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Volume 86, Issue 10 The Student Voice of The University of Scranton Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
University Police increases campus surveillance
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Lenten Film Series reaches out to students, provides food for thought
CoLLEEN DAyNews Editor
the aquinas photo / shawn kenneyUNIVERSITY POLICE is boosting security this semester with a new camera surveillance system and dispatch room. University Police is the second-largest police force in Lackawanna County.
submitted photo: dJ yestRepsky foR the aquinasFROM LEFT to right: Marywood University junior Michael Stauffer and Uni-versity juniors DJ Yestrepsky and Nick Constantino pose at the Military Ball.
See “POLICE,” Page 3
The Royal Warrior Bat-talion held its annual mili-tary ball this past Saturday evening at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton. Cadets from across the entire battal-
Library archives preserve historyERIC HURDStaff Writer
Royal Warrior Battalion throws annual ball
ToM FoTIStaff Writer
ion were in attendance, as well as Royal Warrior cadre, friends and supporters. In all, more than 240 people attended this year’s Military Ball, making it the largest in recent years.
The Military Ball serves as an opportunity to carry on the long-standing tra-
ditions of formal military customs and events. Cadets gain a rich sense of the his-tory they are a part of as members of the Army Re-serve Officer Training Corp, in addition to enjoying an evening of camaraderie and celebration. The Military Ball is also an opportunity
to honor the senior cadets who will graduate and com-mission this spring.
After a traditional mili-tary receiving line to wel-come cadets and guests to the ball, the formal portion of the evening opened with remarks by Cadet Battalion Commander Jessica Per-soon. Senior cadets raised toasts to the Army and the Royal Warrior Battalion.
Junior cadets conducted the Grog Bowl ceremony. The Grog Bowl is a long-standing military tradition that is used a means of honoring those who have served before and con-necting their service to the present generation of Army leaders. It is also a means of honoring the senior ca-dets for their four years of hard work in Royal Warrior Battalion and celebrating their achievements. Bat-talion Commander Lt. Col. Ryan Remley and Col. Mc-Cullough joined the seniors in the traditional toast to their accomplishments.
The guest speaker for the evening was Col. Brian McCullough. A graduate of
University Police is in-creasing its presence on campus by installing an all-new camera system and reconstructing its dispatch room.
Director of Public Safe-ty/University Police Chief Donald Bergmann said Uni-versity Police needed a bet-ter surveillance system on campus. There are already cameras on campus, but many of them are outdated and incompatible with the rest of the system.
“It was really an archaic system, and we decided the best approach to take would be to replace everything we had and to move forward from there,” Bergmann said. “We approached the Uni-versity with the proposal of a new system. We want to put the video surveillance system on an IP-base plat-
form that operates off The University network.”
Bergmann said this is the biggest investment The University has ever made in public safety.
“It was a really signifi-cant investment on The University’s part to com-pletely refurbish our com-munication center and to transition the entire camera system to The University network,” Bergmann said.
The new camera system will benefit University Po-lice as well as the students. Any future expansion of camera surveillance will be compatible with the new system.
“It will be better qual-ity cameras, better quality pictures. It’s going to give us the ability to monitor all of the cameras simultane-ously. The new cameras should be fully installed by
See “ARCHIVES,” Page 4
provement however, is on the importance of preserv-ing The University’s his-tory, which has lead to the creation of a web archiving system.
According to an informa-tion sheet from The Wein-berg Memorial Library, web archiving is the complex process of harvesting web content and preserving it for the future.
Kristen Yarmey, the digi-tal services librarian at The University, said her depart-ment uses the digital collec-tions from The University archives to get all of the school’s interesting history on the web. The University archives have been collect-ing information about The University since the 1980s.
“What got us started on this was the work being done with Born-digital re-cords,” Yarmey said. “When an office produces a report or a document, there is no real set way for them to put it somewhere to be pre-served over time because of the misconception that when something becomes digital, it is permanent.”
The Weinberg Memorial Library has been an iconic focus of life at The Univer-sity for the past 20 years.
Not only has the library become the centerpiece of the layout of campus, but it is also the number-one destination for students to further their studies outside of the classroom.
To celebrate the library’s importance, contributions and growth, the adminis-tration continues to look for ways to improve its ser-vices.
In addition to the study room experiment, the li-brary now has moveable sound-cancelling walls in a 24-hour common room and a multipurpose scan-ner on the second floor. The scanner allows users to copy documents and send them to the Pharos print-ing system in the library, a smartphone with a barcode scanner, an email address or Google Drive. It also lets users save scanned docu-ments to a USB drive.
One major focus for im-
CHRISTIAN BURNECampus Liaison
Campus Minister Brian Pelcin, M.Ed., has always looked to reach students in a unique way. Whether it is a retreat to Cooper-stown, N.Y. or organizing a weekly meeting for men on campus, Pelcin has been involved. Now he wants
to reach students in a new way during Lent.
Campus Ministries and the theology department have joined together to cre-ate the Lenten Film Series. Each movie will have a free showing in the Ann and Leo Moskovitz Theater. The se-ries will highlight films such as “The Social Network,” “Gran Torino” and “Lars and
the Real Girl.” Pelcin said the success of
the spring 2012 Praying with Popcorn retreat inspired him to create this program.
“This was the first-ever time we put together a re-treat using film as a means of reaching students,” Pelcin said. “It was also a starting point for deeper reflection.”
Campus Ministries host-
ed three separate show-ings of “The Way” starring Martin Sheen in 2012. Pelcin said the students responded well to the film. Pelcin also said he believes God uses multiple ways to reach out to us.
Nathan Lefler, Ph.D., has used film in his theology classes to convey biblical themes. Lefler and as Cyrus
Olsen, Ph.D., have also been involved in this program. Lefler said the films will convey the penance and preparation associated with Lent. During the initial pro-cess, Pelcin, Lefler and Ol-sen discussed many poten-tial films.
“We brainstormed for an hour with Brian one day,” Lefler said. “We threw out
some names, and it seemed there was an interest in try-ing to do more mainstream movies. We have sched-uled [the films] in relation to those three phrases, and where we have them sched-uled during Lent is impor-tant.”
Lefler is referring to
See “LENT,” Page 3
See “MILITARY,” Page 4
2 THE AQUINASCAMPUS NOTES THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
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Advertising Manager Marianne Schulmeister
Faculty AdviserKim Pavlick, Ph.D.
Administrative Staff
News Editor Colleen Day
Business Editor Joseph Bruzzesi
Sports Editor Cory Burrell
Science & Tech Editor Michelle D’Souza
Forum EditorBen Turcea
Editorial Staff
Photography Co-Editor Shawn Kenney
Campus Liaison Christian Burne
CAMPUS EVENTS: FEB. 21 - 27
Thursday - Feb. 21+Stations of the CrossChapel of Sacred Heart4:40 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.+Changing Perceptions of MinoritiesLoyola Science Center, Room 1337 p.m. - 9 p.m.+Spanish Film: “From the Land to Your Table”Brennan Hall, Pearn Auditorium7 p.m. +Club Council MeetingDeNaples Center, Room 4067 p.m. - 9 p.m.+The ExamenChapel of the Sacred Heart9:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.+Club Council MeetingDeNaples Center, Room 4067 p.m. - 9 p.m.+Quizzo Hosted by RHADeNaples Center, 1st FloorLate Night
Wednesday - Feb. 27+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 3 p.m.+Eating Disorders Awareness DeNaples Center, 2nd Floor11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.+Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon Brennan Hall, Room 50912 p.m. - 1 p.m.+Movie: “Frontline: A Class Divided” Brennan Hall, Room 2287 p.m. - 9 p.m.+Student Musicians in RecitalHoulihan-McLean Center7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.+Relay for Life Captains Meeting DeNaples Center, Moskovitz Theater7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.+Take Back the Night Informational Meeting DeNaples Center, Room 4068 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Chief Copy EditorMaria Cleary
Faith Editor Andrew Milewski
Arts & Life Editor Joe Weitemeyer
Chief Copy Editor Sheila Loesch
Editor-in-Chief Christina Scully
Managing Editor Timothy McCormick
In Issue 9, published Feb. 14, we neglected to mention the credentials of Professor Kristen Yarmey, M.L.S, M.S., who was promoted to Associate Professor, effective
Aug. 26. Congratulations are extended her way from The Aquinas Staff.
To the campus community:
In the spirit of Scranton Compliments, we would like to extend to our staff our deepest gratitude for all the effort and dedication they contribute to The Aquinas. Sometimes it is nice to know that you are appreciated, and we would like to recognize each member of our editorial staff individually.
Colleen Day has assumed a huge role as News Edi-tor this semester. While we appreciated all of her hard work as a copy editor, we are thrilled to have her working in this position, because we know she is determined to make her section always look as great as it did in the first issue.
Ben Turcea can always be found in The Aquinas office working on the Forum section. He con-stantly strives to encourage discussion of the most current news and issues occurring on campus and around the world in his section.
Joe Weitemeyer has certainly stepped up as our Arts & Life Editor. He is broadening the horizons of his section by constantly looking for new stories that always spark interest in our readers.
Joseph Bruzzesi is a very dedicated individual when it comes to working as the Business Editor. He is always speaking to his peers about his sec-tion to find out what they want to read, as well as coming up with new ideas of his own to improve both his section and The Aquinas as a whole.
Michelle D’Souza has just returned from abroad, and we are so happy to have her back. She is tack-ling a new section this year, Science & Tech. With a vast background in science, we are confident that her leadership will result in many great issues.
Andrew Milewski will be greatly missed next year as the Faith Editor. He completely turned the Faith section around for the better by moving the focus from global religion issues to address those issues that affect University students’ faiths and beliefs.
Cory Burrell is a sports fanatic who puts 100 per-cent of his effort into managing the staff of the Sports section. His dedication to editing his section shows in the final product each week, and as a re-sult, The University is always well-informed about its athletic teams.
Special thanks to our copy editors: Brigid Camp-bell, Kate Tierney and especially Maria Cleary and Sheila Loesch, who diligently read each article submitted to The Aquinas every week. They are constantly focused on improving the face of The Aquinas through editing for both facts and style. Their attention to detail is unparalleled. The paper would not be what it is without the hard work they put in daily.
Shawn Kenney and his new co-editor Emma Black continue to enliven each section with their pho-tographs. Each photographer merges his or her artistic eye with a great journalistic perspective to provide The Aquinas with beautiful photojour-nalism.
Eric Hurd is a new member to our staff, assuming the role of Web Manager. His past dedication to writing for the News section has been appreciated, but we look forward to working with him to create a more significant web presence for The Aquinas.
Ultimately, we must thank our writing staff, which keeps The Aquinas running each week. Without the curious and investigative minds of our writers, we would be unable to expose, inform and edu-cate the University on the wide variety of topics in all sections.
Kim Pavlick, Ph.D., is the adviser and the back-bone of The Aquinas. She is constantly providing our staff with new ideas, whether they are story suggestions or ways to improve the quality of the paper. We are greatly indebted to her and her guidance. It is truly no wonder she won The University’s Adviser of the Year award.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,
Christina, Tim, Marianne & Christian
Friday - Feb. 22+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 1 p.m.+RA Group Dynamics ProcessHyland Hall, 3rd Floor5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday - Feb. 23
+IGNITE Leadership Confer-enceDeNaples Center, McIlhenny Ballroom9 a.m. - 4 p.m.+RA Group Dynamics ProcessHyland Hall, 3rd Floor9 a.m. - 12 p.m., 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.+MassChapel of Sacred Heart12:05 p.m.+5th Annual Gene Yevich Memorial ConcertHoulihan-McLean Center7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Sunday - Feb. 24
+RA Group Dynamics ProcessHyland Hall, 3rd Floor9 a.m. - 12 p.m., 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.+Soaring Gardens ArtistHyland Hall, 4th Floor
Monday - Feb. 25+Royal NightsDeNaples CenterAll Day+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall9 a.m. - 3 p.m.+Eating Disorders Awareness DeNaples Center, 1st Floor11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.+Commuter Topic DinnerDeNaples Center, Room 2134:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.+ USPB: Black Jew Dialouges DeNaples Center, Room 4018 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Tuesday - Feb. 26+Free Tax Prep ServiceBrennan Hall12 p.m. - 6 p.m.+Eating Disorders Awareness DeNaples Center, 2nd Floor11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.+Meeting: CSABrennan Hall, Pearn Auditorium5 p.m. - 6 p.m.+Debate Society MeetingSt. Thomas Hall, Room 2087 p.m. - 8 p.m.+Mindful Eating: Eating Disor-ders Speaker DeNaples Center, Room 4057 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Photography Co-EditorEmma Black
CORRECTIONS
NEWS 3THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
submitted photo: LauRa fay foR the aquinasSENIOR NURSING major Kim Esposito checks fi rst year Danielle Andre’s blood pressure at the Mall at Steamtown Saturday at the Healthy Heart Fair. Stu-dents from various majors and clubs spent the after-noon at the mall talking to the community about ev-eryday health topics like nutrition and dieting.
Students educate community
the end of spring break,” Bergmann said.
University Police is also working to identify other appropriate places to install cameras.
“Linden, Irving and North Webster might be some good places to consider in the future,” Bergmann said.
The University is also funding more lighting off campus, focusing on some of the courts and alleys.
Bergmann said Univer-sity Police is also in the pro-cess of turning its dispatch room into a small 911 center.
“It always made us ner-vous on the night shift, be-cause anyone can just walk in. The new dispatch room has bulletproof glass that will isolate the dispatcher. It’s going to be safe. It’s go-ing to be secure. We’re going to have all new state-of-the-art equipment,” Bergmann
said.Bergmann said he hopes
the new dispatch rooms will be an attractive feature for prospective students.
“It was a dump before,” Bergmann said. “When visi-tors need parking passes they come in here and it’s nothing to be impressed by. Now, this is the impres-sion people are going to get. They’re going to come in here and see a state-of—the-art dispatch center with video surveillance systems. I think all around it’s a good move. It will create a great impression.”
Bergmann said there are about 24 officers on the University Police force.
“We’re actually the sec-ond-largest police depart-ment in Lackawanna Coun-ty. We’re second only to Scranton Police. Most police departments in Lackawa-
nna County are part time, maybe six to 10 full time officers. We’re definitely a full-time, full-service police department. Someone is here 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Bergmann said.
Bergmann said the in-crease in community ad-visories motivated him to further University Police presence on campus.
“The University, Univer-sity Police and myself all take security and student safety very seriously,” Berg-mann said.
Bergmann said he has always received support from The University in his attempt to expand Univer-sity safety.
‘I’ve gotten nothing but cooperation from The Uni-versity, the students and the faculty since I’ve come here,” Bergmann said.
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Frivolous February challenges campus
Students from a vari-ety of organizations came together to inform the Scranton community about health problems and solu-tions at the Healthy Heart Fair Saturday at the Steam-town Mall.
Students from the Com-munity Health Education Club talked to visitors about fad diets and encouraged them to make healthful food choices. Their display included several containers of sugar to show how much sugar common foods and drinks contain.
“The fair is a way for the students to apply what they learn in the classroom to real-life situations and to encourage people in the community to live better,” senior Diana Linn, a com-munity health education major, said.
Linn, who has been work-ing the fair since her first year, said she enjoys the one-on-one time because she gets to answer people’s real questions about their health and use her knowl-edge to help others.
Students from the ROTC program made a display about nutrition for athletes
and engaged community members in conversation about fueling up for exer-cise.
“It’s really great for the community, because we can give them knowledge and direction about a va-riety of health topics all in one place” sophomore Allie Nachtman, an ROTC repre-sentative, said.
LAURA FAyStaff Writer
Nursing students were on hand to check blood pressure and talk about oth-er health challenges visitors are facing.
The Exercise Science Club hosted the Fair to cel-ebrate February, which is American Heart Month ac-cording to the Center for Disease Control and Preven-tion.
‘LENT’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEthe posters promoting the event. Each film on the poster has one phrase over it. The phrases – Be Mind-ful, Be Transformed and Be Hopeful – pertain to the films in certain ways. Lefler said “The Social Network” gives students a chance to look inward. He said the film shows friendships failing because of money and how social media has changed relationships.
At each film presenta-tion, students will receive a
laminated card with ques-tions and quotes to ponder. When the movie has ended, Lefler and Olsen will guide a short discussion on the film. Aside from Lefler and Olsen, a student will also give a personal perspective on the film.
Pelcin hopes this film series will be a chance to appeal to more students. He said he is not sure what kind of reaction he will re-ceive, but he believes in the Ignatian spirituality of find-
ing God in all things. “Jesus himself taught the
vast majority of his teach-ing in parables,” Pelcin said. “Fr. Rick [Malloy] has often said in our day-to-day, mov-ies are the new parables of our day. It is my hope that each of these films is quite different and has a dif-ferent take and different subject matter, but just like Jesus’ own parables, how and in what way will [the students] take away from those.”
Police forces collaborate to protect city
submitted photo: John niemieC foR the aquinasFROM LEFT to right: students Joseph Terry, Checco Dougherty, Andrew Hill, Mike Trischetta, Nicole Dalbo, Jennifer Briggs and Cooper Chay-Dolan enjoy a picnic outside on the Dionne Greene as part of a Frivolous Friday challenge.
CoRRINE DIGIoVINEStaff Writer
February, possibly the dreariest month of the year, has become a little more de-lightful, thanks to a month-long, student-created event called “Frivolous February.”
University senior Joseph Quincy Terry wanted to make February a fun month for The University commu-nity, so he decided to turn the month into a series of events and name it “Frivo-lous February.”
The event is an oppor-tunity to receive daily chal-lenges every day for the month of February.
“Frivolous February is everything that is not im-portant and everything that is purely for fun, entertain-ment and stepping out of your comfort zone,” Terry said.
This month-long event challenges participants to do a daily random act of kindness or just something completely unconventional and fun. Favorite challenges include playing a day-long game of tag, making three new friends in a day and pretending the ground is lava.
For Terry, daily shenani-gans like these come natural to him. They enhance his life and make him happy. There-fore, he wants to spread the joy to The University com-munity.
“I’ve always been a weird person. I do these things on a daily basis,” Terry said, “Some people are getting so into it, too. I’m so happy to have been able to have had a positive impact on people’s lives so far.”
Terry may not limit spreading his eccentricities to just February. He hopes to have a few challenges in March and possibly turn it back into a daily routine again in April.
Terry’s main goal, wheth-er people choose to partici-pate or not, is to see every-one enjoy his or her life to the fullest.
“Whether or not you’re involved with Frivolous February, make an effort to actually enjoy your life. The worst that can happen is you’ll make someone laugh,” Terry said.
So far, about 100 people participate in Frivolous February. Terry has sev-eral friends who participate, and he also made some
new friends along the way. One of his most loyal par-ticipants, University junior Christian “Checco” Dough-tery, is living the experience to the fullest.
“[Frivolous February] is a month-long experience to better yourself by doing the frivolous. It is essentially a month-long tutorial to be-come Joe Terry,” Doughtery said.
Doughtery says he really wishes more people would get involved. He said it is the best thing one can possibly do this month.
University senior Nick Chinman says Frivolous
February is beneficial to the community.
“I’ve already made some friends,” Chinman said.
Chinman said he and his friends are planning on add-ing extra days to February.
“We’re planning on mak-ing the first three days of March the 29th, 30th and 31st of February and hold-ing special challenges,” Chin-man said.
Anyone who is interested in adding excitement to his or her February can join the Frivolous February Facebook page. All are welcome to join.
For Donald Bergmann and many in The University community, the Virginia Tech shooting that took place in April 2007 became a wake-up call to increase safety on campus.
Bergmann, director of Public Safety/University Po-lice Chief, said initially The University and some in The University community did not see the need for a police department.
“It was something the board of trustees and former school President Father Pilarz supported, but there were some in The University com-munity who were reluctant,” Bergmann said.
Fortunately the depart-
ment has become a norm for many students and now employs over 24 officers who work closely with University Police to keep the campus safe.
“Virginia Tech was our 911,” Bergmann said. “We are always here and we are always working to keep the community safe.”
The department functions just like any normal police force, but it operates on a smaller scale.
“Our officers are sworn, which means they have the authority to make an ar-rest, and every officer goes through the police academy,” Bergmann said.
Bergmann noted that al-though the department’s fo-cus is generally on the cam-pus, University Police often
respond to off-campus hous-es where University students reside.
“There are certainly times when Scranton police might be responding to a house party at night, and they may encounter people who they suspect to be University stu-dents. They will often call us so we can go up and assist,” Bergmann said.
To ensure that the campus stays safe, the Scranton Po-lice Department and Univer-sity Police frequently work together and exchange infor-mation.
“We are always looking to support them and they are always looking to support us. We both patrol the hill, and I think we both work well to-gether to keep the properties safer,” Bergmann said.
Although University Police can patrol the Hill Section and watch over the school’s property, Scranton Police Department has jurisdiction when responding to calls off campus.
“Well there are residence halls off campus. Liva House and Cambria House are Uni-versity property, so if it’s a parking lot or a residence hall off campus, that’s our proper-ty and we have jurisdiction,” Bergmann said. “Scranton Police have jurisdiction out-side of that and anywhere in Scranton.”
Bergmann also noted that he is happy with the transi-tion the department made years ago to become a fully-functioning police force.
“I think we have been to-tally accepted by The Univer-sity community,” Bergmann said. “I can’t imagine any par-ents or prospective students that would look at The Uni-versity of Scranton and even think there shouldn’t be a University police, you should be public safety, especially after things like Sandy Hook.”
JUSTIN DWyERNews Correspondent
submitted photo: Justin dwyeR foR the aquinasUNIVERSITY POLICE and the Scranton Police Department work together to keep the campus and Scranton safe.
4 THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013NEWS
University retreats fulfi ll spiritual needs throughout year
‘ARCHIVES’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
submitted photo: deVon Cohen foR the aquinasUNIVERSITY STUDENTS pose on Chapman Lake during the February 2013 Search Retreat. The University’s Retreat Center is located on Chapman Lake, approximately 30 minutes from campus.
Yarmey saw this mis-conception as a way to help people preserve valu-able historical university information and to help the University with The Mid-dle Sates Commission on Higher Education accredi-tations.
“Every five years we have to do a report on how we improve as a university and what new things we’re doing,” Yarmey said. “All of a sudden, you’re trying to find things from five years ago and you don’t know who has it; Archive-It seems like a great way to grab as many public docu-ments about The University as we can and save a copy.”
According to an infor-mation sheet from The Weinberg Memorial Li-brary, Archive-It is a Web archiving service that not only harvests web content, but also provides endur-ing web access through
the site’s original naviga-tion links. This system will allow old Web pages and documents to be viewed in the same way they were originally published.
Although there is a fo-cus on grabbing these im-portant historical and legal Born-digital documents, Yarmey said they are not the only items worth digi-talizing. The importance of re-digitizing old athletic photos, rosters and popular social networking pages, such as the Scranton Com-pliments Facebook page, are just as important be-cause of the connections to alumni and the community.
“When we have alumni come back to visit campus now, what really means something to them is things that remind them of their student experience,” Yarmey said. “So I start to think about current stu-dents, and how we can con-
nect with them when they come back to campus in the future and remind them of the things they did while they were here.”
The library is looking for input on what students feel is important and on the current web archive test crawls, which can be viewed at http://archive-it.org/organizations/610. The easiest way to submit your input is to email [email protected].
“A lot of people ask why it’s important to archive The University’s website,” Yarmey said. “The VP for external affairs, Gerry Za-boski, said ‘we increas-ingly tell our story on the web’ and I think that en-capsulates everything, our teaching, learning, scholar-ship, activities and spirit of The University. We tend to share everything on our website and we want to re-member them.’”
KELSEy RoMANELLINews Correspondent
The Rev. Father Rich-ard Malloy, S.J., sat in his office, casually wearing a University of Scranton sweatshirt, ready to con-duct an information ses-sion about The Universi-ty’s next retreat “Got God? Spirituality 101.”
With only two people attending the meeting, an inconsistent number with
the 800-1000 students that attend The University’s re-treats every year, the ses-sion turned into more of an intimate discussion of why students go on retreats and what they get out of them.
Malloy explained how many students go to dis-cover themselves and God away from the hectic cam-pus setting.
“Today kids are sitting in a room with a computer that gives them the world, a TV, 60 video games and
an iPad. Why go to Mass when we live this superfi-cial life? Spirituality forces us to go deeper. The re-treats mean trying to en-counter God in a place where they can just walk away from it all,” Father Malloy said.
After taking part in many retreats, junior Ni-cole Kiefer feels the same way.
“For me, the retreats have been wonderful op-portunities to meet new
people and to take time away from the chaos of school and find some peace,” Kiefer said.
After cracking a few jokes to make the attend-ees feel relaxed, Malloy addressed the question of spirituality and religion’s roles in the retreats.
“Spirituality is your re-lationship with God. You have to be spiritual and religious. I’ve never seen a spiritual but not religious soup kitchen or a spiritual
but not religious hospital. The retreats offer people to develop their spiritual-ity and engage in religious traditions,” Malloy said.
With so many people at-tending, looking forward to and raving about the retreats every year, Malloy relates this to the need for God in life.
“There’s a hunger for meaning and depth. We’re naturally worried that we are not worthy of God. My argument is that we are,”
he said.The University is well
equipped to handle all of these students search-ing for meaning. The Uni-versity’s retreat center at Chapman Lake is just 30 minutes away and can ac-commodate up to 50 stu-dents at a time.
After giving an hour of his time to inform just two interested students, Malloy walked them to the door, inevitably leaving them with a lot to think about.
the U.S. Military Acad-emy at West Point, Mc-Cullough is currently a student at the Navy War College in Providence, R.I. In his remarks, he re-lated his experiences as a junior officer and many of the lessons he learned through more than 20 years of Army experience. McCullough went on to detail many of the new and developing challenges that are likely to face the next generation of Army officers, challenges that included economic trou-
bles, increasing scarcity of resources and cyber-at-tacks. He also highlighted the strategic shift and re-cent “Pivot to Asia” as key components of the chang-ing world dynamics that Army officers must face.
The evening concluded with the presentation of the Commander’s Award for Public Service to Lau-ren Williams, the direc-tor of military services at Marywood University.
Senior Cadets Amanda Hane and Sydney Car-mody conducted the plan-
ning for the Military Ball. Planning for the Military Ball had begun almost as soon as last year’s ball had concluded.
“Planning was a long and detailed process, but seeing everything come together in the end was well worth all the work,” Hane said.
“Knowing everyone had a good time and that the ball went so well is a great feeling. I’m so proud of all the work everyone did to make this evening a success,” Carmody said.
Black History Month is observed every Febru-ary, but Director of Mul-ticultural Affairs at The University, Paul Porter said true commemoration takes courage from every-one involved.
“Will our ignorances get exposed? Probably. Will we find out we’re a little naive? Yeah, but will we walk out knowing a little more than when we walked in? Yes, and that’s what matters,” Porter said.
According to the gov-ernment’s official African American History Month website, the purpose of Black History Month is to shed light on the strug-gle of countless African
Americans who battled injustice and prejudice to achieve equality.
Black History Month began in 1925 at the direc-tion of historian Carter G. Woodson who chose the second week of February for “Negro History Week” because it contained the birthdays of Abraham Lin-coln and Frederick Doug-lass. Now Americans dedi-cate the whole month of February to celebrate.
The Ignatian Tradition at The University is a per-fect venue to foster the multicultural competency that Black History Month demands, Porter said.
“I really appreciate the sincerity in which this campus approaches social justice and approaches multicultural affairs, Por-ter said. “‘Cura Personalis’ isn’t
just something we slap on a brochure. I feel ev-ery day challenged to live Cura Personalis as part of the job.”
People seeking to en-lighten themselves on social justice can start by reading the works of Derrick Bell, Paulo Freire, Beverly Tatum and bell hooks, but Porter said another great way to get involved is to stop by the Office of Multicultural Af-fairs or by attending one of its events.
“To get something out of it, be unafraid. Come to an event, sit through it. Have a discussion,” Porter said. “It’s not ‘28 days of white people are racist,’ but rather it’s struggle, and celebration, and cul-ture, and food and mu-sic. It’s a big, rich, broad month.”
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Students show spirit at White OutNEWS
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCk UNIVERSITY STUDENTS support the Wolf Pack’s White Out Wednesday night. From left to right, Lizzy Zimmermann, Eileen Smith, Steph Klug, Meghan Erwin and Rachel Cisto cheer on the basketball teams.
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCk CHEERING FROM the student section, groups of students chant in support of their Royal basketball players Wednesday. The men’s team lost to Juniata in a double overtime in the semifi nal game.
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCk FAN WEAR white to support the Royal basketball team at the John Long, S.J., Center Wednesday night. Clockwise from left, Jamie Hampsey, Erin Tracy, Ol-ivia Levine and Claire Leisner support the Wolf Pack’s White Out.
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCk IGGY THE Wolf rallys fans at the men’s basketball game Wednesday. The men’s team ends its season after the semi-fi nal game, a close game ending after double overtime.
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCk UNIVERSITY STUDENTS support the basketball team’s’ White Out Wednesday night. Many students turned up for the men’s and women’s semi-fi nal games.
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The Human Rights com-mittee of Egypt’s Shura Council, the Upper House of the Republic’s bicameral legislative body, issued several statements that women who participated in the daily protests across Egypt were to be blamed for their own sexual ha-rassment and assault. Ac-cording to articles posted by Al Masry Al Youm (The Egyptian Today) and The Daily News Egypt Monday, members of the council came out “victim blaming” women who complained that not enough was be-ing done to protect them from such sexual advances while they were protest-ing. This has become an all too common occurrence in Egypt since the Janu-ary 2011 revolution which
ultimately saw the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Among the main pro-ponents of victim blam-ing were people who claimed that women were essentially guilty of put-ting themselves in a place where “thugs,” street chil-dren and other rebels could target them.
Reda Al-Hefawany from the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, is quoted as saying, “How can the Ministry of Interior be tasked with protecting a lady who stands among a group of men?”
Adel Afifi, a board mem-ber of the Salafi Party Al-Asala, which practices a strict interpretation of Is-lam, said, “Women some-times cause rape upon themselves through put-ting themselves in a posi-tion which makes them
subject to rape.” While some members
did say that the issue need-ed to be addressed, it was not without blaming them first. Another member of the Freedom and Justice Party, Saleh Abdel Salam, claimed that the issue needed to be looked into, but also said, “The woman bears the offence when she chooses to protest in places filled with thugs.”
Unfortunately, this is not the only time that the victim blaming of Egyp-tian women has made the media in the past two weeks. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil at a cabi-net meeting blamed a re-cent diarrhea epidemic in the rural areas on women who do not keep their breasts clean while feed-ing their children. Many people were appalled at such statements since Dr. Qandil holds a doctorate in
biological and agricultural engineering with a special-ization in water resources and he previously held the office of Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation.
Women in Egypt saw a bright future for them-selves after the revolu-tion, but those dreams are quickly being crushed in the society that is still dominated by men. Both women and men pro-tested side by side during the 14 days leading to the fall of Mubarak and many saw this as a sign of good things to come. However, it seems that accomplishing the goal of the revolution will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, in these tumultuous times. Instead of victim blaming women for their own harassment or illness, the newly-elect-ed government should be concerned that half of its population does not feel
safe on the streets or is protesting for what the residents deem to be their basic human rights and try to do something about it. In a country where catcalls are the everyday norm for Egyptian and foreign women alike, subway cars are gender-segregated for safety and sexual harass-
ment in Tahrir is making international news, the government should be con-cerned with basic necessi-ties before trying to tackle what it assesses to be big-ger and more important is-sues. If half the population feels unsafe and without a voice, the revolution will ultimately fail.
ELENA HABERSKy Staff Writer
THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
“Victim blaming” in Egypt leads to protests
Does gun control affect suicide rates?Gun control has been
a pressing topic in the United States for decades. With the rash of mass shootings in the nation over the past decade, the issue has only intensified. But the matter came to a hull in December after the horrific shootings in Newtown, Conn. Since the tragic day, the American people have been focused on figuring out just how to keep our families, friends and neighbors safe from harm.
The focus of these debates has been fix-ated mainly on the hor-rors of homicide and the mass shootings that have plagued this country in recent years. But what is widely left out in these stories and statistics are the number of suicides re-sulting from gun-inflicted wounds. This is startling when, in fact, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, out of the approximately 30,000 gun-related deaths in the United States in 2010, 20,000 were suicides.
Will the proposed gun control measures really do anything to affect these suicide rates? To really ex-amine what results such legislature might have on the violence epidemic in this nation, we can turn to examples of such legisla-tion in other places.
Australia was plunged into despair in 1996 when a deranged shooter killed 35 people at Port Arthur, a popular tourist destina-tion. Immediately after the terrible event, legislation passed in the country that banned all semi-automatic and automatic rifles and
shotguns and implement-ed a mandatory govern-ment buyback program. The immediate and long-term results of these new laws were astounding. The number of homicides com-mitted with a firearm went down by 59 percent (with no corresponding increase in homicides committed by other means), both robberies with firearms and home invasions de-creased dramatically, and since 1996, not one mass shooting has occurred in Australia. This is a sharp contrast from the 11 mass shootings that occurred in the nation from 1986 to 1996. But one of the most
startling statistics is the fact that the suicide rate in Australia went down by a whopping 65 percent. In Israel, a measure enacted barring soldiers from tak-ing their guns home on the weekends resulted in a 60 percent drop in soldier suicides almost immedi-ately, according to think-progress.org.
But examples exist in our own nation as well. The Brady Handgun Vio-lence Prevention Act went into effect in February 1994. The law, which re-quired background checks on purchasers of firearms in the U.S., saw a reduc-tion in the suicides of
older people (a group of-ten at high risk for sui-cide), although there was also a slight increase in the number of suicides from means other than firearms, according to the New York Times.
However, is there a legit-imate correlation between gun ownership and sui-cides in the United States? Various studies show that homes where suicides oc-curred were three to five times more likely to have a gun present in the house. The three states with the highest suicide rates, Wyo-ming, Alaska and Mon-tana, are also in the top five for states with most
guns per capita. The Har-vard Injury Control Re-search Center shows that firearms are by far the most effective method of suicide, as suicide at-tempts involving guns are effective 85 percent of the time, as compared to 34 percent for jumping from high places and less than 5 percent for drug overdos-es. The same study agreed that gun availability was a credible risk factor for suicides, particularly for adolescents.
With these statistics, it’s difficult to deny that there is at least some correlation between gun accessibility and suicide rates. We have
to tailor these ideas to our modern day and age. The gun control debates that are raging in this country today are generally not about weapons that are involved in suicides. Since the Newtown tragedy, the nation has been question-ing whether or not to ban assault weapons. How-ever, these firearms are not generally involved in suicides. Therefore, if such gun control measures are implemented, the laws will likely do little in the way of suicide prevention.
That does not mean that we are stuck, help-less, with no way to pre-vent these suicides from happening. The general trend with suicides is that the actual decision is done on impulse. A Center for Disease Control and Pre-vention report showed that over two-thirds of the time, only an hour or less passes between someone deciding to attempt to end their life and then actu-ally doing it. With this as the case, the key element to preventing suicides is not actual gun control, but keeping people from get-ting to those guns when suicidal thoughts come to a head. Measures such as requiring gun safes and gun locks, along with en-couraging gun owners to take an active role in keeping guns away from troubled relatives, could be good starting points for preventing suicide. Pro-visions to increase fund-ing and public knowledge regarding mental health could also play a signifi-cant part in precautionary measures. The issue of gun control remains a burning issue, but for now other steps must be taken in order to stop the suicidal epidemic in this nation.
CouRtesy of wikimedia CommonsTHIS GRAPH shows the rates of suicide and the methods used by those who attempted to kill themselves. Apart from suffocation, the use of fi rearms in suicides far exceeds other methods. The debate over gun con-trol has taken on a new facet: will restricting guns lower rates of suicide?
CouRtesy of wikimedia CommonsTHE EGYPTIAN Shura council is blaming women for being sexually harassed.
ERIN MCCoRMICK Staff Writer
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“I think it’s good. He’s really old and if he is becoming senile how are you suppose to be the leader of the Cath-olic Church. Also I give him props because he realized it was time to step down”
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“When people first told me I didn’t believe them. I think he should have at least stayed as an icon. He could always have accepted the assistance of others. I would say he’s a global leader. Es-pecially if you look at the things Pope John Paul II did. I think he could have done more with the time he had.”
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CouRtesubmitted photo: GabRieLLa dipasquaLe foR the aquinas GABRIELLA DiPASQUALE was just elected to the student government senate of The University. She is excited about her new position and is looking for-ward to serving her classmates.
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First-year class elects new senator
Gabriella DiPasquale was voted in as the new-est member of the student government senate Friday. She represents the first-year class of 2016 and re-places David Scalzo, a fel-low first year.
“Well, since I am re-placing David Scalzo, I have very big shoes to fill, but I am very happy to be on the senate so that I can really give back to the community that I love,” DiPasquale said.
Throughout her high school experience, Di-Pasquale showed strong qualities of a leader, and she is prepared to contin-ue her leadership so that she can serve her Univer-sity community. In high school, DiPasquale was the secretary of her first-year class, the president of her sophomore class and a junior student council rep-resentative. As a senior, she led Kairos, a retreat that focused on building a relationship with God but also with oneself. Thus stated, DiPasquale exem-plifies leadership in many areas of her life.
Outside of formal high school leadership posi-tions, in her free time Di-Pasquale held lead roles in her school musicals, played basketball and vol-leyball, was the yearbook editor during her junior and senior years and took dance classes. DiPasquale
proves that she can man-age her time well, thriving as she takes on many dif-ferent activities and lead-ership roles.
DiPasquale has already involved herself in the Cura Personalis program as a member of the justice council, a role that per-fectly aligns her position as a first-year senator, all in her premiere year at The University. Further-more, DiPasquale is a Roy-al Ambassador, an active member of the SOTA (Stu-dents of the Occupational Therapists Association) program and Students for Suicide Prevention and takes part in intramurals.
“I am approachable, friendly, I put myself out there and I genuinely care about this Scranton com-munity,” DiPasquale said when asked what makes her stand out as a senator. “I am honest and realistic, but at the same time I am creative and will bring new ideas to the table. I won’t turn anyone away when it comes to sugges-tions.”
DiPasquale’s fellow sen-ators are excited to have her on the senate. “Gab is very well prepared for this position, especially com-ing in halfway through the term,” current first-year senator Chris Kilner said. “The important qualities are dedication, enthusi-asm and getting on the ball right away – jump-ing right in. Gab has all of these qualities. Hopefully Gab will decide to run for
next year’s term as well so that she can continue to share her great ideas to help improve our Scranton community. I look forward to working with her.”
Well prepared and ready to lead, DiPasquale is the perfect person for this senator position. She is charismatic, bubbly and benevolent and always places others before her-self. The constant support that she receives is indica-
tive of her hard work and love for others. She is a familiar, friendly face on campus, and she defi-nitely deserves to be one of the leading faces of our student body.
“I am humbled by the overwhelming support and acceptance into the senate by the student government. I cannot wait take part in this learning experience,” DiPasquale said.
SARAH MUELLER Staff Writer
As a member of the Search 69 retreat this past weekend, I met a group of people who impacted my life immensely. I reflected on myself as I never had be-fore, and I was witness to my peers’ extraordinary stories and experiences. One of the goals of Search is to embody in everyday life lessons from the retreat. With only three days of reflection since the event, I can certainly say that I am still a long way from completely processing my experience.
Optimism, however, im-mediately stands out to me as a hallmark of the retreat and a primarily important lesson. I testify to the fact that I doubted I would ever speak highly of optimism, yet I feel it to be a lesson too important not to share.
For a long time before Search, I found myself walk-ing a line between optimism and pessimism. I did not have a positive outlook on life, and at times my world-view bordered on cynicism, yet I was not especially pes-simistic.
I now perceive with great-er clarity that our communi-ty too often tends to take this tack: a hands-off, restrained approach to life and others. I found on the retreat that opening up to others and be-ing in the presence of new-found friends pushed me off of the razor that I was walk-ing between optimism and pessimism, and I fell onto the side of positivity.
I want to clarify that I am not preaching anything. My uncomfortable new affin-ity for optimism will preoc-cupy me for a long time. I am instead advocating an approach that embraces whatever you find present in your life. I use the word em-brace deliberately: encounter something in your life and wrap your arms around it. Become familiar with it. If you tend to live a reserved life, try a radical familiarity. When I spoke and listened on Search, I discovered a new and hopefully durable facet of my life.
Ultimately, I want to thank those who made Search 69 possible. I know that many of us are not sure in what manner you helped to change our lives, but we are indelibly grateful to you and all your gracious efforts.
BEN TURCEA Forum Editor
Just when you think the duck face is on its way out (and rightfully so), Snapchat comes along. For those of you who don’t know what either a duck face or Snapchat is, just Google some images of “duck face.” Snapchat is a smartphone app that lets you take embarrass-ing pictures of yourself and send them to friends, and they will not be able to keep the photo, be-cause you allot a certain amount of time (up to 10 seconds) that they can view the picture.
Have you ever caught a friend Snapchatting (v.) in public? For those of you who haven’t, imagine be-ing around friends having
a conversation when you look and see that some of your friends have tem-porarily checked out of the conversation and are holding their phone out in front of their face while making a ridiculous facial expression (usually some form of the duck face) to take a picture of them-selves. And they are doing this as if it is completely normal.
This is not normal, peo-ple.
But this is just one in-stance of a much larger problem that is slowly becoming the norm in our generation. We are slowly becoming consumed by all of the screens in our lives and are starting to take ourselves out of the physical present moment and entering into the technologically abstract.
This is mostly happen-ing with our cell phone, television, and laptop screens. And it’s all be-cause of the things we have become addicted to on these screens. Things like Facebook, texting, Twitter, Instagram, Snap-chat and the latest to join the list, Tinder (which is so creepy) are all now at our fingertips, and there-fore can easily become distracting from the pres-ent moment we are expe-riencing.
I think it will serve us all well this Lent to make a conscious effort to de-tach ourselves from these addictions and focus on the moment we are cur-rently experiencing. In doing so, it will be easier to see God in everything around us. From the peo-ple we are with to the
nature that surrounds us, God can be found every-where when our eyes are not glued to a screen.
So next time you are tempted to pick up your phone to start texting to check social media, or to Snapchat your infamous duck face to a friend, think about where God is around you in the pres-ent. Instead of bury-ing your head in your phone, choose to savor the moment you are in. The phone will always be there, but that moment won’t.
This Lent, let’s screen out all the things that are stopping us from being fully present in our lives and try to savor every God-filled moment for what it is worth. And I guarantee you will not re-gret it.
oliver’s Twist: Get away from the screens
A lesson taken from the Search 69 retreat
CouRtesy of the uniVeRsity SEARCH 69 was held at the Retreat Center at Chapman Lake.
The success of shows such as “South Park,” “Tosh.0” and “Workahol-ics” have taught Com-edy Central one thing — keep it raunchy. The addition of “The Jeselnik Offensive” is proof of this formula.
Since the “Chappelle’s Show,” Comedy Central has lacked the type of in-your-face comedy Dave Chappell brought to the table. His show pushed the limits of what he could get away with on TV. Sketches and jokes that most co-medians could not pull off, Chappelle did with ease. His bread and but-ter was joking about the difference between ethnicities. It is an awk-ward subject on any other show, but racism was the centerpiece of “Chappelle’s Show.”
The only show to come close to the popularity of “Chappelle’s Show” is
“Tosh.0.” Similar to the Chappelle, Daniel Tosh is a comedian with few boundaries. Even though there are other shows identical to Tosh’s, (“Ri-diculousness” and “The Soup”), he stands ahead of the pack because of his reputation as a raun-chy comic. People tune in because they are curi-ous to see what he will do or say next.
You may never have heard of Anthony Jesel-nik before his stand-up special on Comedy Cen-tral. If you have heard of him, you are well aware that Jeselnik might be the raunchiest comic out there. He got his break writing jokes for Jimmy Fallon, but after a while he began to work his way into stand up. De-spite his ability to tell jokes, his material is not for everyone.
“The Jeselnik Offen-sive” premiered Tuesday night after Tosh.0, and it did not disappoint view-ers. Jeselnik held nothing back as he made jokes
about race, AIDS and pedophilia as though they were everyday top-ics. Each show brings in a panel of two comics to help pick apart that week’s news stories. The premiere had Aziz An-sari and Amy Schumer joke about seducing po-lice and talking in ter-rible Spanish accents in a segment called “Latin
Voices.” An example of how
little Jeselnik cares about who takes his jokes offensively can be seen in the segment “Who Wore it Better?” The sketch puts photos of two people wearing the same thing side by side, and Jeselnik gives his two cents about their style. In the premiere, he
had a photo of President Barack Obama side by side with the Virginia Tech killer, Seung-Hui Cho, simply because they were both wearing backward baseball caps. Jeselnik then proceed-ed to say that Obama looked like “the belle of the ball,” while Cho looked like “a kid spend-ing another night alone in the dorms.”
“The Jeselnik Offen-sive” is not your family comedy. Do not watch it with the expectation to catch cheesy one-liners and zingers you would hear on sitcoms. Jesel-nik will cross lines and never look back. You are either going to think he can be the next Chap-pelle or Tosh, or you are going to think he is the anti-Christ. One thing is for sure — he does not care. He will still be making jokes well af-ter his time on Comedy Central.
Catch new episodes of “The Jeselnik Offensive” Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m.
Arts & LifeArts & Life EditorJoseph Weitemeyer
“Amour.”
Bobby Schneider Junior, Port Jervis, N.Y.
“Django Unchained.”
Bill Butler Sophomore, Doylestown
“Les Misérables.”
Devon CohenJunior, Horsham
“Beast of the Southern Wild.”
Adrianna Vladika Junior, Mayfi eld
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Comedy Central goes offensive with new show
“Life of Pi.”
Erin McPeakJunior, Chitt enango, N.Y.
“Life of Pi.”
Jamie Mizerak Junior, Endwell, NY..
Campus Comment: Which nominated movie do you think is least deserving of winning an oscar?
THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
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photo Coutesy of wikimedia CommonsCOMEDY CENTRAL has been piloting new shows centered on raunchy comedians. “The Jeselnik Of-fensive” is the latest one to air.
JoSEPH WEITEMEyERArts & Life Editor
Netflix gets ‘Cards’“There are two kinds of
pain- the sort of pain that makes you strong, or use-less pain, the sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.” These are the first lines of Netflix’s new origi-nal series “House of Cards.” Francis Underwood, who is played by Kevin Spacey, says those two sentences in the opening scene, then snaps his neighbor’s dog’s neck after the dog was hit by a car. With that open-ing scene, “House of Cards,” brought a different type of attraction than other shows.
“House of Cards” is about Francis Underwood, who is the House of Representa-tives’ Majority Whip at the White House. For those not familiar with politics, the Majority Whip is a mem-ber of the political party in power who makes sure that members of the House of Representatives attend all meetings and take part in important legislation. Francis feels he is being betrayed during the show, and he plans to go behind the president’s back and be-come president himself by
creating support through-out the Senate.
Although this Netflix original series is a remake of a British version, it brings own original twist by making it about the United States government. The show focuses on prob-lems that members of the U.S. government deal with, such as passing bills, peace between political parties, betrayal, drugs and prosti-tution.
This new drama features many characters who help Francis in his overthrow. Robin Wright plays Claire Underwood, Francis’s sup-portive wife, who is willing to help him in any way pos-sible. Doug Stamper, who is played by Michael Kelly, is Francis’s right-hand man and Peter Russo, who is played by Corey Stall, is a congressman for the state of Pennsylvania. Kate Mara plays Zoe Barnes, who is a reporter who builds her ca-reer with a little help from an inside source. With the help of these people and others, Francis Underwood begins to plan his long and well-timed plan in order to get revenge on those who did him wrong.
Every episode drags you
in and never lets you go. It is a new and fresh way of fictionally representing what members of our gov-ernment have to go through on a day-to-day basis. Kevin Spacey, who has not been in anything big since “Horrible
Bosses” in 2011, acts so well in this series that he makes you feel like he has been a politician his whole life. The style of directing makes the viewers feel like they are involved in the story and in the life of Francis Under-
wood, with his monologues that seem more like a con-versation between himself and the viewers. “House of Cards” is a show that can be picked up at any time and leaves viewers instantly hooked.
SHAWN FLESCHE Arts & Life Contributor
photo CouRtesy of imdb.ComKEVIN SPACEY stars in the American version of “House of Cards.” The show is exclusive to Netfl ix.
City Café Mediterranean Restaurant is an indepen-dently-owned restaurant specializing in Mediterranean delicacies. Located at 116 N. Washington Ave., City Café is recognized by its welcom-ing atmosphere through its warm interior and refresh-ing outdoor dining. The cafe is also host to on-site private parties, catering, daily deliv-eries and BYOB.
Dominic Saadi, the owner of City Café Mediterranean Restaurant, is happy to be part of the downtown Scran-ton business district.
“The city is safe, attractive and offers good shops as well as talent from The Univer-sity and cultural center,” said Saadi.
City Café is dedicated to providing a Mediterranean menu that is always healthy and always fresh.
“City Café offers a unique downtown dining experience focusing on a healthy, savory
and organic Mediterranean menu,” Saadi said.
A Scranton native, Saadi graduated from The Universi-ty and is excited to give back by meeting the needs of his regular customers as well as welcoming new ones.
City Café is a proud partici-pant of the First Friday events and Saadi is looking forward to interacting with the down-town public in a café that pro-vides a new experience.
“We believe it is important to participate in the commu-nity events and activities that showcase our downtown,” Saadi said.
City Café offers an envi-ronment without disruptions in order to experience its east-ern Mediterranean appeal.
“We want to engage the downtown public in a café that provides a table of great food, conversation and the exchange of taste and ideas,” Saadi said.
City Café now offers Uni-versity students a 10 percent discount as well as a free ap-petizer for the table.
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“Amour.”
Coleen Joyce Junior, Glenside
“Lincoln.”
Lauren Price Sophomore, Fleetwood
“Everything but Lincoln!”
Christi ne Panzitt aSophomore, Hamilton, N.J.
“Lincoln, because even though it might have
been a good movie, the Academy always pulls for
Spielberg.”Max Correa
Senior, Stanford, C.T.
“Les Misérables.”
Dan KoernerJunior, Seaside, N.J.
“Amour.”
T.J. Jensen Sophomore, Clarks Summit
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New cafe offers deals SUZANNE GIVNISH Arts & Life Contributor
After an exhausting awards season, the end is in sight. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will recognize the year’s outstanding achieve-ments in film Sunday. The 85 annual Academy Awards are already proving to be full of surprises. When the nominees were announced January 10, fans and critics alike were shocked by the inclusion of some nomi-nees “Beasts of the South-ern Wild” and “Amour” and outraged by the omission of others (namely Ben Af-fleck and Kathryn Bigelow for directing). Although some categories are already decided, others will be a race to the finish. Here are my predictions for the six major races.
Best Picture: Should win: Ben Affleck’s
taut political thriller “Argo” combined an engaging screenplay, flawless direc-tion and top-notch per-formances to create a cin-ematic experience like no other this year.
Will win: “Argo” is the comeback story of the year. Early in awards season, no one would have picked this film to win the top prize. Following Ben Affleck’s snub in the director catego-ry, the film’s chances grew even slimmer. Only three films have won Best Picture without gaining directing
nominations, the last be-ing 1989’s “Driving Miss Daisy.” The directing snub, although a grave injustice, was the best thing to hap-pen to “Argo” as it created momentum that allowed the film to win top honors at the Producers, Directors, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Thanks to these accolades, “Argo” is now the presumed winner, though there is still a chance that Spielberg’s “Lincoln” could pull off an upset.
Best Director:Should win: In “Silver
Linings Playbook,” David O. Russell proved that great directing is often invisible. Instead of relying on fast- paced action or excessive CGI, Russell utilized a heart-felt script and coaxed bril-liant performances from his entire cast to create an au-thentic and enjoyable film.
Will win: The Director’s Guild, which is the most accurate predictor of this race, awarded “Argo”’s Ben Affleck; however, since he was not nominated by the Academy, this race is a toss-up. Given his Academy his-tory, Steven Spielberg is the best bet to take this prize for his high-profile histori-cal biopic “Lincoln.” The only possible challenge to a Spielberg victory is “Life of Pi”’s Ang Lee for sheer dif-ficulty and creative risk.
Best Actor:Should win: In a weaker
year I would have thrown full support behind Brad-ley Cooper, whose perfor-
mance in Silver Linings Playbook was both unex-pected and inspiring. How-ever, Daniel Day-Lewis’s deeply-researched por-trayal of Abraham Lincoln was a great example of method acting. This iconic role is yet another example of why Day-Lewis is one of the finest actors of our time.
Will win: An Academy favorite, Daniel Day-Lewis is a lock for his third statue.
Best Actress:Should win: As a neurot-
ic young widow in “Silver Linings Playbook,” Jennifer Lawrence created one of the year’s most memorable performances. Showcasing both comedic and dramatic skill, she shone the bright-est among an ensemble that included the great Rob-ert De Niro.
Will win: The frontrun-ner is Jennifer Lawrence, who also won the Screen Actors Guild award. Jessica Chastain’s tour-de-force performance in “Zero Dark Thirty” is also a strong con-tender, but with last min-ute momentum, “Amour”’s Emmanuelle Riva has the potential to pull off a huge upset.
Best Supporting Actor:Should win: As aboli-
tionist Thaddeus Stevens in “Lincoln,” Tommy Lee Jones breathed life into a relatively obscure figure in American history with a fierce, yet controlled per-formance that exploded off the screen.
Will win: Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Critics Choice Award. Christoph Waltz took the prize at the Golden Globes. The Screen Actors Guild awarded Tom-my Lee Jones. The Oscar, however, will be awarded to Robert De Niro for “Silver Linings Playbook.” His poi-gnant portrayal of a foot-ball-obsessed father will earn the actor his first stat-ue in almost thirty years.
Best Supporting Actress:Should win: Whether
mourning the loss of her son or defending excessive White House spending, Sal-ly Field’s portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln provided the emotional counterbalance to Daniel Day-Lewis’s stoi-cally-calculated Abe.
Will win: No one stands a chance against Anne Ha-thaway who has won every other major award for her role as the tragic Fantine in “Les Miserables.”
Hosted by Seth Mac-Farlane, the 85 Academy Awards will feature a trib-ute to the decade’s movie musicals and celebrate the 50 anniversary of the James Bond franchise. Adele, Norah Jones, and Barbara Streisand are scheduled to perform. ABC will telecast the Academy Awards at 7 p.m. Sunday.
LUKE BoNIELLo Arts & Life Contributor
‘Harlem Shake’ takes over web
We have all fallen victim to aimlessly surfing the Inter-net when we should be doing more productive things. It is pretty hard not to surf with so many distractions on the Internet. While there are al-ways Facebook searching and Twitter scrolling, YouTube has become a safe haven to pro-crastinators all around.
What’s so appealing about YouTube? Maybe it’s the millions of music videos. Maybe it’s the sports clips. However, the one consistent thing about YouTube is the constant stream of trending videos that spark parodies. Many years ago it was the Soulja Boy dance. However, more recently there has been an influx of these videos.
After watching dozens of different videos, I derive the same conclusion, “what is the point of that video?” Even though the clip doesn’t make sense, I find myself constant-ly looking up new ones.
If you haven’t had the plea-sure of seeing one of these videos, it’s hard to under-stand the concept of it. The format of the video is as fol-lows: music plays while one person dances and the rest of the people in the room go on with their daily business. Then the bass drops. The scene then changes and ev-eryone starts doing some sort of strange dance. Sometimes props are involved.
Some of the parodies get pretty repetitive, but there are a few that truly stick out. One video was filmed at the Clark Retirement Communi-ty, in which residents partici-
pated in the video. Seeing el-derly people dance with their canes is pretty comical. The University of Georgia men’s swim team filmed a video while dancing on a table un-derwater. SeaWorld recently released a video with seals and other animals that pro-moted the opening of their San Antonio location. A group of The University’s finest guys made their own video in which a Yoda mask made an appearance. While the videos make no sense, they are hilar-ious for the sheer reason that there is no point to it.
Despite the videos’ hu-morous nature, unfortu-nately for some creators the consequence of putting the video on YouTube the video has been grave. The Susque-hanna football team’s video resulted in the expulsion of 11 players from the squad. Its video consisted of provoca-tive motions and was filmed in the school’s weight room. While the video has a pro-vocative nature, there is no nudity, which makes their punishment debatable. Even though the vast majority of videos have some form of sexual vulgarity, these eleven players face an extreme con-sequence for their actions.
This video craze has short-ly taken over the Internet and has sparked thousands of parodies. While these videos are harmless, the con-sequences of filming one of these videos the have to be taken into account. Who knows how much longer this craze will last. With thou-sands of mock videos out on YouTube, it will take a truly unusual one to grab the at-tention of YouTube surfers.
All roads lead to Oscars
ANDREA RICKETTIArts & Life Contributor
CouRtesy of wikimedia CommonsTHE DOLBY Theater (formally the Kodak Theater) is the location of the Acad-emy Awards every year. This is the 85th year of the awards.
In Short
Best Picture:
“Argo”
Best Director:
Steven Spielberg
Best Actor:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress:
Jennifer Lawrence
Best Supporting Actor:
Robert De Niro
Best Supporting Actress:
Anne Hathaway
THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013 10
Business Joseph Bruzzesi
Business Editor
CouRtesy of ap imaGesBOEING’S 747 Dreamliner aircraft is struggling with safety failures. Boeing fi rst tested the aircraft in 2009, but it has serious safety fl aws that hurt the companies image.
Key Business & Finance*From The Wall Street Journal
•Intel confirmed plans to offer a paid Internet video service and accom-panying set-top box, an unusual gamble for the
chip maker.
•BP is placing a big bet that by going to trial in a civil case next week it can hold down the cost of one of its last major potential liabilities for the Deepwater Horizon
disaster.
•Spain’s Reyal Urbis said it would file for bankruptcy protection in what could become the second-largest default in Spanish corporate his-
tory.
•Apple said that some of its employees’ Mac computers were attacked by hackers, a rare admis-sion for a company that has long touted its se-curity over PCs running Windows. The malicious code in the attack is be-lieved to be the same discovered by Facebook
after a recent breach.
•The FBI has begun a criminal probe into a big options trade made the day before the announce-ment of the $23-billion
buyout of H.J. Heinz.
•Novartis abandoned a $78-million exit pack-age for its chairman, bowing to pressure from shareholders and Swiss
politicians.
•Revel AC, the owner of the struggling Revel casino in Atlantic City, N.J., is preparing to file for bankruptcy protec-tion in the coming weeks.
•BofA awarded CEO Brian Moynihan $12 mil-lion in salary and bonus-es for 2012, reflecting a rebound year at the sec-ond-largest U.S. lender.
Economic Updates
•New home starts de-clined 8.5 percent in Jan-uary from an upwardly revised 973,000 (from 954,000) in December to
890,000.
•The drop in starts is more likely due to volatility than a shift in construction trends. The number of homes cur-rently under construc-tion, which factors into GDP, remained on a solid positive track, increasing 1.5 percent to 557,000. That was the 17th con-secutive monthly in-crease and is 34.9 percent above the August 2011
trough. (Briefing.com)
•After three months of declines, producer prices edged up 0.2 percent in
January.
JoSEPH CoMITINoBusiness Correspondent
The state-of-the-art Boe-ing 787 Dreamliner has been anything but a dream for the airline company. Af-ter a recent series of fires and battery failures aboard the new aircraft, the planes have been grounded until the issues are resolved. Af-ter an initial government review of the aircraft’s safety, the Federal Aviation
Administration has fully grounded all 787 flights.
The 787 is composed of 80 percent composite carbon-fiber material as opposed to the standard aluminum which most other planes are made of. Instead of hydraulics, it features pressurization, air-conditioning and braking that are powered by elec-tricity, which enables the plane to use 20 percent less fuel than any plane before it.
Despite all of its tech-nological advancements, the 787 has been a major headache for Boeing for the past few years and has cost the company billions of dollars in cost overruns. The plane was supposed to create a new standard for aircrafts, but has instead become a model for other aircraft manufacturers of how not to build a plane.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Polish air-line LOT has stated it does
not plan to fly the planes until at least October. The 787s have been grounded since January due to mal-functioning lithium-ion batteries, and Boeing is still working on potential fixes to the problem. A probe on the plane in Japan has found improper wiring in the wing, according to the Los Angeles Times. Some blame the issues on the more than 50 companies to which Boeing outsourced the design and production
of this plane. According to The New Yorker, Boeing only built 40 percent of the 787 by itself.
Whatever the cause of the problems with the Dreamliner might be, the grounding of these planes is costing Boeing, and all of the airlines that purchased the planes, a large sum of money. As uncertainty con-tinues to build around the airline, the future of Boeing and its 787 Dreamliner is unsure.
Aircraft’s safety failures continue to damage Boeing’s reputation
President’s BusinessCouncil Plans Trip
The President’s Business Council (PBC), in conjunc-tion with the Kania SOM Business Club, is offering a Business Networking Trip to New York City on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Students will depart campus at 8:00 a.m. and return after the evening reception. Throughout the morning and afternoon, the group of students will meet with three alumni in their places of business in mid-
town Manhattan. Prior to returning to Scranton, the students will attend a networking reception with PBC Members and alumni in the New York
City area.
The PBC has several objectives in which the Council seeks to connect members and students in meaningful and productive ways. In order to
meet these objectives, the PBC provides programs like the Business Networking Trips in various cities throughout the academic year, during which the
students meet both as a small group with business executives in their offi ces and with a larger group of alumni and friends during the evening network-
ing receptions.
Please visit the registration table in the lobby of Brennan Hall this week and next to sign up
or contact [email protected] for more info.
CouRtesy of the waLL stReet JouRnaLBOEING’S STOCK has been trading above its 100-day moving average recently de-spite the Dreamliner’s safety fl aws. Boeing is currently working to fi x the aircraft’s problems.
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11THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Public, private US universities struggle to adjust to lower revenues
University leaders are being pressed to reduce costs and increase operat-ing efficiency. According to the U.S. Higher Educa-tion Outlook by Moody’s, universities around the na-tion are beginning to take a deeper look into their costs. Moody’s has a nega-tive outlook on education for 2013. Certain revenue streams such as Pell Grants, which are major revenue generators for universities, may be cut with sequestra-tion weeks away. Moody’s analysis shows that univer-sities must adjust to lower income streams. While uni-versities will adjust opera-tions, some are beginning to question other programs that supply revenue to a majority of universities.
The current outstanding student loan debt is a ma-jor concern to the future of higher education. Accord-ing to the Federal Reserve, in 2010 student loan debt grew larger than credit card debt. The current out-standing student loan debt is over $1 trillion. Accord-ing to finaid.org, student loan debt is increasing over $2,800 per second. Several government programs and private capital markets al-low two-thirds of American students to borrow money for college. On a very ba-sic level, the availability of capital to college students raises the costs of educa-tion. While studies show that unemployment rates of those without a college de-gree are higher than those with a degree, a new study by College Access and Suc-cess showed that close to 40 percent of recent graduates are working jobs that do not require college degrees. If this statistic holds true, many students, who on av-erage borrowed $26,000 in 2011, will default on their loans. In fact, the number of defaults on college loans is at its record high.
Many are beginning to claim that a bubble is be-ing formed in the student loan market. The cost of higher education and the
availability of capital are beginning to look like the housing crisis. The avail-ability of money with loose lending standards leads to an increase in the amount of students that can attend college. As more students attend college with optimis-tic expectations for the fu-ture, the increased demand results in some of the high-est education costs on the globe. Pessimistic outlooks on the future growth on the economy and on employ-ment as a whole lead many to worry these debts will not be paid off.
The Moody’s report cov-ers price sensitivity. As the average American family is making less, families will weigh the financial burden of attending a university more. With contracted in-comes, many high-priced universities run the risk of reduced revenue due to pricing. Families with mid-dle to high-level incomes are especially in a bad posi-tion, as the number of low -income students receiv-ing federal aid have more than doubled in the past 10 years. The demand created by these loans keeps costs higher for families who re-ceive no aid and must pay tuition in full. The cost of a private education is driving many to technical schools, online schools and commu-nity colleges, where tuition is priced competitively.
While some recognized universities are maintain-ing enrollment growth, many private institutions are facing decelerating growth; more than half of the universities in the Unit-ed States reported lower enrollment this year. One of the major issues that is threatening residential uni-versity enrollment is the emergence of massive open online courses (M.O.O.Cs). A massive open online course is literally a free col-lege course online. Many of these courses include instructor videos, notes, test and quiz materials and other educational supple-ments. These courses are currently being offered by top tier universities like Harvard, Duke, M.I.T., Stan-ford and Yale. Courses can be accessed by anyone on
practically any subject mat-ter. The M.O.O.Cs open up a new source of revenue for these schools. To see an example, visit http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm to see the courses available from M.I.T.
M.O.O.Cs can create rev-enue a number of ways. According to Moody’s, M.O.O.Cs can generate ad-ditional revenue through online certificates, degrees, licensing or advertisement. The platforms enable uni-versities to lower their costs per student. Most importantly, M.O.O.Cs will enable universities to es-tablish a global reputation through means other than their students on campus. M.O.O.Cs offer great learn-ing opportunities for under-privileged students, but put extra pressure on other uni-versities to catch up to this trend.
The report highlights more depressing news for small universities and top universities alike: the fed-eral government provided more than half of the fund-ing for research grants. As the government plans to
scale back its spending, universities can expect to see flat or even negative growth in research grants. Such scale backs have nega-tive effects on the economy as a whole. Universities will invest less money in equip-ment and building for re-search and ultimately have fewer revenue generating resources. This lowers op-portunities for new discov-eries and for expanding fac-ulty and intellectual capital.
Moody’s also highlighted how changes in the politi-cal environment are adding additional pressure to uni-versities. Health care costs will be increasing for many universities. In addition, many public universities may have to pay for post-retirement benefits for their employees, something their states once handled.
The report identified a number of areas that uni-versities can use to expand their revenues. The Uni-versity is currently excel-ling in several of its areas. First and foremost, gradu-ate business degrees gen-erate some of the highest revenues for universities.
The University online MBA program has a number of impressive awards, recogni-tions, rankings and accredi-tations. According to its webpage, “In the 2012 edi-tion of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of Top Online Business Programs, The University of Scran-ton’s Online MBA program was ranked number 1 for Student Engagement and Accreditation and number 13 for Student Services and Technology.”
The Kania School of Management (KSOM) also has an “AACSB-Accreditation,”which is the highest designation for a business school. To put this achievement in persepctive, less than five percent of universities worldwide hold this accreditation. Students in the KSOM both residen-tially and online are af-forded a world-class faculty with industry experience. This is one of a number of advantages The University has today.
A few of the other rev-enue catalysts present here invole The University’s ded-ication to innovation. The
University has a beautiful campus with brand-new facilities, top-of-the-line technology, a Jesuit tradi-tion, top faculty and a con-nected community. Rather than experiencing a con-tracting market like many other higher education in-stitutions, The University is expanding its markets. Groups like the President’s Business Council are help-ing attract students from different regions across the country. The University’s Board of Directors has four strategic themes: Educa-tional Excellence, Campus Community, Economic Strength and Civic Engage-ment.
The University is the needle of the haystack in today’s higher-education environment. While many schools will be reducing their operations, faculty, buildings, technology and programs, The University has and will be building and innovating. The dedicated members of The Univer-sity community, including the alumni and the city of Scranton, continue to move The University further.
JoSEPH BRUZZESIBusiness Editor
CouRtesy of moody’s mfRa: moodys: the fedeRaL ReseRVeLOWER FAMILY incomes hinder university tuition growth. If the economy contacts further, growth will diminish.
CouRtesy of moody’s
AS GOVERNMENT support has dwindled, university tuition revenue has gone down. With impending budget cuts,
CouRtesy of moodys mfRa: moody’s: the fedeRaL ReseRVePUBLIC AND private universities have become more dependent on government aid.
Universities will be more dependent on gifts and donations.
Michelle D’Souza
Science & Technology EditorScience Tech12 THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Chinese government sponsors criminal hacking
Students have “more fun in the Philippines”
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BEIJING (AP) — For state-backed cyberspies such as a Chinese military unit impli-cated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce high-value se-crets ranging from details on oil fields to advanced manufacturingtechnology.
This week’s report by Mandiant Inc. adds to mounting suspicion that Chinese military experts are helping state industry by stealing secrets from Western companies pos-sibly worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The Chi-nese military has denied involvement in the attacks.
“This is really the new era of cybercrime,” said Graham Cluley, a British se-curity expert. “We’ve moved from kids in their bedroom and financially motivated crime to state-sponsored cybercrime, which is in-terested in stealing secrets and getting military or commercial advantage.”
Instead of credit card numbers and other con-sumer data sought by crime gangs, security ex-perts say cyberspies with resources that suggest they work for governments aim at better-guarded but more valuable information.
Companies in fields
from petrochemicals to software can cut costs by receiving stolen secrets. An energy company bidding for access to an oil field abroad can save money if spies can tell it what foreign rivals might pay.
Suppliers can press customers to pay more if they know de-tails of their finances.
For China, advanced technology and other infor-mation from the West could help speed the rise of gi-ant state-owned companies seen as national champions.
“It’s like an ongoing war,” said Ryusuke Masuoka, a cybersecurity expert at Tokyo’s Center for Interna-tional Public Policy Stud-ies, a private think tank. “It is going to spread and get deeper and deeper.”
Mandiant, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, said it found attacks on 141 en-tities, mostly in the United States but also in Canada, Britain and elsewhere.
Attackers stole informa-tion about pricing, contract negotiations, manufactur-ing, product testing and corporate acquisitions, the company said. It said multi-ple details indicated the at-tackers, dubbed APT1 in its report, were from a military unit in Shanghai, though there was a small chance others might be responsible.
Target companies were in four of the seven stra-
tegic industries identi-fied in the Communist Party’s latest five-year de-velopment plan, it said.
“We do believe that this stolen information can be used to obvious advantage” by China’s government and state en-terprises, Mandiant said.
China’s military is a leader in cyberwarfare research, along with its counterparts in the Unit-ed States and Russia.
The People’s Libera-tion Army supports hacker hobby clubs with as many as 100,000 members to develop a pool of pos-sible recruits, according to security consultants.
Mandiant said it traced attacks to a neighbor-hood in Shanghai’s Pudong district where the PLA’s Unit 61398 is housed in a 12-story building.
The unit has advertised online for recruits with computer skills. Mandi-ant estimated its person-nel at anywhere from hun-dreds to several thousand.
On Wednesday, the PLA rejected Mandiant’s find-ings and said computer ad-dresses linked to the attacks could have been hijacked by attackers elsewhere.
A military statement complained that “one-sided attacks in the me-dia” destroy the atmo-sphere for cooperation in fighting online crime.
Many experts are not swayed by the denials.
“There are a lot of hack-ers that are sponsored by the Chinese government who conduct cyberat-tacks,” said Lim Jong-in, dean of Korea Univer-sity’s Graduate School of Information Security.
The United States and other major governments are developing cyberspy-ing technologyfor intel-ligence and security pur-poses, though how much that might be used for com-mercial spying is unclear.
“All countries who can do conduct cyber operations,” said Alastair MacGibbon, the former director of the Australian Federal Police’s High Tech Crime Center.
“I think the thing that has upset people mostly about the Chinese is ... that they’re doing it on an indus-trialized scale and in some ways in a brazen and auda-cious manner,” said Mac-Gibbon, who now runs an Internet safety institute at the University of Canberra.
China’s ruling party has ambitious plans to build up state-owned champi-ons in industries including banking, telecoms, oil and steel. State companies ben-efit from monopolies and other official favors but lack skills and technology.
Last year, a group of Chinese state companies were charged in U.S. fed-
eral court in San Francisco in the theft of DuPont Co. technology for making ti-tanium dioxide, a chemical used in paints and plastics.
In 2011, another security company, Symantec Inc., an-nounced it detected attacks on 29 chemical companies and 19 other companies that it traced to China. It said the attackers wanted to steal secrets about chemical processing and advanced materials manufacturing.
In Australia, a report by the attorney general this week said 20 percent of 225 companies surveyed had experienced a cyberat-tack in the previous year.
Australian mining com-panies make a tempting target because of their knowledge about global re-sources, said Tobias Feakin, head of national security at the Australian Strategic Pol-icy Institute, a think tank.As Chinese resource producers expand abroad, “you could see the motivation for un-derstanding the Australian competition and infiltrating their systems,” Feakin said.
China has long been cited by security experts as a center for Internet crime. They say some crimes might be carried out by attackers abroad who remotely control Chi-nese computers. But ex-perts see growing evidence of Chinese involvement.
Few companies are will-
ing to confirm they are vic-tims of cyberspying, possi-bly fearing it might erode trust in their business.
“When companies ad-mit their servers were hacked, they become the target of hackers. Because the admission shows the weakness, they cannot ad-mit,” said Kwon Seok-chul, president of Cuvepia Inc., a security firm in Seoul.
An exception was Google Inc., which announced in 2010 that it and at least 20 other companies were hit by attacks traced to China.
Only two other compa-nies disclosed they were tar-gets. Google cited the hack-ing and efforts to snoop on Chinese dissidents’ email as among reasons for closing its China-based search service that year.
Mandiant cited the ex-ample of an unidentified company with which it said a Chinese commod-ity supplier negotiated a double-digit price increase after attackers stole files and emails from the cus-tomer’s chief executive over 2½ years beginning in 2008.
“It would be surpris-ing if APT1 could continue perpetrating such a broad mandate of cyberespio-nage and data theft if the results of the group’s ef-forts were not finding their way into the hands of entities able to capitalize on them,” the report said.
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Fifteen other students from The University took part in this year’s biannual tropical biology course to the Philippines led by biol-ogy professor Dr. George Gomez. We departed for a 21-day biology course to explore the various types of tropical ecosystems found within the Philippines. We were also joined by chem-istry professor and Associ-ate Provost for Academic Affairs Joseph H. Dreisbach, along with librarian and newly-appointed assistant professor Kristen Yarmey.
While in the Philippines, we engaged in various ac-tivities, including walking the depths of the rainfor-est, meeting the local Aeta tribal members, hiking the steep Crater Lake volcano of Taal and exploring the colorful and vibrant coral reefs of various marine destinations. We also swam with whale sharks, explored the depths of caves, expe-rienced the religious festi-
val of the Black Nazarene, visited various museums and explored the streets of Manila. Even though these various activities _were extremely exhausting, the time we spent in the Phil-ippines flew by. Daily jour-nals were kept in order for each of us to process our thoughts and catalog our new knowledge of the various ecosystems visited each day. Though centered in ecological science, the tropical biology course of-fered much more for us, including a vast exposure to Filipino culture, language, food, religion and politics.
The biological compo-nent of the class mainly focused on the ecological sciences which extended to components of botany, marine biology, meteorol-ogy and geology. While at-tending class, we spent a good majority of our time below the surface of the water, either snorkeling or scuba diving. Personally, I encountered extraordinarily beautiful marine organisms from clown fish to massive whale sharks. The course al-lowed me to witness these
organisms in their natural habitats, allowing me to scientifically determine the biological necessity behind their various interactions.
The most exciting snor-kel dives occurred at vari-ous locations near Coron, where we were able to see sunken Japanese WWII bat-tleships. By actively taking part in the various under-water dives, we as a class were able to compare and contrast the different coral reefs we visited and give the scientific reasonings behind their extreme variations.
Our studies and experi-ences extended far beyond the depths of the coral reefs in the Philippines. The class took many ad-ventures on land to visit main geological attractions. We ventured into the deep crater lake of the Taal vol-cano, where we witnessed ecological succession and swam in the bubbling sulfur-filled crater lake.
In the Subic Bay region of the Philippines we explored the rainforest with Aeta tribal leader and CBS’s very own rainforest expert Tata Kasoy from “Survivor.” In
the rainforest we were able to make scientific deter-minations of leaf size, tree height and undergrowth and compare these observa-tions with other rainforests.
The class even ventured down into caves near the southern city of Dumong-heti, where tour guides led us to investigate ecological-ly active and inactive caves, in which we were able to
compare and contrast the two different environments. Even the class hike through rocky terrain, strong river currents and torrential rain proved well worth-while when we reached the beautiful Casaroro falls.
Clearly truth can be found within the widely-used national tourism motto, “It’s more fun in the Philippines!” Over the 21
days I spent in the Philip-pines, I gained not only cultural awareness and sci-entific knowledge of this wonderful country, but I also made lasting memories with my travel compan-ions. I am more than gra-cious for this opportunity and thankful for the friend-ships I made while experi-encing all the wonders the Philippines has to offer.
MATTHEW GENTILE & JENN LEWISScience & TechCorrespondents
submitted photo: matthew GentiLe foR the aquinas
UNIVERSITY OF Scranton students take a lunch break on the beach after a long morning of scouring the sea for fi sh and coral reefs.
13THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Andrew MilewskiFaith Editor
University offers labyrinth Spirituality Corner
Country singer Miranda Lambert croons, “I’ve heard Jesus, He drank wine,” and she heard correctly. The Gos-pel tells us Christ did drink wine at feasts with friends. This suggests that we prob-ably can get something out of a night out at the bar other than some new photos on Facebook and a headache the following morning. Lots of pretty ridiculous shenani-gans occur at the various local drinking establishments. But that does not mean that God cannot be found somewhere in the midst of this hoopla. The Holy Spirit is made mani-fest in a myriad of ways at any given moment; however, when at the bar, I find it easi-
est to find Him in the friend-ships I have with the people there. The bars try to lure us in with all kinds of libations at the lowest prices, but it is the friends you sip those drinks with who can lead us to the One who satisfies our deepest thirst for something beyond ourselves. Here are three ways we can find God at the bar:
1. Spending time with good friends. Classes, homework, extracurriculars and jobs consume a lot of our time. During some weeks, it can feel like we barely had a chance to breathe, let alone relax with our friends. Going out to the bar with friends on the weekends when we are not weighed down with a plethora of responsibilities is a way to celebrate the good in
our lives and our friendships together. God shows His love for us through the love of our friends. Spending unhurried, undistracted time with our friends allows us to be open to God’s powerful love that can move us to share love with others.
2. Reconnecting with old friends and meeting new acquaintances. I often run into people at the bar with whom my paths do not always cross on a daily basis. God delights us by reintroducing people who we may have forgotten about. He also brings us to meet great new people. Catch-ing up with old friends and making new ones allows us to feel connected to others. These pleasantly surprising encoun-ters can remind us that we are never really alone.
3. Listening to the voice of reason. We may have sometimes heeded reason coming from the voice of a friend if we are having trouble listening to a voice within. We can all encourage each other to be responsible and imbibe in moderation. That friend looking out for our well-being and telling us to take it easy on the two-dollar you-call-it’s just might be speaking to us with the voice of reason. That voice of reason just may be the grace of God keeping us safe from harm.
So next Thursday, Friday and/or Saturday night, let us look for God and help make Him present. Let us raise our glasses to the One who died for us on the cross so that we would truly have something to celebrate. Cheers.
University Ministries hosted a reflection oppor-tunity for students, faculty and staff Tuesday, when the office placed a labyrinth in the DeNaples Ballroom and allowed students to take a 20-minute reflection. The labyrinth might spark ideas about a minotaur and an old Greek guy. People might even think of corn mazes and traps, but they are most like-ly not thinking about medi-tation and prayer. However, Labyrinths have a long, yet murky place in the Christian tradition. Marcia Montenegro discusses this tradition in her 2006 article “The Labyrinth: A Walk By Faith?”
“To the alchemists, en-tering and emerging from the maze possibly signified death and resurrection,” Montenegro said.
Montenegro goes on to
discuss the development of labyrinth reflections. The earliest known labyrinth in Christian usage can be found at the Basilica of San Repara-tus in Algeria; it is believed to date from the fourth century.
More recently, Lauren Ar-tress, a part of the Special Ministries at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, had an in-fluence with initiating the labyrinth movement, accord-ing to Montenegro.
Other religious traditions have also used walking re-flections, such as the practice of meditation walking, a Zen Buddhist tradition where the meditator clears his mind and focuses only on his feet and the process of moving.
The University communi-ty took advantage of the lab-yrinth; however, this will not be the only faith opportunity this Lenten season. Interest-ed people should consult the list of movies and Masses of-fered for more opportunities.
ANDREW MILEWSKI Faith Editor
“And I remember feel-ing sad, that miracles don’t happen still, but now I can’t keep track, ‘Cause every-thing’s a miracle,” writes Peter Mayer in “Holy Now”
Hearing this song this weekend really impacted me and this line in particular stuck out. Countless times I have heard people ask why there aren’t big miracles or why God doesn’t speak anymore. I used to wonder the same thing. Is God still
present or is he the God of all these dead biblical guys?
My time at Scranton has shown me that such an outlook could not be more wrong. Using our good old Jesuit ideals of seeing God in all things, we can see where God is in our lives and in the world. Perhaps we see Him on a personal level, like in our hearts or with friends, or a commu-nity, like our fantastic one. Small everyday things, like a smile or kind word, to something bigger, like a retreat or major change.
By seeing God in this way, everything changes. I can appreciate all that happens in my life so much more knowing that they are a gift from God rather than some cool occurrence.
But how this relates to miracles for me can best be summed up in this quote from “Bruce Almighty”: “Parting your soup is not a miracle, it’s a magic trick. A single mom who’s working two jobs and still finds time to take her son to soccer practice, that’s a miracle.” When we start to see mir-
acles as God’s love present in our lives instead of big fancy tricks of power, we’re really onto something.
This Lent I challenge you to look at your day, week, live and look for love, look for God. There you will find miracles.
This article originally ap-peared at www.scranton-royalreflections.blogspot.com/. It is reproduced with the consent of University Ministries and the author, Lauren Guzzo. To read more Lenten reflections, please visit the website.
CoMMENTARy By LAUREN GUZZo
Lenten refl ections featured on University blog
Can students encounter God at bars?CHRISTINE FERRARI
Staff Writer
Chris Troisi and Tim Janes, sophomores at The Universi-ty, sit in Redington Hall locked in a battle of Super Smash Bros. This is a weekday ritual for the two that gives them a chance to relax and enjoy each other’s company, which is what they are doing despite the flavor and tone of the lan-guage being used.
A fiery array of sordid speech marks these video game battles. The truth be-hind this observation is that Troisi and Janes are good friends and that the slurs and insults are understood as benign and part of the game. Despite the friendly nature of their exchange of curse words, they see it as something they would like to change. That is why they have given up cursing during the Lenten season.
Lent is a time of spiritual reaffirmation, reflection and personal sacrifice. People employ a variety of rituals to observe the sanctity of the season. Christians attempt to remember the sacrifices of Christ by giving up a guilty pleasure, embracing a good deed or attempting to alter a pre-existing vice. While all of these are commendable acts in and of themselves, do they
really serve to adequately capture the purpose of Lent?
The answer to that ques-tion seems to be “almost,” according to the Rev. I. Mi-chael Bellafiore, S.J., a scholar of the foundational truths of the church. These acts are in line with the purpose of Lent, but may not go far enough to truly encapsulate its three-fold purpose.
“Prayer, fasting and alms-giving go together,” Bellafiore said. “That’s what Jesus talked about in the Sermon on the Mount and those are kind of the three pillars of Lent.”
This tripod vision of the Lenten season is not a new concept. Fifth-century father of the Church, St. Peter Chrys-ologus, first proposed the idea in a sermon.
“There are three things…which cause faith to stand firm…they are prayer, fasting and mercy,” St. Peter said. “If you have only one of them, or not all together, you have nothing.”
If these three acts are at the heart of the Lent, is at-tempting to curb one’s curs-ing habit or not eating choco-late getting anywhere close to the original intention of the season? Bellafiore believes the key lies not in the act, but in the spirit in which it is carried out.
“Giving up chocolate and
so on, those are acts of fast-ing,” Bellafiore said, “to see the fasting, the abstinence, in terms of how I can give more time to prayer, if I give up some recreation to give that time to prayer. If I give up chocolate, can I set that mon-ey aside to give to the poor at the end of Lent?”
Bellafiore is touching on another long-standing belief of the Church about sacrifice. Abstaining and doing good works during the Lenten sea-son is not just about the inter-connectedness of prayer, fast-ing and mercy, but also the connection between oneself, one’s neighbor and Jesus.
“St. Peter says if you fast see the fasting of your neigh-bor,” Bellafiore said. “Jesus suf-fers today in his members, in the Church and in humanity.”
Janes took a minute away from the heated competi-tion of his often curse-ridden video game rivalry to sum up what he saw as the over-all goal of Lent. In doing so, he may have stumbled upon the ancient wisdom of the Church’s original attitude toward the season without even realizing it.
“Lent’s not just about giv-ing stuff up,” Janes said. “It’s about doing things too, you know, like doing things for others and improving your-self.”
Students consider Lenten traditions
FaithTIM TyMoN
Faith Correspondent
the aquinas photo / shawn kenneySTUDENTS WALK the labyrinth in the DeNaples Ballroom. Walking the labyrinth is an Christian tradition, which started in the middle ages.
13THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Andrew MilewskiFaith Editor
University offers labyrinth Spirituality Corner
Country singer Miranda Lambert croons, “I’ve heard Jesus, He drank wine,” and she heard correctly. The Gos-pel tells us Christ did drink wine at feasts with friends. This suggests that we prob-ably can get something out of a night out at the bar other than some new photos on Facebook and a headache the following morning. Lots of pretty ridiculous shenani-gans occur at the various local drinking establishments. But that does not mean that God cannot be found somewhere in the midst of this hoopla. The Holy Spirit is made mani-fest in a myriad of ways at any given moment; however, when at the bar, I find it easi-
est to find Him in the friend-ships I have with the people there. The bars try to lure us in with all kinds of libations at the lowest prices, but it is the friends you sip those drinks with who can lead us to the One who satisfies our deepest thirst for something beyond ourselves. Here are three ways we can find God at the bar:
1. Spending time with good friends. Classes, homework, extracurriculars and jobs consume a lot of our time. During some weeks, it can feel like we barely had a chance to breathe, let alone relax with our friends. Going out to the bar with friends on the weekends when we are not weighed down with a plethora of responsibilities is a way to celebrate the good in
our lives and our friendships together. God shows His love for us through the love of our friends. Spending unhurried, undistracted time with our friends allows us to be open to God’s powerful love that can move us to share love with others.
2. Reconnecting with old friends and meeting new acquaintances. I often run into people at the bar with whom my paths do not always cross on a daily basis. God delights us by reintroducing people who we may have forgotten about. He also brings us to meet great new people. Catch-ing up with old friends and making new ones allows us to feel connected to others. These pleasantly surprising encoun-ters can remind us that we are never really alone.
3. Listening to the voice of reason. We may have sometimes heeded reason coming from the voice of a friend if we are having trouble listening to a voice within. We can all encourage each other to be responsible and imbibe in moderation. That friend looking out for our well-being and telling us to take it easy on the two-dollar you-call-it’s just might be speaking to us with the voice of reason. That voice of reason just may be the grace of God keeping us safe from harm.
So next Thursday, Friday and/or Saturday night, let us look for God and help make Him present. Let us raise our glasses to the One who died for us on the cross so that we would truly have something to celebrate. Cheers.
University Ministries hosted a reflection oppor-tunity for students, faculty and staff Tuesday, when the office placed a labyrinth in the DeNaples Ballroom and allowed students to take a 20-minute reflection. The labyrinth might spark ideas about a minotaur and an old Greek guy. People might even think of corn mazes and traps, but they are most like-ly not thinking about medi-tation and prayer. However, Labyrinths have a long, yet murky place in the Christian tradition. Marcia Montenegro discusses this tradition in her 2006 article “The Labyrinth: A Walk By Faith?”
“To the alchemists, en-tering and emerging from the maze possibly signified death and resurrection,” Montenegro said.
Montenegro goes on to
discuss the development of labyrinth reflections. The earliest known labyrinth in Christian usage can be found at the Basilica of San Repara-tus in Algeria; it is believed to date from the fourth century.
More recently, Lauren Ar-tress, a part of the Special Ministries at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, had an in-fluence with initiating the labyrinth movement, accord-ing to Montenegro.
Other religious traditions have also used walking re-flections, such as the practice of meditation walking, a Zen Buddhist tradition where the meditator clears his mind and focuses only on his feet and the process of moving.
The University communi-ty took advantage of the lab-yrinth; however, this will not be the only faith opportunity this Lenten season. Interest-ed people should consult the list of movies and Masses of-fered for more opportunities.
ANDREW MILEWSKI Faith Editor
“And I remember feel-ing sad, that miracles don’t happen still, but now I can’t keep track, ‘Cause every-thing’s a miracle,” writes Peter Mayer in “Holy Now”
Hearing this song this weekend really impacted me and this line in particular stuck out. Countless times I have heard people ask why there aren’t big miracles or why God doesn’t speak anymore. I used to wonder the same thing. Is God still
present or is he the God of all these dead biblical guys?
My time at Scranton has shown me that such an outlook could not be more wrong. Using our good old Jesuit ideals of seeing God in all things, we can see where God is in our lives and in the world. Perhaps we see Him on a personal level, like in our hearts or with friends, or a commu-nity, like our fantastic one. Small everyday things, like a smile or kind word, to something bigger, like a retreat or major change.
By seeing God in this way, everything changes. I can appreciate all that happens in my life so much more knowing that they are a gift from God rather than some cool occurrence.
But how this relates to miracles for me can best be summed up in this quote from “Bruce Almighty”: “Parting your soup is not a miracle, it’s a magic trick. A single mom who’s working two jobs and still finds time to take her son to soccer practice, that’s a miracle.” When we start to see mir-
acles as God’s love present in our lives instead of big fancy tricks of power, we’re really onto something.
This Lent I challenge you to look at your day, week, live and look for love, look for God. There you will find miracles.
This article originally ap-peared at www.scranton-royalreflections.blogspot.com/. It is reproduced with the consent of University Ministries and the author, Lauren Guzzo. To read more Lenten reflections, please visit the website.
CoMMENTARy By LAUREN GUZZo
Lenten refl ections featured on University blog
Can students encounter God at bars?CHRISTINE FERRARI
Staff Writer
Chris Troisi and Tim Janes, sophomores at The Universi-ty, sit in Redington Hall locked in a battle of Super Smash Bros. This is a weekday ritual for the two that gives them a chance to relax and enjoy each other’s company, which is what they are doing despite the flavor and tone of the lan-guage being used.
A fiery array of sordid speech marks these video game battles. The truth be-hind this observation is that Troisi and Janes are good friends and that the slurs and insults are understood as benign and part of the game. Despite the friendly nature of their exchange of curse words, they see it as something they would like to change. That is why they have given up cursing during the Lenten season.
Lent is a time of spiritual reaffirmation, reflection and personal sacrifice. People employ a variety of rituals to observe the sanctity of the season. Christians attempt to remember the sacrifices of Christ by giving up a guilty pleasure, embracing a good deed or attempting to alter a pre-existing vice. While all of these are commendable acts in and of themselves, do they
really serve to adequately capture the purpose of Lent?
The answer to that ques-tion seems to be “almost,” according to the Rev. I. Mi-chael Bellafiore, S.J., a scholar of the foundational truths of the church. These acts are in line with the purpose of Lent, but may not go far enough to truly encapsulate its three-fold purpose.
“Prayer, fasting and alms-giving go together,” Bellafiore said. “That’s what Jesus talked about in the Sermon on the Mount and those are kind of the three pillars of Lent.”
This tripod vision of the Lenten season is not a new concept. Fifth-century father of the Church, St. Peter Chrys-ologus, first proposed the idea in a sermon.
“There are three things…which cause faith to stand firm…they are prayer, fasting and mercy,” St. Peter said. “If you have only one of them, or not all together, you have nothing.”
If these three acts are at the heart of the Lent, is at-tempting to curb one’s curs-ing habit or not eating choco-late getting anywhere close to the original intention of the season? Bellafiore believes the key lies not in the act, but in the spirit in which it is carried out.
“Giving up chocolate and
so on, those are acts of fast-ing,” Bellafiore said, “to see the fasting, the abstinence, in terms of how I can give more time to prayer, if I give up some recreation to give that time to prayer. If I give up chocolate, can I set that mon-ey aside to give to the poor at the end of Lent?”
Bellafiore is touching on another long-standing belief of the Church about sacrifice. Abstaining and doing good works during the Lenten sea-son is not just about the inter-connectedness of prayer, fast-ing and mercy, but also the connection between oneself, one’s neighbor and Jesus.
“St. Peter says if you fast see the fasting of your neigh-bor,” Bellafiore said. “Jesus suf-fers today in his members, in the Church and in humanity.”
Janes took a minute away from the heated competi-tion of his often curse-ridden video game rivalry to sum up what he saw as the over-all goal of Lent. In doing so, he may have stumbled upon the ancient wisdom of the Church’s original attitude toward the season without even realizing it.
“Lent’s not just about giv-ing stuff up,” Janes said. “It’s about doing things too, you know, like doing things for others and improving your-self.”
Students consider Lenten traditions
FaithTIM TyMoN
Faith Correspondent
the aquinas photo / shawn kenneySTUDENTS WALK the labyrinth in the DeNaples Ballroom. Walking the labyrinth is an Christian tradition, which started in the middle ages.
14 THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
The Aquinas Challenge:Sudoku-razy
sudoku CReated by kateLyn saXeR
THE AQUINAS CHALLENGE RULES:Finish the puzzle and turn it into The
Aquinas offi ce fi rst to win an AQ T-shirt. If the offi ce is closed, leave it with the Stu-
dent Forum desk with a time stamp.
NOTABLE NEWS THIS WEEK
university veterans club
The Veterans Club is holding its fi rst meeting Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Sylvester Conference
Room (627 O’Hara Hall).
There will be two meeting times for all students and veterans interested: 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. The agenda at the meetings will
include an election of offi cers, development of a mission statement and a schedule of activities.
If you are interested in attending either of the meetings, contact the moderator of the Veterans
Club, Robert Zelno at [email protected].
Public Relations Student Society of America: Scranton Chapter
PRSSA will be holding a meeting Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Loyola Science Center Room 406.
There will also be a logo design competition for PRSSA. The entire student body is welcome to
participate.
For more information about PRSSA, contact the Colin Gable, the chapter president at
IGNITE: Student Leadership Conference
The Center for Student Engagement is host-ing its annual IGNITE Student Leadership
Conference Saturday, Feb. 23.
The day-long program will feature a keynote address by author and leadership expert Ed
Gerety.
Gerety wrote “Combinations: Opening the Door to Student Leadership,” and has spo-ken at many universities, colleges, youth conferences, schools and other organiza-
tions.
For more information or to register, visit www.scranton.edu/leadership, email [email protected] or call at 570-941-6233.
First Club Council Meeting
Student Government and Patricia Cummings are hosting the first club council meeting of the semester from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.
The topics that will be covered in-clude how to run elections within individual clubs and conflict resolu-
tion.
Club council meetings will be held each month to help club leaders create, maintain and lead each of
their clubs.
Keep a look out for more informtion about monthly clubcouncil meetings in March.
Winter WonderlandThe Mountain Sports Club is hosting a weekend-long event to Sugarbush, VT Friday. For more information, contact
Lee Molitoris at [email protected].
USPB will also be holding an event Fri-day to Snö Mountain Friday. The trip
costs $20 upfront, and $10 will be given back to each student the day of the
trip.
Students can sign up in the USPB offi ce located in the Forum on the
second fl oor of the DeNaples Center.Students going on the trip should
meet in the Linden Circle at 4:15 p.m. Friday.
SPORTS 15THE AQUINAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Men’s lacrosse prepares for season
The returning Land-mark Conference semifi-nalist men’s lacrosse team will begin its at 1 p.m. Sat-urday at Fitzpatrick Field against Farmingdale State University.
The team went 9-7 over-all and 3-3 in the confer-ence last year. The team’s season ended May 2 in a 15-9 loss at Drew Univer-sity in the Landmark Con-ference semifinal game.
This season, the team has an entirely new coach-ing staff this year. First-year head coach Doug Sage will team up with first-year assistant coach-es Brian DiBetta and Dan Duffy. Jim Rogalski, the Royals’ head coach for the previous two seasons, re-signed during the summer to take the men’s lacrosse head coaching job at Divi-sion I Lafayette College.
The team welcomes back 30 players, includ-ing five starters, from last year’s team. That team qualified for the Land-mark Conference tour-nament for the second straight season.
Among the returners are this year’s captains. Sage has selected senior defender Tim Cleary, se-nior midfielder Dillon Mc-Ilnerny, senior attacker
Taylor Nelson and junior defender Ryan Saraceni captains.
Cleary made history for Scranton last year as the men’s lacrosse program’s first all-American honoree by the United States Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Asso-ciation (USILA). The two-time first-team Landmark Conference selection was also picked as a preseason second-team all-American by Inside Lacrosse maga-zine.
McInerney has given the Royals valuable con-tributions from midfield, finishing last season with 27 goals.
Nelson was one of
Scranton’s most reliable weapons on offense last season. The second-team Landmark Conference at-tacker was second on the team last season in goals scored with 28 and led the team in assists with 13.
Saraceni started 32 games over the past two years and played a key role for a defensive unit that allowed less than 10 goals per game.
The Royals are ranked third out in the Landmark conference in a preseason coaches’ poll. Defending champion Goucher Uni-versity was predicted to finish first, with five first-place votes.
EMMA BLACKStaff Writer
Farrell succeeds in fi nal yearDespite missing three
games because of an ankle injury earlier this season, men’s basketball team co-captain Travis Farrell has not slowed down.
“It wasn’t that much of a setback,” the senior guard said. “It happened right before winter break, so I had the break to get ready and rehab it, so once I came back from break I started playing again.”
The Royals lost two of the three games they played without Farrell.
He was named to the Radisson Invitational all-tournament team in No-vember after scoring 30 points over the course of the two-game tourna-ment. The Royals won the tournament for the third straight year. He received Athlete of the Week hon-ors for the week of Nov. 20 following the tournament.
Farrell entered his se-nior year only 46 points short of reaching his 1,000th career point. He scored 14 points in a Roy-als 74-73 victory Nov. 27 over Cabrini College, be-coming the 39th player in Scranton basketball histo-ry to reach that milestone.
“That was the team who beat us last year in the NCAA Tournament, so I wasn’t really worried about getting my 1,000th point that game,” Farrell said. “I kind of just was more worried about get-ting the win.”
He currently ranks in the top 20 assist lead-ers and in the top five in steals in Scranton basket-ball history. He averages 10 points and 4.4 rebounds per game and is a 72.1 per-cent free throw shooter.
Farrell has come up with big plays in many close games this season, including most recently when the Royals traveled to Goucher College Satur-day. The Royals defeated the Gophers of Goucher College 61-58 with Farrell scoring four free throws in the final minute of the game. He also had a steal and added two points from a layup in the final few minutes to help put
the game away.“Our team goal is obvi-
ously to get further than we did last year” Farrell said. “First, we’ve got to win the conference.”
The Royals have won the Landmark Conference Championship for the past two years straight and will look to defend the title again this year.
Farrell was named Ath-lete of the Week for the week of Feb. 20.
CARMINE GERRITy-GEMEI
Staff Writer
junior Allison Swee-ney (nine points, five re-bounds, 26 minutes) senior Katherine Torto (six points, four rebounds, 16 minutes) and first year Jaclyn Gantz (five points, two rebounds, 16 minutes)
“I am extremely proud of this team,” Strong said after the game. “They fought through adversity all game. They fought through some tough calls and played through it all. They played tough de-fense. Meredith [Mesaris] and Erin [Boggan] both hit some huge baskets for us. Lindsay [Fleur] played very well. Lia DiSciascio contributed well on the of-fensive boards.”
Strong said he hopes the momentum from the semi-final game will help them in Saturday’s game.
“Hopefully this big game will help give us some confidence for the game Saturday at Catho-lic,” Strong said.
The season will contin-ue for the Lady Royals who finished the regular season at 18-7 and 10-4 in the con-ference.
“This season we have stuck together well as a team and grown together,” sophomore guard Lindsay Fleur said. “But we need to play the full 40 minutes...We need to take it one
game at a time.” Fleur finished the game
with 13 points, eight re-bounds, six assists and three steals.
Five seniors will gradu-ate from the team this year. Coach Strong said they were invaluable to the team.
“They bring a lot of experience to this team,”
Strong said.Mesarsis also spoke
highly about the seniors. “They taught us how
to work hard and they all brought something differ-ent to the team,” Mesarsis said.
Scranton will travel to Washington, D.C., Satur-day to face off against Catholic University.
“BASKETBALL” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16
olympic wrestling faces uncertain fate
A single announce-ment crushed the dreams of wrestlers around the world: after the 2016 games in Rio, wrestling will be dropped from the Olympics, pending a final vote.
Wrestling is not on the list of 25 core sports for the 2020 games. Wres-tling, which has been an event since the first mod-ern Olympics, was cut to include the modern pentathlon – a sport that combines fencing, horse-back riding, swimming, running and shooting.
According to a press re-lease on Olympic.org, the decision was made “in an effort to ensure the Olym-pic Games remain rele-vant to sports fans of all generations, the Olympic Programme Commission systematically reviews ev-ery sport following each edition of the Games.”
Many wrestlers from all parts of the globe are en-raged. No matter the expe-rience level of a wrestler, all players understood the
Olympics to be the pin-
nacle of the beloved sport.“It’s the IOC [Interna-
tional Olympic Commit-tee) trying to change the Olympics to make it more mainstream and more viewer-friendly instead of sticking to what they founded the Olympics on,” Rulan Gardner, a former Olympic wrestler, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Gard-ner wrestled for America in the Sydney Games. He won gold in a match that later became known as the “Miracle on the Mat.”
Most sports have some sort of professional league in which players can con-tinue after college. Little leaguers dream of playing in Yankee Stadium. Youth football players fantasize about winning the Super Bowl. Youth wrestlers en-vision themselves win-ning gold for their coun-try in the Olympics.
“It was the one event I really cared about in the Olympics,” University ju-nior Jack Carmody said.
Carmody has been wrestling most of his life. He chose to continue wrestling in college, but
was sidelined this year by a knee injury.
A 15-member review board voted to push wres-tling out for the modern pentathlon. The decision was based on 39 criteria categories, including TV ratings, ticket sales, popu-larity and global partici-pation.
“Wrestling has been the only one I would stop what I was doing to sit and watch,” Carmody said.
Wrestling ranked “low” in multiple categories, according to documents obtained by The Associ-ated Press. One of the categories that received “low” was popularity with the public at the London Games, although wres-tling sold 113,851 out of 116,854 tickets at the Lon don Games.
There is still some hope for wrestling to return. There is one spot avail-able for the 2020 Games. Eight sports — including wrestling — are vying for that spot.
Representatives of the eight sports are scheduled to make presentations to the Election Board at a hearing this May in St. Pe-tersburg, Russia.
JoE WEITEMEyERArts and Life Editor
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCkJUNIOR ALISON Sweeney takes a jump shot in a recent game. The women’s basketball team defeat-ed Moravian 72-71 thanks to a last-second shot in regulation by senior Erin Boggans.
CouRtesy of sCRanton athLetiC depaRtmentJUNIOR CHRIS Silakoski (right) battles against a wrestler from King’s College during Scranton’s Nov. 3 match. A decision by the International Olympic Commit-tee threatens to remove the sport from the Olympics after the 2016 games.
aquinas stoCk photoJUNIOR JOHN Gregitis sprints to action during a game last season. Gregitis and the Royals are pre-pared to begin the 2013 season Saturday.
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCkSENIOR TRAVIS Farrell drives to the basket past defenders. Farrell scored 1,000 points for his career and averages 10 per game in his senior season.
JUSTIN DWyERStaff Writer
16 THE AQUINAS
IN THIS ISSUE
ALSo INCLUDEDWrestling faces removal from Olympics
Men’s lacrosse season preview
Men’s basketball drop in double OTWomen’s basketball advances Athlete Profi le: Travis Farrell Sports
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
UPCOMING GAMES
WRESTLING
3/2 NCAA East Re-gionals @ Gettysburg
College 9 a.m.
BASEBALL
3/2 vs. Albright
3/3 vs. FDU-Florham (Both games @ Flemington, N.J.)
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
2/23 Landmark Con-ference Championship
(TEAM TBA)
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
3/2 vs. Haverford3 p.m.
3/9 @ Lebanon Valley 1 p.m.
Royals falter in double OT semifi nals
-neRdLuCk pound, “spaCe Jam”
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCkJUNIOR MICHAEL Barr goes up to attempts a layup in Wednesday’s Landmark Con-ference semifi nal game against Juniata College at the Long Center. The Royals were outlasted by Juniata in double overtime 84-74 and will need to receive an at-large bid to make the NCAA Tournament.
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The University’s wom-en’s basketball team traveled to Bethlehem Wednesday to take on Moravian College in the Landmark Conference semifinals.
The Lady Royals beat the Greyhounds 72-71 on a final shot from se-nior guard Erin Boggan. They will advance to the conference finals against Catholic University Satur-day.
The Royals were led by sophomore guard Mer-edith Mesaris, who had 21 points and 4 rebounds in 28 minutes of play time. The first half went back and forth between the Lady Royals and the Grey-hounds. It was 31-27 at half time with Moravian taking the lead.
Within the first five minutes of the second half, Moravian took a 10-point lead. The Lady Royals stormed back and took the lead with 11 min-utes left on a 3-pointer by Mesaris. Neither team was able to retain more than a three-point lead. With 12 seconds left on the clock, head coach Mike Strong called a timeout.
With nine seconds
left, Moravian fouled, but the team had not forced enough fouls to send the Lady Royals to the line. After the inbounds, senior Erin Boggan hit a jumper to put the Lady Royals up with less than five sec-onds left in the game.
Boggan finished the game with 12 points, 16 rebounds and two steals in 31 minutes of play.
Other key contributors for the Lady Royals were
“You ever heard of the Dream Team? Well, we’re the Mean Team.”
With the stands packed with fans for a white out, The University’s men’s basketball team lost Wednesday in double overtime to Juniata Col-lege 84-74 in the first round of the Landmark Conference playoffs in the John Long Center.
After shooting 35 per-cent from the field in the first half, the Royals went into the locker room down 42-31.
Once the second half got underway, the Roy-als hit back-to-back three pointers to make it a four-point game.
The Eagles held on to that lead until 6:09 was left in the game, when sophomore guard Ross Danzig put Royals on top 57-52.
“I think we let them score 40 points in the first half, which just isn’t us. You’re not going to win giving up 40 points in the half,” Danzig said.
Scranton eventually would take a 10-point lead late in the game, but the Eagles would make a run of their own and tie the game with 52 seconds left with a huge 3-pointer.
The game would even-
tually go to overtime, where sophomore guard Justin Klingman hit a free throw with 1:30 left in the first overtime to put the Royals up 67-65.
Once again Juniata would tie the game with a layup of its own, but the Royals would have a chance with seconds re-maining.
Senior guard Travis Farrell, who finished with 16 points, would get one last shot, but came up short with his shot to send the game into a sec-ond overtime.
In the second over-time, the Royals made costly turnovers and Ju-niata would put the game away by hitting clutch free throws.
Danzig said not hitting free throws and commit-ting turnovers ended up being costly.
“We didn’t make free throws. I mean, it’s tough, we had a couple rim out, we went on a big run and we never got back into that rhythm that put us back into the game,” Danzig said.
Juniata senior guard Alex Raymond, who fin-ished with 12 points and went 8-8 from the free throw line, said the Roy-als made things interest-
ing.“They are a great team.
They are going to make their run and it’s as sim-ple as that. Farrell and all those guys are going to make their shots, but they came up big when they needed to. We were lucky to make some runs in overtime,” Raymond said.
Raymond said a range of emotions went through him as he was at the free throw line in the final moments.
“Finally, this is my sixth time making this trip up here, and these guys are always tough to beat especially up here. It’s unbelievable to finally get it,” Raymond said.
Juniata will advance to the Landmark Confer-ence championship game Saturday at Catholic Uni-versity. Catholic won its game against Merchant Marine Academy 65-57.
The loss breaks a streak of five straight ap-pearances by the Royals in the Landmark Confer-ence Championship.
The Royals are now 19-7 on the season. Scran-ton will need to receive an at-large bid for the NCAA Division III Tour-nament to continue its season.
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Last-second shot saves Lady Royals
ANDREW PASSARoStaff Writer
the aquinas photo / emma bLaCkSENIOR CHRISTINA Hiltunen takes the ball upcourt during a recent game. The Lady Royals defeated Moravian College 72-71 in the Landmark Conference semifi -nal game Wednesday and will advance to the Landmark Conference Championship game Saturday.
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