what he has in store for the country that will change the United States forever. Our “secret Mus-lim president” is in the midst of a backdoor op-eration to alter our 22nd Amendment. Obama doesn’t just want to serve his second term; he wants to serve another, and pos-sibly another and only Obama himself knows his desired limits. What we as the American family know
may change in the very near future. We all know how awful the financial crisis has been for millions of families throughout our country. What is to come, however, will be infinitely worse.
Obama’s third, fourth and however many future terms are going to destroy America as we know it. The economy might seem bad now, but we have no idea what is to come after 2016 when Obama begins a new American reign as a feared Marxist ruler. Yes, Marxist indeed. Obama is a closet Marxist. He in-herited these ideals from his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. This informa-tion has eluded many, and now Obama sides with various dictators who all want to destroy the well-founded Constitution of
the United States of Amer-ica.
The rumors surround-ing these ideas have been seldom told and have only recently come to the public. But this is no ac-cident. This will allow Obama’s plans to come to fruition. These attempts and newfound ideals will bring a newfound regime to America and our down-ward spiral will turn into a complete implosion.
Obama’s next terms will be introduced by his cult-like followers. They don’t follow him because of his ideals or his ability to lead our country. These “cultists” view Obama as a god. And none of them will stand idly by until Obama serves beyond 2016. The fear arises that Obama and his cult fol-lowers will use govern-
ment funds to bribe the House and Senate to alter the 22nd Amend-ment. America is forever changing, and the future of our country now sits in the power-hungry fists of Obama and his avowed supporters. We are all ig-norant to what is arising. A storm is coming, and we need to be aware.
This fear will not sub-side. America will change forever. And our beloved president will continue to both run and ruin Ameri-ca. Any American ideals that are presently accept-ed and loved will be de-stroyed. The exact things America stands against will become America’s new standard. And Amer-ica, the unequivocal lead-ing country, will fall to a new low, seldom heard in all of history.
jAmES GILLESPIE Forum Correspondent
THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
Obama plans to unjustly seize third term
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsOBAMA GRINS at America while he plots to serve countless terms as our chief executive. He is aided by a cult following.
ErIN mCCormICk Staff Writer
Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY., made headlines with his lengthy filibuster March 6 as a part of an attempt to block President Obama’s nomination of John Bren-nan for director of the CIA. Paul received positive and negative reactions from both Democrats and Re-publicans.
The issue that was the key driving force behind Paul’s filibuster — the subject of drones and the Obama administration’s justification for poten-tially using them to com-bat domestic terrorism — has been thrust into the spotlight in the past year. Brennan first acknowl-edged the use of drones by the CIA in April 2012 in a speech where he discussed the characteristics of the agency’s program and its
use in the Middle East. It has been pointed out that one of the key benefits of drones is their ability to perform functions that the military would be doing anyway, but without the risk of losing military lives.
But what Paul, son of the equally controversial Ron Paul, was arguing for during his 12-hour and 52-minute filibuster March 6 was that the language the administration uses in its drone policy is too vague for the American public to sit comfortably with. As he states, the way the policy is worded allows room for an Ameri-can citizen to be “killed in a cafe in San Francisco or in a restaurant in Houston or at their home in Bowl-ing Green, Kentucky.”
It doesn’t take that im-pressive an intelligence to understand that the likelihood of being hit by a drone while sitting at a San Francisco café isn’t all
that high; in fact, it’s near impossible. But Paul, a key figure in the Tea Party movement, understands how to work a crowd; he knows that appealing to fear is a foolproof way to garner the reaction he de-sires. He continued speak-ing on the so-called Obama “kill list,” insinuating that you don’t have to be a ter-rorist to find a spot on this list. For example, he says if you have outspoken politi-cal views deviating from those of Obama, watch out.
“The people on the list might be me,” he stated.
He continues to exer-cise the oft-used and ever-so-eloquent technique of comparing Obama’s poli-cies to those of a Stalin-like dictator.
Attorney General Eric Holder replied March 7 to Paul’s 13-hour question with a brusque, 43-word response via letter, stating that without due process of the law, the president does not “have the author-ity to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil.”
But Holder’s response came too late as the de-tails of the filibuster swept the country and a flow of responses, both posi-tive and negative, trickled in from both sides of the aisle. Prominent Repub-licans John McCain and Lindsey Graham both criticized Paul for his ac-tions, while well-known Democrats Van Jones and Jon Stewart both praised the Republican senator. Social media users showed their support as well, with the hashtag #StandWith-Rand trending on Twitter throughout most of the filibuster’s run.
Paul took advantage of this newfound fame and sent out a fundrais-ing email to his supporters
the next day, appealing for donations to “continue the fight to protect our Consti-tutional liberties.” Liberty and freedom are things Paul apparently believes himself to be well-versed in, as he himself opposes all government assistance in the realm of education
and health care and thinks that gay marriage is soci-ety “giving up” on the idea of the family unit. These are words uttered from the same mouth that de-nies that climate change is man-made and said in 2010 on “The Rachel Mad-dow Show” that the de-
segregation laws from the 1964 Civil Rights Act were illegal and should never have been passed. Paul’s rhetorical tactics undoubt-edly temporarily captured the American intrigue, but he’s still a far cry from the bipartisan savior that Cap-itol Hill needs now.
Paul protests new CIA director in fi libuster
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsSENATOR RAND Paul fi libusters the appointment of the a new CIA director. His interpretation of what he calls “constitutional liberties” is controversial.
No doubt that you’ve heard the news by now about the new Holy Father, who has taken the name Francis I. The first pope elected from outside of Eu-rope in over a millennium, the Rev. Jorge Mario Ber-goglio, S.J., takes over the leadership of the Catholic Church at the age of 76.
As members of a Jesuit university, I hope that the election of this new pope will instill in us a new dedication to Jesuit ideals that have been set out to form our local and world communities. Above all, the Jesuits advocate an intense intellectual and spiritual growth through-out one’s lifetime. Bergo-glio himself was born the son of a railroad worker in Buenos Aires, and has now risen to lead 1.2 bil-lion Catholics around the world. He led his home country of Argentina, and the Latin American world in general, to a new dyna-mism while keeping the doctrine of the Catholic Church at the forefront of his ministry.
Outside of personal growth, the Jesuits, known as “God’s Marines,” are called to be missionaries all over the world. Jesuits, and Bergoglio specifically, bring a sense of hope and humanity to those societ-ies with which they minis-
ter. Now, with the power of the most humbling of-fice in the world upon him, Pope Francis I has the chance to bring hope and equality to the world.
Bergoglio’s regnal name, Francis, has received at-tention already. As of this writing, he has not announced who he spe-cifically honored with the chosen name, St. Francis of Assisi or St. Francis Xavier, who was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus. Both names carry with them an import nearly unpar-alleled in the history and mission of the Church, and both saints represent for Pope Francis impor-tant hallmarks of the life of the faithful: Francis Xavier is a co-founder of Bergoglio’s own religious order, and Francis of Assisi ministered in poverty to the poor, as Bergoglio has done for his entire life.
However, in watch-ing his first address as Supreme Pontiff of the
Universal Church, I was struck immediately by his resemblance to St. Francis of Assisi. He spoke to his Church, as I believe he will lead his Church, with ex-emplary humility. He first honored the pope emeri-tus, His Holiness Benedict XVI, asked for the faithful to pray in silence for him and his new responsibili-ties, and kneeled in front of the congregation in St. Peter’s Square. Submit-ting himself in front of bil-lions with an act as simple as kneeling down, I call to mind the image of the servant leadership of St. Francis.
As the Catholic Church enters this new era, let us renew our Jesuit iden-tity and infuse those val-ues with Franciscan ide-als: mendicant leadership, which is the guidance of our communities with an orientation to spiritual and intellectual development, performed with the humil-ity of the poor.
BEN TUrCEA Forum Editor
Papal election renews values
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsTHE SEAL of the Society of Jesus and the Francis-can coat of arms represent two religious orders which are close to Pope Francis I.
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Many students here at The University may not have known this, but President Barack Hussein Obama is going where no president has gone before. We all need to be aware of who our president is and what he has in store for the country that will change the United States forever. Our “secret Mus-lim president” is in the midst of a backdoor op-eration to alter our 22nd Amendment. Obama doesn’t just want to serve his second term; he wants to serve another, and pos-sibly another and only Obama himself knows his desired limits. What we as the American family know
may change in the very near future. We all know how awful the financial crisis has been for millions of families throughout our country. What is to come, however, will be infinitely worse.
Obama’s third, fourth and however many future terms are going to destroy America as we know it. The economy might seem bad now, but we have no idea what is to come after 2016 when Obama begins a new American reign as a feared Marxist ruler. Yes, Marxist indeed. Obama is a closet Marxist. He in-herited these ideals from his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. This informa-tion has eluded many, and now Obama sides with various dictators who all want to destroy the well-founded Constitution of
the United States of Amer-ica.
The rumors surround-ing these ideas have been seldom told and have only recently come to the public. But this is no ac-cident. This will allow Obama’s plans to come to fruition. These attempts and newfound ideals will bring a newfound regime to America and our down-ward spiral will turn into a complete implosion.
Obama’s next terms will be introduced by his cult-like followers. They don’t follow him because of his ideals or his ability to lead our country. These “cultists” view Obama as a god. And none of them will stand idly by until Obama serves beyond 2016. The fear arises that Obama and his cult fol-lowers will use govern-
ment funds to bribe the House and Senate to alter the 22nd Amend-ment. America is forever changing, and the future of our country now sits in the power-hungry fists of Obama and his avowed supporters. We are all ig-norant to what is arising. A storm is coming, and we need to be aware.
This fear will not sub-side. America will change forever. And our beloved president will continue to both run and ruin Ameri-ca. Any American ideals that are presently accept-ed and loved will be de-stroyed. The exact things America stands against will become America’s new standard. And Amer-ica, the unequivocal lead-ing country, will fall to a new low, seldom heard in all of history.
jAmES GILLESPIE Forum Correspondent
THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
Obama plans to unjustly seize third term
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsOBAMA GRINS at America while he plots to serve countless terms as our chief executive. He is aided by a cult following.
ErIN mCCormICk Staff Writer
Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY., made headlines with his lengthy filibuster March 6 as a part of an attempt to block President Obama’s nomination of John Bren-nan for director of the CIA. Paul received positive and negative reactions from both Democrats and Re-publicans.
The issue that was the key driving force behind Paul’s filibuster — the subject of drones and the Obama administration’s justification for poten-tially using them to com-bat domestic terrorism — has been thrust into the spotlight in the past year. Brennan first acknowl-edged the use of drones by the CIA in April 2012 in a speech where he discussed the characteristics of the agency’s program and its
use in the Middle East. It has been pointed out that one of the key benefits of drones is their ability to perform functions that the military would be doing anyway, but without the risk of losing military lives.
But what Paul, son of the equally controversial Ron Paul, was arguing for during his 12-hour and 52-minute filibuster March 6 was that the language the administration uses in its drone policy is too vague for the American public to sit comfortably with. As he states, the way the policy is worded allows room for an Ameri-can citizen to be “killed in a cafe in San Francisco or in a restaurant in Houston or at their home in Bowl-ing Green, Kentucky.”
It doesn’t take that im-pressive an intelligence to understand that the likelihood of being hit by a drone while sitting at a San Francisco café isn’t all
that high; in fact, it’s near impossible. But Paul, a key figure in the Tea Party movement, understands how to work a crowd; he knows that appealing to fear is a foolproof way to garner the reaction he de-sires. He continued speak-ing on the so-called Obama “kill list,” insinuating that you don’t have to be a ter-rorist to find a spot on this list. For example, he says if you have outspoken politi-cal views deviating from those of Obama, watch out.
“The people on the list might be me,” he stated.
He continues to exer-cise the oft-used and ever-so-eloquent technique of comparing Obama’s poli-cies to those of a Stalin-like dictator.
Attorney General Eric Holder replied March 7 to Paul’s 13-hour question with a brusque, 43-word response via letter, stating that without due process of the law, the president does not “have the author-ity to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil.”
But Holder’s response came too late as the de-tails of the filibuster swept the country and a flow of responses, both posi-tive and negative, trickled in from both sides of the aisle. Prominent Repub-licans John McCain and Lindsey Graham both criticized Paul for his ac-tions, while well-known Democrats Van Jones and Jon Stewart both praised the Republican senator. Social media users showed their support as well, with the hashtag #StandWith-Rand trending on Twitter throughout most of the filibuster’s run.
Paul took advantage of this newfound fame and sent out a fundrais-ing email to his supporters
the next day, appealing for donations to “continue the fight to protect our Consti-tutional liberties.” Liberty and freedom are things Paul apparently believes himself to be well-versed in, as he himself opposes all government assistance in the realm of education
and health care and thinks that gay marriage is soci-ety “giving up” on the idea of the family unit. These are words uttered from the same mouth that de-nies that climate change is man-made and said in 2010 on “The Rachel Mad-dow Show” that the de-
segregation laws from the 1964 Civil Rights Act were illegal and should never have been passed. Paul’s rhetorical tactics undoubt-edly temporarily captured the American intrigue, but he’s still a far cry from the bipartisan savior that Cap-itol Hill needs now.
Paul protests new CIA director in fi libuster
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsSENATOR RAND Paul fi libusters the appointment of the a new CIA director. His interpretation of what he calls “constitutional liberties” is controversial.
No doubt that you’ve heard the news by now about the new Holy Father, who has taken the name Francis I. The first pope elected from outside of Eu-rope in over a millennium, the Rev. Jorge Mario Ber-goglio, S.J., takes over the leadership of the Catholic Church at the age of 76.
As members of a Jesuit university, I hope that the election of this new pope will instill in us a new dedication to Jesuit ideals that have been set out to form our local and world communities. Above all, the Jesuits advocate an intense intellectual and spiritual growth through-out one’s lifetime. Bergo-glio himself was born the son of a railroad worker in Buenos Aires, and has now risen to lead 1.2 bil-lion Catholics around the world. He led his home country of Argentina, and the Latin American world in general, to a new dyna-mism while keeping the doctrine of the Catholic Church at the forefront of his ministry.
Outside of personal growth, the Jesuits, known as “God’s Marines,” are called to be missionaries all over the world. Jesuits, and Bergoglio specifically, bring a sense of hope and humanity to those societ-ies with which they minis-
ter. Now, with the power of the most humbling of-fice in the world upon him, Pope Francis I has the chance to bring hope and equality to the world.
Bergoglio’s regnal name, Francis, has received at-tention already. As of this writing, he has not announced who he spe-cifically honored with the chosen name, St. Francis of Assisi or St. Francis Xavier, who was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus. Both names carry with them an import nearly unpar-alleled in the history and mission of the Church, and both saints represent for Pope Francis impor-tant hallmarks of the life of the faithful: Francis Xavier is a co-founder of Bergoglio’s own religious order, and Francis of Assisi ministered in poverty to the poor, as Bergoglio has done for his entire life.
However, in watch-ing his first address as Supreme Pontiff of the
Universal Church, I was struck immediately by his resemblance to St. Francis of Assisi. He spoke to his Church, as I believe he will lead his Church, with ex-emplary humility. He first honored the pope emeri-tus, His Holiness Benedict XVI, asked for the faithful to pray in silence for him and his new responsibili-ties, and kneeled in front of the congregation in St. Peter’s Square. Submit-ting himself in front of bil-lions with an act as simple as kneeling down, I call to mind the image of the servant leadership of St. Francis.
As the Catholic Church enters this new era, let us renew our Jesuit iden-tity and infuse those val-ues with Franciscan ide-als: mendicant leadership, which is the guidance of our communities with an orientation to spiritual and intellectual development, performed with the humil-ity of the poor.
BEN TUrCEA Forum Editor
Papal election renews values
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsTHE SEAL of the Society of Jesus and the Francis-can coat of arms represent two religious orders which are close to Pope Francis I.
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State of Arkansas passes new abortion law
The people of Arkansas earned a place in future his-tory books March 6, instigat-ing one of the great human rights movements of our age: the Human Heartbeat Protection Act.
The Human Heartbeat Protection Act bans abor-tions at 12 weeks into preg-nancy if a heartbeat is de-tected, with exceptions for cases of rape or incest, to save the life of the mother or for a lethal fetal condi-tion. This is a pretty fair law, which may in turn, of course, upset many pro-choice groups.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Bee-be, after his failed attempts to veto the bill, said that the legislation “would impose a ban on a woman’s right to choose an elective, nonther-apeutic abortion well before viability.” He argued that the Human Heartbeat Pro-tection Act “blatantly con-tradicts the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court.” Fi-nally, in a hypocritical en-deavor to appear noble, he pretentiously reminded his people, “When I was sworn
in as governor I took an oath to preserve, protect and defend both the Arkansas Constitution and the Consti-tution of the United States. I take that oath seriously.” Of course, for Beebe that does not include defending the first unalienable right: the right to life.
Further ignoring the right to life human rights activist Wayne Besen arrogantly at-
tests in his opposition to the new law: “Since the begin-ning of time, women have had unwanted pregnancies and then found methods to terminate them. No mat-ter what these zealots do to overturn Roe v. Wade, wom-en who do not want to be mothers will find ways not to be.”
Deplorable.The purpose of the act
is not to force women into unsafe, illegal abortions, nor is it meant to restrict their freedom. This act is to pro-tect life. So many pro-choice advocates view fetuses as something inhuman, an en-tity that is not alive and that cannot feel pain or death.
Mary Spaulding Balch, director of state legislation for National Right to Life, explained her position last
week. “Unborn children jerk
away from painful stimuli, their stress hormones in-crease and they require anesthesia before any fetal surgery. With today’s over-ride of the governor’s veto, Arkansas has become the eighth state to pass legisla-tion protecting unborn chil-dren capable of feeling pain from the violence of abor-tion,” Balch said.
So many pro-life adver-saries reject the fact that unborn children are still chil-dren. But hear this: there is absolutely no moral differ-ence between killing a child after birth and killing a child before birth. We so blindly excuse fetal homicide, refer-ring to this intentional tak-ing of innocent human life as “health care.” They even try to claim that the decision to take their life is somehow someone else’s choice.
Abortion is not health-care; it is the murder of an innocent child. Regardless of religious and moral beliefs, it is impossible to not equate abortion with murder. Thus, Arkansas’ law is the first ma-jor step along the road to re-storing the fundamental hu-man right to life for children in the womb.
SArAH mUELLEr Staff Writer
oliver’s Twist: Fight inequalities
Imagine this: you wake up one day to go to class and you find that there are thousands of people prote-sting outside every academic building. You see a few signs with some offensive (but catchy, none-theless) slogans that seem to be targeting the nerdiest of nerds on campus. As you get closer, you spot four Univer-sity Police officers dragging away a protester each holding a limb as he screams out what you guess to be some weird dialect of Pig Latin (as if Pig Latin, wasn’t already strange enough). “A protest against all of the teachers’ pets? It’s about time!” says one of the fresh-men to you as you both pass a smoldering schoolbag. But as you struggle to get through the protestors and into your classroom, you notice exactly what they are protesting: you.
This is a complete shock to you and your fellow class-mates, since you feel you did nothing wrong.
You sit down in your class while still hearing the chants from outside the classroom and your professor begins to explain what is happening on campus today. She explains to the class that the protest movement “Occupy Scran-ton” is outside protesting the inequalities in education, the
lack of the affordable educa-tion for the poor (all over the world), and the greed that con-sumes most with a degree.
Imagine this, because as crazy as it seems, it can be-come reality.
Did you know that only 6.7 percent of the world has a col-lege degree? I think if we look at some of the premises of the actual Occupy Wall Street movement and relate them to our education system, you can see many similarities. Occupy Wall Street protested the social and economic inequalities and injustices within our world economy mostly by singling out the richest 1 percent in the world, but wouldn’t the same hold true about the education systems around the world?
Think about it: a college education is expensive and many people across the world can only dream of getting one. Most people who are fortu-nate and blessed enough to have one are looking to be-come wealthier themselves, not close the gap in our educa-tion inequalities.
Although we may not be a part of the “one-percenters” per se, we still are all on our way to becoming some of the most privileged people on the planet. But what does that mean for us?
I think the answer to this lies in our Jesuit education. As an observer of the Occupy
Wall Street movement, I could only help but think, “If only I was a part of the one percent, I would never become cor-rupted by greed, but rather I would use the blessings I have received in life to help those less fortunate than myself.”
When you take a step back to see that we have been blessed so much in this life-time to be a part of the top 6.7 percent of the world, it begins to sink in that the blessings that we have received in life cannot go to waste on self-ish motives. There are far too many injustices present in our society for us to be called to a life of selfish motives, but as the Rev. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., once said, we “must be men and women for others.”
And I think that’s what our Jesuit education is about. The Rev. Joseph McShane, S.J., the president of Fordham Uni-versity, once said that a Jesuit education is “about nothing less than empowerment and transformation.”
As members of a university committed to transforming and empowering us for life after graduation, the onerous task is on us to understand and embrace our privilege and place in this world, where our gifts and blessings can be so beneficial to everyone if we just share them.
Song of the week: “Give a Little Love,” Noah & the Whale
oLIVEr STrICkLAND Staff Writer
People that don’t belong on Twitter: Congressmen. Things that don’t belong in their tweets: hashtags. Phrases that don’t belong in their tweets: “RT if you agree.”
I understand that Twit-ter can be a good form of publicity for politicians, but we really don’t need hashtags. Really, we don’t. At all.
GOP members Diane Black and Sarah Palin commit the worst of Twit-ter crimes. Black has also taken to using abbrevia-tions such as replacing “for” with the numeral and “frwd” instead of “for-ward.” No, just no.
One particularly dis-turbing tweet reads, “Bal-ancing the federal bud-get requires two things: spending cuts & eco-nomic growth RT if you agree #Time4TaxReform #BalancedBudget#4jobs.” This is just wrong on so many levels.
The people in charge of writing the laws we live under should not be tweeting in numerals and abbreviations. Pal-in’s tweets often feature senseless language, such as “Victory in NYC for
liberty-loving soda drink-ers. To politicians with too much time on their hands we say: Govt, stay out of my refrigerator!” That, frankly, is just silly.
I felt that during the presidential election, both candidates’ Twitter ac-counts were managed very well. The best part was that there were few hashtags to be seen. As the election approached, most of the candidates’ tweets became more neu-tral and more focused on encouraging people to vote. Shortly after losing, Romney tweeted, “From the bottom of our hearts, Ann and I thank you for your support, prayers, ef-forts & vote. We are for-ever grateful to every one of you.” That I’m alright with.
Both candidates also did a great job tweeting pictures. I really appreci-ated the pictures with chil-dren and vets sprinkled in between campaign post-ers and political charts. I like that Obama has been photographed doing nor-mal things such as playing with his dog and tossing a football around on the White House lawn. Cause, you know, the President of the United States is a re-ally relatable guy.
BrIGID CAmPBELLStaff Writer
Politicians: Leave Twitter
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNs A PRO-LIFE rally is held outside the Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock. The Human Heartbeat Protection Act has recently passed in Arkansas. This new legislation outlaws abortion procedures after the fi rst trimester.
Arts & LifeArts & Life EditorJoseph Weitemeyer
“Smidgens.”
Kati e O’BoyleJunior, Scranton
“Bags of Peanut M&M’s.”
Katelyn SaxerJunior, Jeff erson, N.J.
“Cadbury eggs.”
Mike MoleskiSenior, Dallas
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“A big chocolate bunny.”
Ashley OngkeoFirst Year, Stroudsburg
“The Easter Reese’s eggs.”
Tim WeberSenior, Wycombe
Campus Comment: What do you hope to fi nd in your Easter Basket?
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Top 10 Anticipated Movies of 20131. “Iron Man 3”- May 3While the other Aveng-
ers are off filming their own sequels, Tony Stark is gearing up for “Iron Man,” a movie that is guaranteed to make millions at the box office even if it ends up being nothing special. After the success of “The Avengers,” people seem to have forgotten how bad “Iron Man 2” was, but the third movie should at least show us a variety of new gadgets and fear-less one-liners that the fa-mous Tony Stark uses. The trailer reveals entirely too much of the movie’s more epic scenes and lines, but it will be interesting to see how the movie ties in with our other favorite su-perheroes. And honestly, “Iron Man 2” was so un-satisfying that the series has nowhere to go but up, with or without rocket boots.
2. “Monsters Universi-ty”- June 21
Pixar could find a way to make a rock into a mul-
timillion dollar franchise. In an interesting move, the studio brings us “Monsters University,” the prequel to “Monsters Inc.,” a movie that convinced us the monsters under our beds were actually nice. After spending an entire movie explaining the evolution of scaring children from good to bad, the creators will focus the prequel on the main characters’ ri-valry in college to see who could be the scarier mon-ster. “Monsters Inc.” was one of Pixar’s best movies, and hopefully the sequel will do it justice without straying too far from its original messages or pre-senting the same ones in a different setting.
3. “The Great Gatsby”- May 10
“The Great Gatsby,” commonly known as one of the more tolerable books every high school student has to read, has attracted a great deal of press due to its all-star cast. While some may be unhappy with another movie adaptation of a famous novel, none can
deny that it has the poten-tial to be a decent film.
4. “Despicable Me 2”- July 3
“Despicable Me” was a colorful, fun movie that everyone loved for its adorable characters and quotable lines. In actual-ity, the plot was nothing memorable, but the film’s cuteness and creativity made it memorable and enjoyable. The sequel could either be very good or very bad but will do well at the box office re-gardless.
5. “Hunger Games: Catching Fire”- November 22
“The Hunger Games” was one of those rare movie adaptations that actually did the book jus-tice, so let’s just hope they continue to respect the se-ries in future films.
6. “Evil Dead”- April 5“The Evil Dead” was
an ‘80s cult movie that turned into a popular franchise. Horror movies are remade all the time, but the “Evil Dead” trailer is so terrifying that it’s actually getting a good
amount of hype. Most horror movies don’t leave a lasting impression on the cinema, but it’s been a while since a truly ter-rifying film graced the screens of America. Hope-fully “Evil Dead” will be as scary as the trailer makes it look.
7. “The Lone Ranger”- July 3
Johnny Depp wearing a red bandana and an ex-cess of makeup, and star-ring in a Disney movie? It’s “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Actually, it’s called “The Lone Ranger,” and it looks pretty cool. Even if it ends up being terrible, it should at least be entertaining.
8. “Thor: The Dark World”- November 8
Thor may be a power-ful superhero, but his first movie was not his shin-ing moment. “Thor: The Dark World” has not got-ten much publicity yet, but fans hope for a movie that actually takes its time and shows the complexity of the characters. Female fans also hope for more muscle shirts.
9. “Carrie”- October 18
“Carrie” was a movie from the ‘70s that was based off of a Stephen King book of the same name. They tried remak-ing it once already, but it didn’t go anywhere. Chloë Grace Moretz was a great choice for the title role of the 2013 remake, and hopefully today’s movie technology will make for better special effects than the first movie could cre-ate.
10.” Kick-Ass 2”- August 16
“Kick-Ass” was a fairly underrated movie- trailers made it seem like a geeky comedy when it actually played to the everyday audience in a serious man-ner. The second movie has long been awaited by die-hard fans, and hopefully it will encourage more people to take a look at its predecessor.
Honorable Mentions: “After Earth” ( June 7), “The Hangover Part III” (May 24), “World War Z” ( June 21), “Man of Steel” ( June 14), “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” (De-cember 13)
VHALLA oTAroDStaff Writer
“Jelly beans.”
Lauren LarsonSophomore, Long Valley, N.J.
Ohio alternative group twenty | one | pilots re-leased its label debut album “Vessel” January 4. New bands such as Walk the Moon, alt-J and Of Monsters and Men have flooded the alterna-tive genre recently. All of these artists perform well, making it tough for yet another new band to join the fray. Thankfully, this album is an amazing example of how new art-ists must stand out from the crowd, and it sets the new standard for techno-alternative music.
Normally, when review-ing an album, it is easy enough to categorize it as heavy metal, acoustic, hip-hop or another genre. “Vessel” strategically avoids any labels. The first distinctive thing about this album is the sheer breadth of musical con-tent. Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun use so many differ-
ent influences and styles to masterfully craft each song on the record. With-in the first song, “Ode to Sleep,” there are dubstep-like sections, traditional alternative fills, upbeat techno choruses, com-puterized beats, acoustic drums, rapping and sing-ing vocals and a relaxed techno-inspired ending. The music on the record is all over the place; the next few songs are techno rock and keyboard rock, fol-lowed by a ukulele song. The masterminds behind these songs love and draw influences from all styles of music.
The shining point of the album has to be the lyri-cal content. Tyler Joseph is a brilliant lyricist, who weaves inspirational vo-cals with down-to-earth lines that draw the listen-er in. His rapping sections have an amazing flow to them and are reminiscent of the best rappers out there. His vocals soar to amazing notes during the choruses.
The standout songs from the album are “Car Radio” and “Trees.” The first is hidden in the middle of the record. A very mellow piano song that blends into techno rock, the song was writ-ten when someone stole Joseph’s car radio, hence the name. He was forced to drive for a while with
no music and expressed his thoughts in this song. “Trees,” on the other hand, is a very upbeat, dance-inspired song. Starting quietly, it builds into a pulsing dance beat, and it becomes impossible to sit still. The lyrics to this song are wonderfully written; they speak of being alone and overlooked by those
to whom the narrator sim-ply wants to talk. This is without a doubt the best song on the record.
Since the release of this album, it has been a mainstay in my musical collection. The true power of this album cannot be placed into words. I can-not recommend strongly enough that everyone listens to this entire al-bum at least once, regard-less of genre preferences. Original, perfectly mixed and perfectly written, the album gets a rare 10/10 from me. I am eagerly anticipating the group’s next album, but for now, “Vessel” takes me exactly where I want to go. Eat, sleep, breathe, twenty | one | pilots |.
Album review: ‘Vessel’ by twenty one pilotsANDrEW HILL
Arts & Life Contributor
suBMItteD photo: MIchAeL BAuMhArDt for the AQuINAsTWENTY ONE pilots performs at The University in October 2012. Its new album “Vessel” came out in January.
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“Smidgens.”
Kati e O’BoyleJunior, Scranton
“Bags of Peanut M&M’s.”
Katelyn SaxerJunior, Jeff erson, N.J.
“Cadbury eggs.”
Mike MoleskiSenior, Dallas
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“A big chocolate bunny.”
Ashley OngkeoFirst Year, Stroudsburg
“The Easter Reese’s eggs.”
Tim WeberSenior, Wycombe
Campus Comment: What do you hope to fi nd in your Easter Basket?
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Top 10 Anticipated Movies of 20131. “Iron Man 3”- May 3While the other Aveng-
ers are off filming their own sequels, Tony Stark is gearing up for “Iron Man,” a movie that is guaranteed to make millions at the box office even if it ends up being nothing special. After the success of “The Avengers,” people seem to have forgotten how bad “Iron Man 2” was, but the third movie should at least show us a variety of new gadgets and fear-less one-liners that the fa-mous Tony Stark uses. The trailer reveals entirely too much of the movie’s more epic scenes and lines, but it will be interesting to see how the movie ties in with our other favorite su-perheroes. And honestly, “Iron Man 2” was so un-satisfying that the series has nowhere to go but up, with or without rocket boots.
2. “Monsters Universi-ty”- June 21
Pixar could find a way to make a rock into a mul-
timillion dollar franchise. In an interesting move, the studio brings us “Monsters University,” the prequel to “Monsters Inc.,” a movie that convinced us the monsters under our beds were actually nice. After spending an entire movie explaining the evolution of scaring children from good to bad, the creators will focus the prequel on the main characters’ ri-valry in college to see who could be the scarier mon-ster. “Monsters Inc.” was one of Pixar’s best movies, and hopefully the sequel will do it justice without straying too far from its original messages or pre-senting the same ones in a different setting.
3. “The Great Gatsby”- May 10
“The Great Gatsby,” commonly known as one of the more tolerable books every high school student has to read, has attracted a great deal of press due to its all-star cast. While some may be unhappy with another movie adaptation of a famous novel, none can
deny that it has the poten-tial to be a decent film.
4. “Despicable Me 2”- July 3
“Despicable Me” was a colorful, fun movie that everyone loved for its adorable characters and quotable lines. In actual-ity, the plot was nothing memorable, but the film’s cuteness and creativity made it memorable and enjoyable. The sequel could either be very good or very bad but will do well at the box office re-gardless.
5. “Hunger Games: Catching Fire”- November 22
“The Hunger Games” was one of those rare movie adaptations that actually did the book jus-tice, so let’s just hope they continue to respect the se-ries in future films.
6. “Evil Dead”- April 5“The Evil Dead” was
an ‘80s cult movie that turned into a popular franchise. Horror movies are remade all the time, but the “Evil Dead” trailer is so terrifying that it’s actually getting a good
amount of hype. Most horror movies don’t leave a lasting impression on the cinema, but it’s been a while since a truly ter-rifying film graced the screens of America. Hope-fully “Evil Dead” will be as scary as the trailer makes it look.
7. “The Lone Ranger”- July 3
Johnny Depp wearing a red bandana and an ex-cess of makeup, and star-ring in a Disney movie? It’s “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Actually, it’s called “The Lone Ranger,” and it looks pretty cool. Even if it ends up being terrible, it should at least be entertaining.
8. “Thor: The Dark World”- November 8
Thor may be a power-ful superhero, but his first movie was not his shin-ing moment. “Thor: The Dark World” has not got-ten much publicity yet, but fans hope for a movie that actually takes its time and shows the complexity of the characters. Female fans also hope for more muscle shirts.
9. “Carrie”- October 18
“Carrie” was a movie from the ‘70s that was based off of a Stephen King book of the same name. They tried remak-ing it once already, but it didn’t go anywhere. Chloë Grace Moretz was a great choice for the title role of the 2013 remake, and hopefully today’s movie technology will make for better special effects than the first movie could cre-ate.
10.” Kick-Ass 2”- August 16
“Kick-Ass” was a fairly underrated movie- trailers made it seem like a geeky comedy when it actually played to the everyday audience in a serious man-ner. The second movie has long been awaited by die-hard fans, and hopefully it will encourage more people to take a look at its predecessor.
Honorable Mentions: “After Earth” ( June 7), “The Hangover Part III” (May 24), “World War Z” ( June 21), “Man of Steel” ( June 14), “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” (De-cember 13)
VHALLA oTAroDStaff Writer
“Jelly beans.”
Lauren LarsonSophomore, Long Valley, N.J.
Ohio alternative group twenty | one | pilots re-leased its label debut album “Vessel” January 4. New bands such as Walk the Moon, alt-J and Of Monsters and Men have flooded the alterna-tive genre recently. All of these artists perform well, making it tough for yet another new band to join the fray. Thankfully, this album is an amazing example of how new art-ists must stand out from the crowd, and it sets the new standard for techno-alternative music.
Normally, when review-ing an album, it is easy enough to categorize it as heavy metal, acoustic, hip-hop or another genre. “Vessel” strategically avoids any labels. The first distinctive thing about this album is the sheer breadth of musical con-tent. Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun use so many differ-
ent influences and styles to masterfully craft each song on the record. With-in the first song, “Ode to Sleep,” there are dubstep-like sections, traditional alternative fills, upbeat techno choruses, com-puterized beats, acoustic drums, rapping and sing-ing vocals and a relaxed techno-inspired ending. The music on the record is all over the place; the next few songs are techno rock and keyboard rock, fol-lowed by a ukulele song. The masterminds behind these songs love and draw influences from all styles of music.
The shining point of the album has to be the lyri-cal content. Tyler Joseph is a brilliant lyricist, who weaves inspirational vo-cals with down-to-earth lines that draw the listen-er in. His rapping sections have an amazing flow to them and are reminiscent of the best rappers out there. His vocals soar to amazing notes during the choruses.
The standout songs from the album are “Car Radio” and “Trees.” The first is hidden in the middle of the record. A very mellow piano song that blends into techno rock, the song was writ-ten when someone stole Joseph’s car radio, hence the name. He was forced to drive for a while with
no music and expressed his thoughts in this song. “Trees,” on the other hand, is a very upbeat, dance-inspired song. Starting quietly, it builds into a pulsing dance beat, and it becomes impossible to sit still. The lyrics to this song are wonderfully written; they speak of being alone and overlooked by those
to whom the narrator sim-ply wants to talk. This is without a doubt the best song on the record.
Since the release of this album, it has been a mainstay in my musical collection. The true power of this album cannot be placed into words. I can-not recommend strongly enough that everyone listens to this entire al-bum at least once, regard-less of genre preferences. Original, perfectly mixed and perfectly written, the album gets a rare 10/10 from me. I am eagerly anticipating the group’s next album, but for now, “Vessel” takes me exactly where I want to go. Eat, sleep, breathe, twenty | one | pilots |.
Album review: ‘Vessel’ by twenty one pilotsANDrEW HILL
Arts & Life Contributor
suBMItteD photo: MIchAeL BAuMhArDt for the AQuINAsTWENTY ONE pilots performs at The University in October 2012. Its new album “Vessel” came out in January.
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THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013 9
“Ke$ha CDs.”
Sheila Daphne(Camera Shy)
Junior, Philadelphia
“Starburst Skittles.”
Chris BowenSenior, Willow Grove
“Sour Patch Watermelon.”
Nick D’AndreaJunior, Moscow
“Money.”
Lori TraversSophomore, Chatham, N.J.
“Candy Peeps.”
Stephanie LeoneSophomore, Mahopac, N.Y.
“‘Warheads.”
Nicole DalboSophomore, Taylor
- CArIANN VIALVA, CAmPUS PoLLSTEr
Imagine a world where superheroes ac-tually existed. That sen-tence probably conjures up images of people with crazy powers running around in eccentric uni-forms fighting crime and keeping the public safe. Well, they are real. No, that last sentence was not a misprint. There are certain individuals in this country who dress up in costumes and at-tempt to fight crime at night. Granted, they don’t have any real pow-ers, but be assured that these people exist. The 2011 HBO documentary “Superheroes” features a number of these real-life superheroes and follows them throughout their
daily lives. These people are just average people that don their capes — and yes, some actually wear capes — at night and go out to preserve justice and defend the weak.
Throughout the docu-mentary, the filmmak-ers bring viewers into the lives of these crime-fighters. All of them have regular jobs, yet once the work day is over their night lives emerge. Al-most all of the heroes featured throughout the film did not have their true identities shown, as they feared for the safety of themselves and family. The reoccur-ring question through-out the film is, “Why?” As expected, many were influenced during their childhood by comics and movies, but they also feel it is their duty to do something about the amount of injus-
tice in society. It almost seems like it is a call to serve and for many, it is exactly that. It is not a hobby, but rather a life-style that they are com-mitted to. When they are not patrolling the streets or working their actual job, they are training to become the most effec-tive crime fighters they can be. Many practice some form of hand-to-hand combat such as Brazilian jiu jitsu or tae-kwondo. One of the real-life heroes featured was Mr. Extreme. He in fact developed his own form of combat with which to fight evil, on top of being a white belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu.
A common denomi-nator among all the heroes is that most of them come from a trou-bled past. Whether they were bullied as children or came from abusive homes, or even suffered
from intense depression, these people have clearly persevered though some hard times as youth.
The real-life super-hero movement is not only widespread, but it is rather vast as well. Usually wherever one hero appears, a league of heroes follows. For instance, Mr. Extreme (my personal favorite) is the founder of the Ex-treme Justice League and works with such mem-bers as the Vigilante Spider. Throughout the documentary it is evi-dent that almost no hero works alone. They unite in their common hunt for righteousness and justice.
Most of these heroes interact with the police regularly. In some cases it is the police giving them pointers to keep them out of trouble or even, on rare occasions, taking pictures of them.
Most officers don’t think it is necessarily a bad thing as the long as the heroes stay safe and within certain boundar-ies. Regardless, seeing citizens strive be active within the community is something no officer would ever look down on.
For those wonder-ing why they wear cos-tumes, there is an an-swer: they do not see them as costumes. They call them uniforms, and they see them as a sym-bol for what they stand for and what they are fighting against. So the uniforms hold a much deeper meaning to them, besides looking good (in their eyes).
Surprisingly, these he-roes actually do some re-ally good things in their respective communi-ties. They are not lock-ing up kingpins or sav-ing the world, but they
are seriously involved with helping the home-less population and are really connected to the homeless. Some leagues of heroes hold annual clothing drives for those in need. Some hand out care packages at night. Many just connect with them and see what they need.
It is very easy to see these people in their costumes and call them crazy. Heck, it’s almost inevitable. Yet think of it like this: who are re-ally the crazy ones here? The people who go out on the weekend and con-sume alcohol in excess, or those who put on a costume and attempt to do some good in the community? I would still say the crime-fighters, but at least they’re doing some good. Regardless, this documentary is no doubt a great watch and I highly recommend it.
HBo documentary reveals real-life superheroes CHrISTIAN
mArTINoTTIArts & Life Contributor
THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013 10
Business Joseph Bruzzesi
Business Editor
key Business & Finance*From The Wall Street Journal
• China’s economy showed signs of weak-ness in the first two months of the year, fall-ing short of expectations it would resume the kind of strong growth with low inflation that has helped drive a global economic recovery. Dis-appointing statistics released over the past few days leave analysts divided about China’s
growth prospects.
• Banks’ profits from commodities trading have been hard-hit by tough new rules and sub-
dued markets.
• Amazon’s applica-tion to own dozens of domain names, includ-ing “.book,” “.app” and “.movie,” has prompted objections from two pub-lishing industry groups as well as from rival Barnes
& Noble.
• NBCUniversal’s cable entertainment channels face a slowdown as Com-cast nears completion of its buyout of GE’s stake in
the media giant.
• Carl Icahn reached a pact with Dell to al-low him to look at its books, days after saying he would push to replace the board if it refused to accept his demand for a
refinancing.
•KKR is consider-ing teaming with other private-equity firms to pursue Life Technologies. Other possible suitors are
also weighing bids.
• GE CEO Jeffrey Im-melt’s total compensa-tion jumped 19 percent to $25.8 million in 2012, including a $12.1 million long-term performance
bonus.
• Oppenheimer agreed to pay over $2.8 million to settle federal allegations regarding overstated re-turns and the value of a
former unit’s fund.
• “Angry Birds” maker Rovio plans to release its first-ever animated series this week, a sign it sees its future as an entertain-
ment company.
• Putin chose econo-mist and longtime aide Elvira Nabiullina to head Russia’s central bank, making her the first
woman in the post.
• Treasury prices halt-ed a six-session losing streak, reversing most of the losses incurred after Friday’s upbeat employ-
ment report.
• Google agreed to pay $7 million to settle with 38 U.S. states over its Street View cars collect-ing data from unsecured
Wi-Fi networks.
As many investors may already have seen, Michael Dell, CEO of the Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL), has decided to take the leading “low-budget” computer tech-nology company private. The proposed $24.4 bil-lion leverage buyout has been gaining more at-tention over the past few weeks because of hedge fund manager Carl Icahn. Icahn is a 6 percent sharehold-er of Dell and has voiced his opposition to the deal.
But it doesn’t just end there. Icahn signed a confidential-ity agreement Monday with Dell to be granted access to Dell’s books in the hopes of finding a reason why the technol-ogy giant sees it as ad-vantageous to go private. When a company goes private it no longer is ac-tively traded on the Nas-daq or NYSE. This is the main reason Icahn feels the company should re-main public. Icahn bought Dell shares at a premium to the proposed $13.65-a-share buyout agreement.
Dell reluctantly took Icahn’s plea to release its book to him in the hopes he will want to make the company private. Icahn also released a statement saying that in addition to seeing Dell’s financial statement, he is calling for a special $9 dividend a
share. This dividend will be financed by Icahn him-self through debt agree-ments that Dell will take on with Icahn Enterpris-es, the holding compa-ny in which Icahn holds a
m a -j o r i t y s t a k e . The date to keep in mind is March 22, because on March 22 investors against the lever-age buyout offer will start to hear from Dell and Silverlake
Capital (the firm financ-ing a good portion of the buyout) on why tak-ing the company private makes the most sense. It seems like Dell and Sil-
verlake will
have to restructure the agreement if any party wants to get a deal done.
Icahn has publicly come out and said that if Dell and Silverlake do not re-structure a deal, he would not hesitate to buy more
shares for an even high-er premium of $15.
“We be-lieve, as
appar-ently
does Michael Dell and his partner Silver Lake, that the future of Dell is bright. We see no reason that the future value of Dell should not accrue to all the existing Dell shareholders — not just Michael Dell,” Icahn said.
Dell has seen its share price run up ever since the announcement of the buyout. After Icahn’s statement and proposed dividend idea Monday, the company’s shares rose $0.21, or 1.50 percent. It has not just been the in-crease in share price in-vestors are capitalizing on. Dell options moved quite a bit Monday on the Icahn statement. Call options for April had the highest volume Monday with over 14,512 trades contracted and a strike price of $14. Investors are seeing this as a good
way to buy the shares for $14 if the buyout
goes as planned. Other high volume calls for Dell on Monday had strike prices of $14 August and $15 AugustA calls.
What most Dell inves-tors should have their eyes set on is if Dell will remain public or go pri-vate. Only time will tell, but investors should be on the lookout March 22
when Dell begins to fire back against the opposition.
BrIAN LoPESBusiness Correspondent
courtesy of yAhoo! fINANce DELL INC. has traded higher since the announcement of a leveraged buyout. Investors are taking positions as several famous investors and other large institutions are taking a second look at Dell.
Saga between Carl Icahn and Dell Inc. continues
courtesy of Ap IMAGes
CARL ICAHN is a financier, entreprenuer and business executive. He signed a confidentiality agreement with Dell and will be looking at their books. Icahn is one of a number of investors/investment companies taking a detailed look at Dell Inc. The Blackstone Group is an example of a firm also looking into the books. Investors will be wary as financial minds from different parties will set the tone for the impending deal.
THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013 10
Business Joseph Bruzzesi
Business Editor
key Business & Finance*From The Wall Street Journal
• China’s economy showed signs of weak-ness in the first two months of the year, fall-ing short of expectations it would resume the kind of strong growth with low inflation that has helped drive a global economic recovery. Dis-appointing statistics released over the past few days leave analysts divided about China’s
growth prospects.
• Banks’ profits from commodities trading have been hard-hit by tough new rules and sub-
dued markets.
• Amazon’s applica-tion to own dozens of domain names, includ-ing “.book,” “.app” and “.movie,” has prompted objections from two pub-lishing industry groups as well as from rival Barnes
& Noble.
• NBCUniversal’s cable entertainment channels face a slowdown as Com-cast nears completion of its buyout of GE’s stake in
the media giant.
• Carl Icahn reached a pact with Dell to al-low him to look at its books, days after saying he would push to replace the board if it refused to accept his demand for a
refinancing.
•KKR is consider-ing teaming with other private-equity firms to pursue Life Technologies. Other possible suitors are
also weighing bids.
• GE CEO Jeffrey Im-melt’s total compensa-tion jumped 19 percent to $25.8 million in 2012, including a $12.1 million long-term performance
bonus.
• Oppenheimer agreed to pay over $2.8 million to settle federal allegations regarding overstated re-turns and the value of a
former unit’s fund.
• “Angry Birds” maker Rovio plans to release its first-ever animated series this week, a sign it sees its future as an entertain-
ment company.
• Putin chose econo-mist and longtime aide Elvira Nabiullina to head Russia’s central bank, making her the first
woman in the post.
• Treasury prices halt-ed a six-session losing streak, reversing most of the losses incurred after Friday’s upbeat employ-
ment report.
• Google agreed to pay $7 million to settle with 38 U.S. states over its Street View cars collect-ing data from unsecured
Wi-Fi networks.
As many investors may already have seen, Michael Dell, CEO of the Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL), has decided to take the leading “low-budget” computer tech-nology company private. The proposed $24.4 bil-lion leverage buyout has been gaining more at-tention over the past few weeks because of hedge fund manager Carl Icahn. Icahn is a 6 percent sharehold-er of Dell and has voiced his opposition to the deal.
But it doesn’t just end there. Icahn signed a confidential-ity agreement Monday with Dell to be granted access to Dell’s books in the hopes of finding a reason why the technol-ogy giant sees it as ad-vantageous to go private. When a company goes private it no longer is ac-tively traded on the Nas-daq or NYSE. This is the main reason Icahn feels the company should re-main public. Icahn bought Dell shares at a premium to the proposed $13.65-a-share buyout agreement.
Dell reluctantly took Icahn’s plea to release its book to him in the hopes he will want to make the company private. Icahn also released a statement saying that in addition to seeing Dell’s financial statement, he is calling for a special $9 dividend a
share. This dividend will be financed by Icahn him-self through debt agree-ments that Dell will take on with Icahn Enterpris-es, the holding compa-ny in which Icahn holds a
m a -j o r i t y s t a k e . The date to keep in mind is March 22, because on March 22 investors against the lever-age buyout offer will start to hear from Dell and Silverlake
Capital (the firm financ-ing a good portion of the buyout) on why tak-ing the company private makes the most sense. It seems like Dell and Sil-
verlake will
have to restructure the agreement if any party wants to get a deal done.
Icahn has publicly come out and said that if Dell and Silverlake do not re-structure a deal, he would not hesitate to buy more
shares for an even high-er premium of $15.
“We be-lieve, as
appar-ently
does Michael Dell and his partner Silver Lake, that the future of Dell is bright. We see no reason that the future value of Dell should not accrue to all the existing Dell shareholders — not just Michael Dell,” Icahn said.
Dell has seen its share price run up ever since the announcement of the buyout. After Icahn’s statement and proposed dividend idea Monday, the company’s shares rose $0.21, or 1.50 percent. It has not just been the in-crease in share price in-vestors are capitalizing on. Dell options moved quite a bit Monday on the Icahn statement. Call options for April had the highest volume Monday with over 14,512 trades contracted and a strike price of $14. Investors are seeing this as a good
way to buy the shares for $14 if the buyout
goes as planned. Other high volume calls for Dell on Monday had strike prices of $14 August and $15 AugustA calls.
What most Dell inves-tors should have their eyes set on is if Dell will remain public or go pri-vate. Only time will tell, but investors should be on the lookout March 22
when Dell begins to fire back against the opposition.
BrIAN LoPESBusiness Correspondent
courtesy of yAhoo! fINANce DELL INC. has traded higher since the announcement of a leveraged buyout. Investors are taking positions as several famous investors and other large institutions are taking a second look at Dell.
Saga between Carl Icahn and Dell Inc. continues
courtesy of Ap IMAGes
CARL ICAHN is a financier, entreprenuer and business executive. He signed a confidentiality agreement with Dell and will be looking at their books. Icahn is one of a number of investors/investment companies taking a detailed look at Dell Inc. The Blackstone Group is an example of a firm also looking into the books. Investors will be wary as financial minds from different parties will set the tone for the impending deal.
11THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
The Kania School of Management (KSOM) has always striven to provide a top-tier education to all of its students by inte-grating into its curriculum concepts such as critical thinking, ethics and social responsibility. The busi-ness school already main-tains a national reputation for excellence, but it has recently made another sizeable investment for the future of its students and faculty alike.
KSOM announced in September that it had purchased a contract to acquire 12 Bloomberg terminals. These analyti-cal tools now sit in the Alperin Financial Center, where students are free to make personal accounts and learn about the busi-ness world on the globe’s most prominent financial tool.
Bloomberg is consid-ered to be the global business and financial information news leader. With more than 300,000 subscribers worldwide, Bloomberg provides im-portant data to financial professionals through its network of information, people and ideas. The ter-minals that now sit in the financial center can pro-vide students and faculty
with news and analysis on virtually any indus-try with unprecedented transparency.
Students are quickly finding that these tools can provide invaluable knowledge and experi-ence that will help them become better prepared for the business world. Bloomberg terminals can
be found at virtually ev-ery major financial firm around, which makes a student with Bloomberg experience much more marketable upon gradua-tion.
Some students have recently participated in a stock portfolio contest in which these terminals were relied upon daily.
PRISM is one of the ex-tracurricular organiza-tions that has benefited from the new terminals. The club is responsible for maintaining a Uni-versity-funded portfolio and is tasked with mak-ing investment decisions to raise capital for the school. For those who wish to learn more about
the financial markets or the software itself, there is now a Bloomberg Club program in which stu-dents can be trained to ac-cess market-moving news and analytics as well as learn how to use the soft-ware.
Professors are also ex-cited to have these tools available to them; many
of them have begun to incorporate activities on Bloomberg into the class-room. It is the hope of the faculty that eventually this tool can be integrated into many of the business school classes. The acqui-sition of Bloomberg tools is yet another aspect of KSOM that makes it stand out.
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RIMM changes focus
BlackBerry (BBRY), once known as Research in Mo-tion (RIMM), is releasing its highly-anticipated smart-phone, the Z10. The Z10 will hit stores March 22 and should attract the atten-tion of many different cell phone users in the United States. The company was once the most reliable when it came to cell phone sales, but ever since the iPhone hit stores, BlackBer-ry has seen sales drop. Who can blame users of Black-Berry for switching to the iPhone? The iPhone offered a much better platform which made it easier for people to communicate, but with investors ques-tioning Apple’s innovative ideas, this leaves room for BlackBerry to have success with the sales of its Z10.
AT&T, the second-larg-est U.S. wireless carrier, be-gan taking orders Tuesday for the Z10. The Z10 will sell for $199.99 with a two-year agreement. It is the first phone to run Black-Berry’s new BB10 operat-ing system, which is the foundation for BlackBerry’s potential success in regard to its smartphone sales. Shares of BlackBerry have risen around 26 percent this year and the company hopes that its share prices
will continue to increase. T-Mobile, which is the fourth-largest U.S. carrier, began taking its own Z10 orders Monday for busi-ness customers. The first devices will be received by those users as early as this week. The company also has a tablet called the Q10, a model with a physi-cal keyboard designed to appeal to BlackBerry’s user base.
Lenovo Group’s CEO, Yang Yuanqing, was quot-ed in a French financial newspaper saying his company may eventually consider buying the smart-phone maker. Yuanqing was quoted saying that the acquisition of the com-pany “could possibly make sense, but first I need to analyze the market and un-derstand what exactly the importance of this com-pany is.” The acquisition of the company is a rumor and has started to become less of a reality, but inves-tors will continue to keep a close eye on the progres-sion of BlackBerry.
The big question is: will BlackBerry be able to re-turn as a company that can offer consumers what they want? BlackBerry was once a dominant company in the smartphone world, and it can continue to excel as long as its Z10 sales do well once the phones are released.
DANIEL mASSArIStaff Writer
KSOM integrates top-tier Bloomberg fi nancial softwareDAVE LAFAmAN
Staff Writer
suBMItteD photo: shAWN KeNNey for the AQuINAsTHE KSOM is integrating Bloomberg fi nancial software into their educaiton. Students are able to sign up and actively use, train, and interact with different types of fi nancial data. Club’s such as PRISM actively use research from the platform in their meeting.
With the monthly un-employment number that came in Friday, it appears that the United States economy is continuing its slow turnaround. Accord-ing to the Labor Depart-ment, the U.S. economy added a net 236,000 jobs in February, which was substantially ahead of the expected 165,000. This up-tick from a revised 119,000 hired workers in January helped push the unem-ployment rate to 7.7 per-cent, its lowest level since December 2008.
The largest jump in hir-ing was in the construc-tion sector, which added 48,000 jobs in February and 151,000 total over the past five months. Hiring in this sector is a welcome sign that the economy is starting to turn around, but this modest jump in hiring pales in comparison to the two million con-struction jobs that were lost during the financial crisis of 2008. Sal Guatieri, a senior economist with BMO Capital Markets, be-lieves the growth of the construction sector is key to economic recovery.
“As long as the housing recovery remains intact — and it should — we should
see the construction sector lead a return to a health-ier labor market,” Guatieri said.
The better-than-expect-ed February job growth did power the Dow Jones industrial average higher Friday, capping the bench-mark’s biggest weekly gain in two months. The Dow rose 67.58 points, or 0.5 percent, to 14397.07 points Friday, its sixth-straight daily gain.
Those who dig deeper into the numbers, howev-er, do find some startling facts. A total of 130,000 people dropped out of the labor force in February, which puts the U.S. at an almost three-decade low.
Also, the number of people with full-time employment fell by 212,000. The largest influence on the unem-ployment number was the group of 382,000 Ameri-cans who took part-time jobs in February, thus pro-ducing a reported 170,000 gain in total employment.
In the coming months, the country will need to watch as the seques-ter takes effect. Leading economists have already estimated that as many as 800,000 government con-tractors and employees could be affected by the automatic budget cuts, and this could certainly put downward pressure on the markets.
PAUL orDoNEZStaff Writer
Unemployment numbers beat consensus estimates
courtesy of the BureAu of LABor stAtIstIcsThe United States unemployment rate for the month of February was 7.7 percent, falling from 7.9 percent in Janu-ary. This is the lowest the rate has been since December 2008.
Michelle D’Souza
Science & Technology EditorScience Tech12 THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
Japan finds potential energy source in ocean
The Japanese govern-ment is currently looking for a new energy source, and below the floor of the ocean could be the an-swer. The Japanese made a significant breakthrough Tuesday, as a team on the drilling ship Chikyu was successful in extracting gas from a layer of meth-ane-hydrates 1,000 feet be-low the seabed in Eastern Nankai Trough, according to a Washington Post ar-ticle. The extraction is sig-nificant because it could be another energy alterna-tive to oil and gas reserves.
Although this is a sig-nificant breakthrough, the Japanese said commer-cializing the extraction of methane-hydrate is still at least five years away and still a very expensive pro-cess. Methane-hydrate is often referred as “fire-ice,” and experts say the carbon gas found below the floor of the ocean is twice as large as the carbon found in the world’s fossil fuels.
Methane-hydrate is a substance that can form when methane gas is trapped in ice below the seabed or underground and burns when it is heated.
Methane-hydrate can be
found all over the world and the United States is currently funding 14 re-search products into the energy source, according to the Washington Post ar-ticle. Japan has increased its search of another natural energy source since the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear crisis, and is a country that imports most of its oil and gas.
The National Institute
of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology estimated that the meth-ane-hydrate gas in the water surrounding Japan could be more than 7 tril-lion cubic meters, which researchers say is close to 100 years of Japan’s natu-ral gas needs. Research in drilling methane-hydrate is still an ongoing pro-cess, but could change the world’s source of energy.
Weapon-wielding Ukranian dolphins escape
The word “dangerous” is not usually associated with dolphins. This notion might have to be thrown out after hearing the latest press release from a Ukrai-nian newspaper. It was found out on Tuesday that three of the Ukrainian mili-tary dolphins escaped their handlers. The three miss-ing dolphins did not return to Crimean port of Sev-astopol and it is assumed they fled to look for mates.
The idea of military dolphins may sound a bit far-fetched but, the prac-tice of training dolphins is common in both the U.S. and Russian military. Mili-tary dolphins are trained to sweep for underwater mines and rescue navy swimmers. These specific dolphins in the Ukraine were highly skilled gun users and were adept at using knives.
The news of Ukrainian “killer” dolphins on the loose seems like a scene straight from a Bond movie and many are treating this news as hogwash. The cyn-icism toward the credibility of this unusual story stems from the original document
that purported this claim. The signer of the document was said to be the Anatoly Gorbachev, director of the Ukrainian State Oceanari-um. Gorbahev claims that he never signed the docu-ment that alleged that dol-phins escaped. If the docu-
ment is a forgery, then this fantastical story of “killer dolphins” roaming the sea waiting to attack is just that, a fantasy. Regardless of the status of the dolphins, the truth of weapon-wield-ing dolphins is definitely something to think about.
jUSTIN DWyErStaff Writer
mICHELLE D’SoUZAScience & Tech Editor
Internet currency gains prevalence
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The Internet is some-thing of a 21st-century wild west, a vast and cha-otic land where commerce, anonymity and the flow of information reign supreme. A few distinct commercial concepts and standards have emerged out of this chaos, however, and one of the prime examples of this would be the bitcoin. Introduced in 2009, bit-coins are somewhat unique in that they are a purely digital currency, one that is transferred over the Inter-net from one computer or server to another. As these bitcoins grow in popularity, it helps to understand their strengths, their weaknesses and exactly how they work.
Aside from a digital exis-tence, bitcoins have several unique features that dif-ferentiate them from more traditional currencies. For one, bitcoins are completely decentralized, which means that there is no core bank or regulating agency that oversees the currency in any way. All bitcoin trans-fers and payments are per-formed on a peer-to-peer basis, which is to say that the data is sent directly from the sender to the receiver.
The currency also has its own method of main-taining its inflation rate; an automated network re-leases 25 bitcoins into the wild every 10 minutes, and this rate will shrink as time progresses. In short, bit-coins’ software and users, not middlemen or regula-tory agencies, determine every facet of their fate.
These unique aspects of bitcoins lend the currency some unfortunate disadvan-tages. In addition to being completely decentralized, bitcoin transfer is heav-ily encrypted and localized;
both the sender and receiv-er can utilize wallet-like ac-counts that do not need to be linked to any personal information. This is some-thing of a double-edged sword for the currency.
While it makes transac-tions secure and private, it also leaves the door wide open for illicit activity, this is something some users have readily exploited. Illegal bit-coin-based gambling opera-tions crop up from time to time, and difficult-to-access websites exist wherein bit-coins can be exchanged for nearly any drug imaginable.
Additionally, though the same slim possibility exists for all digital data, determined hackers can steal bitcoins. While they are few in number, a num-ber of notable thefts dot the currency’s history, with millions of dollars com-promised in some cases.
There is much more to it than suspicion and leaving no trail behind, however. For the most part, bitcoins are fulfilling their intended purpose as a legitimate al-ternative to popular physi-cal currencies. The bitcoin
has become the most wide-spread alternative currency in the world, with a mon-etary base of around 400 million U.S. dollars. Major websites like Reddit and Wordpress accept the curren-cy as a valid form of tender.
Some organizations, like the Internet Archive, have even adopted policies that allow their employees to be paid in bitcoins. Some mainstream stores like CVS and Walmart also have ki-osks that allow users to add bitcoins to their account in the same private and secure way they would experience on their computers at home.
No monetary system is perfect, and bitcoins cer-tainly have their fair share of flaws. However, the pros have thus far outweighed the cons, and the currency has achieved global traction in a way that no other digital or alternative currency has.
While the currency is still far from mainstream ac-ceptance, it would be inter-esting to imagine a future where people are more con-cerned about the bitcoins in their virtual wallet than the cash in their physical wallet.
LoUIS BALZANIStaff Writer
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VISITORS TO the website Reddit can use bitcoins on the site. The on-line currency’s usage has become more widespread.
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsA UNITED States military dolphin trains with its handler. Three Ukranian military dolphins escaped Tuesday to fi nd mates in the ocean.
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsTHE GRAY areas indicate locations of meth-ane-hydrate in the sea near Japanese islands.
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsTHE BITCOIN is a form of popular online cur-rency. It is becoming more prevalent with time.
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Andrew MilewskiFaith Editor
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HTTP://SCRANTONROYALREFLECTIONS.BLOGSPOT.COM/
I believe that virtu-ally every individual on campus and in the world would agree that life is complicated. It is chal-lenging and painful; it changes every single moment. We often make plans and are confident in them, only to witness them shatter. Life is con-fusing. It seems so diffi-cult to make the “right” choices that will lead us to a bright, happy, fulfill-ing future. In March 7’s first reading, however, God offers instructions that are striking in their simplicity. He says, “This is what I commanded my people: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my
people. Walk in all the ways that I command you, so that you may prosper”( Jer. 7:23).
That’s it; that is the se-cret. We only have to lis-ten to the Lord and trust in Him, and we will “pros-per” as His people. How-ever, as the reading goes on to explain, this is not always an easy decision. When God calls out to us, we as people are inclined, for whatever reason, to cover our ears and ignore Him. March 7’s Responso-rial Psalm refers to this. The response is, “If today you hear his voice, hard-en not your hearts.” That image of a hardening heart is intense, but it is accurate. To stifle Christ’s voice is to suffocate our hearts, and it is a deci-sion we make each time
we sin, or every time we begin to believe that life is a journey we can take alone.
So, what drives us to “harden our hearts”? In my experience, stubborn-ness and fear act as the usual culprits. Especially now, as many of us dive headfirst into adulthood, we want to make our own paths, which is a no-ble undertaking. Howev-er, accepting God’s help in doing this can feel like giving up, when in real-ity, we cannot begin the trek until we take God’s hand. No matter what, He will lovingly show us the way we must go. While He will not fend off every obstacle, He will stand beside us, and no matter what, His words will call us home.
CommENTAry ByCALIN PoTAmI
Church prepares for Easter
FaithTHE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
Students continue Lenten refl ections
Chances are that if you know nothing else about the Easter Vigil, you know that it is the church ser-vice celebrated on Holy Saturday night that lasts far longer than a normal Mass. Although it might seem like a devious ruse to fill churches for Eas-ter Sunday Mass by only presenting a three-hour alternative on Saturday night, the celebration of the Easter Vigil is in fact the culmination of the li-turgical life and calendar of the Catholic Church.
Also known as the Pas-chal Vigil or the Great Vigil of Easter, the Easter Vigil is the first celebra-tion of Easter and thus the most elaborate and joyful. It marks the first use of the Gloria and the Alleluia since the begin-ning of Lent and the re-turn of full musical ac-companiment. The liturgy consists of four parts: the Service of Light, the Lit-urgy of the Word, the Lit-urgy of Baptism and the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
The Vigil begins with the Service of Light, which ironically begins in darkness: the lights in the church are out, the holy water fonts are drained and the taber-nacle is empty, as it has been since the end of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thurs-day evening. The service ordinarily begins out-side the church with the lighting and blessing of the Easter fire (although some parishes do this in-side). The year’s Paschal Candle, a tall white can-dle that symbolizes the
light of the Risen Christ, is blessed and inscribed with a cross, the Alpha and Omega and the cur-rent year. The candle is displayed prominently throughout the Easter season and then is used at baptisms and funerals throughout the year.
After lighting the Pas-chal Candle from the Easter fire and process-ing into the church, the congregation lights smaller taper candles from the Paschal Candle, and the darkness in the church decreases. Next a priest, deacon or can-tor chants the Exsultet, or Easter Proclamation. Bernard Strasser wrote in his book “With Christ Through the Year” that “this magnificent hymn, which is remarkable for its lyric beauty and pro-found symbolism, an-nounces the dignity and meaning of the mystery of Easter; it tells of man’s sin, of God’s mercy and of the great love of the Redeemer for mankind, admonishing us in turn to thank the Trinity for all the graces that have been lavished upon us.” After the proclamation of the Exsultet, the lights in the church are turned back on and the congre-gation sits for the Liturgy of the Word.
Nine Old Testament readings are read (al-though the number is nor-mally reduced for reasons of time), recounting God’s actions in salvation his-tory from the beginning of time. The exodus of the Israelites from Egypt is emphasized, which is the event commemorated by the Jewish celebration of Passover. The Exodus
and Passover are seen as precursors to the Resur-rection, Jesus’ “passing over” from death to life and leading humanity out of sin. After the Old Testament readings, the Gloria is sung to full mu-sical accompaniment and the ringing of the church bells as the altar candles are lit. Two New Testa-ment readings, the first Easter Alleluia and the Gospel, follow.
Next the Liturgy of Baptism occurs, follow-ing the ancient tradi-tion of initiating new members of the Church at Easter. During this part of the Easter Vigil, those wishing to join the Church, known as cate-chumens, receive the sac-rament of Baptism. They are also confirmed along with candidates, who are baptized individuals who have yet to receive Confirmation and thus full communion with the Church. After this, the congregation renews their own baptismal vows together. The Liturgy of the Eucharist follows as normal, with the newly initiated receiving Holy Communion for the first time.
The Easter Vigil, while lengthy, is a treasury of liturgical symbolism and is the high point of the Church year. Partaking in this excellent oppor-tunity to reflect on the whole of salvation histo-ry and the continued life and growth of the Church joins us to the central mystery of the Christian faith in a beautiful way and makes the celebra-tion of the whole Easter season much more mean-ingful.
W. ryAN SCHUSTErStaff Writer
Father, we pray for your protection and guidance over our Holy Father, Pope Francis.
Give him strength and wisdom to stand as a prophet for our times. May he be a light in darkness around which we
gather in hope.
We ask you to bring about reconciliation through his faith-ful teaching of peace and justice. Grant him compassion
and care to live the gospel in love and service to all people.
Let him follow in the path of Peter and Paul who, fi lled with the Holy Spirit, preached that the Lord saves all who
call upon his name.
A Prayer for the Pope
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNs
JORGE MARIO Bergoglio has been elected as the new Pope Francis on Wednesday.
14 THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
The Aquinas Challenge:
2 85 9 3
1 7 3 94 8
7 1 6 33 9 4 85 3 6
7 22 1 8 3 5
Sudoku-razy
suDoKu creAteD By KAteLyN sAXer
THE AQUINAS CHALLENGE RULES:Finish the puzzle and turn it into The
Aquinas offi ce fi rst to win an AQ T-shirt. If the offi ce is closed, leave it with the Stu-
dent Forum desk with a time stamp.
WHO DO YOU THINK DEFIN
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RANTON?
The Aquinas staff members want you to tell us who you think represents Scranton in a positive way. We are looking to highlight
individuals within the Scranton community that have had an effect on The University. All members of The University community are eligible,
whether they are students or members of faculty, administration or staff.
Have you noticed someone who is full of school spirit? Do you know an individual who is truly making a difference? Is there someone you want
recognized for his or her hard work and commitment?
If so, forms will be available at The Aquinas office in the Student Forum on the second floor of the DeNaples Center. Nominations will be
accepted from Feb. 28 until March 22.
Nominees will be featured in The Aquinas throughout the month of April and entered into a raffle to win a $100 BestBuy gift card.
If you have questions, contact Christina and Tim at [email protected].
Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language National Honor Society
The Foreign Language National Honor Society, Alpha Mu Gamma, is in the process of enrolling new members. To be eligible, applicants must have completed conversation-
and composition-level classes or above in any language.
For full membership, applicants should have consecutively received A’s or A-’s in the classes. For associate membership, two consecutive B+’s or better in conversation- and composition-level classes or above, or a noteworthy record in more than one language
is required. Applicants must also have a cumultive GPA of 3.0.
Applications are available from Joyce Knott, Department Secretary in 301 O’Hara Hall. The deadline for applications is April 22.
There is a membership fee of $60 (cash or check), which includes payment for a lun-cheon that will be held in honor of all
members.
Call for Students and University Community Arts & Crafts Vendors
The Weinberg Memorial Library is searching for vendors for its 2013 Annual Book Sale. The Annual Book Sale is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and Library
Staff and will be held in the Heritage Room on the fi fth fl oor of the library.
The book sale will be held Friday, April 26 from 4 p.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday, April 27 from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Sunday, April 28 from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Vendor applications are due by Friday, April 12. Accepted vendors will be notifi ed by Friday, April 18.
The fee for table space is $5.00 per day (cash). If a vendor would like a table for all three days, a discounted fee of $10.00 will be offered.
For more information, contact Barb Evans at [email protected] or 570-941-4078.
SPORTS 15THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
Despite a late rally, the women’s lacrosse team came up short against Lebanon Valley College 12-11 Saturday in non-con-ference action.
Scranton got off to a slow start Saturday, similar to the 12-9 loss to Haverford College March 2 when the team fell be-hind 5-0 after the first eight minutes of play.
Scranton trailed Leba-non Valley by as much as 6-1 early and faced a 9-5 deficit at intermission. The Royals trailed 12-7 with 17 minutes remain-ing before cutting Leba-non Valley’s lead to two on a goal by Goss with 5:09 left.
Junior attacker Chris-tine Dredger then scored for Scranton with four seconds remaining for the final score of the game.
The loss puts the Roy-als at 0-2 on the season.
Scranton head coach Cindy Wilson said the team is trying new things in practice to avoid these rough early starts. Wilson said she believes it is a good sign that the team has reduced the deficits it faced in both games.
“One of the positives we can take away is that our team never stops
fighting,” Wilson said. “Despite the fact that we fell behind early in both of our games so far, the girls showed a lot of heart and hustle for fighting back and getting right back into the game.”
First-year midfielder Erin Allen led a balanced Scranton attack with a season-high three goals. Senior attacker Deanna Giorno and sophomore midfielder Emily Goss finished with two goals and an assist apiece, and Dredger recorded two goals.
The Royals also re-ceived a goal and an as-sist from senior midfield-
er Jilliana Depaolera and a goal from junior attacker Kerry Sullivan.
In the first start of her college career, sophomore goalkeeper Emily Towey made 12 saves.
Despite being 0-2 on the season, captain De-Paolera said the team is not worried.
“I think we will turn it around,” DePaolera said. “I’ve been here for three seasons and this is usually how we start off.”
DePaolera and the rest of the women’s lacrosse team will look to pick up their first win against Neumann University at 4 p.m. Thursday in Aston.
ANDrEW PASSAroStaff Writer
King’s sweeps baseball team
For University junior baseball player Eric Piz-zico, baseball has always been his true passion.
Pizzico, who plays catcher, first base and designated hitter for Scranton, has gotten off to a tremendous start in the young season.
Throughout the first seven games Pizzico has hit .375 with six RBIs, nine runs scored and one home run.
The soft-spoken Piz-zico contributes his early season success to the hard work done in the offseason.
“Since I have gotten to college, lifting has been a big part of what has changed everything, and I have been working out constantly in the offsea-son,” Pizzico said.
“I still hit a couple times a week, so that has been a big part.”
The anticipation for the season to begin and his hard work were also some factors that contrib-uted to Pizzico’s hot start.
“I was just ready this year, not saying I wasn’t other years, but I was more excited, working harder and kind of ready to see the pitching that we saw,” Pizzico said.
Pizzico has been a cor-nerstone in the Royals lineup since 2012, when he played in 31 games, hit .347, with 33 hits, 20 RBIs and two homeruns.
Trying to build off the last season, Pizzico said he is always trying to im-prove his game.
“Every year it is just something I try and build upon. I was excited about my year last year, but there are always places where I can improve. Now I’m trying to reduce my number of strikeouts and I would like to get over the .400 mark this year for batting average, so things like that,” Pizzico said.
Pizzico, who has played baseball since the age of four, said the biggest in-fluence on his career has been his father.
“My dad has always been a huge baseball
guy and never was a big player growing up. He has always coached me since I was young and coached at my high school for a while. He was the key for me getting into it all,” Piz-zico said.
Although Pizzico played catcher through-out his career, it was not until after his first year at Scranton that he began playing first base.
“We were trying to find me a position after my freshman year and Dave Giglio, who was our first baseman before, gradu-ated so there was an open position,” Pizzico said.
The Royersford na-tive, who is also a finance major, always knew he wanted to play college ball, but chose to play at Scranton for the sheer fact that he fell in love with the school.
“I picked Scranton be-cause I loved the school; all the buildings and the business school. It was less about baseball, but that was just a perk,” Piz-zico said.
Pizzico said the team, more so than in previous years, is much closer and has more of a family at-mosphere.
“We always had that
bond and that’s how a team mostly is. Even from seniors down to freshmen, there are no groups,”Pizzico said.
The junior does not consider himself a vocal or quiet leader, but said he tries to be somewhere in between.
“As I am getting to be an upperclassman, I have been more vocal. I know I am not one of the cap-tains of the team or a se-nior, so I try and walk the line kind of and help peo-ple out where there needs to be help,” Pizzico said.
The team currently is 3-4 on the year, but Piz-zico said the team has im-portant games approach-ing.
“This weekend is when we start conference [games], so that’s going to be the real key because in some cases we are go-ing to up the competition level a little bit and it is going to be more serious. We are all going to have to work a little harder to get wins,” Pizzico said.
Pizzico and the team will be back in action at 1 p.m. Saturday when they open up Landmark Conference play with a doubleheader at Juniata College.
EmmA BLACkStaff Writer
Twenty-four: that is the number of games the Chicago Blackhawks went without a regula-tion loss. They started their season by setting a very impressive NHL record for most games with at least one point. The record was previous-ly set by the 2006-2007 Anaheim Ducks. They are currently the top seed in the West and in their di-vision.
The Blackhawks are led by Captain Jonathan Toews and American superstar Patrick Kane. The Blackhawks have set their NHL record in
a lockout-shortened sea-son. Every NHL team has played games on back-to-back nights, and in hock-ey this is especially brutal on the body. Their depth has really helped them on this run; the whole team has really produced.
Overall the team is fifth in the league in goals per game and sec-ond in goals against. The defense has been solid. Goalkeeper Corey Craw-ford deserves a lot of credit, as does back-up Ray Emory.
The team has also been able to bounce back in many of its games. In one game against Detroit on national television, the Blackhawks trailed 1-0 for most of the game. In the last 2:30, they drew a penalty and scored to go into overtime.
This record is very im-pressive coming out of the lockout. Only four of the Blackhawks played during the lockout in other leagues. Many play-ers stayed in the U.S. and skated on their own when they could. Practices and games were not regularly scheduled.
The NHL did not hold a preseason that featured games; the teams had about 2 weeks of practice before the games start-ed. Many teams strug-gled during this opening stretch because many of their players were not in shape, but the Black-hawks pushed on.
It is even more impres-sive that the team has gone through this whole season while rotating goalkeepers. Both Craw-ford and Emery have
been productive through the whole streak. Craw-ford went 10-0-3 in this streak and Emery went 10-0-0.
March 8, the historic streak finally came to an end after the Blackhawks suffered a 6-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche, a team that is under .500. Three days later Chicago fell again Edmonton Oil-ers 6-5, another team with a losing record. For the first time all season, Chicago took consecutive losses.
Despite the end of the streak, the Blackhawks have proven themselves as one of the top teams in the NHL. They have great depth, good play from both goalies and great coaching. This team has the tools to take another Stanley Cup.
the AQuINAs photo/ eMMA BLAcKSENIOR JILLIANA DePaolera makes a play during a recent match for the women’s lacrosse team. Scran-ton fell to Lebanon Valley College 12-11 Saturday.
courtesy of WIKIMeDIA coMMoNsTHE BLACKHAWKS’ are having a successful season.Their historic streak of 24 games without a regula-tion loss came to an end March 8 in a 6-2 defeat to the Colorado Avalanche.
suBMItteD photo: erIc pIZZIco for the AQuINAsJUNIOR ERIC Pizzico has plays a big role in the Roy-als offense early this season. The junior hit .375, in-cluding 13 total bases, six RBIs and nine runs in the fi rst seven games of the season.
Pizzico starts strong jUSTIN DWyEr
Staff Writer
Blackhawks set historic mark, surge to top of NHL
Failure to find a timely hit hindered the Royals’ baseball team Sunday.
Scranton dropped both games in a doubleheader against King’s College by scores of 5-1 and 3-2 re-spectively.
Sophomore first base-man Ross Danzig had two hits in the opening game. Senior shortstop Tim LeCompte added an RBI single during the third in-ning in the 5-1 loss.
King’s scored one run in the first inning and scored four more in the second to control the game.
Senior pitcher Corey Gorman, who gave up four earned runs and struck out seven batters in five innings while taking the loss, said the team’s focus is on improving one game at a time.
“Our goal is to keep getting better throughout the season,” Gorman said. “From the first game to now we’ve improved.”
Gorman said another team goal this season is to win the Landmark Confer-ence championship. Gor-man said the team has been strong defensively early in the season, which he believes help the team reach this goal.
In the second game, the Royals fell 3-2 to the Mon-
archs. First-year outfielder Ray Grapsy had two hits. LeCompte added two hits and sophomore third base-man Michael Umerich had an RBI single as well.
The Royals went down 1-0 in the first inning. Things looked up for the Royals when Umerich scored an RBI single in the fifth inning, but senior Chris Sweeney answered back with a two-run hom-er for the Monarchs.
The Royals only scored once more in the sixth in-ning on an infield single by Grapsy.
The Royals are now 3-4 on the season and will re-turn to action Saturday at Juniata to open Landmark Conference play.
CArmINE GErrITy-GEmEI
Staff Writer
Women’s lacrosse falls again
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IN THIS ISSUE
ALSo INCLUDEDBaseball swept in doubleheaderBlackhawks set historic NHL record
Women’s lacrosse falls to 0-2Softball takes two wins in ClassicProfi le: Pizzico off to hot start Sports
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
UPCOMING GAMES
TENNIS
3/16 @ juniata
Women: 12 p.m.men: 1 p.m.
BASEBALL
3/16 @ juniata 1 p.m./3 p.m.
3/17 @ juniata 12 p.m.
SOFTBALL
3/17 vs. Drew1 p.m./3 p.m.
3/19 vs. marywood 5 p.m./7 p.m.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
3/14 @ Neumann 12 p.m.
3/16 @ Cabrini 12 p.m.
MEN’SLACROSSE
3/16 @ marywood 12 p.m.
3/20 @ Centenary 12 p.m.
Scranton’s softball team traveled to Salisbury, Md., and came away with two victories at the Seagull Classic last weekend.
The Royals fell 10-1 in their season opener against Washington & Jef-ferson College and then again 9-2 to Randolph-Macon Friday, but turned around to win games against Gettysburg Col-lege and Shenandoah Uni-versity Saturday.
Senior captain Kristen Williams said the team was able to come back from a slow start to the weekend and turned their play around for a strong finish.
“We all knew that we needed to make an im-provement and work to-
gether as a team,” Wil-liams said. “It was our first time really playing together as a team. We all got our heads together and really worked hard as a team and everyone did their part.”
The Royals defeated the Bullets of Gettysburg Col-lege 10-9. The game ended with a leaning over-the-fence catch by sophomore left fielder Karey Fortier that prevented a game-winning two-run home run.
Sophomore Stephanie Romano recorded three hits and two RBIs to lead the Royals in the win.
Senior Jamie Shackles added had two hits and two RBIs while sopho-more Blaire Wilkie scored three times and had two hits as well. Scranton had 11 hits total in the victory.
Following the game against Gettysburg, Scran-
ton defeated Shenandoah 4-3.
Williams, who had had two hits and drove in a run in the Shenandoah game, said the team’s strong chemistry will help them during tough times, as it did last weekend.
“After the first two games we really figured out what we needed to
do together as a team,” Williams said. “Everyone makes mistakes and with the team chemistry that we have, we know how to pi ck each other up and move on to get the win.”
The Royals are 2-2 on the season and will return to action Sunday at home against Drew University in a conference game.
“I want to be anywhere in the world I’m needed.”
Men’s lacrosse ends losing streak on roadCArmINE
GErrITy-GEmEIStaff Writer
the AQuINAs photo /eMMA BLAcKJUNIOR MIKE Deliberti makes a cut while in possession of the ball during a recent game. The men’s lacrosse team ended a three-game losing streak Saturday with a 9-4 win against non-conference opponent Lycoming College.
Softball opens season with Seagull Classic
-DENNIS RODMAN
After a tough 8-3 loss to second-ranked Cortland State University March 6, the men’s lacrosse team bounced back with a 9-4 win over Lycoming Col-lege Saturday.
The Royals jumped out to a 6-1 lead by halftime and never looked back. The non-conference win broke a three-game losing streak.
Senior attacker Tay-lor Nelson led the team with three goals and an assist, while senior mid-fielder Dillon McInerney and sophomore attacker Will Mahle had two goals apiece to help improve the Royal’s record to 2-3 on the season.
Scranton also received a goal and an assist from first-year midfielder Alec Mikrut, a goal from ju-nior attacker Gus Sturm, two assists from junior midfielder John Gregitis, and an assist apiece from first-year midfielder Brad Elkin and senior defense-man Brendan Synan.
Senior Ben Worthington made 10 saves to pick up his 19th career win, which is the second most career wins by a goalkeeper in
Scranton history.Nelson’s four-point ef-
fort Saturday moved him into 20th place on the Royals’ all-time scoring list with 102 points (70 goals, 32 assists). He is also tied for 18th place for most career goals.
For his play in the games against Cortland and Lycoming, senior de-fenseman Tim Cleary was named Landmark Confer-ence Player of the Week during the period of March 4-10. Cleary made history in 2012 by becoming the first player in University history to earn All-Amer-ican honors. He received an honorable mention by the United States Intercol-legiate Lacrosse Associa-tion (USILA) for his play at midfield as well.
McInerney, one of the captains of the team, said this was an important win.
“After battling with Cortland until the fourth quarter and suffering a hard loss, we knew that we needed to be ready to work in practice and come away with a win this weekend,” McInerney said.
The Royals were able to score nine goals Sat-urday, only one fewer than the amount scored in the three previous games combined (three
goals against Cortland State, three goals against Muhlenberg College and four goals against York College).
McInerney said the team seems to be de-veloping more after five games, especially on the offensive end.
“I think our offense is starting to come to-gether and we have a lot of young guys who are becoming big role play-ers now,” he said. “Scor-ing 9 goals is something we weren’t overly excited about, we definitely could have put up more, but it’s a positive.”
The Royals will play their first of six confer-ence games March 23 against Washington & Jef-ferson College.
McInerney said he has high expectations for the rest of the season.
“I’d love to just win out the rest of our sched-ule,” McInerney said. “The Landmark [Conference Championship] is always up for grabs, but I think it is definitely possible if we put in the hard work.”
Head Coach Doug Sage believes that the team’s offense is close to coming together.
“We’ve had some inju-ries and we’re still trying to find our groove on that end,” he said. “Offense
usually takes a little lon-ger to click early on in the season and defense usu-ally comes along a little sooner, but now our of-fensive sets are produc-ing shots, we just need to finish those shots.”
When informed about McInerney’s goal to win
out the rest of the sea-son, Sage said, “That’s a big goal for us right there. Right now we are trying to improve ourselves and prepare for Marywood.”
Sage said he wants the team to continue to grow, win the ground-ball bat-tle, and hopefully make it
to the Landmark Confer-ence championship.
“We want to get better one game at a time,” Sage said. “That is our ultimate goal.”
The Royals will take on crosstown rival Mary-wood University at noon Saturday in Scranton.
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