University of Hartford
Volume 33, Issue 24
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Do We Need A Smoke-Free Zone? By Sarah Wilson
Informer Staff Writer
Anyone who has spent time
outside the Mortensen Library has
seen the steps and grass littered with
cigarette butts, a problem a group
on campus is now trying to combat
with a no-smoking proposal.
The group, composed of students,
faculty and staff, is proposing that
the area outside of Harry Jack Gray
Hartford men’’s track set records be a smoke-free zone for a trial
this week. For more on the period next year.
events, turn to page 13. While there are many people in
support of this initiative, there are
still risks of unhappiness involved.
Take away a smoker’’s cigarette, and
News DAVE HITCHINGS there are sure to be some unhappy
campers.
““Clearly any change of this nature
cannot be unilaterally imposed,””
said Jane Horvath, senior adviser
to the president and member of
the group.
It is likely support for this cause
could be split down the middle, and
students are sure to have suggestions
for alternatives.
Senior Calum Rennie stated, ““To
Commencement 2010 is weeks a certain degree, smokers are kind
away. Find out about possible of bastardized, the bigger problem
rain times and procedures on is just there’’s no ashtrays, and no-
page 4. where to throw the cigarettes away.””
Because of the sensitivity towards
the subject, this Thursday, April
Entertainment 29, the group will be holding a
““Community Conversation”” in the
Mortensen Library from 4:15 to 6
p.m. Anyone on campus is encour-
aged to come to voice their opinion
on the subject and learn more about
the proposal.
Through this gathering, the group
is aiming to answer questions like
the amount of support for the idea,
and how to go about implementing
such a change.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook ““As the idea initiated with stu-
introduced the ““like”” feature dents, and as faculty and staff have
for the entire Internet. See one been discussing the need to do
writer’’s opinion on Page 10. something to improve the area, we
thought it important that we discuss
the proposal as a community,”” said
Opinions ALEXANDRIA HUBBARD Horvath.
The proposal came about during
Smoking may no longer be allowed around the library next year. discussions of the Values Com-
Spring Fling Fail? Silpe Exhibition
Is Apple infringing on journalistic
rights by inuencing a raid on a
blogger’’s home? For one writer’’s
opinion, turn to page 7.
BY THE
NUMBERS
17
days until commence-
ment. To all seniors,
congratulations on a
job well done. HARRIS DECKER
Was the rst indoor concert for Spring Fling’’s history a rousing Krista LaBella, an art school student, opened an exhibit at the
success, or did the show fall short? Turn to page 8 for a review. Silpe Gallery. Turn to page 9 for more information.
April 29, 2010
mittee, an organization on campus
whose goal is to come up with ways
to strengthen a shared sense of com-
munity across the university.
One thing that teachers and
students alike have expressed as
needing improvement is gather-
ing spaces. While the library is
frequented by many students, the
Values Committee feels it would
be benecial to the community
if it could further be enjoyed by
everyone.
Victoria Lamagna, a Student Gov-
ernment Association representative
of the group, said, ““The smoking
outside the library has become an
issue for many students and it also
ruins the atmosphere with all of the
cigarette butts all over the ground.””
The group sees many positives in
implementing this change, including
that there would be more outdoor
seating during desirable weather
for students and others using the
library. It comes as no surprise that
there have been complaints about the
area as one frequently has to walk
through a cloud of smoke to enter
the library, or be wary of the excess
ash covering the steps if looking for
a place to sit.
““The proposal, if accepted by the
community of students living on
campus, would allow them to en-
joy themselves outside the library,
after hours of studying, in a clean
environment,”” said Lamagna.
The Values Committee has al-
ready started executing projects to
improve gathering spaces around
campus by holding campus clean
ups, campus plantings, as well as
having students work with facilities
in the placement of benches around
campus.
In order to hear the opinions of
members of the university and to
further implement the initiative
to improve the campus’’ overall
appeal, Lamagna and her team
are urging everyone to attend this
Thursday’’s Community Conversa-
tion forum.
For more information visit the
event’’s Facebook page titled ““A
Community Conversation.””
ANDY SWETZ
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Hartford Freshman
Hosts MTVu to Talk
About STD Prevention
By Keith Rugar
Informer Staff Writer
One university student recently
had the chance to be an on-air V-
Jay on MTVu, the college-specic
division of MTV, to count down
her top 10 videos and provide
students with information on STD
prevention.
MTV has long been in the busi-
ness of keeping young people
informed about pop culture and
important issues that they should
be aware of.
As part of its Get Yourself Tested
campaign, MTVu was looking
for students to get involved with
STD awareness, prevention and
safe sex.
Kayla Washington, a freshman
who is also an intern for Planned
Parenthood, hosted MTVu’’s
““Dean’’s List,”” and the episode
aired from April 13 to April 18.
Washington said that seeing
being tested and what their friends
might think, but ““getting tested is
not for your friends, it’’s for you,””
she said in an interview on UNotes.
As a health educator, Washing-
ton feels it is important to educate
students about STDs and said by
the age of 25 one out of every two
people having sex will contract
an STD.
Getting tested is easy; Washing-
ton went to Planned Parenthood
and received a blood test and
produced a urine sample.
She said, ““It is important to come
in routinely or when ever you
change sexual partners as you can
always be at risk to get an STD.””
She believes that people should
not be afraid to talk about sex and COURTESY OF UNOTES
that people should nd someone Ivana Milanovic, the mechanical engineering department chair in CETA, pictured third from
that they trust to talk about issues left, recently received the NASA Fellowship Award in order to continue studying wake
associated with STD and safe sex.
vortices in a jet in cross-ow. Milanovic also won an award for Innovation in Teaching and
When it comes to STD testing
she said getting yourself tested is Learning in the fall of 2009 for her development of a new laboratory structure for a sequence
something to be proud of, ““and of thermouids experiments that resulted in student accomplishment, according to UNotes.

Department Chair Receives

students in high school having un-
protected sex and the consequences
that came from that decision made
her want to become a peer educator
for Planned Parenthood.
““Not only do I educate others,
I practice safe sex and routinely
get tested for STDs,”” she said on
the program.
As part of the program, Wash-
ington went to Planned Parenthood
and received an STD test to show
that getting tested is, ““easy, pain-
less and not scary at all,”” she said.
Many students do not bother to
get tested because of the stigma of
Kayla Washington, a rst-year student at the university, recently
hosted MTVu’’s ““Dean’’s List,”” where she counted down some
of her favorite music videos and discussed STD prevention.
shows that you care about your
health,”” Washington said.
In trying to build this STD
awareness on college campuses,
MTV has created a Facebook
page for ““MTV’’s GYT Campus
Challenge”” and is offering prizes
for the campus that can sign up
the most students.
For more information on the
MTVu Get Yourself Tested pro-
gram, students and faculty can
visit www.itsyoursexlife.com/gyt/
campus-challenge or go to www.
GYTnow.org. For more information
on MTVu, visit www.mtvu.com.
COURTESY OF UNOTES
2010 NASA Fellowship Award
By Karen Arakalian
Informer Staff Writer
Dr. Ivana Milanovic, the
unviersity’’s mechanical en-
gineering department chair,
recently received a grant from
NASA, known as the NASA
Fellowship Award.
The purpose of Milanovic‘‘s
proposal was to understand the
wake vortices in a jet in cross-
ow. Milanovic will be able to
use higher-level technology
that only NASA offers.
This cutting-edge research
will aid in Milanovic’’s inves-
tigation with wind tunnels and
jets in crossow. NASA has a
very expensive facility with a
large amount of tools that the
NASA scientists use.
When this research is com-
pleted with NASA, Milanovic
will bring it back to the univer-
sity. She will then be able to
give graduates projects based
on her research.
The graduate students will be
able to do the simulations on
their own, which is a valuable
skill to have because the tech-
nology that NASA provides
will help graduate students
learn concepts about active
ow control strategies.
This will subsequently help
them learn valuable skills suit-
ed for the work environment,
and make them more appealing
suitors for hiring compared to
other students in the eld.
With this research the graduates
will learn more in-depth con-
cepts, involving turbo machinery
and aeronautical exercises and the
principles behind vortices.
Milanovic believes that the
research the grant allows will be
““an excellent way for students to
learn how to do these simulations
involving jet crossow.””
Milanovic has been awarded
grants previously from the Fel-
lowship Grant. In 2002 she was
able to do research with NASA on
a project called ““Yawed Circular
Jets in Cross-Flow.””
In 2003 she was also involved
in a research project with NASA
called ““Synthetic Jets in Cross-
 ow.”” All together, Milanovic
has done six research projects
with NASA.
As a professor at the university,
she has a lot of experience to offer
the students.
This grant gives credibility to
the school of engineering and
the fact that employers will see
the graduate students at a higher
capacity because Milanovic gives
the students so many opportunities
to learn about a variety of subjects.
Not many schools have faculty
that have worked alongside the
professionals at NASA.
Milanovic received these grants
from NASA by writing a proposal
in which she explained her pur-
pose, a description of the actual
experiments and references from
credible sources.
NASA’’s mission statement is,
““To improve life here, to extend
life there and to nd life beyond.””
This is one of the reason’’s
that Milanovic has been able to
successfully receive grants from
NASA, because her research is
relevant and important to NASA’’s
vision.
Milanovic was born in Yugosla-
via, which was under a civil war
in the early 1990s.
She received her Bachelor of
Science and her Master of Science
from the University of Belgrade
in Serbia and worked as a faculty
member there as well.
After completing those de-
grees, she received an invitation
from the Polytechnic University
of NYU and received her Ph.D.
in mechanical engineering. She
was a lecturer in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at
Columbia University.
Milanovic was a nalist for the
Connecticut Technology Coun-
cil’’s Women of Innovation Award
in the Academic Innovation and
Leadership category.
Since 2001 she has been a pro-
fessor at the university. She has
served as the department chair
of the mechanical engineering
department since 2006.
Milanovic will be carrying
out her research this summer at
the Turbo Machinery and Propul-
sion Systems Division at NASA
Glenn Research Center.

Upcoming and Ongoing Events at the University

Provost Search Continues
The university’’s provost search is
continuing. The nal four candidates
will be brought to the university on
May 3, 4, 11 and 18. The rst two
bios will be released on Friday, April
30 at ned.hartford.edu/provost.
Senior Week is Coming Soon
This year’’s Senior Week will
feature three events for the class of
2010: a senior night, a ““Farewell to
Your Favorite Places”” and a trip to
Mohegan Sun from May 12 to May
14. Tickets are $30 through SGA.
Class of 2010 Reception
There will be a reception for the
class of 2010 and their families on
Saturday, May 15 from 4 to 6 p.m.,
in Gengras North and South Cafe.
Reservations must be made by May
7 to the Ofce of Alumni Relations.
Trip to Six Flags New England
The Village Community Council
will be co-sponsoring a trip to Six-
Flags on Saturday, May 1. Tickets are
$5, and students must be a resident of
the Village to purchase them from the
Village Community Council.
Residence Hall Closing
The residence halls will begin clos-
ing the week of nals, and all students
who are not receiving degrees need to
move out by Wednesday, May 11 at 1
p.m. Those receiving degrees need to
move out by Sunday, May 16 at 5 p.m.
 the informer news april 29, 2010 page 3

Internship Debate Quotes Career Services in TIME

By Marissa Pollina
Informer Staff Writer
Internships should not be taken
lightly, and the university’’s John
Kniering, director of Career Ser-
vices, wanted to get involved.
A few weeks ago, TIME Mag-
azine quoted John Kniering
regarding adults taking internships
with no pay and students who
are not receiving college credit.
Though internships were designed
for students to help get a jump-
start on a career, now adults are
becoming involved with intern-
ships for working purposes due
to the recession.
The idea of an internship gives
students the opportunity to get
college credit toward their univer-
sity or college, or to get paid for
working a certain amount of hours.
Over the years, many corpora-
tions get unemployed professionals
to work for free.
These internships allow profes-
sionals and students to get the
training they need, but this causes
a problem throughout many in-
dustries.
Systematically, this goes against
the Fair Labors Standards Act,
which allows someone to get paid
minimum wage or receive college
credit through the work of an
internship.
Because workers are getting laid
off, companies want to hire new
and improved people looking for
a learning experience.
Kniering notes, ““It can be very
tempting if you’’re laying off em-
John Kniering, director of Career Services, was quoted in TIME Magazine about internships.
ployees to bring in free help and
call it an internship.””
These corporations are allowing
individuals to work for free in re-
sponse to losing so many workers.
TIME Magazine writer Eve Tah-
mincioglu asked Kniering to give
his input and what he thought about
the process involving internships.
His response was to encourage
students to continue applying for
internships so they can acquire
college credit.
The federal government, how-
ever, enforces giving someone
work who might be laid off and
allows him or her to pursue an
““internship”” for free.
““I would actually argue this,””
and ““it shouldn’’t be called an
internship [if students don’’t get
college credit]. This is my de-
SARAH WILSON
nition of academic experience,””
explained Kniering.
Though Kniering supports the
federal government in allowing
people who are unemployed to
get these jobs, he believes these
positions should not be titled an
internship.
Rather, an internship should
continue to be dened as a student
gaining working experiences for
college credits or a small payment.
Tahmincioglu wanted to express
the ideas of how important intern-
ships can be for students who want
a better look at what they want
to pursue.
““The purpose [of this article] is
to address the idea of internships””
while showing ““the implications
of an internship,”” said Kniering
The debate was posed in TIME
Magazine, and though it might
seem as posing against legal
opportunities, the questions are
getting answered.
The main question rises when
people do not get paid and some
wonder if it is legal.
Some argue the interns are get-
ting an experience and that is worth
the labor and efforts put into the
working day.
Others are outraged looking for
a different response or a different
way to call these jobs internships.
Progressively, more and more
college students go to internships
to enhance their abilities through
a particular skill. Students can
receive college credit in the hopes
of building on their future.
However, these internships still
provide opportunities for work-
ing professionals to continue to
broaden their horizons as well in
this time of economic difculty.
For more information on intern-
ship opportunities and other job
opportunities Career Services
can provide, students can visit its
ofce located in Gengras Student
Union room 309 or by calling the
ofce at 860-768-4287.

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Graduation Info for 2010 Eco-Friendly Paint
By Alexandria Hubbard
News Editor
Needed for Anchor
Commencement for the class
of 2010 will commemorate the
achievements and successes of
the graduating class.
This year, the women’’s basket-
ball coach, Jennifer Rizzotti will
be delivering the Commencement
speech on the academic lawn.
The exercises will begin at 10
a.m. on Sunday, May 16, with the
main ceremony, where Rizzotti
will speak along with President
Walter Harrison.
Taryn Brandt, a senior psychol-
ogy major from Ontario, Canada,
will deliver the student commence-
ment speech.
From there, students, parents and
friends will disperse to the diploma
presentation sites according to the
graduate’’s school.
The ceremonies are broken down
by school:
Art School——Courtyard, Hart-
ford Art School
Arts & Sciences——Chase Arena,
Reich Family Pavilion
Business——Auerbach Hall Lawn
(tent)
College of Education, Nursing
and Health Professions——Main
Site
Engineering, Technology, and
Architecture——Gray Center Lawn
Hartt——Lincoln Theater
Hillyer——Millard Auditorium
University Studies——Gengras
Student Union Cafeteria
All exercises are expected to be
completed by 2 p.m.
In the event of rain, the main
ceremony will be canceled and
only the diploma presentation
ceremonies will occur.
There will be ceremonies at
10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., depending
on the school. They will begin as
follows:
10:30 a.m.
Art School——Gengras Student
Union Cafeteria
College of Education, Nursing
Engineers Help Others Donate Unused Items to Charity
By Keith Rugar
Informer Staff Writer
Providing long-term sustainable
solutions is the goal behind Engineers
Without Borders.
Last January the campus’’ EWB
chapter went to India and built a
well to provide clean water for the
local citizens.
Acoustical engineering major Clay
Pipkin is the club’’s president at the
university.
““The solutions we look for are not
just engineering solutions,”” he said.
““If culturally you are not aware of
what’’s going on and you don’’t make
sure that what you are doing is right,
you can do more harm than good. So
when we travel we don’’t just travel as
engineers, we took social scientists, a
philosophy major, art students and we
brought a chemist as well.””
““That way we can do our best to
address the problems from a global
perspective,”” he said.
By involving citizens in the en-
gineering process, EWB works to
ensure that the locals can maintain
established projects.
““When we leave they can maintain
and take care of the well. This includes
making the people part of the design
process,”” Pipkin said. ““We will give
them a design and they can say well it’’s
too big or too small. This makes them
feel that they have some ownership of
the informer
COURTESY OF HARTFORD.EDU/COMMENCEMENT
Commencement for the class of 2010 will be on Sunday, May 16.
and Health Professions——Chase
Arena, Reich Family Pavilion
Engineering, Technology, and
Architecture——Auerbach Hall
Lawn (tent)
Hartt——Lincoln Theater
Hillyer——Millard Auditorium
1 p.m. (arrival on campus after
noon encouraged)
Arts and Sciences——Chase
Arena, Reich Family Pavilion
Business ——Auerbach Hall Lawn
(tent)
University Studies——Gengras
Student Union Cafeteria
If this is the case, it will be
posted on the university’’s website
starting at 6 a.m. on May 16, and
there will be signs posted at the
entrance to the university.
Graduates can pick up their caps
and gowns from the university
bookstore starting on May 13, and
the times are posted on the univer-
sity’’s Commencement website.
Women are not to remove
their caps at any point during the
ceremony, and men are required
the project and they will maintain it.””
Engineers Without Borders has
been growing in the U.S. since 2004.
Students who start chapters on their
campuses look for areas of need and
then look for engineering solutions.
There is so much interest that the
national board is having trouble lling
the demand. ““This is the rst year that
we have had a full executive board,
and regular meeting,”” Pipkin said.
Its next trip is scheduled for next
January where they will conduct ad-
ditional projects in India.
On Friday April 30, the club will
have a display in Gengras Student
Union showing photos from their
previous trip and information of future
programs.
Since the university compensates
traveling expenses, EWB hopes to
get more students involved.
““The more student interest we have
in our club the more money we hope
to bring in for our club. We are trying
to involve anyone from any discipline,
even though there is an engineering
aspect to this, it is all encompassing,””
Pipkin said.
““If people show up to our club
and say they want to help, the more
people we have the more we can
do,”” he said.
For more information about Engi-
neers Without Borders go to www.
EWB-USA.org or contact Pipkin at
pipkin@hartford.edu.
news april 29, 2010
to remove and replace their caps
when Harrison does.
Undergraduate candidates wear
the tassels to the front right, and
graduate candidates wear them to
the front left.
Tickets are only required for the
Hartt School diploma presentation
ceremony, and only four tickets
are available per student.
No tickets are required for the
other seven ceremonies or the main
ceremony.
Parents and guests are encour-
aged to arrive at the university
early to avoid last-minute trafc.
The Hawk’’s Nest, located under
the University Commons, will be
open for breakfast with live jazz
music from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
that morning.
There is also a buffet luncheon
available at the 1877 Club starting
at 12:30 p.m., and prepaid reser-
vations are required. To reserve
seating, call 860-768-4817. At the
main ceremony site, there will be
an outdoor food concession area.
By Alexandria Hubbard
News Editor
When the end of the year
comes, it can seem easy to sim-
ply throw away whatever does
not t in the back of mom and
dad’’s car, but a group of students
on campus want students to
think twice about putting these
items in the trash.
Students and faculty on cam-
pus have combined efforts to
create ““Stash It, Don’’t Trash
It”” in an effort to donate these
items to local charities.
A truck trailer will be located
in N Lot, behind Regents Park
and the Village Quad 5. Students
can drop off unwanted items
there and then they will be given
to local charities, such as The
Bridge Family Center, A Hand
Up and the Salvation Army.
““This is a project begun
several years ago by a cam-
pus group of faculty and staff
called the Campus Alliance for
Progressive Policies and Ac-
tion (CAPPA) to collect good
furniture, appliances, kitchen
ware, clothing and unopened
food that students can’’t take
home with them at the end of
the school year and recycle it
to charitable organizations in
the Hartford area,”” said Sharon
By Edline Dyer
Informer Staff Writer
Though the tradition of paint-
ing the anchor on campus has
happened for at least 40 years,
the university is now expecting
students to use more eco-friendly
paint to make their designs.
Assistant professor of sociol-
ogy Wick Griswold shared a
little background on the anchor
and the potential problems that
can arise from how students are
going about painting it.
According to Griswold, the
anchor used to be a part of the
U.S.S. Hartford agship in the
battle of Mobile Bay. ““It’’s an
important piece of U.S. maritime
history,”” Griswold said.
The idea behind painting
the anchor is for fraternities,
sororities and other student
organizations to show pride in
their groups by customizing it.
The issue is the way in which
students are painting it.
Most of the time students use
aerosol cans of spray paint, not
realizing how damaging these
items are to the environment. The
reason they use them is because
they are pretty cheap and easy
to come by.
However, there is a problem:
aerosol cans, including spray
paint, contain fumes that are
not only harmful to those using
them, but to the environment
as well. These fumes have the
potential to get into our lakes
and harm animals that feed in
them. The university is asking
students to use eco-friendly paint
on the anchor.
““The students must think that
it’’s easier,”” Griswold said ““but
in reality it’’s more fun and more
hands on and more of a real ex-
COURTESY OF UHAWEB.HARTFORD.EDU/UHDONATES
Some of the items collected from last year are pictured above.
Shepela, a psychology professor
and one of the organizers of the
program.
““Instead of winding up in
the dumpsters, these household
items wind up in the apartments
of local families who desperately
need them,”” she said.
The truck will be open on
specic days, but it can also be
opened at a specic time to work
with students’’ schedules.
Students can visit uhaweb.
hartford.edu/UHdonates and click
on ““Donate”” to list what they are
donating and what time would be
convenient for them.
The group is also looking for
volunteers who want to help move
perience to just use a brush.””
Recently, freshman Reyna Bou-
caud along with the women’’s rugby
team painted the anchor. They
used regular paintbrushes to paint
the base of the anchor but did the
rest freehand and with spray paint.
The reason, Boucaud says, was
because ““It was what we had at
the time.””
Boucaud expressed that she did
not think it was easy for students
to opt for eco-friendly paints, but
it is denitely possible.
““It’’s expensive,”” she said ““but we
can make small changes.””
In Griswold’’s opinion, the
problem is that students are not
as aware as they should be of the
consequences and of the alterna-
tives available to them for keeping
this tradition alive. Students go to
the Ofce of Student Affairs to get
permission for painting the anchor,
but what happens there?
““They don’’t promote environ-
mentally friendly methods of
painting,”” Griswold said, ““The
ofce needs to regulate it better.””
He also suggested that the school
nd ways to promote environmen-
tally friendly alternatives as well.
Beyond the actual health risks
from painting with aerosol cans,
Griswold also pointed out that the
cans are usually disposed of incor-
rectly as well.
““Often they litter the ground,”” he
said ““and spray paint is even found
on the sidewalk by the footbridge.””
Griswold is hopeful that in the
future students will become more
conscious of how they can better
the environment and do less add-
ing to the environmental problem.
With a little more communication
and education, students can con-
tinue to keep this tradition going
while keeping the campus environ-
ment clean and eco-friendly.
items and manage the truck. Any-
one who is interested can visit the
website and click on ““Volunteer””
to complete the application.
Volunteers will be provided with
food coupons for a slice of pizza
and soda from ARAMARK. If a
team or club signs up with many
volunteers, the Center for Com-
munity Service will provide them
with a whole pizza.
““It is a win-win operation based
on the cooperation of the students
moving out, and the volunteers
who help to collect and store the
goods,”” said Shepela.
Instead of throwing away the
things they do not use, students
should think about donating them.
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Reflections from the Editor Peace out Hartford

It’’s that time of the year again.
It’’s that bittersweet moment where
seniors are excited to graduate and
go out and make their way in the real
world, and then there is the terror
of the unknown that sets in. This
especially happens if you are like
me and has bypassed the graduate
school route for the time being, and
are faced with the harsh reality of
where am I going to work? How am I
going to pay back my college loans?
But graduation is a wonderful time.
It is a time to look at the prospects
the future holds and to look back on
your accomplishments during your
undergraduate career.
Reecting back on my four years
here at the university and with the
Informer, I have transformed into a
different person, a better, stronger
person. It is the people around me
who have helped make this change
possible. From being pushed
through the door for GSU 158 to
becoming the Editor-in-Chief for
the last two years, I’’ve grown as
a person.
Ninety-six issues! Can you be-
lieve that? I have worked on 96
issues of the Informer in my time
Knowledge
Talks,
Wisdom
Listens
Melissa O’’Brien •• Editor-in-Chief
meobrien@hartford.edu
Twitter: @MelissacOBrien
here at the university, and each one
had brought its own unique trials
and tribulations that cause stress
and tension but also builds a solid
foundation for the editorial staff. A
foundation built upon late nights,
pulling through at the last minute
and trusting that it will all get done.
I think this year we have been faced
with more dilemmas, hardships and
successes than any other year that I
have been involved with the paper.
The hard-hitting news stories that
caused controversy and the issues
that were covered. These things
only made us stronger. I am so
proud of what we as a staff have
accomplished this year.
The university’’s current ideal is
““committed to community”” and it Well, it’’s nally here: my last
is getting stronger each day, but issue with the Informer.
I believe community starts on a It’’s hard for me to say
smaller level. Developing working
goodbye, especially to this pub-
and academic relationships, and lication. I’’ve been on e-board for
even life-long friendships become three years now. That’’s longer
the basis for the strong communal than some people stay with a
sense that one feels. This has de- company in the real world. But
nitely been felt on the Informer staff I’’ve stuck it out, and it was the
each and every year I have been a best decision of my life.
part of this amazing team. It’’s my I’’ve grown so much by being
home away from home. involved in this organization.
The Informer has become my I went from being incredibly
family on campus. We argue, tease, unsure of myself to the person
joke, collaborate, support and ac- who is here today: someone
cept each other for who we are and who is condent, devoted and
I am so happy to be apart of this (sometimes) poised.
Informer family. I’’ve had some of I wasn’’t supposed to be in this
my best college moments with my position a year ago. I was never
staff and I have no doubt that we supposed to be news editor,
will all keep in touch in the future. and through a strange series of
There are nine of us graduating events, I’’ve ended up here. And,
from the editorial board this year even though it’’s been scary and
and I know that they will all go on difcult for me, I wouldn’’t have
to do extraordinary things. I have changed a thing.
developed close relationships with It’’s so hard for me to gure out
all of them and I am going to miss where to even start this. There
them so much. One of the hardest are so many amazing people,
parts about graduating is leaving my stories and events that have lead
me to this point.
See “Goodbye” on page 7 I’’m glad I’’ve had such a
supporting family. There have
I Believe
in
Peace
Alexandria Hubbard •• News Editor
hubbard@hartford.edu
Twitter: @AlexHubbard
position less scary, and I couldn’’t
imagine doing this thing without
all of you. I’’m going to miss you.
I have the utmost condence that
next year, our legacy will live on-
ward with the guidance of Jeremy.
You are an amazing writer, and I
know that you are going to whip the
new e-board into shape. But they’’ll
never be like us, right?
To my professors who pushed
me to my limit, who made me ask
““why?”” (my favorite question) and
who put all of their effort into mak-
ing their students a priority, thank
you. The world needs more of you.
And to you, one of the most
wonderful additions to my life, I
can only say thank you.
Thank you for faithfully reading

Flight Departing Soon: Seniors been so many times that I’’ve

There is a moment in the open-
ing of the 2009 lm ““Up In The
Air”” where people talk about their
experiences getting red.
One of the extras talks about how
losing one’’s job is comparable in
stress level to a death in the family.
““But, personally, I feel more like
the people I worked with were more
like my family and I died,”” he says.
On May 16, nine of my friends
here at the Informer will move on
to the real world, all with different
hopes and dreams.
I’’m going to be here next year as
Editor-in-Chief of the Informer, so
why does it feel as though I’’m the
one that will be dead?
In 2007 I was a freshman, com-
pletely terried of everything that
was happening——sure the classes
were interesting, but everything was
just strange and new to me.
Before that, I had briey met the
then-Informer staff at the club fair
during orientation, where I needed
very little persuasion to sign up to
become a writer.
Needless to say, it was the best
decision of my entire college ca-
reer here. Seriously.
Tech.
It’’s my
real
name.
Jeremy Stanley •• Managing Editor
jstanley@hartford.edu
Twitter: @JeremyDStanley
I enjoyed having the opportunities
this organization has presented me
especially with the nine seniors on
staff that are graduating.
With this staff I went on my
rst ight and subsequent ights
to amazing places, as well as get-
ting stranded in not so amazing
places (Sorry, Charlotte, but an
inch or less of snow does not mean
ground all ights, at least where I
come from).
In the last two years I have been
on the editorial board, we have
received acclaim far more than
any other years on record. The
Informer is a nalist for an Associ-
ated Collegiate Press Pacemaker
award and was awarded second
wanted to give up and just
cry, but they haven’’t let me be
my writing every week and for
letting me know what you thought
of my section or my column or
defeated. I wouldn’’t have been anything that was put in the paper.
runner-up for the New England
able to develop and grow if it Thank you for loving me through
Society of Newspaper Editors’’
weren’’t for them. Thanks for the late nights and the breakdowns.
college newspaper award.
listening to all of the tearful And thank you for giving me the
These accolades wouldn’’t have
phone calls and for making me con dence I need ped when I
been possible without the excellent
smile at the end. couldn’’t seem to nd it.
leadership skills that our Editor-in-
And then there are my friends So now where do I go? I’’m right
Chief, Melissa, possesses. She will
who have turned into my fam- alongside with a lot of people in
be modest about it, but she asks
ily. The people I conde in the class of 2010 who don’’t know
for nothing less than extraordinary
and depend on, and the people exactly what they’’re doing after
effort from this staff and what we
who I would do anything for. they walk off stage on May 16.
produce shows it.
I’’m glad that I’’ve found people But I do know this: I have had an
This staff is populated with truly
who will stick by me through incredible four years at this univer-
great people——always willing to
everything and anything, and sity, and I’’ve had the chance to do
help each other out no matter what
you’’ve all helped me become a lot of amazing things. From the
the circumstance and sharing a
a much better person. Informer to being an RA to being
laugh. It goes without saying, but
I know that we’’re all going to on more e-boards than I can count
seniors, you’’ll be missed.
do amazing things, and we’’re to having an internship with the
At the same time excited with the
all going to become rich and Hartford Courant, I know that I’’ve
prospects of leading a new editorial
famous. made the most of my time here.
board with members who are already
To my fellow seniors on staff, The only advice I can give to those
becoming fast friends.
good luck in everything you do. not graduating is to do the same: make
The prevailing theme here is ight
You are some of the brightest the most of your time.
and, for the senior staff, their ights
and most driven people I have Do everything you’’ve always want-
are departing the gate and preparing
ever had the pleasure of know- ed to do. You’’ll get the opportunity
for takeoff.
ing. We’’ve seen just about to do some amazing things and meet
I know, whatever the destination,
everything when it comes to a lot of even more amazing people.
seniors on staff will be successful
the newspaper (and going out So I guess this is it. This is good-
in whatever they decide to do. One
on Thursday nights). You’’ve bye. Peace out, Informer.
thing is for sure; I will cherish the
all made my transition to this I’’ll miss you.
experiences we had together as a
staff and as friends.
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Reections On Time At Hartford
By Erica Clayton
Senior Copy Chief
The University of Hartford has
taught me a lot of extremely valu-
able lessons, many of which did not
come at the hands of professors,
but from my experiences living on
campus. There are a lot of things
I’’m going to miss about this place,
but there are also a lot of things that
I won’’t. As graduation is just a few
short weeks away many seniors are
entering a period of reection, and
with the idea of being a certied,
card-carrying adult in the immedi-
ate future, I am terried just like
everyone else. To keep my mind
off these things, I’’ve come up with
this short list of things I will and
won’’t miss.
Things I will miss:
1. I love the residential community
on campus. There are few places
in the outside world where people
can knock on your door at 1 a.m.,
completely hosed, asking for a ciga-
rette and have it be acceptable. How
many neighborhoods can you go to
where you can waltz into anyone’’s
place, assuming it’’s open, and be
welcomed warmly? Never again
will I be within walking distance
of all the people I love, and that
makes me sad.
2. President Walter Harrison. We
truly lucked out with one of the best
university presidents around, and I
have never heard anyone speak an
ill word about him. Knowing that,
at the top of the chain, there is an
administrator who truly cares about
the student body, is comforting.
There is no question about it, if
anyone believes in us, it’’s President
Harrison, and I cannot thank him
more for his unrelenting support of
all of our endeavors.
3. Brilliance. There are plenty of
professors on this campus that are
absolutely brilliant, and I wish I’’d
had the chance to spend more time
learning from them.
4. The Ofce of Residential Life
Staff. Although RAs may not be too
popular among residents as policy
enforcers, and I may not always
agree with the policies ORL imple-
ments, as a group these people are
some of the most amazing people
I have ever had the opportunity to
work with. We made it through some
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Informer family. Every member
has been part of a support struc-
ture for me. They have been there
through the good times and the
bad times and never wavering in
lending support in any way they
can.
This year we were awarded
second-runner up for the best col-
lege newspaper by the New England
Society of Newspaper Editors. We
also just recently found out that we
are a nalist for Pacemaker for our
online content. These accomplish-
ments can only be attributed to the
hard work and dedication of the
devoted staff.
The print edition of the Informer
and even our online content has
improved so much over the last
four years that I’’m still shocked
to see where we started. We have
redesigned the whole print edition,
consistently put out on Thursdays
and have vastly improved our con-
tent. I am so excited to see what next
year’’s staff will do with the paper.
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major campus crises (student losses,
armed robberies, res, oods, dam-
age and whatever else was thrown at
us) with the support of each other.
My experience with ORL has al-
lowed and encouraged me to grow
into a strong person, even when
residents are throwing their empty
beer cans across the lawn and dump-
ing their drinks on my feet. My
time on duty can only be described
as interesting, and for that I thank
ORL (and of course, the residents
for making all of these incidents
possible).
5. The Informer. I gured this
would be a give-in, but in the
three years I spent as a writer
and copy editor, I have had some
amazing times. I feel as though
this year’’s editorial board is more
like a weirdly deranged family
than a staff, and I just cannot
imagine it being any different.
The dedication of this staff to the
paper, the news and the pursuit
of uncovering corruption and
unjust treatment in the university
community is unmatched, and we
have the credentials to prove it. I
am having a hard time imagining
my Wednesday nights without
these people.
Things I won’’t miss:
1. The apathy of the student body
(and students in general). Stand up
for yourselves! I was disgusted to
see so many people say they were
going to protest Spring Fling or go
to the general CAT meeting where
administration was elding student
questions, and then see so few peo-
ple actually DO something about it.
In order to grow as people, we need
to be willing to question the things
we don’’t agree with in a proactive
way. Don’’t just complain, come
up with a solution and then make a
sincere attempt at implementing it.
2. Sunday morning party trash.
Although I know there’’s nothing
better than waking up on Sunday
morning and reliving the events of
a successful party, it doesn’’t need
to be all over the Village lawn.
I’’m looking forward to my future
front lawn/stoop/sidewalk being
decorated with ornaments and not
beer cans (although depending on
who you are, I suppose they could
be one in the same).
3. Aramark. Not only have I been
I’’ve been able to do so many
things here that I never thought I
would ever be able to do. Such as
traveling all over the country and
getting stuck in Charlotte with the
snow. Interviewing movie stars
and administrators. The attempts
at investigative journalism with
the help of Dr. Desmond provided
great insight into the working of
the legal system and also lead us on
wild goose chases. I have learned so
much from my time at the Informer
and I am grateful for the opportuni-
ties that I had at the university. I’’m
really going to miss my time here at
the Informer and I’’m going to miss
everyone so much.
I would like to thank each and
everyone on the Informer editorial
board this year for your support. I
also could not have made it through
these last four years without the
support of my family, friends and
my advisor Dr. Christensen. I’’m so
grateful to have been able to work
with such a great group of people
and to be surrounded by all the love
and support of everyone around me.
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subjected to severely undercooked
meats, dirty kitchen conditions,
rude employees and extremely
overpriced food, I haven’’t been
able to choose my own meal plan
for three years (as part of my RA
compensation). There’’s nothing
better than living in an area on
campus with a full kitchen and
not being able to cook any food
because I only had 250 dining
dollars to last me 14 weeks.
4. The deluge. Don’’t act like
you’’re going to miss having to
trudge through inches and inches
of water each time it even looks
like it’’s going to rain.
5. The lack of respect that stu-
dents get from administration. I’’m
sorry, but we are all adults here,
and for some reason when I try to
have a question answered by an
administrator, I get the runaround.
When my parents call, though, the
rst person they speak to seems to
have the answer, even if I spoke
to that person just an hour earlier
about the same thing.
So many of my friends and
peers have been screwed because
someone miscounted their credits
or because their advisors told them
they were set to graduate even
though they were missing credits.
There needs to be a serious over-
haul in the near future to get rid of
the people who are detrimental to
students due to careless mistakes
or a lack of care.
To the class of 2010, I wish
you the best of luck. I hope you
never lose touch with the people
you love, and live your life to the
fullest. Yes, it’’s cheesy, but it’’s
also true. I will look back on my
time at Hartford fondly, and with
the hopes of hearing about the suc-
cesses of my peers in the papers.
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Jason Chen’s home was raided earlier this week by police.
Apple Inuences Police
By David Hitchings
Art Director/ I.T. Director
How far has the terrible tyr-
anny of Steve Jobs gone? How
about denying the basic rights of
Americans and journalists--the
right to free speech.
Last week Apple, in their de-
luded beliefs that its company’’s
secrets are more important than
basic freedoms, searched the
home of Gizmodo editor Jason
Chen for its missing iPhone.
The very same iPhone that
Apple engineer, Gray Powell, lost
in a bar last month. The iPhone,
which is believed to be the one
scheduled for release by Apple
in June, was bought by tech
blog Gizmodo who subsequently
posted pictures and a full break-
down of the phone. This same
phone was returned to Apple at
the request of the evil empire.
End of the problem right? Ap-
parently not.
Apple requested a search war-
rant which was executed for the
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conscated Chen’’s personal com-
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well as other personal belongings.
Under the rst amendment of
the United States, this is an illegal
intrusion on any journalist. State and
government law protects journalists
and their sources. In the 21st Cen-
tury, an age of technology, the term
““journalist”” should cover bloggers
as well.
But this is only the top most trans-
gression by Apple, Inc. on the lives
of Gizmodo staffers. John Cook, a
former Gawker (Gizmodo’’s parent
company) Editor, said Apple sits on
the steering committee of the very
same police unit who conducted
the search--an egregious conict
of interest.
It’’s apparent that Apple is trying
to cover its own ass in what ever
way they can coerce their minions
into doing. This is not to say they
are the only ones at fault. Shame
also gets placed on the police for
acting on a search warrant that has
no legal grounds.
Simple point, if Apple wanted
to protect its secrets so badly they
should have never let Gray Powell
lose its new iPhone in the rst place.
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Entertainment
Girl Talk Unable To Shine Inside Spring Fling
By Harris Decker
Entertainment Editor
The only word to describe students’’
feelings going into Spring Fling 2010
was curiosity. For the rst time in
years, the traditional Spring Fling
concert was held indoors at the Chase
Family Arena. Most students (over
90 percent according to SGA’’s poll)
opposed the move into the gym and
it was up to Campus Activities Team
to prove everyone wrong and make it
work. It troubled me to leave a beauti-
ful night behind and head indoors for
the concert but Gregg Gillis, known
by his stage name Girl Talk, made it
seem worth it.
Although I did not have any trouble
getting in, security was very tight
and even turned students away for
appearing intoxicated. Once inside,
I was shocked to nd the arena more
than half empty. As Envy on the Coast
took the stage, the gym oor was just
Girl Talk did his best to re up the half lled Chase Arena, but left students wishing they were outside.
hartfordinformer.com/entertainment/
sparsely covered with student bodies.
There may have been good reason
for this. Envy on the Coast simply
wasn’’t very good. Playing fast hard
rock songs, followed by slow melodic
anthems, the New York rockers failed
to impress the audience, and put many
of them into a daze. After a 45-minute
performance, they vacated the stage in
preparation for the nation’’s hottest DJ.
About 20 minutes before Girl Talk
took the stage, a stage hand walked
around the arena, handing out about
40 orange bracelets.
These bracelets would grant the pa-
trons access to the stage and the ability
to dance alongside Gillis. Taking the
stage, Gillis proceeded to bring the
electricity level of the crowd up as high
as he possibly could. Unfortunately
he only saw mild success with a half
empty gym.
What made me both curious and
anxious about Girl Talk’’s performance
is that he is just that, a DJ. He is not in
The Informer
a band. He is not backed by a hype
man. Instead, it’’s just him, two laptops
and two toilet paper wielding stage
hands. My underlying question was
whether or not he could captivate a
large audience over a long period
of time.
This is where we come to a fork in
the road for Spring Fling. Students
found out quickly that there were only
two ways to fully enjoy this show.
You either had to be on the stage
dancing or you had to be drunk. Just
10 minutes into his set, the only half
full arena began to empty. By my
estimates, at the end of the night only
about 800 students were left inside.
The inability to drink while en-
joying the show made it tough for
students to get into the atmosphere
of a Girl Talk show.
““He went too long without a break””
said Jonas Hampton, a junior, ““then
I just left, no one showed up, some
people just took a nap [instead].””
If you look at past performances
for Gellis, they are usually in clubs,
bars, lounges, arenas or venues, all
places where alcohol runs freely. With
this type of artist, it was essential for
students to feel unrestricted and be
able to let loose and have fun. This
was not the case.
The blame has to fall somewhere
and for Spring Fling ’’10, it falls on
CAT. While the idea to move to the
gym was opposed, picking a real band
(instead of a DJ) would have made
this show much more enjoyable for
students regardless of their state of
mind. Furthermore, Girl Talk would
have been extremely fun if the concert
was held outside where people could
casually listen, dance and party at their
discretion.
Shealagh Beglay, a student, said
““We left, we didn’’t nd it that
great.”” Another student, David
Julian added ““The whole point is
to be outside, it’’s spring.””
New York’’s Envy On The Coast opens the Friday night concert.
April 29, 2010
It was a terrible combination that led
to the demise of Spring Fling this year.
Students will likely look back at the
event and not care. They drank to their
hearts content and partied the nights
away. What is a shame is that the
concert (as a Spring Fling tradition)
was all but left for dead. The reviews
of the show have been sparse simply
because very few people attended the
show and those that did were either
bored or on stage.
Moving into Saturday, WSAM
made a valiant effort in attempting
to clean up CAT’’s mess. Their rst
real step into large scale concerts, the
student run radio station brought the
campus music throughout the day.
Unfortunately it was too little too late.
The bands were unknown, the mu-
sic all ended up sounding the same and
as the music came to a close around
9:30 p.m. on Saturday night, students
wondered again, what was the reason
for not having the concert outside?
HARRIS DECKER
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Art School Student Analyzes Role Of Women

By Andy Swetz
Informer Staff Writer
For senior Krista LaBella, the
ability to channel and tap into a
critical artistic self-realization
didn’’t come in her regularly as-
signed projects.
With her sculptor exhibit ““Oh
My God, I Think I’’m A Feminist!””
opening this past Saturday in the
Silpe Gallery of the Art School
for six days of display, LaBella’’s
work not only went on to speak
for itself but also raise awareness
of a topic that seems to have lost
attention today.
““It was some sort of epiphany,””
LaBella expressed in her artistic
statement about her latest accom-
plishment.
In a pursuit to tackle the issue
of the stereotypical role of women
in modern society, LaBella, an
English major turned contempo-
rary sculptor, put on a genuine
and truthful display of an exhibit
reecting her personal beliefs.
When rst entering the exhibit,
my ears were the rst part of me
to get a feel for the caliber of se-
riousness and reality on display
in front of me.
Strategically placed in the far
corner of the gallery, LaBella’’s
more modern attempt at touching
on the feminine struggle of herself
drowning in water on a television
screen was what struck me rst.
Proceeding through the exhibit
trying hard to feel for what lay
before me in its purposeful posi-
tion, I became engulfed in the
objects of years of repression and
victimization transformed into
something new.
Intertwining conformity with
self-control, on display stood pow-
erful symbols of a female struggle
with body image and expectation.
Among those works hanging from
the ceiling was ““Hangman’’s
Knot”” and ““For You”” that struck
me the most.
A noose of pearls and lingerie
with berglass insulation, these
two works show the other side
of the issue with women as the
overlooked victims.
““I am drawn to the tangibility of
3-D art and the conceptual nature
of most sculpture,”” LaBella said as
she explained her inspiration and
drive that lead to her latest work.
Driving towards the deeper
struggles of women that seem to
miss mainstream media and are
almost completely suppressed,
LaBella does a remarkable job at
juxtaposing the reality of a stereo-
type with the freedom a woman
possesses in her decisions.
On display near the center of
the gallery stood a wooden iron-
ing board with an assorted set of
knives evenly spaced out on it.
Titled ““Mundane,”” the piece of-
fers an idea of gender roles and ANDY SWETZ
the uses of the knives beyond
kitchen duties. While challenging Krista LaBella opened her ““Oh My God, I Think I’’m A Feminist”” at the Silpe Gallery last weekend.
these sexist ideals with her art, tioning woman and her place in extreme weight and importance is woman standing beyond the oppres-
LaBella uses the realm of the third a new world- one where she has the message it gives to those who sion and stereotypes of society proves
dimension to solidify her attempt complete control over herself, experience it. to be one of growing attention.Leav-
at displaying women’’s new role over her life, her body, her sexu- What seemed to be a common fac- ing the exhibit thoroughly impressed,
in a changing world. ality and her ideas.”” tor in LaBella’’s work throughout her I applaud the creative approach of one
““Within this work, I am posi- What makes the exhibit one of time at Hartford, the theme of a new student’’s exhibit with high praise.

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How Four Years Can Change Everything You Know
The
Truth
About
Music
Harris Decker
Entertainment Editor
harrisdecker@mac.com
Twitter: @truthaboutmusic
People often ask me, ““Why pop
music?”” Is it the money? Is it the
popularity? The thing I love most
about music is the way it can light
up a room. The way a pop song can
put a smile on someone’’s face, unite
The Future Of Facebook Balancing Privacy, Personalization
By David Hitchings
Art Director
Last week Facebook, the social
media platform, took two major steps
in its apparent quest for Internet domi-
nation. At its F8 developer conference
last week Facebook introduced the
universal ““like”” button as well as
OpenGraph technology that leaves
you seemingly always logged into the
Facebook world. Exactly what this
means for the future of the Internet
has yet to be deciphered, but a battle
seems to be brewing over privacy
rights and internet browsing.
In addition to changing the tag line
on the incredible popular fan pages
from ““become a fan”” to ““like”” Face-
book is also debuting a ““like”” button
for the Internet. For websites and blogs
where the button is implemented,
users of the Facebook platform will
be able to ““like”” or ““recommend”” a
page to their friends.
The button on Web pages counts
how many users have liked the page in
Technology Pushing Music Ahead With Mood-Based Playlists
By Erica Clayton
Senior Copy Chief
Music has forever been an outlet for
us to express ourselves in an almost
unexplainable way. We classify it by
genre, by era and by band, but now
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a nightclub or ll an arena. When the
rst few chords are strummed or the
initial beat is laid down, everyone in
the room feels it, connects with it.
There is a raw emotional relation-
ship to the song and it is for that
reason that I have devoted myself
to the genre.During my four years
at the University of Hartford, I have
witnessed a monumental shift in the
entertainment industry.
In that time, companies like Live
Nation, once a company looking to
buy the entire music industry as it
stood, went from media moguls to
a dying breed. Once again, smaller
bands are seeing success as the
world realizes that you don’’t have
to sell your soul to the devil in
addition to how many of your friends
have ““liked”” that page.
Facebook’’s ““share”” was the old
technology that would do this, but
this new button is a more streamlined
method of sharing the articles you
think your friends would like. This
innovation is not unlike something the
Internet has seen before. Much like the
real-time stream introduced in March
of last year which was an idea taken
from Twitter, the ““like”” technology
is an idea taken from Digg and other
social news aggregate websites.
It’’s hard to say whether it was
Digg’’s failure at launching a real-
time stream that will be its eventual
downfall to the social media giant, a
launch that was supposed to happen
six months ago, or whether Facebook
would have marched onto its soil
regardless of what Digg had or hadn’’t
launched. Digg for the moment has
the upper hand as there is no easy
way to see the totality of what your
friends have ““liked”” through the new
button. Likebutton.me is a third party
we have a way to dene our music a
little differently: by mood.
Stereomood is a free ““emotional
internet radio”” that allows users to
choose a playlist based on their mood.
Developed in 2007 in Milan, Italy,
by Giovanni Ferron, in an attempt
entertainment
order to turn a prot.
Music isn’’t the only thing that’’s
changed. In September of 2006,
when I rst walked through the doors
of The Hartt School, Hulu was just
a way to mispronounce a popular
Hawaiian dance.
In 2010, we as college students
are watching television almost
exclusively online.
The idea of deadlines, racing home
to catch the opening of a show and
breaking news cutting into your fa-
vorite show are gone. Instead, we as
a generation watch our shows when
we want, where we want. What is
really special about our generation,
dened by our graduating class of
seniors is our take on the world.
website that takes advantage of your
social stream to aggregate this content
but is in no means anything ofcial.
To ““like”” some content on a
Webpage, you must be logged into
Facebook. Once you are logged in
though, your Facebook information is
available to any website that asks for
it, thanks to Facebook’’s second new
innovation, Open Graph technology.
In what has been billed as ““instant
personalization,”” this new feature
allows websites like Pandora to
customize the music they play to
you based on the music you have
listed in your music interests. The
new technology launched with three
partners, Pandora, Yelp and Docs.
com by Microsoft.
The whole situation is developing
into as big as a privacy disaster as
the launch of Google Buzz which
launched in February, maybe big-
ger. Senators and representatives
across the country have spoken
out about Web privacy. Facebook
is blurring the lines between what
to provide his friend and fellow Ste-
reomood developer Maurizio Pratici
with an online tool to listen to and
share new music from international
music blogs.
It took about a year for the project
to get off the ground, and in that time
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april 29, 2010
We own ourselves and understand
what we are worth. When someone
treats you unfairly, you tell everyone
through social networking sites like
Twitter and Facebook. We gured
out how to communicate with
people in power and excersise that
right daily.
Unlike our parents, today’’s gradu-
ating class of seniors own the job
market. As sparse as jobs are, we
know that the rst company we land
with is only as good as what they
offer us. Students are interviewing
their potential employers as much
as they are interviewing us.
We all understand one simple
thing, regardless of what challenges
we face, we are the next acclaimed
is public data and private data on
the Web.
Senator Charles Schumer has
written to the Federal Trade Com-
mission, asking them to ““examine
the privacy disclosures of social-
networking sites to insure they
are not misleading or fail to fully
disclose the extent to which they
share information.”” The heart of
Schumer’’s argument is that at the
moment Facebook requires users to
opt out of the new feature, not opt in.
There are two sides to this. The
seemingly good side, that turns
vanilla websites into ones that are
the website’’s developers (Giovanni
Ferron, Daniele Novaga, Maurizio
Pratici, Eleonora Vivani and Silvia
Pianelli) struggled with concepts
and found themselves asking a lot of
questions about how to arrange music
in a unique but useful way, until one
nal question ended the debate.
Why not arrange our music les
according to our moods or activities?
And thus, Stereomood was born.
We no longer have to search through
endless lists of songs to nd the
perfect music for sleepy Sundays or
for when you and your partner are
feeling frisky.
Now it’’s as easy as going online and
choosing the mood you’’re in –– or the
mood you want to be in –– and clicking
play. Playlists range from about 20
minutes to about an hour, and include
themes like ““relax,”” ““on my feet,””
““dinner with friends,”” ““morning””
and ““high.”” With dozens of tagged
lists to choose from, there’’s no way
to be disappointed with Stereomood’’s
options.
Although the site is still in beta, its
inuence on the way music is classi-
ed will undoubtedly be great. Now
that playlists are so prevalent in music,
should artists be concerned for the
future of the classic album structure?
Well, yes, they should, actually.
The way that people are listening to
music is evolving, plain and simple.
Although we love our full-length
albums, it’’s the singles that are still
getting our playtime.
We no longer have to buy entire
albums to hear our favorite songs;
doctors, journalists, award winning
CEO’’s and web designers. We are
the leaders of the not-for-prot sec-
tors in the arts, the general managers
of a new breed of sports team and
most importantly, the keepers of
tomorrow. As we leave college
behind, it is important to look back
and realize what these last four years
have meant.
Class is class. What is really
important are the relationships you
formed, the friendships you trea-
sured and the realization that in 20
years, this same group of people
will sit with you at the peak of your
journey, looking back on your four
years of college and smile at the
great people we have become.
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personalized for you and with ads
that are targeted to you. And the bad
side, the underbelly that works in
the background, which tracks your
behavior on the Web and shares your
information with websites.
Both developments are putting
Facebook at the center of what you
do on the Web.
The company, who during one
week in march had more trafc
than current number one (Google)
in the United States, is looking to
extend its virtual network to cover
the entirety of what you do on the
Web as well as what you do ofine.
we can pick and choose which songs
we want to purchase. So what should
artists do to keep our attention?
Embracing this new idea is the rst
step to a successful transition into the
playlist world, because ghting the
evolution will only harm their careers.
The next step is to seek out col-
laboration opportunities. Bands and
artists often do album splits, where
two or more artists share the same
album (not to be confused with a
compilation, which is essentially a
playlist).
It may be benecial to musicians
to keep their releases short and
sweet. Instead of releasing one
full-length album each year or
two, why not have more frequent,
collaborative releases with less
tracks from each artist? That way,
listeners will stay attentive and
may even learn about new artists.
So what’’s next for the music
revolution? Who will come up
with the next idea to change the
way we seek out artists, songs or
genres?
The popularity of playlists will
denitely spike as more and more
music enthusiasts opt to pick and
choose which songs they want to
purchase and it’’s up to the artists
to convince them to stick around
for full-lengths.
Stereomood’’s innovative pre-
sentation of music via moods and
activities is an awesome example
of musical evolution, and music
connoisseurs are eagerly looking
towards the future of listening.
 the informer entertainment april 29, 2010 page 11

Foxy Shazam Channels Soul, Passion Into New Album

By Alyssa Marino Shazam rst caught my attention are dressed as basketball players.
Informer Staff Writer during one lazy afternoon I spent Saying that this video is random is
watching hours of MTVu. A new a bit of a stretch.
Soulful, experimental rockers music video scene opens up to black However, the silly imagery works
Foxy Shazam released their self- and white animation of a gawky wonders as it highlights the sweet,
titled album earlier this month. man with humorous facial hair and charming airs of ““Oh Lord,”” a song
With a six-piece set-up that features a little boy. one could assume is addressed to
piano and horns along with the usual Amidst the jumpy movements Nally’’s son, Julian.
drums, bass, guitar, vocals line-up, of these scrawled gures, a ragged ““Foxy Shazam”” captures the
the gentlemen of Foxy Shazam de- voice whispers words of comfort various accoutrements in the group’’s
liver classic rock style with a fun, and protection to the little cartoon bag of tricks. From Nally’’s Freddy
adventurous edge. boy named Julian. A faint trumpet Mercury-esque falsetto to the en-
The band, which formed in 2004, melody begins to sound as the tire band’’s agile stage presence,
already has two albums under its belt. animations jump under the lid of Foxy Shazam are emerging on the
However, the April 12 release of a piano. My interest as a viewer is scene, readyand willing to entertain.
““Foxy Shazam”” marks the group’’s piqued. Whether it is the somber, soulful
rst major label release. The al- Watching the video for the single moan of ““Bye Bye Symphony””
bum, which debuted at No. 2 on ““Oh Lord,”” my eyes light up as the or the crowd-rousing rock ruckus,
the Billboard Heatseekers Chart black and white shots of the band ““Unstoppable,”” this album truly
is an eclectic mixture of anthemic erupt with ying confetti and the delivers the undeniable pizazz of
jams, funky alternative beats and emergence of lead singer Nally Foxy Shazam.
old school rock swagger. Frontman and the little boy from the cartoon. However, instead of just plug-
Eric Nally takes the liberty of intro- Strains of guitar feedback, thick ging this delightfully unique band’’s
ducing the band via Foxy Shazam’’s drum beats and the pound of piano newest album, I’’ll let Nally’’s own
Facebook prole. Aside from the keys bring the song to a powerful words (from the band’’s fan-friendly
aforementioned singer and founding start. Facebook page) do the trick: ““When
father of the band, Foxy Shazam is The band members perform you listen to our record, think of your
composed of Daisy (bass), Aaron COURTESY OF TURTLEKAT.HU amidst the black and white scene, favorite things and it’’ll make sense
McVeigh (drums), Alex Nauth showcasing their air for energetic to you as well.
(horns) Loren Turner (guitar) and states, ““I am 24 years old, the father husband to Karen Nally. This creates entertainment. Nally dances with his ““Foxy Shazam is not concerned
Sky White (piano). of two boys, Julian Michael and an interesting contrast to my career mic stand and engages in choreogra- with what category it falls into. We
On the Facebook page, Nally Francis Jordan, as well as a loving as a professional musician.””Foxy phy with four back-up dancers who want to stand for our generation.””

Andy’’s Indie Artist Spotlight: The Cat Empire

By Andy Swetz be shocked when you don’’t notice What makes the sound so distinct mind by the time the chorus of any Cat Empire’’s ““Cinema”” will hit stores
Informer Staff writer the absence of a guitar’’s contribu- and easy going is the careful inter- of the band’’s tunes comes around, I on June 29 in the U.S.
tion to the infectious rhythm of what jection of different musical genres turn to The Cat Empire for music to The rst single from the new album
One of the most diverse and eclectic you hear. throughout a given song. Making relax with and sing-a-long to. called ““Beyond All”” is available for
bands around today, The Cat Empire, A collective mix of trumpets, it easy for the listener to get up and Although The Cat Empire has listen through The Cat Empire’’s
based in Melbourne, Australia, fuse double bass, piano, keyboard, drums dance, it’’s the band’’s message of remained inactive with new material MySpace or Youtube.
elements of jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and a turntable, the sound produced universal acceptance and nding the in 2009, the group did release a live Staying true to their music and
rock and soul into a brand new type by The Cat Empire is denitely one simple pleasures in life that keep me album entitled ““Live On Earth.”” keeping an overall optimistic view
of sound that has paved the way for that demands further inquiry. coming back for more. Set to release their newest material on life, The Cat Empire continues to
a brand new genre of independent With songs about adolescent With the capability of easing my since 2008’’s ““So Many Nights,”” The groove right on through 2010.
music. innocence, choosing friends over
The group of primarily six musi- conformity, staying true to one’’s
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good up-tempo sound.
Although there is no guitarist in the
to, the complete catalog of The
Cat Empire’’s music represents a
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Hawks Tennis Falls Track & Field Nears Postseason

to Boston University

ADAM MANISON
This weekend Hawks Tennis will compete in conference championship.

By Jessica Rutledge withstood a tough loss at second

Informer Staff Writer
Men’’s tennis fell to Boston Uni-
versity on the tennis courts this past
Saturday, April 24, in their nal
regular season match.
The only thing that stood between
the men’’s tennis team and a season-
closing victory was a single match.
Hartford dropped all three doubles
matches, which meant that all
four singles players would have to
dominate to secure a win. Although
there were some valiant matches, the
Hartford men came up short.
Freshman Marco Neves endured
a split-set victory over Boston Uni-
versity’’s Bill Kring at No. 3 singles.
After winning his rst set with a 6-4
margin, he was swept in his second
set by Kring, 0-6, but Neves came
back in an exhausting third set tie-
breaker to win the match.
Hawks’’ freshman Eric Floum
doubles with partner Josh Isaacson,
rallying back with a win at No. 4
singles with an 11-9 tiebreaker win
over BU.
These men exhibited immense
mental and physical strength that
persevered through losses and
victories. Hartford will say goodbye
to senior Aaron Kooden, who was
unsuccessful in his match against
BU, but an invaluable leader and
player on the men’’s team.
Although Saturday’’s loss against
BU marks the nal regular season
match, there is always next year,
since both Neves and Floum are
only freshmen, and are full of
potential.
Women’’s tennis had another
chance to redeem themselves after
a 0-6 loss against Boston University
on Saturday, but were unable to pull
out a victory, suffering a sweep by
Faireld University this afternoon.
The men’’s 4x800-meter relay team broke a school record Saturday at the Penn Relays.
By Zach Wallens
Sports Editor
Brittney Lawson and the track
and eld teams will compete in
the America East championships
this weekend at the University of
New Hampshire, but before head-
ing north to UNH, the squad had
one nal meet in preparing for the
postseason.
Lawson, a freshman from
Woonsocket, R.I., shattered her
previous school record of 46.18
meters in the hammer throw with a
toss of 47.58 meters on Sunday at
the Yale Springtime Invitational.
Lawson wasn’’t the only Hawk
with an impressive performance
in the regular season nale. The
4x400-meter relay lineup of Mela-
nie Wilson, Ariana Bass, Mahrukh
Khawaja and Priscilla Appiagyei
placed third with a time of 4:10:03.
The 4x100-meter relay team also
landed a top-ve nish, with a time
of 50.90.
For the men, Anderson Emerole
and Chasani Douglas each took
home fourth-place nishes in their
respective events. Emerole posted
a season-best time of 22.30 in the
200-meter dash and Douglas jumped
a distance of 13.38 meters in the
triple jump.
Earlier in the weekend, several
Hawks competed in the Penn Re-
lays. The event is the oldest and
STEVE MCLAUGHLIN
largest track and eld event in the
United States.
On Saturday, the men’’s 4x800-
meter relay team crushed a
ve-year-old school record by 17
seconds, nishing in 35th place. The
squad of Wayne Lawrence, Chris-
topher Rodriguez, Robert Giuliani
and Mike DuPaul nished the race
with a combined time of 8:01.85.
The women’’s 4x400-meter relay
team also posted an impressive nish
in Philadelphia, cruising to a season-
best time of 3:56.48, strong enough
for 67th place overall.
Both teams continue their season
this weekend at theAmerica East Out-
door Track and Field Championships
at the University of New Hampshire.

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Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future of Sports
So much to say, so little space.
As this is my nal column, and I
have way too many thoughts ow-
ing through my sports-obsessed
mind, this won’’t be a regular one-
topic article. Instead, jump inside
my head for 700 words as I pour
out every thought, prediction and
unbiased opinion I have left to of-
fer. Welcome.
Tiger Woods is ““the man”” and
will continue to be for a long time.
No, not because of his affairs, but
because he looked America in the
face and basically said, ““here I am,
come get me.”” If you haven’’t seen
his Nike commercial with him star-
ing into a camera as his dead father
asks him why he ““did it,”” then go
watch it. Now. Tiger will win a
major this year, just watch, and
as he’’s crushing the competition,
I hope he’’s swearing while doing
it. Tiger shouldn’’t change his on-
course personality just to have a
better public image. He should be
himself, just not the ““hey, it’’s, uh,
Tiger”” self.
Overtime playoff hockey is
amazing, even if no one cares.
The game is so intense, so physi-
cal and so fast-paced, I still don’’t
understand why more people don’’t
love it. In the playoffs there is no
shootout, just continuous physical
hell for as many 20-minute periods
as it takes. A ve-overtime game
is nearly three full hockey games.
If you think a double-overtime
basketball game looks tiring, go
watch hockey.
The New York Yankees’’ payroll
is $206 million. The Pirates’’ is $34
million. Fair?
The NCAAadded three teams to
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the NCAA tournament eld, which
is now up to 68 squads, but the addi-
tions won’’t stop there. College sports
are supposed to be about amateurs,
playing for the love of the game, and
getting an education. It isn’’t. College
football and basketball are now basi-
cally professional sports with unpaid
athletes, unless of course you wear a
UCS Trojans helmet. The tournament
eld will eventually be expanded to 96
teams for one reason: money. Whether
its alumni controlling which coach
gets hired, sports agents manipulating
student athletes or shoe companies
inuencing where a high school kid AP
goes to college, money is everywhere
LeBron James hasn’’t won a championship, but his talents would be more than welcome in New York.
and the corruption is only growing.
The NFL has some serious is- Why should rookies work hard when best, he should consider coming to than win the entire tournament. Soc-
sues. Many experts and football they have already been guaranteed a the Big Apple. Fair or not, winning cer isn’’t the most exciting sport in the
people are truly starting to believe lifetime supply of cash? The system in New York is different than winning world, but considering the rest of the
that a work stoppage in 2011 is not must be changed, hopefully before a in Cleveland. If I were the Knicks, world thinks the tournament is more
only possible, but likely. The league strike is necessary. I would put LeBron in a room with important than global warming, its
has a major problem with rookie LeBron James is coming to New Mark Messier and say, ““Hey Mark, worth paying attention to. Just watch
contracts exceeding those of proven York. Wait, no he’’s not. Honestly, tell LeBron here what it’’s like to win Lionel Messi tear apart defenses.
veteran stars at the same position, an nobody on this planet knows what in this city.”” Are the Knicks a good You’’ll be hooked.
issue that must be resolved moving LeBron is going to decide on July 1, team right now? No. But neither were In one year the Jets have gone
forward. A prime example: Raiders and anyone who says they do is sim- the Celtics before they added Kevin from a team with no future to
quarterback JaMarcus Russell will ply lying. I don’’t even think LeBron Garnett and Ray Allen in one offsea- possible Super Bowl favorites.
most likely be released in the next few knows what he’’s going to do yet. I son. It can be done. Come on LeBron. But, with all of the recent additions,
days, but, why should he care? The understand he’’s from Cleveland and Make it happen. many for players with character is-
former No. 1 overall draft pick has they have nally surrounded him with The World Cup is always an amaz- sues, will Rex Ryan and his gigantic
already been paid $39 million dollars a championship-worthy supporting ing sporting event, even if the United gut be able to stomach potential
to produce nearly nothing on the eld. cast, but if he really wants to be the States is more likely to lose every game chemistry problems?
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Four Late Goals Not Enough Against Binghamton

By Keith Arsenault
Informer Staff Writer

Four straight fourth-quarter goals

is always an accomplishment.
However, when trailing by ve, it
just is not enough.
That is what happened to the
Hartford Hawks lacrosse team
when they hosted the Binghamton
Bearcats last Saturday at Alumni
Stadium. The late run put on by
the Hawks fell just short as they
lost, 13-12.
With 8:47 remaining in the fourth
quarter, Binghamton freshman Ty-
ler Perrelle scored with a man-up
advantage after a Hartford penalty.
The tally gave the Bearcats a 13-8
lead.
The Hawks answered with 5:22
left when senior Leif Abrahamson
scored his rst goal of the season.
The goal sparked a furious come-
back, where the Hawks scored four
times in 2:08.
Unfortunately, goalie Jordan
Marra and the Binghamton defense
held off the Hartford attack for the ADAM MANISON
nal three minutes to escape with The Hawks have lost numerous close games this season, including a 13-12 loss to Binghamton Saturday at home.
the victory. Marra  nished the
afternoon with 13 saves. ferent Hartford player. ground balls in the loss. Bearcats, 46-30, for the afternoon. on their only advantage, which
As hot as the Hawks closed out Coming out of the break, the No other player for either team The Hawks also had more shots came midway through the second
the game, they were just as cold Hawks tied the score, 7-7, when picked up more than four. on goal, 25-19, than Binghamton. quarter.
at the start. The Hawks faced a junior Tim Fallon scored the rst While his ground balls and face- The Hawks also held the edge The Hawks (3-10, 0-4 AE)
4-0 decit just 10 minutes into the of his three goals just six seconds offs were unmatched, Binghamton in turnovers, groundballs and lost their fourth straight game
contest. They trailed, 7-1, with 9:40 into the third quarter. did have an answer to Fallon’’s scor- face-offs. and their last home game of the
to play in the second quarter. Fallon’’s three goals, his rst ing. Matt Springer put four goals The difference in the game was season.
The Hawks closed the second goals of the season, paced the past Hartford goalie Scott Bement. Binghamton’’s man-up attack. The Seniors Leif Abrahamson and
quarter well, scoring ve straight Hawks’’ scoring. Each of his goals Andy Cook added three goals of his Bearcats were 2-5 on their opportu- Captain Justin Bearse were honored
goals before halftime to close the came after winning face-offs. own for the Bearcats. nities. Both of those goals came in for Senior Day before the game.
gap to 7-6. The Hawks’’ faceoff specialist, Bement had only six saves on 19 the second half, including Perrelle’’s The Hawks will travel to Balti-
Each of the Hawks’’  rst-half Fallon won 22 of his 28 chances shots on goal for the afternoon. eventual game-winner. more on Saturday to take on UMBC
goals came from the stick of a dif- and picked up a game-high 16 The Hawks actually outshot the The Hawks could not score in their nal game of the season.

Greiner Continues Strong Pitching in Win-less Weekend

By Dan Lifshatz
a Bobby Gorski RBI groundout
Informer Staff Writer
to tie the game at two.
Hartford would continue their
The Hawks baseball team had a
scoring streak, taking a brief 3-2
rough time this week, losing four
lead in the eighth on a Mike Al-
straight, and dropping to 8-24 on the
drich grounder that was bobbled,
season and 2-8 in the conference.
allowing catcher Mike Amendola
The week started when Hartford
score. Finally, the Black Bears
traveled to Marist to play them in a
bats woke up, and Greiner was
single-day game. The game ended
hit hard, allowing two runs in the
up an uneven one, as Marist poured
top of ninth and letting the lead
in the runs en route to a 10-1 victory.
escape once again. Maine would
The Hawks were held to just three
hold on in the ninth to close out
hits by Marist pitching, which had
the 4-3 Maine victory, the Hawks
starter Brendan Chapin pitch three
fourth loss in a row.
innings, only allowing three walks,
The Hawks will continue their
but he also struck out three.
season with an upcoming series
With the win, Chapin improves to
vs. Binghamton University on
3-4 on the season. The loss broke a
May 1 and May 2. Both games
two-game win streak for the Hawks,
are scheduled to start at noon.
and set them on a road of disap-
pointment. Hawks starter Bobby
Gorski didn’’t have the best of luck,
as Marist jumped out to an early
4-0 lead, and wouldn’’t look back.
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Marist added their fth run in the
fth inning and ve more in the Starting pitcher Chris Greiner pitched seven and a third innings in the Hawks’’ 4-3 loss to Maine.
seventh. The Hawks were nally
able to get on the board in the ninth, Maine would manage to score in Mike Thatcher gave them a strong the same result followed. Hartford
thanks to a Matt Walker RBI double, every inning of the game. The performance with a seven-inning starter Chris Greiner pitched ex-
but at that point, the game was too Hawks would then give up 12 outing, only allowing four runs. tremely well, going seven innings
far out of reach. runs over the next four innings, But the Hawks’’ bats were silent this only allowing six hits, and four
Just three days later, the Hawks and the bats had gone silent. The time around, with the only run of the runs, all of which were earned.
were on the road again, this time Hawks struck for two more in the game coming off the bat of a Victor He also recorded six strikeouts
heading to Maine for a two-day trip. top of the sixth, but it was too- Santana RBI single to right. The on the day.
The rst day was a doubleheader little-too-late as Maine went on doubleheader sweep of the Hawks Maine took the lead early on in
for Hartford, who ended up falling to take game one 14-7. dropped them to a 2-7 record in the the third, scoring two quick runs.
in the rst game, 7-14. Game two was a much different America East. Hartford nally answered in the
Hartford got off to a quick start, story, but had the same result with The following day, Hartford found sixth with an Andy Drexel sacri- HARTFORD SPORTS INFORMATION
scoring two in the rst and three Maine pulling out a 4-1 victory. themselves playing the nal game ce y, and would eventually tie
in the second to give themselves a This game was much more of a of the three-game series, and even the game in the seventh after an Catcher Andy Drexel leads the
5-2 lead, but it would not hold, as pitcher’’s duel, as Hawks’’ starter though this game was the closest, error by the Maine pitcher set up Hawks with seven homers.