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The Informer hartfordinformer.com October 21, 2010

Vigil Raises Awareness Of Anti-Gay Bullying


By Jeremy Stanley
Editor-in-Chief

Over 150 students and faculty attended a candlelight


vigil on the Village Lawn intended to raise awareness
of anti-gay bullying.
In recent months, six gay teens took their lives after
being bullied.
The event comprised guest speakers and performances
of popular songs.
Kayleigh Ingraham, a graduate of the University of
Hartford currently attending graduate school in Central
Connecticut was a guest speaker.
Ingraham recounted personal stories of being bullied
and harassed because of her sexual orientation.
In a speech, Ingraham said, ““Bullying is not something
that stops after middle school and high school. It continues
in college, graduate school, the workplace, on the street
and even occurs in people’’s homes.”” SPENCER ALLAN BROOKS
Matt Blocker, director of the Center for Community
Service, said, ““My heart is lifted in rough times to see
there is a strong community here that really cares for
one another and that there is a positive direction that
we can head in.
““When we come together as a community and show
that hatred and bullying isn’’t accepted, it really pulls the
community together. And tonight was an example of the
community coming together and it was really powerful.””
Of the vigil Ingraham said, ““I couldn’’t be prouder of
this group.””
Special events coordinator for Spectrum Alison Ciulla,
a senior, organized the event.
““I was so happy to see how many people we got,””
she said.
The vigil was part of a nationwide movement to wear
purple on Oct. 20 to help raise awareness. Campaigns
like ““It Gets Better”” have been involved in lifting anyone
affected by bullying. JEREMY STANLEY
Of the bullying situation although it’’s getting better,
Ingraham said, ““It’’s going to have to improve.”” Top: Kayleigh Ingraham (second from left) speaks about bullying. Bottom: students gather on the Village Lawn.

Midnight Mania Fist-Pumps Up New Basketball Season


By Linnea Donnelly the form of another massive stampede. At the
Staff Writer conclusion to their entrance, the girls started
moshing to ““Sandstorm.””
Midnight Mania: The Howie Shore marked The man of the hour, Howie the Hawk
the beginning of the men and women’’s 2010- himself, emerged with the dance team to
2011 basketball season. show UHa a couple of their moves to song
With all the red and white that stormed the mash-ups of all of what seem to be Howie’’s
Chase Arena, it is clear that school spirit is favorite songs to grove to.
prominent in the Hartford student body. The dance team then graces the court sans
This year’’s Midnight Mania’’s theme was the guest appearance of Howie the Hawk but
based upon MTV’’s hit series Jersey Shore. put on a fun show all on their own.
University of Hartford made Howie’’s Then comes the shoot out from both teams.
weekend with an attendance of over 2,000 This is the real chance for the players to show
Snookis and Pauly Ds. Upon attendance, off to their skills to their fellow students.
students were each given a strand of Mardi Freshman Shoshannah Sietz says ““my
Gras beads and a foam st that came in handy favorite part was the dancing.”” Freshmen
when it came time for extreme st-pumping Anna Berard agrees with Sietz in the events
to Howie’’s jams. category. Berard says that there should have
Fans were welcomed with an intramural BEN BOWERS been more events other than free throws
free throwing contest that went over quite ““It got a little old after a while”” she said.
well. The free throw contests soon escaladed Midnight Mania featured games, dancers and of course, Howie the Hawk. The only common complaint across the
into intense one-on-one games. board was that the PA system in the Chase
After a couple of games, the lights dimmed, and making various loud noises throughout But rather they danced on the court in a Arena needed some work. According to many,
the music boomed, and the mood intensied. the crowd. huddle. The girls then began st-pumping the MC was not able to be heard throughout
Out paraded the men’’s basketball team. The The women’’s team had a different and to club mixes and tossing out glow sticks the gymnasium.
cheerleaders welcomed them with open unique entrance rather than just the standard and necklaces into the stands. It felt as if the With the successful turnout and enthusiasm
pom-poms. The crowd gave them all a warm running down the aisle of cheerleaders and Hartford Circus Fire incident was going to from the UHa student body, the Hawks are
welcome that consisted of major st-pumping hearing people scream and cheer for you. wreck havoc all over our school’’s event in on their way to a great season.

News Opinions Entertainment Sports

Professors help uncover the secrets of Find out why one writer thinks that ““Jackass 3D”” breaks box ofce records Find out what to expect when the bas-
Sobibor, a concentration camp in Poland. Glenn Beck is irrelevant. in opening weekend. ketball season opens in November.
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Famed Performance Troupe Rave For Alcohol Awareness


By Sarah Wilson

To Hold Show, Film Screening News Editor

In spirit of Alcohol Awareness


Week, the university will be holding
By Sarah Wilson a rave in Hawk’’s Nest on Oct. 21.
News Editor Though seemingly ironic, the rave
is aiming to teach students about the
The famed performance troupe risks of drinking in an entertaining
All The King’’s Men will be per- environment.
forming on campus this Saturday, Sponsored by C and D Complex,
Oct. 23. the Center for Community Service,
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The performance group features SCA and Connections Health
an all female cast of six (one of Education and Wellness Center,
Erica Upshaw will be speak-
which is a Hartford alumnus, Maria the event will feature food, bever-
Kogan) who astonishingly play ages and music courtesy of Sigma ing Thursday night about safe
between ““30 and 50 gender bend- Nu. The event will be held from 11 partying.
ing characters per performance,”” p.m. through 1:30 a.m., and will be
according to the group’’s website. COURTESY OF ATKM.COM open only to University of Hartford Also on Thursday night, the
Together, they produce a hilarious students free of admission. university will host Erica Upshaw
cabaret-style performance that is Alumnus Maria Kogan will perform with her renowned Throughout the day on Thursday of the organization Keep Friend-
satiric of pop-culture and gender troupe Saturday, Oct. 23. there will also be additional events ship Alive.
boundaries. held with the intention of educating At 7:30 p.m. students are invited to
Based out of Boston, the troupe in order to give an intimate portrayal as well as a rare opportunity students about alcohol. the Konover Campus Center to hear
has gained national attention of ““identity, sexuality, love and to speak with director Kaitlin From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. there will Upshaw’’s inspirational story of how
performing everywhere from Los performance art.”” Meelia and the cast afterwards. be a Drunk Driving Awareness cam- she lost her brother to a party drug
Angeles to London. The documentary, which debuted The performance by All The paign where students can learn rst called GHB, an occurrence which
A few months ago, there was even at the Atlanta Film Festival this past King’’s Men will be held Satur- hand how dangerous drunk driving led to her becoming a professional
a documentary completed about April, will also be shown prior to day night at 7 p.m. in Konover. can really be. speaker determined to help others
the group. the performance on campus. At 8 Tickets for admission to both Students will be allowed to enter party in a safe way.
For three years, director Kaitlin p.m. on Oct. 22 students, faculty, the lm screening and the per- the ““convincer,”” a drunk driving To learn a little more about having
Meelia worked on her movie titled and the community are invited to formance are only $7.50, but simulator provided by the Connecti- fun in a safe manner, come out to
““Play in the Gray”” which featured a the Konover Campus Center for University of Hartford students cut State Police in which students one of these events for a little infor-
close look at members of the troupe a screening of ““Play in the Gray,”” will have free admission. will feel the impact of a car crash. mation presented in a unique way.

University Professors Uncover Concentration Camp


By Sarah Wilson
News Editor

Two professors here at the uni-


versity are currently undergoing
incredible work to uncover the story
behind Sobibor, a concentration
camp in Poland that was burned
and covered by the Nazis.
Richard Freund and Avi Patt, both
afliated with the Greenberg Center
for Judaic Studies, along with a
team of several others, have been
working on an ongoing project to
excavate Sobibor, a concentration
camp in Poland that the Nazis buried
to hide evidence of a revolt. As the COURTESY OF HARTFORD.EDU/GREENBERG COURTESY OF HARTFORD.EDU/GREENBERG
details of that revolt have never been
uncovered, now, almost 70 years Left: Richard Freund of the Greenberg Center has been the archaeologist in uncovering a lost concentration camp in Poland.
later, it is increasingly important Right: A memorial at the site of Sobibor, the concentration camp that had been buried and hidden by the Nazis.
to nd the truth.
““With each passing day Holocaust ging with no direction, we can map subsurface of a camp and in a non- pened during the revolt at Sobibor. only for the information that has
survivors are dying off and the the subsurface to determine where to invasive way provide evidence of Patt explained to Reader’’s Digest been found but for the technology
question is how will we document dig,”” said Freund in a recent article what happened there while preserv- that most of the prisoners who tried that has aided in nding it. PBS has
in the future this tragic event when in Reader’’s Digest. ing the dignity of the dead.”” revolting were killed, and after the picked up the story and will soon
there are no more living witnesses?”” He explained that Nazis often Patt, who is acting as the historian act Nazis immediately destroyed air a documentary on the work and
said Freund. destroyed concentration camps so for the project, has an even greater the camp in fear of a similar revolt ndings of the project.
Freund is the archaeologist for the they wouldn’’t be discovered by al- connection to the camp as he told taking place elsewhere. Freund ““PBS’’ movie will be a testament
project, and has been using a special lies. In the case of Sobibor, it was Reader’’s Digest that ““This was added in that ““Ironically, in their to how great a small university like
method of excavations to uncover burned, buried and a forest was even the site, in fact, where my great- attempt to cover up what happened, the University of Hartford can be,””
the camp. He, along with the help planted over the surface. grandparents on my mother’’s side the Nazis provided archaeologists said Freund.
of WorleyParsons company, (the Using invasive technology, such had been deported from Vienna in with the single best evidence of this The professor is scheduled to give
company that aided in the BP oil as ground penetrating radar, Elec- the spring of 1942 to meet their unspeakable crime——an untouched a lecture about the work at Faireld
spill clean up), have been working trical Resistivity Tomography and deaths.”” site.”” University on Nov. 18, where the
on this project for over a decade. Magnetometry, Freund and his Patt and his teammates now have Uncovering this piece of history trailer for the documentary will
““Instead of spending years dig- teammates were able to ““map the a greater understanding of what hap- has gained national attention not rst be aired.

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Shop to Stop Domestic Violence


By Karen Arakelian be providing information on their There will be some students
Staff Writer stores as a way of advertising their who will be collecting donations
products to the students. for the cause. Vanessa Leveille
This coming week, Jeri Polland of This is denitely an event that will be collecting donations
the Center for Community Service, everyone will love, even the less of baby items for mothers
will be setting up ““Shop to Stop,”” an shopping-savvy men because and children who have gone
event that she created in the spirit Game Spot will be providing free through domestic violence and
of donating to shelters for women games all day. are in need.
who have been abused. Also, Kiss 95.7, the radio show There are other charities that
The event will be held at Gengras that everyone in Connecticut knows the money earned will be sent
and will be during domestic violence and listens to as they get to work to, such as Courtney’’s House
week, Oct. 25 through Oct. 28. There or school, will be coming to the in Washington, which was cre-
will be a variety of well known stores university to play music and spon- ated for women who have gone
in the GSU at this time selling their sor the event. through sex trafcking and local
goods to students and faculty. Not only is this event going to Hartford shelters.
Each vendor cost the stores $75 be exciting, it is an excellent op- This is an important issue
and all the money will be going portunity for the university to raise in society today, and having
directly to charities that aid people awareness about violence against this event at our university is
struggling with domestic violence. women, and is a subject in desperate a way that we can all part take
Some of the stores that will be need of having more light shed on it. in raising awareness to these
participating include Game Stop, CAPS, the Women’’s center, as issues and help the movement
Origins, Pepperidge Farm, Bow well as MARS will all be sponsor- toward change.
Tie Cinemas, Lia Sophia, Thomas ing the event. Polland, who set up this
Hooker Brewery and Summer Tan. Overall, this event is about help- whole event from top to bottom
There will be several rafes in- ing women and ghting the all says that ““this is a world wide
cluding one from Lia Sophia, which too common problem of domestic problem and by doing this we
will be giving away some jewelry, violence. are getting our community a
Bow Tie Cinemas who will be giving Most of all, this event was created step forward.””
away free movie tickets, as well as to increase the awareness about this She set up an event that is
Origins who will have gift baskets serious topic, and act as inspiration enjoyable, but at the heart is
of products. for anyone who is effected by it to about making a charitable
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Blackout During
Worcester State Halloween Weekend
Multiple Formats By Ben Gyurik but we will announce when and
21 Graduate Programs Staff Writer where we will be selling them prior
to the event,”” says Polland.
Traditional Semester This upcoming Halloween Week- All the funds will be going to
7 Week Accelerated Modules end, there will be a ““Blackout”” event the 21 Club Spring 2011 semester
Day, Evening and Online Courses held by the 21 Club for all students. event, details of which are still
““Blackout”” will be a tent held in a surprise.““We have an idea of
Large Course Selection the Village Lawn, where there will the event for next semester, but I
be a light show, and a huge costume can’’t give the details away,”” says
Available Masters Programs party being held. Polland.
Complete in 12-18 Months Jeri Polland is a part of 21 Club The Club is leaving the event a
and has put a lot of effort in getting surprise, as Polland, who is a senior
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M.S. Healthcare The event is being catered to 21 club with a big bang.
M.Ed. General Education everyone because it will focus on ““I have been working with the 21
safety, as no alcohol will be toler- Club for a while now, and I think
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— History be lighted, and students can even will be huge, the tent is so massive
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““The event is promotional be- Blackout will be available for all
*Based on 36 Credit Program cause we hope we can raise funds students, even commuters, and it
for an even bigger event for next is even for students that are under
semester held by 21 Club, so we 21, as the 21 Club usually only
are hoping the event will be a suc- admits students who meet the age
cess so we can surprise everyone,”” requirement.
says Polland. ““We did a Halloween event last
The Village Lawn was the only year that was really successful, and
area that was big enough to hold I think this is going to be awesome,
the tent, which will hold and admit as people are already starting to get
200-250 people. People wearing the word out,”” exclaimed Polland.
costumes will receive a discount, Polland explains that working on
paying $1 to get into the event, Blackout which is a promotional
worcester.edu/totalaccess while people with no costume will event has been a lot of work, and
have to pay $3. hopes it will do well because she
worcester.edu 508.929.8127 ““We will be selling wristbands, wants next semester’’s event to be
most likely at the Village or at GSU even bigger.
the informer news october 21, 2010 page 5

Increased Internet Cut-Offs House of Nightmares


Due To Illegal Downloads Expected To Frighten
By Sarah Wilson By Sarah Wilson
News Editor News Editor

Recently, there has been an in- If you’’re looking for something a


creasing number of students who little spookier than a lack of clothing
suddenly nd themselves without this Halloween weekend, the second
internet after having illegally down- annual ““House of Nightmares””
loaded media. will be held in the basement of D
The university’’s policy on illegal complex.
downloading has not changed, and The event, which will be running
still states that ““a student’’s privileges Oct. 28 through Oct. 31 from 9 p.m.
to use the technology system or spe- to 12 a.m., will be a creepier version
cic computer labs or stations may of the already frightening freshman
be suspended,”” if any copyrighted complex basement corridors. Any
material is downloaded, according University of Hartford student
to the source. is invited to enter the ““House of
On a rst offense, a student’’s ac- Nightmares”” to be led through the
cess to the internet will be cut off hallways while being continually
for a period of two weeks, and on a COURTESY OF TARINGA.NET startled by daring actors. Think Six
second, four weeks. Flags’’ ““Trail of Terror,”” but right DAN WENCECK
Under the Digital Millenium The increased use of lesharing sites such as Limewire have here at home (and without the $32
Copyright Act, any network can be resulted in the disconnection of many students’’ internet. ticket). home now.””
sued for the illegal actions of anyone For those intimidated by the Wojcik, along with RA’’s Mason
on that network. This allows record take this action, but has no choice, Sites like dirpy.com and thought of unrecognizable class- Munn and Gerry Rodenas, have been
companies to contact the university because as owners and maintainers beemp3.com offer the down- mates jumping out from the shadows planning the event since August,
when they nd out about violations, of the system, if we do not take ac- loading of music through links of dark corridors, there will also be and have been spending the past
which they often do, and order a tion with the offending users, then that are already out there, giving a soft opening scheduled for Oct. 28 two weeks decking the basement
cease and desist. we are considered also responsible the allusion that their use is legal. from 7 to 9 p.m. This involves the in frightful décor in the hopes of
““Sometimes we get as many as 40 for the offense,”” said Peters in a But the reality is, it’’s still il- same decorations and actors as the increasing the turnout to an even
cease and desist letters in a week,”” recent email to students. legal if the person or network actual ““House of Nightmares,”” but larger number, with a goal of 500.
said Lee Peters, Vice President of Filesharing programs such as the le is being taken from the lights will be left on, and actors The House of Nightmares will
Student affairs. Limewire are nothing new to col- doesn’’t have permission from will refrain from any intentional obviously be held on an extremely
““This is a signicant increase over lege students as many have spent the copyright holder. scaring. party-heavy weekend for most col-
previous years; the record, software, the last few years relying on the The same principle goes for This is the second year the lege campuses. For this reason, the
and movie companies have gotten free access as their primary means downloading les from another Resident Assistant staff of C and D Campus Activities Team, Division
much better at catching students,”” of downloading music. But while country with different laws. If complex are putting on the event. of Student Affairs, the Ofce of
said Dave Kelley of the Information most ignore the initial part of the the downloader is in the United Last year there was an extremely Multicultural Programs and C and
Techonologies Department. phrase ““illegal downloading,”” they States, it is still considered il- successful turnout, drawing be- D Complex Hall Council, are all
It is at this time that, in protection often aren’’t aware of the reasons for legal. tween 300 and 400 students. sponsoring the event with the inten-
of its students and itself, the univer- these implications. So for all the music hungry With such a large turnout last year, tion of providing an alternative to the
sity’’s IT and Public Safety staff will There are many other sources for downloaders out there, it’’s the continuation of the event seemed common underage binge drinking.
determine from which computer the downloading free music out there, important to know the reper- almost inevitable. So for a little frightening fun to
illegal activity is being conducted, but the problem lies not necessarily cussions of these actions, and ““It’’s now going to be a C and D start off your Halloween weekend,
and notify the user of the suspension in the method used to obtain the les, though you might think you’’ve Complex RA staff tradition,”” said head over to D complex to check out
of their network connection. but rather the fact that the material found a way around it, it’’s not Andrea Wojcik, D complex RA. ““D a haunted house right underneath
““The University does not want to is copyrighted. necessarily true. complex should be it’’s permanent your feet.

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Left: Citizens have been rioting for the past week in France over a plan for pension reform. Center: President Obama will appear on the Daily Show next
Wednesday for the rst time since taking ofce. Right: Starbucks ofcially launched its exclusive, content-based network Wednesday.

French Protest Pen- ‘‘Don’’t Ask, Don’’t Obama To Appear On Saudi Prince Arrested Starbucks Launches
sion Reform Proposal Tell’’ Ban To Be Lifted The Daily Show For Murder Of Servant Exclusive Network
Protesters continued to riot in The Obama administration is ex- The ““Daily Show”” will be going A Saudi Prince was given a maxi- Starbucks ofcially launched its
France this week due to opposition pected to appeal the decision to end on the road to Washington in order mum sentence Wednesday for the own free Wi- network Wednesday
of a planned pension reform. the ““Don’’t Ask, Don’’t Tell”” policy. to host Obama next Wednesday. brutal murder of a servant. in over 6,800 stores nationwide.
Protests took place throughout the The administration stated that an This will be the rst time Obama He was tried in a British court The coffee company, which used
country, causing chaos and disrup- abrupt change in the policy ““risks has been on the show since taking and sentenced to a minimum of to charge customers to use it’’s Wi-
tion of gas stations and transits. causing signicant immediate harm ofce in 2009. 20 years for the killing of Bandar , launched the Starbucks Digital
While cars were set ablaze and to the military and its efforts to be The appearance will take place Abdulaziz. The murder, which Network (SDN) in hopes of building
some buildings destroyed, unions prepared to implement an orderly just three days before Jon Stewart ofcials say had a sexual element, a sense of community between all
blockaded gas stations and roads repeal of the statute.”” is scheduled to hold his ““Rally to occurred after the prince beat Ab- customers.
leading to Charles De Gaul airport. U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Restore Sanity”” in Washington, and dulaziz who eventually died from SDN will be a content-based
Ofcials were able to peacefully Phillips banned enforcement of the more importantly, the night before swelling of the brain. network revolving around News,
remove three of those blockades. law last month, however a motion the midterm election. The prince admitted to killing Entertainment, Wellness, Business
This is all in response to a pro- was led for the Judge to lift that ban. It is predicted that campaign- Abdulaziz, though he claimed he and Careers, My Neighborhood
posed plan to raise the retirement Phillips denied, which means ing during the last week before had not intended to do so. and the customer-personalized
age from 60 to 62, along with other the 9th Circuit could overturn the the election will be intensive with The jury ultimately had to de- Starbucks channel. It will also of-
changes, which the Senate will vote ruling relatively soon and ““Don’’t Obama making appearances across cide if he was or was not guilty of fer users content exclusive to the
on this coming Thursday. ask, Don’’t tell”” could be reinstated. the country. manslaughter. Starbucks customer.

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Recent Study
Shows Marriage
Isn’’t Doomed
I recently read an article in
Cosmopolitan magazine stating
that the divorce rate has been
on a steady decline for over 15
years now.
This fact took me by surprise, I
would’’ve suspected the opposite,
considering the amount of media
saturated divorces of the rich and Danielle Huppke •• Managing Editor
famous that have been bombarding huppke@hartford.edu
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With the rise of computer mediated technologies, tangible books are being pushed to the The most recent celebrity
back of the shelf while Amazon’s Kindle and the Nook are becoming increasingly popular. couple on the brink of a separa- but not so ideal for couples that
tion is Courtney Cox and David actually did have xable marriage

E-Readers Spark Death Of Books Arquette who have managed to


beat the odds of divorce for 11
years. And who can forget the
massive Tiger Woods incident that
problems, because they were too
quick to jump on the divorce
bandwagon and then later realized
the painful repercussions of a long
If there’’s one thing I’’ve truly technology’’s dust, either. was plastered across tabloids and drawn out divorce.
enjoyed since my rst brush with This lands people like me at news billboards everywhere a few Not too long ago parents were
the English language, it’’s books. somewhat of a crossroads. Most months ago. forcing their children to get mar-
I love meandering through the li- of us use all the social media Bradford Wilcox, PhD, director ried at far too young an age and this
brary and being able to rent whatever outlets; Twitter, Facebook, even of the University of Virginia’’s lead to unsatisfying partnerships.
my literature-loving heart desires getting news online have become National Marriage Project told In today’’s society we have the
at no cost. I love the bookcases my second nature. But by upholding Cosmopolitan ““You often hear luxury of taking our time and gur-
grandfather built that are lled to this notion of sticking it to the man that 1 in 2 marriages doesn’’t ing out exactly what’’s right for us
the brim with browning pages of Sarah Wilson •• News Editor and continuing to physically turn work out, but the current rate is as individuals. Marriage isn’’t on
ctitious anecdotes. And I love the sawilson@hartford.edu the page, we’’re only prolonging closer to 43 percent.”” However, the forefront of our minds. We’’re
whiff of must that bellows from the Twitter: @swyzleh the same inevitability older gen- this statistic is also working off more consumed with nding good
opening of an old book you’’ve just erations faced with cell phones of the fact that marriage rates are jobs and earning money, we’’ll
sat down to read again. growth of technology. Cell phones and email; eventually, we may declining as well. worry about marriage when the
Needless to say, I’’m avoiding and computers became more com- have to give in. Although fewer couples are time comes.
purchasing a Kindle at all costs. plex just as we did. One constant, So no, I don’’t disagree that looking to tie the knot, the ones This has lead to the decrease
But as tech lovers are being swept however, was books. The develop- books are on their way out. Ac- who do can have a renewed of unhappy marriages and the
off their feet by the suave features of ment of things such as Kindles, cording to mashable.com, sales sense of hope that even they increase of happy couples gur-
e-book readers and iPads, it seems Nooks and iPads are really the rst of e-books are up an astounding can make it through hard times. ing out what the right next step
that the digital age we live in is push- technologies our generation has seen 192.9 percent. In contrast, the sale In a report by CBS news, couples is for them.
ing the physical book to the outskirts. that completely transforms the way of adult hardcovers experienced have been nding a new sense of Another great thing about mar-
In an interview on CNN, One we have done things for 20 years. a 24.4 percent drop two months togetherness due to the failing eco- riage today as apposed to a few
Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas So while Generation X-ers eager ago. nomic conditions of the country. decades ago is that there are so
Negroponte stated with an air of to get their hands on the latest and I do, however, think it’’s going to This is a vast contradiction to the many resources available to help
certainty that ““the physical book will greatest technologies jump on the take much more than ve years for attention hogging celebrity couple couples get through rough times.
be gone in ve years.”” e-book bandwagon, those of us who a total eclipse of the book. Despite trend of getting a divorce as soon So for all those out there who
Judging by how quickly technol- are younger wind up somewhere in the steep decline of hardcovers as times get tough, but with the were worried that the tradition of
ogy has evolved over the past ve the middle. two months ago, sales increased stresses of everyday living on the marriage was doomed and that in
years, it’’s no stretch to say a lot can In all my fantasies of a future home, again by 5.2 percent last month. rise, the average American couple the future getting married would
happen in that amount of time. How- a common motif was the desire for So for now it seems that is looking to keep stability in an put you into an outcast group of
ever, especially in our generation, walls of built-in bookcases stretching there’’s no telling what’’s going otherwise rocky time. society, no fear. If you play your
there is a fair amount of resistance from ceiling to oor, of course lled to happen with this story until During the ‘‘70s and ‘‘80s the cards right, divorce won’’t be in
to this upcoming technology. with books I had read. I don’’t want we reach the next chapter, but in negative stigma placed around your future.
This puts college-aged students to discard that vision, but with the the meantime, I’’ll comfortably divorce lessened, which was great You’’re happily ever after dream
in an unusual position. Generation inherent death of tangible literature, continue to read my books one for people stuck in unhappy mar- can be attainable, as long as you’’re
Y grew up simultaneously with the I don’’t want to be left behind in page at a time. riages that were beyond xable, willing to work for it.

O’’Donnell Proves Palin Isn’’t Alone In Ignorance


It’’s clear 2010 has its Sarah Palin wasn’’t a gaffe at all. ““She simply If I said I was an expert in Libel In a projection run this week, Coons
in the form of another Tea Party can- made the point that the phrase appears law but also said it was okay to print has a zero percent chance of losing to
didate, Christine O’’Donnell. nowhere in the Constitution,”” he said. lies about people, you might want to O’’Donnell through a simulated vote.
The only difference is that Still though, this exchange seems question my leadership. It’’s unfortunate that a lot of national
O’’Donnell doesn’’t threaten to hold suspicious, considering as Anderson This stunning display of what can media attention has been following
one of the most powerful ofces Cooper on his CNN program said really only be described, as incompe- just this contested race, when one
behind the presidency. Tuesday that O’’Donnell has repeat- tency on the campaign trail is hugely considers that there are so many other
Most recently she has displayed edly brought up her credentials as reminiscent of the 2008 campaign. races this season and there is nearly
ignorance of the Constitution while Jeremy Stanley •• Editor-in-Chief someone who studied and will follow Katie Couric’’s interview with the no national coverage.
running for Senate in Delaware. At jstanley@hartford.edu the Constitution if elected. To pour then-Vice Presidential candidate Even the senatorial race in Con-
the Widener Law School Tuesday in Twitter: @JeremyDStanley salt in the wound, she was also asked Palin jumps to mind as the moment necticut between Richard Blumenthal
a debate with Democrat Chris Coons, about other amendments to which she public opinion started to sway away and Linda McMahon has seen little
she asked ““Where in the Constitution Coons pointed out to her, the Constitu- needed clarication on. I’’ll be hon- from John McCain. Many argue that more than a blip on the national news
is separation of Church and State?”” tion does say, ““Congress shall make est, I had no idea what was included Palin is what in part made the Presi- radar. The biggest story out of that
and what followed was laughter from no law respecting an establishment in the amendments, but at the same dential election more so a formality, campaign was the questions about
the audience. of religion.”” time I’’m not a Senate candidate who as Obama was ahead in the polls in Blumenthal’’s service in the military
In some ways, O’’Donnell is right; She asked repeatedly if it was true is running partly on her Constitutional many ways. during Vietnam.
the phrase ““separation of Church and that the Constitution actually said it, background and promising any law The same is true for O’’Donnell, ac- There have to be other candidates in
State”” does not appear in the Constitu- skeptically. And campaign manager that I vote on will stick to the rights cording to Nate Silver’’s political blog other races saying crazier things than
tion. Point goes to O’’Donnell. But as Matt Moran ““claried”” that the gaffe the Constitution provides citizens. Five Thirty Eight on NYTimes.com. O’’Donnell is saying, right?

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Why Is Conservative Glenn Beck Still Relevant?

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American conservative radio and television host, Glenn Beck, has built his career around his incendiary rhetoric in order to stir up controversy and gain ratings.
By Uri Weiss ribly uninformed, he’’s dangerous. experiencing a third Red Scare! who played his version of Jimi Hen- blah blah, on display all day for all
Special to the Informer Not only does he think that he And anything that can be linked to drix’’s version of The Star-Spangled the foreign heathens of the world
speaks the Gospel truth, he sells Russia is inherently evil and has Banner and then bemoaned big to see and be jealous of. I’’d love
I don’’t know how many people people on emotions rather than absolutely no place in America. government. We’’re as good as the for Glenn Beck to be held to the
listen to, watch, or ingest——in facts. Every issue is polarized; the And the covers of his books are so company we keep. And Beck’’s same standard.
any other way——Glenn Beck’’s middle ground has disappeared damned annoying. Is he aware that company includes Ted Nugent. That time is long passed. Passed
commentary, but Beck is about from this man’’s mind completely. the cute and funny face he’’s trying On top of that, he’’s a complete to the point where the blame lies
as deserving of attention as Keith You’’re either Mother Theresa to make in every photo is really hypocrite. When Obama’’s annual with Americans. The blame lies
Richards is of a donor kidney. or you’’re a baby-killing Nazi. It’’s just idiotic? check-up was made available to with all of us. Is this how we’’re
Watching Glenn Beck is like been said that if you were to play This is a man with the nerve and the public there was a mountain going to have the rest of the world
watching a messy, messy breakup. all the slow-mo parts of ““300”” at the hubris not only to have a rally made out of the part about how perceiving us?
Everything is taken personally. regular speed, the movie would be a on the same day as Martin Luther the President needs to cut back on We’’re a country that is so divided
There’’s a lot of emotion, a lot half-hour shorter. Well if you were King’’s March on Washington, but the alcohol consumption. And, as between super-liberal pushovers
of name-calling, the majority of to take an average Glenn Beck TV to then explain to King’’s relatives one could expect, Beck saddles up who take public correctness to a
what is said doesn’’t make sense, spot and remove the Nazi references that it’’s okay! Because he’’ll be his steed (which, in a perfect world damning, unparalleled height, and
and there’’s way too much crying. (Swastikas, propaganda, Berlin standing ““several steps below”” would be himself, because he’’s that right-wingers who are so blinded
I’’ve watched it a number of times Olympics, yellow stars of David…… where Martin Luther King spoke, much of a narcissist) and goes on by an unfurled, perpetually wind-
and quite honestly, I thought that it etc.) I think that you’’d have a few as if that makes it any less insulting. his tirade about Obama’’s alcohol blown American ag that they
was more mental masturbation than disparate words. Maybe a noun? That Beck thinks that anything he consumption. But……Glenn Beck is probably wouldn’’t even be able to
news. Or opinion. Or whatever he A verb? He’’s tried linking Social does is of any historical signicance a recovering alcoholic, according locate Iraq, Afghanistan, or even
claims his program to be. Studies (you know, the kind from is not the bigger problem here; it’’s to CNN.com. the United States on a map. Jon
He’’s admitted numerous times grade school?) with Karl Marx. that he thinks that he could lead I suppose the issue here is stan- Stewart put it best when he said of
that he’’s a showman and a ratings- Because in Glenn Beck’’s messed a rally and look intelligent while dards. Glenn beck holds Obama and Glenn Beck, ““nally, a guy who
hunter. So why do people still pay up head (on the inside and out. The doing it. At the Alamo Tea Party everyone around him to this golden says what people who aren’’t think-
him any mind? Not only is he ter- man has a massive cranium) we’’re rally he introduced Ted Nugent, standard——this all-American, blah ing are thinking.””

Halloween Costume With A Message And Purpose


By Danielle Huppke with the BP logo, which is meant Alan Geller, vice president at Fun be a better choice than the Zombie princess. Now it’’s a chance for
Managing Editor to stand for ““bad planning,”” has World explained to the New York Sarah Palin or a mask of Barack teens and young adults to put on
been doused in buckets of faux-oil Times, ““What’’s unique is that it Obama. their most exposing outt and call
Are you looking to make a big to give a similar appearance of a combines the horror of Halloween This is a great way to go against it a costume. Maybe girls should
statement this Halloween? person who just came out of the with the topicality of the disaster…… the normal trend of the typical slutty try dressing like legitimate nurses
Well Fun World has the perfect mess in the Gulf. we’’re like ‘‘Saturday Night Live’’ in Halloween costumes and stay true to instead of adding a little bit of slut
costume to help you make a splash a cause near and dear to your heart. to every career they might attempt
no matter what party you’’re plan- Let’’s face it, aren’’t the school girl, to pull off as a costume.
ning on attending. The costume
“What’s unique is that it combines the horror cat woman and bumble bee cos- Rule number one for Halloween
I’’m talking about is not the typical of Halloween with the topicality of the disaster… tumes getting a little tired anyway. costumes; if you’’re trying to retain
naughty sailor outt but one with we’re like ‘Saturday Night Live’ in a costume.” In all honesty I would be 100 some of your dignity, keep the
a little more politically saturated percent shocked if I actually were lingerie-like ones strictly for the
substance. -Alan Geller, New York Times Interview to see someone sporting one of these bedroom.
Fun World just released the BP BP jumpsuit costumes on campus Or at least try and conceal your
oil spill costume for the 2010 Hal- They changed the jumpsuits a costume.”” during the upcoming Halloween identity if your only option is uber-
loween season and let’’s just say, it’’s from blue to green and changed the Fun World has plans to produce weekend, although it would be revealing, maybe a lovely Hilary
a bit horrifying. Not in the usual bloodstains to stains of oil. If you’’re more than 10,000 jumpsuits, with pretty impressive if that were the Clinton mask would do the trick.
sense of the word but it’’s more of a looking to complete the ensemble several dollars from every sale going case. If you want to support a good
statement piece to bring awareness just carry around a large dead sh, to the families affected by the spill. I can remember a time when Hal- cause and bring awareness and
to the issue and put a little salt in and voila, the most horric costume Although the $40 price tag might loween was a holiday for children fright to a very relevant issue, the
the wounds of those responsible. to go along with the biggest disaster keep it from outselling other popular across the nation to dress up as BP jumpsuit is probably your best
This green jumpsuit complete in the United States this year. adult costumes it’’s surely going to their favorite action hero or Disney option.

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Halloween costumes for 2010 may range from political masks to ones with politically charged
messages.

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‘‘Jackass 3D’’ Tops Box Ofce, Features Same Antics


By Lisa Schwartz- Neubauer their stunt is called.
Staff Writer There are some scenes shot in
the winter and some in the sum-
Johnny Knoxville and the gang mer and a lot of scenes concerning
are back in the third edition of their genitals resulting in wincing,
““Jackass”” featuring new outra- puking and a lot of laughing from
geous stunts entirely in 3D. not only the cast members but from
The Jackass franchise, which the crew members as well.
originally began on MTV back But after all these years the cast is
in 2000, released their latest lm still going strong and for the most
Friday and follows a group of guys there are a few times in the movie
who participate in a wide variety where a few tears are shed, and
of practical jokes, and deliberately Bam Margera at one point mentions
beat themselves up for our enjoy- that he is glad to be leaving the set
ment. early that day.
With ultimately no plot it is hard Some of the scenes of ““Jackass””
to believe how people nd so much are repetitive but for the most part
amusement in guys torturing them- they are surprisingly amusing.
selves physically and mentally, but From jet skiing off a ramp into
the show caught on quick and has a bush, to ying up into the air in
captured audience’’s attention for a bowel lled portable toilet, to
ten years. running through a gauntlet of taser
Although there are two previ- guns, the cast really has it cut out
ous movies and three seasons of for them this time.
a show, you really do not need to It is no wonder they have about
know much about the cast before ten guys alternating between each
walking into the movie. stunt.
Knoxville and his crew make it COURTESY OF IMEXCLUSIVE.COM The 3D is not a necessity, but it
pretty easy to catch on quick and very much works.
enjoy their pranks. However, for ““Jackass 3D”” broke the record for highest grossing Fall movie debut making over $50 Million. If you like this type of humor
all the ““Jackass”” fans that are out more than enough this time around. years. ““Jackass 3D”” begins with a they range from 30 seconds to a few ““Jackass 3D”” is denitely worth
there, there are denitely recogniz- Steve O does his usual gag scenes, slow motion scene with each char- minutes long. seeing. And even if you don’’t,
able characters who have returned. while Bam brings his parents into the acter walking in dressed in different Just like in the show, whoever is you may not want to knock it off
Bam Margera, Steve O, Wee Man movie like he has done in the past. costumes previewing slightly what doing the stunt begins the stunt with your list right away as you may be
and others who have been working It is truly hard to believe that they they have in store. their name, a brief description of surprised about how much you nd
together since the show began do still have what it takes after all these The pranks start quickly after and what they will be doing, and what yourself laughing.

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Stewart Hosts Comedy


Facebook Ex- The popular social networking site
now prevents pictures of an ex from appearing in
Central Autism Benet
user’’s ““Photo Memory”” boxes. It turns out some
machines are programmed to feel emotion.

Unhappy Days- Star of the show ““Happy Days,””


Tom Bosley, died aged 83 this week. America’’s
favorite ‘‘50s dad will be missed.

Starbucks Digital Network- Starbucks launched


their SDN media application this week, which is
accessible through their free in store Wi-Fi. Amer-
ica may run on Dunkin but its laptops are powered
by Starbucks.

Tea Party Ignorance - The NAACP revealed in a


study that many Tea Party leaders are birthers that
believe that President Obama is not a U.S. citizen.
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““right”” is not a direction and Hawaii is part of the
Comedy Central’’s annual benet ““Night Of Too Many Stars”” will air Oct. 26 at 9:00 p.m.
country.
By Andy Swetz corded auctions and taped segments a ridiculous way, Chris Rock auc-
Entertainment Editor from the Beacon Theater and have tions off the opportunity for a bidder
What the ‘‘Chuck’’? –– NBC’’s series ““Chuck”” live segments from Los Angeles to have their ex cussed out on stage
received a full-season pick-up this week in hopes Comedy Central’’s annual ““Night with a celebrity phone bank open via speakerphone.
of gaining new fans. The news is just as bad as the Of Too Many Stars: An Over- for caller donations. Available for bid on the site are
booked Concert For Autism Since beginning the benet event multiple items including a Stephen
full season order of ““Outsourced.”” Benet,”” airing Oct. 26 at 9:00 in 2005, the concert has raised just Colbert autographed copy of the
p.m., brings celebrities together under $7 million for autism educa- Declaration of Independence, a
to use comedy to help those with tion and family service programs Tina Fey autographed copy of
T.I. Back To Prison- Rapper T.I. has been sen- disabilities. including adult autism education. Sarah Palin’’s ““Going Rogue”” and a
tenced to 11 months in jail for drug possession Hosted by Jon Stewart, the night Featured on comedycentral.com, pregnancy test kit signed by Sarah
features names such as Lewis one preview from the night’’s events Silverman.
charges. Violating his probation from his 10-month Black, Steve Carell, Stephen Col- include Steve Carell auctioning off a All in all aiming to continue the
prison sentence just last year, apparently the rapper bert, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Ricky chance for a bidder to hold his hand tradition of doing well with comedy,
misses the taste of prison food. Gervais, Joel McHale, John Oliver, while saying their name and faking the ““Night Of Too Many Stars””
Chris Rock and Sarah Silverman. an orgasm. promises to offer up laughs and raise
ANDY SWETZ The night will base around prere- In the same spirit of raising money money for a great cause.
the informer entertainment october 21, 2010 page 9

Art School Senior Fuses Practicality, Passion


By Andrew Walsh aspect, from the tins to the pack-
Special to the Informer aging, the perspective market, and
essentially everything except for
The reality of stepping out into the the actual tea.
““real world”” can be daunting, espe- This project is a hypothetical
cially for an Art School graduate. company, but theoretically could
Everyone wants to make a name be made into a real company once
for themselves. she graduates.
For an artist, this means they need It is a great example of a senior
to have great work, or know the project because it embodies real-
right people. Your work becomes world applications.
synonymous with your name. It has been a way of expressing
The goal of many artists is to be her ideas in such a way that en-
able to live off their work, rather compasses everything Hartford Art
then work for others. School has instilled in her.
This may be very idealistic, and Designing packaging for olive oil
unfortunately not as realistic as some products in the past as part of an as-
may like to believe. Obtaining a signed project is what inspired her
college degree these days doesn’’t to pursue this senior project.
always guarantee a job right out College is meant to set a person
of college. up with the skills to follow their
As a senior visual communica- passion, and ideally for a job once
tion design student (VCD), Jackie nished.
Cimino is required to complete a The beauty of senior projects is
senior project. that they can be a vehicle for such a
The Hartford Art School gives a project, where the student’’s passion
lot of leeway with allowing their is able to be channeled creatively
students to use their creativity to and academically into a career.
formulate project ideas. As a VCD student Cimino has
These projects can be seen as a worked with many forms of media,
cumulative creative process from including web-based design and
which a student can put their talents graphic design.
into something that could propel The deadlines associated with
them into a certain career path. each project help as well, because in
For her project Cimino decided on the real world a person in the design
creating a tea company from scratch, eld revolves around deadlines. ANDREW WALSH
to be called Ardor Tea Company. Her portfolio is put to great scru-
She contacted a company near tiny, and a certain level of work is Art School student Jackie Cimino mixes creativity and real world applications in her senior project.
Wingdale, NY, where she lives to expected to be met.
discuss the processes that go into This pressure is worth it though Professionals, students, faculty a degree ideally sets one up for Hartford Art School’’s equivalent of
this style of company. Cimino says, because her work and many more attend these exhi- a career. For art students the un- a senior thesis.
Cimino has since ran with the idea, hopefully will be displayed as bitions in the spring, and Cimino knowns are even more, where their The specialization has allowed
and is beginning to create and design part of her department’’s week to hopes to get her name out there. creativity and passion fuel what Cimino to create a project that could
every aspect of her company. exhibit at the Slipe Gallery on Life after college has many they produce. be taken out into the world once she
She has had her hands in every campus. unknowns, and graduating with Senior projects can be seen as the has graduated.

Apple Launches Mac App Store, New Air Design


By Jeremy Stanley and Apple will take a 30 percent the system and downloaded from of these problems——the smaller compete in the software business
Editor-In-Chief cut of the sales. the App Store (another similarity has a battery life of ve hours and and that he doesn’’t see them as
With the Mac App Store, the com- to the iPod and iPad ecosystem). the larger has seven hours when competition long-term.
Apple, Inc. has vertically inte- pany now controls the hardware, Apple also put its foot into the connected to wireless networks. He called Google’’s framing of
grated just about everything in its the software that comes with it and netbook business in a big way, re- This announcement comes in Android as an ““open”” alternative
business. a majority of the software that will freshing the design of the MacBook a week where Apple released its to the ““closed”” system of Apple
At a Wednesday media event in run on the Mac. Air laptop. With two different size quarterly earnings reports where, incorrect and called the phones that
Cupertino, Steve Jobs unveiled the The store will be available to displays——13-inch and 11-inch—— for the rst time, iPads have outsold run the software problematic.
future of the Mac business and it’’s download for all Macs running Mac the devices are lightweight and Mac computers. Not only that, he called the slate
beginning to look a lot like the iPad OS X Snow Leopard. compact. In an earnings call on Tuesday of tablets expected to be released in
and iPod business. The company also previewed OS Steve Jobs highlighted that the Jobs surprised analysts by joining late 2010 and early 2011 dead on
The Mac App Store will launch X Lion, the next operating system MacBook Air is informed by a lot in on the call and talking about the arrival, because the 7-inch displays
in the next 90 days, where develop- version for Mac computers. The of the design decisions that users success Apple has had and took on the device aren’’t large enough
ers will be available to sell or give system will integrate a bunch of new loved about the iPad, particularly in competitors to task. to give the user a good experience.
away applications approved by the user interface touches, including full battery life and how quickly the de- Among the companies Jobs lam- Apple’’s stock price closed at
company. Developers will get 70 screen application views for many vice wakes up from sleep. Jobs said basted were RIM and Android. He 310.53 on Wednesday on the heels
percent of the revenue from sales of the applications preinstalled in that the MacBook Air solves both talked about how RIM could only of the announcement.

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Steve Jobs unveiled the new MacBook Air, OS X Snow Leopard and the Mac App Store on Wednesday, a day after the company’’s quarterly earnings report.
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‘‘SoulPancake’’ Offers Uncensored Creative Thinking


With the steady decline of college thought and creativity.““Life’’s Big
students reading for pleasure recent- Questions tackle those topics that
ly, one unique book, ““SoulPancake,”” we all think about but rarely talk
may just spark renewed interest about——you know, the ones that
among the collegiate population. gnaw at your innards but by bringing
Scheduled to hit store shelves Oct. them up you’’re risking conversation
26, ““The Ofce”” star Rainn Wilson’’s suicide. We are going to go there
goal of compacting the ideas from his Andy Swetz (and wherever ‘‘there’’ is may not
website into a book will be achieved. Entertainment Editor always be pretty) so dive in and
An intellectual feast, the purpose aswetz@hartford.edu speak your mind,”” is what appears
behind ““SoulPancake”” is to simply on the sites frequently asked ques-
Twitter: @TheKineticKid
stimulate the mind with life’’s big tion responses.
questions and brainteasers. I nd the idea to be an extremely
Aimed to channel individual cre- ““Life’’s big questions,”” visual mas- compelling and brilliant step, espe-
ativity, the websites hardcopy will terpieces from over 90 artists and cially when experts project books to
consist of over 200 pages of food insight from multiple musicians be extinct in as little as ve years and
for thought. and poets. society leaning toward technology.
Some of the questions posed by ““SoulPancake is about creative The thought alone is a devastat-
the book include ““Is poetry dead in expression as a form of ‘‘worship’’ ing thing to imagine as technology
the U.S.?”” and ““What do you really –– a way to connect with the world evolves everyday.
know about religion?”” and with the rest of the people on Wilson and co-creators Joshua
Although not claiming to have any the planet,”” Wilson told Worldof- Homnick and Devon Gundry
right or wrong answers to the ques- popculture.com. formed the rst interactive website
tions posed by Wilson or users, the A melting pot that diminished of its kind and its paperback trans-
site offers people a chance to voice cultural boundaries and discrimina- lation, in my opinion, will spark a
their opinion and read what others tion, the true essence of what Wilson keen interest in what actually goes
have to say on a variety of subjects wants to achieve is to discover what on at ““SoulPancake.””
with no limitations. it means to be human and provoke Also an innovative creation of
In the same fashion as the website, a thoughtful answer embodying ““SoulPancake”” is ““Life’’s Little
the book’’s purpose is to get a reader experiences and beliefs. Lists”” that are geared toward help-
to think creativity and challenge their The website challenges a visi- ing an individual nd out what is
mind to new heights. tor to indulge in the unknown important in their own life.
Included in the book are 180 of and express themselves through An overall collective approach
that simply provokes people to chal-
lenge and question different aspects
of life, ““SoulPancake,”” both the
book and interactive website, offer
unique and new ways to stimulate
the mind.
As an avid book reader I’’m an-
ticipating the release and looking
forward to expanding my knowl-
edge about myself through creative
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““SoulPancake”” provokes readers to discover life’’s big stories. in the book. Actor Rainn Wilson is one of the co-creators of ““SoulPancake.””

Kings Slow Progression Clear With New Album


By Danielle Nielsen Jared and cousin Matthew. These their parents they relocated to their singles ““Sex on Fire”” and unappealing.
Staff Writer southern boys kept their musical Nashville, the heart of the coun- ““Use Somebody.”” Their rst single off the album
inuences close to home, with hints try music industry of The United With their excessive airtime on titled ““Radioactive”” is an improve-
After a huge mainstream success of southern rock and blues fused States. It was there that the boys the radio, their popularity spread ment from ““Use Somebody,””
from their 2008 release ““Only By with alternative rock in their work. really became infatuated with rock like wildre. providing a very clean melodic
the Night,”” fans were eager to see The Followill brothers spent their music. A lot of listeners including myself sound, but the vocals were just
what the Tennessee rock band Kings childhood a bit differently since Overall the band has been suc- grew sick of The Kings of Leon with like every other song they have
Of Leon had in store for the release they traveled around the south with cessful with their three previous the same song over played on the produced.
of their brand new album ““Come their father Leon who is a preacher. albums, but they have always been radio. Prior to listening to ““Come ““Come Around Sundown”” was
Around Sundown.”” The boys started showing interest in the shadows never receiving Around Sundown”” I was never a released Oct. 19, and I expect fans
Kings of Leon formed back in in music when they would oc- much recognition for their work. true fan of the band. to have a mixed reaction when it
1999 in Franklin, Tennessee. casionally provide music to their It wasn’’t until 2008 that their Although their music took a dif- comes to the vocals and melodies
Kings of Leon is made up of the father’’s church services. album ““Only By the Night”” would ferent route of a more laid back on the new material by Kings Of
Followill brothers Caleb, Nathan, After a bitter divorce between have a viral effect on the radio with sound, all 13 tracks are vocally Leon.

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Rock quartet Kings Of Leon released their latest album ““Come Around Sundown”” this week and are recieving mixed reactions from fans and critics.
the informer entertainment october 21, 2010 page 11

Nine-Year-Old Smith Makes Splash With Single


By Danielle Huppke painted all white, lled with bored
Managing Editor looking children obviously hating
their lackluster school life.
Jaden Smith, star of the recent Soon enters Willow who is color-
remake ““The Next Karate Kid”” fully dressed with one of the many
isn’’t the only child prodigy of Hol- hairstyles she sports throughout the
lywood power couple Will Smith video, long braids.
and Jada Pinkett Smith. She dips the ends of the mile
In fact, their daughter Willow has long braids in colorful paint and
created quite the name for herself in begins to whip her hair around,
the past month with the emergence paint spraying everywhere.
of her rst single ““Whip My Hair.”” The rest of the video provides
Willow Smith, at the mere age of lots of hair whipping action from
nine-years-old, signed with Jay-Z’’s Willow, the teacher, the rest of the
Roc Nation label last month. Jay- students and even an appearance
Z joined Smith for an interview of a cute toddler.
on Ryan Seacrest’’s radio show on Throughout the video we get a
KISS FM where Jay-Z told Seacrest chance to see Smith’’s unique style
that he believes she is like the young that she told Seacrest is courtesy of
Michael Jackson. her mother, although she does like
With this kind of buzz, the Ri- to add her own sparkle to whatever
hanna inspired singer is bound to outt she wears.
be making her mark on the world It may appear that at such a
of hip-hop. young age the spotlight could take
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hit No. 17 on the Billboard R&B parents have been quick to say that
and Hip-Hop charts, and if it hits they aren’’t out to sexualize their At nine-years-old Willow Smith has reached the number 17 spot on the Billboard Hip-Hop Charts.
No. 1, Willow will be the young- daughter in any way. Spears and Lindsay Lohan, and a musical talent, and later settled that this song has already attracted
est person since Stevie Wonder to The only inuence that Willow look where they ended up. into what is obviously his stronger it’’s fair to assume that she’’s go-
reach that mark. will be having over the tweens is Willow Smith seems to speak suit of acting. ing to be sticking to singing for
The music video to ““Whip My their choice of hairstyles. well beyond her years explain- For Willow, she’’s already had a some time to come. Smith is set
Hair”” was released late Monday However it’’s safe to assume that ing to Seacrest that ““You can’’t be taste of both arenas, having made to perform ““Whip My Hair”” live
night with a plethora of anticipation she’’s been thrust into the spotlight afraid to be yourself,”” and this song an appearance in ““Madagascar”” Nov. 2 on the ““Ellen DeGeneres
and pleasant reviews. a few years too soon, even earlier exemplies that message. and ““I Am Legend,”” yet with the Show”” and plans to show what
The video opens in a classroom than former tween idols Britney Her father began his career as unbelievable amount of attention she is made of.

Alexi Murdoch: Insight To Obama To Appear


An Introverted Artist On ‘‘MythBusters’’
By Andy Swetz for their show, although I didn’’t get
Entertainment Editor to blow anything up. I was a little
frustrated about that,”” President
Discovery Channel’’s ““Myth- Obama shared with EOnline news.
busters,”” the show that challenges An odd appearance for the Presi-
and puts myths to the test using dent to make, the commander in
a scientic approach, will host chief is aiming to boost interest in
special guest President Barack and promote young Americans to
Obama on Dec. 8. get involved in science.
The show’’s hosts, Jamie Hyne- A clever way to appeal to view-
man and Adam Savage, special ers, the myth would be even more
effects gurus, are notorious for exciting if it was not the third time
putting user submitted myths to the television show took a stab at it.
the test using good old-fashioned Despite the myth’’s multiple
science. reboots, President Obama’’s in-
Putting the myth of Greek sci- volvement with Hollywood has
entist Archimedes to the test, the been steadily increasing over his
duo will test the validity that a presidency.
magnifying glass can be used with With his appearance on ““The
the sun’’s reection on mirrors to View”” in July and his annual March
set re to Roman eets, with the Madness picks featured on ESPN,
help of President Obama. President Obama is definitely
““I can announce today that I making himself known through
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taped a special guest appearance entertainment means.
Alexi Murdoch’’s music has been featured in multiple shows and movies in the past four years.
By Andy Swetz Songs.””Releasing his only full musical purpose thrives on stick-
Entertainment Editor length album on his independently ing to his roots and not forcing
owned label, Zero Summer, Mur- anything.
If ever there were an artist who doch’’s slow folk like music reects A real musical pioneer, Mur-
could stretch the lengths of a vast his reserve personality. doch’’s shy and quiet nature helps
musical ability and compact it into Perhaps Murdoch’’s most notable amplify his stage performance
one album, Alexi Murdoch would mainstream achievements exist in and musicianship.
t the criteria perfectly. his music making its way to the Intricately weaving through
Only claiming one album to dene soundtracks of television shows the strings of his guitar, Mur-
his career so far, 2006’’s ““Time With- such as ““Prison Break,”” ““House,”” doch transforms an audience
out Consequence,”” the introverted ““The O.C.”” and ““Ugly Betty”” and and sooths them with his distinct
Englishman has achieved a musical serving as the principle music for heavy voice.
masterpiece still being praised four the 2009 Focus Feature ““Away We Although slow moving on the
years later. Go.”” media front, I nd Murdoch’’s
Vaguely reecting the silhouette An ominous presence in media decision to stagger his presence
of musician Nick Drake, Murdoch’’s today while between New York City as a mainstream artist to be a
acoustic guitar style serves as the and the coast of Scotland, Murdoch respectable trait.
foundation for his lyrically rich spends his days crafting small A low-key musician staying
songs. sailboats and writing new material. true to his beliefs and music,
As a cautious artist from his begin- According to the musician’’s of- Murdoch represents an elite
nings, Murdoch has been resistant to cial website, ““In 2011, Murdoch musicianship craft that I cannot
the spotlight and always resorted to will release his third recording deny as great quality work.
independent approaches to releasing ‘‘Towards The Sun.’’”” Alexi Murdoch embodies pure
his music. While he prefers to cater to a rich acoustic sounds that help COURTESY OF OPPOSINGVIEWS.COM
Also under Murdoch’’s belt is his crowd of one hundred in small clubs slow life down and accompany
CD Baby released EP titled ““Four he stumbles upon, Murdoch’’s true relaxation. ““Mythbusters”” will feature Barack Obama as a guest on Dec. 8.
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Alumni Gives Back As CEO Of Newman’’s Own


By Jessica Rutledge chosen to participate for a top grant After graduation, Forrester joined
and Dan Melrose of $25,000. the armed forces and fought overseas
Sports Editor The Newman’’s Own founda- in Vietnam, afterwards he returned
and Special to the Informer tion has already pledged to donate to work on his graduate studies at
$150,000 to charitable organiza- the university.
Last Thursday, the America East tions within the nine America East ““ I think it’’s just been a wonderful
Tip-Off Event previewed more schools this year. place,”” Forrester said of the Univer-
than just the men and women’’s Last year, the University of Hart- sity of Hartford last Thursday. ““I’’ve
basketball teams within the confer- ford’’s non-prot organization, Best seen it grow in many ways, I’’m
ence, the event also illustrated the Buddies, earned a $15,000 grant proud of it, and I think you’’ve got
philanthropic focus of tournament from Newman’’s Own, representing the best president of any university
sponsor, Newman’’s Own. the University of Hartford with a in America,””
Robert Forrester, longtime friend third-place nish in the Community Last Thursday, America East
of Paul Newman, assumed the role Service Challenge. Commissioner Patrick Nero and JESSICA RUTLEDGE
of CEO and President of Newman’’s Forrester’’s generous contributions Newman’’s Own CEO Forrester Newman’’s Own CEO Forrester & Conference Commissioner
Own after Paul’’s death. Since 1982, to the America East conference emphasized the importance of keep-
hits close to home, as the CEO of Nero renew their partnership for 2010-11.
Newman’’s Own has donated 100 ing the America East Conference
percent of its prots to charitable Newman’’s Own was a student at connected with Newman’’s Own CEO of Newman’’s Own, For- and promote the establishment of
organizations, totaling more than the University of Hartford in 1960. philanthropic initiatives. rester made it clear that his primary new nonprots to America East
$300 million to date. In an interview last Thursday, For- Having been the former Athletic goal is, ““to keep this great Founda- campuses every year.
Forrester is determined to contin- rester reminisced about his time at Director at the University of Maine, tion working with the schools in Listening to Forrester speak,
ue the seless and generous legacy the University of Hartford, he was a Nero knows what it takes to produce the conference. But there’’s always one couldn’’t help but smile, his
of founder Paul Newman, in part member of the rst class to ever move winners on the court and in the room for improvement.”” jovial demeanor and incredible
through the company’’s two-year on campus only three years after the classroom. So it was no question that Newman’’s Own hopes that generosity are a testament to the
partnership with the America East university was founded in 1957. As his drive to establish ties between the second-annual Community legacy of Newman’’s Own, and
Conference. an undergrad, Forrester played on the all the schools in the conference to Service Challenge will have a his dedication to philanthropy is
Forrester and Newman’’s Own men’’s soccer team and mentioned the Newman’’s Own Foundation was greater turnout than last year, and admirable –– don’’t be surprised if
announced the launch of its’’ second- that ““Al-Marzook,”” eld was named in an effort to raise awareness about continue to ourish going forward. you catch Forrester watching the
annual Campus Community Service after his dear friend and classmate. the ongoing needs of charitable Forrester is con dent that the Hawks’’ from the bleachers this
Challenge last Thursday, where one Forrester added, ““You know, Bar- organizations, and the incredible grants awarded to student char- season, ““Oh yes we will be at-
student group from each American ney, Gengras, I knew all those guys impact student-athletes can make ity organizations will help plant tending games,”” he said, ““we’’re
East conference university will be when they were alive.”” on the lives of those they help. the seeds for a brighter future, season ticket holders!””

Colonials Fall Prey To Nighthawks America’’s Pastime


Fades To Yesterday
The love of baseball has endured
over generations in our country,
but the steady decline in MLB
postseason television ratings indi-
cate that baseball may also be on
the decline as America’’s pastime.
For many lifelong baseball fans,
choosing their favorite team was
never really a matter of choice, it Jessica Rutledge •• Sports Editor
was fated by birth. jrut424@yahoo.com
But when the executives at Twitter: @InformerSports
MLB postseason networks, TBS
and FOX were sizing up their top it today are its yesterdays.”” Baseball
picks for the postseason race this is slow moving, tedious, and can last
year, their favorite teams were for hours with minimal excitement
contingent on brand power and –– but this was once a factor that
market size. made baseball so great. Baseball
Some of the most powerful is the perfect conversation piece,
MLB franchises are also the most the ultimate destination for a lazy
popular, such as the Yankees, Red summer afternoon, and the perfect
Sox, Dodgers and Cubs –– these backdrop for nurturing family tradi-
teams are prime real estate to hike tions, deepening father-son bonds,
postseason. or cementing business deals.
To the dismay of TV stations and But in 2010, America is still
baseball fans across the country, recovering from a nancial crisis
the Yankees stood alone as the only that rocked the country into reces-
big money team to be featured on sion, wars are being fought in the
the postseason schedule this year. Middle East, and technology has
But even the New York Yan- made life quicker, more demand-
ADAM MANISON kees’’ franchise could not escape ing, and disinterested in watching a
Dixon struggles to hold onto the ball, and the Colonials’’ lead. the steady decline of baseball TV baseball game that lasts four hours.
ratings today. Americans simply don’’t have the
By Hayden Harrower The Colonials went on to give up when Josh McCown threw his third According to USA Today, extra time, money, nor the interest
Staff Writer a touchdown and scoring another interception, and the Nighthawks Monday’’s ALCS playoff game to tune in to baseball today as they
one for themselves in the rst two scored a touchdown as a conse- between the Yankees and the once did.
The Hartford Colonials were un- quarters and looked fairly dominant quence of the turnover. Rangers recorded a 6.5 overnight For many serious fans, baseball
able to avenge their heartbreaking throughout. When the Colonials received the rating for TBS. While 6.5 percent goes far beyond a game to win
26-27 loss when they hosted the Unfortunately that would be the kickoff, they had to make up for a of households tuned in to watch or lose, but instead, ““it is an al-
Omaha Nighthawks for a rematch last time the Colonials would score now, ve point decit. They moved the MLB playoffs, ESPN broad- legorical play about America, a
on Saturday. for the rest of the game. the ball through the running game cast a small market NFL matchup poetic, complex, and subtle play of
This time, the Colonials lost by a The tides began to turn at the start to the opponent’’s 30-yard line when between Titans-Jaguars during courage, fear, good luck, mistakes,
score of 19-14 at Rentschler Field. of the second half when McCown a missed snap shot over McCown’’s the same time slot Monday night, patience about fate, and sober
At kickoff time, the Colonials threw an interception, his second head and was recovered by the shockingly, ESPN earned a 7.2 self-esteem.”” The words of Saul
blasted onto the eld with such of the game. Nighthawks to ultimately diminish overnight rating. Steinberg, Romanian immigrant to
momentum, seemingly never to be Although Omaha did not score on any event of a comeback. It seems ridiculous that a small- America, and illustrator for ““The
bested again. the ensuing drive they did pin the Coach Palmer reiterated the short- beans NFL regular season blowout New Yorker,”” speak volumes to a
To start off, the Colonials suc- Colonials back against their own comings of his team after the game, would attract more viewers than nation of diverse people more than
cessfully held the Nighthawks to goal line, forcing a three-and-out ““It was another hard fought game the thrilling MLB postseason 50 years later.
a three-and-out while moving the and receiving a punt into the wind decided by seven points or less,”” race to the World Series, but the Baseball reflects the power
ball swiftly for a touchdown on on Hartford’’s 34-yard line. he said. ““Omaha had 63 plays, we changing lifestyles of Americans within every man that is capable of
their rst drive. The Colonials kept themselves in had 63 plays, what it comes down are reected in the type of media conquering insurmountable odds,
The drive culminated by a near the game by holding that drive and to is turnovers.”” they consume. although baseball ratings may be on
sack and scramble by Josh McCown another in the fourth quarter to a eld The Colonials look to recover Lawrence Ritter may have said the decline, the spirit of the game
to receiver Taurus Johnson for an goal despite being in the redzone. against the rst-place Las Vegas it the best with, ““the strongest endures to resonate within every
18-yard pass. It seemed their efforts were futile Locomotives Saturday, Oct. 23. thing that baseball has going for American today.
page 14 the informer sports october 21, 2010

House Rizzotti Built Expands, Excels In 2010-11


By Jessica Rutledge Smith averages 6.5 points-per-
Sports Editor game, and topped her teammates
with 3.2 assists per game.
U.S. Representative John Larson Smith was recognized for her
shamelessly articulated his favorit- talent last Thursday when she was
ism towards the Lady Hawks at the selected by America East coaches
America East Media Conference to join the All-Conference Team
last Thursday. for this year.
Larson started off his conference Besides Smith, Ruthanne Doherty
remarks by alluding to the house that is the only other starting player
Jennifer Rizzotti built, concluding that will return to the court for the
his speech with a hearty, Go Hawks! Hartford Hawks this season.
Larson’’s admiration of the The 2010All-Rookie pick nished
University of Hartford basketball her freshman season averaging 6.0
team, may have been biased, but ppg, netting nearly fty-percent of
his praise for Coach Rizzotti and her shots, and 4.8 rebounds-per-
the women’’s basketball team was game.
not unwarranted. Last season was historical for
The Lady Hawks ended last the women’’s basketball team, in-
season with a solid record of 27-5 dividual achievements contributed
overall. Even more incredible was to the overall success of the Hawks,
the fact that Hartford made school as they became the rst nationally
history, ending last season unde- ranked team, No. 19 according to the
feated at 16-0 within the America ESPN coaches Poll, in the history
East Conference. of the program.
Last Thursday, the America East The Hawks also nabbed the rst
Tip-Off Event revealed the results of ever at-large bid into the NCAA
the annual preseason poll, wherein, Tournament to conclude their sea-
head coaches from the nine America son last year.
East teams each vote to rank teams HARTFORD SPORTS INFORMATION With solid veteran players,
within the conference. talented young rookies, and the
The University of Hartford was The women’’s team hopes to pick up where they left off, blazing the path to a red-hot season. leadership of Coach Rizzotti, the
ranked at No. 2, while the Univer- University of Hartford women’’s
sity of Boston Terriers topped the zotti, who anticipated that the team players, who maybe don’’t have a upperclassmen guards a real comfort team has an exciting season
preseason poll at No. 1 for both the would have to face challenges after lot of experience, will surprise a and presence [in the post position],”” ahead.
men and women’’s basketball teams. losing two Erica Beverly, from the lot of people,”” Rizzotti said last she said. Staff writers Hayden Harrower
This second-best rank is no Hawks’’ roster. Thursday. ““Nikkia Smith is a young Senior Jackie Smith is an all-star and Charlie Paullin contributed to
surprise to coach Jennifer Riz- ““I do think that our young post sophomore who has really given the veteran returning to play this season, this report.

ADAM MANISON
The talented UHa women’’s basketball team roster struck a pose during a preseason green-screen photo shoot on campus last week.

NO. NAME POS HT Yr REB AST PPG AMERICA EAST PRESEASON POLL
1 Jackie Smith G 5-9 Sr. 1.7 102 6.5
No. 1 Boston University Terriers
2 Daphne Elliott G 5-6 So. 2.2 39 6.0
3 Taylor Clark F 6-0 Fr. - - - No. 2 University of Hartford
10 Alex Hall G 5-7 So. 1.7 4.4 5.0 No. 3 Binghamton University
14 Amanda Weaver G/F 6-1 Sr. 1.7 8 1.4
20 Keyokah Mars-Garrick F 6-1 Jr. 0.8 2 0.4 No. 4 Stony Brook University
21 Ilicia Mathis G 5-9 Jr. 2.7 29 5.5 No. 5 UMBC
22 Mary Silvia G 5-11 Sr. 2.1 23 5.7
23 Alyssa Englert G 5-9 Fr. - - - No. 6 University of Vermont
24 Ruthanne Doherty F 5-11 So. 4.8 24 6.0 No. 7 University at Albany
33 Milana Gilbert F 6-0 Fr. - - -
44 Nikkia Smith F 6-1 So. 1.7 5 2.3 No. 8 University of Maine
No. 9 New Hampshire
the informer sports october 21, 2010 page 15

Gallagher, Blue Eager To Lead Hawks To Victory


By Jessica Rutledge the new assistant coach, ““He brings a
Sports Editor lot of energy and obviously his stature
as a New England basketball guy is
The University of Hartford men’’s going to help us in the area with re-
basketball team looks to capitalize on cruiting,”” he said. ““More importantly,
the experience of ve returning starts, his experience at Lafayette with Fran
six senior players, with the expertise O’’Hanlon’’s style will help us even
of new head coach, John Gallagher, more as we build our program here,””
leading the way to victory in 2011. COURTESY OF ESPN.COM Gallagher said.
Last Thursday, the America East John Gallagher, head coach. Assistant coach Blue was se-
Tip-Off Event revealed that the lected after Jason Ivey went home
Hartford men were ranked at No. 6 of head coach John Gallagher and to Alabama for personal reasons.
out of nine total teams, based on the most recently, assistant coach Matt According to hartfordhawks.com,
votes of conference head coaches. Blue, the men’’s team looks forward Gallager said, ““Ivey will forever be
Last season, the Hawks ended with with condence and determination a part of the Hartford family, and
a 6-10 conference record, and were this season. we wish him the best in his future
seeded at No. 5 in the America East Matt Blue is the newest addition to endeavors.””
Championship, dropping the quar- the Hawks’’ talented coaching reper- The men’’s senior-roster adds four
ternal match to Boston University. toire for 2010-11, Blue played a part freshmen in 2011 with Oren Faulk,
Boston University was unani- in Lafayatte’’s successful season last Mustafaa Jones, Joe Nardi and Ben
mously chosen as the No. 1 pick year where he served as an assistant O’’Neill. Having competed in Aus-
within the conference for this year. coach under Fran O’’Hanlon. tralia during the off-season, these
Instead of falling in the ranks, the In an interview with Hartford Sports rookie players are eager to win and
men’’s team looks to climb them Information, Gallagher raved about establish themselves among their
this season. Coach John Gallagher teammates in the roster.
didn’’t seem fazed by the No. 6 rank The UHa men’’s basketball team
of his team. is scheduled to open their 2010-11
When asked about how he is season at the second annual Con-
preparing for the season Gallagher necticut Six Classic.
said, ““You’’ve got to try and leave The tournament will be held at the
everyday better than you found it.”” Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville,
He said, ““And you have to not worry and the Hawks will tip-off at 6 p.m.
about what this guy says, or that guy against CCSU on Nov. 13.
says, just worry about what you’’re Staff writers Hayden Harrower
doing as a group.”” HARTFORD SPORTS INFORMATION HARTFORD SPORTS INFORMATION
and Charlie Paullin contributed to
With the fresh eyes and ideas Matt Blue, assistant coach. this report. Hawks hope to make 2010-11 season a slam dunk, best last year.

Basketball ‘‘Mania’’
By Tim Rizzo tory back in the 2007-2008 season
Special to the Informer (18), and also carried them to their
first American East Conference
Midnight Mania featured ‘‘GTL’’ championship game.
and basketball down the ‘‘Howie Gallagher’’s high-tempo perimeter
Shore’’ last Friday, where the Uni- game will hopefully translate into
versity of Hartford community was some strong wins this year, as the
pumped up in anticipation for the Hawks compete in a schedule similar
2010-2011 men and women’’s bas- to last season.
ketball season. The Hartford men’’s roster is
Hartford students, athletes and dominated by upperclassmen, thus
faculty packed into the sports center strong chemistry on the court is to
for the Hawks’’ preseason pep-rally, be expected.
three-point shooting contest, and The Hawks will be led by return-
season outlook on behalf of the ing top-scorer, senior guard Joe
celebration of the upcoming bas- Zeglinski, averaging 16.5 points-
ketball season. per-game, and by senior big man
The University of Hartford men’’s Morgan Sabia who pulled down a
basketball team looks to improve solid six boards per game in previ-
their 8-22 season record from last ous seasons.
year with the help of a familiar face. In order to return to those glory
Having served as the Hawks’’ As- days, the Hawks must improve their
sociate head coach from 2006-2008, 3-13 road record, losing 11 of their
John Gallagher is back on the court rst 12 road games last year.
as the team’’s head coach for 2010 The men must also win crucial
after spending the last two seasons conference matchups against Maine,
at the University of Pennsylvania. Vermont, Boston University and
ADAM MANISON
Gallagher led the Hawks to their Stony Brook to make 2011 their best
Hawks basketball rocked the ‘‘Howie Shore’’ as teams previewed their 2010-11 season outlook. highest win total in Hartford’’s his- season to date.

NO. NAME POS HT Yr REB AST PPG AMERICA EAST PRESEASON POLL
1 Milton Burton G/F 6-5 Sr. 3.3 65 9.6
2 Charles White G 6-1 So. 2.2 32 4.6 No. 1 Boston University Terriers
3 Ross Erickson G/F 6-6 So. 0.7 11 1.0
No. 2 Stony Brook University
4 Ben O’’Neill G 6-4 Fr. - - -
10 Mustafaa Jones G 6-1 Fr. - - - No. 3 University of Maine
11 Andres Torres G 5-10 Sr. 2.4 79 6.7
13 Ryan Baker G 6-5 So. 0.3 1 1.0 No. 4 New Hampshire
14 Joe Nardi G 6-1 Fr. - - - No. 5 University of Vermont
21 Genesis Maciel F/C 6-9 Jr. 1.5 0 0
23 Morgan Sabia F 6-8 Sr. 6.1 30 11.7 No. 6 University of Hartford
24 Joe Zeglinski G 6-0 Sr. 5.1 48 16.5 No. 7 Binghamton University
25 Anthony Minor F 6-6 Sr. 2.5 20 3.2
31 Kevin Estes F 6-7 Sr. 1.0 5 2.7 No. 8 University at Albany
32 Clayton Brothers G 6-1 Jr. 1.4 22 2.5
44 Oren Faulk F 6-7 Fr. - - -
No. 9 UMBC
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Takes More Than Army To Halt Hawks, Win in OT


By Jessica Rutledge frey Pickett, assisted by Michael
Sports Editor Kim, leveled the match to 1-1 with
a corner kick that ew over the head
On Wednesday night, the men’’s of Hartford keeper Citriniti.
soccer team hosted Army in their nal The Hawks blasted three shots
non-conference match of the season on goal during the second-half,
and the Hawks went out with a bang, while Army kicked only one shot.
winning the match 2-1 in double With neither team able to break
overtime. the 1-1 tie, the Hawks and Black
The Army Black Knights and Hart- Knights played to declare a winner
ford Hawks battled for the rst time in in double-overtime.
the history of the two soccer programs At 92:44, the Hawks emerged
on Wednesday at Alumni Stadium. triumphant when James Stamo-
The University of Hartford also poulos, assisted by Sam Groves,
honored the men and women of the blasted a powerful shot past the
United States armed forces on Wednes- Black Knights goalie to end the
day night, Military Appreciation and game 2-1.
Park and Recreation Night at home, Stamopoulos and the aggressive
offering free admission to the game offensive efforts of the Hawks
for all active and retired servicemen. prove that it truly takes more than
The rst half kicked off at 7 p. m., an Army to halt the team’’s momen-
Hartford was the rst to shoot the tum at home.
ball, but Army’’s Jakob Szabo red STEVE MCLAUGHLIN Wednesday night’’s win at Alumni
back minutes later, halted by Hartford The Hawks last non-conference match was a thrilling 2-1 double-overtime win on Wednesday. Stadium lifts the Hawks’’ home
goalie, Luke Citriniti. game stand to 5-1-0 for the season,
The scoreless, back and forth battle headed the ball past the Army Boyle’’s goal was not only the tive’’s freshman soccer career. sitting at 5-7-0 overall.
nally ended when the Hawks’’ Liam keeper, netting a 1-0 lead at 25:05 rst of the game, but it was the The Hawks fought to hold onto The men’’s next match is 1 p.m. on
Williams assisted Tomas Boyle who for the University of Hartford. rst-ever goal for the Ireland na- their lead until Black Knight Jef- Saturday, Oct. 23 hosted by UMBC.

Hawks Soar, 3-2 Upset


Snaps Losing Streak
By Josh Batelli played from behind most of the way.
Special to the Informer Junior outside hitter Sydney Scott’’s
kill closed the Hawks to within four
The Hartford Hawks shook at 14-10, but that’’s as close as they’’d
up the America East volleyball get as the Danes pulled away to win
landscape on Oct. 17 when they the set 25-14.
defeated the University at Albany Tied 2-2, a fth and nal set was
with a thrilling 3-2 win. needed to determine the winner.
The Hawks and Great Danes Back to back kills blasted by Kami
battled in an exhilarating rst Nethersole and Sydney Scott opened
set which see-sawed back and the ““winner-takes-all”” set.
forth until set-up extraordinaire, Kills by junior Michelle Cordell
Lindsay Ford, surprised the and freshman Dionna Kirton upped
Danes with a soft touch over the the ante to 13-9 as the Hawks and the
net to win the opening set for crowd anticipated the upset.
Hartford 26-10. The Hawks surrendered two quick
Any momentum of the exciting points, but when Michelle Cordell
rst set win soon evaporated for added another kill, she brought
Hartford as the Danes jumped out the game to match point. With the
to take a commanding 18-1 lead. score 14-11, an Albany kill attempt
But the Hawks refueled and went long and the set was won by
outscored Albany 13 to 7 down Hartford 15-11. The Hawks thrilled
the stretch. Unfortunately, the and played their heart out, nabbing
SIMON PRESLEY Danes’’ original lead proved to the upset in a 3-2 victory over
be insurmountable, as the Danes Albany who had won 10 out of 11
Broadway Bomb Race features longboarders, speeding through the city streets to the nish. claimed the second set 25-14. total games.
The Danes scored four of the The win also snapped a seven

UHa Students Film Documentary, rst ve points, but the Hawks
dominated play from there,
winning the third set by a score
game slump for Hartford volleyball,
and it was also the Lady Hawks’’ rst
conference win of the year.

Skate In ‘‘Broadway Bomb Race’’


of 25-21. Volleyball faces Stony Brook for
During the fourth set, Hartford their next match on Oct. 22.

By Hayden Harrower miles long. Due to the fact that the down Broadway last weekend.
Staff Writer event is not ofcially recognized or Junior Simon Presley also at-
sponsored, there are no blockades, tended the Broadway Bomb this
The city streets of Manhattan were and as a consequence riders are often past weekend, along with Bob
lled with hundreds of longboarders, forced to dodge trafc or even get Bunker, Kristophe Machado-Mir-
including University of Hartford hit by moving vehicles. asola and several other Hartford
students, all vying to nish rst in The notion for the Broadway students, capturing hours of
the annual ““Broadway Bomb Race”” Bomb began back in 2001, when footage to build a documentary
last weekend. three friends made a bet as to who on the event.
The Broadway Bomb does not could make it through a section of In an interview, Presley said, ““I
occur on the same day every year, Broadway in Manhattan the fastest. feel that the event was a perfect
there is no registration, there are no The Broadway Bomb has seen representation of the current long-
sponsors, there are no rules, many rapid growth in the last few years, boarding community,”” he said, ““I
think the participants are crazy, and as last weekend marked the ninth hope that this will lm help the
even though this event is increasing anniversary of the event with more community to grow even more.””
in popularity every year, many people than 400 skaters in attendance. The Broadway Bomb is lmed
still have never heard of it. University of Hartford junior Dave every year, but this year the Uni-
The Broadway Bomb is an under- Tucker blended in with the four- versity of Hartford is building the
ground longboard race from 116th and hundred longboarders, with the documentary, which Presley hopes
Riverside to the Financial District in exception of the video camera in his to make available on campus once HARTFORD SPORTS INFORMATION
New York City spanning eight and half hand, documenting the thrilling race it is nished. Nethersole helped Hawks win their rst conference game.

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