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NEWS
Signs sporting the new university design are slowly appearing around campus.
how much money we can take from our students today that the school usually plays. Gaertner is referring to the $15 charge for students to get a new university ID card. According to John Patterson, director of the OneCard ofce, there is a charge because this is the same fee as a damaged or lost ID card. As for the new layout of the university ID cards, it features a largely printed Mercyhurst University label at the bottom. Patterson said, The school told me what was required of the cards, but it was ultimately my decision for the layout. The Public Relations Department and designer of the card, Steve Perkins, made sure it was appropriate, and we came up with the card. Vice President for Advancement David Livingston, Ph.D., explained that branding the university is an important
NEWS
Assistant Professor Kimberly Zacherl in the Walker School of Business used a Diversity Enrichment Grant to take students to the 2012 Annual Diversity Conference Thursday, Sept. 13, in Pittsburgh, PA. Zacherl, junior Dan Tremblay, sophomore Dennis Arthur and senior Menda Tenzing attended sessions including Bridging Cultural and Gender Barriers, Women Take Care and Men Take Charge, Multicultural Leadership and Its not the Glass Ceiling but the Sticky Floor. The group also attended the Keynote Luncheon Address by Soledad OBrien, special investigation correspondent and host of CNNs In America documentaries.
News Brief
Students attend 2012 Annual Diversity Conference
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Changes to the Student Union Great Room are a work in progress. Finishing touches to the space have yet to be added.
I like the enclosed commuter lounge, said senior and commuter Brittany Barko. Hopefully, this will be the rst of many changes geared toward improving campus life for commuters. Sophomore Lauren Smith said, The fact that the Great Room is
closed off is awesome for studying, privacy and events held there. However, I do wish the furniture took up more room though; maybe they could add some comfy couches or something. Though the completion date remains uncertain, MSG is planning to hold an opening ceremony around mid-October. The goal of the renovation is to make the Great Room more inviting for students to hang out in. In addition to the new decorations and walls in the Great Room, several departments have new locations within the Union. Both the MSG and the SAC ofces have moved from the second oor to the basement, located next to the Laker Inn. Since their new location typically receives more student trafc than the second oor, MSG and SAC hope to achieve greater visibility to students. The Campus Involvement Center has relocated from next to Campus
Ministry on the rst oor to the ofces vacated by MSG and SAC. Sarah Allen said that the new location is better suited to the needs of the expanding department and has been getting just as much student trafc. Director of Service Learning Colin Hurley and AmeriCorps member to Service Learning Bethany Brun made the biggest transition, moving from the rst oor of Egan to the space right next to Campus Ministry. Betty Amatangelo, Campus Ministry secretary, thinks that the Service Learning departments new location has strengthened its relationship with Campus Ministry, especially where student service opportunities are concerned. It has really helped collaboration between the two departments, Amatangelo said. Overall, the many changes aim to add to the convenience and appeal of the Union for students and staff.
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FEATURES
Culinary Cab travels around campus and serves food to hungry students.
The Culinary Cab doesnt just provide food to the student body, but it also creates a place to meet fellow students. Cloud wants to make the Culinary Cab a place where friends can socialize and others can come to meet someone they may not have had the pleasure of meeting before. Cloud said, [The Culinary Cab] is not just a food truck, its a novelty. Im just happy to be apart of it. Satisfying students is the key goal of the Culinary Cab and so far it has had a positive impact. Junior Caitlin ONeil said, The waking tacos are delicious and they have convenient hours. Its denitely one of the best ideas theyve ever had, sophomore Damian Walker said. As the seasons are changing there has been talk of hot apple cider and
hot chocolate coming soon for the cold weather. Cloud also had thoughts about using the Culinary Cab to pass out treats to kids on Halloween and mentioned that big things would hopefully be happening on that day for students. Another big holiday for the Culinary Cab will be St. Patricks Day. There are endless possibilities with the truck, Scott said. The team would like to extend business outside of campus. They have already begun going to Mercyhurst North East on Tuesday nights, and would like to go to festivals over the summer. Two possible events to join are Celebrate Erie and Presque Isle Days. The Culinary Cab runs Thursday through Saturday from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. each week on campus.
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Jon Lehrer teaches the students of the dance students to move with motion and purpose. He tells them to let momentum drive their movements.
entirely new class of dance majors, although hes used to our facilities. He was incredibly experienced in his eld, displaying it through his teachings. He held himself in front of the group, and also in the information he gave to the group. There is no such thing as a straight line, but the body can grow and move to give the elusion of a straight line, Lehrer said, having the students stretch and go through routines of movement. He went on to describe an idea he called Organic Athleticism. This idea is to not go harder, faster or stronger, but to promote exibility and uid motion so that a performer could make themselves into a pretzel or a bow. He used more mainstream terms in teaching the students to move uidly such as release instead of relev, which means to rise or a raising of the body. The big message of the class was to not cut corners. Use momentum and the bodys natural movement to keep a healthy, breezy performance.
The Guard
The Guard is a comedic sh-out-of-water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafcking and rural police corruption. Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drugsmuggling gangone, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a strait-laced FBI agent. The Guard is a pleasure. I cant tell if its really (bleeping) dumb or really (bleeping) smart, but its pretty (bleeping) good. Roger EbertChicago Sun Times Friday, Sept. 21 at 2:15 and 7:15 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center
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By Chelsea Schermerhorn
Copy editor
This year is going to be very eventful for the Lumen, starting Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. with a poetry jam in the Carolyn Herrmann Student Union Great Room. Students from all disciplines are invited to bring their own creative work to share with their peers. The scope is not limited, however, so
students may also bring works to read from their favorite authors and poets. Everyone is also encouraged to bring instruments and perform in preparation for the Literary Festival that will be coming in the spring. The poetry jam is a continuation of the 2011-2012 Lumen staff s attempt to give students a positive feedback environment that will build condence for sending submissions to the magazine and garner attention to its ongoing success year after year.
Fashion week concluded with a stunning display of the fall fashions that each designer had to offer.
Spring Fashion Week left New York City last Wednesday, a spectacle of elegance and glamour that made the celebrations close, not with a zzle, but with a bang. Before the event moved to London, England, for its second week, designers
OPINION
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No role model
Taylor Swifts lyrics send a negative message to young female audience
By Christy Moore
Contributing writer
Homecoming weekend and Hurst Fest are upon us, and many students are eager to welcome their alumni friends back to campus.
The Center for Academic Excellence has been quite a focal point on campus lately, drawing both positive and negative attention. Students and faculty seem to love the new facilities, but the lack of vending machines and coffee bar have left many hungry and in need of a caffeine boost.
I do not like Taylor Swift. It is not that her music is not my cup of tea, it is that I genuinely do not like her as a person. Why? Because I think shes a terrible role model. I think she sends damaging messages to women in what she writes about as an artist, and also in the way she carries out her life as a person. In her latest hit single, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Swift writes about a boyfriend who keeps calling it quits and then wants to get back together. When I rst heard the song, I rolled my eyes at another boy-crazy, sappy song, but then I read an article describing the song as a girl power anthem and from that indignation was born this commentary.
John Patterson of the OneCard ofce is following a new policy of issuing school IDs for students wishing to vote. New cards feature the coveted expiration date on the front required for the ID to be an eligible form of Pennsylvania identication. With many students registering to vote in Erie County, it is a disgrace he personally refuses to issue cards to the out-of-state students who need it the most.
Swift is not in any way, shape or form a model for female empowerment. In fact, she is the opposite. In this songs lyrics, Swift writes of the exhausting cycle of breakup and makeup, with her boyfriend making false promises and picking ghts in some kind of twisted game that she cannot seem to gure out. Are we supposed to stand in awe of your strength, self-respect and maturity in nally telling whichever of your boyfriends it was that we are never getting back together, and just completely ignore that it was you who chose to keep taking him back in the rst place? And this is not her only song with this theme of letting people take advantage of her see Dear John, White Horse and Fifteen to name a few. Whats even worse, Swift herself doesnt even recognize that she is an agent of her own victimization, as she believes that it is she that leaves abusive relationships with an upper hand, writing lines like But I took your matches before re could catch me. Really? Thats debatable at best. Of course, we all know about the
Kanye incident in which Swift was interrupted, undermined and humiliated in front of all of her peers and a national TV audience, and instead of defending herself, Swift waited for then-boyfriend Taylor Lautner to come rescue her and let her cry on his shoulder (see Back to December lyrics). The message? Females, stay weak and silent and subjugated and just wait for the men. Where was the girl power then, and when it was arguably needed most in her career? When music critics disparage her talent, vocal abilities and song-writing skills, she replies not with intelligence in the form of an articulate and wellthought argument about her legitimacy as an artist, but with emotional, childish name-calling: Youre mean! Swift is not a feminist. Swift is a patriarchal enabler. In Swifts most recent album, Speak Now (2010), only two out of 14 tracks are actually about a life other than Swift being obsessed with boys. Which begs the question: what will Taylor Swift write about when she does nally marry someone? What will her image revolve around then? Will her working girl career be over? Thats a patriarchal message if I have ever heard one. A womans one and only goal in life is to get married, and any other interests leading up to that, like a music career, are just a strategy for achieving that goal, and are to be put aside once that goal is achieved. I strongly believe these messages make Taylor Swift even more damaging to impressionable young women than the blatantly questionable morality and values of women like Kim Kardashian or Lindsay Lohan. On account of the subtle nature of her lyrics, no questions are raised and no critical thinking ensues the just blatant acceptance of gender roles and stereotypes: a pretty, boy-crazy, emotional woman-child exuding conservative purity (and by association, passing judgment on any form of sexual expression), weak-willed, powerless, complacent and forever seeking validation from men. Taylor Swift is certainly no role model for young women.
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By Joe Chiodo
Sports Editor
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