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Wake up, Final Four is at the door

Niners celebrate Charlotte’s Mens Soccer Team entering the Final Four in a dramatic shootout against UCONN on Sunday. Students swarmed Chancellor Phil Dubouis’s house after the boys returned to cam-pus requesting extra student transportation to the Final Four events. Entering campus the team was greeting by a police escort and a couple hundred students. Photos Corbin Peters

Ciera Choate, Eden Creamer and

Malcolm Carter

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Over 100 fans gathered together at the Wachovia Field House Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, to show the players their support from the men’s soccer team after their win against UConn. After the social media-or-ganized celebration, students marched to Chancellor Philip Dubois’s house to advo-cate for student transportation to Hoover, Ala. where Charlotte will face Creighton in the semifi nals of the College Cup.

“We’re going to Alabama. We’re going to the College Cup. We couldn’t make it up to UConn to support the team there, so we’re going to be here to support them when they get back,” said Lewis Morgan, a Niner Nation Gold member.

Niner Nation Gold members, who used of Facebook and Twitter to share their message, organized the rally.

“Forty!”“NINERS!!!” The crowd decorat-

ed with balloons, signs and streamers screamed back as the bus fi lled with the men’s soccer team pulled up with their police escort. Signs that read “NINER NATION IS BEHIND YOU” and “Beat Creighton” were held up as the crowd cheered for their team. After recovering from initial surprise, Charlotte’s soccer team quickly joined the celebration.

“This is incredible. I’ve been here for

fi ve years now and never expect some-thing like this [fan’s welcome],” said de-fender Tyler Duncan.

He wasn’t the only player that felt the love from the fans.

“It’s huge. We had no idea they were coming. It’s pretty cool coming into cam-pus with a security escort. We had no idea these people were coming,” said center-midfi elder Tyler Gibson.

The 49ers Head Coach Jeremy Gunn made sure to thank the fans for coming out to support the team as they arrived on campus.

“Thank you so much to everybody, you know what, last weekend when you guys were all out there cheering us on against Akron it was an amazing experi-ence,” he said.

“Today was another great experience. Now you guys have to pack your bags and get down to Alabama.”

The game may not have been on 49er soil, but fans gathered around their TVs and computers to watch the live feed of the game, which ended in a shootout after double over time.

Charles Rodriguez followed Tyler Gib-son, Donnie Smith and Isaac Cowles with the penalty kick that sealed the win for the team.

“It was ridiculous. We just felt like we were going to win. Even when the other team scored we knew,” said Jonna Handra, a senior at UNC Charlotte who watched the live feed of the game.

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Charlotte Men’s Soccer Road to the Final Four

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Dec. 9(TBD)

49er fans showed their pride, greet-ing the team with glowsticks, silly string, pompoms and vuvuzelas, the offi cial horn 2010 FIFA World Cup. Amongst the sea of 49er green was one fan so devoted that he wore a full body green spandex suit.

“I’m wearing this to class tomorrow… I have my thong on [underneath]. 49er’s thong of course. I think it’s awesome [that the team made it to the fi nal four], I think they should recruit me and I can play,” Green Man said, “With my suit on.”

After the welcoming home of the Char-

lotte 49ers students marched to the chan-cellor’s house to convince him to provide transportation to students wanting to at-tend the game in Alabama.

“We are working on trying to get there Friday,” said Vice President of Niner Na-tion Gold, Micah Powers. “We don’t want to miss the basketball game on Saturday so we’re working on getting down and back in time for the game.”

“And now you know,” said Chancel-lor Dubois as he answered the door to a throng of 49ers sporting his UNC

Chancellor Dubois wakes up to student crowd requesting transportation to

Hoover, Ala. for men’s soccer Final Four

Chancellor Phillip Dubois greeted students in his Stake Your Claim pajamas late Sunday nightafter the Charlotte Men’s Soccer Team returned from their match against UConn.

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LARCENYNov. 29• Fretwell Building, property removed without permission.Nov. 30• Barnhardt Lane, unsecured property removed.• Holshouser Hall, secured bicycle was taken from bike rack.Dec. 1• Macy Building, attempted to remove laptop.Dec. 2• Sanford Hall, unsecured laptop re-moved from common area.

BREAKING AND ENTERINGNov. 30• Hawthorne Hall, subject tried to gain entry by prying window screen open.

HIT AND RUNNov. 29• Lot 5, vehicle damaged while parked and unattended.• Van Landingham Road, vehicle dam-aged while parked and unattended.

BURGLARYDec. 1• Hunt Village Lane, property/laptop removed without consent.

VANDALISMNov. 30• Union Deck, vehicle damaged while parked and unoccupied.Dec. 1• North Deck, graffi ti sprayed on the elevator.

ARRESTDec. 2• Lynch Hall, underage alcohol con-sumption, resist, delay or obstruct.

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Within Woodward Hall and behind the doors of the biology labs there are many ex-periments at work, including oysters.

Dr. Inna Sokolava, a UNC Charlotte professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Biology Department, works with oys-ters and clams as a part of her research.

“We are a pretty diverse department. We have people who study all sorts of things: microbes, plants, fungi, inverte-brate and vertebrate models. We have a lot of environmental research,” said Sokolava.

Sokolava’s research looks at two things: local stressors such as trace metals like cadmium and copper and their effects on oysters and the ecosystem as well as the ef-fects of ocean acidifi cation, the ‘evil twin’ of global climate change.

“When CO2 or carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere some dissolves into the ocean and through a simple chemical reac-tion it turns into carbonic acid,” said Soko-lava.

When this happens, the Ph level low-ers and the water becomes more acidic. Normally ocean water is more on the basic rather than acidic. The amount of CO2 in the ocean is directly proportional to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

“Low Ph is a big stressor, we still have a long way to go before the ocean Ph level is more acidic. Before it was 8.2, today’s ocean Ph level is 8.1 and while that does not seem like a big difference, it is. By 2100 we are thinking it will be about 7.7 in a moder-ate scenario. We will lose a lot of organisms such as shellfi sh and coral who have cal-cium carbonate skeletons,” said Sokolava.

Sokolava looks at how all these things affect life such as oysters and clams. She uses the organisms and recreates the ocean of 2100 right in the labs.

“We have a collaborator in Pittsburgh he studies enamel formation, and he is looking at the shells oysters build and how ocean acidifi cation effects that. We com-pound the effects of multiple stressors on the oysters and how it affects them,” said Sokolava.

They create their own ocean water using ocean salt and get the oysters from oyster farms as well as the coast.

They are currently using oysters about 1-to-2-years-old but have in the past used oysters that were 3-to-4-years-old.

“What we often fi nd is when the mul-tiple stressors are present the combined effects are much stronger than a single stressor event,” said Sokolava.

In the wild oysters can live up to fi ve or six years on average however some can live up to 10 or 12 years.

Clams tend to live longer at an average of six to seven years, with some living up to 40 years.

“We look at how it affects population abundance, the food chain as well as the molecular levels of the organism,” said So-kolava.

Oysters and clams are fi lter feeders in the lab they are fed algae. In the wild they are known for helping water stay clean.

“Around 90 percent of the wild oyster population are gone and some ecosystems are past the point of no return. This in-cludes North Carolina’s oysters,” said So-kolava.

Sokolava studied in Russia, where she received her Ph.D from the Zoological In-stitute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia in Zoology.

She later was looking for faculty posi-tions and had an interview at UNC Char-lotte.

“I liked the area and the university, so it seemed like a good choice, and it was,” said Sokolava.

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After World War II, high demand for education geared towards veterans sparked in the United States. UNC Charlotte origi-nally opened as one of 14 evening college centers in North Carolina, and was opened with the intention of providing an educa-tion to veterans.

The university recently participated in a study called “Completing the Mission: A Pilot Study of Veteran Students’ Progress Toward Degree Attainment in the Post 9/11 Era.” The study focused on the way uni-versities handle veteran affairs after Sept. 11, 2001, and the average achievement of veterans receiving funding through the GI Bill. Operation College Promise and the Pat Tillman Foundation were responsible for the report.

UNC Charlotte was one of seven uni-versities who participated in the study, the others being Mississippi State University, University of South Florida, the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Montclair State University, Texas State University and Arizona State University.

Logan Cason, coordinator for Veteran Students Outreach at UNC Charlotte, says that it is great that UNC Charlotte was in-cluded in this study, and administration at the university is interested in looking more closely at this.

“It’s a pretty big deal as veterans are

a hot topic and very little has been done previously to measure their success rates,” said Cason. “UNC Charlotte is on the fore-front of this type of research and the way we support our veterans.”

The study reports that 523,244 veterans have taken advantage of the GI Bill since August 2009. Currently an estimated 1,000 veterans are enrolled at UNC Charlotte.

Findings were reported for grade point average (GPA), percent of students earning credits, retention rate and programs facili-tated for veterans.

While, according to the study, there is no expected difference between the aver-age GPA of veterans and that of traditional students, there is a notable correlation be-tween the GPA of veterans and their reten-tion rate at the university. The study con-cluded that the highest retention rate, 85.6 percent, was found among students whose GPAs were greater than 3.0, while the low-est retention rate, 46.9 percent, had stu-dents with GPAs less than 2.0.

The study also asserts that the programs available to veteran students at a university affect retention. A 2010 National Survey of Student Engagement found that there is a “need for campuses to adapt [to] the specif-ic needs of a student veteran population,” according to the study.

As more studies such as this are done, it is possible that services at the university will improve for not only veterans but all non-traditional students.

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Veteran students enrolled

Other students enrolled

Arizona State University

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UNC Charlotte

Mississippi State University

Montclair State University

Texas State University

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Breakdown of veterans enrolled at universities involved in the study

* Numbers are in thousands

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded UNC Charlotte $50,000 through the Cen-tralina Council of Governments (CCOG).

The grant is part of the $4.9 million award that is included in the federal HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Plan-ning grant. The Urban Institute, College of Arts and Architecture and the Offi ce of Metropolitan Studies and Extended Aca-demic programs will all receive individual grants from this award.

The metropolitan studies offi cials say they plan to use the grant to conduct a study on the affordable housing market in Charlotte and the 14 surrounding counties.

According to the College of Arts and Ar-chitecture their grant money will be used to provide urban design expertise to CCOG’s CONNECT regional visioning project.

UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute will manage the collection of data for the mod-els the consortium plans to use in the sus-tainability plan. Ciera Choate

UNC Charlotte’s Model UN delegates returned from a recent competition where they brought home two of the three Out-standing Delegation Awards, an Honorable Mention Delegation Award, a Position Pa-per Award and 17 delegates won individual awards. The Model UN has never brought home this many awards from a conference.

Forty-eight universities attended the conference with a total of about 700 stu-dent delegates. Ciera Choate

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Lauren [email protected]

“Stake Your Claim,” our slogan tells us and that’s just what UNC Charlotte fi ne arts student Bradley Tucker had set out to do. Unfortunately, what the slogan doesn’t tell Tucker is that what he deems his legacy won’t remain at UNC Charlotte much lon-ger.

As part of an independent study last spring, Tucker spent a semester working closely with his professor on designing, cre-ating and learning the art of sculpture. He took his acquired knowledge and decided to apply it, just as professors are always en-couraging students to do.

Re-designing the three pick axes that were previously displayed on campus be-came Tucker’s ambition. According to Tucker, after having trashed the $30,000 worth of steel, UNC Charlotte had no more use for them. So, he took it upon himself to make use of them.

After spending $1,200 of his own mon-ey, over 50 hours of labor and getting the appropriate permission, Tucker’s mas-terpiece fi nally took its place outside the Storrs building.

The three pick axes were repainted black

and relocated by Tucker himself after the spring semester ended. They were rede-signed at an angle to appear as though they were falling in on each other.

The problem, according to Tucker, is that he feels his art is not being recognized.

“I don’t think any recognition has been given to me at all,” said Tucker. “I think a lot of the people at school and in the archi-tectural program think the school did it. I don’t really understand why I never got any recognition for it.”

Tucker says he tried placing a sign in the ground to credit his work, but the sign was removed.

On top of that, Tucker says, the sculpture will be removed after only a year. The life expectancy, however, is a total of 15 to 20 years.

“It’s not like it’s falling apart, it looks the same way it looks when I put it up,” said Tucker.

According to Tucker, other art students and alumnus feel the same way; that their artistic presence on campus is too short-lived.

If the sculpture is removed, Tucker says, he’s had inquires about moving the pick axes to the center city building downtown and might have to do that.

UNC Charlotte receives $50,000 grant

Model UN brings home awards

UNC Charlotte part of national study on veterans

Student outraged by removal of pick-axe sculpture

Oysters bred on campus

Source: “Completing the Mission: A Pilot Study of Veteran Students’ Progress Toward Degree Attainment in the Post 9/11 Era”Graphic by Eden Creamer


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A crashed car, body bags and crime tape encompassed a grassy area by Belk Tower this past week. Posters with “Booze it and lose it” are staked alongside, while students slowed their walk to get a better view.

This set up was put in place as a part of the “Booze it and lose it” campaign, a state-wide campaign sponsored by the Gover-nor's Highway Safety Program that runs from Dec. 3, 2011, through Jan. 2, 2012.

The campaign is organized by UNC Charlotte students and the UNC Char-lotte Police and Public Safety department. Campus Police attended the offi cial kick-off event Dec. 1 in Winston Salem and the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Candle-light Vigil in Raleigh Dec. 2.

The somewhat graphic nature of the

staging was set up in hopes of raising awareness about the dangers of driving drunk. Offi cer Jerry Lecomte says he un-derstands the importance of its message.

“Every year countless lives are lost to alcohol related collisions during the holi-days,” he said. “Our goal would be to raise awareness and have all of our students re-turn safely for our Spring 2012 semester in January.”

Offi cer Lecomte, with the help of fellow Offi cer Earl Smith, manned an information booth for students to see.

“[We] found the display to be well re-ceived including several students sharing personal experiences of friends or fam-ily members they had lost or who were in-jured due to alcohol related crashes,” said Lecomte.

To help implement their plan of action, several UNC Charlotte students were re-cruited. Bradley Tucker, a UNC Charlotte senior and fi ne arts student, was one of them.

“I've had multiple friends killed that were really good people, and they died way before their time because they were intoxi-

cated or the driver of the other car was in-toxicated,” said Tucker.

Tucker has worked with the “Booze it and lose it” campaign for three years now, but will have to depart after next year due to his graduation. He has aided the cam-paign visually by heading up the design of the display. The car set out there last week was a donation that Tucker acquired through a personal connection with a com-pany, Hunter Towing. The car was not al-tered in any way, just placed in an area that Tucker says he knew would be noticed.

“I think its very important that people are reminded of the consequences of drink-ing and driving, especially the younger generation of people that go to school here because they're tempted a lot,” said Tucker.

“They need to know that it's not just getting a DWI. It's not just spending a night in jail; you're losing your life or you killing some-body else and, it's very preventable."

To add to the visual, Tucker got a hold of some body bags from a local morgue to fi ll with leaves and place by the car. There were even actors present to lie in the body bags Wednesday, Nov. 30 from 2 until 3 p.m., surrounded by the crime scene tape that remained there after the performance.

"It's all worth it if we at least save one life," said Tucker. "I think it's working somehow it's getting the message across."

To get involved with the program, stu-dents can contact UNC Charlotte Campus Police or Bradley Tucker.

Crashing the party

Actors were present at the car accident scene to draw attention to the display. Some of the actors hung out of the car, while others lay in body bags on the ground near the accident.Photos courtsey of UNC Charlotte Police and Public Safety department

Campus Police hold a demonstration to show the dangers of drinking

and driving


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UNC Charlotte has now begun plans for the new Phase X residence hall and the new resident dining hall in South Village.

The Phase X residence hall is sched-uled to open for students to move in July 1, 2013. The budget for the new residence hall totals over $30 million. Project manager, Tracy Randazzo works for Clark-Nexsen, an international architecture fi rm.

“I coordinate the team over here. We have the architects and engineering over here and we work with Stewart Engineer-ing who does the on site work,” said Ran-dazzo.

The residence hall will be built in close proximity to Laurel, Spruce and Lynch Halls and will keep the university design aesthetics. Phase X is planned to be the “sister building” of Phase IX’s residence hall, which was later re-named Spruce Hall.

“We designed the Phase IX’s residence hall before. We’ve been over near that site for a while. Lynch and Laurel were de-signed as a community in themselves, so we’ve been designing Phase X the same way. The courtyards face each other and in the residence hall we have both apartments and suites. We think that [UNC Charlotte] has been trying to get apartment style for students, however we wanted to keep the suite style as well for those who want to be to use the lounges and hang out,” said Ran-dazzo.

University Project Manager and UNC Charlotte Alumni Brian Kugler offered more details on the construction and the nature of the new residence hall.

“There will be 426 beds with more apartments than suites. We will have a mix

of one, two, three and four bedroom units. The building will be C-shaped with a com-mon entry space between Phase X, Spruce, Lynch and Laurel similar to the four cor-ners,” said Kugler.

Phase X is likely going to be named Walnut Hall however this is still subject to change.

“Walnut is the last I heard, of course the last I heard was Laurel and Spruce will be re-named,” said Kugler.

Planning for Phase X began at the end of July 2010, while the new dining project planning began in September 2010.

“I’m the owner’s representation, I’m in charge of hiring designers and the budget. I manage the project through the design phase then hand it off to a construction manager however I still maintain charge of the budget. We want to give the customer what they want, while conforming to the university aesthetic and staying in budget and on schedule,” said Kugler.

The South Village Dining Facility is still in the design phase. In a presentation the Chancellor recently asked for some aspects of the design to be changed to fi t a more natural aesthetic due to the location of the new facility.

The dining hall is likely to be construct-ed in the wooded areas behind the high-rises, with a planned bridge to connect the Holhouser/Scott plaza to the dining facil-ity.

“It is a very natural and wooded area. We are trying to keep that feeling and a more natural stone aesthetic. We are also going to keep as much of the trees in that area as possible,” said Kugler.

Site work for the dining facility will be-gin in June.

Charlotte to see new residence and dining halls

SOCCER from p.1 Charlotte shirt and plaid pajama pants.

“I sleep in Stake Your Claim.” Morgan, a senior art major, let the

chancellor know why UNC Charlotte stu-dents had come knocking at his door at 11 p.m. on a Sunday night.

“All of these students are standing out here to convince you to do whatever you can do in the administration to help as many of us get down to Hoover as possible. If it’s helping us get a bus, any way that we can be able to go down there and support the guys… Sorry to wake you up.”

The team may not have made it to the chancellor’s house in time to greet him at the door, but they showed their apprecia-tion for the fans with a quick drive by with their horns blaring.

No answer has been given yet, but 49er fans are keeping hope alive.

Niner Nation Gold is an excitement-ori-ented organization for 49er students who “bleed green.”

The organization was created to pro-mote and support all athletic events at UNC Charlotte.

The group offers its members feature seats at varsity games, a t-shirt and access to exclusive pregame socials and parties.

The one-time fee for membership is “a small fee to pay for what all you get… The media underrates us. Everything that hap-pens good on our campus is underrated and undercut by the big colleges that sur-round us, so it’s hard for us to get a lot of momentum for spirit around here... It’s time for others to get on our [Niner Nation Gold’s] level [of spirit],” said one Niner Na-tion Gold member.

The organzation has made it to every home game to support the team and as many away games as possible, they hope to continue that tradition with a trip to Ala-bama.

“Students just can’t afford to [get down to Alabama],” said Morgan.


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Experience the holidays by heading to the mall

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Clothes, toys, perfume, jewelry, hats, candy. It’s the time of year when most of us start to think about Christmas shopping. It’s a time for us all to start shopping for gifts for our friends and family. It is the most festive time of year. Christmas is, for most people, more about the gifts and spending time with our loved ones. The commercialization of Christmas sees all of us spending hundreds of dollars on gifts for each other; I love this about Christmas, just to see somebody’s face when they open a gift and their face lights up. It gives me such a good feeling to know that I have made someone else happy.

For me the best thing about Christmas is the preparation that goes on. Putting up the Christmas tree, decorating the house, putting on an ugly sweater and buying the gifts. The thing that I hate though is people that want to do their Christmas shopping online. Come on people it’s Christmas, get involved, be a part of the party.

Christmas shopping is all about browsing in a store or at the mall and being part of the madness and traffi c throughout

the country. It’s about looking for gift ideas and playing with the toys in the shops. Keeping small businesses going, tipping the guy that loads your car, interacting and talking with people about the holidays. Actually trying things out before they’re bought. It’s about having fun and spreading the happiness throughout the community.

So why do people insist on sitting at a desk on a computer and buying things with a click of a mouse? Come on people get real, I mean what kind of holiday experience is sitting at a computer alone. Fair enough it’s convenient, but we shouldn’t make choices because it’s the easier way should we? Are we becoming lazy and more and more dependent on others? Compared to actually looking around a store picking things up and trying things out, staring at a screen and reading reviews cannot compare at all.

Remember the disadvantages too as there are many. Firstly, can you be sure that if you buy something online is it going to get there on time? Think how busy the mailing services are around this time of year, and when your gift doesn’t come it makes you look bad. Another is the fact that you can’t actually see what you are buying physically, for example, how can you buy a fragrance for someone without actually smelling it, that just seems lazy.

This is Christmas, a time to spread joy and happiness. Not the time of year to click and buy or get it all done as quickly

as possible. That feeling you get while walking

around the mall in December is such a good one. Everybody is there for the same reason. The children wait in line for hours just for 1 minute on Santa’s lap. They beg him for the one thing they want to see under the tree on the morning of Christmas day. We all know Santa wont really bring these gifts, but wouldn’t you rather deliver it than have some guy from UPS throw it at your house as he rushes past your home in a hurry to get everything delivered in time.

‘Tis the season of the new age

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With the Christmas holiday quickly approaching many shoppers are out in a fl urry shopping for those holiday gifts. Leaving many stores jammed pack with people all fi ghting for the last iPad. There is an alternative to all this madness, online shopping.

It’s simple, get on your computer, go to the stores website, and purchase with your credit card. No hassle of other shoppers, it’s simple and quick.

Not everyone is inclined to online shopping; some have their doubts. There are some things you should be aware of when shopping online, but for the most part is an easy alternative for shopping.

I personally prefer online shopping because it allows me to avoid being caught up in the Christmas mayhem. I’m not an aggressive shopper so I wouldn’t last one minute in sales like Black Friday before someone would run me over with their shopping cart.

Another plus for online shopping is you can compare prices from different retail stores a lot easier, rather than driving back in forth between stores and rummaging through catalogs.

Online shopping also gives you more diverse product, allowing you shop for things like a stein from Germany. A problem though with dealing internationally is the cost of shipping and handling, but I believe it’s worth it.

There are some precautions you should take when you are shopping online. If

you are buying from online retail stores like Wal-Mart and Target then there isn’t much for you to worry about, but when you are buying from dealers from websites like eBay and Craigslist you should tread carefully. I know eBay gives out reviews of their sellers allowing you to see how often they sell, and how cooperative they are, you can also read reviews from previous buyers, making it easy for you to decide on who to buy from. The only plus for Craigslist is

that it allows you to deal locally and avoid shipping cost. I personally would pick eBay over Craigslist, just because eBay feels a lot safer to me.

I fi nd online shopping highly convenient, allowing me to shop right from the comfort on my own home. I love online shopping even more than usual during the Christmas season because like I said it allows me to avoid those large crowd, I don’t have to fi ght through all those people trying to get to the item I seek, and above all, online shopping enables me to no longer have to wait in those excruciating long check out lines.

In the end, it just comes down to what you’re comfortable with. Online shopping you don’t always get the same sales as you do in the store, so if you love shopping the sales then online shopping isn’t for you. Just remember to be safe and have a Merry Christmas.

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Shopping in the modern age

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Stressed about your upcoming exams? It seems like there is entirely too much information to study and an inadequate amount of time to do so. Tall stacks of crumpled papers and a mountain of color-coded index cards will be your life for the next couple of weeks, as you try to make a good grade, maybe enough to get credit.

Four or fi ve fi nals are blocking a clear view of your holiday vacation, and I’m sure you’re getting desperate. Well here’s a quick tip that should be obvious; avoid try-ing to cheat.

Attempting to “get one over” on your professors will come back to bite you where it hurts. Listen to Samuel Eshaghoff, a 19-year-old college student was making a living off of his former peers in Nassau County, New York.

As a 2010 graduate of Great Neck High School, he allegedly took money from six other students to take their college en-trance exams in their absence. There’s no doubt that university students have a hard time getting their hands on money, but you have to have some standards. Dressing in a cow costume and standing outside of Chic-fi l-A selling breakfast biscuits might be a brighter idea than this one.

As the story goes, Eshaghoff completed his job of taking SATs for the high school students by using the drivers’ licenses that his customers let him borrow. One case even reported that a fake student ID was used for a female culprit.

I’ll give this guy the benefi t of the doubt and say her name was unisex. A male claim-ing that his birth name is Molly or Anna makes me a little worried.

So far, six students have been arrested for the crime, and all are from Eshaghoff’s alma mater, Great Neck North High School.

Interestingly, this group was not the only one blatantly breaking the law. As the New York Times reports, they believe that approximately 35 students were in on this crime, including at least fi ve schools, both public and private.

According to the New York Post, the test- taking geniuses were paid anywhere between $500 and $3500. Now why any-one with morals would spend their life earnings to hire someone to take an exami-nation?

Studying and getting prepared is free, and doing well on your exam is the reward. I’ve never heard of anyone reviewing notes and cramming information and ending up in jail.

Now it seems like faking your way through a college exam would be quite a bit easier, especially with a large lecture class. Teachers often forget to check student ids and if you’re the slacker/sleeper that sits in the back every class period, I’m sure the professor barely recognizes your face. Sending a stand-in to take your test would be simple, but you should probably weigh your options.

No one in that class has loyalty to your wrong- doings, and it only takes one honest student to tell the truth.

Referring to the UNCC- Code of Student Academic Integrity, one of the examples of cheating would be “sending a substitute to take an examination.” It points out that the repercussions start with a formal warning and a reduced grade, but end with expul-

sion. It doesn’t just stop there though, ex-

pulsion includes a record going on your transcript permanently, as well as on your disciplinary fi le. You’re offi cially marked as trouble, and you still get an F.

It just isn’t worth the mess, and luck-ily, if you don’t study you get to try again next semester with one of your two grade replacements.

I suggest study groups, online quizzes, and even prayer if you believe it will help. Cheating on the other hand will unfortu-nately put you further behind than you’ve already managed to do on your own. Take the no stress approach and go into your tests fearless.

By the way, Good Luck!

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LATE NIGHT ROUNDUP: LENOLATE NIGHT ROUNDUP: LENO“Well the good news is that the unemployment rate has fallen to 8.6 percent. 120,000 new jobs were created this

month. The bad news is that most of them include a sack, a red suit, and a beard.”

“Well the Kardashian sisters are among Barbra Walters top ten most fascinating people of 2011. In a related story, Barbra Walters was named one of the ten most easily fascinated people in 2011.”

Exams

Jordan [email protected]

About this time of year, every college freshman starts asking, “Are college exams like End of Course tests?” Quickly they learn that most college exams are made by the professors who teach the course, and that they’re a lot different.

College exam time is here and it’s our fi rst time to jump into the fray, trying to study and fi nish up the year. Hopefully we will master Introduction to Psychology and English 1101. How do we handle the stress? How to study? How will it affect my fi nal grade?

Don’t worry; you aren’t alone. Most freshmen and probably even some upperclassmen don’t understand it any more than you do.

This is the time when you regret going to Whisky River all those times just because the girl was giving out free passes and you got a sweet coozie.

The exam schedule is made and posted, and you’re probably wondering why yours’ is so scattered, but don’t worry; that’s on purpose to provide some good space for distraction so there is no way you can stay focused on how hard you should be studying.

Each class has a truly different exam experience and each student should talk to the professor for their classes to get a handle on the format of the exam he or she is expecting.

In high school the standard multiple choice, common sense questions were expected, but now things like free response and “most correct answer” are popping up and we are starting to freak out like Edward Cullen’s skin pigment in the sunlight. Calm down.

Clean the desk in your room that you haven’t used since the fi rst month when you still had the super eager attitude and sit down. Open the notes that you so diligently penned and just read them.

Everything you have is pertinent information to which your mind has been exposed to once so the second time is simply a refresher.

The worst thing a student can do is over-stress so that the brain doesn’t focus on the material, but instead the panic that consumes one’s whole mind. Make fl ashcards and memorize a small portion of each of them every day.

Hopefully you get lucky and at least one of your classes doesn’t have a sit-down-at-the-end exam and you’ll have one exam session for which you can watch a movie or give a simple presentation.

On each exam day shower and eat before hand and don’t wake up so late that you roll out of bed and you have to leave immediately.

Take advantage of the campus events this week to avoid over studying, such as; Duck Favidson Quickie Rave in the Student Union Rotunda on Dec. 7 at 9:49 p.m., Late Night Breakfast on Dec. 7 at 10:00 p.m. , Study Free Charlotte Band Showcase in After Hours on Dec, 8 at 7:00 p.m., Costumes Across Cultures: Masquerade Ball in the Student Union Third Floor on Dec. 9 at 8:00 p.m., and Charlotte vs. Davidson on Dec. 10 in Halton Arena at 7:00 p.m.

Simply breaking down round one of collegiate exams the steps are as follow:

1) Be concerned but not stressed.2) Enjoy campus activities. 3) Shower and eat before each.4) Be confi dent in what you know.5) Pace yourself.


Hats Off to the Class of 2011All students are invited to our first party of the new semester!Bring a friend or make one there!

8pm - 12amStudent UnionMulti-purpose Room, 3rd Floor

Sponsored by the International Club with support from the Student Government Association

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012

Refreshments will be served


Hats Off to the Class of 2011


LIFESTYLECampus

trend alert: holiday gift ideas

As the holi-day break is ap-proaching, there are many things on students’ minds. Am I go-ing to pass my fi nals? What should I do for housing next se-mester? Why are

all the classes I need to register for full?These are the things I hear students

talking about lately. This time of year is always a stress-

ful one for college students, and if it weren’t for me constantly saying to my-self “Stress gets me nowhere; there is no point in stressing out,” multiple times a day, those worrisome student thoughts would be in my head too.

But I have holiday-break fever! I am in great spirits and cannot stop thinking about the many things that will come with my break from school: sleeping until noon and not feeling guilty, hav-ing the time to read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” before I see the movie and, most of all, Christmas shopping!Yes, I am worried that my aspirations for elaborate holiday presents for loved-ones will be stomped on by the lack of green in my wallet, but there are still some great holiday gift ideas that are not only cheap and creative, but fash-ionable as well. Velvety apparel

This fabric is timeless and screams “holiday present” for a fashionista in your life! Try a simple skirt, clutch or pair of leggings made with this material in a dark color like forest green, maroon or royal purple. For those with an espe-cially tight budget simply get a necklace or bracelet with a piece of this fabric in it. Most of the ones I have seen lately contain a velvet strip tied like a bow to the piece of jewelry.Book ends

For your friends or family who value their large stacks of books, or even for those who appreciate interior design, try a pair of book ends! These can be found in an array of styles, my favor-ites being on two ends of the spectrum: very modern and very vintage. Book ends can be found at a local thrift store and even look great when they are mis-matched.Stylish hats

It’s no secret that 2011 has been a year for stylish hats. Fedoras, cloche hats and even knit toboggans could be a great gift this holiday season. They keep people warm during the cold win-ter months, look great with jackets and many layers, and can be purchased in a wide variety of colors. For your male friends try a toboggan or a fl at cap!Shoe inserts

This one is for the ladies! As every girl has experienced at some point in their life, the cutest shoes can also be the most uncomfortable, especially those boots and high heels worn out to dinner dates or uptown for a night out at a club. Lucky for those with fragile feet, shoe inserts can now be found cut for high heels and boots instead of stan-dard sneakers. These could be the relief your best girlfriend needs after a long night of dancing.

Haley [email protected]

In celebration of spring room changes an anonymous 49er

writes to their (soon-to-be-ex)

roommate.

Dear ex-roommate,As our fi rst (and fi nal) semester together

draws to a close, I just want to let you know how many memories you have brought to these wonderful fi ve months we have spent confi ned to a small room.

When we fi rst moved in, there were awkward hellos and excited talks of how we would decorate the room.

This “honeymoon period” quickly ended, however, because our fi rst night in the room together was Hell. You are prob-ably unaware of this, but your horrendous, earth-shaking, ear-shattering snoring kept me up all throughout the night.

Eventually I slipped out of bed and went

to the lounge on our fl oor to cry over the lost sleep I knew was soon to come this se-mester.

After a while I went downstairs to the front desk where the security guard sat. Be-cause it was 5 a.m., I fi gured he wouldn’t mind having some company and tried to chat with him.

He, in turn, called the R.A. who was on duty that night, woke them up and made them come to speak with me.

I cried a lot that night. And you never knew what you did to me. You still don’t know what you do to me.

This semester, I have employed the use of earplugs, iPods, pillows, stuffed animals, blankets, tissues - everything. You name it, I tried to block out your noises with it. And yet you snored on, and on, and on and on.

It isn’t just your sleep state that both-ers me though. There is no reason to invite all of your loudest friends over to the room, allow them to stay and hang out for hours and make more noise than a herd of pranc-

ing elephants when I have classes in the morning.

You come in late, knock things over while drunk, wake me up throughout the night with your snores and your phone (please turn that blasted thing on silent!), ignore my birthday even when I celebrated yours, insult my friends and boyfriend in front of me, take naps during the day when I’m trying to work, yell at me for working on homework and printing things at noon and overall just ruin my day-to-day activi-ties.

For these reasons, I will be switching rooms next semester. I feel bad for your future roommates in your life, and I espe-cially feel bad for that “special” person who will one day share a bed with you.

Sincerely,Your Ex-Roommate

Dear roommate...

Niner Times recipe: peanut butter chocolate fudge

Tricia [email protected]

The holidays seem to have a way of bringing out everyone’s sweet tooth and inner chef. Sure, baking cookies, building gingerbread houses and making truffl es to spread holiday cheer are classic ways to get into the holiday spirit, but what if there was an even easier way to get your fi x? This no-bake peanut butter chocolate fudge recipe boasts only threeingredients and tastes a bit like Reese’s pieces. It’s defi nitely a treat.

Ingredients:• 1 cup natural peanut butter (creamy or crunchy) *Sunfl ower seed butter can be substituted for those with peanut allergies.• 3/4 cup honey• 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Directions:1. Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan. Make sure your tools are dry, otherwise the chocolate will seize up and its texture will be ruined. 2. Stir continuously over low heat until the chocolate chips are melted and blended in (about 30 seconds). Keep the heat low so that the mixture remains smooth instead of grainy. 3. Spread the fudge mixture into an 8×8 inch pan. Plastic containers work as well. Refrigerate for 10 minutes or until solid. 4. Lick the remaining fudge off of your stirring spoon while you wait for the fudge to cool. 5. Take out the fudge, cut into 1-inch squares and serve.

Source: Heavenlyhomemakers.com

If you’re worriedabout fast-approaching

fi nals, here are some ways to relieve that

pre-exam stress

Matthew [email protected]

MeditateYour brain might feel like a pinball ma-

chine right now, especially because of the stress caused by upcoming exams. Some-thing that could really make you “one with yourself” is yoga.

It never hurts to get up early and take one of the morning yoga classes UNC Char-lotte offers. This could help ease your mind about your worries and concerns regarding exams. Indulge

Are you sitting there trying to study but just can’t focus because of the stress you’re feeling? Shopping takes your mind off of anything. Even online shopping helps re-duce your stress levels.

And don’t be afraid to indulge in your favorite food or meal during this stressful time. Consider it a reward for studying so hard.Exercise

Working out at the gym is always a good distraction. Your focus is on performance. It can be a great way to release your stress and aggression towards your exams or pro-fessors.

Stop exercising your brain for an hour or two and exercise that bod of yours instead.Not to mention it’s a good way to socialize. Express

If you fi nd yourself bottling everything up during the exam period, maybe it’s best to get what is on your mind out in the open. Talk to a friend, family member or profes-sor about how you feel and they might even have some good advice.

Too close for comfort? Try the free counseling services on campus. It could be exactly what you need to de-stress before exams.

Ways to de-stess


August 18thThe Charlotte Film Society kicked off

the new school year with the creation of the Back Alley Film Series, allowing people in the Charlotte area to see “unusual” movies that would be hard to fi nd elsewhere. The series began by showing André Øvredal’s horror fi lm “TrollHunter.”

August 19thThis marks the fi rst day that students

were able to move in to Spruce Hall. As the newest residence hall on campus, Spruce delighted students by having Wi-Fi, various laundry rooms, community kitchens and even being eco-friendly.

August 20thIn Hollywood news, this marks the day

of reality-star Kim Kardashian’s multi-mil-lion dollar wedding to Kris Humphries, NBA athlete who last played for the New Jersey Nets. The wedding was fi lmed and many TV channels advertised “Kim’s Fairytale Wed-ding” to be shown in mid-October.

August 23rdThe UNC Charlotte campus was a little

shaky on this day in August when the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake was felt all the way in North Carolina. While the shakes were minor they were still deemed Facebook and Twitter worthy to many Charlotte stu-dents.

October 5thIt made national and international head-

lines when Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., died on Oct. 5th of pancreatic cancer. Wal-ter Isaacson released “Steve Jobs,” a biogra-phy, shortly after on October 24th.

October 20thNorm the Niner hit the gym last October

and premiered his new body during Basket-ball Madness on October 20th. The basket-ball uniform he wore showed off and accen-tuated his newly-formed arm muscles.

October 31stKim Kardashian chose to announce

that she had fi led for divorce on Halloween day. Many students crowded around TVs to watch the coverage on Kardashian’s short-lived marriage, which lasted for 72 days. It is still being critiqued by many upset fans and critics who speculate about the marriage’s validity.

November 1stAn important day in history for UNC

Charlotte, this marked the announcement of campus’s football fi eld as the McColl-Rich-ardson Field. It was named after two promi-nent fi nancial donors, Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl and Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.

November 3rd – 5th Even more culture came to Charlotte on

November 3rd when the Actors from the London Stage presented Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” three times in one week. The en-semble included a cast of only fi ve people, making it a minimalist production.

November 6thThis Sunday evening proved to be a dan-

gerous one as two robberies occurred on campus. A young man was robbed outside of Prospector with a fi rearm while a woman was pushed down on the trail to Oak Hall in a strong arm robbery. The incidents served as cautionary tales for UNC Charlotte stu-dents, prompting people to travel in pairs at night.

November 10thStudents around campus were thrilled to

attend a lecture given by Soledad O’Brien, a journalist, news anchor and CNN corre-spondent. O’Brien’s lecture, entitled “Diver-sity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and In Our Lives,” was given in the Student Union Mul-tipurpose Room.

December 4thCharlotte soccer fans and 49ers alike

praised the Charlotte men’s soccer team as they made it to the NCAA Final Four for the second time in UNC Charlotte’s univer-sity history. Charlotte beat the University of Connecticut with a score of 4-2 NPKs.

The fall 2011 semester has been home to many big events around cam-pus, Charlotte and the rest of the world. Looking back there’s the good, the bad and even the dangerous. Niner Times has compiled a list of the most widely talked-about events over the course of the fall semester.

F a l l 2 011 S e m e s t e r : IN REVIEWCampus, Charlotte and more

Compiled by Haley Twist, Lee Pham and Scarlett Newman Credits: File photos and MCT Campus


A&E

Patrick [email protected]

Max Bemis, from the indie-punk band Say Anything, will be making a stop at UNC Charlotte on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7:00pm in McKnight Hall.

His wife, Sherri DuPree Bemis of the rock band Eisley, will open for her husband. The talented couple has been married for nearly three years.

Concerts&Causes, a UNC Charlotte organization designed to bring people together through the power of music, is put-ting on the event.

Sara Nauman of Concerts&Causes is really pumped abou-wwt the Bemis tour coming to UNC Charlotte.

“It’s really exciting to be able to get a bigger act to come to the school,” she said.

The organization is based on the belief that music can make change at the community level and spread even further past that.

“We love raising awareness for different causes and the club in general, so this is a great way to get our name out there and extend our audience throughout and beyond the UNC Charlotte student population,” said Nauman.

As well as being the lead singer for Say Anything, Max Bemis has had many side projects throughout the years in-cluding Two Tongues, Perma and Max Bemis and the Painful Splits.

Perma was a side project that Max created with Sherri. They released a demo before ending the project in 2009.

Bemis is selling copies of a new Painful Splits record ex-clusively on this tour.

For those looking for more Say Anything content, their al-bum Anarchy, My Dear will be released in early 2012.

As for Sherri’s band Eisley, their newly recorded EP will also be released in early 2012. This EP is a follow-up to The Valley, an album they released earlier in 2011.

Max has struggled with mental problems in the past and is said to have found religion since marrying Sherri, a Chris-tian, in April 2009. In a live chat on absolutepunk.net, Bemis stated that he doesn’t like to label himself as being a part of any specific religious sect, but that he considers himself “a Jew that is also a Christian.”

The Charlotte stop will be the couple’s sixth on an inti-mate acoustic tour. It is free to attend. After Charlotte, Bemis will continue playing throughout the southeast playing gigs in Atlanta and Baton Rouge, among others.

Say Anything lead singer to play UNC Charlotte

Barry [email protected]

Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Adventures of Tintin is a 3D Motion Capture Film starring Jamie Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure. Si-mon Pegg, who plays a Thomson Twin alongside long-time friend Nick Frost, was kind enough to speak to us about his role in the film, which is set to release Dec. 21.

On using Motion Capture technology in Tintin It was interesting; it was very new for everybody, even Ste-

ven Spielberg, because it was his first motion capture film. I think we were all of us on our first day of school to some degree and it was interesting and every day we were making new discoveries about the technology and about how to per-form within it.

It’s different to live action shooting in that you don’t have you real-life sort of props and costumes. You’re working in a very imagined environment.

But you are still acting with other actors and moving around which makes it different from just doing a voice over. So, it’s very much a new art form and I think you know the kind of the rules and what it means. It was great fun to feel like we were breaking new ground.

On the difficulties of doing animated filmsI really enjoyed doing ‘Ice Age,’ because it was a different

process as was the game. You’re essentially in a room on your own and you’re getting to hone your character by yourself which has its merits. Where as with ‘Tintin’ it was more

than voice acting because we were actually physically acting as well, and with all the other actors in the same space. So we acted at what you see on the screen.

You know we did for real but then it becomes part of the rich universe or the animator’s create and we are the sort of the skeleton in the souls of what the animators eventually put on the screen. So, they both have their merits. And I enjoyed doing them both.

It wasn’t until I saw ‘Tintin’ that I realized just how amaz-ing the animators could make the world we were in because we were essentially in a gray room you know wearing like scuba diving equipment.

And you know early, it’s the outset and suddenly you see this incredibly rich and varied world.

On Peter JacksonIt was interesting, it was an interesting sort of voyage of

discovery which was genuinely sort of fascinating to see a man who was such an accomplished film maker almost like rediscovering the art again because he could finally do dif-ferent things he hadn’t been able to do before with a normal camera in the physical world.

On his favorite momentNick and I did a particularly long scene with Toby Jones

which required a lot of self choreography and we did a par-ticularly good take one day and Stephen was so pleased with us he did a little dance. And to make you know one of your heroes so happy that he performs a small dance is, believe, quite a wonderful thing.

For the full interview, go to NinerOnline.com

‘Tintin’ star gets animated with two world-renowned directors

Simon Pegg’s portrayal of a Thomson Twin in ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures

NEW ON DVDQuick movie reviews from the Niner Times staff

COWBOYS & ALIENSDirector Jon Favreau can’t balance his actors’ chops

with a silly action concept. ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭

THE HANGOVER 2Director Todd Phillips took the cast of a great movie

and brought them to Bangkok to make a sequel. He then proceeded to make the same exact movie.

✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭

THE HELPEmma Stone shines as author “Skeeter” Phelan, but Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard give the audience a reason to love and hate the characters,

respectively. ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭

MR. POPPER’S PENGUINSJim Carrey stars in the adaptation of a classic children’s book. The movie is also for children.

✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭

LIFE, ABOVE ALLA child in South Africa has to struggle with very adult problems: an alcoholic stepfather, an AIDS-infected mother and ignorant neighbors, among

others.✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭

LIVE MUSIC: Beards Because Finale Party12/9, Amos’ Southend, 7:30

Harvard12/9, Tremont Music Hall, 8

ON CAMPUS: Max and Sherri Dupree Bemis, 12/8 McKnight Hall, 7 pm

Costume Masquerade Ball12/8 Student Union, 8 pm

COMING TO THEATERS: 12/9: The Sitter12/23: The Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo12/25: War Horse1/6: The Devil Inside


DOWNTIME 6 Tuesday 7 Wednesday 8 Thursday 9 Friday 10 Saturday 11 Sunday

4th Quarter Finals: Prepping for Mid-Term & Final Exams

FretwellRm 31012:30pm - 1:30pm

Reduce stress and dis-cover ways to improve your chances of making an “A” on your finals.

University Chorale

Anne R. Belk Theater8:00pm

The University Chorale presents Petite Messe Solonelle.

‘Quickie Rave’Student Union 9:49PM

Radio Free Charlotte Presents: Study Free Charlotte

Cone University CenterAfter Hours7:00pm - 10:00pm

Come listen to a great showcase hosted by Radio Free Charlotte.

Senior Engineering Design Expo

Student Activity CenterFood CourtAll day

College of Engineering se-niors will be displaying the projects their teams have designed and built.

Green Out! Charlotte 49ers Men’s Basketball vs. Davidson

Halton Arena7:30pm Wear green as the Charlotte 49ers host a Greenout for the 49ers men’s basketball game vs. local rival Davidson.

Enjoy Your Sunday!

Things to Do:

1) Nap2) Study3) Catch Up On Work4) Prepare to be awesome during exams 5) Read A Book 6) Make a Study Group

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE DECEMBER 19, 2011

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SPORTS Men’s Basketball vs DukeWed. 7pm, Charlotte, NC

Men’s Basketball vs DukeWed. 7pm, Charlotte, NC

Men’s Basketball vs DukeWed. 7pm, Charlotte, NC

SPORTS SCHEDULE

TuesdayMen’s Basketball

@ Radford 7 p.m.

SPORTS RESULTS

Top PerformerIndoor Track and Field

40 meters- Jo’Ann Blakey

@ Clemson Orange and Purple

ClasssLadies’ Top Performer

WINMen’s Basketball

76-64@

EastCarolina

LOSSWomen’s Basketball

64-62@

Florida State

WINMen’s Soccer

1-1 (4-2 PK’s)

@ UConn

Friday

Women’s Basketball vs. UNCW

7 p.m.

Photos by Chris Crews

TEAM OF THE WEEK

Ed [email protected]

Charlotte did something that 17 other opponents were unable to do, defeat UCo-nn by way of a 4-2 shootout. This advances Charlotte to the Final Four of the College Cup, where they will meet the Creighton Blue Jays Friday evening.

UConn Head Coach Ray Reid expressed his frustrations following the match.

“We had the game won, it’s uncon-sciousable that we’re home, up a goal with eight minutes to go and we blow it. Hon-estly, in a game like this, our top players have got to play better.”

At the end of 110 minutes of play both teams remained level at 1-1, UConn was a perfect 17-0-0 at home prior to the elite eight showdown with the 49ers, where it took a shootout to decide who would re-ceive the ticket to play in Hoover, Ala. for the College Cup.

“We all want to win in regulation, but this team wanted to prove that to them-selves and scored the penalties to put them in the Final Four,” said Head Coach Jer-emy Gunn

Charlotte makes its’ fi rst Final Four ap-pearance in 15 years. The last time Char-lotte made the College Cup semi-fi nals was in 1996 when they fell to Florida Interna-tional University.

“They’ve been there before, every re-

cruit we talked to we said we want to be-come one of the best team in the country and we believe we can do it, this group of players with all the great work they put in and the talent they have, couldn’t be prouder than them,” said Gunn

It was an all too familiar ending to the Huskies’ tournament aspirations, as they have been bounced from the tournament fi eld for the third consecutive season by way of penalty kicks.

“Just jogging up to the ball thinking that if it goes in we’re going to the College Cup, I was focused on making good contact putting the ball in the back of the net,” said Charles Rodriguez on scoring the decisive fourth penalty kick.

Charlotte never led in the match as the Huskies’ drew fi rst blood in the 82nd minute off the foot of senior All-American Tony Cascio on a volley delivered from ap-proximately 18 yards out.

Charlotte hoped for a miraculous come-back and received it with under nine min-utes remaining in the match.

Leading goal scorer Giuseppe Gentile tallied the equalizer on sliding attempt just three minutes later of a header advanced in by Tyler Gibson.

“We had been practicing so hard for this moment, there isn’t a particular thought, I did it for my boys, it takes teamwork to score, i am just the lucky one to close it off and put it in the back of the net,” said Gen-

tile. Cascio narrowly missed the go-ahead

goal with two minutes left to go in the second half, creating the most promis-ing chance for either club, when he col-lect stray pass from a 49er defender, prior to connecting on a shot that missed wide right.

Quality shots were at a premium in the match as UConn held a slim 8-7 advantage after regulation with UConn’s Cascio and Charlotte’s Gentile each recorded four shot attempts.

“Time and again we have shown that we have got the ability, the fi tness and desire and they just kept pushing and Gibbo(GIbson) got a free kick that he nod-ded towards goal and Juicy(Gentile) con-verted,” said Gunn

Stingy defense for both sides forced the game into penalty kicks where Charles Ro-driguez knocked home the decisive tally,as the 49ers toppled the Huskies 4-2.

Charlotte’s next opponent Creighton also needed extra time to defeat South Florida 1-0 sunday afternoon.

The 49ers and Blue Jays square off in Hoover, Ala. vying for a shot at the Nation-al Title Friday at 6 p.m.

Those who cannot make the trip to Hoover can catch all the 2011 NCAA Col-lege Cup action live on ESPNU/ESPN3.

Next Stop...Final Four

“When they scored it was a mas-sive ask of our players...credit to our players , we kept asking questions and got the right reward; I told the boys from Alabama sincerely in front of the group before the trip, Nothing would make me happier than a trip to Alabama.”

- Head Coach Jeremy Gunn

“We were coach Gunn’s fi rst recruiting class he took us here in his fi rst fi ve years, Creighton is a pretty good team defensively but so are we.”

- Senior Defender Charles Rodriguez

Coach Jeremy Gunn (left) and his soccer players are headed to the Final Four for the second time in program history. They will play Creighton Friday at 6 p.m. in Hoover, Ala.

Wednesday

Men’s Soccer vs. Creighton

6 p.m.Hoover, Ala.

SaturdayMen’s Basketball

vs. Davidson7 p.m.


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