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NEWSBy RACHEL KARAS
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
An AU professor’s breast-feeding during class and a subsequent student newspaper inves-tigation has launched a firestorm of on- and off-campus debate, culminat-ing Tuesday in a student protest at Ward Circle.
Chanting “Give it a rest, it’s just a breast” and hold-ing signs reading “This is not news” and “Feeding your child is normal,” the students said The Eagle was wrong to look into Professor Adrienne Pine breast-feeding her child in class on Aug. 28.
About 15 students gath-ered at Ward Circle Sept. 11 at approximately 10:30 p.m. in support of Pine and against The Eagle’s poten-tial coverage of her breast-feeding, according to pro-tester Tea Sefer, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and School of In-ternational Studies.
The protest followed days of controversy after Pine, an assistant profes-sor of anthropology in CAS, breast-fed her sick child on the first day of her “Sex, Gender and Culture” course, after which The Eagle began an investiga-tion. This is the first story the newspaper has pub-lished on the event.
Through subsequent emails and interviews with newspaper staff, Pine said
she believed her breast-feeding was not newswor-thy and grew worried that publication would spread her name online in a nega-tive light.
When Editor-in-Chief Zach Cohen said in an email that the paper planned to run a story, Pine chose to address the issue herself first. In an online essay, she wrote, “[I] decided the only op-tion left was to exposé my breasts – on my own terms – on the inter-net.”
On Sept. 5, Pine published an article in the online n e w s l e t t e r CounterPunch entitled “The Dialectics of Breastfeeding on Campus: Exposéing My Breasts on the Internet,” in which she criticized The Eagle’s actions.
“I was shocked and an-noyed that this would be considered newsworthy, and at the anti-woman im-plications inherent in the email’s tone,” Pine wrote of exchanges with Eagle staff writer Heather Mon-gilio. “Heather continued hounding me … I, unfor-tunately, was in professor mode, too polite to tell her to go to hell.”
Pine continued, writing that The Eagle is “a sexist third-rate university news-
paper” that “has long had a solidly anti-woman slant” and “would craft a poorly-written story … and would shape my online reputa-tion for all eternity.”
The essay also pub-lished both Mongilio and Cohen’s cellphone num-bers, which were removed upon the University’s re-quest a day later.
News organizations like The Washington Post, In-side Higher Ed and local
television affiliates then picked up on the contro-versy, prompting a larger conversation and the pro-test on AU’s campus.
AU does not have a policy that specifically ad-dresses breast-feeding on campus but follows D.C. and federal laws, Univer-sity spokeswoman Camille Lepre said in a statement. D.C. law states that a woman has the “right to breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, where she has the right to be with her child.”
Under the Patient Pro-tection and Affordable
Care Act of 2010, AU is required to give “reason-able break time for an em-ployee to express breast milk for her nursing child for up to 1 year after the child’s birth” and “provide a place shielded from view and from intrusion by cow-orkers and the public, oth-er than a restroom, where mothers can express milk.”
The University also gives faculty the option
of taking leave to care for their sick child, Lepre said.
Pine wrote online that because she could not leave her daughter at day care due to her fever, could not get a baby sitter and did not want to cancel class, she felt her only op-tion was to bring her baby to campus.
The baby grew cranky and hungry during class, prompting the professor to undo two buttons of her shirt and breast-feed her daughter, said School of Public Affairs sophomore Paul Grobman, a student in Pine’s course who was
present at the time.Grobman, who at-
tended the protest, said Pine continued her lecture while no students spoke and the class was not dis-rupted. The feeding lasted “45 seconds at most” and did not make him feel un-comfortable, he said.
CAS sophomore Jake Carias, a student who was also present during the class, said it was not the breast-feeding itself that
b o t h e r e d him, but that Pine had said during class it would be “ u n p r o f e s -sional.”
“ B r e a s t -f e e d i n g doesn’t faze me,” Carias said. “I have no problems
with breast-feeding. It was just to me, the fact that she recognized that it was unprofessional, you know, didn’t even think twice to kind of abuse her power as leader of the classroom.”
“If I thought breast-feeding in class was ap-palling, her response was even more appalling,” Carias said.
A statement released by the University said AU does not agree with the characterization of stu-dents in Pine’s essay.
“The views expressed in the blog were those of the faculty member,” the
statement said. “Freedom of expression comes with responsibility, and expres-sions in fora outside of AU have the potential to affect the educational relation-ship between faculty and students and effectiveness in the classroom.”
The University declined to comment on individual personnel matters or if Pine had violated guide-lines in the Faculty Man-ual, which says that “the university will take appro-priate action for [faculty] ‘misconduct,’” including bullying, discrimination and sexual or discrimina-tory harassment.
It also states that faculty “should at all times be ac-curate, should respect the right of others to express their opinions, and should make every effort to in-dicate when they are not speaking for the institu-tion.”
Cohen said he stands by his paper’s conduct.
“Heather acted with the utmost professionalism, and I am proud to call her a member of my staff,” Co-hen said.
Pine emailed individual apologies Wednesday night to the reporter and editors involved for pub-lishing their names and contact information online, as well as the tone of her essay.
Breast-feeding, news judgment under scrutiny after national attention
AU does not have a policy that specifically addresses breast-feeding on campus but follows
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4 | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 NEWS theEAGLE
TDR sustainability effort delayed by box shortage
More than 200 students caught sharing files illegally
By DAVID KOMOROWSKI
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Offi ce of Informa-tion Technology reported 212 AU students were suspected of downloading fi les illegally or infringing on copyrights through peer-to-peer fi le sharing during the 2011-2012 aca-demic year.
Student Conduct in-structed students to re-move the fi le sharing soft-ware.
“The Student Conduct offi ce processed seven complaints for alleged sec-ond offenses,” said Rosie McSweeney, director of student conduct and con-fl ict resolution services in an email.
However, McSweeney could not be reached in time for publication to clar-ify if the seven complaints resulted in severe conse-quences.
A warning is the only consequence given after a student is fi rst found to have shared fi les illegally, McSweeney said in an email. However, students can be subject to more se-
vere consequences such as removal from housing or suspension if there are additional violations.
Student conduct viola-tions are not something students should take light-ly, McSweeney said in an email. Student Conduct keeps records of all viola-tions for up to seven years after the date of the viola-tion.
Additionally, “suspen-sion and dismissal fi les are maintained permanently and released to third par-ties permanently,” she said.
Student Conduct sent an email to all AU students on Aug. 28 about AU’s cur-rent policy on peer-to-peer fi le sharing.
“AU respects the rights of copyright owners...and is committed to imple-menting procedures and policies to support their rights without infringing on legal use of those ma-terials by individuals,” the email stated.
AU allows students to borrow music CDs or movies at the AU Bender Library Media Center or
the Katzen Music Library free of charge.
Punishment for illegal downloading does not only affect AU students. Boston University graduate Joel Tenenbaum was fi ned $675,000 for downloading two dozen songs through fi le sharing in 2009, ac-cording to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The U.S. Supreme court declined to hear the BU graduate’s appeal in May 2012.
BBC News reported monitoring fi rms can watch what students download when they are on a university’s wireless network, according to a Birmingham University study.
“An illegal fi le-sharer downloading popular con-tent would be logged by a monitoring fi rm within three hours,” the BBC ar-ticle said.
What the logs could be used for remains unclear, Tom Chothia a Birming-ham University professor told BBC.
By JORDAN-MARIE SMITH
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Terrace Dining Room ran out of reus-able boxes during the fi rst week of classes. Dispos-able, cardboard boxes re-placed the reusable boxes during this time, accord-ing to Café Bon Appetit cook Phyllis Wood.
TDR received more the reusable boxes the week of Sept. 3 since it receives new shipments every Thursday.
The reusable to-go box system requires students
to buy a reusable box for $5. It must be washed after use and returned to TDR’s cleaning conveyor belt for sanitizing. A new box is given and the old box is returned when they leave.
Implementing the use of reusable boxes at TDR is a joint effort of AU and Cafe Bon Appetit’s sustain-ability ambitions.
School of International Service sophomore Jona-than Beatty said he still supports the idea of a reusable box system but thinks it was not executed properly.
“A smarter way would have been to only sell around half of the boxes, he said. “That way there would always be a set amount that stays in TDR.”
School of Communica-tion sophomore Megan Clark said she was not troubled by the interrup-tion.
“I am completely sup-portive of AU becoming a more sustainable campus and I think that we should give the box system anoth-er shot,” she said.
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theEAGLE NEWS SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 | 5
Stolen ceramic sheep returned to library
By STEVEN MURPHEY
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
AU required new and returning students to agree to the University’s drug policy through their AU portal. The policy stat-ed the “possession and/or use of illicit drugs and un-authorized controlled sub-stances violates university policy.”
Both undergraduate and graduate students had to acknowledge this notice when logging on to the AU portal, according
to Rob Hradsky, the dean of students and assistant vice president.
Hradsky said the notice was implemented last fall in response to a reauthori-zation of the Higher Edu-cation Act, which states that each student must receive a “separate, clear, and conspicuous written notice regarding the uni-versity’s drug policy and sanction.”
The notice was fi rst posted in the portal in fall of 2011, according to Hradsky. However, the University used different technology to display the
notice this year.The policy previously
was written in the student handbook, but the Higher Education Act requires AU to provide a separate notice.
The policy also stated students using or involved with such drugs would be “subject to disciplinary ac-tion up to and including dismissal from the univer-sity,” along with any pen-alties administered by the law of the federal or local government.
The parents of any stu-
dents under the age of 21 who violated this policy would be notifi ed, the notice read.
Hradsky said the no-tice was not a result of any specifi c drug problem at AU. Several annual sur-veys of AU students said there has been nothing indicating a large drug problem at the University, according to Hradsky.
“When we look at our numbers compared to other institutions that are similar, we fi nd that our issues are on par with the national norms,” he said.
By SAMANTHA RAPHELSON
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
A ceramic sheep was stolen outside Bender Li-brary on Sept. 6.
Public Safety launched a full investigation, but the sheep was voluntarily re-turned to the library three days later.
Two library monitors chased the perpetrator who escaped down the School of International Service parking garage ramp around 10 p.m. last Thursday, said Mary Mintz, associate director for outreach at the Bender Library.
“The monitors called Public Safety because he’s kind of a valuable animal. We can’t have a sheep rus-tling,” she said. “I told the of-fi cer that if he [the sheep]’s returned unharmed, we’d rather not have the person prosecuted.”
Mintz said Public Safe-ty originally believed that the sheep was located in Kreeger Hall after the parody Twitter account @DatLibrarySheep tweet-ed “im…lost in Kreeger.”
Public Safety origi-nally believed the person behind the Twitter ac-count was the perpetrator but found nothing after conducting a search in Kreeger Hall.
The sheep fi rst ap-peared outside the library during the fi rst week of classes in an effort to pro-mote the library’s tours and walk-in research classes.
“We think that fi ts in well with the spirit of all AU students that you’re activist, you give back to society, you care about families in need, globally and locally,” Mintz said.
Participants in the classes can win an iPad,
SmarTrip metro card or a sheep for a needy fam-ily. The sheep will be donated in the winner’s name through Heifer In-ternational, an organiza-tion that donates animals to poor countries.
The prize drawing will be held on Dec. 3.
Bender Library has worked with Heifer In-ternational to promote the classes for the past eight years. The goal is to remind students of the resources available to improve their research skills, according to Mintz.
Almost 1,000 students participated in the classes last year, but the library does not have a specifi c target goal in mind for this year, Mintz said.
“I think there are a lot of AU students who are interested in doing bet-ter research,” she said. “Faculty tell me that when
they get a paper, they can tell if somebody has just Googled, even Google Scholar, versus using the databases.”
Classes are offered on a variety of subjects and skill levels, so even the more advanced students can benefi t. The “Ask a Librarian” page on the library’s website also fea-tures a recently-updated FAQ list, email advice and the option to chat with a librarian.
“But let’s be honest, no one really uses them,” said Jennifer To, a senior in the School of Public Affairs and a front desk receptionist at the library.
However, she said these resources are a good reminder of the resources that the library offers before midterms and fi nals.
AU highlights drug policy on student portal
“When we look at our numbers... we find that our issues are on par with
the national norms”-Dean of Students Rob Hradsky
RACHEL SLATTERY / THE EAGLE RACHEL SLATTERY / THE EAGLE
The ceramic sheep is tied to a pole outside Bender Library to advertise the library’s programs on Sept. 6.
Caution tape surrounds the area on Sept. 7 where the missing sheep previously stood.
By HEATHER MONGILIO
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Former Student Gov-ernment Speaker of the Senate Joe Ste.Marie resigned to take over as comptroller.
President Emily Yu nominated Ste.Marie and the Senate approved his nomination during its meeting on Sept. 9.
The comptroller is re-sponsible for overseeing the SG budget, the AUTO program and the bike lending program.
“What an honor, re-
ally, to be chosen by your peers,” Ste.Marie said.
Former SG Comptrol-ler Eric Reath said he stepped down because of personal reasons. He did not inform any SG mem-bers before announcing his resignation during a Senate meeting on Sept. 2.
Nobody in the Senate said a word after Reath’s announcement.
“He really cares about this organization and I am sad to see him go,” Class of 2012 Sen. Brett Atana-sio said.
Reath was comptrol-ler for a year and four
months. Former SG President Nate Bronstein appointed Reath after for-mer Comptroller-Elect Taylor Yeates resigned before the start of his term.
As comptroller, Reath planned to sit on the AU Budget Committee as a student advocate. After his resignation, Yu will take over this responsibil-ity, Reath said.
“I certainly still want to be involved in the pro-cess, but as of the mo-ment without me being comptroller, it is pretty
much her show,” Reath said. “But that’s not to say I won’t be speaking with administrators to talk about it.”
Ste.Marie said he and Yu will meet before decid-ing if he will work on the University budget with the Board of Trustees.
Reath says he plans to stay involved in SG, but does not know how yet.
“We’re defi nitely los-ing one of the stronger advocates of Student Gov-ernment,” SG Secretary Kevin Sutherland said.
6 | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 NEWS theEAGLE
By RACHEL KARAS
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
With bandanas tied around their faces and midday sun beating down upon their heads, a small group of students sat in the middle of the Quad with signs, leafl ets and empty stomachs.
Five members of AU Students for Justice in Palestine began a hunger strike Sept. 7, resolving to abstain from food until three Palestinian political prisoners are released or end their own strikes, SJP member Damián Fontanez said.
The group hopes to remain on the Quad from Sept. 10 to 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fontanez, a senior in the School of Public Af-fairs, said the hunger strike is a show of solidar-ity with Palestinians who are detained without cause or due process.
“[We will do this] every
day,” Fontanez said, add-ing that he hopes more stu-dents will join in the fast. “I’m hoping the prisoners are released as soon as possible … Samer al-Barq is near death and he hasn’t stopped his strike.”
Though prisoners of-ten use hunger strikes as a form of protest, the fi ve SJP members are striking for three detainees who have gone longest with-out eating: Samer al-Barq, Hassan Safadi and Ayman Sharawna.
As of Sept. 7, al-Barq was on his 140th day with-out food since April 15, ac-cording to Amnesty Inter-national. Safadi was on his 150th day of hunger strike since March 5 and Sharaw-na was on his 69th day of hunger strike, according to Palestinian prisoners’ support and human rights network Addameer.
SJP members also held a hunger strike in Febru-ary in support of Khader Adnan, who had then
been fasting for 60 days, The Eagle previously re-ported. The AU students’ strike lasted six days be-fore Israeli authorities an-nounced Adnan would be released in April.
Michael Dranove, a sen-ior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he be-lieves holding a strike of their own is the best way to support the imprisoned.
“We’re being optimis-tic about how long we can last,” Dranove said. “I eat a lot of food … I have a fast metabolism. It’s going to be very diffi cult, but I’ll go through with it.”
The group is also ask-ing students to write let-ters to Brigadier General Danny Efroni, military judge advocate general of the Israeli Defense Forces, to “demand an end to this cruel policy of unjust im-prisonment,” according to an SJP leafl et.
As of September 2011, 272 Palestinians were held in “administrative deten-
tion” without charge, ac-cording to Human Rights Watch.
Fontanez said they had received a positive and curious response from people passing by on campus, and said many others have written messages of support on-line even if they choose not to fast.
According to Dran-ove, a student wearing a Star of David necklace ap-proached the group, said he had brought a burrito and chips, tried to feed them and then told Public Safety that SJP had tried to attack him.
Public Safety offi cers later spoke with the group, who denied attacking the student, and told The Ea-gle that they were unable to release information at the time.
Fontanez said food should not be given to the group, but to “others who
Pro-Palestine students go on hunger strike for prisoners
SG comptroller resigns, Senate speaker steps in
“We’re definitely losing one of the stronger advocates of Student Government.”
-SG Secretary Kevin Sutherland
SARAH BLAHOVEC / THE EAGLE
Students create signs for their demonstration on the Quad in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on Sept. 7.
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theEAGLE NEWS SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 | 7
Student group seeks dialogue with University
By MARIS FEELEY
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Quebec students dem-onstrated against the edu-cation system wearing red felt squares earlier this year. AU students are bor-rowing this symbol to show their support for the Coali-tion of American University Students (CAUS).
CAUS aims to increase discussion of issues stu-dents have with the admin-istration and resolve them by using students’ own methods of direct ac-tion, said group organizer and senior in the School of Public Affairs Chris Litch-fi eld.
“The red patch is a sym-bol of student solidarity,” said Mitch Ellmauer, one of the organizers and a SPA senior.
Litchfi eld said the patch is an “identifying mark that shows you support the idea that students should be working to better their own education.”
The patches will be dis-tributed by various mem-bers and at gatherings of the CAUS members to dis-cuss and vote on methods
of action.The CAUS will meet
every Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Mary Graydon Center Corner Lounge to deter-mine goals for the semester and school year, according to Litchfi eld. The meetings will be in the form of stu-dent assemblies.
“All decisions are made directly by members, who can be any AU student,” said Litchfi eld.
The group plans to change how the University and students collaborate to bring about change.
“As it is now, we don’t really have a say in how things are run … We think of education as a right, and students are the center of the university,” said Ell-mauer.
To go about accomplish-ing these goals, the CAUS plans to use direct action to “better housing policies [and] reform the Student Conduct Code,” according to a statement issued last year. They also encourage the administration offi cials “to be open and transparent with their [fi scal] spend-ing,” Litchfi eld said.
Litchfield said students
cannot voice their opinions openly to administrators in the current system.
“The problem with meeting the administration in their space [i.e. in meet-ings, committees] is the fact that students are inten-tionally outgunned, inten-tionally disenfranchised,” Litchfi eld said. “They put one student on a commit-tee to represent the entire student body and have ten administrators. It’s not an equal dynamic.”
AU administration did not comment in time for publication.
The forms of direct ac-tion that the CAUS is con-sidering include rallies on the Quad, phone-ins and write-ins to the administra-tion, as well as “teach-ins.”
“A teach-in is a class run by students or professors who are allies,” Litchfi eld said. “The idea would be that you hold an unoffi cial, unsanctioned class about a topic that’s important to the people there.”
As for learning about the CAUS, “word-of-mouth is really effective,” Ellmauer said.
EVAN GRAY / THE EAGLE
By TRAVIS WILLIAMSON
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
College of Arts and Sciences Professor Ellen Feder opposed a study on fetal gender manipulation in a paper published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.
The original study, writ-ten by French researchers Michel David and Mague-lone Forest in 1984, cham-pions a drug procedure to prevent female babies from being born with an inclination toward bisexu-ality, lesbianism or mascu-line tendencies.
The scientists conduct-ing this study used the off-label drug dexamethasone to prevent the condition in female infants known as congenital adrenal hyper-plasia (CAH). CAH causes females to be born with intersex characteristics and causes more male em-blematic genital and brain characteristics to develop.
“I have struggled with making sense of [the sci-entist’s] motivations,” Feder said in an email. “Are they interested gen-
erally in ‘fetal engineer-ing’ as you might put it, or are they motivated by prejudice (of anatomical difference), or even by the promise of more research monies and publications?”
Feder co-authored the opposition paper with Northwestern University Professor Alice Dreger and Advocates for In-formed Choice Direc-tor Anne Tamar-Mattis. Advocates for Informed Choice is an organization that strives to protect the rights of children with in-tersex conditions and dif-ferent sex developments.
Feder’s paper says this drug does little to prevent CAH, since it is ineffective on 90 percent of exposed fetuses. In addition, dexa-methasone is administered before doctors can identify the fetus as female.
Feder said many par-ents decide to take the drug because they believe it is best for their baby’s health.
“Parents who have agreed to take prenatal dexamethasone believe they are treating an as-
pect of their child’s pos-sible illness...rather than try to ‘engineer’ optimized children, parents believe they are securing their children’s health, which is their obligation,” Feder said.
AU is noted for its strong GLBTA community and acceptance of students of all sexual orientations. It is the only D.C. school to have a fi ve-star rating on Campus Pride’s LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index, The Eagle previ-ously reported.
Miriam Wolf, deputy director of AU Queers and Allies, said doctors should not have the power to ma-nipulate or control a baby’s gender or sexual identity.
“Why disturb the natu-ral, magnifi cent process of pregnancy?” Wolf said. “Isn’t the beauty of hav-ing a child is to see how the child develops, grows and matures into the per-son he or she wants to become? Science does not entitle humans to control the wonders and perplexi-ties of identity.”
AU professor refutes controversial study
need it more.” While he ate around 200 calories each day during last se-mester’s strike, he is now choosing to drink only wa-ter and tea.
“I want to challenge
myself for an oppressed people,” Fontanez said, comparing the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict to that of American colonists and Native Americans. “That’s what keeps me going.”
Dranove and Fontanez said they believe the crea-
tion of the state of Israel came at the expense of 700,000 to 800,000 Pales-tinians and has resulted in “ethnic cleansing.”
“I try to take an in-tellectual standpoint on the whole thing, and I wouldn’t be doing this if I hadn’t weighed the ar-guments,” Dranove said. “There’s two sides to every story, but most of the time, there’s one side that’s right.”
Students plan to fast until political
prisoners are released! CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6
A student wears a red felt square to show solidarity with the student group CAUS.
8 | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 NEWS theEAGLE
By SUZANNE GABER
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
More than 10 members from AU College Demo-crats attended the Demo-cratic National Conven-tion from Sept. 4 through 6.
Students chose to at-tend the DNC for a variety of reasons. One student, Zack Carroll, attended the convention as a delegate for his home state.
Carroll, a sophomore in the School of Inter-national Service, began working in Illinois politics when he was 15 years old. He founded his county’s Young Democrats group last year, which quickly became the most political-ly active in the Midwest.
Katherine Tinker at-tended the convention with Business Forward, an organization that works to bring policy makers and business owners together to solve domestic econom-ic issues.
Tinker, a junior in SIS and president of AU Col-lege Democrats, said she had thought of herself as “center left” despite her democratic views. Howev-er, the energy and speak-ers of the convention gave her confidence and pride in her “Democrat” title.
She spoke with many congressmen and busi-nessmen as a part of her job with Business For-ward and said many were responsive to her AU title. Terry McAuliffe, a Vir-
ginia businessman who is running for the Senate, even gave her a hug upon hearing she was from AU.
Tinker said the high-light of the convention was “seeing people who recognized how awesome American University is when it comes to politics.”
Tinker assisted in McAuliffe’s campaign in Virginia directly after the convention.
Students at the con-vention attended an AU alumni reception hosted by School of Public Affairs Dean Barbara Romzek.
AU College Republi-cans did not comment in time for publication de-spite multiple attempts to contact them.
By HEATHER MONGILIO
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Student Government Sen. Brett Atanasio pre-sented a constitution for the new student govern-ment during the Senate meeting on Sept. 2.
This is the next step in replacing SG with the new AU Student Association.
SG members called for a new constitution because they felt SG had shifted its focus away from advocacy. The Senate voted on April 24 to begin reorganizing
SG, The Eagle previously reported.
The new Student As-sociation would consist of a Board of Representa-tives, which will replace the current senate. Under the Board of Representa-tives will be the president. Below the president will be four vice presidents for advocacy, programming, finance and communica-tions, according to the proposed constitution ob-tained by The Eagle.
The school councils will be removed from the Stu-
dent Association, accord-ing to the documents.
Instead, the school councils will work with the deans, according to committee member and Senator At-Large Joe Wis-niewski.
The class councils will be replaced in part by a Senior Programming Board. The vice president of programming will elect members from the gradu-ating class to the board, ac-cording to the documents. None of the other classes will have their own organi-zation in the Student Asso-ciation.
The committee chose not to include the other class councils, because many of the councils do not become active until senior year, when they fo-cus on raising money for
the senior class gift, Wis-niewski said.
“It’s a more efficient system,” Wisniewski said.
SG will now work to gain the 600 students’ sig-natures needed to call for a referendum, the first step toward the special election needed to approve the con-stitution, Wisniewski said.
The transition to the new Student Association will be completed by the spring if students approve the constitution, said Atan-asio, chairman of the Gov-ernment Committee on Constitutional Review.
“Personally, I think that this is going to make the organization better,” Wis-niewski said. “We desper-ately need this.”
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SEPT 25 MINUS THE BEAR, CURSIVE, CASPIAN
SEPT 28 THE B’ZSEPT 30 DOWN, PENTAGRAM, WAR BEAST, MOUNT CARMEL
OCT 2 WOLFGANG GARTNER, PIERCE FULTON, POPESKA
OCT 3 SWITCHFOOT, PAPER ROUTE
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OCT 11 JAKE OWEN, LOVE AND THEFT, FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
OCT 12 LECRAEOCT 13 THE TEMPER TRAP, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
OCT 15 PRIMUS IN 3-DOCT 16 JAY AND SILENT BOB GET OLDOCT 18 MYSTIKAL, SILKK THE SHOCKER
OCT 21 SAY ANYTHING, MURDER BY DEATH, THE SIDEKICKS, TALLHART
OCT 23 ALANIS MORISSETTE, SOULEYE
OCT 24 TREY ANASTASIO
OCT 27 YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND BROWN BIRD
OCT 29 SQUAREPUSHER, MOUNT KIMBIE
OCT 31 UMPHREY’S MCGEETHE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR
NOV 2 DETHKLOK, ALL THAT REMAINS, MACHINE HEAD, BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
NOV 3 GOV’T MULE
NOV 7 THEORY OF A DEADMAN, ADELITAS WAY, CHARM CITY DEVILS
NOV 10 YELAWOLF, RITTZ, TROUBLE ANDREW, DJ VAJRA
NOV 16 TIMEFLIESNOV 24 DELTA SPIRIT, JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, FIDLAR
NOV 27 SUM 41, IAMDYNAMITE
NOV 28 HARD PRESENTS BOYS NOIZEDEC 14 SARA EVANS, EDEN’S EDGE, PARMALEE
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@ A friend and I crossed streams in the bathroom in the same toilet at a party when we were both hammered.
Don’t cross the streams. Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. TOTAL PROTONIC REVERSAL!
That awkward moment when the hottest guy on the floor is your RA. Ugh, AU why must you make my life so hard?
It’s always nice to have bugs in your salad. Go AU!!
To all those guys (and girls) out there who think they are “forever alone” or stuck in the “friend zone”:
just remember that in the end, Ron Stoppable got Kim Possible.!
-Straight (and single)
Oh Adrienne. You thought that an Eagle article was going to give you a bad P.R. rep? Now look what the Washington Post and Today Show have done to you… Not smart of you. Not smart at all. But my favorite comment
on one of those articles is this: “My teachers always used to say that if you want to eat in class, you have to share with the rest of the students.” I could not stop laughing when I read that.
My psych professor
has a folder on her computer named “TO DOOOOOOOOO” with a bunch of seemingly unrelated files and folders in it. It made me like her as a professor even more.
We hooked up and you
made me food at 3 in the morning to back up your claim that you are a great cook. Can we please have more sex? and eggs?
why are all the buildings over air-conditioned? really sustainable, AU
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By AMBER COHEN
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Forget auto-tune and back-tracks. A cappella is the popular trend this year, not only in main-stream culture (exemplified by hit shows like “Glee” and “The Sing-Off”) but also on campus.
AU’s four a cappella groups showed off their talent on Sept. 7 in front of tightly packed pews in the Kay Spiritual Life Center.
The co-ed group Dime A Doz-en, decked out in red and black, performed first. The members sang “Gunpowder and Lead” by popular country artist Miranda Lambert, as well as “Change in My Life” and “All the Above” by Maino.
Blends with Benefits took over the stage next singing the radio hit “Somebody I Used To Know” by Gotye. The crowd roared with laughter during a rendition of the “Pokémon Theme Song” then sobered up when they slowed the tempo down with Coldplay’s tearjerker, “Fix You.”
The all-male On A Sensual
Note came on stage next accom-panied by loud cheers. A high-light of their performance was a serenade mashup of “Sexual Healing” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” sung to an audi-ence member. The group also sang a mashup of “Some Nights” and “We Are Young” by fun., fin-ishing with an energized perfor-mance of “Somebody to Love,” accompanied by a cardboard cut-out of Justin Bieber.
The all-girl group Treble in Paradise ended the show with an Adele mashup of “Rumor Has It” and “Someone Like You,” followed by “Not Over You” by Gavin DeGraw. The ladies fin-ished with a tribute to the late Whitney Houston in a mashup of her biggest hits “I Will Always Love You” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”
While the groups showed they already had talent, the con-cert’s main purpose was to at-tract newcomers to audition for the a cappella groups.
Lucie Alden, a freshman in CAS, wanted to audition for Tre-ble in Paradise before the con-
cert even began.“I love singing. It defines me,”
Alden said. “I want to audition because I like Treble in Para-dise’s repertoire.”
For many auditioners, this is not their first time. Elyse Pres-ton, a sophomore in SPA, audi-tioned last year during the spring and advised first-timers to have fun, to be yourself and to go for it.
Auditions occurred the week-end after the concert with a gen-eral audition on Saturday and calls back on Sunday.
Evan Petrone, a junior in SPA and SOC, joined Blend with Ben-efits his freshman year.
“I didn’t have any singing experience when I first joined,” Petrone said. “But it is a welcom-ing environment where every-one supports each other.”
Each group has a different au-dition process. For Blends with Benefits, newcomers must have one song prepared. During the audition, he or she will be asked to sing scales and to sing with the group to see how well he or she can blend. For Treble in Paradise, each person who audi-tions arrives to their allotted 10 minute slot with a verse and cho-rus of a pop song. Then he or she will have their tonal memory, or how well they match pitches,
tested. “We look for a wide range, es-
pecially during the scales,” CAS junior Maria Schneider of Treble in Paradise said. “While beat-boxing would be great, it is an additional skill we look for.”
Spots are limited for all the groups, but according to Schnei-der it is worth the time and effort
to audition.“You get to sing at benefits,
around D.C. or go on tour to other schools,” Schneider said. “It’s a great opportunity to get involved in AU.”
Full disclosure: Eagle Editor-in-Chief Zach C. Cohen is a mem-ber of Dime a Dozen.
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A Justin Bieber cutout guest-starred in On A Sensual Note’s performance in Kay. OASN is AU’s all-male a cappella ensemble.
A cappella groups kick off new year with pitch-perfect preview
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TV PICK: The Mindy Project
By JORDAN-MARIE SMITH
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Fans of “The Office” may not know who actress Mindy Kaling is, but they certainly know who her character Kelly Kapoor is. Kaling, who has written for and starred in “The Office,” may finally gain the recognition she deserves with “The Mindy Project.”
With a New York Times bestseller under her belt (“Is Everyone Hanging Out With-
out Me?”) and recognition as a comedian, producer and ac-tress it seems logical for Kaling to create her own show.
“The Mindy Project” cent-ers on Dr. Lahiri, played by Kaling, an OB/GYN with a penchant for romantic com-edies and bad decisions. Al-though she makes poor deci-sions in love, she is a star in the operating room.
“The Office” fanatics should be excited to see the same sarcastic, girly yet ironic humor play out in “The Mindy Project.” Kaling is a refreshing change from the white-washed female leads of network com-edy shows before her.
DEBUTS SEPT. 25 AT 9:30 P.M. ON FOX
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theEAGLE SCENE SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 | 11
By CHELSEA CLAYS
EAGLE COLUMNIST
D.C. looks the best in autumn (I love the spring and its cherry blossoms, but I’m a fall weather person). Fall is the best season for D.C. because every week-end is filled with festivals galore, celebrating all of D.C.’s amazing residents. Here are some of the best fall picks for some prime “D.C. Chillin.”
H STREET FESTIVALSEPT. 15 — NOON TO 6 P.M.
Held in one of D.C.’s most vi-brant neighborhoods, this year’s H Street Festival motto is “One Street — One City,” bringing to-gether members of the commu-nity to draw attention to the bur-geoning arts and entertainment district. This year’s highlights in-clude an art car show, a preview of D.C. Fashion Week and musi-cal performances sponsored by the Rock & Roll Hotel.
TURKISH FESTIVALSEPT. 30 — 11 A.M. TO 7 P.M.
Can’t afford to plane ticket to Turkey? No worries. Head to D.C.’s annual Turkish Festival on Pennsylvania Avenue be-tween 12th and 14th St. NW for a full day of free activities, from lively folk dancing and musical performances to arts and crafts activities. You can also enjoy other much-loved aspects of Turkey such as its delicious cui-sine, tradition of coffee fortune reading and bustling bazaar (holiday shopping anyone?).
TASTE OF D.C.OCT. 6 TO 8 — NOON TO 7 P.M.
Foodies from all over the Dis-
trict unite at Taste of D.C. where dozens of restaurants, food trucks and catering companies offer samples of their trademark dishes for minimal prices ($1 to $3). While you’re tasting your fa-vorite morsels from D.C.’s tasti-est places, you can watch over 50 different live acts, including mu-sicians, dancers and chef demon-strations. Admission is $10.
D.C. DRAG QUEEN RACEOCT. 30 — 9 P.M.
One of D.C.’s racier traditions, drag queens dress to the nines on the Tuesday right before Hallow-een to race each other...in heels. People start arriving as early at 6 p.m. to admire and gawk at their fabulously ridiculous costumes and score a prime spot for snap-ping photos. Afterward, winners, losers and spectators gather for an informal block party that lasts well into the night.
CRAFTY BASTARDS ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIRNOV. 10 — 10 A.M.-7 P.M.
Hilarious name aside, this craft fair is like Etsy come to life. Craft makers and artists from all over the country come to Union Market to sell their gear. From gorgeous leather-bound journals to snarky greeting cards and ironic sweaters, crafters com-pete just to be able to sell here by winning points for their origi-nality. They then compete to win votes for the fair-goers’ favorite booth. Make sure to bring lots of cash and enjoy all the neat things you find while supporting small businesses.
Celebrate the coming of autumn with the best of
the District’s fall festivals
D.C. CHILLIN’
By SYDNEY GORE
EAGLE COLUMNIST
Fashionistas of the DMV re-gion swarmed M Street, eager to see what The District shops had in store for D.C.’s Fashion’s Night Out on Sept. 6.
The whole concept behind FNO is shopping for a cause, with the night’s profits going towards various charities. Pro-ceeds from the signature FNO Georgetown items went toward the Vital Voices Global Partner-ship, a D.C.-based charity repre-sented by extraordinary women across the globe.
Following this example, stores like J. Crew sold exclu-sive FNO items. A portion of the funds from J. Crew’s FNO t-shirt benefitted the AIDS Foundation in New York City.
For the most part, stores in the vicinity offered edible free-
bies and exclusive discounts. UGG Australia had one of the best set-ups, treating customers to an assortment of tasty appetiz-ers with music provided by a DJ.
Madewell provided their guests with multiple perks, such as beverages, candy and a hair-braiding bar. In addition, cus-tomers received free Madewell pouches if they spent over $100.
Urban Outfitters on M Street hosted a local pop-up shop where shoppers could check out local artists and participate in a free DIY workshop for the items that they purchased. Down the street, Anthropologie offered one-on-one styling and extended shopping after hours.
From Q Street to Wiscon-sin Avenue, pedi-cabs (bicycle chariots) chauffeured shoppers throughout the evening for free. A VIP lounge, built around Dean and Deluca by the nightlife and
culture web magazine Bright-est Young Things, treated all to red carpet access, free bottles of Vitamin Water and entertain-ment such as people covered in balloons walking the streets on stilts. Hidden within a white tent behind the PNC Bank on M Street, a DJ played all the mixes on a humongous and empty dance floor.
With freelance photogra-phers waiting on every corner of M Street to snap photos of im-pressively dressed passers, eve-ryone could feel important no matter who they were or where they came from that night.
While some may be under the impression that there would be no comparison between D.C.’s FNO to that of New York, the evening was a fashionably fun time for all who attended.
Georgetown charitably hosts District’s stylocrats for annual Fashion’s Night Out
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A fashionably dressed passer-by poses for the cameras as she peruses the Georgetown shops.
Brightest Young Things (BYT) is a D.C.-based web mag-azine that moonlights as a nightlife and events planner.
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FINE ART FOR FREE
By SEAN MEEHAN / EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Living in a big city can be expensive. But it doesn’t have to be. Every week there’s someone willing to feed, enter-tain, occupy, educate or annoy you, all for free. Fine Art For Free rounds up the best free art events in the coming week to help you stretch that paycheck just a little bit further.
INSPIRATIONS FROM BERLIN FOR WASHINGTON’S DUPONT UNDERGROUND | GOETHE INSTITUT | OPENING DISCUSSION AND RECEPTION- SEPT. 13 | PANEL DISCUSSION FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 | EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL NOV. 2
Does Washington, D.C.’s future lie in Berlin’s past? Curator Stephanie Sherman thinks so. Her new exhibition, which opens at the Goethe Institut on Sept. 13, examines the ways that the city of Berlin transformed unused or abandoned space into the artistic centers. These centers have helped cement Berlin’s reputation as one of the most creative and interesting cities in the world. The project focuses on the work of a group of Washington artists and researchers who traveled to Berlin seeking inspiration for D.C.’s Dupont Underground project, which aims to create a Berlin-like creative space in abandoned tunnels under Dupont Circle.
HONFLEUR GALLERY | OPENING SEPT. 14 AT 7 P.M. Anacostia’s Honfleur Gallery will be celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions
Sept. 14, both of which will run until Oct. 26. The first, Arie Mandelbaum’s “Love & Rage,” is a series of abstract, mixed-media works inspired by a six-week residency in Anacostia. The 13 pieces in the exhibition recount experiences from Mandelbaum’s residency in his signature soft, pastel style. Upstairs, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann’s “Un-quiet Kingdom” will open, featuring site-specific, acrylic-on-paper installation paintings which play on the contrast between order and chaos. Each of the paintings feature a clash between tight, intricate patterns and larger, more chaotic marks.
FLASHPOINT GALLERY | EXHIBITION CLOSES SEPT. 13 AT 6 P.M.
If you can make it before 6 p.m. on Thursday, British visual artist Polly Townsend’s latest exhibition will still be on display at Flash-point Gallery in Metro Center. “Slower Than This” is a more in-trospective project for Townsend, which focuses on the interplay be-tween photography and painting. Flashpoint Gallery is a fairly small place, so this won’t be a day trip. But if you’re looking for some-thing to do on Thursday but also want to save money for dinner, this exhibit is worth a stop.
Get your weekly dose of free art
“PARKS AND PASSAGES”
ARIE MANDELBAUM: “LOVE & RAGE” / KATHERINE TZU-LAN MANN:“UNQUIET KINGDOM”
POLLY TOWNSEND: “SLOWER THAN THIS”
By SYDNEY GORE
EAGLE COLUMNIST
At some point, every con-certgoer laces up their boots in preparation for facing the infamous “mosh pit.” For the scarce amount of people out there who have never been exposed to a mosh pit, it is es-sentially the rowdiest section of a crowd where arms, fists and kicks are thrown in all directions. In the aftermath, expect blood, sweat and tears to be shed as well.
Nobody usually enjoys their first mosh pit because they lack experience. (Warn-ing: The worst that could
possibly happen is being sur-rounded by pre-teen fangirls who claw at anyone separat-ing them from their favorite band member.) The nature of surviving a mosh pit is simple: when push comes to shove, reciprocate it all.
If someone gets knocked down, they have a choice—stay down or get back up. This same idea can be ap-plied to everyday life. When we are faced with a chal-lenge, we have the decision to give up and accept defeat or go in knowing it will be dif-ficult, tackle it hands-on and conquer the beast.
My favorite part about the
mosh pit is the unexpected kindness conveyed amidst all the chaos. The same people who want to tear their vic-tims apart limb from limb will bend over backwards and support them in the event that they get hurt or need protection. If the pit becomes too intense, there is always the option of getting out, and people will open a path towards the nearest exit. Be-yond the venue, this support system is a representation of family and friends. No matter how rough things get inside and outside of the pit, there will always be people who step up and offer a shoulder to cry on or a reassuring hug when it is needed the most. These same people also pro-vide guidance free of charge.
In a way, going into a mosh pit is like a rite of pas-sage. Sticking it out proves how dedicated you are to the
band and, above all else, the music. Everyone is equal in the pit; there are no advan-tages, cheat codes or free passes. It’s one thing to stand on the outskirts and tolerate moshing but quite another to participate for the thrill of de-fending yourself at all costs, and in the process earning some respect.
There’s something educa-tional about being in a crowd full of strangers at a venue for one night that completely triumphs what I am forced to learn out of a textbook in a classroom every day. The people of the pit teach me more about life in one night than my professors manage to do in one week.
Then again, maybe I am speaking total nonsense be-cause I have been hit in the head too many times by ran-dom crowd-surfers.
MY MOSH PIT PHILOSOPHIES
SYDNEY GORE — FROM THE PIT TO THE PAVEMENT
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theEAGLE SCENE SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 | 13
By CASEY BRAND
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Two new exhibits at the Katzen Arts Center, “John Cage’s STEPS: A Composition for a Painting, Selected Watercolors, Various Objects, and Ephemera” and “Occupy This!” defy conven-tional standards of art.
The exhibits opened Sept. 1. Both exhibits deal with the prob-lem of inaction and recall the volatile nature of the 1960s.
DOCUMENTING THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
“Occupy This!” incorporates photography, film and art from the Occupy movement around the world, with a focus on Oc-cupy D.C.
The exhibit features a loose reconstruction of the original “People’s Library,” a collection of books and knowledge for Oc-cupy D.C. participants to share. The library adds an aspect of interactivity to the exhibit. Muse-um visitors are welcome to con-tribute to and borrow from the makeshift library. The library seems to have a voice of its own, decrying injustice through the signs that surround it.
The exhibit also focuses on the historical movements that inspired Occupy. “Occupy This!” includes a collection of photo-graphs and a documentary fea-turing the Bonus Army, a group
of World War I veterans that marched on D.C. following the start of the Great Depression to demand full reimbursement of their salaries.
The exhibit as a whole is fas-cinating because the movement and the events that it depicts hit close to home.
Photographs of social move-ments from the past century re-call the appearance of Occupy.
“Movements look the way they do because of images that have come out of the culture,” said AU Museum Director and Curator Jack Rasmussen during a tour of the exhibits.
CELEBRATING JOHN CAGE“John Cage’s STEPS” cel-
ebrates famed composer, art-ist and writer John Cage. Cage is most famous for his musical composition “4’33’’,” which is four minutes and 33 seconds of silence. It allows listeners to “experience everything [they] wouldn’t normally hear,” Ras-mussen said. This mentality drives the exhibit.
The exhibit is part of the John Cage Centennial Festival in D.C. The Cage exhibits also include pieces by choreographer Merce Cunningham, which use motion as an unexpected medium. Cun-ningham used a wheelchair as a paintbrush in one work while footprints decorate another. The pieces vibrate with the chaotic
movements used to create them. The works are at once intention-al and spontaneous.
Cage’s simple works have a musical quality, reflecting his background. The abstractions in his works seem improvised and in some cases incomplete. These qualities force the viewer to re-flect on the artist’s intentions.
“In a way, [Cage] was just as subversive of the institution as Occupy,” Rasmussen said.
MORE TO COMEOn Sept. 15, two more exhib-
its, “Revelation: Major Paintings” by Jules Olitski and “PLAT-FORMS” by the Washington Sculpture Group, will open at the museum. In the spirit of Occupy, students will host a gallery talk addressing the issue of student debt on the same day.
The exhibits are an effort by the museum to motivate students to get involved, Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen was interested in creating a show “that was about more than just looking at pic-tures.”
The show certainly succeeds in this respect. “John Cage’s STEPS” and “Occupy This!” are thought-provoking, multi-faceted exhibits that will prove especially fascinating to museum-goers in-terested in history.
The exhibits are open through Oct. 21.
By RICHARD KAUFMANN
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Visitors to the Corcoran Gal-lery of Art on the first Saturday of September shuffled past a bi-zarre sight: a woman dressed in a traditional Colombian attire, sweeping the floor and washing windows to the loud tune of Latin pop songs.
It was an odd sight to see at the museum’s entrance, which is flanked by 19th century busts, sculpted by Hiram Powers. Many visitors ignored the woman, giv-ing her little more than a con-fused glare before going on their way, pushing through the
glass-door entrance and dirtying the panes she had just cleaned. One of the spectators, who had joined a small crowd gathered around this event, even blurted out, “What’s with that window-washer?”
However, the woman wasn’t a member of the museum’s janito-rial staff. Her name is Carolina Mayorga, and she was perform-ing her latest act, “Maid in the USA,” in which she works to explore the stereotypes, both visible and unseen, that revolve around Latin Americans in this nation’s service industry.
“Maid in the USA” is part of the Corcoran’s nine-week series entitled “Take It to the Bridge.” The series revolves around a glass-box, known as “the Bridge,” which was built atop the doors of the museum’s entranceway.
Occasionally, Mayorga would
climb a ladder and place herself in the box. That’s no easy feat, considering the burdensome dress she was wearing.
“It’s so unexpected to see this kind of piece in a gallery setting,” Sarah Durkee, the museum’s vice president of public education, said. “But it’s great, because it allows us to experiment with our audience. People can’t help but interact with the performance.”
“Maid in the USA” offered an easy-to-miss glimpse into a world that is often ignored. Despite the obvious humor of watching a woman dressed in traditional garb taking her lunch-break in a transparent glass-box, there was
obviously a great deal of heart put into the work. While it is an odd sight to see in a museum setting hosting pieces that range from Peale to Picasso, “Maid in the USA” was an interesting, if not thought-provoking, act show-casing a people and service that is often taken for granted.
Two performances remain for the Bridge series. “Bridging the Light,” by Anne Albagli, will be-gin on Sept. 9, and will set out to explore the manipulation of light that can be achieved through the transparent glass-box atop the Corcoran’s entrance. The series will conclude on Sept. 15, with “This Space Occupied (by Maida),” wherein Maida Withers and Steve Hilmy will work from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. improvising a performance centered around the Occupy Movement.
Two new Katzen exhibits showcase diversity of museum’s fall offerings
Corcoran Gallery sheds light on Latin American stereotypes, struggles
‘Maid in the USA’ offered an easy- to-miss glimpse into a world
that is often ignored.
COURTESY OF RAY KASS
14 | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 SCENE theEAGLE
AUDIOPHILE Looking for new music? DJs at WVAU share their thoughts on a range of recent releases.
If Studio 54 was an L.A. beach club.“Daytime Disco” shouldn’t be a
legitimate genre title that works. It just shouldn’t.
But on Poolside’s debut “Pacifi c Standard Time,” it’s right on.
The 72-minute, 16 track record seems to run a bit long, unless you’re actually lounging poolside; the album melts into one long laidback California
groove. Standout tracks including the Neil Young cover of “Harvest Moon” break up the fl ow of the ‘70s-inspired keyboard, synths and basslines with xylophone riffs layered on top. Soft falsetto vocals and harmonies recall the BeeGees without feeling dated.
The beats are obviously Poolside’s focus, but lyrics like “Don’t move so fast / Slow down / Let this feeling last / Relax / It’s alright” only drive the lazy beach day disco theme further home…or to the beach.
Recommended If You Like: Neon Indian, Caribou, summer
By MARISSA CETIN
POOLSIDEPACIFIC STANDARD TIME
New York three-piece plays a brand of rock that is instantly familiar yet surpris-ingly fresh.
Nude Beach write the type of music you would expect of a band sporting a retro greaser look on their front album cover. Their songs are melodic, punchy bursts of energy that owe more to pop than they do punk, yet they have an undeniable toughness about them.
The material has such a classic
sound that it often feels familiar even upon fi rst listen, and that’s probably how the band intended it to be. Tracks such as “Radio” and “Cathedral Ech-oes” certainly wear their infl uences (Elvis Costello, The Replacements) on their sleeves, but the melodies and tight songwriting make up for any lack of originality.
Even if it’s been done a thousand times before, Nude Beach’s brand of power-pop meets punk is simply too likable to resist, and it results in one of the most feel-good albums of the year.
RIYL: Elvis Costello, ! e Replacements, ! e Gaslight Anthem
By CAMERON MEINDL
NUDE BEACH II
Eternal Summers delivers fuzzy pop with youthful exuberance and charm — and a serious punk edge.
The fi rst track of dream-punk band Eternal Summer’s “Correct Behavior” is deceiving. “Millions” is a perfect sum-mer pop song with anthemic riffs and sweet vocals.
“Correct Behavior” is much more then sunny hooks, with creepy distor-tion, cacophonous drums and a dark punk aura setting Eternal Summers apart from easy comparisons like Best Coast or Dum Dum Girls.
Nicole Yun’s voice has that same clear and effortless quality as other ga-
rage rock frontwomen, but on songs like “You Kill” she stretches her range to its breaking point with electrifying results.
Drummer Daniel Cundiff takes a turn doing vocals on “Girls in the City,” in a turn reminiscent of a spoken-sung Veltet Underground track. It’s followed by the stormy “Heaven and Hell” where Yun proclaims, “Death itself will die” as the drums vacillate from hard to soft.
Lyrically, “Correct Behavior” is a perfect encapsulation of the summer between high school and college when you’re still confi ned in your parent’s house with freedom only weeks away. It’s a refl ection of their sound: rebellious and carefree, but a little cynical and dark. It’s about facing the harsh reality that summer doesn’t last forever.
RIYL: Orange Juice, Grass Widow, ! e Raincoats, Crocodiles
By EMILY WHITE
ETERNAL SUMMERS CORRECT BEHAVIOR
With ‘Ocean Roar,’ Mount Eerie further develops his unique sound
By CHRISTINE LY
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Mount Eerie’s sixth LP delivers another lush, mind-altering, sonic ex-periment that converges into an atypical mix of folk, indie and metal.
Under the moniker Mount Eerie, Phil El-verum’s music career has seen the release of dozens of full-length albums, EPs and live experimentations. In a nutshell, he has been stylistically inconsistent in the best possible way. On the album “Wind’s Poem” he delved into black metal inspired by the likes of Leviathan and Wolves in the Throne Room — he played indie back when he led lo-fi band The Micro-phones.
Now, his latest album “Ocean Roar” is the sec-ond of twin albums re-leased in 2012, the fi rst be-ing “Clear Moon,” which was more normative in structure and bled dark tones. Both albums were written in Elverum’s old church-cum-studio two years in the making.
Released by his name-sake label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd., on Sept. 4, “Ocean Roar” brings the sound towards the light with mysterious and lone-some contemplations of nature and living memo-ries.
The album begins with “Pale Lights,” one of the album’s most dynamic
songs, bolstered by a cym-bal-driven beat replete with grinding guitar. With that kind of energetic sound, you’d expect El-verum to start singing but, not so; he’ll have you wait until the 3:05 mark before you hear his fi rst delivery. As the song reaches its fi nal minutes, a constant stream of something that sounds like a distorted harpsichord beckons lis-teners to lose themselves in the thrill of looking over some majestic mountain.
The title song “Ocean Roar” features a chorus of female-backing vocalists that harmonizes with El-verum’s soft lilt. There is defi nitely a lighter feel to this song, which is made more evident by the peals of children’s laughter at the very end.
“Waves” erupts with a rolling groundswell of ferocious, drum crescen-dos and atmospheric gui-tar. In fact, Elverum’s penchant for the scenic and epic might stem from his upbring-ing in the forests of Or-egon. Each song seems to emulate the looming threat of the f a n t a s t i c a l and unset-tling enormi-ty of nature’s essential ele-ments.
Abandon-
ment and wandering won-derment of the suburban wilderness plays out in “I Walked Home Behold-ing.” With the infrequen-cy of vocalization, listen-ers are left hanging ontoevery word that Elverumsings of storms and the calm wake, “tossed on the waves, blown onto land, grasping meaning, in churning mess, a moment of clear air breathing, see-ing the expanse totally at peace with the meaning-lessness of living.”
Overall, “Ocean Roar” pays skillful attention to both electronic and acous-tic signatures. The combi-nation will take your mind from heavy visceral bleak-ness to an almost wistfulmeditation of organic life. As you listen to Mount Eerie, let the unexpected become the expected.
Recommended If You Like: Nadja, Wye Oak, Tim Hecker
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OPINION
ERIC REATH’S RESIGNATION LEAVES BIG SHOES TO FILLSTAFF EDITORIAL
The room went silent af-ter Eric Reath announced his resignation as Student Government comptroller on Sept. 2, and for good reason.
Reath was phenomenal at his job. He has been consistently transparent with information, willing to explain the budget and served as a dedicated stu-dent advocate. Reath was a wonk in the purest form of the word. If someone had a question concerning the University or SG budg-
et, Reath had the answers.Reath left for personal
reasons and The Eagle feels that this loss cannot be taken lightly. Reath was going to be the stu-dent representative on the AU Budget Committee. Most students do not fully understand the complex-ity of AU’s budget. The budget affects all aspects of the school: the stu-dents, the professors, the building initiatives and so on. Students overall fail to realize how the budget
works and exactly where their tuition dollars go.
These details cannot be learned overnight. Reath fully understood the intri-cacies of the AU budget, and that institutional knowledge will be hard to replace.
At the current point in time, it is unclear who will take over the seat on the AU Budget Committee.
SG President Emily Yu plans to take a more proac-tive role in budget negotia-tions now that Reath is out
of the game. This will give Yu a chance to fulfi ll her campaign promises, such as giving students beside incoming freshmen the opportunity to apply for merit-based fi nancial aid. But with all of the other responsibilities Yu has as SG president, she may not be the most effective ad-vocate for students. The AU budget can arguably be the most important is-sue SG handles, and an is-sue with such precedence should not come second
on anyone’s to-do list.If Joe Ste.Marie, the
newly appointed comptrol-ler, takes the seat he would also have a large void to fi ll. Ste.Marie and Yu will meet to decide whether or not Ste.Marie will work on the University budget with the Board of Trustees. Al-though The Eagle is confi -dent Ste.Marie will be able to handle the new position, he does not have as strong of a fi nancial background as Reath did. We fear that without Reath’s knowledge
the student presence on the AU Budget Committee will not be as infl uential.
We trust the SG of-fi cials, but we hope they focus on educating Reath’s replacements in the weeks to come.
Our main concern is what’s going to happen now. A strong SG advo-cate has just been lost, and how SG handles this loss will demonstrate its capabilities to the student body. ! E
Signifi cant campus and national debate on our coverage of Pro-fessor Adrienne Pine’s classroom breast-feeding merits the following state-ment of fact:
The Eagle initially started looking into this story when we thought an unknown professor was under administrative review for breast-feeding in class. We then found a number of students who confi rmed Pine had breast-fed her baby dur-ing a “Sex, Gender and Culture” lecture.
Heather Mongilio, who has worked at The Eagle
as a news reporter for a year, interviewed Pine to confi rm the information we had obtained. I subse-quently offered Pine ano-nymity by withholding her name, the class and the school she teaches in.
Had Pine never posted her now well-known es-say on CounterPunch, we may have never run a story in the fi rst place. If we had, we would have honored our promise to grant her anonymity.
After Pine’s decision to post her essay, we initially hesitated to communicate with both our readers and mainstream media on a
story that had not been published. We could not make the call whether or not to publish until we had all of the facts, and it would have been prema-ture for us to talk about the story in public before the story’s publication.
But national main-stream media could not wait, and The Eagle, Pine and the rest of the AU community have been covered in The Washing-ton Post, NBC and The Huffi ngton Post.
On Sept. 12, we were able to fi nish gathering all of the facts we felt were necessary to write an ob-
jective news story, found both in our print edition and online. This is the fi rst time we have published a staff-written story on the matter. We used offi cial statements from the Uni-versity, Pine’s own words on the breast-feeding and her thoughts on her inter-view with Mongilio (who did not write the fi nal story in order to prevent a confl ict of interest), in-formation on the law for public breast-feeding and student reactions.
However, we did not give Pine enough time to respond to this story in addition to the initial interview. We provided Pine a place for her view-point in the story through her post. But that is not suffi cient, and for that we apologize.
We stand by our re-porting because this is the essence of journal-
ism: we received a news tip and followed up with the proper sources to confi rm the truth. The story, in our eyes, be-came newsworthy when we found specifi c policies that afforded her protec-tion, opinions from the University on her actions and widespread campus debate on a very legiti-mate question on the so-cial acceptance of public breast-feeding.
As a journalist, my preference has always been, and will continue to be, to speak through ob-jective news reports. The Eagle values transparen-cy in its editorial policies and practices, and, now that we have our fi nal sto-ry, we can be more open with the steps we took to get to this point. We will continue to follow the So-ciety of Professional Jour-nalists’ Code of Ethics, a
national standard for me-dia standards and ethics. We encourage readers to submit letters to the edi-tor with any concerns to [email protected].
Zach C. Cohen is editor-in-chief of The Eagle.
BY ZACH C. COHEN
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
SEE THE NEWS STORY:PAGE 3
Why should you care about me? I’m sitting in MGC, bent over my com-puter. So what? You walk past me without notice. You don’t care. You’re standing in front of the stairs, waiting for a friend, fl ipping idly through your phone, pretending I don’t exist.
It’s something we often do: search for friends with-in a crowd, glazing over any unfamiliar faces. If we recognize somebody—aha! —we immediately as-sociate them with a name, a personality and a history. If not, they’re just an indis-tinguishable blur.
The way we persistently overlook others sends the message that they aren’t
important. When you walk past me in MGC, it’s like you have no use for me. I’m just some boy clack-ing away on his keyboard, right?
That’s not how a com-munity works. Even if you and I have nothing in com-mon, we have a real impact on one another. As AU stu-dents, we do not exist in isolation. We attend class-es and events, affi liate with teams and organizations, interact interpersonally and constantly shape our campus discourse through social media. My decisions affect you, even if you don’t realize it. We are intercon-nected.
I’ve come to under-stand, however, that recog-
nizing this interconnected-ness isn’t enough.
Many of us have been taught to be fi ercely in-dependent and so we put up barriers. This makes us apathetic to those we don’t immediately perceive as important. In order to overcome these barriers, we must have empathy. We must forge links, not walls, within the AU community.
When do we start to care about somebody? We care when we see our-selves in them. Empathy means fi guring out what you have in common with somebody else. Once you share this bond, you are no longer strangers. You can-not ignore somebody who reminds you of yourself.
Empathy doesn’t re-quire you to introduce yourself to everyone you meet, searching for that thing that you may have in common. Sometimes this commonality can be as simple as both being AU students, both outside en-
joying the beautiful weath-er, or that you’re both in arush.
It’s essential to recog-nize that we are intercon-nected. I’m reminded ofhow in the movie Avatar,the Na’vi would greet eachother by saying “I see you.”It shows that they acknowl-edge one another’s signifi -cance and complexity.
If we show apathy by de-liberately overlooking oneanother, we demonstrateempathy when we chooseto “see.” If I’m sitting inMGC, you don’t need totalk to me, smile at me oreven look at me. But by“seeing” me, you acknowl-edge that I am an individu-al who is important to ourcommunity, not just a pieceof scenery.
Derek Siegel is a sopho-more in the College of Artsand Sciences.
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DEREK SIEGEL | ETHICS WITH A SIDE OF TOAST
Build community with empathy
The Bánh mì was im-peccable: crunchy daikon, savory beef and sweet plus acidic chili-lime mayo combined to create some-thing that was magically foreign, but comfortably local. On a hot Friday af-ternoon, Navy Yard fi lled with four-wheeled ambas-sadors. My tongue could travel halfway across the world with 10 steps to my left or to my right, and it was easy to get lost amongst the tacos, hoag-ies, gelati, empanadas and curries at Truckeroo.
Beyond the smells, tastes and sounds of or-ders being yelled to truck-based culinary conduc-tors, there is a history. Bánh mì dates back to French colonial involve-ment in Vietnam (then Indochina) in the 19th century. Combining the distinctively French ba-guette with rice-powder and Vietnamese meats, sauces and sides led to the birth of a sandwich that fused two cultures from opposite sides of the world, the result of a colo-
nial empire.Natives of D.C. will
rave about the vibrant Ethiopian food, and many have sampled wot, injera or tibs. Yet, rarely is the question asked why D.C. has the largest Ethiopian population in the United States. The answer is rooted in the USSR-sup-ported, Ethiopian Marxist movement of the 1970s. However, the story goes beyond Cold War poli-tics: during the diaspora of the 1970s, Ethiopians settled in areas of D.C.
like Adams Morgan and U Street, which were neglected and feared af-ter the race riots of the 1960s. The immigrant population reinvigorated these neighborhoods and helped transform them into modern-day hotspots.
This past week launched the Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, a joint effort between the U.S. State Department and the James Beard Foundation. Eighty chefs were given the designa-tion of State Chefs as part of the American Chef Corps (some famil-iar names might be Mike Isabella, Rick Bayless and José Andrés). This part-nership acknowledges the importance of food in understanding and con-necting the world. The
culinary 21st century has been defi ned by a recog-nition and admiration of local, ethnic and cultural foods. Never before have unique food cultures been embraced so openly by writers, critics, TV per-sonalities and food blogs.
Food as diplomacy rec-ognizes that the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach. Culinary ambassadors can connect the United States with in-dividual from around the world through what is per-haps the oldest diplomatic tool. Food is universal, but also something that is unique to different coun-tries, ethnic groups and religions. Understanding a culture’s food is essen-tial to understanding the culture as a whole.
Food is more than
just Yelp! reviews or In-stagram photos. Food inD.C. is defi ned by not justcross-cultural collabora-tion and Americanization,but also ethnic independ-ence. Culinary ambassa-dors are the fi rst steps inunderstanding the worldbeyond GDP, politicalbrinksmanship and thebasic theories of interna-tional relations. The storybehind the food, the storythat connects us to dif-ferent cultures, is almostas amazing as the sweet,spicy and savory Bánh mìat Truckeroo on a hot Fri-day afternoon.
Sam Mendelson is asophomore in the School ofInternational Service.
SAM MENDELSON | SPORK
D.C. bridges cultural gaps through food
SPORTS Field hockey picks up pair of wins 18 | Lockout would kill NHL’s momentum 19
By BRIANNA WILLIAMS
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Coming off an overtime loss against George Mason in the D.C. College Cup last weekend, the AU men’s soccer team domi-nated a pair of home weekend matches to move over .500 for the fi rst time this season.
The Eagles opened the week-end with a 3-1 victory Sept. 7 against the St. Francis (N.Y.) Terriers.
A transfer from Northeast-ern, Dale McDonald opened the scoring in the 20th minute when he knocked home a cross from teammate Colin Seigfreid for his first goal as an Eagle.
“Dale adds a different ele-ment up top,” AU assistant coach Shawn Kuykendall said.
The Eagles (4-2) added their second goal just before the half when Conor Osborne launched a shot from 40 yards out past Terriers goalkeeper Tyler Clarhaut. The score was also Osborne’s fi rst as an Eagle.
St. Francis (1-4) showed a sign of life late, when Kevin Cor-rea scored in the 81st minute to pull the Terriers within one.
But the man who started the action in the fi rst place clinched the victory for the Eagles, as McDonald tallied his second goal of the game in the 89th minute to seal the 3-1 victory.
Looking ahead, McDonald fi g-ures to be a central part of the AU offensive attack along with Pa-triot League Preseason Offensive Player of the Year Alassane Kane.
“Me and Alassane are not afraid to communicate,” McDon-ald said when asked about his on-fi eld chemistry with Kane.
During his time at Northeast-ern, McDonald played 29 games in two seasons and fi nished the 2011 season with three goals and three assists.
The Eagles wrapped up the weekend with a 2-0 victory against the Saint Peter’s Peacocks Sept. 9.
Seigfreid scored the fi rst goal early in the match, ripping a shot from outside the 18-yard box to give the junior his third point in two games.
AU goalkeeper Billy Knutsen was strong in net, stopping all four shots on goal.
Seth Goldman added an insur-ance goal for the Eagles in the 72nd minute, when he put his own rebound past St. Peter’s (2-3) goalkeeper Carlos Suarez.
The weekend victories con-cluded a four-game homestand that saw the Eagles go 3-1. The Eagle offense was particularly strong, with AU scoring 13 goals over the four matches.
Seigfreid was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week for the second week in a row, while Cristobal Soto earned Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week honors. Freshman Charlie Hunter was named Rook-ie of the Week.
The Eagles will travel to Mor-gantown, W.Va., Sept. 15 for a match against West Virginia, be-fore opening PL play at Colgate Sept. 22.
Colgate defeated AU 2-0 in last year’s Patriot League Champion-ship match at Reeves Field.
By JOSH PAUNIL
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Kelly McCaddin led the AU volleyball team to a clean sweep at the Spartan-Aggie Invitational in Greensboro, N.C.
The sophomore outside hitter earned MVP honors at the event, signaling the step up she has tak-en since last year.
“She was a force on the right [side] this weekend,” AU head coach Barry Goldberg said. “She played a position she was more comfortable with [and] I think that helped her. It was a big week-end for us for sure.”
The Eagles (5-3) swept both North Carolina A&T (0-12) Sept. 7 and UNC Asheville Sept. 8 in their fi rst two matches. They then capped the weekend by defeating UNC Greensboro Saturday night in a fi ve-set thriller on their way to the tournament championship.
Freshman libero Allison Cappellino and sophomore out-side hitter/middle blocker Sara Rishell joined McCaddin on the All-Tournament Team.
McCaddin’s impressive hitting percentage was one of the top sto-ries of the weekend, including her .571 mark off eight kills and zero errors in the UNC Asheville (4-8) match. She also hit .294, just .001 behind Rishell’s team-best .295 mark, against UNC Greensboro (4-3) off 15 kills and fi ve errors.
“[McCaddin] played great over the weekend,” said Rishell, who recorded a team-best 31 kills during the tournament. “She was just putting balls away. When she’s up there with an open net, no one is going to stop her. No
one can dig her when she’s up, and no one will block her. She did really, really well.”
Two things McCaddin im-proved this season are her versa-tility and ball handling, which has made her a signifi cant threat on the right side. She has also seen more opportunities after being ei-ther sick or hurt during the fi rst month of the season in 2011.
“She’s improving,” Goldberg said. “She doesn’t miss a lot of balls off her hand, she hits the ball fairly cleanly off the hand. When she goes after it pretty strong, she’s one of our most successful attackers. I think overall, her role is increasing and she’s worked at it for it to increase.”
McCaddin has continued to ride her hot streak from the end of last year, when she hit a team-best .526 in AU’s four-set loss to Delaware in the NCAA Tourna-ment.
As she keeps improving, her potential seems to be limitless. Even though she has already made impressive strides, Gold-berg thinks she could have a big future ahead of her.
“The only question now is how quickly she can increase to the level where she’s a nationally elite player,” Goldberg said. “She defi -nitely has the potential to have a career beyond the college level, so the question is: can she play at the level now while she’s still in college?”
McDonald, Seigfreid power men’s soccer to
weekend wins
McCaddin’s strong play leads volleyball at Spartan-
Aggie Invitational
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Cristobal Soto led an AU defense that surrendered just one goal in two victories on the weekend.
Struggles continue for women’s soccer after pair of losses
By SAMANTHA RAPHELSON
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
The AU women’s soccer team needs to find something to smile about, as their rough start to the season became even worse over the weekend.
Following a 1-0 home loss against Virginia Common-wealth Sept. 7, the Eagles were unable to turn 12 shots into enough goals and fell to Loyola (Md.) 2-1 Sept. 9 at home.
“Well, it was disappointing, we did not come out with the right mentality,” AU head coach Dave Bucciero said following the Loyola match. “The first starting minutes we looked very lethargic, looked a little bit disin-terested and we paid the price.”
The women nearly jumped out first in Sunday’s game, but Carleigh Morba’s shot on goal went wide off the left post.
Shortly after the shot, Loyola answered. The 1-0 Greyhounds lead came in the 24th minute, when Charlotte Miller passed to Nichole Schiro, who was stand-ing in the box and tapped in her third goal of the year.
Loyola (3-1-2) controlled most of the first half, scoring an-other goal off a corner kick 12 minutes later.
The Eagles (1-6-1) quickly responded to cut the deficit in half when Michelle Montilio scored by way of a header after Michaela Cowgill’s corner kick.
Montilio almost tied it up just before halftime, but her header flew over the crossbar.
“I thought at the end of the first half and beginning of the second we started to attack them more,” Bucciero said. “We started to be a little bit more aggressive...and that cre-ated a number of opportunities for us. It’s just it took too long for us to do that.”
Offensive control in the sec-ond half went back and forth, but AU was unable to knot the score at 2-2.
Perhaps the lack of enthusi-asm Sunday came as a result of Friday’s close loss to VCU.
Klare Lazor recorded three saves in goal during the first six minutes to keep the match scoreless, and Cowgill and Morba charged down the field
and recorded back-to-back shots for the Eagles.
Then, the Rams killed AU’s momentum.
In the 44th minute, Wendy Acosta connected on a pass from Lauryn Hutchinson and headed the ball into the top right corner of the net to give VCU the 1-0 lead.
Like on Sunday, both teams played evenly in the second half, but the Eagles were unable to push across the equalizer.
The Rams (3-2-2) held a 14-6 advantage in shots over the Ea-gles, and Lazor recorded four saves on the match.
“I think the biggest chal-lenge right now is keeping our confidence because of our re-cord, and understanding that there’s still a lot of the season left,” Bucciero said. “Unless we change our mentality, we’re go-ing to continue to struggle.”
The Eagles will finish off their five-game homestand when they face Howard Sept. 14, and then will travel across town to take on George Wash-ington Sept. 18.
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By GENNARO FARONE
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
AU field hockey is flying high after going 2-0 on the weekend at the Terrapin Invitational in Col-lege Park, Md.
The Eagles earned a 2-1 dou-ble-overtime win against No. 19 Massachusetts, along with a 3-0 win over Dartmouth.
After a disappointing 0-4 start to the year, AU came out firing against Dartmouth (1-3) Sept. 8.
Alex McMackin knocked in the game’s first goal before Carly Atchison put the Eagles up 2-0 with her first goal of the season.
Later in the game, McMackin notched her second goal of the game off an assist from Kati Roth-enhoefer to put AU up 3-0.
Ashley Dalisera played the en-tire game between the pipes, turn-ing away all four shots on goal.
The Eagles defense soared to another spectacular performance against UMass Sept. 9, and Dalis-era shined with 14 saves.
AU struck first, with Jaclyn Anspach scoring at the 5:44 mark.
But after the Eagles took a quick 1-0 lead, both offenses went dormant for over 50 min-
utes. UMass (3-3) eventually tied the game up on a deflection off a penalty corner with just over ten minutes left in regulation, and the game went to overtime tied at 1-1.
The Minutewomen had the best opportunities in the first over-time period, but they were unable to convert on either of their two penalty corner chances.
UMass put a total of four shots on goal in both overtime periods, and Dalisera was there to shut the door all four times.
The Eagles managed only one shot in that same time frame, but that was all they needed.
Shelly Montgomery recorded the game winner in the 92nd minute, giving AU its first over-time victory on the season.
Despite the successful week-end, a troubling trend has emerged after AU’s first six games. The Ea-gles are being badly outshot by their opponents.
On the season, AU’s opponents have held an 89-44 advantage in shots over the Eagles. That must change going forward with the Eagles scheduled to take on No. 19 Michigan State Sept. 14 in East Lansing, Mich.
Field hockey bounces back following 0-4 start
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Erin Mulhern and the AU women’s soccer team will look to pick up their first victory since Aug. 25 when they host Howard University on Sept. 14 at Reeves Field.
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Sept. 13Sept. 14
Sept. 15
Sept. 16
Sept. 17Sept. 18
Sept. 19
No games scheduledVolleyball vs. Boise State @ Tuscon, Ariz., at 3:30 p.m. (Wildcat Classic)Women’s soccer vs. Howard at 4 p.m.Field hockey @ No. 19 Michigan State at 6 p.m. (Michigan State Invitational)Volleyball vs. UC Irvine @ Tuscon, Ariz., at 7:30 p.m. (Wildcat Classic)Cross-country @ Navy Invitational at 11 a.m.Volleyball @ Arizona at 1 p.m. (Wildcat Classic)Men’s soccer @ West Virginia at 7 p.m.Field hockey vs. TBD @ East Lansing, Mich., at TBD (Michigan State Invitational)No games scheduledWomen’s soccer @ George Washington at 4 p.m.Volleyball vs. Coppin State at 7 p.m.
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PATRIOT LEAGUE STANDINGS
FIELD HOCKEYLafayette 3-1, 0-0 PL
Bucknell 4-2, 0-0 PL
! American 2-4, 0-0 PL
Colgate 1-4, 0-0 PL
Holy Cross 1-5, 0-0 PL
Lehigh 1-5, 0-0 PL
MEN’S SOCCER! American 4-2, 0-0 PL
Bucknell 2-1-2, 0-0 PL
Army 2-3, 0-0 PL
Colgate 1-3-2, 0-0 PL
Lafayette 1-3-1, 0-0 PL
Navy 1-2, 0-0 PL
Holy Cross 0-3, 0-0 PL
Lehigh 0-4, 0-0 PL
WOMEN’S SOCCERNavy 7-1, 0-0 PL
Colgate 5-3-1, 0-0 PL
Bucknell 5-3, 0-0 PL
Army 4-4, 0-0 PL
Holy Cross 2-3-1, 0-0 PL
Lafayette 2-3-1, 0-0 PL
! American 1-6-1, 0-0 PL
Lehigh 0-4, 0-0 PL
VOLLEYBALLLafayette 6-2, 0-0 PL
! American 5-3, 0-0 PL
Army 6-4, 0-0 PL
Bucknell 4-6, 0-0 PL
Navy 3-7, 0-0 PL
Lehigh 1-4, 0-0 PL
Colgate 1-9, 0-0 PL
Holy Cross 0-10, 0-0 PL
By ERIC SALTZMAN
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Remember back in May, Game 5 of the Eastern Con-ference semifinals between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers? Remem-ber how the Rangers scored the game-tying goal with 6.6 seconds left in regulation, and then won in overtime? That was awesome.
Oh sorry, I forgot what city I was in.
Great hockey moments like this will have to be put on hold for a while, as the NHL
owners and NHL players ap-pear to be heading towards another lockout, which would be the second in the last eight years.
If the players and owners can’t reach an agreement by Sept. 15, the season will not start on time.
Just like the NFL and NBA lockouts a year ago, the NHL billionaires (the owners) want to cut the salaries of the NHL millionaires (the players) from 57 percent of league rev-enue to 46 percent.
That revenue for the 2011-2012 season was a record 3.3
billion dollars. Forbes report-ed that the average value of an NHL team has increased five percent since the 2010-2011 season, and 20 percent since 2007.
Those figures do not make it sound like the owners are short of money.
Overall attendance of NHL games has increased 1.8 per-cent from the year before, and 2.8 percent from the 2009-2010 season.
The owners clearly don’t mind spending money. The Minnesota Wild signed free agent forward Zach Parise and defenseman Ryan Suter to identical 13-year deals worth $98 million. That is nearly $200 million invested in just two players.
It seems odd that the own-ers would ask the players to take less money while signing them to ridiculous contracts.
Of course, the biggest los-ers of the lockout are those not directly involved with it.
Television channels lose viewers, local businesses lose money and fans lose the op-portunity to watch teams they care so much about.
Unlike in 2004, another NHL lockout would be dev-astating for the league and would set it way back.
Last season was the year of the underdog in the NHL, as the Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings entered the playoffs as the eighth seed in the Western Confer-ence.
In the Eastern Conference, the Florida Panthers clinched their first playoff berth in 12 years after winning the South-east Division. The Panthers also averaged about 1,000 more fans per game than they did a season ago.
So why are the owners threatening a lockout? Like all other sports, hockey is a business with the goal of mak-ing money, and even though the league as a whole makes money, several teams are struggling to make a profit.
Should the NHL have a lockout some players, most notably reigning league MVP Evgeni Malkin, have agreed in principle to play with other teams outside of the NHL.
The draw of hockey is ar-guably at its highest point, and the amount of coverage is consistently increasing. More and more people are becom-ing hockey fans.
A lockout would kill any momentum the league made in terms of attracting new fans and keeping current fans. It would not only jeopardize the sport in the present, but also could end up costing the NHL financially for years to come.
Commissioner Gary Bett-man says that he wants to get a deal done before the dead-line, but the first game of 2012 may start later than desired.
Another lockout looming for NHL
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