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October 30, 2014
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McKamey Manor, a haunted house located in San Diego, California, is one of the most emotionally drain-ing haunted houses in the world. Rather than the usual expe-rience that one has in typical haunted houses, this particular house is much more intense than is even imaginable. People who decide to enter the manor must be 21 years of age, sign a waiver and be tested to make sure that they are mentally stable for the various types of ter-rors that reside within the house. After doing so, they gain access to the manor and can see if they have what it takes to complete it. While inside, the people that partake in experiencing McK-amey Manor are exposed to things such as being force-fed, gagged, blindfolded, placed in very small spaces, and screamed at, among other terrible things. This goes on
for four to seven hours straight with no breaks and no safe word to stop it all from occurring. Signing the waiver means that you are subjecting yourself to this kind of behavior and are will-ing to put up with it for hours on end. Those who have participated and reviewed McKamey Manor tend to have the same opinions on it. They say it changes them, and breaks them down mentally, adding that it is the craziest situation they have ever put themselves in by far. The manor surprisingly has a huge following and there are fans all across the globe that are dying to experience one of the most incred-
ibly haunted houses that exists. People come from a number of countries for big events like their hon-eymoons or a vacation. Why do so many people want to be a part of such an agonizing and disturbing haunted house? There are dif-ferent reasons for each person, but the general consensus is that it al-
lows them to step out of their comfort zone. McKamey Man-or allows them to be submerged in all of their deepest fears, which some say is really good for a person’s character. Many think the experience will serve them well for the rest of their lives. Thus far there have been no deaths and no lawsuits, un-like other extreme haunted houses that have the same ideas. Currently there are 24,000 people on the waiting list and is open only Fridays and Saturdays year round. Despite the long wait list applications are always being accepted to be a part of the McKamey Manor experience.
By Mariah BalestracciStaff Writer
If you were to walk past the Student Center Theatre Mon-day night around 6:30, you would have easily thought there was a party going on inside. The truth is there was, and it was a blast. Eastern Connecti-cut State University Best Buddies held a celebra-tion on October 27th to revel in the award they re-ceived at the Best Buddies Leadership Conference in Indiana this summer. After being awarded Best Chapter in Connecticut, President Katharine Ferrone applied for the na-tional awarded, creating a scrapbook of memories the club had shared over the past year. Having been a member for all her time at college, including chapter president for two years, she showed how Best Buddies changed her life for the better and gave her purpose. Many members echoed this sentiment over and over again throughout the rest of the night. The Theatre, which was filled to capacity heard from several
members of the Most Outstanding Best Buddies Chapter. Buddy Di-rector, Angelo Bryant Santiago, in-formed the audience how Best Bud-dies changes the lives of people with intellectual and developmental dis-abilities. After graduating Windham High School, which Eastern works closely with, in 2010, Angelo joined Best Buddies at Eastern and immedi-ately felt like he could enjoy a “regular college student” experience through the friendships he has made in the club. Later, he was awarded the posi-tion of Buddy Director, acting as the
voice of his peers and helping plan events. Before being named Buddy Ambassador for Connecticut this Fall, he attended the sum-mer conference where he witnessed his chap-ter winning the award he had a big part in. He had many people to thank that helped him get where he was today. Thank yous were plentiful that night, comprising of Best Bud-dies advisor Dr. Wynn,
Professor Cavanagh’s Monday night class to help
recruit new members, Camp Hark-ness which maintains relationships over the summer, the Horizons pro-gram which employs many Buddies as well as enables them to take college courses, and the support Best Bud-dies receives from Student Activities. Lastly, President Nunez was awarded with the plaque to display proudly in her office, illustrating the opportu-nities Eastern students can achieve with the support of the University. Best Buddies meets Wednes-day at 3pm in the Student Center.
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Best Buddies Awarded Most Outstanding Chapter
Enter At Your Own Risk:Haunted House Terrors
By Mae EhrnfeltEditor-In-Chief
Pride Alliance Ally Week for Eastern Students
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M o r g a n Cunningham, an Eastern student, has hosted a weekly radio show on WECS Radio for the past five years entitled “Oldies Come to Life.” The pro-gram features audio recordings from the early 1900s to 1979 in which Morgan looks at historically for on-air discus-sion. In addition, educational inter-views are featured on the show, such as the upcoming series of interviews that feature President Núñez. The show airs each Friday from 7-9 P.M on 90.1 FM and WECSRadio.com. Morgan’s interview with President Núñez touches on many aspects of her life, including her journey from Puerto Rico to the United States, her educational back-ground, and her new book. Presi-dent Núñez also discusses her work at Eastern, touching upon subjects such as how the school differs from UCONN and the new Duel Col-lege Enrollment Program at Eastern.
Interview airdates and times are as follows:
Friday, November 7th, 2014: 8-9 P.M.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014: 1-2 P.M.
Saturday, November 16th, 2014: 11 A.M.-12 P.M
Monday, November 24th: 12-1 P.M.
Tuesday, December 2nd: 7-8 P.M.
By Mae EhrnfeltEditor-In-Chief
Upcoming WECS Radio Inteview with President Núñez
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Last week from Mon-day, October 20, to Thursday, October 23, Eastern’s Pride Alli-ance celebrated their annual Ally Week. The purpose of the week was to celebrate and thank the al-lies of the LGBT+ community at Eastern. Events that were educa-tional, fun, and emotional were held throughout the week and in-cluded Out At Eastern, a candlelit vigil, Alphabet Soup, and Flag Day. “Out At Eastern [was] our big starting off event,” stated Pride Alliance Vice President Lind-sey Emblidge. Clubs and organi-zations were asked to participate in the event which took place on Monday; of the participants were the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, and the Pride Room. Each organiza-tion had its own table, similar to the setup of the President’s Picnic in September. Members of Pride Alliance helped to run the other tables at the event, which included a tie-dye station, a bracelet-making station, a cotton-candy and pop-corn station, and a station in which
passersby could dress-up in wigs and feather boas and take pictures. Tuesday was the candlelight vigil in honor of LBGT+ victims of bullying and harassment. The event started at the Clock Tower and ended in the Pride Room. “We wanted to re-member those who had to extinguish their own light, so we lit candles in remembrance of them,” said Alexis Cross, the secretary of Pride Alli-ance. She continued, “There is a huge amount of LBGT+ students, peers and youths who feel as though they cannot continue on, and we wanted to have an ode to them throughout this week.” In reflection of the event, peo-ple who attended stated that it was a very personal and somber experience. In addition to the vigil, there was a visibility event in which Pride Alliance members made signs with both positive and negative sta-tistics about the LGBT+ commu-nity. The signs were posted around the Student Center throughout Ally Week for the entire campus to see. On Wednesday, Pride Al-liance hosted Alphabet Soup, which
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
On Wednesday, October 22nd, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shat-tered Canada’s sense of security. At 9:52a.m. Zehaf-Bibeau opened fire at the National War Memorial in Ot-tawa where two soldiers were stand-ing guard. One of the soldiers, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, would later pass away from the wounds sustained from the ambush. After opening fire on the two soldiers, the gunman then fled the scene, unfortunately to continue his attack at the Parlia-ment building just minutes away from the Memorial. Upon arriving at the Parliament building, Zehaf-Bibeau exchanged gunfire with secu-rity officials while others evacuated or barricaded themselves in rooms. It wouldn’t be until later that day that members of Parlia-ment, staff, and police would realize that Sergeant-at-Arms of Canada’s House of Commons, Kevin Vickers, had killed the gunman. Police are also searching for multiple gunmen, unsure if Zehaf-Bibeau had accom-plices. Officials of the Royal Cana-
dian Mounted Police (RCMP) are looking into a possible video left by the gunman. Despite the death of the gunman, Canadian’s sense of safety has been devastated by the attack. Zehaf-Bibeau was born in 1982 and was a convert to Islam. He also had ties to jihadists in Canada who happened to share radical Is-lamist ideology. At least one of the jihadists had gone overseas to fight in Syria. Zehaf-Bibeau was in the process of applying for a passport, which was detained and undergoing
investigation. The investigation was looking into why he wanted to travel to the Middle East, which turned out to be because he wanted to fight as well. Zehaf-Bibeau had dual Libyan-Canadian citizenship according to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson. The FBI has pledged to re-main vigilant after recent chatter by ISIS. The terrorist group, which has been spreading fear throughout the Middle East, has been making hints about attacking Western targets. Canada could be one of those poten-
tial targets based on the approval its leaders gave for air combat missions against ISIS earlier this month. ISIS had also previously identified Can-ada as a potential target. Militants of the terrorist group have also been recruiting internationally, including in Canada. A video released by ISIS called upon Canadian citizens to kill their fellow civilians and military members. Unfortunately, the group has been successful in its recruit-ment efforts. On Monday, a radical-ized man hit and killed a soldier with a car in Quebec. The man was later killed by police and it was released that his passport had also been con-fiscated for his intention to fight abroad for a terrorist organization. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was a member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment. The group is a reserve unit made up of Canada’s primary war fighters according to its website. Despite the impressive fighting history of the regiment, the National War Memorial was meant to be an honor, not a battlefield. The ambush upon the two soldiers guarding the memorial was cowardly and left no room for the two to fight back. President Obama has pledged his support from Washington.
By Paige TunniclifAssistant News Editor
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On Monday October 20th in the Betty Tipton Room, East-ern Connecticut State University hosted a debate between the four candidates running for the Second Congressional District seat. Those candidates included incumbent Joe Courtney (Democrat), first-time runner William Clyde (Indepen-dent/Green Party), Lori Hopkins Cavanagh (Republican), and third-time runner Dan Real (Libertarian). The topics of conversation and de-bate ranged across a wide spectrum, from Ebola, Ferguson, student loans, and economics to the housing mar-ket, health care, and the Dream Act. The debate was live broad-casted by Eastern Connecticut State’s WECS 90.1 Radio station, and would also be recorded to later air on the Connecticut News broadcast station. The debate began after a brief opening statement by President Elsa Nuñez. After thanking Roy Hack-ett for monitoring the debate, Presi-dent Nuñez reminded all present how “voting is an important part of who we are”, that “this country has a tradition of informed citizenry”, and how we
must therefore take it upon ourselves to not only be informed, but to be ac-tive in our political roles in society. Upon a random draw-ing, the first question was direct-ed first to five time congressional representative and incumbent Joe Courtney (D): Should the head of the Center for Disease Control re-sign in lieu of the recent events con-cerning Ebola in the United States? Courtney responded in saying that Washington has had a policy in the past of replacing indi-viduals that have underperformed at their respective positions, and then
having that same position remain empty for months at a time. Court-ney made it clear that this was not the way to go, and that forcing the head of the CDC to step down was not going to stop Ebola from spreading, and could only worsen the situation. The question was then con-tinued by Lori Hopkins Cavanagh the Republican candidate. Cavanagh stated that whatever course is taken, we must “make sure the public trusts the governments’ responses” but that as of now, they in fact do not. Overall, Cavanagh pointed out the “political discourse on this issue”,
and how it is furthering the parti-san divide within our government. Clyde (I) was welcomed into the discussion with the ques-tion: Are restrictions feasible in the attempted containment of Ebola here in the United States? Clyde responded with a clear “No”, elaborating on how the Ebola issue had been “brewing for several months”. He continued, “We should have taken a leadership role, taken a humanitarian role, and effec-tively isolated the outbreak, helping others while protecting ourselves”. Now, he says, there is no hope at true containment and everything is reactive, only workable after the fact. Clyde was then asked if we, the United States, had “a handle on the issue”, and he responded: “No”. Libertarian Dan Real was asked if we as a nation are “overly-panicking” in regards to Ebola. Real responded “yes and no”, and then proceeded to elaborate. Without a clear stance, or plan, the anxiety over Ebola worsens, and has contributed to this state of perpetual anxiety. Hackett later closed the topic of Ebola, and moved on to the ongoing situation involving
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Ferguson, Missouri and the racial tensions it brings to surface. Hack-ett specifically asked candidate Ca-vanagh to respond to the events as well as the statement Cavanagh supposedly made which claimed that President Obama was a racist. Cavanagh immediately stated “I had never said he was racist, I said that his politics were racist”. In regards to Ferguson, Cavanagh stated that “we are so focused on race, we forget class”. As a business owner, she related how the country’s policies are unfavorable to small businesses and entrepreneurs, and that these policies have stifled our economy and made the class divide worse than it has ever been. Cavanagh then stated that she was “against all forms of racial profil-ing, by the government, by the police, or by any entity” and that concentrat-ing on ethnicity to address the social chasm is not going to solve anything. The next topic was intro-duced by an Eastern student, Jessica DeFelice, who asked what would the candidates say to encourage college graduates to stay in the state of Con-necticut once receiving their degree.Clyde answered first by stating that employment upon graduation from higher education is “a local and state-wide issue, and that it truly depends on your decided major”. Courtney reminded us of his involvement with HR bill 562 which he cosponsored, despite its being “pushed out” by “lending lob-byists” who did not want to lose the money they could earn through dis-proportionate interest rates on edu-cation loans. Returning to the initial question, Courtney stated that there is a “5.5% unemployment rate here in the Second Congressional Dis-trict”, and that there are more jobs
out there than there were before. Republican candidate Cavanagh explained that as a small business owner she has experienced first-hand how government is in the way of small businesses, further bur-dening the working poor. Cavanagh continued, saying that [America] was the land of opportunity, but that over-taxation along with “8 years of Courtney continuing [such] poli-cies” has had negative impacts on our state. The candidate then affirmed that the current tax code system bur-dens the middle class and the work-ing poor, and that she will “cut regu-lations [to] make [the] taxes fair” so that ultimately “you have jobs”. Courtney returned Ca-vanagh’s statements by stating that he has provided for Connecticut throughout his terms. Namely in regards to the Armed Services Committee, how “Obama wanted to reduce it, but [I] restored it”. Overall, Courtney impressed that he has “brought real results” to the people of Connecticut through job-retention acts such as the Electric Boat deal he helped coordinate. Debate monitor Roy Hackett then directed talk to the next student-asked question, cour-tesy of Freshman Tess Candler, con-cerning responsible fiscal policy. After discussion on debt, all candidates were down to the one-minute mark on their allowed speaking time, therefore Hackett moved to the closing statements. This concluded the Second Congressional Debate held at East-ern Connecticut State University. Afterwards, the candidates remained in the room to answer questions from individuals in the audience.
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was a bingo-style educa-tional event. A definition of a sexual orien-tation or gen-der identity was called out to participants who then had to find the word around the room. On the bingo cards were terms related to the LBGT+ acronym and the winner of the game won a prize. “It was very edu-cational. A lot of people left knowing more words than they did when they came in, and next year we plan on adding even more words because our acronym continues to get longer throughout the years as more sexual and gender identities are understood and brought to light in the mainstream,” Cross stated. Flag Day was on Thurs-day. Starting on Monday, pictures had been taken throughout the week of people who wanted to show their support of the LGBT+ com-munity. On Thursday, Pride Alli-
ance had a table set up in the Student Center to reach out to more of the Eastern community to take pictures to show their support. The end re-sult was a collage of over fifty photo-graphs of Eastern staff and students. “The club’s main purpose is to facilitate relations between the LBTQ+ community and the hetero-
sexual commu-nity on campus through socials, d i s c u s s i o n s , e d u c a t i o n events, and po-litical activism,” Cross stated. Pride Alliance is working on becoming more politically ac-tive in the upcoming se-mesters; they plan on start-ing a letter-writing petition to members of Congress and the Sen-ate about the importance of LGBT+ rights in the United States. Since the club is so multi-faceted and diverse,
especially in terms of mem-bers with dif-
ferent sexual orientations and gen-der identities, they put on many events each semester to involve each member and make sure every-one’s voice in the LGBT+ commu-nity is heard on Eastern’s campus. Pride Alliance meets on Thursdays at 5:30 P.M. in room 221 in the Student Center.
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Some of the pictures from the Flag Day collage. Pride Alliance / Eastern Connecticut State University
Alana GallagherSeniorMajor: PsychologyMinor: BiologyHometown: Killingworth, CT Activities: Peer Mentor, CAB co-ordinator, retired RA, People Help-ing People and Psy-chology Club mem-ber. Served as Vice President for Psy-chology Club and is currently Vice Pres-ident for Psi Chi International Psy-chology Honor Society and Public Relations for Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.
Provide a summary of your schol-arly activity. My passion for research has led me into the most amazing opportunities. It has been my plea-sure to be Dr. Salters-Pedneault’s research assistant for the past 3 se-mesters. Through this experience I have obtained numerous research and professional skills. I have assist-ed with journal reviews, ran human subject research, measured car-diovascular and skin conductance physiology, and just recently co-au-thored an article in Behavior Analy-
sis in Practice with Dr. James Diller and Dr. Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault entitled, “Effective Dissemination Re-quires Effective Talk: A Comparison of Behavior-Analytic Journals.” I have also presented 2 research projects, The Role of Handedness and Sex in Semantic Memory and Examining Heart Rate Variability as a Predictor of Impulsive Behavior at the Arts & Sciences Research Conference and Exhibition and the 17th Annual CSU Psychology Day. In November I will be doing an oral presentation with co-author Chelsea Myers at COPLAC, the regional undergraduate research conference at Keene State College, of
our project Examin-ing Heart Rate Vari-ability as a Predictor of Impulsive Behavior.
What was the role of your mentor? Dr. Salters-Pedneault has been an amazing mentor. Just like with all my professors in the psy-chology department, it is evident that she genuinely wants to do all that she can to make sure I gain the necessary experience to be successful in
my future endeavors. In all honestly, I have the psychology department as a whole to thank to being supportive of my future goals. How did your work add to your pros-pects for graduate school? I am currently in the pro-cess of applying to Master’s and Ph.D. programs in cognitive neu-roscience. The research that I have conducted here at Eastern has pro-vided me with a solid foundation of what graduate research will entail. My goal is to obtain a Ph.D. and to conduct research at either a uni-versity or a private research center.
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Pumpkinfest in Keene, New Hampshire, has always been a friendly tradition, a nice fall trip to look at a world record-breaking display of jack-o-lanterns. If you only stayed on Main Street and never watched the news this is how you would remember Pumpkin-fest 2014, but if you were anywhere off Main Street you would have re-membered the day a little differently. Around 1p.m. a party was taking place when police arrived and, without warning, shot tear gas at the crowd, which quickly dispersed into the middle of the street. This is when the “Pumpkinfest Riots” began and, for the rest of the day, chaos ensued. The party quickly turned into a mob in the streets chanting “USA” in addi-tion to drinking and making attempts at pushing over street signs. Police, sheriffs, and firemen sat at the end of the street with paintball guns, pep-per spray, and rubber bullets, wait-ing to be able to control the drunken students. Police tear-gassed at least one other party next to campus a few hours later, once again sending students fleeing eyes burning by tear gas (banned in warfare by the Unit-
ed Nations but not domestically). As night fell things got much worse; students started throwing bottles, rocks, and even fireworks at police who were now wearing riot gear. A couch was lit on fire in the middle of Blake Street in addition to a car getting flipped over by unruly students. At one point students used overturned Salvation Army bins to hide from rubber bul-lets. By ten o’clock a helicopter was flying around with a spotlight asking people to leave the town of Keene. People were describing the scene as a war zone. There were at least 14 arrests with charges rang-ing from “inciting a riot” to “disor-derly conduct” and 30 injuries, send-ing 20 people going to the hospital. The next day students were seen walking around with bags picking up the trash from the night before. Later that week stu-dents and town citizens met in a town hall meeting that one Keene student said went surprisingly well. The campus stated that college students who did not attend the school caused most of the prob-lems. Rumors have been flying that this could be the last Pumpkinfest, as city officials have already tried to cancel the event but it is always brought back by popular demand.
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Starbuck’s Chestnut Praline Latte Comes out November 12th
Halloween Horrors
Happy HalloweenThe Campus Lantern would like to wish everyone
a happy and safe Halloween!
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Make Your Halloween Costume Stand Out!
Pregnant at CollegeBy Gabriela WrobelStaff Writer
For all you avid coffee enthusiasts out there, Starbuck’s is introducing a new beverage. The Chestnut praline latte consists or caramelized chestnut flavoring and other spices topped with spiced pra-line bits and whipped cream. Yum! It has already hit select stores but will be available nationwide November 12th, joining the other regular holi-day offerings like the peppermint mocha latte and the gingerbread latte. The coffee chain also released a statement saying that the chestnut praline latte will mark the arrival of the first new holiday handcrafted beverage in five years for Starbuck’s. Praline for those of you, who don’t know, is a smooth, sweet, substance made by boiling nuts in sugar and grinding the mixture into a cream, used especially for filling chocolates.
These sweet, calorie and caffeine filled drinks will be available as a morning roast for American’s in less than a month, so get ready Starbuck’s lovers! Coffee drinkers who go to premium places such as Starbuck’s make up 34% of coffee drinkers and 54% of American’s aged 18 and over drink at least 1 cup coffee a day! The total amount of yearly income spent coffee tops 18 billion dollars (statis-ticbrain.com). While I don’t think it’s healthy to consume massive quanti-ties of caffeine, it’s a nice treat to have a sugary cappuccino over a date or for a morning pick me up every once in a while. I am not a loyal Starbucks customer but my curiosity will most likely lead me to try the new chestnut praline latte, as I’m sure many more of you will too!
Most of us think that we are invincible and nothing bad could ever happen to us. We have the mind-set of “I’m not going to worry about it until I have to”. Although this sort of a response can be natural, this is not the attitude that our university should have. The minority, even if it is an overwhelming minority, should be represented and helped just like anyone else on this campus. These are the conclusions I came to when I was pulling together an event called “Pregnant at College” for the club NOW, (National Organization for Women) that I am a part of. A part of my job in hosting this event was to create a presentation that included the various resources that Eastern provides for pregnant students. I must say my experience was short of enjoyable. In my attempt to obtain all the information I needed from the various offices on campus, I sent e-mails and even stopped by personally with the help of my fellow executive board members. I asked very simple questions such as “What are the resources available for preg-
nant women?”, “How can you help women in this situation?”, to which I got either extremely vague answers or no replies at all from most of the resource facilities. Aren’t we paying enough in our tuition to have access to student resources? I do not want to give an impression of generalizing every office on this campus, for there were some that were very helpful, but unfortunately the majority seemed to brush me off. When students find them-selves in difficult situations, they should receive support and help from our community of Eastern Connecti-cut State University. Some may be tempted to say that these students got themselves into this mess so they have to deal with it now, but the truth is that difficult situations are a part of life. Obstacles such as pregnancy can truly happen to anyone, no matter how much we think we are invincible to it. The important thing is to help these students when times get rough instead of putting all the weight on the women who simply need some extra support. Going through the pro-cess of searching for these resources, I tried to imagine what I would have felt like if this situation was actually
happening to me. I would feel alone and helpless, far from supported or understood. I then thought about what could be done to help women who find themselves pregnant while in school. There are solutions, some quite simple, for how to effectively provide information about the re-sources that students have if they are pregnant at college. As of right now, the student has to navigate the website for each specific office they want to contact and ask each indi-vidual department about how she can be helped. This confusing and time-consuming process could be made simpler by putting all of the information under one link or into a brochure. If this information was put into a link on the Eastern web-site, either in the index or on the Women’s Center page, the anonym-ity of the inquirer would be kept and they would have a much easier time getting their questions answered. There could alternatively be a physi-cal brochure, also in the Women’s Center, which would provide the same information that a student could use.
Halloween is fast ap-proaching and for many that means finding a costume! Many college-aged people may simply pick out a costume because it’s comical or looks good on them, but Halloween costumes at our age tend to get over simplified into black leotards and kitten ears. So, let’s make our cos-tumes stand out this year! Here are some tips for making sure you have an amazing Halloween outfit!
1. Avoid costume stereotypes-Don’t just be a witch or a zombie, think creatively. Think about your favorite TV, book or videogame characters, maybe even celebrities or athletes you idolize. Or maybe be something funny like a watermelon or a zebra! Look online for creative costumes and you’ll be sure to find new ideas!
2. Make it your own-Don’t just go to iparty and buy a costume set. Go on Amazon or eBay, buy bits and pieces of your costume from different places, or make some of your own things. This way you’ll be sure to stand out and save money!
3. Go all out!-It’s Halloween, the crazier the bet-ter! Stand out with colored wigs, face paint, glitter, color contacts, and cra-zy make-up! The more effort you put into your costume, the better you’ll look!
4. Use anything at your disposal-empty pizza boxes, a deck or cards, tin foil, tape, feathers-anything can become part of a costume with a little glue and planning!
5. Make sure you plan ahead-If you want a creative costume, you’re going to have to plan ahead to ensure you can get everything you need on your budget.
Enjoy your Halloween and your new unique costume!
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For some people, autumn is the season where you can overload on scary movies, haunted houses, and trails of terror. Others prefer pump-kin picking, hayrides, and baking with freshly gathered apples. I “fall” in the latter category.
In fact, as a horror movie virgin as well as never having been to Lake Compounce’s Haunted Grave-yard, I keep a large distance between all things scary and myself. I know I jump at suspenseful scenes in action movies, cringe when I see blood, and run away from those parents who like to carry a fake chainsaw with them on Halloween. Therefore, I try to stay away from those stressful situations, always declining invites to see the lat-est horror movie.
But lately, these avoidance strategies have not been enough to distance myself from frightful mo-tifs. I find the incursion begins mid summer, when you innocently attend a showing of The Fault in Our Stars and one preview bombards you with possessed dolls and Ouija boards. I don’t know about you, but I signed up to cry over John Greene lines, not produce tears of terror. Movie trail-ers continue to terrorize the masses during commercials of House Hunt-ers and Say Yes to the Dress, channels where scary movies have no business
in luring their audience to the nearest cinema.
And the invasion doesn’t end after that. Reviewing your daily Snapchat stories, the weak hearted could have accidently played a spon-sored Ouija video and drop their phone out of their hands. Even if you were aware and refused to open this preview, it was there for 24 hours, waiting for your finger to slip and open it.
Think I’m exaggerating a little? That is highly possible, but shouldn’t we be free to view or avoid the things we wish without our pri-
vacy being invaded? Just last week I received a mass email advertising Walking Dead Dodgeball, a Dean’s Cup event. I open it up and I’m in-stantly taken aback from the shocking zombie face that stares back at me.
Halloween should repre-sent the spooky time of year where leaves are dying and the afterworld comes alive. However, why does it have to send some running for cover from the gruesome and horrifying images that infiltrate our society? These images could not only haunt the dreams of the sensitive, but be a trigger for those who have a troubled past.
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vacy being invaded? Just last week I received a mass email advertising Walking Dead Dodgeball, a Dean’s Cup event. I open it up and I’m in-stantly taken aback from the shocking zombie face that stares back at me.
Halloween should repre-sent the spooky time of year where leaves are dying and the afterworld comes alive. However, why does it have to send some running for cover from the gruesome and horrifying images that infiltrate our society? These images could not only haunt the dreams of the sensitive, but be a trigger for those who have a troubled past.
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Pride Alliance’s Speech Against Anti-LGBT Bullying
“Friends” with Benefits
By Danielle PereiraOpinion Editor
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The Social Pressure of the Halloween Costume
The week of October 20th through the 25th, Pride Alliance held their annual Ally Week, a celebra-tion of all of the allies to the LGBTQ community at Eastern. This is a copy of the speech from the candle-light vigil that was held around campus. “Many of us have been vic-tim to bullying, we stand here today as survivors. Unfortunately, there are many people who do not feel as though they can escape their nega-tive home or school environment and because of this, LGBT youth are 8.4 times more likely to try to com-mit suicide than their heterosexual peers. This is an alarming number and statistically this would mean that at least one of your five e-board members would not be with you to-day.
This needs to be changed.
This anti-LGBT environ-
ment is perpetuated in many ways. Very visible forms of violence to LGBT youths is physical abuse and verbal harassment. In fact, compared to heterosexual and cis-gendered peers, LGBT youths are twice as likely to be physically assaulted and over 90% of LGBT youth have heard negative comments about the LGBT community in their schools. Less vis-ible forms of violence towards LGBT youth are passing comments such as “faggot,” non-inclusive language, and the loss of social status due to gender expression or sexual orientation.
This needs to be changed.
The most important role that an ally can fulfill is to be a strong support for those in the LGBT com-munity who feel violated due to bul-lying and harassment. Although al-lies cannot always actively change the environment that a LGBT youth is in, they can be a strong friend and support system for them, just by lis-
tening. Knowing the services that are available to LGBT youth and direct-ing those in need to them is one of the biggest impacts that an ally can have. Allies, when comfortable enough, should stand up. Say something, any-thing. Tell the bully that anti-LGBT bullying is not okay and that you will not stand for it.
This is the change.
At this time we ask you to please blow out your candle and re-member those who took their own light out of this world. Do this in re-membrance of their pain and use it as motivation to change our future. Both as an Ally and a member of the LGBT community we have a responsibility to change the social climate that we live in. This change is what we will leave behind.
We are the change.”
We’ve all heard the term “friends with benefits”. Some of us may have even encountered friends who were in one of these relation-ships or have been in one themselves. In a growing hookup culture where young people are sexually active earlier and earlier this has become a more acceptable term. Today people typically don’t marry until their 30’s, 40’s or even 50’s. In addition I’m sure you’ve heard before that about 50% of marriages end in divorce and today that only about 50% of people end up married at all. Some people may find this to be very liberating, but in my opinion living in a mindless hookup culture where true feelings rarely ex-ist anymore and fewer people end up with a life partner is sad. Now, let’s talk about “friends with benefits”. Some people may see nothing wrong with this type of relationship. I, on the other hand do because I don’t think that “friends” and “benefits” go well together. Friendship is a strong bond between people who care about each other and aren’t sexually involved with one an-other-that’s why they’re just friends. Having an intimate sexual relation-ship with someone does not make that person “just a friend” it’s more than that. You may not be married or dating, but even if you’re just casually
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hooking up with this person, they are not just your friend. A lover can be your friend (in addition to the sex) but a true friend cannot be your lover in my opinion. There are many problems with establishing a relationship as “F.W.B.’s”. For one, even if you are on the same page at the beginning, of-ten times this can change. One part-ner may eventually want more, feel used, or wish to end the whole thing because they’re full needs aren’t be-ing met. Jealousy can also become a problem, especially if one or both partners are seeing other people or if one wants to break it off to be with someone else. Having sex with “just friends” can also ruin the sexual ex-perience and make intimacy too ca-sual and seem impersonal which can lead to people letting each other use them. Worst of all, if this “friend” is a truly a good friend, eventually your relationship might deteriorate. For some people “F.W.B.’s” may work well and they have long been happy with the arrangement; it can even lead to both agreeing to date or both partners agreeing to end it and remain friends. But often times it doesn’t work out that way and can lead to seriously hurt feel-ings and severed friendships. So for those of you who have ever thought about the term “friends with ben-efits”, or have been involved in one, just some food for thought.
Dearest local Willimantic citizens, Last week, I joined my class on a field trip to The Windham Tex-tile and History Museum. A week lat-er and I am still amazed at how hard-working and passionate the people of The Windham Textile and History Museum are. If you needed reassur-ance that Willimantic is a town filled with hospitality then I give it to you with great confidence. The Mill Mu-seum is a devoted nonprofit organiza-tion filled with eager employees that not only fight to keep the 25-year-old museum alive but they also have oth-er careers they are engaged in. It’s un-fortunate to hear that the 1st thread mill with electrical lights wastes more time raising money to maintain the physical building instead of organiz-ing programs. As I sat with my peers, I was taken back by my new town’s history.
I also took the time to check out the museum’s online web-page and found that it is very helpful and interesting to explore on. I was appreciative of how the webpage was bilingual. The site shows videos and they update their clips often. You can also find the museum’s event calen-dar the website. I’m hoping that with this letter, The Town of Willimantic will find it in their hearts to restore the museum’s architecture so it’s his-tory is not buried along with time. I look forward to the following years to come as I learn about Williman-tic’s fascinating history and become a part of this activist community. I encourage those who have not visit-ed the museum to do so and donate their time to become aware of what our town has to offer. The Museum operates Friday, Saturday and Sun-day 10am-4pm and the admission fee for adults and students is $7.00, seniors $5.00 and groups rates go for $4.
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With Halloween quickly approaching and scrambling to get together a costume for upcoming festivities I was hit with the harsh reality that I was expected to forego any creativity and simply dress in the most provocative manner as possible. Now this is not a new rev-elation by any means, but for some reason this year I was particularly bothered by this fact. It could be due to the recent rise in media at-tention being given to women’s is-sues or simply my costume idea be-ing denied by those I care about and being told I “should be something more attractive” than the zombie at-tack victim I had planned. Everyone wants to look their best and I am no exception, but the idea that I must choose an unoriginal theme to be perceived as attractive saddens me. Halloween costumes for young women have become more sexual and less imagi-native. Wearing a short and low cut black dress and throwing on a pair of cat ears and calling yourself a “kitten” is commonplace, while more well thought out costumes are falling by the wayside. If you are confident enough to get dressed in a reveal-
ing outfit for Halloween then by all means go right ahead. I don’t think dressing that way for Halloween is a bad thing, but it seems like it is becoming the only option. It is dif-ficult to choose to wear a more con-servative costume when you know that you will most likely be the only
one dressed in that manner. External pressures from friends, and internal pressures of wanting to fit in make it difficult to go against the majority. On the flip side, when girls do dress in an overtly sexual manner it is not uncommon for “slut sham-ing” to occur. Girls are ridiculed for dressing how society has told them to dress in the first place. It’s a lose-lose situation. Criticized for being to cov-ered up and criticized for showing too much skin. Choosing a Halloween costume has become more stressful than it ever should be.
Guys don’t seem to have the same issues when it comes to dressing up on Halloween, which is not a sur-prise. The double standard of harshly judging a female’s outft while not car-ing about how the guy standing next to her looks is something that has been happening for a very long time and needs to be changed. So, as you choose your costume for this year, make sure it is something you feel comfortable in. It will most likely be difficult, but be yourself and wear an outfit that suits you, whatever style that may be.
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Ask any fan of comic books, video games, movies, or just things in general, and they will all be able to give you a fairly decent definition of Comic-Con. Comic-Con is a convention (or rather, an international series of conven-tions) that showcases everything from Q&A sessions with graphic novelists to cosplay competitions, from video game previews to inde-pendent film screenings. Recently, Eastern’s own Campus Activity Board put together a small conven-tion to bring together fans of an-ime, superheroes, video games, etc. I decided to check this mini Comic-Con out for myself after a recommendation from a friend. Before arriving in the Stu-dent Center last Friday, I was wor-ried that there would be about two people in attendance (not including myself and the friend I was bring-ing along). My concern stemmed from the lack of advertising I had seen for this event: every poster I found seemed to be quietly tucked away in corners, places where the adverts could not easily be seen.
To my surprise, the Student Center was bustling with activity, even dur-ing the infant hours of the event. The convention began at 9pm, and already 40 or so people were there having a great time. If people weren’t dancing or sitting amongst friends, they were standing in line waiting for an anime caricature or a custom-made coffee mug. While a good number of convention-goers waited patiently to see their face in a brand new way, the majority of peo-ple eagerly awaited the creation of a free, custom made mug. A friend of mine came away with an awesome “Empire Strikes Back” mug, imprint-ed with a phrase too vulgar for this newspaper (funny, but still vulgar). The costume contest didn’t start for a while, but there were defi-nitely some who came prepared. Most just had Batman or Superman or Cap-tain America tee-shirts accentuated with a colored cape, but a few others got into it. One young lady’s Doctor Who theme costume was just a sim-ple Tardis dress, but I’m quite certain she was holding a model Sonic Screw-driver. A young man had a black mask and cape, and with his mostly black
outfit it was difficult to tell if he was going for a custom masked vigilante or a superhero that I just didn’t rec-ognize. Others got more into it: I had trouble pinning down what a certain person was going for, but it seemed to be a Batman outfit with a motorcycle helmet to top it off. Maybe I’m not cultured enough to get the reference, but it was still an awesome costume.
For a majority of the event, the 2014 blockbuster hit Guard-ians of the Galaxy was screening in the Student Center’s theatre. It was great to see such a big turnout, and even more so everyone seemed to be really enjoying themselves. Most were conversing about the great film, but others were dancing, compar-ing caricatures, and even playing an
intense game of chess. I truly hope the Campus Activity Board can put another convention like this in the near future: one with better adver-tising and more free pizza and soda.
By Evan OrtizStaff Writer
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On the night of Saturday, October 25th, the Eastern Peform-ing Arts Departments and Drama Society presented the Phoenix New Play Series. The series featured per-formances of new short works writ-ten and directed by Eastern students. This included “Pegasus” and “Oh, Just Wait” by Robert Morgan and “How Having a Vampire Boyfriend Would REALLY Go” by Anthony Pic-cione. Each reading was performed by a small but very talented cast. It is usually hard to tell how good a play will be when you are walking into a non-professional theater production. Upon walk-ing into the student center theater, there was only a small stage and two chairs. But the audience quickly learned that these actors and actress-es did not need many props. The Phoenix New Play Series mission is to “feature student-written student-directed new works in a bare stage minimalist approach in order to fo-cus on the text itself ”, and the direc-tors, actors, and actresses certainly accomplished this. Their over-the-top performances kept the audience engaged and laughing, which was certainly welcome considering some of the serious themes and topics that were underlying in these short works. Each play was a beautiful mixture of humor and heartbreak, and without a doubt the audience was extremely impressed with all
of the writers, directors, and actors. “Pegasus” written by Rob-ert Morgan and directed by Kinde Queenan first seemed like a light story about teenage girls turning eighteen, but the twist at the end took everyone by surprise and definitely set the stage for the rest of the night. The racy and humorous “Oh, Just Wait” had everyone in the audience laughing and wondering how far they would push the bound-aries. The far-fetched and seemingly crazy characters made for a great story and hilarious plot development. And of course, how could we not have a performance about vampires? In this satirical work, writer Anthony Piccione poked fun at the relationships that existed in the widely popular Twilight Saga. While the whole vampire thing seems to be overdone, without a doubt everyone involved did a wonder-ful job and really brought to life a great short play. The acting by Han-nah Madler and Jennifer Phipps re-ally made the production spectacular. After the short plays there was a Q&A where the audience got to ask ques-tions and learn a bit more about the plays themselves and the people in-volved. The audience got to learn a little more about the production of these pieces, and everyone was cer-tainly surprised to learn that they had only been looking at these works for two weeks. Without a doubt this was a very impressive production and everyone should be encouraged to go see “South Pacific” in November.
By Christy AllenStaff Writer
Students Act in and Direct Play
Recently, the world of comic books and graphic novels have been finding it’s way onto the small screen. AMC has “The Walk-ing Dead,” the CW has “Arrow,” ABC runs “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Gotham” is on FOX, and most re-cently, “The Flash” has joined the CW. Three episodes in (as of writing this article) and the general reaction to the show has been mostly positive. Barry Allen suits up as the titular character, The Flash: a hero with the incomparable ability to run faster than any human on Earth. As-sisting Allen is a behind-the-scenes team of scientists who study the super-humans wreaking havoc on Central City. When he isn’t saving lives as The Flash, Allen works for the Central City Police Department as a forensics investigator. Here, he works with adopted father and po-lice chief Joe West and his daugh-ter/Allen’s love interest Iris West. 3 The unforgivingly fast pace of the show coincides with Allen’s inhuman speed: The pilot episode introduced nearly every conflict that will be present in the show’s pre-mier season. Each episode leaves no breathing room for the audience, which is not necessarily a detriment. The speed of each episode adds to the intensity of Allen’s super power. The first episode was a mess of quickly mentioned back stories and brushed aside characters. It has taken a few episodes for The Flash to find its foot-ing in relation to exposition and char-acters, but two weeks passed since the
premier and the CW’s newest show is really showing signs of strength. What’s great about the show is not the Flash himself, but in-stead the relationships between each character (for the most part). Allen and adopted father Joe West play off of each other well, accentuated by the fact that West knows about Al-len being the Flash. In episode three, “Things You Can’t Outrun”, viewers learn of a hidden relationship (non-romantic) between Cisco and Snow, two of the three scientists who back up the Flash. The audience learns that Cisco basically caused the death of Snow’s fiancé, who was willing to sacrifice himself to save Central City. On the other hand, Al-len’s romantic interest in childhood friend Iris West feels very forced and predictable. He’s a scrawny sci-entist and she’s dating the captain of the football team (muscular police officer Eddie Thawne). She doesn’t know that he is the Flash, and he re-fuses to tell her the truth (in his de-
fense, Joe did ask Allen to keep Iris out of it). Their friendship just feels so commonplace, so standard, that it becomes boring and repetitive. With that being said, there really isn’t much else to fault the show on (other than Daniele Panabaker’s (Snow) atrocious act-ing). The action scenes are pretty tense and exciting, the villains are unique and memorable, and the mystery behind scientist Harrison Wells’ motives will be a driving force for the rest of the season: How can he tell the future? Is he the rea-son Allen became the Flash? Why? Its questions like these that have peaked my interest (even though I had no desire to watch the show prior), and, for now at least, CW’s “The Flash” has found a new viewer.“The Flash” airs on the CW Tuesdays at 8pm, and the past three episodes are free online at cwtv.com for those interested.
By Evan OrtizStaff Writer
The Flash Hits The Ground Running
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The Flash Hits The Ground Running
Touting the biggest roster to date and a variety of new modes and features, “Super Smash Broth-ers 3DS” gives the series some much needed refinement. Don’t let the fact that this is a mobile game fool you, Smash 4 is the biggest game in the Smash Brothers franchise to date. If you’ve played any other Smash Brothers game, you should already know what to expect in Smash 4. Up to 4 video game icons battle to the death. The pace of the gameplay feels a little faster this time around, characters get tossed around just a little easier than they did in Brawl, and it’s noticeably eas-ier to get knocked off the stage. To freshen up the experience, 13 new characters have been added includ-ing Pac-Man, Little Mac, and the Animal Crossing Villager. Despite how many characters there are, ev-erything feels incredibly balanced.Unlike Brawl, there are no power-house characters that can survive ev-ery situation, and even veteran fight-ers have had their move sets edited to improve the balance of the game. Some fighters, such as Mega-Man or Duck Hunt strive by staying on the run and pelting enemies from afar.
Melee oriented fighters on the other hand such as Marth or Sonic need to constantly strive to close gaps and keep the pressure on. Each character has its own strengths and weaknesses, as well as its own distinct play style. You would think that with 48 total playable characters you’d never run out of characters to play, but to ensure that you always have something new to learn, Nintendo has added the ability to create your own fighter based off your Mii ava-tar. During some of the modes such as Classic and Smash Run, you’ll earn various new moves and equip-ment for them. You can use these to customize their move set, stats, and appearance. You can even unlock moves and equipment for the regu-lar characters, though understand-ably you can only use custom load outs in single player or local-play. There are also tons of game modes in Smash 4 to ensure you get dozens of hours out of it. This includes a refined version of Clas-sic Mode, a horde mode known as Multi-Man Smash, and Smash Run. In Smash Run, the battles take place on extraordinarily large maps known as labyrinths. In these maps, you’re
timed to fight monsters, encounter boss battles, and play through ran-dom mini-games in order to achieve various upgrades for your charac-ter. Once the time runs out, a final event will take place allowing each of the fighters to use all of the skills they just earned. This can be a varia-tion of a brawl, or something else like multi-man smash or a race. The mode is definitely a cool new addi-
tion, but the final event almost al-ways feels too short and rather anti-climactic. Playing this mode is also one of the quickest ways to earn new gear and moves for your characters. When Brawl took the series online for the first time in 2008, it was haphazard to say the least. There was a very limited amount of options and matches were often plagued by lag. Thankfully, Smash 4 has a variety of
both casual and competitive modes. Matches are usually easy to find and run smooth with minimal lag. “Smash Brothers 3DS” is a must have for any 3DS owners or fans of the franchise. No longer is Smash Brothers a game oriented solely for couch play, Smash 4 does an excellent job of highlighting the competitive nature of the series.
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Super Smash Bros. 3DS Debut
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The Reparatory Dance Troup (RDT,) is a non-competitive dance club on a campus. Anyone is permitted to join and at the start of this semester, more than 50 students showed up to the first meeting. The e-board is made up of four seniors and one junior, all of whom have been members of the club since their freshman year. Senior, Aubrey Mazur, who plays the role of secretary, is expecting a stress free and fun place of release for her last year with RDT. Accord-ing to Mazur, during her days as a freshman, the club was “very in-timidating and there were a bunch of clicks,” so she wasn’t always con-fident. Now, with a whole new e-board, there aren’t any clicks and ev-eryone helps each other out which is “building better relationships with the club members.” After her graduate departure, she has hopes that the team will maintain the same momentum and mentality that they have now. “I want them to stay strong as a team and keep their com-mitment as a group,” said Mazur. At the start of RDT, there were only 25 girls that made up the dance troupe. There has since been 80 plus students that haven taken part in just a single academic year. This isn’t too hard to imagine since the non-competitive club is open to anyone interested and no dance experience is needed. The club has turned into quite a success over time, which is proven by the fact
that for two years straight, their fall and spring showcases were sold out. Junior Bethany Salvemini, who serves as the troup’s public relations officer, stated that every semester, they see more and more relationships being made and close friendships formed among the dancers. “RDT is an outlet for me to get away from life and the stress of school, and just to have fun danc-ing with the other members.” As stated above, RDT is a club that takes people from different dance back-grounds, of all different skill levels, and unites them through dance. Bonds are formed and long lasting friendships are made when the dif-ferent styles and experiences come together. “It’s awesome to see how much this organization has grown, and I look forward to next year being just as successful,” said Salvemini.
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Eastern’s Reparatory Dance Troup
Editor’s Note
Eastern’s RDT will have their next performance on November 22nd in Shafer Hall. The event will take
place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Lord of the Rings is one of the most well respected works of fantasy ever. You’d think that all of the great material the series of-fers would provide the base for great video games, yet somehow, the mar-ket hasn’t been blessed with many decent Lord of the Rings game since perhaps the days of the licensed movie games. Thankfully, “Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor” isn’t just a good Lord of the Rings game, it’s a remarkable open world action game. “Shadow of Mordor” is an action RPG with an open world, fantastic combat, and a ton of con-tent. Combat in “Shadow of Mordor” works similar to games like Assas-sins Creed or Batman: Arkham City. You’re constantly facing entire hordes of enemies at a time, and the games reactive combat system gives you tons of flexibility in countering, slash-ing, stunning, and executing your en-emies. Enemies also aren’t complete push overs, and don’t give you a lot of room to breathe. The combat system may first seem simple, but since large fights are constantly driving situa-tions out of hand, so you’ll constantly need to be alert. Sometimes fights will need to be retreated from or avoided entirely so that you can evaluate the situation. There are also many options to play stealthily, you can trigger an explosion to create a distraction, or set a pack of ferocious caragors on your enemy rather than confronting them. Being careless will lead to death, and death will lead to the promotion
of enemy captains, as well as the re-cruitment of entirely new captains. One of the most interesting and revolutionary things “Shadow of Mordor” has going for it is the captain system, which lets you view Sauron’s army based on their rank. Each cap-tain feels like a miniature boss battle, each one has a varying amount of strengths and weaknesses based on his rank. These captains also have their own goals and agendas. Often times you’ll run into them dynami-cally throughout the game world, other times you’ll get the chance to intervene with them in one of sev-eral events in which they try to gain power. Sometimes they’ll be ex-ecuting traitors, sometimes they’ll be feasting, and sometimes they’ll even fight each other. When you eventu-ally gain the ability to mind control the Uruks, you can use captains as a means to sabotage and backstab each other. Each officer also has a history that develops the more you encoun-ter them. If you defeat a captain in battle, he may comment on how you scarred him. If you fled, he may mock you as a coward. This makes fight-ing them a blast as they almost al-ways have an interesting personality.
The story in “Shadow of Mordor” is interesting, but the game doesn’t quite do a proper job of en-gaging you in it. It follows Talion and Celembrimbor, two interesting char-acters with deep backgrounds who share the same body. Unfortunately, the plot presses onward at such a quick pace, it never really takes the time to fully explain some of the major events that are referenced in the story. While I loved learning even more about the Lord of the Rings universe, I had a hard time seeing how the events cov-ered in the game connected to the plots of the books, and by the end of the journey, I was still left asking my-self what exactly I accomplished, and how it related to the rest of the trilogy. While it may fall short on some of its narrative aspects, “Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor” succeeds in nearly every other aspect. It’s a gor-geous, beast of a game that is teem-ing with content. This is certainly the Lord of the Rings game fans have been craving, but it would be a shame if only Tolkien fans shared in the love. All fans of open world games should do themselves a fa-vor and play “Shadow of Mordor.”
By Sean SayersAssistant A&E Editor
Shadow of Mordor: Best Lord of The Rings Game?
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Throwback Thursday:Halloween Edition
Mae Ehrnfelt, Eastern junior, as a bumblebee in 1996.Peter Berry, Eastern senior, as a
zombie football player in 2000.
Deanna Jimenez, Eastern junior,as a cat in 1997.
Megan Davis, Eastern senior,as a genie in 1999.
Emily Shields, Eastern junior,as a cow in 1996.
Jessica DeFelice, Eastern junior, as an angel in 1997
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Squirrels PleaBy Zach Watson
Stuttered foot stepsStrut near my nutsWho said you could step onto my prop-erty?Not usGuardians of Eastern Connecticut State University(A secluded galaxy in Northeast Willi-mantic) Frantic are the fringesFrom your notebooksLeft on our lawn just mowed
If you spoke our language you would be told“BUZZ OFF! GO AWAY!This is our land,Christopher ColumbusCheck your balance,Watch your income plummet” As squirrelsWe deal with none of itSo fortunate You have a student center, library, and dormUse it
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By Nick AconforaSenior Staff Writer October: More Wild Than Normal
Men’s Soccer Loses to Babson College
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Two years ago, Major League Baseball added a second wild card spot. Why add another playoff spot? The 2014 Post-Season answers that question. The Royals and the Giants reached the World Series. Although the Royals were the first wild card, it didn’t quite feel like it. The Royals have been one of the worst teams in baseball the past decade. They haven’t reached the playoffs since 1985. In fact, they were trailing 7-3 in the eighth in-ning of the first round game against the Oakland A’s. After scoring three runs in the eighth and one in the ninth, the Royals won the game in the bottom of the twelfth. Maybe it was a fluke. The Royals traveled to Anaheim to take on the Angels, the best team in baseball. They sweeped them. The Royals then made it to the ALCS and sweep the Baltimore Orioles. The underdog team clinched its first World Series appearance since 1985, when they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals. The San Francisco Gi-ants had to travel to Pittsburgh in a hostile environment. After a Bran-don Crawford grand slam, PNC Park and the Pirates had nothing to cheer about. The Giants moved on and defeated the Washington
Nationals in four games. The Giants then took on the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS. Although it felt like a seven game series with every game coming down to the wire, the Giants defeated the Cardinals in five games. In game five in San Francisco, Tra-vis Ishikawa hit a walk-off home run that sent the Bay Area into a frenzy. Although both of these teams are comprised of very different players, they are similar teams overall. The Royals have been the surprise this post-season. No one ex-pected this team to make it this far, but the bottom line is, they know how to win. This team relies on its speed, great defense, timely hitting, and its shutdown bullpen. During the regu-lar season, Kansas City was very aver-age as a team in almost every statistic. However, they were fourth in batting average as they hit .263 as a team. They don’t normally hit for power, but they have shown some pop in the post-season. What the Royals do well is manufacture runs. They put pressure on the defense by stealing bases, laying down perfect bunts, and as Willie Keeler once said, “hit em’ where they ain’t.” The back end of the bullpen has been nearly unstoppable. The trio of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Da-vis, and Greg Holland, has combined
Peyton Manning: The Making of a Legend
By Zach HandSenior Staff Writer
Eastern Men’s soccer was dealt a crushing blow this weekend as they not only lost their contention for Little East Conference regular-season champions, but also Eastern’s first loss away from home to Babson.With a win on Sunday, UMass Boston clinched its first ever LEC regular-season title, taking away the opportunity for a fourth straight champion year for Eastern. Eastern’s Sunday game against Babson started off with a quick pace with both teams getting shots and saves. Goalie Greg Walton made all four of his saves in the first half and came up big for the War-riors in keeping this a tight game. Eastern had two scoring chances in the first and second half, but neither Xavier Doran nor Nicholas Warren could manage to get an edge over Babson goalkeeper, Stephen Donato. Late in the first half Bab-son began to show life and shoot-ing from the edge of the six-yard box, managed to break through and get it past Walton. With two in-juredw players, the Warriors came into the game struggling and with one final attempt at a goal in the late minutes of the game by freshman Bobby Gardner; Eastern finished the game in a shutout; 1-0. This marks
the third straight shutout for East-ern. Overall Babson held the edge the entire game, getting 23 shots on goal compared to Eastern’s 7. Eastern hosts Plymouth State University at 1 p.m. on Satur-day, November 1 in the last regular season game. Eastern has won 8 straight over Plymouth, but a loss this weekend could be devastat-ing. To keep their playoff hopes alive and better their chances in the championship, a win this com-ing weekend is not optional. East-ern and Plymouth’s last meeting was at Nevers Field in 2012 for the LEC Semifinals where the War-riors defeated the Panthers 2-1.
“To keep their playoff hopes
alive and better their chances in the champion-ship, a win this
coming weekend is not optional.”
for 36 total strikeouts and an ERA just under 1.00. The three flame-throwing right-handers have caused prob-lems for each and every team they’ve faced in the playoffs. Overall, every-thing has clicked for this young Roy-als team and manager Ned Yost has done a great job since spring training. The Giants are a very simi-lar team, although they’ve been here before. San Francisco won the World Series in 2010 and 2012. Manager Bruce Bochy knows how it feels to make it this far and has his team pre-pared once again. The past two World Series, it’s been about Tim Lincecum. The righty is still on the Giants ros-ter, but it’s a different pitcher making a name for himself this post-season. Madison Bumgarner is 3-1 with a 1.40 ERA during the 2014 post-season. The lefty has been dominant striking out 33 and only walking six. The World Series MVP of 2012, Pablo Sandoval, is having another great post-season. The third baseman is hitting .346 with 18 hits in 12 games. Then there’s Hunter Pence. Although his type of game is quite outlandish, he puts up great numbers. Pence has a good bat in the middle of the order and plays an above average right field. The Royals swept the Gi-ants back in August. They even de-
With a second quarter pass to De-mariyus Thomas in the right corner of the end zone on third and goal, Peyton Manning etched his name into the NFL record books on Oc-tober 18th. This touchdown pass, which expanded Denver’s lead to 20-3 with just over 3 minutes be-fore Halftime, was the 509th of Manning’s illustrious career, break-ing Brett Favre’s all time record. Manning, who entered the NFL in 1998 as the number 1 overall draft pick of the Indianapolis Colts, has taken a long road in his quest to become the NFL’s all time pass-ing touchdown leader. In his rookie season at age 22, he threw 28 inter-ceptions, a league high, as his Colts finished the season 3-13. However, this would prove to be the worst year of his professional career, as he went on to lead the Colts to 7 AFC South division champion-ships, throwing 399 touchdowns to 198 interceptions in his India-napolis career, including 49 in 2004, which set the single season record at the time. Under Manning’s lead-ership, the Colts won their second Super Bowl championship in fran-chise history, defeating the Chicago Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI. But in 2011, it looked like Man-ning’s career may be over, due to a serious neck injury and subsequent surgery prior to the season. The Colts struggled in his absence, go-ing 2-14 and securing the number 1 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, which they used on quarterback An-drew Luck. As a result, Manning was released by the team he had helped bring to prominence on March 7,
2012. Instantly, he became the most coveted free agent in NFL history. In the weeks after his release, Manning visited several teams that were searching for a quarterback. Eventually, he chose to sign with the Denver Broncos, a team that had reached the playoffs the previ-ous season for the first time since 2005. With the signing of Manning, the Broncos instantly became a Su-per Bowl contender. However, they would lose in the AFC Divisional Playoff round to the eventual Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens. In 2013 Manning took his game to another level by throwing for 55 touchdowns and 5477 yards, both NFL records. Behind Manning’s MVP performance, the Broncos scored an NFL record 609 points, but were de-feated by the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII. The Super Bowl loss was the 12th post season loss of Manning’s career, an NFL record.
In 2014 Manning appears to have returned to his dominant form of last season, throwing for 23 touchdown passes and only 3 inter-ceptions through the first 7 games of the season. Before he broke the all-time record for passing touchdowns, Manning was already legendary. Now, his most recent accomplish-ment has solidified his place among the NFL’s all time greats for eternity.
“Manning, who entered the NFL in 1998 as the num-ber 1 overall draft pick of
the Indianapolis Colts, has taken a long road in his
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feated the Bumgarner in that series sweep. However, the post-season is a completely different animal. In game one of the World Series, Bumgarner had everything working. The Giants ace threw seven complete innings giving up only one run on three hits and struck out five. On the other end, the Giants scored seven runs on eleven hits. Pence had two hits including a two-run home run in the first inning to build on the one run lead to begin the game. In game two, the Royals rookie and hard throwing right-hander, Yorda-no Ventura, gave up a leadoff home run to Gregor Blanco. From there, the Royals took matters into their own hands. They scored seven runs on ten hits. Longtime Royal Billy Butler had two hits and two RBIs. After a day off traveling to San Francisco, the two teams took the field for game three. This one was a pitcher’s dual as Jeremy Guthrie threw five innings giving up two runs and Tim Hudson 5.2 innings giving up three runs. Luckily for the Royals, the bullpen did it again. After taking a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the sixth, Kansas City held on to take a 2-1 se-ries lead. Game four and five were the complete opposite. After taking a 4-1 lead, the Royals began to crumble.
The Giants scored ten unanswered runs and won the game 11-4. Hunter Pence finished with five runs batted in while the panda, Pablo Sandoval, finished with four runs batted in. It was the rookie Brandon Finnegan, who pitched in this year’s college world series, who gave up five runs and the lead. Gave five wasn’t any-thing different. The Royals couldn’t get anything going against the Gi-ants’ ace Madison Bumgarner. The lefty threw a complete game shutout, striking out eight and walking none. In the final off day of the 2014 season, both teams trav-eled back to Kansas City. Game six was a sea of blue. The Royals scored eight runs in the first three innings as Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer helped the Royals extend the series and win the game 10-0. Whether it was the Giants winning their third World Series in five years, or the Royals shocking all of baseball, both teams more than deserved to win the World Series. It proves that any time can win it.
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player and now as he’s evolved and is a senior, he’s got to be that leader to step into the void that the seniors left last season.” Geitner also added that Yarborough would be another one of the players in the “bunch” of players the team will rely to play well and consistently this season. The Eastern men’s bas-ketball team will open up at home November 15th in the an-nual Eastern Tip-Off Tournament.
Eastern Women’s Basketball Ready To Take The Next Step
By Nick AconforaSenior Staff Writer
Eastern Men’s Basketball: Young, But Talented
By Nick AconforaSenior Staff Writer
The senior class for the Eastern Connecticut State Univer-ity women’s basketball team has had its ups and downs. When Kristina Forsman, Taylor McBride, Shannon McCourt, and Danyelle Rodriguez came to Eastern as freshmen, they weren’t sure what to expect. Fresh-men year was tough. The team fin-ished with eight wins and 17 losses, including a 4-10 record in the Little East Conference. The 2012-2013 season brought signs of improve-ment as they added some talented freshmen including Jill Ritrosky and Erin Brooks. The Warriors finished 10-16 and 8-6 in the conference. Last season, the Warriors continued to grow. Even with injuries to Forsman and McCourt, the team finished 18-9 and 9-5 in the conference. This year, Head Coach Denise Bierly and her team plan on taking the next step, winning the conference and reaching the NCAA tournament. Bierly expects her senior class to be a big part of the team’s success. With Forsman coming off of a torn ACL injury and McCourt a shoulder injury that required surgery, Coach Bierly has been im-pressed with how both women have looked in the first two weeks of practice. “We’re looking for them to come back and resume the form that they had before they got injured,” Bierly said. “I think Kristina (Fors-man) is someone that is a barometer of how this team goes,” she added. Forsman has shown her leadership on and off the floor throughout her career at Eastern. She’s the type of player you want with the ball at the end of a game. “Shannon is a spark kind of player, high-energy, and high
athletic ability, could score points in bunches, and that’s what we’re look-ing for her to do,” Bierly said about McCourt. She also commented on her senior guard Taylor McBride, who is another high-energy player. Bierly said McBride changes the tem-po and speed of the game and can be a lockdown defender on the opposing point guard. Danyelle Rodriguez has the ability to shoot at a high percent-age from beyond the arc. Last season, Rodriguez knocked down 18 threes playing under ten minutes per game. This season gives Bierly one of the most experienced teams she’s had in a long time. However, it’s not just the experience that has her ex-cited. “If you look at the roster, I can go through about ten kids that I can vividly recall them helping us win basketball games last year,” she said. Although as of now, Bierly says it’s ex-tremely important to figure out who works well with who. With so many pieces to the puzzle, she mentioned two players that may open some eyes. Bierly says junior Erin Brooks plays much bigger than her size and that she
has the ability to be a top scorer on a deep team. She’s also been impressed with sophomore Lexis Foster, who had a lot of solid games inside last season. “Both were more defensive stoppers and rebounders, but I think maybe they can be that fourth scor-er. Although that fourth scorer will rotate game to game,” Bierly added. With the roster and ex-perience that Coach Denise Bierly has this season, there’s no doubt that this team can accomplish a lot. “Our non-conference schedule this year is very challenging, but on paper, our goal is to win the regular season in the conference and make a run in the conference tournament and get the an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. For me, it’s all about the seniors this year. They stuck with the program and went through a turbulent time, they’ve evolved, and I want them to have that moment when they can win a championship.” Eastern will begin its sea-son Saturday, November 15th in the annual Eastern Tip-Off Tournament.
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Following the 2013-2014 season, the Eastern Connecticut State University men’s basketball team graduated four seniors. Two of those four seniors accounted for almost 40% of the Eastern of-fense last year. Mike Garrow was the conference Player-of-the-Year and Brian Salzillo was a first team all-conference selection. The War-riors will enter this season with only one senior, Brandon Yarborogh. With such a young team, head coach Bill Geitner is hoping the players returning this season can take valuable experiences from last season. In terms of a leader, Geitner was unsure, as the team is only a couple weeks into the preseason. “It’s a very important question we need to have an answer for. Michael was our vocal leader, able to bring guys together during good times and bad times,” he said about Garrow. With the loss of two great offensive play-ers, Geitner also believes the scoring will need to become a group effort. “From a scoring standpoint, I think we’re going to ask a group of guys to hopefully become more efficient on the offensive end,” he noted. Unfortunately for the
team, they have been hit with a small injury bug in the preseason. With a few minor injuries early this preseason, Geitner is still uncertain of how deep this year’s team is. “I think we have a nice combination of returners and new guys, so we’re excited to have everyone back healthy because that’s the way we’re all going to get better.” Last season, the Warriors relied heavily on their backcourt, which consisted of Trachone Preston, Salzillo, and Garrow. With a young team overall, the Warriors may have to rely on different players. How-ever, Preston, Kevin Leumene and slashing forward Hugh Lindo could be the bulk of the Eastern offense. Although Geitner did say that Preston is the only returning player that has proved to be a consis-tent scorer. This may be the first time in Preston’s career that he’s the player opposing teams strictly focus on. “As he evolves and his game evolves and guys above him have graduated, he’s taken on a bigger role each and every year and I can anticipate that again because his game has grown,” Geitner said of his junior point guard. He also said that Preston would be focused on getting his teammates involved.
Leumene, a junior from Stamford, Connecticut, has had an interesting career. After being injured throughout the majority of his fresh-man year, he came off the bench last season and added a spark to the East-ern lineup. When Brian Salzillo went down due to an illness, Leumene was added to the starting lineup. He wasn’t consistent, but this year, Geit-ner is expecting him to take the next step. “The natural next step is for Kevin to slide into the role of being a consistent producer offensively and defensively,” Geitner said of his guard. Lindo opened a lot of eyes his freshman year with his athletic ability. At the end of the season, he cracked the record books for re-bounds in a single season. This sea-son, the team will look for Lindo to diversify his game. “We told him to work on his offensive skill de-velopment over the off-season. Now, his role expands and it would be nice to see offensive growth as we will need him,” Geitner said. The one and only senior, Brandon Yarborough, has made an impact on the program since the day he walked on campus his fresh-man year. “Brandon has been a vocal
“I think we have a nice combination of returners
and new guys, so we’re excited to have everyone
back healthy because that’s the way we’re all go-
ing to get better.”
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