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Selected excerpts from reportsCampus Police Blotter

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Friday, Feb. 1

At 2:05 p.m., an officer met with a complainant concerning a vehicle accident. The com-plainant said she parked her car on Bunn Drive at 1 p.m. and returned at 1:30 p.m., finding damage to the front driver’s side by the wheel well. A note was left on the windshield from the person that struck her vehicle, leaving his name, telephone number and e-mail address. Campus Police was contacted and informed that the person who left the note was the cupcake vendor that services the university. Both parties have exchanged insurance information.

Saturday, Feb. 2

At approximately 1:03 a.m., an officer was dispatched to Campion for a cab dispute. Upon arrival, he met with a student who reported that the cab driver had her credit card and pointed to the Yellow Cab, indicating that was the cab that had her card. The cab driver reported that the student had vomited inside her cab, and she kept the card so she could mail it to the dean to teach the student a lesson. The cab driver was told she would be notified about the hearing; she handed over the credit card. When the student was interviewed, she reported she was coming from Maxie’s bar when the cab driver accused her of vomiting. The student said she didn’t vomit in the cab, but that she would still pay the $60 cleaning fee. She also stated that she had three drinks at the bar and that she was drunk. She said she just wanted to go to bed because she was drunk.

Tuesday, Jan. 29

At approximately 2:55 a.m., an officer received a cell phone call from Environmental Services worker and was asked to meet at the Boulder dining area. Upon the officer’s arrival, the worker showed him a Pepsi machine that had been shooting syrup and seltzer water all over the floor. Approximately one-third of the area was covered in soda mix. After the officer unplugged the machine from the wall, the spraying stopped. After pictures were taken, the soda was cleaned up. The Boulder manager was informed the following morning.

Donate to Care-a-Van or Viva House Thank you to all those who volun-teered with Care-A-Van over the break and to those who contribute to Viva House every month! Our Care-A-Van and Viva House pantries are running low on a few key items, so please consider donating. Those items are jelly, mustard, peanut butter, toothpaste and toothbrush-es. Donations can be dropped off at the CCSJ front desk. If you have any questions, feel free to contact careav-ansc@loyola.edu.

Nominate a community partner agency to receive the Milch Award; Deadline is Feb. 11 The university community is invited to submit nominations for the Milch Award. Created in 1979 by Mrs. Pearl S. Milch, the award recognizes community partner agencies that offer meritorious service to the Baltimore metropolitan community. Each year during Com-mencement, Loyola presents the award to a community agency that has worked closely with the university in a mutu-ally beneficial partnership during the

past academic year. Recent winners include St. Ignatius Academy, Refugee Youth Project, Gallagher Services, Viva House, Franciscan Center, Villa Maria, and Beans & Bread/Frederick Ozanam House. The deadline for nominations is Monday, Feb. 11. Visit the CCSJ website to submit a nomination.

Tutoring at The Study The Study, Jenkins Hall third floor, is now offering tutoring for the Spring 2013

semester! If you’re struggling with a class, come see a tutor. All tutoring sessions are free of charge to Loyola students. Make an appointment on our website.

Lenten food options available To observe the Lenten discipline of fasting and abstinence, all dining venues on campus will offer an extensive menu of fish and vegetarian options on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13 and all Fridays dur-ing Lent through Good Friday, March 29.

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I think even I liked Jim more than me growing up. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.”

Sources: the Daily Beast, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Reuters, Al Jazeera

A Taliban strike on an army checkpoint in Northwest Pakistan killed 35. The strike occurred Saturday morning and killed 13 soldiers and 10 civilians. The attack occurred for several hours and the Taliban remarked that the strike was in retaliation to a U.S. drone strike which happened in January. The Pakistani Taliban gladly took responsibility for the strike, and some of the persons killed were suicide bombers.

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35 killed in Pakistan

John Harbaugh joking about how his parents always did like Jim best.

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correcTIonSEmail corrections to Jenn Ruckel at greyhoundeic@gmail.com.

The French National Assembly voted 249-97 on Saturday for a Gay-Marriage Article. The article is in favor of redefining the definition of marriage as being between two people instead of the prior definition of being between a man and a woman. Many protests and counter-protests have been breaking out in response to this article; but a recent poll shows that the minority is in opposition to the article in France and that at least 55 percent of French people support gay marriage.

Gay marriage articlepassed in France

Joe Biden explained at a conference in Munich on Saturday morning that Iran is facing multiple “robust sanctions” to keep them from developing nuclear weapons. Iran has been defending the program, claiming that it is a peaceful deployment of resources into research studies. Vice President Biden, however, stated that if Iran is serious about solving these issues, the U.S. would be happy to negotiate; he even stated that, “the ball is in the government of Iran’s court.”

U.S.-Iran nuclear talks

John Kerry was sworn in as secretary of state on Friday morning. Kerry was a supposed second choice to U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice; however many are arguing that Kerry was Obama’s first choice. Kerry explains that he was called before Rice withdrew and was asked to consider taking the position. Obama did not officially offer him the job, though, until Susan Rice removed herself from the running.

Kerry sworn in as Secretary of State

They asked me to come on and deliver a positive message to the youth. And for that I’ve been scorned and humiliated.” Jim Harbaugh, recalling his appearance on the NBC sitcom Saved by the Bell when he was the Colts quarterback.

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corn and other foods around. So everything is very connected. When one thing moves, it moves everything.”

It’s a common complaint heard at Loyola: We pay so much for tuition here; our food shouldn’t be as expensive as it is. But, says Hall, it’s not that simple.

To begin, by contract, Loyola Dining Services (run by the international company, Sodexo) is required to pay its employees the living wage, which is between $2 and $5 more than many of their competitors, though Hall sees this as a good thing. “People are all about fair trade,” says Hall, “but what about helping people here locally?” Still, the wages of employees is undoubtedly going to affect food prices.

In the same vein, cashiers at a grocery store ring up, on average, between $1,500 and $2,000 of purchases an hour. Loyola’s volume, in places such as Iggy’s and Boulder, is nowhere near as high as that of grocery stores. Therefore, employees at grocery stores are making about 1 percent of the food they ring up at the register, while Loyola Dining Services has labor costs of closer to 15 or 20 percent, says Hall.

“I limit how often I swipe for food because it’s definite-ly cheaper buying groceries

By Lindsey Rennie

Staff Writer

Those foods that students enjoy consum-ing most, both off campus and at on-campus eateries like Boulder and Iggy’s, are cur-rently facing declining availability and higher prices throughout the nation, which we will soon see reflected on cam-pus.

Most signifi-cantly, meat pro-duction world-wide is in a steep decline, largely caused by recent d r o u g h t s t h i s past summer that seared major livestock production centers across the United States, specifically in the Midwest. According to a recent article in The Los Angeles Times, the 297 million tons of meat on the global market in 2011 was only a 0.8 percent increase over the previous year, in contrast to the 2.6 percent increase seen in 2010.

Produce and other food products too are seeing increasing price tags, due in part to the significant frost throughout California and the West Coast this year, which decreased the amount of crops available to ship throughout the country.

So how and why will all of this affect us at Loyola? Tony Hall, the general manager of Loyola Dining Services, has an explanation. According to Hall, everything is connected, and a change in one seemingly small aspect of the chain that brings food from the field or farm to our tables affects the entire system.

“There’s a government mandate that one-third of the fuel supply in the United States has to have ethanol in it, which is made with corn. Then there was a drought last summer, which pushed the corn prices up,” says Hall. “But they’re still requiring this corn to go in the ethanol, which means there’s a larger supply on it. This also increases the price of gas, which increases the price to move the

Loyola dining Services tries keeping costs low, may change in the futureon my own and making my own food,” says sophomore Camille Buscar.

“We know we are not a substitute for the grocery store. And we tell students all the time, ‘If you’re going to go on a $150 shop-ping spree, you should absolutely go to Giant or Safeway. However, if you need peanut butter and bread, there is no way you’re go-ing to save money by getting in your car and going to Giant. Our intention is that people will be doing $15 and $20 shopping trips in Iggy’s, where, when you figure in gas and time, there is no way that it’s cheaper to go to Giant.”

Loyola Dining Services receives no subsi-dies from the school or tuition dollars; they are their own entity. When students question seemingly high prices in Iggy’s and Boulder, though, Hall says there are a variety of factors that must be considered. “We don’t move as much product as a Safeway or a Wegman’s,” says Hall. Therefore, Loyola Dining Services buys products in smaller amounts, paying more for each item. “We’re buying it for what they sell it for in the grocery store, and we

obviously have other costs,” says Hall.Junior Chris Carpenter, too, prefers cooking

his own food to buying it on campus. “I think as a young adult at Loyola I prefer to cook in my kitchen,” he says. “Iggy’s is a little too pricey for me to eat there regularly and, for me personally, if costs rise and portions are cut I’ll buy even less than I do now.”

“So we start talking about trying to do what we can to mitigate food cost increases, and it’s not as simple as one would think because there’s so many things impacted,” Hall says. “We’re being told that we’re going to see double-digit inflation on food in the next 12 months, so more than a 10 percent increase on almost all food products. The drought last summer affected all the grains, which affected all the proteins, which also affected gas prices. The recent frost in Cali-fornia affected broccoli and several crops, and things just aren’t getting any better when it comes to that.”

Loyola students, says Hall, admit that food is just as expensive off campus, but for

that help to relieve international problems, such as scarcity of food and clean water.

Tommy O’Donnell, a sophomore and the Catholic Social Teaching intern in Campus Ministry, has heard another idea for collecting money to put into the rice bowls.

“Wouldn’t it be interesting if we asked people…to not drink anything but water for a week or two weeks or however long? And then in that time period, the money that you would have spent drinking other drinks…donate that money to CRS or another orga-nization that provides fresh water to people throughout the world,” said O’Donnell. “Just enjoy the simplicity of water so that other people can enjoy just water.”

But there’s more to the Lenten season at Loyola than just donating money to a faceless cause. Campus Ministry will be sponsoring a number of activities for students to partake in, such as Lenten prayer, reflection and education.

“We hope that people will be able to ap-preciate where their money’s going with rice bowl, because we’re going to be spending each week of Lent praying for and hoping

By Lindsey Rennie

Staff Writer

“Give Up To Give”—this is the phrase that Loyola’s Campus Ministry is challenging students with this Lent; but it’s more than just a phrase.

Campus Ministry’s Lenten theme this year proposes that students give up something they spend money on habitually, such as daily Starbucks or Red Mango, and instead donate the money they would have spent to the CRS Rice Bowl Project. If not a daily spending habit, giving up something as simple as going out to dinner one night could save a student money and allow him or her to donate it to the program.

CRS Rice Bowl is a program of Catholic Relief Services that the organization has been running during the Lenten season. The idea is that cardboard rice bowls are given out at masses across the country at the beginning of Lent and filled by people’s spare change for the following 40 days, prior to the bowls be-ing returned. The money from the bowls goes to funding CRS projects throughout the world

Campus Ministry challenges faculty and students to ‘give up to give’ this Lenten seasonto educate people about different places that CRS benefits and gives money to,” said O’Donnell.

Each week will showcase a different theme, featured on prayer cards available in the chapel and in Campus Ministry, which will provide students with education on who benefits from CRS projects and also put hu-man faces on the Rice Bowl Project.

Loyola and CRS have invited two men who have benefited from CRS projects, Thomas Awiapo from Ghana and Jacques Kaboré from Burknia Faso, to come to campus at some point during Lent and pray in unity with students.

“Right now, guaranteed, we have four ‘Soup and Stations’ planned,” said O’Donnell. These will consist of the Stations of the Cross in the chapel every Friday afternoon during Lent, prayed in a different way each week and followed by soup afterwards in Cam-pus Ministry, where donations to CRS are welcomed.

Offices around campus will also be chal-lenged to raise money for CRS. Giant rice bowls will be given to any offices willing

to participate, and somewhat of a contest will ensue. “The office that raises the most money will win a prize of some sort,” said O’Donnell, “possibly a pizza party.”

Like every year, Lent at Loyola will also see Monday night devotionals—Adoration, Taize and the Rosary—and Wednesday night mass every week.

But this year is different from other years. Speaking about the Rice Bowl change col-lection, O’Donnell said, “It’s just easy for it to turn into this impersonal, solitary col-lection of change on your dresser. But with the prayer cards, the Soup and Stations, the different themes—we’re hoping to make it something more of a community experi-ence. If somebody is really making a good hearted effort to give up Starbucks for Lent and donate $2, they can feel like there are other people doing it with them and they’re not the only person giving up something that means a lot to them.”

”“ We’re being told that we’re going to see double-digit inflation on food in the next 12 months, so more than a 10 percent increase on almost all food products. -Tony hall, Loyola dining Services general manager

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As product prices across the board go up, the price of food at Loyola has remained relatively stable. However, students may soon see the effects hitting their wallets as Dining Services adjusts to the changes.

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Florida State University graduate student Ryan Bennett will have $20,000 in student loan debt. Senior Torie Nugent will accu-mulate $24,000. Junior Melia Orrell will surpass $70,000. These three Seminoles, though from different states and engaged in different fields of study, all share in the common struggle to finance their education through student loans.

In 2012, Americans racked up over $1 trillion in student loans. It has become 35 percent of the federal government’s debt and now outpaces credit card debt as a lead-ing source of household debt. As a college degree becomes more crucial to compete in today’s workforce, students are taking on more student loans to ensure a return on their educational investment.

Marc Samardzija, an FSU doctoral student in economics and teaching assistant, was trading stocks on Wall Street in 2008 dur-

American student loans soars to 35 percent of government debt, surpass credit card debting the onset of the Great Recession. As he observed with the housing mortgage crisis, he foresees another bubble waiting to burst in student loan debt.

“I think it’s already kind of burst a little bit,” said Samardzija. “This is kind of be-ing swept under the rug. But if it’s not addressed, we could see in two or three years, if th ings haven’t improved and the economy hasn’t tu rned a round enough where more jobs are cre-ated and these loan debt obligations aren’t able to be met, then you will see this become a forefront as an issue both in educa-tion and the finances of this country.”

Samardzija believes that college has be-come an institution of business rather than

“If cost is a concern, we allow them to come for free or at a discount,” said Rowley.

Nevertheless, there are some businesses that would rather not pay for their participation and, therefore, choose not to participate, opting instead to only attend free career fairs.

“I think [the fee] is necessary. We offer so much for free; we have free services for students and organizations, and we allow companies to recruit on campus for free—they can post on Hounds4Hire for free. This

is a one-time fee for the Career Fair. But we are conscious of the cost. We would love to have everything free, but we just can’t,” said Rowley.

“I understand the fee, but I also understand some companies not being able to afford the fee or finding it

worthwhile to pay the fee,” said Nicole Schneider, a junior and international business major, who attended Monday’s Career Fair. “For some businesses with more specific needs out of college students or graduates, they might not be able to find a lot of what they’re looking for at a small university like Loyola, and they may not think it is worth the money to spend. However, the companies that do spend the money prove that they are interested in college students and value Loyola’s reputation as a university that provides students with a good education and background needed for the work environment.”

While Loyola is a small school, Rowley pointed out that it has several advantages over other universities.

“The Jesuit education is definitely an advantage,” said Rowley. “The core is definitely an advantage that employers love. Loyola and other Jesuit schools teach students how to think critically, reflect and collaborate. At other schools, if you’re an accounting major, you just jump into accounting, spending the majority of your time in accounting and other math courses;

By Lisa PotteR

Staff Writer

Loyola’s Career Center was designed to help students and alumni discover their passions and careers in which they could integrate those passions. The Career Center offers many free services to help current students connect with alumni and future employers, network with professionals who might hire them or provide internships and realize their own talents and gifts as they apply to a future career. On Monday, the Career Center held their annual spring Career Fair at which employers are invited to talk about their offers for full-time and part-time jobs, as well as internships, for a variety of majors and concentrations.

“It’s a good chance for students to network,” said Jennifer Rowley, the associate director of Employer Relations at Loyola’s Career Center. “Students get a chance to hand over their résumés, ask questions of the organizations…It’s a chance to interview and find clarity or [a job] to fit their majors.”

Rowley is in charge of overseeing employer relations between Loyola students and their future employers, as well as outreaching to employers by traveling out-of-state, career counseling, workshopping and more. Additionally, she helps recruit businesses to participate in the Career Fair.

“We sent out invitations in November to all employer contacts on Hounds4Hire, and reach out to boards…with vested interest in Loyola. We send e-mail communications approaching the date of registration to past attendees inviting them to come back and make phone calls. We make every effort to have as many businesses as we can and to have a variety [of them],” said Rowley.

However, for a business to participate, the Career Center first looks at the company information to ensure they are not a third party recruiter, an organization that does not have positions or an organization that will not hire college students. Additionally, there is a fee associated with the Career Fair, which businesses are asked to pay.

“[The fee] depends. We have discounts for government and non-profit organizations,

Career Fair brings students closer to real-life experiences and future employmentand early bird charges,” said Rowley, who explained that the fees cover meals from Sodexo catering, the organizations’ space on the floor at Reitz, parking space on the Diane Geppi-Aikens field and elsewhere, events staff, extra shuttles, extra shuttle drivers, rentals of extra tables and also guarantees the company’s commitment to attend.

However, the Career Fair general information flyer, which gives participating businesses information about the Career Fair, says the fee includes the company’s table,

table sign, wireless Internet access, electricity access and lunch for two representatives. Additionally, businesses must pay for any advertisements they wish to appear in the Career Fair Directory aside from their informational entry, which would allow them to gain extra publicity.

“Every school charges for career fairs…If you charge, the companies are more likely to attend,” said Rowley. “Some employers ask for discounts, and we work with them individually to accommodate them, and we give discounted rates.”

She explained that companies who have to pay to participate in career fairs are more likely to show up to the event because they are invested in it. Paying the fee, she said, shows the organizations’ real interest in attending the fair and recruiting the university’s students.

Rowley explained that one of the reasons the Career Center calls businesses prior to the registration date is to find out why businesses are choosing not to attend. Sometimes, she said, the companies do not have any available positions.

but Loyola’s core gives students experience [in other fields].”

“Loyola is also big in service, which is important for a lot of businesses…part of an organization is not just sitting in the community, but giving back to it,” said Rowley.

The Career Center also works in preparing students for future interviews with employers and helping them find a competitive edge over others with whom they compete for a job opening. The Career Fair is an experience-building event that helps students prepare for interacting with employers.

“I encourage younger students to go to see what a career fair looks like. We just hope students walk away knowing there are jobs out there and give them access to these positions,” said Rowley.

“I think the Career Fair is a great thing. I went last year as a sophomore just so that I would have a better idea of what I would be walking into as a junior. Now that I have already [gone], I feel confident that on Monday I will be able to walk in with my résumés in hand, ready to talk to employers and, hopefully, walk away with an internship,” Schneider said the Friday before the event. “I’m hoping to just gain experience talking to professionals and marketing myself in order to impress employers. Even if I don’t go with a specific objective of being hired by a certain company, I just want the experience of talking to employers and portraying myself correctly so that when it comes time to interview with companies in the future, I’m more comfortable.”

The Career Fair was held in Reitz Arena on Monday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students were encouraged to “dress to impress” and bring multiple résumés. About 74 businesses were in attendance, representing a wide range of different careers and areas of interest, as well as many different regional areas including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Rowley attributed this to successful outreach on the part of the Career Center, saying, “Some of the outreach has started to pay off. Businesses are willing to ride the train or drive for extra hours to have access to the [Loyola] students.”

education, creating a dangerous relationship with financial and banking industries.

“You have all of these investment banks who depend on a very strong source of rev-enue of loans to basically be able to upkeep their business and schools the same thing

they bring a strong supply of students,” said Sarmardzija. “You mix two together and the cost of education is skyrocketing.”

Ryan Bennett has dreamed of studying meteorology since he was in kindergarten.

Now a graduate student, Bennett is closer to realizing his dream but deeper in student loan debt as he pursues it.

“If I didn’t have these loans, I wouldn’t have made it through undergrad,” said Ben-nett. “I wouldn’t have even been able to come to graduate school because [of] my tuition—there’s no way I would have been able to pay it off.”

Bennett proposes that student loans be adjusted for STEM (science, technology, en-gineering and math) majors to give them the financial means to succeed in these areas that are critical to our nation’s ability to compete in the international arena.

International affairs and Spanish student Melia Orrell considers her impending $70,000 student loan debt “outrageous” and challenges the nation to demand greater ac-cess to post-secondary education.

“I could make anywhere from $20,000 a year to $200,000 a year and I have no way of knowing what I’ll end up making and

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continued from page 4some reason, believe that it should be less expensive on campus. Some items, though, make absolutely no profit for Loyola Dining Services, such as Tropicana orange juice and Oreo cookies. According to Hall and Opera-tions Director Gary Gregory, the prices on those items just barely allow Dining Services to break even. “We offer these as a service to students,” says Hall.

Sometimes, though, prices simply have to go up. For instance, the price of Pepsi has gone up twice in the past year. This, in ad-dition to the new Baltimore City bottle tax, caused Loyola Dining Services to increase the price of Pepsi on campus by 9 percent, though even this did not cover the total increase.

There are also many positive aspects to Loyola Dining Services that students often do not see. “We have a very tight supply chain,” says Hall. “Anybody we buy from we have contracts with to inspect their facilities. We do get notices of product recalls that are so timely, we can refuse a shipment of it before it arrives.”

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Though it would save students money, Loyola Dining Services is prohibited from using fillers into their food products. “We’re held at such a high standard…another place might start introducing turkey filler into their meatloaf just to get the weight out of it, and we can’t do it,” says Hall. “We say this meat-loaf is going to be 100 percent meat.”

At the moment, Loyola students are not seeing any major impact from the issues with food production throughout the country, but it is likely that this will not last for long.

“Right now, we’re kind of taking the hit rather than passing it along to students,” says Hall. “There may be a point in time where we’re gonna go, OK, we just can’t take the hit anymore, we have to pass it along.”

And sophomore Neil Matta echoes what many students on campus hate to be think-ing. Matta said, “We can complain about the high prices of food until kingdom come, but we’ll still pay it.”

Any questions about food pricing can be directed to Loyola Dining Services at din-ing@loyola.edu.

therefore it causes me a lot of anxiety,” said Orrell. “I don’t know how I’m going to pay it back.”

With financial uncertainty, Orrell also be-lieves that Florida State should address the practical uncertainty associated with loans by educating students about the implications of student loan debt.

“Honestly, I’m a junior and I still don’t know how it’s going to work after I gradu-ate,” said Orrell. “I don’t [know] when I’m going to have to start paying loans back, I don’t know how much I’m going to be paying a month or a year, I don’t know if it’s going to be based on my salary. I know it sounds ir-responsible, but honestly I don’t really know where to go for the right information.”

FSU acting major and Massachusetts native Torie Nugent is paying out-of-state tuition, but says that the prestige of Florida State’s program outweighs what will become “just another bill.”

Nonetheless, she said she believes that the government should play a role in helping students repay their loans.

“I think that a deferment program would help a lot of people trying to make the transi-tion from college to real life,” said Nugent. “It would allow them more economic freedom so they might be able to work and save more so that it would be easier to pay off those loans.”

While companies like MassMutual Insur-ance are reaching out to students through so-cial media to offer creative student loan debt solutions, it is clear that the future of college affordability will require input from the front lines of universities, the federal government and private industry alike.

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Letter to the Editor: Earned sick leave

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Anyone familiar with standard job announcements knows that they often contain a short description at the end stating the particular organization’s sick leave policy. The majority of the positions listed on our very own Career Center’s jobs list contain these oft ignored and wonted provisions. Yet the reality is that, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, more than 700,000 Marylanders cannot earn sick days to use when caring for themselves or for ill family members. Without access to sick days, individuals who inevitably become sick are forced to make an unsettling choice between showing up to work sick or missing a day of work. Of course, the latter choice bears the risk of being discharged from a position. Workers are forced to make a primeval choice between keeping their jobs or taking care of themselves.

While the majority of employers already provide sick day benefits to their employees, lack of access to sick days disproportionately

affect low-wage and service industry workers. Among the most likely not to have access to sick leave are food service workers who are at the front line in handling, processing and cooking food for the public. This presents not only a health risk to the individuals who are sick, but also to the safety of our food system.

This past Thursday at a press release conference in Annapolis, several Loyola students heard the story of a school nurse who ends up having to stay several hours after school to care for sick children whose parents are unable to take off work to pick them up. Too often, parents are forced to make a decision between caring for their sick children and paying the rent.

Luckily a coalition of businesses, policy makers and community groups have pushed forward the Earned Sick and Safe Time Act, a measure that would allow all working Marylanders to earn sick days. The measure allows for full-time workers to earn one hour of sick time for every 30 hours of work—adding up to an average of

seven paid workdays per year. Part-time workers would earn fewer sick days, depending on the amount of hours worked.

Similar legislation has been enacted in San Francisco and state-wide in Connecticut. Fears that the policy would thwart job creation were never realized. In Connecticut, the extension of five sick days to previously ineligible employees was calculated to cost only 0.19 percent of sales state-wide. For such a small cost, the social benefits of such a policy would be far reaching—keeping our schools healthier, our food cleaner and our workers stronger.

Students, faculty and staff who are interested promoting this legislation in Annapolis as it moves through the legislative process are encouraged to contact John Rohrer at teachin@loyola.edu. The Earned Sick and Safe Time Act offers a truly prudent solution to workers who are living and working at the margins of our society. Join us as we move Maryland forward.

Patrick C. Diamond, ’13

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I couldn’t imagine a better place to watch the Super Bowl than Baltimore City. The cheering echoing from our campus alone—not to mention the abun-dant celebrations downtown—is representative of this enthusiastic community. While every Super Bowl has its most memorable moments, I’ve noticed that the next day, most people are talking about the commercials just as much as the winning play.

The Super Bowl is an advertising playground—likely the most watched televised event in the U.S.—and there are almost no limits to where companies will go to grab viewers’ attention. As I’ve grown up, I’ve unfortunately realized that a popular technique for soliciting attention is objectifying and disrespecting women in advertisements while attempting to appeal to the masculine viewer. I won’t even entertain the thought of how heteronormative this strategy is, because obviously only straight men can watch football, right?

In reality, 50% of Super Bowl viewers are women, according to MissRepre-sentation.org, a non-profit social action campaign and media organization that launched #NotBuyingIt for last year’s big game, and is bringing the hashtag back for 2013 in order to call out advertisers whose sexist commercials screen dur-ing the Super Bowl. The goal of this movement is for viewers to recognize the inappropriate tactics that certain commercials are employing, and to respond to those companies on Twitter in real time. Last year, #NotBuyingIt reached almost one million Twitter users as a trending topic.

I get it, really. The point of these commercials is to make money and market a product in a clear and memorable way. And sadly, for all the “equality” we have in this country, we’re oddly comfortable with degrading each other and appealing to the “sex sells” (and often, sexism sells) philosophy.

The media’s representation of women is largely unfair and hurtful, but the worst part is how accustomed we have become to it. Maybe you think I’m overreacting, and I in no way want to taint your celebration of the Ravens’ win. It was a fantastic game, and honestly, I laughed at many of the commercials, too. However, it’s important to be aware of what media we’re absorbing so we don’t become desensitized to the many portrayals that are, after all, quite rude. And if you’re going to tweet during the game, you might as well put those 140 characters to good use.

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So you’re sitting with your friends, huddled around the television set, watching the game and eating some pizza. Touchdown! It’s time for a commercial break: beer, car, beer, car—you fall into a zen-like rhythm of advertising monotony. But what’s this? A smarmy, bloodcurdling voice pierces the

calm. “This week on Here Comes Honey Boo Boo…” Oh god.

Your hipster friend Chauncey dramatically sprays the fair-trade vegan mango chamomile tea that he was drinking from a mason jar out of his mouth. “I can’t believe this show!” he whines, adjusting his black-rimmed non-prescription glasses. “American culture is going down the tubes! Honey Boo Boo, Toddlers & Tiaras, Keeping up with the Kardashians, where will it end?” Everyone nods in agreement as the game starts up again.

I’d wager that many of you have experienced something similar. Someone points out the obvious fact that Honey Boo Boo is not high quality entertainment, and then they smile smugly as everyone in the room agrees with them, adding fuel to the fire that is their ego. I must have witnessed this more than half a dozen times now; it’s annoying and self-righteous.

Recognizing that trash TV is trash does not make you a genius.

Trashing trash TV to validate our own opinionsNow listen: I have no intention of

defending the cornucopia of awful reality shows that currently occupy the airwaves. They are indeed bad shows and don’t have much intellectual merit, if any at all. This is something that virtually everyone agrees upon. Though some people enjoy these programs, at least they see them for what they are—audio-visual junk food. You can casually pop in and pop out of an episode and be blandly entertained for anywhere from the full 22 minutes to just a few seconds of cheap laughs.

But that’s where the discussion should end. There’s no significant disagreement on this; you’re not going to get anyone holding up The Jersey Shore as the most artistically significant entry in American canon. So if the issue is settled, why must everyone and their brother dive like a hungry shark at the first opportunity to point out how bad these shows are?

I think the answer lies in the validation someone gets when people agree with him or her. We all appreciate it when our peers, superiors and subordinates express their approval. No one, myself included, is immune to this: If you came up to me in Boulder and said “Hey Mike, nice article broski!” I would probably feel great! And that is a-OK, because when someone puts time and effort into something that you enjoy, you should let him or her know. You’ll feel good, they’ll feel good, good feelings all around!

But what if you crave the satisfaction of approval but don’t have anything interesting

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to say? You would need to go for something easy; something you could say that literally no one would disagree with; something that you could bet your life savings on people agreeing with. You would need to say, “I can’t believe this show! American culture is going down the tubes! Honey Boo Boo, Toddlers & Tiaras, Keeping up with the Kardashians, where will it end?” as you spray your tea out of your mouth. Because you’re Chauncey (for our readers who are goldfish, look back at paragraph two).

That’s why people bash trash TV so frequently and with such fervor. It provides them with easy validation. I’m not so pessimistic about the human condition that I would say people do this consciously. I’m no psychologist, but I don’t think that the Chaunceys out there coldly and calculatingly meditate on how they can harvest approval to fill their hearts with the inky black approval oil that pumps through their veins. It’s something that people do without realizing it, and that’s all I’m asking of you, reader. Realize that Honey Boo Boo-hate is, for lack of a better word, an out-of-control circus, and do your best not to contribute to it. We’ve reached the point where the self-affirming feedback loop of trashing trash TV is far worse than trash TV itself.

Chauncey, motivated by the approval your friends showed for his trite and tired rant, grins a grin so snide and so smug that it sets his black beanie off balance.

Loyola, we have a problem. Anyone at Loyola on Twitter follows, is followed by or has at least heard of one of the Loyola Twitter accounts. I’m not talking about Student Engagement’s Twitter account or

the Loyola Athletics Twitter. I’m talking about the anonymous Twitter accounts created by Loyola students. For those of you who aren’t on Twitter (catch up with the technological revolution), these include the endearing, but strange, accounts like LU Missed Connections (@LU_Connections), an account that promises to tweet out messages from secret admirers; @LoyolaProfSays, which tweets the interesting and often odd things professors say and the ever-sarcastic @Sh*tNo1SayLoyMD. There are at least 10 anonymous Loyola-related accounts on Twitter, so if I left your anonymous Twitter account out, I apologize; much like Twitter, I have a character limit.

I recently went on Twitter and was excited to see that I have some new followers. When I checked to see who they were, I was somewhat less excited to find out that I am now followed by @LUbasicb*tches and @Sh*tLoh*sSay. As @GreyhoundBtches was kind enough to remind @Sh*tLoh*sSay, these sorts of accounts are nothing new. If the names of these accounts were not informative enough for the non-tweeter, these accounts are primarily used to tweet about how great “Thirsty Thursday” was and to vent about

Students do not realize consequences of Twitter postscampus life. In a sense, the people who run these accounts are smart. If they put their names on them, they would never ever be employed, like ever. But, like Seth Myers on “Weekend Update,” I’m here to say, really? Really, you made an anonymous Twitter so you could publicize your drunkenness and complain about our school? Really, you didn’t have something better to do with your time, like maybe study, work out or use any of the resources you so often complain about paying $50,000 a year for?

I get it. Everyone needs to vent, and this is a way to connect with others who are often thinking the same things. But the people running these Twitters, and those complaining on their own Twitter accounts, need to be aware of the effects of their action. Before I

paint all of these Loyola anonymous accounts with a broad and negative brush, I will say that there are certain accounts that are witty and entertaining, rather than defamatory. The accounts that focus on bashing what other students are wearing or complaining about classes have consequences beyond potentially offending someone. There are broader consequences for our community and our education.

First of all, I’d like to specifically address accounts like @ LUbasicb*tches, @

Sh*tLoh*sSay and @GreyhoundBtches. What were you thinking when you came up with those account names? Did you learn nothing from Tina Fey in Mean Girls? “You’ve got to stop calling yourselves sluts and whores. It just makes it OK for guys to call you sluts and whores.” At a school where the ratio of female students to male students is so imbalanced, it’s easy for guys to think they’re God’s gift to women and treat female students poorly. Referring to each other in such a way further aggravates this problem. I understand that you think you’re being funny, but recognize the consequences and set some limits.

Equally importantly, consider the implications of your actions beyond Loyola. We are often reminded that anything

online is publicly available—this obviously includes Twitter. Though an anonymous Twitter may be intended for the Loyola community, it certainly reaches beyond that. When I was applying to Loyola I looked up everything about the school. I’m sure many students have seen the YouTube video “Loyola State of Mind,”

put up by a Loyola student several years ago. The video did not sway my decision one way or another to go to Loyola, but it was nice to see that Loyola students are as happy as the students in the video who are singing praises to Loyola. Imagine if a senior in high school came across a tweet from @GreyhoundBtches that is a photo taken from behind two girls walking to class and chastises them for having the same outfit. With this sort of attitude, it’s no wonder

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Think about this for a moment: Do you know anyone with a developmental disability? What are his or her challenges? What is his or her life like?

We have a somewhat fuzzy perception of what disabilities really are and what it means to have a disability. Disability, by its

very definition, is something we consider to be negative, ‘other,’ uncomfortable or even frightening. In truth, individuals with developmental disabilities are more like us than we may think. We all—especially undergraduate students—want freedom and independence. We all want to be loved and respected. We all want to play a meaningful role in our community.

Students our age have the tendency to think that people with disabilities are “all set”—they are content with their lives and do not need any help from us (or, even worse, we pity them)—but all people deserve to live to their full potential, and people with disabilities are no exception.

The Arc of Baltimore, an organization dedicated to serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, has been helping people in our community for 60 years. According to Chief Advancement

Last week, Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta took another step forward in history when he announced that women can now enter combat. It’s an interesting victory for women, but another challenge for them as well.

Before we all take up a glass of celebratory champagne, we must understand the parameters and principles of this new initiative. According to the Department of Defense, this new act will serve to enact “the rescission the 1994 Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule for women and that the Department of Defense plans to remove gender-based barriers to service.” What this means is that about 15 percent of U.S. military forces now have the opportunity to serve alongside their male counterparts in occupational fields. Prior to this declaration, the 1994 directive meant that “women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground, as defined below.”

For some, like Sec. Panetta and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this decision to allow women into combat was seamless and unquestionable. “Women have shown great courage and sacrifice on and off the battlefield, contributed in unprecedented ways to the military’s mission and proven their ability to serve in an expanding number of roles,” Panetta said. “The Department’s goal in rescinding the rule is to ensure that the mission is met with the best-qualified and most capable people, regardless of gender.”

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By WHO R. SHE

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To the final episode of the magic that was 30 Rock. I haven’t gotten around to watching it, and although I say it’s because I’m busy, it’s really because I’m waiting until I have an empty apartment so I can watch it as I cry hysterically into my night cheese.

To Senior 100s. While this is a thumbs down for the seniors as it means accepting the fact that soon “Thirsty Thursday” will mean falling asleep on top of a stack of ungraded papers after half a glass of wine, it also means that it’s less than four months until I will be blubbering on the quad as I say goodbye to them.

To the cancellation of classes before 10 a.m. last Monday. We got a significant amount of snow last week (read: 0.2 mm, but hey, it’s Baltimore), yet all we got was a lousy morning cancellation. Congrats to the three students with 8 a.m.s who benefitted from this.

To Senior 100s. Not only do the seniors get to have a blast celebrating the fact that they are that much closer to being real people, the rest of us get to watch grown men stumble around campus in Mardi Gras beads and over-sized jester hats while we eat midnight snack and shamelessly judge them.

To hanging on to the last few remnants of syllabus week. Sure, we’re three weeks into the semester, but we all know that isn’t too far in to stop us from living in blissful denial of our impending term papers and watching Spongebob on Netflix until 3 a.m.

To baseball season being within reach. Spring training starts in a week and I plan on being “that kid” who annoys the living daylights out of friends and random passers-by with an overload of stats until someone screams, “IT ISN’T EVEN PRE-SEASON,” at me and I’m forced to yell my fun facts at the MASN commentators instead.

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One Question event spreads awareness, offers students

For others, like generals, officers, commanders and more, the best qualified and most capable will always remain males, and here ensues the challenge for women.

Indeed, there’s a victory in knowing that women, like men, can serve their country to the utmost degree and do so with an equal level of physical competence. However, there’s also an undeniable challenge in meeting those standards. Now, the question at hand is whether typical physical requirements will be maintained or lowered for the feminine physique. And if the five branches of the military choose to lower these standards, will the overall quality of our forces decrease?

It’s a valid question to ask and one that must be answered before women can step onto the battlefield. There’s no denying that there are physical tasks required of military personnel for which men are better equipped.

Officer Kate McGuire, the Arc helps people experiencing autism, Down Syndrome and epilepsy, among other disabilities, become more “able to live and work in the community; we help them be accepted and be a part of the community.” The Arc is located

on York Road in Towson and has chapters throughout the country.

The Arc of Baltimore now offers an event for people who are curious about disabilities, what it means to have one and what the Arc does to support people with disabilities. The event, which will be held on February 11 in the Loyola-Notre Dame Library Auditorium, is called One Question. Teaming up with Dr. Leary of the writing department, the Arc will be showing a short film of the same name, followed by a question-and-answer portion. Kate McGuire is coming to talk about the organization, and there will be a panel of speakers who receive support from the Arc. I’ve heard nothing but great things about them: They’re hysterically funny, wonderful

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...all people deserve to live to their full potential, and people with disabilities are no exception.

people and your life will be changed by listening to them speak.

I don’t want to give too much away, so I’ll just say it will be a very enlightening evening. (There will also be a lot of food. I’m talking mozzarella sticks, people.) Most importantly,

if you attend, you w i l l h a v e t h e opportunity to learn a tremendous amount about something very important.

And awareness is only the first step. Once we know more about d isabi l i ty, dispel rumors about

it and look past the stigmas surrounding it, we will be more inclined to help out and to connect with people the Arc supports. For example, one of the things the Arc will discuss at One Question is the Best Buddies Program, which pairs people with disabilities with eager and able-bodied friends who can take them bowling, go to movies and bond with them. Perhaps, after sitting through the one-hour event next Monday night, you will want to sign up and help out.

One Question will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday night, and I hope to see you all there—we all deserve to live to our full potential.

Gen. Robert Cone, the chief of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, recognizes this and raised the question when he asked, “If you say, ‘I want to be an infantryman,’ we’ll say, ‘Can you pick up 54 pounds, you know, three feet in the air? Can you carry 66 pounds on your back?’”

As an educated woman, I’m smart enough to understand that not all women can do that, but not all men can either. And I’m also smart enough to know that because a woman can’t do this exact task doesn’t mean that the female physique is weak or useless in combat. There are women who will be able to meet these requirements and those that can’t. For those who cannot meet the standard that matches the military’s most trained service members then indeed they should not be

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complaints and “witticisms” about a night at Craig’s ultimately devalue our education. I don’t pretend that these sorts of issues don’t come up at other schools, but it takes little more than a look at College Prowler to see that this is the image that is being proliferated of Loyola. We have the power to change that and help our school rise to the top.

Loyola is a great school, and we can even aim to be a prestigious school if we clean up our act and channel our criticism constructively. For the students who aren’t willing to do that, I suggest the problem may not be Loyola—the problem may be you.

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allowed into the occupational field. But, the military branches must think of not whether these women can meet the standards, but if their current requirements actually meet the specific need of the field. Do you need to hold 100 pounds of gear on your back for 5 miles to complete the standard or can you do so in 3 miles, male or female? This point was repeated in a USA Today article, when Nancy Duff Campbell says, “When the Canadian and Australian militaries opened combat-arms fields to women, they learned some standards did not accurately reflect what is required for a specific field.” Campbell, the co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, makes a point that many of the branches must now seriously look into before

this transition is made.However, my gut tells me that many of

these branches, particularly the Marines, who have been most opposed to this, do not have a problem with the standards. Instead, their issues may be with the principle itself and the possibility that women can be as physical and successful as their male counterparts. While questions of increased sexual harassment, physical inability and even emotional stability exist, the military must address their internal fears first before their logical ones.

For now, it will take patience and perseverance for women to represent this country on the battlefield.

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Maggie’s Farm gives a modern twist on American ‘peasant cuisine’

Upon walking into Maggie’s Farm, one might mistake one’s surroundings for an old southern home. Sporting wood floors, dimmed lights, red candles and windows ringed with lace, the restaurant will surely serve as a great Valentine’s Day choice in a few weeks. Gentlemen, I encourage you to get on it. The Farm’s quaint, homey feel is not merely by circumstance, but is rather embodied in its dining ethos. The staff’s ultimate goal is for you to “feel like you’ve been invited to a dinner party thrown by your Grandmother…if she listened to Rock and Roll!”

This wonderful fusion of Grandmas and Rock and Roll truly reflects the soul of Maggie’s Farm. Whether sampling a locally sourced farmstead cheese over “Sleeping Lessons” by the Shins or attempting to make a dent in the legendary House Ground Burger (featuring bacon, jam, Pimento cheese, aioli and, last but not least, a fried egg) as an instrumental post-rock epic from Explosions in the Sky rings out overhead, there is always an appropriate musical accompaniment to your dishes.

Now to the main event: the food. Coining their fare “refined peasant cuisine,” Maggie’s Farm is taking part of a new trend in modern eateries, that of utilizing local ingredients and adapting their menu to the shifting seasons in order to provide a fresh, sustainable and delicious dining experience. The “Farm” title serves the restaurant’s namesake well, as the cooking staff sources ingredients from up to 17 nearby farms, urban gardens, bakeries

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The Chocolate Pretzel bar at Maggie’s Farm in Baltimore.

and businesses. Deciding on the three-course Baltimore

Restaurant Week offering was a given, due to its variety of flavors. The fried oysters are a great start; they feature a crispy cornmeal encrusted coating and are served with a gribiche sauce that resembles a sweet chipotle aioli. If you feel a slight tinge of guilt from beginning your meal with fried fare—more of which will come later—then the bed of steamed spinach underneath will undoubtedly quell such foolish notions with its refreshing taste.

Adding a degree of continuity to my

voracious appetite for fried foods that night, I moved on to the sweet tea and Bourbon Brined Fried Chicken. The first encounter with the dish reflected everything a good piece of fried chicken should be: crispy and flaky breading with a juicy interior. More complexly, the Maggie’s Farm variant is a twist on your grandma’s traditional fried chicken recipe with its accents of sweet tea and bourbon, two southern staples you’d be sure to find in a farmhouse in the rolling Maryland countryside. The chicken is paired with a pepper jam dipping sauce and the Farm’s own version of mashed potatoes,

which incorporate hints of horseradish in order to back up the potatoes’ initial sweetness with a nice kick.

Dessert featured a sticky toffee pudding and a chocolate pretzel bar. The smaller portion size of each was well appreciated after the two larger courses. The pudding was placed atop a warm cranberry sauce and paired with a homemade orange and vanilla ice cream. If you’re one for chocolate-covered pretzels, the bar is composed of layers of chocolate bourbon ganache and a pretzel-shortbread crust. Be sure to order coffee along with dessert, as Maggie’s Farm uses Baltimore-roasted Zeke’s beans. A cup of the Tell-Tale Dark roast served black is a great way to round off the palette after the sweets.

Dining at Maggie’s Farm is an excellent way to experience new flavors and twists on old favorites. The waitstaff is very friendly and proves helpful and receptive to any ingredient inquiry or wine suggestion. Located on Harford road off of East Coldspring Lane, the restaurant is quite close to the Evergreen campus and is definitely worth the 10-minute trip.

Bond Street Social: A little slice of food heaven for college studentsBy Lindsay Marchese

Staff WritEr

In case a few of you didn’t know, this past week was Restaurant Week in Baltimore. Local restaurants around the Inner Harbor and Fell’s Point offer their customers a three-course meal for $20-30. Great food for a cheap price; this translates into a little bit of heaven for broke college students, like myself.

Trying to take advantage of this great deal, my roommates and I decided to check out Fell’s Point. We were walking down the cobblestone streets when we came across the Bond Street Social. Outside of the red brick building, which was just a short distance from the water, were wooden picnic tables lined along the sidewalk facing the trees. Despite the metal space heaters between each table, it was way too cold for us to eat outside and we ventured inside.

Once inside, a happy hostess greeted us. The whole restaurant gave off a new, modern vibe with its decor. The blue tiled bar directly in front of us was stocked to the brim. A

wide-open space to the left was lined with booths and another bar, where people sat and socialized with friends. We were taken to the right and given a table near the giant fire pit in the middle of the room. The walls were all windows, giving a great view of the street outside.

Because we were having the pre-fixed meal, our choices were slightly limited. Bond Street Social prides itself on its ability to provide customers with the opportunity to not only eat delicious food, but socialize as well. The items on their menu are served in large portions so that, once divvied up, everyone can enjoy a tapas-sized taste of various dishes. They also provide glass pitchers of drinks for the tables, as an alternative to getting a single drink.

For the appetizer we shared the Bond Street cobb salad and the grilled flatbread. Our table also enjoyed the eggplant parmigiano as a main dish. The brownie bites we shared for dessert were well worth the extra calories. All of our food came out nicely prepared and in a timely manner. The portions were

large enough to fill us up, but didn’t leave everyone feeling like they just inhaled a full Thanksgiving dinner. The sharing of the food also helped us socialize with each other and kept us entertained the whole time.

Because it was Restaurant Week, we did not have the Bond Street Social’s famous mac and cheese bites, made with goat cheese, aged cheddar and truffle oil. Our waiter told us this dish is among the restaurant’s biggest sellers. Another famous dish is the jalapeno poppers, served with blood orange jam. All appetizers and sliders, such as mini burgers and grilled cheese, ranged from $8-14. If you and your friends are a little hungrier, though, there is also the “fork and knife” section of the menu. This option is a little pricier ($13-22), but includes foods like mini lobster pot pies and chicken biscuits. The dessert menu is well stocked to meet everyone’s tastes, with deconstructed cheesecakes to chocolate brownies; it even comes with specialized dessert drinks.

Overall, I would say the meal and service that you find at the Bond Street Social is

excellent. I would recommend taking the time to head on down to Fell’s Point and give this place a try. Cabs are easy to find, so even if you don’t have a car it’s easy to commute back and forth.

Bond Street Social is located in Fell’s Point on South Bond Street, Baltimore. Its hours are Monday through Friday from 4 p.m.-2 a.m., serving dinner until 10 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.-2 a.m., serving brunch from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and dinner until 10:30 p.m.

Check it out!Maggie’s Farm

4341 harford rd.Baltimore, Md

Check it out!Bond Street Social

901 S. Bond St.Baltimore, Md

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Brooks Long and Fractal Cat represent 1970s at WLoy Late night Concert

WLOY hosted yet another Late Night Concert Series event in McGuire Hall on January 31. The event culls musical talent from Baltimore’s unique music scene in a setting where students can enjoy refreshments and hear local music free of charge. This week, the bands were Brooks Long and Fractal Cat, two groups that couldn’t be any more different; yet, each delivered excellent sets.

The first group to take the stage was Brooks Long. Brooks had been a solo musician, singing with an acoustic guitar in Baltimore for a year before expanding to include his bandmates Ian and Dan, who play bass and drums, respectively. They play a blend of ’70s funk and soul, a sound that rings back to the heyday of Motown and Detroit-based pop. Even the band’s EP title, Let’s Make Out to Otis Redding, proudly displays the band’s influences.

Brooks’ focuses primarily on the groove and instrumentals, rather than lyrics of his songs; the way the rhythms lock together really defines their sound. Each member is a very talented musician—Dan’s drumming blew me away in particular. It’s a relaxed, subdued feel, yet features bursts of technical dazzle when it’s called for. Brooks’ voice is also very distinctive—it can be sweet and gentle, and then all of a sudden turn into a soulful wail on a dime. One of the highlights of the set was a cover of Curtis

Mayfield’s “Superfly” title track. Brooks’ voice lends itself to playing songs of the late funk-pioneer, and in this live setting it sounded superb. Perhaps the greatest strength of Brooks Long is his onstage presence and confidence. In the middle of songs he’d top the band and initiate a James Brown-esque call and response (a kind of “hit me” thing), with the band was always on cue and never missing a beat.

After Brooks Long came Fractal Cat, another band influenced by the sounds of the ‘70s but in a very different vein. The five-piece psychedelic band’s sound is very at home for Grateful Dead fans, playing rock infused with timeless Americana. Their songs have a mystical quality to them; the heady lyrics are often very dream-like and impressionistic, drawing obvious comparisons to Phish and Trey Anastasio’s song writing style. The songs are often quick-paced and happy, usually followed up by a flurry of guitar soloing. Miles, the shoe-less lead guitarist/singer, plays leads with adventurous fury, boasting truly impressive technical brilliance. Perhaps my favorite part of Fractal Cat is the way the band unhinges when a solo kicks in—the acoustic guitar is strummed a little harder, the drums become more forceful and everyone seems to hone in on the moment. Their song “Trip Tide” has a light, fun melody that wouldn’t be too out of place being performed at Bonnaroo or Mountain Jam—it’s that good. The most haunting moment—and my favorite all-around moment of the night—was the

reverb-laden outro played by the band at the end of the set; the strong, instrumental finish floored the audience, filling McGuire with echoing guitar and a sense of Fractal Cat’s musical expertise.

Overall, the night was impressive; the local talent in Baltimore is truly something unique and a culture our students are rarely exposed to. When asked about the strengths of being a musician in the Baltimore scene, Brooks was optimistic, saying, “[Baltimore] doesn’t have an established mainstream industry status, so everybody plays because of their passion. No one’s trying to get rich.” That was a more than fair assessment of the scene and the night as a whole—both bands play the music that they want to play without pandering to the interests of others to reach a larger audience. Fractal Cat gave away free copies of their new album as a sign of goodwill and as a means of spreading their music; most bands often charge upwards of $5 or $10 per CD, but this unorthodox notion was greatly appreciated by the concertgoers. Brooks continually joked with the attendees, and at the end of the show offered an e-mail list

British indie-pop band The xx sell out at rams head Live

The xx is a little known alternative/indie-pop band from London, England, composed of three young talents in their early 20s: Jamie Smith (who goes by Jamie xx), Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim. While they are still gaining prominence in the music scene among followers, they have already begun to gain critical acclaim for their music since the release of their debut album, xx, in August of 2009. It was ranked ninth on Rolling Stone Magazine’s “Best Album of the Year” list and also won the Mercury Music Prize. Their songs have been featured on an assortment of television shows and other media platforms, and they have played several popular music festivals in North America including Coachella and Bonnaroo. Aside from that, they have recently released their sophomore album in September of 2012, Coexist, which leaps onto a completely different level in terms of their musical prowess.

With the release of their sophomore album, the trio has begun to tour once again; luckily for me, their travels included a stop at Rams Head Live on Monday, January 28. My friend and fellow The xx fan and I were smart to arrive at the venue around 7:15 p.m. with the show set to start at 8 p.m. because it filled up quickly. There was a mixed crowd in the small venue, mostly composed of college kids like us. The balconies were lined with people and there wasn’t a free spot in the place; it was a sold out show. We ended up in the second row of people, center stage, with a perfect view of the band. Needless to

say, I was so stoked. The xx’s opening act was Austra, a fairly new Canadian electronic music group whose debut album Feel It Break

was released in 2011. I’m not very aware of the band, but I did recognize the last song of their set entitled “Lose It,” which is perhaps their most famous single. It’s upbeat and fun; I suggest giving it a listen.

Austra finished their set, and the stage was prepared as everyone in the crowd anxiously awaited the arrival of The xx and their wonderful British accents that would serenade us all. They strolled on stage at half past 9 p.m. and played until around 11 p.m. It was a mind-blowing experience, to say the least. They’re amazing performers. They remain modest in their words between

songs, giving many thanks to the crowd, and they don’t really need to say much because it’s all in their songs.

I always like to skim through the iTunes reviews of albums, and I found the following quote from their Coexist album to be particularly interesting: “makeout music for cool kids.” That assessment is spot-on in my opinion, because Romy Croft’s soft intonation and Oliver Sim’s crooning vocals mix flow with one another to create something fans of the band would pun-ily term “sexy.” I’ve always wondered what the name of their band refers to. My conclusion is that it’s supposed to be the symbol for hugs, where an “o” is the counterpart for kisses. The name of their band itself describes intimacy and love, which is

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what their music expresses. Their vocals were perfectly accompanied by an intricate light show of blues, greens, as well as white and black to go along with certain songs. A particularly ecstasy-enticing part of the set was that, in certain songs, the bass was so intensely strong that it vibrated the entire venue. That, combined with the strategic and artfully placed flashes of light, created an incredible musical experience.

Sim and Croft’s signature moves throughout the performance included a meet at the middle of the stage face-to-face. Sim would repeatedly glide across the stage with smoldering eyes that pierced the audience’s hearts. Jamie xx’s solos were magnificent, as he remixed behind clear boxes likened to ice cubes with the outline of an “x” in each. The set included a consistent shuffle of songs from their debut and sophomore album, with never a dull moment during the total hour and a half. Their 13-track set was accompanied by a three-song encore as demanded by cheers from the audience. My favorite tracks of theirs in their set include “Infinity,” “Shelter,” “Night Time” and “Angels”; however, all of their tunes are amazing, and you should definitely check them out on iTunes. Download both of their albums; you won’t regret it. In fact, you’ll probably want to hug The xx after your first listen.

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to help fans stay in touch. It’s this spirit of kinship that allows for such unique bands to exist in Baltimore. Almost every genre conceivable plays around the city, creating a truly special environment for music fans to be exposed to new and exciting bands.

Fractal Cat performs in McGuire Hall.

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Top 10 non-Loyola Twitter accounts you must follow

B r a d e n G r a e b e r ( @hipstermermaid): I’m not really sure where his Twitter name comes from, but if you are looking for funny, sarcastic tweets, Braden is your man. His tweets are filled with sass and wit, just like that of popular Loyola Twitters, except they offer a broader horizon of topics other than campus occurrences. He tweets what everyone feels and thinks, like “not a big fan of the whole ‘waking up and doing things’ thing” and “keep your friends close and report your enemies for spam.”

Weird Horse (@weirdhorse): What was that you said? @weirdhorse sounds like a weird Twitter? It is. But it is also extremely hilarious. If you are ever feeling sad, please check it out for a grin. The tweets involve more horse puns than imaginable and references to Sarah Jessica Parker—poor SJP.

Rob Delaney (@robdelaney): Rob Delaney is “comedian, writer, 6’3”, 217 lbs.” He has a crude sense of humor, cracking jokes about certain topics some people would deem inappropriate. However, he is well skilled in his craft, able to successfully convey sarcasm and comedy through text. Delaney’s funniest tweets often involve him tweeting random anecdotes to a celebrity. When he isn’t trying to strike up a conversation with a star he pokes fun at their vanity

CNN Breaking News (cnnbrk): To mix up the list of who you should follow on Twitter, consider @cnnbrk. As college students, it is our responsibility to be aware of events outside of our personal lives. By including this news source, or any other if you wish, you will be up-to-date on all current affairs. It may come in handy if a professor asks about recent events other than Justin Timberlake’s new song.

UberFacts (@uberfacts): While you avoid studying vital information for a test, read up on “uber” facts. Knowing that “if you multiply the number 21978 by 4, the product is the same number, but reversed” seems much more interesting than Spanish verb conjugations. And while you technically aren’t doing what you should be doing, you can still say you are learning.

Anti Joke Apple (@anitjokeapple): Disclaimer: At first I did not understand why my roommates found this funny, but after I reread the first tweet I collapsed to the floor laughing. To truly enjoy this Twitter you have to have a dry sense of humor and be able to laugh at the corniest jokes. Its purpose is to make jokes that aren’t supposed to be jokes. For example: “Ask me if I’m a tree. Are you a tree? No.” It is so stupid it is funny. (If this doesn’t interest you, check out @yaboybillnye; he almost edged @antijokeapple out of this spot.)

S a m u e l L . J a c k s o n ( @SamuelLJackson): The man who starred in Snakes on a Plane has some of the best tweets. He is one of the few people in the world who can get away with using an excessive amount of exclamation marks and caps lock. His tweets gained attention during the 2012 Summer Olympics when he tweeted commentary during various events, like women’s gymnastics. He gets so excited when he tweets during a sporting event that you can’t help but feel the same way, even if you had no previous interest in it. If his tweets don’t make you laugh, his Twitter icon might. For some unknown reason he is posing on a ladder.

President Barack Obama (@BarackObama): Regardless of if you

voted for President Obama or not, you should follow him. Although you might have different beliefs, it is important to be aware of his thoughts and plans for America’s future. It’ll give you some small insight into America’s politics. Following him on Twitter is an easy way to see his ideas in 140 characters or less.

C u t e E m e r g e n c y ( @CuteEmergency): Out of the 10 Twitters on this list, @CuteEmergency is probably the most vital to follow. Everyone could use a picture of a baby animal doing something cute throughout his or her daily routine. Weird Horse will bring a grin to your face, but Cute Emergency will turn your frown upside down and make you go “awww,” even on your worst day. The best part is the captions that go along with the pictures.

Modern Seinfeld (@SeinfeldToday): For anyone who enjoyed Seinfeld, this is a must follow. @SeinfeldToday tweets plots for episodes of Seinfeld as if it were to take place now. The story lines incorporate social networking websites, new technology, popular trends and current headlines. The ideas are brilliant and make you yearn for the comedy show to return to airwaves.

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While avoiding your readings and essays, have you ever caught yourself refreshing your Twitter timeline numerous times, only to be left bored with the same tweets? It is filled with song lyrics, re-tweets of horoscopes and your favorite celebrities. Freshen up your timeline with 10 additional Twitters that have nothing to do with Loyola and cover a wide range of interests to keep you entertained when you don’t really feel like being productive.

Top collections of fashion’s favorites debut at Paris Couture Week By eMiLy shaw

Staff WritEr When Chanel puts on a show, they put on a show. With “The Kaiser” of fashion, Karl Lagerfeld, still reigning at the helm, this season was no exception. The collection was shown amongst a carefully constructed forest surrounded by what Lagerfeld called a neoclassical amphitheater. Models with feathery eyelash extensions and drooping veils of the same material wore looks that were predominantly crème, black and navy, with a pop of crimson here and a lavender gown there. The beginning of the collection showed structured tweed separates that were less working-stiff when paired with peep-toe, thigh-high boots of delicate lace or metallic silver leather. The most notable feature of the collection was its flawless mix of textures, from soft feathers to antique lace to ruffles and painstakingly, hand-embroidered patterning. The collection was more than its dreamlike beauty, though. The final look packed a political punch, when two models walked out in matching, sumptuous bridal gowns accompanied by a young boy. This move was apparently Lagerfeld’s own commentary on the current debates in France regarding same-sex marriage.

Christian DiorWhen the classically minimalist Raf

Simons was instated as Dior’s head couture designer last year, many fashion critics and followers claimed his aesthetic was unsuited for couture. However, their cries were silenced last fall when Simons showed his first collection that was more understated

than many typical couture collections, but so well executed and stunning that it didn’t matter. This season, Simons retained his cool, minimalistic tendencies with perhaps a touch more airiness in this flower-inspired collection. With the runway surrounded by stylized hedges, Simon’s garden scene came to life. Particularly memorable was a crème, strapless tea-length gown with alternating thick and thin black bands that crossed each other at an axis on the bust and cascaded and dispersed down the length of the skirt. Equally lovely was a shell-pink gown whose skirt bubbled out at the thigh and touched the floor as lightly as a feather duster. The designer cemented the garden motif with several floral inspired looks, one of which was a dress cut from entirely sheer fabric overlaid with what appeared to be literal dried flowers, though they may very well have been the handiwork of a skilled embroiderer.

ValentinoDesigners Maria Grazia Chiuri and

Pierpaolo Piccioli’s collection for Valentino was a tour de force of skill and pure art. According to Style.com, the show’s pieces were crafted with such care that the embroidering of a jacket and skirt took 850 hours, and it took 500 hours to merely complete the piping on one dress. With their keen Italian eyes and a seriously skilled team, the designers were able to produce quite a few astounding pieces in this predominantly red, black and white collection. Most of the gowns were too exquisite and detailed to

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While the U.S. prepped for the Inauguration on January 20, Couture Week began in Paris. Running for a total of five days, French and Italian designers showed haute couture collections to an elite crowd of fashion’s favorites. Here’s a look at a few of the week’s best collections:

Bouchra JarrarBouchra Jarrar is not your typical couture

designer. When most think of the term “haute couture,” over-the-top, Marie Antoinette-style gowns in every Ladurée macaroons hue are what come to mind. Jarrar, however, favors a stronger, more masculine line, suited for the urban woman. Standout pieces included a fitted, asymmetrical leather biker jacket with an oversized shearling collar that resembled something one might find at Burberry. The collection also included a great, zippered and collared sleeveless shift dress made entirely out of shearling, with mod, black squares of trim that strangely recalled a straightjacket and a Mondrian painting. The pants-based collection featured impeccably cut, dark royal blue ankle-grazers that would work on virtually any woman in any situation, whether at the office or out at night. The feel of the collection as a whole may not be classically couture, but it has all the foundational elements of this genre of fashion: The pieces are crafted from luxurious materials and are, inarguably, extremely well tailored.

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describe in words alone, though there was a gorgeous, floor length black cape whose delicate, wide-open weave lent it the air of a wrought-iron gate, and a dress whose black lace overlay on a nude ground resembled an aerial view of a geometric garden. There was, finally, a breathtaking silvery white gown covered in loose, almost three-dimensional arabesques.

Couture, with its often-exaggerated lines and aesthetics, is not for fashion‘s faint of heart. But its sheer beauty is worth the risk; for more information and high quality images of all the above collections, visit Style.com.

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‘Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint’: The politics and street art of BanskyBy Laura BiasiedecKi

Staff WritErWhether it’s a woman in a French maid’s uniform hiding the street sweepings under a curtain of paint, two male police officers locked in a passionate embrace, a little girl in a pink dress patting down a soldier TSA-style or an Olympic javelin thrower hurling a missile, Bansky has a knack for making people uncomfortable.

“We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,” said Bansky in his book, Wall and Piece.

You cringed a little bit when you read that, didn’t you? I did. I just got a dress in the mail today, but did I need it? What am I encouraging? Where did that money go? Where could it have gone? What am I supporting? What am I destroying?

Bansky has broken into both the London and Bristol Zoos, writing messages from the inhabitants of the penguin and elephant enclosures: “We’re bored of fish” and “I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring.” He’s managed to replace artworks in the MOMA, the Met and the Museum of Natural History. He created his own version of Stonehenge by using colorful portable toilets at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007. On the day of its debut, Bansky replaced the music and cover art of approximately 500 copies of Paris Hilton’s debut CD, Paris, with his own art and remixes by Danger Mouse; one of the more surprising replacement covers showed a digitally-altered Hilton stepping out of a luxury car, surrounded by a group of homeless people and was captioned “90

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.”

-Emo PhilipsThis is the ent i re ty of Bansky’s

manifesto. So who is Bansky?No one really knows. Bansky has been a

street artist, based in England, since the mid- to late-1990s. Speculation about his identity has been going on for years, yielding little concrete evidence, but suggesting the names Robert Banks and Robin Gunningham. It is assumed that he was born in Bristol, England sometime around 1974, trained as a butcher before turning to graffiti and moved to London in or around the year 2000, when his art started to become recognized as his own. He’s been arrested multiple times and, in 2010, he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the year.

Well, what does he do?In the simplest definition, Bansky is

a street artist. However, he has brought urban artistry to incredible new heights by mixing his creative talents with his satirical criticism of politics and society, as well as the extreme measures he takes to get his work noticed. Since he first appeared on the scene, he has defined himself with a unique style, combining stencil art and graffiti lettering. The statements made by Bansky originals elicit responses ranging from fury to confusion to elation and back again.

Percent of Success if Just Showing Up.” The Bansky copies of Paris sold in auction for up to £750, or $1100.

Where does he paint?For the past decade, he’s been shooting

work onto the walls of Barcelona, Berlin, London, Palestine, Mali and the good old USA. Dying to have a piece of social commentary in your living room? There are also plenty of opportunities to score a Bansky original for those of you who are able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in a London auction house and have the resources necessary to remove and transport the work.

Bansky wrote the book Wall and Piece and has also directed the film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 and is now available for instant viewing on Netflix.

How is he doing it? Without getting revealing his secret

identity? You’ve got me stumped. The “myth” is that he walks around in a hoodie at night, writing and stenciling on the streets of London or New Orleans or wherever. But he has been caught and apprehended multiple times, but his name and face continue to be elusive mysteries.

He sounds pretty awesome. Well, he is. You should Google

his stuff. You might love it, or you might hate it. Either way you’re going to have an interesting artistic experience, and isn’t that what art is really all about?

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)—Shop very carefully now. Develop necessary processes before proceeding with projects. Listening works well over the next month. Increase your family’s comfort by clearing clutter. You’re attracting admiration.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)—Don’t behave is if you’re made of money, even if you are. For about three weeks, you really understand people. Conscious and subconscious alignment occurs. Listen to intuition.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)—You can afford it; set your sights high. You’ll have a strong nesting instinct; clean, sort and organize. Discuss core goals with family members.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)—Friends and lovers may compete for attention. Look at it from another perspective. Your curiosity is aroused. Surprise each other. Plan, and provide motivation.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)—Do the job yourself, or make more money doing something else and hire somebody. Just get it done. Find what you need nearby. You have what others want. Minimize distraction.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)—You’re exceptionally perceptive for the next few weeks. You inspire others, and they tell you so. Speak out, and voice your point of view. Love flows abundantly. Send invoices.

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Aries (March 21-April 19)—You’ll get great insights from your dreams. Use them to plan your direction, and anticipate some resistance. Expand your creativity with wild practicality.Taurus (April 20-May 20)—Friends offer good advice. Also, you may find a way to earn more without increasing work. Make sure you know what’s required.Gemini (May 21-June 21)—Intuition inspires your work. Check out new career options. Don’t overlook anybody to avoid jealousies. Join a good team. Travel’s good, too.Cancer (June 22-July 22 )—Allow others independence, as you free your own imagination. Your thoughts wander a lot these days. You may choose different tactics than planned. Take advantage of the moment.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)—Maintain your finances with savings. A task that strengthens your home strengthens you. Evaluate resources. You can borrow or barter for what’s needed.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)—Go with a creative leader. Your partner has a lot to say. Don’t believe everything you learn ... they’re just “guidelines.”

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Lady Hounds knock off Niagara, continue streak

“It was amazing,” said senior guard Katie Sheahin of the atmosphere on the court during the Hounds’ overtime victory over Niagara Thursday night. Sheahin had 21 points and nine rebounds in Loyola’s first win of the weekend.

The Niagara Purple Eagles (9-11 overall, 4-5 MAAC) traveled to Reitz Arena for what proved to be a nail-biter contest right from tipoff.

Niagara sunk the first shot of the contest, but the teams exchanged baskets for the early part of the half until the Purple Eagles went on a 7-0 run to take a 16-10 lead.

The Purple Eagles would maintain their six-point lead until a Sheahin three and a set of made free throws from Nneka Offodile knotted the game at 25.

After Niagara took the lead back with a shot from Lauren Gatto, Sheahin capitalized on a Niagara misstep, stealing the ball and breaking down the court and tying the game again. The Greyhounds earned their first lead when sophomore Steph Smith gave Loyola a 29-27 advantage.

The score would continue to be close for

the remainder of the half, with it reading 36-35 in favor of Niagara at the first buzzer.

The second half would be more of the same, with the lead changing hands four times in the early moments. But eight more points from Lauren Gatto would put Niagara ahead 58-51, the biggest lead either team would hold for the entirety of the game.

Moments later, a set of fouls on Marshall and Padgett would bring the Greyhounds back within two. With less than two minutes remaining in regulation, Sheahin knotted the score at 59.

Shy Britton of Niagara would then go to the charity stripe, sinking both of her free throws and forcing the Greyhounds to respond if they wanted to stay in the game. And respond they did, with Alyssa Sutherland sinking a shot off a pass from Sheahin to tie the score with 7 seconds left, sending the game to overtime.

The Hounds clearly had the momentum, their pre-overtime huddle illustrating that they could hardly contain their energy. “Everyone was live and into it,” said Kara Marshall, a sophomore guard.

“We weren’t losing. That was not an option,” Katie Sheahin said she was telling her teammates before overtime.

The Purple Eagles sunk the first shot of overtime, but the Greyhounds answered

Julius Brooks hit a layup at the buzzer to propel men’s basketball to an 89-87 double overtime victory at Niagara over the weekend to end Loyola’s two-game losing streak. The Hounds (16-8 overall, 8-4 MAAC) were locked in a tight contest with the conference-leading Purple Eagles from the beginning and fought hard for the victory.

The score was tied at 87 apiece with 2.6 seconds remaining when Anthony Winbush made a three-quarter court pass to Erik Etherly at the opposite free-throw line. Etherly then turned and dished the ball to Brooks who laid it in for the win.

Loyola took the lead briefly from the Purple Eagles in the second half 50-41, but Niagara would fight back with an 11-2 run to tie the game at 52. Niagara would then take a five-point lead before the Hounds would eventually be able to tie the game at 64.

In the first period of overtime the Hounds took a commanding 76-68 lead over Niagara with 2:51 remaining in the contest, but they would not be able to hold it. The Purple Eagles would fight back to tie the game at 79, sending it to a second period of overtime.

Julius Brooks hit a go-ahead layup at the buzzer to send the Hounds over Niagara.

This time the two teams went basket for basket, until Loyola finally came out with the victory.

Anthony Winbush led the Hounds with a career high 13 points and 13 rebounds along with four assists. Robert Olson scored 23 and added four assists before fouling out. Dylon Cormier scored 15 points and had three steals. R.J. Williams and Erik Etherly each had 11 for the Hounds.

Loyola’s victory comes after two hard losses to Iona at home and Canisius in Buffalo. Robert Olson scored a career high 27 points in the loss to Canisius. The Hounds struggled with stopping the Golden Griffins offense the whole game. Loyola was able to pull within five points with 4:16 remaining, but were unable to finish. Canisius has been one of the biggest stories for the MAAC this season. After winning only five games all of last year, the Golden Griffins (14-8 overall, 7-4 MAAC) are in a position to send themselves to the NCAA tournament.

The Hounds are on the home stretch, fighting for a top four seed in the MAAC tournament. Loyola still faces a daunting schedule, with a second matchup with both Iona and Canisius before the season ends.

Brook’s buzzerbeater helps men’s basketball knock Niagara in OT

quickly, with Marshall getting two points of her own and Sheahin coming up with a huge steal to put the Greyhounds on top 65-63.

From there, everything went Loyola’s way. The Purple Eagles seemed to be missing every shot they put up. The series of fouls they committed to attempt to stop the clock only led to made Greyhound free throws and minimum response from Niagara. The final score would read 71-68 in favor of the Greyhounds, a score that accurately reflects the nail-biter nature of the game as a whole.

“We just worry about ourselves,” said head coach Joe Logan. “I’m most pleased that this game shows that our hard work to this point has paid off.”

Katie Sheahin led the Hounds’ scoring, recording 21 points on the evening. Padgett and Marshall also scored in the double-digits, with 12 and 11 of their own respectively.

Lauren Gatto of the Purple Eagles had a game-high 25 points.

On Saturday afternoon, the Greyhounds picked up right where they left off when the Siena Saints (8-13 overall, 4-6 MAAC) came to town.

The Hounds took a 7-2 lead early, not allowing a point from the field for the first 4:45 of the game. Loyola, however, then conceded three consecutive baskets in a row,

giving Siena its first lead.The Greyhounds would go back on top

12-8, but Siena would soon knot the score at 12.

The Saints would use a triple from Kelsey Booth and a made free throw by Symone Kelly to take a 18-15 lead.

After a hectic scramble beneath the Siena basket, Sutherland squeaked in a shot and was fouled on the play, sending her to the line. Her made free throw put the Hounds up 22-21.

A combination of big stops on the defensive end and Sheahin’s sharp shooting would extend the Greyhounds’ lead to 28-21.

The Saints, however, would conclude the half with a 5-0 run, bringing them back within two at the half.

The Greyhounds would use the second half to pull decisively in front, only allowing 11 points from the Saints.

A balanced offense—Sheahin had 12 points while Sutherland, Padgett, and Krusen all tallied 9—would allow the Hounds to cruise to a 51-37 victory.

The Greyhounds, now 4-5 in the MAAC, will look to continue their win streak when they travel to Western New York to take on Niagara and Canisius next weekend.

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By alex GallaGher

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This year’s inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame:

Deacon White, .312 career hitter in the late 1800s.

Jacob Ruppert, former New York Yankees owner.

Hank O’Day, former MLB umpire.Welcome, class of 2013, to the National

Baseball Hall of Fame.This July, when Cooperstown, New

York prepares itself for another induction ceremony, only White, Ruppert and O’Day will be honored and inducted into the hall. The Pre-Integration Committee voted each one of these men in.

According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s website, “…retired Major League Baseball players no longer eligible for election by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA), along with managers, umpires and executives, whose greatest contributions to the game were realized from the 1876-1946 era,” can be voted into the Hall of Fame.

Of the 569 ballots filled out by members of BBWAA, not one of the 37 players eligible for election reached the needed 427 votes. A player needs 75 percent of the vote in order to gain entrance into the hall.

It marks only the eighth time since 1936, when the hall elected its first class, that no players on the ballot were voted in.

In all of the years where not one player was voted in, this sparks perhaps the most controversial debate the hall has dealt with since Pete Rose’s gambling debacle, which to this day remains a topic of discourse. Even “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, arguably one of baseball’s greatest hitters ever is still denied entrance into the hall for allegedly being a part of throwing the World Series on purpose back in 1919.

If Rose and Jackson’s legacies have proved anything, it’s that baseball has trouble forgiving for what they consider to be a mortal sin. They gambled and bet on baseball, and it cost them baseball’s highest honor. Now players are being denied induction into the hall for their involvement with PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) in the past.

Steroids, HGH (human growth hormone) and other PEDs are the reasons why players like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens remain plaque-less.

Baseball’s home run king, Barry Bonds, with 762 career home runs and seven MVP awards, gathered only 36.2 percent of votes in his first year on the ballot. Roger Clemens, arguably one of baseball’s greatest pitchers of all time with seven Cy Young awards and 4,672 career strikeouts, garnered an unimpressive 37.6 percent of votes.

Therefore, arguably the greatest player and pitcher in the history of baseball only amassed 420 votes together. The two of their votes combined wouldn’t get the needed 427.

Not only were Bonds and Clemens not voted in because of their steroid scandals, but the following hall-worthy players also missed out because of proven banned substance abuse or simply speculation of steroid use: Jeff Bagwell (59.6 percent),

By Jim hoGan StAff WritEr

Mike Piazza (57.8 percent), Mark McGwire (16.9 percent), Sammy Sosa (12.5 percent) and Rafael Palmeiro (8.8 percent). It was Bagwell, Sosa and Piazza’s first time on the ballot.

Also worth mentioning is how Craig Biggio, a first time member of the ballot who had over 3,000 career hits, only collected 68.2 percent of the vote—the highest amongst all players—but Biggio’s case is not one tied to PED use or suspicion. Over time though, Biggio will likely get to the needed 75 percent from baseball writers.

McGwire, Sosa and Palmeiro have all either admitted to using steroids or have been found guilty of use. Bonds and Clemens have been in the news for alleged use; although their cases still don’t seem as clear as the three previously mentioned sluggers, both Bonds and Clemens have been indicted.

But Bagwell and Piazza only have suspicion going against them. Is that fair to deny them entrance into the hall because there is merely suspicion? Isn’t one of the mottos of this country that one is innocent until proven guilty? Well, it seems like that may not be the case for baseball.

Baseball must answer the following: To allow steroid users, or not to allow steroid users as members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame—that is the question.

Allowing some known PED users and not others isn’t a solution either. This isn’t an issue that can have a gray area. It needs to be black and white, and a decision needs to be made in the near future to shut the casket on baseball’s haunted past. The skeletons need to be buried.

If it is decided to induct known PED users, it should be made clear somewhere on their player plaque that they used illegal substances.

It’s not fair to the players of the past who played the game the right way—Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson and Stan Musial, who just recently passed away. They respected baseball and played it free of any substances that have now become a part of our culture and have plagued the game in recent years.

Members of the Hall of Fame all have one thing in common—they never used PEDs. The argument of “what if they played nowadays,” is not valid here because we’re talking about “what if.”

If it is decided to not induct known PED users, then the players who used illegal substances willingly cheated and therefore do not deserve a place amongst those who didn’t use.

And if it is argued that they used in an era where at one time there was no drug program (steroids were banned in 1991 and in 2003

PED testing was incorporated within the game), they still took performance enhancers that not everyone else took—drugs that were not available to Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and many others.

They went against what was right in baseball—they violated the game’s innocence. Also, just because players aren’t inducted into the hall because of PEDs doesn’t mean that they don’t have a place there; if one is to visit the hall, one will find there is a specific room with updated statistical records where Bonds remains number one on baseball’s career home run list. Sure, these players wouldn’t have a player plaque and wouldn’t be considered a Hall of Famer, but their numbers remain on the record boards in the Hall of Fame.

Whatever course of action is taken, players like Bagwell and Piazza deserve the nod into the hall. If it later comes out they used illegal substances, then the Hall of Fame has every right to remove their membership.

For the sake of baseball, a call to the bullpen needs to be made. Bring in a decision and let it close the game, putting to rest the whole PED controversy.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame will have to rest with its decision—with PED users or without.

Mark Piazza, who was nominated for a induction in the Hall of Fame, was not granted enough votes to earn a plaque because of suspected substance use, raising the question of whether or not suspicion is valid reason to keep a player out of the Hall.

Chip Kelly, who led Oregon to the BCS National Championship game in 2011 and boasted a 46-7 record in four seasons, has left Oregon to take the position of head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, who had a dismal season under Andy Reid.

By James Fox StAff WritEr

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Another thrilling season of college football is in the books, which means a new wave of head coaches, first-years and veterans alike, are landing new jobs at different schools for the upcoming 2013 NCAA Division I FBS season. To this point, 30 FBS schools have hired a new head coach to lead their respective clubs in the 2013-2014 college season. Some of the schools are looking for a fresh start for their football programs, while some are looking to continue their storied success.

The latest and most surprising coaching change was Chip Kelly’s decision to leave Oregon State to become the new head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, who had fired Andy Reid after a miserable 4-12 season. Kelly’s name had been swirling around the rumor mill for weeks until he announced he would remain at Oregon. Suddenly, on January 16, Kelly had a change of heart and was named the new head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Four days later, Oregon promoted offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich to head coach. Helfrich will have big shoes to fill, as Kelly had a remarkable 46-7 record in four seasons with Oregon, including a trip to the 2010-2011 BCS National Championship Game, where the Ducks lost to Auburn. Oregon should still have a very successful program, with rising junior De’Anthony Thomas and rising sophomore Byron Marshall getting the carries.

Before Chip Kelly’s move to the Eagles, Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone became the first college coach to move to the NFL this offseason, accepting a contract to become the new head coach of the Buffalo Bills. Marrone had spent four years at Syracuse, compiling a respectable 25-25 record with two bowl victories, both coming in the Pinstripe Bowl in 2010 and 2012. Syracuse promoted defensive coordinator Scott Shafer to head coach three days after Marrone’s departure, on January 9. Shafer will have to deal with the loss of senior quarterback Ryan Nassib to graduation. Nassib had spent four years as the Orange quarterback under

FBS head coaching carousel simmers down

Marrone and is considered a top quarterback prospect in the 2013 NFL Draft. Syracuse enters the ACC for the first time in 2013, which will be a much tougher conference than the Big East for Shafer’s squad.

We cannot discuss the head coaching carousel without bringing up Gene Chizik, whose fall from grace concluded when Auburn fired him after a dismal 3-9 record in 2012. Chizik had spent just four seasons at Auburn, leading the Tigers to a 33-19 record over that span. Chizik peaked when his 2010 squad, led by Cam Newton, defeated Oregon in the BCS National Championship Game to cap off an undefeated season. After Newton left for the NFL, Auburn struggled and Chizik bottomed out in 2012, leading to

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his dismissal. Gus Malzahn will succeed Chizik at

Auburn. Malzahn is familiar with Auburn’s system, as he served as their offensive coordinator under Chizik from 2009 to 2011, before spending a year as Arkansas State’s head coach in 2012. Malzahn’s résumé is impressive, helping Auburn win a National Championship and leading Arkansas State to a 9-3 record in 2012. Bryan Harsin was hired to replace Malzahn at Arkansas State.

Meanwhile, Arkansas fired head coach John L. Smith after just one season, after Smith had replaced fired head coach Bobby Petrino. Arkansas finished 4-8 in Smith’s only season, and they hired former Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema to replace Smith.

Notable retiring coaches are Nevada’s Chris Ault and UTEP’S Mike Price. Brian Polian will succeed Ault at Nevada and former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line coach Sean Kugler will replace Price at UTEP.

Other than the retired coaches, Gene Chizik seems to be the biggest name without a job heading into 2013. Teams likely are not impressed with his résumé outside of his undefeated 2010 season. After all, he did have Cam Newton as his quarterback that year. The head coaching carousel of the 2013 offseason seems to be simmering down. It will be interesting to see which moves pay off and which ones blow up in the programs’ faces.

By ChristoPher sinGlemann

Contributing WritEr

Track & Field continues strong seasonThe women’s track and field team continued

their 2013 debut this past weekend at the Penn State National Meet and the George Mason Patriot Games. The weekend was a strong showing for the Greyhounds following the team’s success at the Gotham Cup two weeks ago.

Senior Jackie D’Antonio led the Greyhounds in placing at University Park by coming in 12th in her first mile race, completing the race in 5:05.89. Kiera Harrison, another senior participating in the National Meet, ran a 17:52.99 5k and finished in 14th for the Greyhounds.

The rest of the women’s team spent the

weekend in Fairfax, Virginia, competing in the Patriot Games at George Mason University. Head coach Amy Horst cited the event as a learning experience, stating, “George Mason’s flat track gives our team a great experience. We like to go and compete against teams that we don’t normally see, it really challenges us and makes us work.”

Aside from junior Courtney Willeford, who ran a 28.87 200-meter dash, the Loyola sprinters were led by three first year students, Rebekah Roberson, who ran a 27.85 dash; Eileen Pastyrnak, who clocked a 28.61 and Jeanine Gill, who finished the top 25 of the event’s 65 competitors with a time of 26.81.

Meanwhile, sophomore Lisa Potter ran a 1:21.89 500-meter dash, finishing just a mere five-tenths of a second short of the program

Check out next week’s issue for a

preview of the 2013 men’s and women’s

lacrosse teams

record for the event. Potter’s classmate, Kelly Macguire, finished 10th in the 1,000-meter with a time of 3:09.61, the best overall placing for the Greyhounds at the Patriot Games and of the weekend. Senior Cali Pappas came in 11th, just one place behind Macguire, with a time of 3:12.41.

Prior to competing in the 1000-meter event, Macguire and Pappas, along with sophomores Kellyanne Bondulich and Alyssa Dorney, ran in the 4x800-meter relay finishing with a time of 9:53.35. The four girls lead the Greyhounds to sixth place in the event.

In response to the Greyhounds’ performance this weekend, coach Horst said, “We’ve got a lot of work to do before the MAAC Championships, but we know what to work on now and it’s all part of the plan to improve and prepare as we look forward to what we

can put together come mid-February.”The team will continue their away meet

schedule in Indiana at the Meyo Invite and New York at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational.

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9Women’sBasketball@ Canisius

1 p.m.

Men’slacrosse

vs. Harvard12 p.m.Ridley

8Men’s

Basketballvs. Siena9 p.m.

Reitz Arena

Celebration of Faculty

Scholarships @ Loyola/Notre Dame

Library2-4:30 p.m.

7Women’sBasketball@ Niagara11 a.m.

Women’sTrack

@ Sweet-heart

MultimixAll day

6 1110Men’s

Basketball@ Marist2 p.m.

Congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens for their victory in Super Bowl XLVII