BASEBALL SWEEPS DOUBLEHEADER

The UNH baseball team won both games in a doubleheader against C.W. Post over the weekend. Matt Sommo’s pitching help clinch the sweep. More details inside!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Volume 86, Issue 25

The student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938

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INDEX

Arts & EntertainmentPage 8

Bulletin BoardPage 15

Word of the WeekPage 9

EditorialsPage 6

Fun & GamesPage 12

National/World NewsPage 3

New Haven NewsPage 4

SportsPage 10

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BEAR ATTACKS TRAINER

A bear used in a Will Ferrell movie attacked its trainer last week. Look inside for all the details.

HAROLD & KUMAR RE-TURN

It may be one of the most antici-pated comedies of the season, but is it really any good?

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By NIKITA CARMONA and JAS-MINE HERNANDEZVICTIMOLOGY CLUB

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A CELINA NATOLA PHOTO

By CELINA NATOLAEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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The Victimology Club hosts the National Lie-In on Wednesday, April 23.

Members of 5,6,7,8 perform during their show on Sunday, April 27.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NIKITA CARMONA

See DANCE page 4

See CLUB page 4

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STUDENT LEADER AND CLUB/ORGANIZATION OF THE MONTH

Look inside to see who was recognized by Student Activities as student leader of the month and club/organization of the month for March..

Victimology Club Tributes Victims’ Rights Week

WEST HAVEN— From Sunday, April 13 to Satur-day, April 19, UNH’s Vic-timology Club hosted an-other great week of events in support of the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

The Victimology Club started the week off with a panel discussion on the un-met needs of victims in the criminal justice system. We had four panelists: Tracy Tamborra, criminologist and assistant professor; Melissa Jennings, college advocate; Mark Margolis, court-based advocate; and George Geiring, crime sur-vivor of a drunk driving crash and MADD activist.

The panelists gave their expertise and personal ac-counts of victims’ satisfac-tion with the legal system.

The well-attended event was hosted by Dr. Mario Gaboury. This event gave a new perspective of the

unheard victims of the ju-dicial system and the need

Dance Team Shines in Annual Show

WEST HAVEN— UNH’s 5,6,7,8 Dance

Team performed in its an-nual dance showcase, titled “Please Don’t Stop the Music” this year. Families and students alike went to Dodds theater Sunday,

April 27 to see the team’s variety of dances.

While the dancers were just as talented as in years past, the show lacked its usual energy. Using a slide-show of pictures as an in-troduction, the dance team never really addressed the audience, leaving them with a feeling of relative unimportance.

The dances themselves were very well done. A lot more duos and solos made it into the lineup, showcas-ing dancers with the guts to perform alone.

Among the many group dances, two deserve special attention. The first, known as “I Question Mark,” used dance to create a mes-

sage about drunk driving. While other dances were performed to songs, “I Question Mark” was more of a rhythm of consistent beats (including car horns) than a song. The perfor-mance included the most dancers (10) who moved across the stage crashing into each other. While the movements looked ran-dom, they were beautifully synchronized and resulted in a very eye-catching per-formance.

The other very memo-rable performance was “Sing Sing Sing.” Choreo-graphed by Melody John-son, the dance consisted

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Spring weekend is just about here!! I know everyone looks forward to it as a good break right before the final stretch of school. Between the concert and events all weekend, it should be a lot of fun. Let’s just hope this weather clears up in time to be outside and enjoy spring!!

There has been a lot of good event planning recently between Rock and Roll Week, Gaming Week, and many other random events as clubs try to get their fi-nal kick of pro-gramming in before the end of the semes-ter. Keep up the good program-ming—it’s a good break from the stress of the final weeks of school.

So those fish smelling trees in the quad apparently aren’t just on our campus. They are EVERY-WHERE. Take Campbell Ave. down to the beach and tell me how many of those trees you see. As a friend hypothesized: it’s as if those trees are Connecticut’s state tree! Yeah they are pretty but they smell rancid!

All the heat around campus was turned off just in time for rainy, forty degree days. All the classrooms, all the dorms—everything—has been freezing cold as of late. It’s hard to

get comfortable and study when it’s the end of April and

you’re shivering.

I’m also sick of tours of peo-ple being loud in the halls dur-ing class and trying to peek into the rooms as we are try-ing to learn. Some people need to learn etiquette.

Positives NegativesA weekly recap of the positives & negatives at UNH

By Dan Osipovitch

Thursday, May 1 Say What Karaoke

Residential Quad, 7-10pm

Friday, May 2 Frisbee Tournament

Turf Field, 1-5pm Spring Concert

North Campus Gym, doors open at 7pm

Spring Weekend

Saturday, May 3 Wiffle Ball Tournament

Turf Field, noon-6pm Spring Carnival

North Campus, 3-7pm Comedians: VH1’s Best

Week Ever Residential Quad, 8pm

Sunday, May 4 Walk MS

West Haven High School, 8am-1pm Drive-in Movie: The Bucket

List Residential Quad, 8:30pm

Monday, May 5 Frisbee Pick-up Games

Turf Field, 6-10pm Last Man Standing Starts

Wednesday, April 30

Sigma Chi Swimsuit Show German Club, 9pm

The last issue of The Charger Bulletin this semester will be dis-

tributed next Wed., May 7th

National/World NewsThe Charger Bulletin | April 30, 2008Page 3

NEWS BrIEFSBy Associated Press Writers

Your place to find the oddest stories in mainstream news.By Zack Rosen

Zack’s Wacky Stack of News

By MELANIE ROVINSKYSTAFF WRITER

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Failing Economy Sure toAffect Upcoming Election

According to an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll released last week, the principle concern of American voters is the economy. The number of citizens viewing the economy as a top problem has increased significant-ly since November, jumping from 46% to 67%. In addition, the war in Iraq—American’s major is-sue for the past sev-

eral years—only drew 48% of those polled.

As the 2008 presi-dential election ap-proaches, one would expect such a note-worthy topic as the United States’ failing economy to influence how people vote. Sur-prisingly, this is not necessarily the case. Recent studies and polls have found that demographics play a larger role in voting tendencies than cur-rent issues do. Those who feel the economy is of the utmost im-portance are equally

as likely to vote Re-publican as they are to vote Democratic. According to the poll, “Both groups [those who feel the economy is an issue and those who don’t] divide about evenly between Republican John Mc-Cain and Democrat Barack Obama, and between McCain and the other Democrat, Hillary Rodham Clin-ton.”

Factors such as income, class, and education are related to both how the eco-nomic situation is de-

picted, as well as how individuals vote. It is important to realize that these demograph-ics, among others, are what influence voters’ opinions, thus caus-ing them to vote one way or another. As of now, there is no spe-cific person labeled as the quick fix for the economy. It is likely, however, that the im-portance of the matter will force the candi-dates to not only take a stance on the issue, but also propose solu-tions to the dilemma.

Cat Caused Crazy CrashMODESTO, Calif.— Modesto police are blaming a scratching cat for an accident that toppled a power pole and shut down a street for nearly an hour. A police sergeant said Friday that a woman was driving with a cat in her lap. The animal scratched her, and she drove into the pole.

The woman suf-fered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. The cat was taken to a vet to treat an injured eye.

On Wednesday, the Assembly Appropria-tions Committee ap-proved a bill by As-semblyman Bill Maze that would make it il-legal to drive with a pet in your arms or in your lap.Stunt Man: James Stunt Man

LONDON— A stunt-man was seriously injured in an accident on the Italian set of the latest James Bond movie, the production company said.

It was the second accident in the last few days near Lake Garda, northern Italy, where scenes from the 22nd installment in the Bond fran-chise called Quantum of Solace are being shot.

British media re-ported this week that a driver of Bond's Aston Martin DBS skidded off the road and plunged into icy waters.

Fraser Dunn was only slightly injured but was quoted as saying that he re-gained consciousness only when the car was at the bottom of the lake and had to break

free of the vehicle and swim for safety.Semi-Pro Bear Bit His Face!LOS ANGELES— A grizzly bear featured in the recent Will Fer-rell film Semi-Pro and touted as one of the "best trained" in show business has killed its handler, but officials said on Wednesday they were puzzled by what provoked the at-tack.

The 700-pound bear, which stands 7 1/2 feet tall, bit Steph-an Miller, 39, in the neck on Tuesday at a facility where wild animals are trained for film and TV produc-tions near the moun-tain resort of Big Bear Lake, east of Los An-geles.

Two other trainers at the facility, called Randy Miller's Preda-tors in Action, sub-

dued the bruin with pepper spray and were unhurt in the incident, said San Bernardino County Sheriff's De-partment spokeswom-an Arden Wiltshire.

The enclosed com-pound and the bear, a five-year-old male named Rocky, were examined afterward by wardens of the California state Fish and Game Depart-ment, which found no permit violations or danger to public safe-ty, agency spokesman Harry Morse said.

Authorities said that assuming no wrongdoing turns up in the investigation, it would be left up to the owners of the bear to decide whether to destroy it or keep it alive.

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A t least 1,000 flee foothill homes as wildfire burns near LA SIERRA MADRE, Calif.— Darkness didn't keep firefighters from continuing to gain ground Monday on a 400-acre wildfire they have been battling all weekend near Los Angeles.

It just meant a change in tactics."The hand crews are still making progress

against the flanks of the fire," Cliff Johnson, fire information officer for the Angeles Nation-al Forest, said early Monday. "(But) no aircraft are being used in the darkness."

All of Sierra Madre's schools have canceled Monday classes, and the early season wildfire forced the evacuation of at least 1,000 people from their homes in the foothills. Authorities said no homes have burned.

About 500 firefighters attacked the blaze, aided during the daytime by two helicopters and water-dropping air tankers, said city of Si-erra Madre spokeswoman Elisa Weaver.

"This is pretty serious," Weaver said. "Some of these areas have not burned in over 40 years."

By Sunday evening crews had the fire 30 percent contained, Sierra Madre spokesman James Carlson said. Light winds and rising hu-midity were aiding firefighters, who hoped to have the blaze fully contained within a week, Carlson said.

Monday morning will see the return of fire-fighting aircraft and likely more ground crews, Johnson said.

On Sunday, helicopters made water drops on a steep ridge above Sierra Madre near Bai-ley Canyon Wilderness Park, about 15 miles northeast of Los Angeles and just east of Pasa-dena. A fixed-wing water tanker also dropped flame retardant.

Aircraft also were helping fire officials as-sess the movement of the blaze, which was had been creeping northwest into Angeles National Forest, Battalion Chief Tim Davis of the Forest Service said.Officials say Easton teen's hanging was ac-cidental OXFORD, Conn.— State police are ruling out foul play and suicide in what they describe as the tragic and accidental death of a 13-year-old Easton boy in Oxford.

A state police spokesman says the teenager died Saturday after he apparently became en-tangled with and hanged himself with a rope near a Naugatuck forest reservoir.

Initial reports by police were that the victim was 15, but state police have confirmed the boy is 13 and believe the cause of death is strangu-lation.

An autopsy will be done to determine the exact cause. Police have not released the teen's name.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF NIKITA CARMONA

Members of the Victimology Club participate in the First Annual Jessica Santos’ Walk.A CELINA NATOLA PHOTO

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Dancers perform to “Let it Be” at the 5,6,7,8 Dance Team’s show.

of better services to improve the very sys-tem created to protect them.

On Wednesday, April 16, the Victimol-ogy Club participated in the National Lie-In campaign in memory of the one-year an-niversary of the Vir-ginia Tech Massacre. Our lie-in was part of 80 lie-ins in 34 states

Victimology Club Hosts Week Full of Events

of this event. Gisela Marin, Jessica Santos’ mother, was the mod-erator for the event. Twenty-eight students laid on the floor for a total of three minutes, which was equivalent to the time it took the Virginia Tech shooter to purchase a firearm, as Gisela read the names of the students and teachers who were killed. The students

Santos’ Walk at the Old Groove Park in West Haven. Jessica Santos was a sopho-more at the University of New Haven, who was tragically killed in a random drive-by shooting on August 26, 2006. This event promoted awareness on gun violence and raised $1,000 for the Jessica Santos’ Schol-arship Fund.

to support tougher gun laws for our na-tion. The Victimol-ogy Club has brought great efforts to the UNH campus to raise awareness about gun violence to our fel-low students with the televised news casting

wore hand-made, VT color lashes made by the victims’ families.

Finishing off the week, the Victimol-ogy Club, Office of Advancement, and West Haven Police Department hosted the First Annual Jessica

The Victimology Club would like to thank everyone who came out to support National Crime Vic-tims’ Rights Week and look forward to an-other successful week next year.

Congratulations to Michael Folcik

Michael Folcik has been selected as Student Leader of the Month for March. Mike was nominated by faculty members for his outstanding

contributions to the University of New Haven not only in March but as a whole.

Mike’s work in organizing the Robotics Club has shown true leader-ship. He has lead his club in the development of a highly sophisticated

autonomous lawn mower (robot) that is powered by fuel cell which will be entered in a competition in June.

Faculty members have stated that Mike has been instrumental in presenting the Computer Engineering program, the department, and the school of engineering in open houses and to our prospective new

students and their parents.

Please join the Office of Student Activities in congratulating and thank-ing Mike Folcik for his service to the UNH Community.

Congratulations to SMILE

SMILE has been selected as the Student Club/Organization of the Month for March.

SMILE (Students Making an Impact in Their Living Environment) is a community-service based organization. They volunteer at local soup kitchens, charity walks, and special projects as well as many on and off

campus activities.

During the month of March, SMILE was involved with the West Haven beach clean-up, Columbus House soup kitchen (twice), and

the Common Ground High School Winter Fest. They also conducted a Glass Ceiling Bake Sale in the lobby of Bartels Hall in honor of

Women’s History Month. The prices of the items for sale reflected the wage gap between men and women in the workforce. The proceeds

from the bake sale went to the American Heart Association.

Please join the Office of Student Activities in congratulating the SMILE for their contributions to UNH and the community!

Dance Team Showcases Talents and Hard Work

con’t from page 1of pairs of dancers (identified by perfect-ly matching outfits). Each pair consisted of a woman dressed in typically male attire (a top hat, suspend-ers, a dress shirt, and pants) and a woman in a dress. These match-ing couples danced as though they were at an old jazz party. This performance had the most energy out of all the dances, which made it very enjoy-able to watch.

Besides these two especially unforget-table performances, others worth citing were “Accapella Tap,” “Let it Be,” and “Billie Jean.”

Another perfor-mance worth talking about was performed by Emanon. Their dance was a very re-freshing change from their mainly hip hop-based style. The dance had more of a variety of styles than usual and was very well put-together. Rumor has it that the group is changing its style so it can start competing with other schools. Whatever the reason may be, the variety was definitely notice-

able and could trans-late into future wins for Emanon.

Whether it was be-cause the show was

earlier than usual or that the team has been busier than usual, or for other reasons entirely, the dances in the 5,6,7,8 show were not as clean and synchronized as usual. The dancers themselves did not

seem as lively and in-terested as they have been in past shows, besides Allison Vinci and Melody Johnson

who always add atti-tude and personality to their dance moves. Hopefully next year, more time can be spent on perfecting the show’s individual performances and overall vibe.

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USGA President’s CornerWhat’s Going on at USGA

Louis Eswood IIIUSGA President

What Happened This Week:

What’s Coming Up:Next week, the

USGA is holding our annual Last Man Standing Competi-tion.

Last Man Standing is a week’s worth of events where partici-pants are eliminated each day until only one person remains. Each night, the events will be different and more challenging as the week goes on. Participants do not know what the events are until minutes be-fore they need to per-form them.

In the past, stu-dents have partici-pated in events such as the Tug of War, a campus wide scav-enger hunt, and eat-ing competitions just to name a few. This year’s events will be very similar, however the USGA execu-tive Board decided to eliminate the eating competition because we felt that it deterred too many students from participating.

Prizes will be awarded to the last three individuals

left in the race, with the first place prize $2,000 in Visa gift cards. Unfortunately, we are unable to hand out cash, so we went with the closest thing possible. If you think that you can handle it, register today on ChargerVoice.com! Events are the week of May 5! Even if you are not participating come out and watch your friends!

We voted on and approved changes to the By-Laws.

We voted to approve recommendations of the media-head selec-tion committee for the Chariot Yearbook Editor-in-Chief and

Assistant Editor.We voted on

2008-2009 USGA Executive Board ap-pointees.

We also voted on a letter of resignation and budget alloca-tions.

WANT TO VOICE YOUR CONCERNS?Go to chargervoice.com and click the “Post A Concern” link. Fill out the requested informa-tion and your concern will be handled by the

USGA Preisdent.

For more info and rules, go to http://www.newhaven.edu/student-life/22026/

EditorialsThe Charger Bulletin | April 30, 2008Page 6

Celina NatolaEditor-in-Chief

Zack RosenAssistant Editor

Cool It, Complainers!It’s official! Kat

DeLuna, Red Jump-suit Apparatus, and Lifehouse will be the bands coming to UNH’s Spring Week-end ’08! I was excited to hear the bands when they were announced, and I wish I had three hands just so I could give SCOPE three thumbs up! These are three acts that, while of different genres, will fit perfectly to-gether!

While the major-ity of people seem to be extremely ex-cited for the concert, I’ve already heard the “where’s the rap band?” and “this band sucks!” comments this year. So let me clear a few things up before the concert this year, so that you won’t find it neces-sary to complain after the fact.

You can’t cater to everybody’s prefer-ences. I don’t gener-ally listen to these bands, but you know what? I’m still go-ing to go and have a great time! There’s no rap band? There’s no country band. It’s impossible to get ev-erybody’s favorites,

and it’s immature to acknowledge the pos-

sibility of pleasing everyone.

Secondly, we can’t get The Rolling Stones or Miley Cyrus. Sor-ry. SCOPE has been doing an amazing job this year, but choos-ing a band as high a caliber as Maroon 5 is completely out of the question. You want to pay for them? We’ll have them.

Think SCOPE is doing a crappy job? Stop by the Student Activities wing and see just how much work they do. I work in the office next to theirs and can’t fath-om how they sleep with all the work they have to do! You know all of those movies shown every week?

All those events, con-certs, trips, contests, comedians, musi-cians on campus? That’s just a portion of SCOPE in action.

If everybody got their wish and was able to see the band THEY wanted, that would mean that UNH would either be in debt or there would be three stu-dents at this school. So instead, try show-ing some UNH pride, spirit, and thank those who work with SCOPE. There are a lot of them, and they all deserve recogni-tion for their hard work.

So go to the Spring Concert this week-end, on May 2. Either you love the bands, hate the bands and refuse to have a good time, or you’ll be like me and be willing to have a fantastic time even if Eric Clapton isn’t gonna be here. And the reason I’m going to have a fan-tastic time is because SCOPE is putting this on. So let me be not the first and certainly not the last to say to everyone at SCOPE, thank you!

In the time it takes to read this message, three individuals somewhere in the United States will have become the latest

victims of sexual violence-The risk of rape is four times higher for women aged 16-24 than for

any other age group.-One in four college women surveyed are victims of rape or attempt-

ed rape -85% of rapes on campus are acquaintance rapes.-One in six female college students reported having been a victim of

rape or attempted rape during the preceding year-27% of women have experienced a rape or attempted rape since age

14. -The majority of reported victims and offenders are college age, with

the rape victimization highest among 16-19 year oldsApril is designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This brings

an annual opportunity to focus on sexual violence and its prevention. It is also an opportunity to highlight the efforts of individuals and agen-cies that provide rape crisis intervention and prevention services while offering support to sexual assault survivors, victims and their families.

On the UNH campus, the Milford Rape Crisis Center works with students and staff to provide education and support. Melissa Jennings, our Campus Advocate, can be reached at Melissa.mrcc@sbcglobal.net if you or someone you know is in need of assistance. Or, please utilize the information below:

Milford Rape Crisis Center:Local: (203) 878-1212/ CT Toll Free: (888) 999-5545/ En Espan-

ol: (888) 568-8332/ National (RAINN): (800) 656-4673/ Office: (203) 874-8712

Please stop by an info table either in the Bartels Lobby or in your own residence hall for more information and a free giveaway! Tables will be set up: Wednesday, April 30th 11am-2pm (Lobby), 8-9pm: Bixler Hall, 9-10pm: Botwinik Hall, 10-11pm: Bethel Hall and Thursday, May 1st 8-9pm: New Hall, 9-10pm: Sheffield Hall, 10-11pm: Winchester Hall.

Please stop by!

I’m not really into politics. To be hon-est, I feel a little too busy to pay attention to what politicians are saying and doing. That being said, I feel that there is a major lack of election-relat-ed events on campus.

I might sound contradictory. How-ever, think about it this way: if I am too busy to pay atten-tion, maybe groups on campus should be trying to find a way to reach people like me. Regardless of people like me, I feel like there is a reasonable amount of people on this campus that want to know more about the candidates, the issues surrounding them, and the Novem-ber election itself.

Let’s kindly look at my partner in crime, Zack Rosen. He has always been interested in politics; he wrote the political roving reporter col-umn last year and he struts around campus wearing his Obama shirt this year. As a person that pays at-tention to politics re-gardless of campus events, he agrees that

there has not been enough election-re-lated events (which might be one of the reasons why he has been rebuilding the College Democrats).

If more election-related events would please political nuts like Zack and politi-cal adversaries like me, then why aren’t they happening?

As a member of the USGA Points Committee, I am so

pleased when I see clubs and organiza-tions plan events that are pertinent to their cause (i.e. the Paint-ball Club sponsoring a trip to play paint-ball and the SCUBA Club hosting Marine Week). It disappoints me then, when clubs seem to ignore top-ics that relate to them.

That being said, I ob-viously would like to see the College Re-publicans plan more events related to the elections. However, they are not the only group on campus.

The only election-related event held so far has been the tables run by the College Democrats which al-lowed people to reg-ister to vote. Judging by the tremendous number of people they registered, this was obviously something people were interest-ed in doing but hadn’t gotten around to. So why didn’t any one else think of it?

As a media, I plan on increasing election coverage, especially towards November. However, I urge clubs and organizations to look at the issue and bring it to the campus. Programming can be educational too, not just fun. Electing our future president is im-portant, especially in today’s social and eco-nomic climate. If we act as role models and bring issues to cam-pus, students are sure to learn something.

Events for a Cause

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Arts & EntertainmentThe Charger Bulletin | April 30, 2008Page 8

John Cho plays Harold.

Kal Penn reprises his role as Kumar in the sequel.

By CELINA NATOLAEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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By GREG DICKINSON and DAVID FIELDSTAFF WRITERS

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Calling all musicians!Send us your music so we can review it. Send songs electronically to chargerbulletin@newhaven.edu. We may not have many issues left, be we can still review it and post it online, or advertise it to raise student interest in

your band next year.

See DRAMA page 11

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Sequel Offers Funny Story but Lacks Jokes

John Cho (Epic Movie, Van Wilder) and Kal Penn (Ameri-can Wedding) return as Harold Lee and Ku-mar Patel in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay a sequel to 2004’s Har-old and Kumar Go to White Castle. This film picks up directly where the first film left off, with Harold reminiscing of Maria (Paula Garcés) who left for a 10-day trip to Amsterdam. The duo decides to visit Amsterdam not only to meet up with Ma-ria, but also to smoke marijuana legally. On the plane to Amster-dam, a race-inspired incident causes them to be mistaken as ter-rorists and the Under-secretary of Homeland

Security, Ron Fox played by Rob Cord-dry (Semi-Pro, The Daily Show), sends

them to Guantanamo Bay. Within minutes, they manage to escape from prison and make their way back to America. Harold and Kumar decide to head to Texas where they seek the help of an old

friend with political ties, who also happens to be marrying the love of Kumar’s life.

T h e a c t i n g in this film is on par w i t h o t h e r f i l m s of its gen re . B e -c a u s e not any o n e a c t o r gives a s t a n d -o u t perfor-mance,

which is typical of comedies because no emotional challenges are ever posed, each seems to provide a universal presenta-tion. The acting ranges needed for such per-formances are short

and the only require-ment is to be able to act unintelligently.

With that said, some of the funniest scenes in this film are those involving Neil Patrick Harris playing Neil Patrick Harris, a drugged up and sex-crazed child star actor. Another actor, Rob Corddry, is just as funny as the dimwit-ted and overzealous undersecretary, who is continuously mis-understanding people and their situations. Lastly, Corrdry’s sub-ordinates Dr. Beecher (Roger Bart) and his interpreter (Ed Helms) provide some notable straight face humor, which helps balance out Corrdry’s eccen-tric performance.

How the film is setup is one of its bet-ter aspects as it is rare for comedic sequels to pick up immediately

where they have fin-ished. This allows both the audience who has seen the first film as well as those who have not to begin following the new story almost right away. This tech-nique also adds some after-thought humor as you realize these two friends get into unusual situations on a daily basis.

Overall, the writing in this film is weak and most of the jokes aren’t funny. This is a result of most of them being spoiled by the trailer, while the other

intended-to-be-jokes are perhaps too gross to be considered fun-ny and instead come off as repulsive. All in all, while there are a few good laughs to be found, there is not enough for this 102-minute film.

Bottom line…Har-old & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is in the simplest terms a rehashing of its predecessor, as most of the ideas and situ-ations are strikingly similar in both context and layout. Unless you are desperate to know how the story contin-ues to unfold, we do not recommend this as your first comedy choice this weekend. Instead, may we sug-gest Forgetting Sarah Marshall as reviewed and recommended by fellow staff writer Melanie Rovinsky.

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Tina Fey is back in theaters with Baby Mama, which was re-leased Friday, April 25. The comedy explores the relationship be-tween Kate (Fey) and her surrogate mother, Angie (Amy Poehler). The movie is one of the highly-anticipated comedies of the sea-son (grouped with the Harold & Kumar sequel and Forget-ting Sarah Marshall). While the movie cer-tainly provides a dose of Fey’s classic witty

Hilarious Characters Give Baby Lifedelivery and laughs, the film could be bet-ter.

The story itself is pretty cut-and-dry. Kate longs to have a baby but can’t carry out a long enough rela-tionship for one due to her busy work life. She has just become the vice president of the company she works for, and feels that all she needs to make her life completely fulfill-ing is a baby. After trying methods like artificial insemina-tion, Kate finds a sur-rogate mother, Angie, through a service. An-gie breaks up with her

common law husband, Carl (Dax Shepard), and moves in with Kate.

The funniest mo-

m e n t s o c c u r between the two m a i n c h a r -a c t e r s . Kate is a wealthy, s u c -cessfu l woman that is o b s e s -s i v e -compul-sive and very up-

tight. Angie is a high-school dropout with a white trash kind of attitude. The two butt heads as Kate tries to

influence Angie into eating organic food, drinking water, taking vitamins, and listen-ing to Spanish-lan-guage CD’s while she sleeps. Angie is hard pressed to change her ways, especially since she only agreed to be a surrogate for the money (Carl’s work in inventing wasn’t providing a steady income). The duo has a hard time getting along, but they quick-ly become best friends once Angie gets Kate to loosen up and Kate gets Angie to grow up.

What’s really en-

joyable about this film is that not just the main characters attract attention. Carl is hilar-ious, even though he has barely any screen time. Another memo-rable minor character is Kate’s doorman, Oscar (Romany Mal-co). He introduces the term “baby mama” to Kate and provides funny reactions to An-gie’s shenanigans.

The funniest char-acter, surpassing even Kate and Angie is Kate’s boss, Barry, played by Steve Mar-tin. His granola-hippy

Tina Fey is a successful wannabe mom in Baby Mama.AN AP/ JIM COOPER PHOTO

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WEST HAVEN— The University of New Haven baseball team took two games from visiting C.W. Post on Saturday, April 26. UNH won the opener 4-2 and followed with a 1-0 victory in game two. With the wins the Chargers move to 14-9 in conference play and now stand only half a game out of first place in the East Coast Con-ference standings.

Matt Sommo al-lowed just one earned run on four hits in 7 1/3 innings to pick up the victory in game one. He struck out two and, despite giv-ing up a run in the first inning, carried a no hitter through the first 4 1/3 innings. Jimmy Rivas drove in a pair of runs in game one, while Michael Mo-ras finished 3-for-4. Tom Rombilus scored twice.

In game two, start-ing pitcher Dan Blake tossed 6 2/3 innings of

Chargers Sweep Doubleheader Over Postshut-out ball in a 1-0 Charger victory. He scattered seven hits while walking none

He struck out two and, despite giving up a run in the first inning, carried a no hitter through the first 4 1/3 innings before Brian Algarroba singled up the middle.

Mike Aquilino re-lieved Sommo with one out in the eighth and gave up an RBI single through the left side, but recovered to get an inning-ending double play to hold the lead. Freshman closer Mitch Rossi picked up his fourth save of the season with a perfect ninth, striking out the final two batters of the game.

C.W. Post hurt starting pitcher Kevin Gerard with four er-rors, leading to three unearned runs. He gave up an earned run to the Chargers in the bottom of the first, ty-ing the game at 1-all. Tom Rombilus led off with a single and came around to score on a Jimmy Rivas single up the middle.

UNH got one un-earned run in the third after Evan Okon

doubled and Rivas's fly ball to right center was dropped by two C.W. Post outfielders who nearly collided.

Then UNH got two unearned runs in the fifth inning thanks to two Pioneer errors. Rombilus reached on a throwing error from second base, pulling the first baseman off the bag. Evan Okon singled on a high chopper that bounded over the third base-man's head, putting runners on the corners for Rivas. His field-er's choice grounder erased Okon but made it 3-1 UNH. Moras singled to put two on again, and a dropped pop up between third and short stop resulted in the fourth UNH tal-ly crossing the plate.

GAME TWO RE-CAP: UNH 1, C.W. Post 0 (7 innings)

Blake picked up the victory for UNH in game two, giving up seven hits while striking out two in 6 1/3 innings. Rozum led the way for UNH at the plate. He went

3-for-3 on the after-noon, tallying three of the four UNH hits. The Charger defense threw out two Pio-neers at the plate to preserve the shut-out. Reliever Mitch Rossi came on late to record the final out for UNH.

In the second in-

The UNH pitch-ing staff was helped out by some excel-lent defense in game two. In both the fourth and seventh innings on close plays, UNH threw out a runner at the plate. In the C.W. Post fourth, following a single by Anthony

and had two strike-outs. UNH (19-21 overall) capitalized on a two-out error by the Pioneers to plate their only run in the second inning. Left fielder Adam Rozum went 3-for-3 and had a cru-cial outfield assist in the top of the fourth inning to get a Pioneer runner at the plate.

GAME ONE RE-CAP: UNH 4, C.W. Post 2

Sommo allowed just one earned run on four hits in 7 1/3 in-nings to pick up the victory in game one.

ning, catcher Michael Moras drew a lead-off walk. Following a single by Rozum, designated hitter Tom Ballaro grounded into a double-play. Then with two outs Kyle Donnelly reached on an error by C.W. Post second baseman Kyle Walker, scoring Mo-ras for the only run of the game.

Philadelphia Defeats UNH in Season Finale

PHILADELPHIA— The No. 9 Univer-sity of New Haven women's lacrosse team was defeated in their season finale by Philadelphia Uni-versity 11-9 Saturday afternoon, April 26 in an East Coast Con-ference match. A late rally from the Rams sealed the Charger's fate as the home team outscored UNH 5-2 in

the final 13 minutes.The loss snapped

a six-match winning streak for the Char-gers. UNH finishes the season at 14-3, 3-3 ECC. Their 14 wins are twice as many as the program's previ-ous high of seven.

Kristine Lam-bracht, Mallory Fer-randiz and Ashley Ferrandiz (2g, 1a) each tallied two goals for the Chargers in the losing effort. The Rams were led by three goals apiece

from Kathleen Maurer and Shannon Shippey.

UNH jumped out to an early 4-2 lead be-

hind two goals from Lambracht and one each from Mallory Ferrandiz and Sarah

LeGoff. Phila-delphia answered quickly with two goals inside 40 seconds to tie the match. An unas-sisted effort from Ashley Ferrandiz would send UNH into halftime with a one goal advantage.

The Rams opened the sec-ond half with two

goals inside the first five minutes which gave Philadelphia their first lead of the match at 6-5. UNH would answer with two goals of their own over the next 12 min-utes in a slower paced second half capped by an unassisted ef-fort from freshman Carolina Marrero, but the Chargers would not regain the lead.

P h i l a d e l p h i a stormed forward scor-ing five goals, two from Shippey, in a 10

minute span to seal the victory. Brigid Brady notched her 53rd goal with five minutes re-maining and Mallory Ferrandiz scored with under one minute to play, but the come-back would fall two goals short in a match that featured six ties and two lead changes.

Goalkeeper Shan-non Greenwood made nine saves for the Chargers playing the entire match in the net. UNH outshot the Rams 45-37.

Montesano to left field with a runner on sec-ond, UNH got the third out at the plate as Tom Rombilus threw home on the re-lay from Rozum. In the top of the seventh, also on a single to left field, catcher Moras initially bobbled the

throw from the out-field, but hung on to record the out, keep-ing C.W. Post off the scoreboard.

Mitch Rossi came in to close the game for UNH. He struck out the only batter he faced for his second save of the day and fifth for the season.

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Baby Mama Deliv-ers $18.3 Million at Weekend Box Office

LOS ANGELES— Baby Mama, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's comedy about sur-rogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Universal Pic-tures laugher starring the Saturday Night Live duo crawled past Warner Bros.' Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, the goofy stoner flick that opened at No. 2 with $14.6 million.

With a third com-edy, Universal's For-getting Sarah Mar-shall, holding its own at No. 4 with $11 mil-lion, audiences looked to be flocking to the-aters to get giddy.

"Comedy is defi-nitely king right now," said Paul Dergara-bedian, president of tracking firm Media By Numbers LLC. "Audiences are defi-nitely showing an in-terest in going to the movies and having a good time and having a laugh."

Lionsgate's kung fu movie The Forbid-

den Kingdom starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li fell two notches to No. 3 with $11.2 million.

Critics had ques-tioned Universal's de-cision to release Baby Mama so closely on the heels of Forget-ting Sarah Marshall, thinking it would can-nibalize the comedy-seeking public.

"I think there's something to be said about the Hollywood myth that you can't open a comedy against a comedy," said Nikki Rocco, Universal's president of distribu-tion. "We just proved that to be wrong."

The success of the first Harold & Kumar sequel also showed audiences are not too sensitive to laugh at post-Sept. 11 topics like terrorism. The movie premise begins with the pair getting in trouble trying to sneak a bong on a flight to Amsterdam, then es-caping the U.S.-run prison for alleged ter-rorists in Cuba.

"I don't think any-body takes this too seriously," said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros.' president of theatrical distribution.

The sequel cost just $12 million to make and is already close

to beating the en-tire theatrical take of $18.2 million for the first Harold & Kumar movie.

"Hopefully we'll do somewhere in the $40 million range," Fellman said.

It was the second straight weekend that has shown better rev-enue than the previ-ous year, following four "down" week-ends, Dergarabedian said. The weekend gross for the films measured was up 17 percent at $91 mil-lion.

For the year to date, however, box office revenue is down 2.7 percent at $2.59 bil-lion, with attendance off 5.4 percent.

Still, the recent upswing is "the per-fect lead-in to the start of the summer movie season" which gets under way next weekend with the de-but of Iron Man, Der-garabedian said.

Estimated tick-et sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC.

style and spiritual ways create the fun-niest moments (spe-cifically when he re-wards Kate for a good idea with two minutes of uninterrupted eye contact).

Without the jokes and funny characters, the plot doesn’t really stand on its own. The background on why Kate really wants a baby is never really acknowledged, nor is her one long-term relationship, which is only mentioned a cou-

Comedy Explores Baby Mama Drama

ple of times. Another hole exists in Angie’s desire to get into fash-ion design. The topic is mentioned and then cemented when Kate gives Angie an ap-plication to a design school. The idea is then returned to when Angie fills out the ap-plication. However, nothing is mentioned after that. Does she go to school? Does she become successful? We will never know. Luckily, the funny characters cover up the plot holes enough

to make Baby Mama a worthwhile flick.

Basically, with-out the Fey/Poehler team and memorable sub-characters, Baby Mama would be me-diocre. These factors make the movie a de-cent comedy, but one would expect a come-dy with Fey in it to be a bit funnier (maybe she should’ve written it). With all the sum-mer blockbusters on their way, I’d save your money and wait to see Baby Mama on DVD.

Spears Reprises Mother Role

LOS ANGELES— Britney Spears, who proved she's worth a cool million viewers to How I Met Your Mother, is paying an-other visit to the CBS sitcom.

Spears will reprise her role as bubbly secretary Abby in the May 12 episode, CBS said Monday.

"We're all so thrilled to have Brit-ney joining us once again," series execu-tive producer and co-creator Craig Thomas said in a statement.

"And just to head it off at the pass this time around: Yes, Mom, Britney's very nice and no, I can't get her autograph for you," Thomas added, jokingly.

Spears' appear-ance in the March 24 episode won her good reviews and boosted the show's viewer-ship to 10.6 million viewers, in compari-son to the 9.6 million who had tuned in the previous week.

When last seen, Abby was flirting with womanizer Barney (cast member Neil Patrick Harris). The new episode, which

began production Monday, has Abby and Barney sharing their mutual dislike of Ted (cast member Josh Radnor) and act-ing on it.

How I Met Your Mother stars Harris, Radnor, Cobie Smul-ders, Alyson Hanni-gan and Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) as an urban family of 20-some-thing New Yorkers.

The pop star's camp originally approached the show about taking part, executive pro-ducer Carter Bays told The Associated Press earlier this month.

Cyrus Says Vanity Fair Photo Spread Embarasses Her

LOS ANGELES— Miley Cyrus is tak-ing issue with a photo of herself that's go-ing around, and it's not another amateur, truth-or-dare Internet snapshot — it's the

handiwork of Annie Leibovitz.

"I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artis-tic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed," Cyrus said Sunday in a statement through her publicist. "I never

intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about."

The photos, appear-ing in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, were taken by Leibo-vitz, a renowned ce-lebrity photographer.

"I'm sorry that my

portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted," Leibovitz said in a statement released by Vanity Fair. "Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a sim-ple, classic portrait,

shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful."

The Disney Chan-nel, which airs Cyrus' TV show Hannah Montana, was also critical of Vanity Fair.

"Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately ma-

nipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell maga-zines," a network statement said.

Vanity Fair defend-ed the story and photo shoot in a statement of its own.

Cyrus is one of the biggest—and most G-rated—acts in the country.

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All gatherings with 12 or more guests (excluding residents of the room/apartment) must be registered with the Office of Residential Life. Registered parties will be limited to 8 per residence hall and no more than 3 per floor (Regency residents will not be allowed to register parties due to their unique living style within the community). Registration is on a first come first serve basis.

We are trying something new this year to make registering your parties more convenient for you. Registration will be in the halls this year on the following dates/times:

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2. Tuesday, April 29th (Winchester) 8-9pm, (Dunham/Ruden) 10-11pm, (For-est Hills) 11:30pm-12:30am, (Sheffield) 8-10pm

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You can also come into the Office of Residential Life in Bixler Hall beginning on Monday, April 28th and running through Thursday, May 1st to register a party. We are open 8:30am-4:30pm M-F. All gatherings must end by 2am. RA’s will check in with your gathering and you will be given your first warning to break down the party at 1am.

Due to fire safety concerns, the number of guests per building will be limited to 175 at any one time. Once the limit of 175 non-resident guests has been met, no one will be permitted to enter the building until someone else has left. In addition, non-residents of a building who are deemed to be intoxicated will not be permitted to enter the building.

In keeping with University policy, the possession or consumption of alcohol is not permitted on university grounds or public areas. No outside beverage containers i.e. hydro packs, Nalgene bottles, squeeze bottles, etc. are permitted at any Spring Weekend events including the concert, carnival or comedians.

Together, we can make this the best and safest Spring Weekend! We appreciate your support and cooperation! The Office of Residential Life wishes you a safe and fun Spring Weekend!

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