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Saturday, Oct. 6 Atapproximately2:28a.m.,anofficerwasdispatchedforafirealarm.Uponhisarrival,theofficerkeyedintotheroomandfoundthestovewasleftonandthefireextin-guisherhadbeendischarged.Theofficercheckedtheroomforanyremainingstudentsandopenedthewindowstoletthesmokeout.Oncethestudentsreturnedtotheirroom,theofficeraskedifanyofthegirlswereoflegaldrinkingagebecausethereweretwobeerbongspresent,twohalf-emptyvodkabottlesandnumerouscansofbeerthroughouttheapartment.Theresidentsrepliedthatnoneoftheofthemwere21yearsold.TheofficercontactedbasetohaveaGRCrespond;thethreeRAsondutyarrived.Allofthealcoholwaspoureddownthesink.Thegirlsweretoldthatstudentlifewouldcontactthemaboutfiresafetyandunderagedrinking.Oneoftheresidentsexplainedshewastryingtocooktoast,andwhenitstartedtoburn,sheusedthefireextinguisher.Allthestudentsweresorryforthemishap.

Saturday, Oct. 6 Atapproximately3:40a.m.,anofficerwaspatrollingtheCharlesStreetBridge.Whileonfootpatrol,theofficerdiscoveredtherewereapproximatelyfivebricksmissingfromthebridgeneartheeastside.Ashecontinuedpatrolling,theofficerobservedtwobricksontheedgeofthebridge.Thebrickswererecoveredandplacedintheevidenceroom.

Sunday, Oct. 7 At approximately3:16a.m., twoofficers responded toanunknownsituationinaresidencehall.Uponarrival,theofficersmetwithafemalestudentwhostatedthatsomeonehadtakenherpursecontainingaLoyolaID,twoPennsylvaniadriver’slicenses,aWellsFargodebitcard,acellphoneandherroomkey.Theofficeraskedifthegirlwashurtinanywayorifshewasforcedtohandoverherpropertytoanunknownperson.Heranswerwasno.Thefemalewasexhibitingbehaviorofbeingintoxicated(odorofalcohol,slurredspeech).ShestatedthatshehadsatherpurseonthebaratMurphy’s,wenttotheladies’roomandwhenshereturned,itwasgone.ShealsostatedthatshehadbeentoCampionTowerandthatsomeonetookitfromherthere.Camerasandinvestigationdisprovethisstory.From12:30-3:15a.m.,thefemalestatedshehadbeentoMurphy’s,Craig’s,Campion,GardensandinaYellowCab.Herphonewascalledwithresults.

York Road fall clean-up day

TheYorkRoadInitiativeinconjunc-tionwithlocalcommunitygroupswillholdaFallCleanUpDayonSaturday,Oct.13,from9a.m.-1p.m.Meetbehind5104YorkRoad(Motorpool/PublicSafe-ty).Pleasebringextratoolsandgardenglovesifyouhavethem.Lightbreakfastandlunchwillbeprovided.Feelfreetobringfriendsandfamily!

Spring Break Outreach applications dueSBOisacommunityserviceimmer-sionprogramthatoffersstudentstheop-portunitytospendspringbreakinoneofeightsitesintheeasternU.S.ApplicationsaredueFriday,Oct.12,by3p.m.andareavailableatwww.loyola.edu/[email protected].

Fire Extinguisher TrainingJointhestafffromEHS,studentlife,andPublicSafetyat5104YorkRoadonThursday,Oct.10,from8a.m.-4p.m.forhands-onfireextinguishertraining.Eachsessionlastsabout40minutesandevery-onewillhavetheopportunitytoputoutafire!Tosignup,contactChrisReynoldsviae-mailatcnreynolds@loyola.edu.Welookforwardtoseeingyouthere!

Jamaican Experience annual clothing driveTheannual“ClothingforaCause”drive,sponsoredbythisyear’sJamaicanExperienceTeamisscheduledforOct.

15-Nov.5.Astheweatherturnscooler,allmembersoftheLoyolacommunityareinvitedtodonatetheir“gentlyused”summerclothingandfootwear.CollectiontableswillbeontheQuadonOct.15,16,17from11a.m.-2p.m.YoumayalsodropoffitemsdirectlyintheCampusMinistryofficeinCohn

Hall anytime during regular businesshours(8:30a.m.-5p.m.).Formoreinformationcontact Angelique Snyder,

CMImmersiongraduateassistant,[email protected],orcalltheCMofficeatext.2222.Lastyearwesentmorethan50casesofclothingtoJamaica.Thankyouinadvanceforyourgenerosity!

Flu Vaccination ClinicsStudentHealthServiceswillofferflushotstotheLoyolacommunityfrom10a.m.-2p.m.outsideBoulderCafeonthefollowingdates:Monday,Oct.15,Tuesday,Oct.16,Wednesday,Oct.17,Friday,Oct.19.Itwillbefirstcome,firstserve.Thecostis$25andispay-ablebyevergreen,cashorcheck.Sorry,nocreditcardswillbeaccepted.Toex-peditetheprocesspleasecompleteyourConsentForminadvancetoarrivingattheclinic.Inaddition,pleasemakesurethatyouweartheappropriateclothingsothatyourarmiseasilyaccessible.Ifyouhaveanyquestions,pleasecontactStudentHealthServicesatext.5055.

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I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you too.”

I think it would be helpful if the president...expressed his thanks for the sacrifices that have been made by those who have fought and died for Afghanistan, rather than criticizing them.”

The number of cases ofmeningitis hasreached47thispastweek.Ararestrainofthediseasehasbeenlinkedtocontaminatedsteroid shots sent out fromNewEngland.The contaminated steroidswere recalled,but therehavebeencasesofmeningitis inseveraldifferentstatesincludingMaryland.Meningitis can be deadly if not caughtsoonenough,andfivehavediedduetotheoutbreaksofar.

Meningitis Outbreak

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Antonis Samaras, prime minister ofGreece,warnedGermany, aswell asothercountries,onFridaythathiscountrywillbeneedingmore international assistanceverysoon. Samaras explained that the countrywillnotbeabletolastpastNovemberandthattheGreekeconomyisholdingonbyathreaduntilthe“cashbox[empties]”attheendofNovember.Samaras also suggestedthe lowering of the debt holding interestratesby theCentralBankandother formsofassistance,otherthanjustmoney,tohelpGreecegetbackonitsfeet.

In themonth of September, theUnitedStates added 114,000 jobs, lowering theunemployment rate to 7.8 percent.This isthelowesttheunemploymentratehasbeensinceObamatookofficein2009.SomefeelthatthesenumbershavebeenfabricatedduetoObama’sweakperformanceintherecentpresidential debate.Employment is ahugefactor in the upcoming election, and thesenewlyreleasednumberswillhaveaneffect,especially due toRomney’s stance on theweakeconomy.

After the presidential debate held onWednesdayOctober 3,Obama no longerholdsamuchhigherlead.ThegapbetweenRomney andObama has narrowed,withRomneyholding44percentandObamawith46percent.ThestateofOhiohasalsobecomemoresupportiveofRomney,favoringhim51percenttoObamasupportat48percent.

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“Cash box is empty”U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta criticizing Afghan President Karzai.

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Everwanted a chance to play somelacrossewithLoyola’s national champion-shipmen’steamandtheBigEastchampionwomen?WhataboutshootsomehoopswithourMAACchampionshipmen’sbasketballteam?It’snosecretthatLoyolaathleticshasbeenverysuccessfulinthepastfewyears,particularlylastyear,andtheStudentAthleticAdvisoryCommittee(SAAC)gavestudentsanopportunitytoplaywiththemlastWednes-daynight.“JocktheVote,”asitwascalled,ispartofanevenlargerinitiative,theStudentGovernmentAssociation’s(SGA)RocktheVote,whichaimstohelpstudentsregistertovoteandgetabsenteeballotssothattheymayperformtheircivicdutiesinthisupcomingpresidentialelection.EachLoyolateampresenthadastationinwhichstudentscouldcompeteagainsttheathletesinaparticularaspectoftheirsport.Men’sandwomen’sbasketball,men’sgolf,men’sandwomen’slacrosse,women’ssoc-cer,men’sandwomen’sswimming,women’strack andfield,men’s andwomen’s crosscountryteamandwomen’svolleyballwererepresented.Winners of the stations re-ceived“UnleashtheHounds”T-shirtsorgiftcardstoS’ghettiEddies,Miss Shir-ley’s, Qdoba andChick-fil-A.TheideaofJocktheVotewastodrawoutstudents,aswellasathletes,andgivethem the opportu-nity to register tovote and learnhow to request an absenteeballot from their respective home states.Additionally, it gave students and athletesanopportunitytominglewitheachotherandplayforthesakeofhavingfun.“Itwasagoodwaytogetmanypeopleinaroomtoregister[tovote],andforpeopleto have fun,” said seniorTJKelly, SGA’sdirectorofdiversity.“Wesawalotofpeoplecomeout.Ididn’tknowpeoplecouldregistertovote,though.Ithink[JocktheVote]isreallygoodforourschool,” said senior andbasketball player,BobbyOlson. About 105 students registered to vote

Student athletes rally to register young voters

A border killing inArizona along theArizona/MexicoborderoccurredonFridaywhenone boarder patrol agentwas killed,Nicholas Ivie. Iviewas responding to analarmsetoffbysensorsalong theArizonaborderwhentheshootinghappened.Mexicanauthorities took two suspects into custodyfor questioning and the FBI is furtherinvestigatingtheshooting.

Friendly fire kills one in Arizona

over four years.Thismeans college-agedstudentswillhavealargeamountofinfluenceovertheresultsofthisupcomingpresidentialelectionandelectionswellintothefuture.Ifthispatterncontinues,eventuallythecollegeagegroupalonewillhaveenoughinfluenceto determine the future presidents of theUnitedStates.“Theyouthvotewasreallyimportantin2008,”saidKelly.“Theyhavealotofinflu-ence in the outcome and it’s important toempowerpeopletoregisterandeducatethemontheissuesinthiselection.”SGA’sRocktheVoteinitiativestemsfromthelargerorganization,whichisalsocalledRocktheVote.Itisanorganizationtargetinga demographic called the “millennial gen-eration,”whoarepeoplebornfromthelate1970sthroughtheearly2000sbecausetheymayhavealargeimpactonthisNovemberelection—approximatelyonefifthofthevote.Itsgoalistohelppeopleregistertovoteandapply for absentee ballots, aswell as helpthemunderstandhowtovoteandwhattheyare voting for. OtherRock theVote events held thisyearbySGAincludearallyduringInitiumWeek,aswellashavingtablessetupoutsideBoulderGardensCaféonWednesdaysandThursdaysforpeopletoregisterthroughoutthemonth ofOctober.However, the voterregistrationdeadlineisOctober16.Kellyalsoadvisedstudentstocheckwhentheirabsenteeballotsareduetotheirrespectivestates.“Youcanrockthisvote,”saidKelly.

I’mnotverygoodatgolf.”FreshmanArturoMartinezalsofoundthevolleyballstationtobehisfavorite.“Iwaspartoftheplay-offs,”hesaid,speakingaboutatiebreakerheldattheendtodeterminewhowouldwintheprize.“Itriedtoacethevol-leyballteam,butdidn’t.Istillgotsomegiftcardsthough.” “A few [students]werebetter [atbas-ketball]thanIthoughttheywouldbe,”saidOlson,“andsomehadn’tplayedinawhile,soitwasprettyfunnytowatch.”AfterJocktheVote,studentsgatheredinMcGuireHalltolistentoFr.Linnanespeakabouttheimportanceofvotingandtheimpactithasonthecountry.“Therearepeoplewhodon’tgettovote,”saidMartinez,whoisoriginallyfromEcua-dor.“Itusedtobeademocracy;thepeopleloweronthe[social]ladderdon’tgetasmuchsay,butnowthepresidentofthe‘democracy’hassethimselfinpowerforthenextseveralyears,andnovotingisdone.”“It’simportanttohaveasay.Ithinkthewaytheeconomyisgoing,[thiselectionis]important.Thenextfewyearsareveryim-portant;itwilltellalotabouttheworldandourcountry,”saidOlson.Additionally,hand-writtenposterswerehungaroundReitzemphasizingtheimpor-tance of voting in the upcoming election,particularlyfortheagegroupof18-29.Ac-cordingtooneposter,18-29year-oldsmadeup24percentoftheElectoralCollegevotein2011,andwillbe33.33percentofthevoteby theyear2015—a9.33percent increase

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Everwanted a chance to play somelacrossewithLoyola’s national champion-shipmen’steamandtheBigEastchampionwomen?WhataboutshootsomehoopswithourMAACchampionshipmen’sbasketballteam?It’snosecretthatLoyolaathleticshasbeenverysuccessfulinthepastfewyears,particularlylastyear,andtheStudentAthleticAdvisoryCommittee(SAAC)gavestudentsanopportunitytoplaywiththemlastWednes-daynight.“JocktheVote,”asitwascalled,ispartofanevenlargerinitiative,theStudentGovernmentAssociation’s(SGA)RocktheVote,whichaimstohelpstudentsregistertovoteandgetabsenteeballotssothattheymayperformtheircivicdutiesinthisupcomingpresidentialelection.EachLoyolateampresenthadastationinwhichstudentscouldcompeteagainsttheathletesinaparticularaspectoftheirsport.Men’sandwomen’sbasketball,men’sgolf,men’sandwomen’slacrosse,women’ssoc-cer,men’sandwomen’sswimming,women’strack andfield,men’s andwomen’s crosscountryteamandwomen’svolleyballwererepresented.Winners of the stations re-ceived“UnleashtheHounds”T-shirtsorgiftcardstoS’ghettiEddies,Miss Shir-ley’s, Qdoba andChick-fil-A.TheideaofJocktheVotewastodrawoutstudents,aswellasathletes,andgivethem the opportu-nity to register tovote and learnhow to request an absenteeballot from their respective home states.Additionally, it gave students and athletesanopportunitytominglewitheachotherandplayforthesakeofhavingfun.“Itwasagoodwaytogetmanypeopleinaroomtoregister[tovote],andforpeopleto have fun,” said seniorTJKelly, SGA’sdirectorofdiversity.“Wesawalotofpeoplecomeout.Ididn’tknowpeoplecouldregistertovote,though.Ithink[JocktheVote]isreallygoodforourschool,” said senior andbasketball player,BobbyOlson. About 105 students registered to vote

at Jock theVote, according toStudentBodyPresidentDanielleMelfi,who isalsoasenior.Afterregisteringtovote,studentsareto send their registration form to theirstatewhere itwill take approximatelytwoweeksforthestatetorecognizetheirvoter status.Once registered, studentsmayfilloutanabsenteeballotrequest.“Everystatehasdifferentregulations.There’salong-distancevoterorganizationwithalltheinformationonspecifics.Also,youcanvisitwww.loyola.edu/loyolavotesformoreinfo,”saidKelly.AlthoughtheeventwasactuallyrunbySAACandSGA,JocktheVotewasthe“brainchild”of theGreenandGreySocietyand their“GreenandGreySo-cietyPresentsLoyolaVotes”campaign,according toAlyssaSutherland,who isnotonlyasenioronthewomen’sbasketballteam,butthepresidentofSAAC.“GreenandGreySocietyaskedmeifIwantedtodosomethingandmentionedthisevent,andIsaid‘absolutely,’”saidSuther-land.ThisisthefirstyearthatJocktheVotehasbeenheld;however,itsgreaterpart,RocktheVote,was held during the last presidential

election in 2008. “Basically,everyteamcomesandrunsa station,” saidSutherland, “Wearework-ingwithSGA to get students and athletesto vote,which leads [in]toFatherLinnanespeaking.”Thestationsincludedthebasketballteam’sgameofHORSE,golf’sputtingstation,la-crosse’saccuracyshooting,soccer’sjugglingcontest, swimming’s backwardsfinflipperraces,thetrackandfieldandcrosscountryteams’sprintracesandbatonhand-offsandvolleyball’sservingcompetition.“Iwenttovolleyball,”saidOlson.“Thatwasprettyfun.Ialsotriedtoputandrealized

Student athletes rally to register young voters

”“ [The young voters] have a lot of influence in the outcome and it’s important to empower people to register and educate them on the issues of this election.

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according to Tartaglia, itis a science.“Ithinkwhenpeople hear‘ s c i e n c e , ’they tend toexclude the“soft” sci-encessuchasPsychologyo r SpeechPa tho logy.T h e g r e a tthing aboutScientista isthatwedon’te x c l u d e a n y b o d y .Anybody in-terested inadvancing the careersofwomeninscienceiswelcome,”saidTartaglia.OnthefirstSundayofeverymonththegirlswillbegoingtoTartaglia’sapartmentforbrunch.Therewillalsobeoneeventeachmonth,dependingonwhatisplanned.Thelargereventswillconsistofguestspeakersorfacultypanelswhowillbeabletosharetheirpersonalexperienceswithin thefield.Everymonththerewillbenewcontentonlineformemberstoview.Theclubalsoislook-ingtoestablishstrongconnectionswiththemath and science departments on campus.Through thisclub,studentswillbeable toknowtheirprofessorsonamoreprofessional

level.Professorswillbecomemoreapproach-ableandstudentscanaskthemaboutadvice.TheScientistaFoundationalsohopestohelpbridgethegapbetweenthenumberofmenandwomenworkingonvolunteeropportuni-tiesinthemathandsciences.ThenextmeetingfortheScientistaFoun-dationwillbeonOctober14atTartaglia’sapartment for brunch,where the future ofScientista atLoyolawill be discussed.Togetinvolvede-mailsatartaglia@loyola.edu.Studentscanaccessthewebsitethroughthislink:www.scientistafoundation.com/loyola-maryland.

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Sellinger’sinternationalbusinessgroup,StudentsinFreeEnterprise(SIFE),cameoutwithsomeexcitingnewsduringtheireventonOct. 3:They are changing their nametoENACTUS,anacronymthatstandsforEntrepreneurship,ActionandUs.Thegroupaims toachieve theperspective toseeop-portunitiesothersdon’t,combinedwiththewillingnesstoputtheirskillintoaction.Theyidentifythemselvesbythemotto,“entrepre-neursinactionforthegreatergood.”ThemainpointoftheireventonWednes-day,October3,ledbythegroup’spresident,seniorJustinLu,wastorelatetheopportu-nities offered byENACTUS toLoyola’scommunity.Their goal is one of progres-sion.Theyworkwith local businesses inan attempt tomake a positive impact onthecommunityatlargeinordertoproducemeasurableresults.OnesuchcompanyisWasabiVentures(WV), started in 1998 by Loyola’s ownalum,TomKuegler. “WV invests in, ad-visesand incubatesabroadarrayofearlystagetechnologycompanies”forsuccessfulstartup.This past spring,WasabiVenturesandLoyolahaveteameduptoestablishanacceleratorprogramoncampus,sponsoringthefirstStart-UpGrind,anorganizationthatworkstobringentrepreneursandcompanyfounderstogetherinorderto“networkwiththesmarteststartupminds.”Bothcompanies,partneredwithENACTUS,offerexcellent

Sellinger group changes name, connects with local businesses

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By Megan Byrne

Staff Writer

Loyolawomenwhoaremathandsciencemajors have a new opportunity to join astudent-runorganizationthatrevolvesaroundtheir content area.The Scientista club atLoyolaisjustthat,butaccordingtopresidentSarahTartaglia,asenior,itispartofamuchbiggerpicture.ThecluboriginatesfromtheScientistaFoundation,whichwasfoundedinspring2011byTartaglia’scousinsJuliaandChristinaTartaglia atHarvardUniversity.Sinceitsfounding,thefoundationhasgrownto17campusaffiliateorganizationsatover12universities.ThisexpansivenetworkofchaptersallowseachonetotakeadvantageoftheScientistaFoundation’sresources.BeforethecreationoftheScientistaFoun-dation,amagazine,WISE Words—Women InnovatingScience andEngineering—wascreatedbyTartaglia’s cousin, Julia.Abouttwoyearslater,JuliaandChristinateameduptoexpandthemagazineandendedupcreat-ingtheScientistaFoundation.Thenamewascreatedbyhercousins,andTartagliathinks“thenameisfunandcatchyandportraysthatbeinganintelligentwomandoesnotmeanyourfemininityisbeingsacrificed.”WhenTartagliafirstheardoftheScien-tista Foundation, she thought itwould bea great addition toLoyola. “For reasons Icannot explain, there are so feworganiza-tionsthatbringwomenofsciencetogetherintoacohesivecommunity.IreallywantedtobeproactiveinbringingastrongfemalegrouptotheLoyolacampus.Bydoingso,Ihopetoencouragefemalestudentstopursue

Loyola welcomes a new chapter of the Scientista Foundation

internshipopportunitiesandprojectsfortheirstudents—bothinthelongandshortterm. Other initiatives include iGoForth, acampus-wideideacontestandcampaigntocreateiPhoneandAndroidappsexclusivelytargetedatmakingLoyolamoreaccessibleto its students.The contest,which is opentoanyLoyola student, aims toproduceanoperationalappthatwillbelaunchedintotheAppStoresometimeduringnextsemesterandmadeavailabletoLoyolastudents.Userfeedbackontheproductswilldeterminethewinners. If enablingLoyola’s communityisn’tincentiveenough,thetopfourwinningteamswillreceivegenerouscashprizes. Another organizationpairedwithEN-ACTUSistheBaltimoreCASHCampaign(CreatingAssets,SavingsandHope),which“strivestoprovideworkingfamiliesaccesstothetoolsandservicesneededtomaximizetheirearningdollars.”Inotherwords,theyhelp familiesmake their paychecksworkfor them.Theydo this by “leveraging thetaxcodeasagatewaytofinancialservices”forworkingfamilies.ENACTUSmembersvolunteerasappointmentschedulers,CASHcoacheswhousetheirbusinessexpertisetoinstructclientswithvariouspersonalfinanceskills and tax assistants and also providefinancialresourcestofamilieswhoarestrug-glingtomakeendsmeet.Thegroup’sfocusonLoyola’ssurround-ingBaltimorecommunity is epitomized intangibleprojectssuchastheYorkRoadIni-tiative,commencedin2008byFr.LinnaneS.J.,whowasdevastatedbythecatastrophic

careers in the sciences knowing that theyhaveastrongsupport system tohelp thembecomesuccessful.”Therearestillobstaclestoovercomeforwomeninthesciences,butthisnewcluboncampushelpssupporttheirundertakings.TheScientistaFoundationismeanttoem-powerwomenwhoarestudyinginthemathandsciences.“Althoughprogresshasbeenmadeinrecentdecades,therearepersistenthurdlestotheadvancementofwomeninthesciences.”Therearefewerwomenpursuingscience andmath careers compared to thenumber ofmen in thefields, butTartagliahopes to change thatwith the start of thisclub. “I think organizations likeScientistaare important to provide opportunities andsupport forwomenwho do dare to stepoutsideofsocietalboundaries.Theseyoungambitiouswomenneedtoknowthatthereishelpforthemwhentheyfeeldiscouragedordiscriminatedagainst,”saidTartaglia.Tartaglia’sownexperienceinthefieldofpsychologycausedhertobegintoformtheScientistaFoundationatLoyola.Sheknewthatchoosingthismajorwastherightdirec-tionforher,butthatdecisionforotherwomenmaynothavebeeneasy.“Pickingamajorisnosimpletask,andIthinkthatmostwomenautomaticallyshyawayfrommathandsci-ence.Oneofmyhopes forScientista is toencouragewomen to challenge themselvesandseekcareersinthesciences.Womenarejustascapableasmen,andIdon’tthinktheyshouldbemissingoutonanyopportunities.”TheScientistaFoundationwouldliketoequaltheplayingfieldbygivingwomantheconfi-dencetheyneedintheircareers.Psychologymaynotbeasciencemajorbut

effects ofHurricaneKatrina onNewOrleans. His goal was to“explore themutually beneficialrelationshipsbetweenLoyolaUni-versityanditscommunity”toen-suresecuritytobothcommunities.TheYorkRoadInitiativepartnerswiththelocalneighborhoodsandfocusesontheeducationaldevel-opment,healthandwell-beingofits residents. Through projectssuchastheFarmer’sMarketandBelvedereSquareonYorkRoad,they strive to bring together theLoyolaandBaltimorecommuni-ties.Asadditionalmotivation,byservicing thenow joint “Loyola-Baltimore community,” studentsoftheSellingerSchoolofBusinessandManagement are fulfilling aservice-learningrequirement.“ENACTUSisapowerhouse,”sayssophomoreFilipZigic,oftheSellingerScholars. “Itusescash,careerandvolunteerincentivestomotivatetheirmemberstousetheirtalentsinaveryrealandtangibleway.Downtheline,thesestudentswillhavethatmuchmoretopresenttotheirfutureemployersandintheircareers.”Anothersophomore,businessmajorAmandaAdsit,says,“ENACTUSdoesafinejobofpromotingBaltimore’scommunity.EveninmytwoyearshereIhaveseenclearlyvisibleevidenceoftheprogressmadeonYorkRoad[inBelvedereSquare].”

Sarah Tartaglia, left, and Kate Garden, right, represent the new Loyola chapter of the Scientista Foundation. The club’s focus is to encourage women to get more involved in the science and math communities.

ENACTUS provides theirmemberswith an arrayof opportunities to use theirentrepreneurialtalentstoservicethemselvesandthecommunity.Throughtheirprojects,volunteering and internship, ENACTUSmembershonetheirbusinessskillsinawaythatwillmakethemattractiveapplicantsinfuturebusinessendeavors.

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rates.“Studentsthattakeoutloansobviouslyhave to eventually pay it back,” she said.“After paying the interest, they owemoremoneythantheyactuallygot.”BrielleSmith,aRutgersjunior,saidsheblames tuition hikes formounting studentdebt.“Ithinkit’sunnecessarytochargesomuchforaschool,”shesaid,“You’renotgettingwhatyouputintoit.”Smithsaidshewasconcernedforherownsituationgiventhestateoftheeconomy.“Therearenojobs,sohowareyousup-posed topay itback ifyoucan’tgeta jobafterschool?”shesaid.“Idon’tknowwhereyou’resupposedtogetthemoneyfrom.”Smithsaidshebelievesthatschoolsareex-pandingtooquickly,whichresultsintuitionhikes.Ifcampusdevelopmenthappenedgradu-ally,Smithsaidtuitioncostscouldbekeptlowerandcouldhelpeasethestudentdebtburden.“Ithinkwecouldlowerthetuitionbynotrenovatingtheschoolssorapidly,”shesaid.“Theydoeverythingallatonce insteadofgradually.”Smithsaidtuitionshouldremainconstantthroughoutastudent’stimeinschool.“Ithinkwhatyoucomeinpayingshouldbewhatyoupayallfouryears,”shesaid.“Itshouldn’tgoup.”

student loans are the only financial aidprogramsforwhichtheyqualify,”shesaid.“These [work] programs are directed to asmaller,more economically disadvantagedstudentpopulation.” McDonald-Rash said FinancialAidremindsstudentstokeeptrackoftheirbor-rowingstatusandbefamiliarizedwiththeirloans.

“TheOfficeof Finan-c ia l Aid a d v i s e ss tuden t sto remain aware oftheir bor-r o w i n gand offersonline re-sources totrack totaldebt andrepayment o b l i g a -

tions,”shesaid.SamanthaStraus,aRutgerssophomore,said she is thankful she has no studentloans.“I’mpersonallyreallyluckythatmypar-entsarepayingforcollege,”shesaid.“Allmyfriends’[parents]aren’tandtheyhavetroublegettingfinancialaidandloans.”Straussaidaftertakingoutloans,studentsoftenendupoverpayingbecauseofinterest

amountofstudentdebtowedperhouseholdis$26,682,whiletotalindebtednessperhouse-holdhasfallenfrom$105,297to$100,720.Thistrendcouldbeattributedtohouseholdspayingoffotherdebts,likecreditcarddebt,whiletheyareunabletoreducestudentloandebt,accordingtothereport.McDonald-Rashsaidmanystudentsareforcedtouseloanstopayforschoolbecauseoftheeconom-ic recession,which madecollegesavingsa necessity formore pressingissuesinmanyfamilies.“Thenation-al economic downturn thatbegan[in]2008has led to anincreasednum-berof familiesfacing unem-ployment,underemploymentandanunstablejobmarket,” she said. “Formanyof thesestudents and their families, borrowing tofinanceacollegeeducationhasbecometheonlychoice.” Becauseofreductionsinstatesupport,tuition increases and federal funding forwork-studyprograms,McDonald-Rashsaid,studentshavenooptionbuttotakeloans.“Formanystudents,federalandprivate

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For many of these stu-dents and their families, borrowing to finance a college education has be-come the only choice - Jean Mcdonald-rash, rutgers university’s director of Financial Aid

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As talk of the 2008 historic election gives way and our current election cycle hits full throttle, I continue to hear this talk of a “post-racial” society. The idea that the mob lynch attacks of the Reconstruction era, noose

hangings and police brutality do not exist perpetuate. However, all this airy optimism and denial lives in light of nuance forms of racism and mass targeted terror. This week, executives at the University of Texas released the news that there have been series of “bleach bombing” attacks, presumably targeted at African American students.

Over the past few weeks, University of Texas (UT) students near the west campus apartments have been launching bleach-filled balloons, presumably towards black students. These bleach bombings have come to fruition, in light of several racially themed parties by predominantly white

fraternities and sororities, which have garnered complaints by both African Americans and Latinos.

This is our “post racial world,” where the darkness of black students harbors enough resentment or ignorance that bleaching or lightening their skin remains the only solution.

So here lies an example of our own generation continuing the disgraces of several generations past, and others standing up against it. If I recall, this sounds quite familiar to the 1960s Civil Rights movement, but as a now cultivated and educated society, we don’t care to admit our own generation’s continued struggle with race, cross culture and ethnicity. But for some, a civil rights movement does still exist and a progression back towards these types of attacks cannot exist and will not be tolerated. As former UT grad Chase Moore told several news outlets, “This is not 1960; we are not going to be afraid to walk anywhere. We are not going back in time.”

While a larger issue of racism is evidently present in this case,

providing further investigations, another issue of skin color and bleaching exists too. Having been subject to the issues of colorism and the “light vs. dark” controversy in the black community, this idea of skin bleaching is all too familiar, while simultaneously disheartening and alarming.

UT students don’t have to throw bleach at black students’ skin for them to realize that it’s still a pigment that stirs up hatred and discrimination, internal and external. In fact, there are thousands of over-the-counter bleach skin care products to do that for them and believe me, black people are using them. Having worked at a local beauty supply store, I can tell you that black women and men know a thing or two about bleaching products, and some will do anything to get skin lighter, brighter and whiter. Nothing proved this to me more than when a mother of a girl no older than four asked me for skin care bleaching products for her daughter. My heart cringed and I evaded pointing her towards it,

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Maybe it’s because my parents raised me with the television switched to the news 24/7 and talk radio blaring every time we got in the car, but even years before I was of-age to vote, I was aware that election season was a time of loud people, polarizing opinions and facts that didn’t line up. Whether or not you were brought up in a similar setting, I think a lot of us share the basic sentiment of being slightly overwhelmed when the first Tuesday of November rolls around.

It’s common for our elders to remind us of the “right, responsibility and privi-lege” to vote, but an equally common sentiment among many young people is: Am I educated enough on the issues to make an informed decision? And for me, the more troubling question, which has passed through my mind more than once over the past few years, is: Should I vote if I’m not as educated as I could be?

I don’t want to assume what any individual’s response to this inquiry would be, but I suppose a plausible solution would be to seek out the information you need to form a decision. That’s easy enough, right? There are a billion websites with minute-by-minute updates. However, if you’ve ever tried to dive straight into the deep political pool, you’ve learned something about information over-load. The media isn’t always the platform for information that we’re seeking, and often you end up with more questions than answers.

So what the heck do we do?It’s good to be confused and experience uncertainty, because that means

we’re thinking critically (and avoiding the brainwashing that some accuse the media of participating in), but you can only sit around and appreciate your perplexity for so long before it inhibits your ability to act. Apathy seems the least productive outcome of all.

When I think I don’t know enough about certain issues to cast my vote with confidence, I remember that some of my less-informed friends are proceeding to the voting booth without hesitation. And I think of the very politically active friends whom I can turn to for conversation about the questions I still have. This definitely doesn’t solve everything, but it’s better than avoiding engagement.

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A year ago from Friday October 5, the world lost one of the most innovative and inspiring men of our time. Anyone who owns an Apple product and has Apple.com set as their homepage on Safari knows who I am talking about. Us Mac users have been greeted for the past several days with a video montage of the company’s founder himself—

none other than the great, late Steve Jobs. Many would argue that Jobs does not

deserve the level of fame he has achieved, and people often criticize him for his sometimes less than admirable personality. OK, so maybe Jobs wasn’t the nicest guy along his journey of innovative successes. He fired people right on the spot, he talked down to employees and he took ideas from companies he worked with and set out to become their competition. Some may see his actions as unjustifiable and dub him a jerk, but all Jobs is guilty of is wanting “to put a ding in the universe,” as he once said, and doing everything it took to make that happen.

Even despite his huge successes, Jobs was met with an overwhelming amount of defeats. In 1985, just 11 years after he and a friend started Apple Inc., Jobs was demoted to being department chair; in this position, he would have no operational duties whatsoever in the company he helped create, so with that, he resigned.

Though Jobs already had a net worth of over $200 million at the time of his departure from Apple at age 25, he wasn’t ready to throw in the towel yet. Even with the huge accomplishments he made while

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with Apple, Jobs still had visions for future projects; so in spite of his bitter end with his own company, he stayed in the competitive world of technology, determined to see that his visions became reality.

Jobs’ next project became that of wanting to make the world’s best computer—complete with the best hardware and most advanced software possible. Even though the NeXT Cube proved to be a flop, this wasn’t the only project Jobs had in the works during the few years directly after leaving Apple. While working on the NeXT, he was simultaneously developing a computer graphic and animation group that he eventually named Pixar. That’s right, I said Pixar—the man behind making your favorite computers and gadgets was also

the man behind the creation of some of your favorite children’s movies.

Though at first Jobs looked at Pixar as more of a hobby, the company soon gained a little attention after they developed software that was able to create 3D animated images. And after some successes with making various commercials with this 3D animation, Pixar was offered a contract that made Jobs realize this had to be more than just a hobby. In 1991, Pixar signed with Disney to make the first full-feature computer-animated movie. Four years later Toy Story was released in theaters, becoming such a huge success that Jobs’ net worth increased to $1.5 billion.

Jobs was asked to come back to Apple in

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1996 to create a modern operating system to compete with Windows. The next few months proved to be the hardest working months of his life, splitting his time between Apple and Pixar. He later told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he was so exhausted he couldn’t speak when he came home at night. But his hard worked paid off yet again, and in 1998, the iMac was unveiled. Because of its huge success, Jobs was offered, and accepted, the position of CEO of Apple in the year 2000, while he was still CEO of Pixar.

To say Jobs hit the ground running after this would be an understatement. In the years following his success of developing the iMac with Apple, Jobs helped develop the iPod, iPhone and most recently, the iPad. Pixar also

found huge success after Toy Story, creating movies like, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2 and Monster’s Inc. Jobs’ momentum was at an all time high, always working to develop the latest generations of Apple products and various animated successes.

On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs lost his battle with cancer. Claiming the world lost a great

man is putting it too lightly. It’s not every day that someone like Steve Jobs, who is so passionate and driven by his goals that no failure could stop him from finding success, comes along. Maybe you don’t agree that he has really made this much of an impact in today’s world, but I challenge you to find one person you know that has not been affected by this man.

I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from the inspirational man himself: “Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Let’s face it: Social media controls our lives. Yes, there are a few of you out there who proudly tout that you don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account; you steer clear of Instagram and rather devote your time to writing the perfect resume and reading books. But the majority of you can say that you

probably check Twitter a couple of times a day and cannot avoid hopping on Facebook to see what’s new.

Social media’s impact is seen daily, but I feel it’s been rearing its intrusive head lately. In three of my classes just this week, we have discussed the role of social media, focusing primarily on the pressure to be involved in it, as well as the severity of what is said on such public forums. In my weekly Writing for Public Relations class, a certain line hit me and really stuck. Professor Winter included on one of his PowerPoint slides, “A word, once let out of the cage, cannot be whistled back again,” a quote by Horace, a Latin poet. Even in the year 8 B.C., the impact of our words and actions on others was recognized, years before social media become the beast that it is.

Free speech online sparks controversy worldwideIn the past two weeks, there have been

a myriad of cases in which the importance of Horace’s quote can be seen, such as the disgruntled Patriots’ fan tweeting at Raven’s player Torrey Smith amidst the mourning for his recently deceased brother; or the Twitter hoax regarding New Jersey teen Kara Alongi crying wolf, as it were, that an intruder took her from her home. In my opinion, the most significant case is the recent “Innocence of Muslims” video that was posted on YouTube. The film, created by Sam Bacile (a pseudonym for Nakoula Basseley Nakoula), paints a picture of Muhammad as an imbecile and a molester. After watching the film myself, I cannot even begin to explain how offensive and unbelievable the content is.

According to The Huffington Post, Cindy Lee Garcia, one of the women in the film, filed two lawsuits against YouTube and Google, requesting that they remove the offensive video because she was misled in what she would be asked to say and perform in the film, and thus it “violates her right of publicity and invades her privacy rights.” She is also “the subject of a death threat fatwa (an Islamic religious decree) from an Egyptian cleric, who called on Muslim youth to kill her and everyone associated with the film.” As of October 4, according to The

Jewish Press, “a radical Islamist, Abu Assad al-Almani, has called for bombings and assassinations in Germany after it emerged that the actor who plays Mohammed…was allegedly German.”

The video is also said to have been a contributing factor in the death of American correspondent, J. Christopher Stevens, who was stationed in Libya as an ambassador and murdered on September 11 of this year. While tensions were already high in the Middle East, The Washington Post reported that right before his death, Mr. Stevens reported a serious rise in violence in Libya amidst Islamist groups, and this video did little to placate said violence.

While the effects on the Muslim community as well as the safety of others is not to be underplayed, the video also brought into question the rules that govern free speech in the media. YouTube responded to these issues regarding the removal of the video, saying, “the clip does not violate YouTube’s community-standards guidelines governing the United States” and therefore does not need to be removed. Copyright professor Tim Wu made a suggestion to The Huffington Post for what I believe to be an excellent possible alternative to the issue, offering that “YouTube needs to have a better, more open

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”“The problem is that all brains are different. it’s a fact of biol-ogy that not everyone learns the same.

If it hasn’t hit your native high school yet, it probably will soon. You may not have heard the term “detracking,” but I can guess you are well aware of its practice, just as I was when first going into this article. I was one the students swept up in its winds when it came tearing through my school’s curriculum with the institution of a new

principal. Through conversations with multiple teachers, I started to see it from their point of view, a view that I believe is entirely lacking depth of consideration in its practice.

Here are the facts: Ability tracking (sometimes called phasing or streaming) has been around for nearly a century in American public schools, and it refers to the grouping and classification of students based on their demonstrated academic ability level. Kids that perform better are placed together with students that present the same level of academic achievement to create a more streamlined and targeted teaching standard for that class (e.g. faster pace or deeper concepts).

As you can assume, detracking is the movement to eradicate this practice of separating students, because not everyone is represented correctly and all students are equal. In addition, detracking gives minority, low-income and low-track students an opportunity they might not have due to prejudice, self-imposed limits or poor teaching staff. In my opinion, the concurrence to the wave of “progressivism,” where we try and break down

When I think of the phrase, “gifts that give,” I think of specific companies like TOMS Shoes or LIVESTRONG bracelets. These are companies that have been created for the sole purpose of donating something to give back to a specific community when products are bought. In the case of TOMS Shoes, shoes are given to children in need after someone purchases shoes from the

company; similarly, money is given to cancer victims after the purchase of a LIVESTRONG bracelet. The world around us is changing for the better and worse. Companies that are not made for this giving purpose have recently started to add on foundations to their already big resumes in order to help change unfortunate situations around the world.

Organizations like the Tory Burch Foundation, Bobs Shoes by Sketchers and many others have recently come into the fashion foundation era we live in now. This era is not just filled with advertisements pleading for a consumer to buy a product to help their world, but also it has become the new fashion to wear something from a popular foundation.

Yes, as a consumer you have the choice of whether to buy a product or not, but do you really have a social choice? If your money is going to someone in need and you get a cute pair of shoes or a bracelet to show off your donation, what holds you back from buying products from these companies?

On the other hand, will you feel badly if you do not buy this product? This concern is what brings masses of consumers to buy products like these. As consumers, we are ridiculed if we do not have the product. Other things to keep in mind are the competitive aspect of who knew about the foundation first, and whether or not all of the

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Thumbs I’d like to thank everyone who watched

the presidential debate and made his or her opinions public via Facebook. I needed some sort of motivation to turn my computer off and study for a test I had the next day, and you all provided more than I ever could have imagine. Thanks for that.

It’s strange to think that this is probably the biggest week in Baltimore sports since the last time the Ravens were in the Super Bowl, but it is, so even if you’re not from the area or you don’t like baseball (unless you’re a Yankees fan, in which case I’m sorry, that’s really a shame), root for the O’s this week.

This weekend, I drove past a crew fixing those speed traps on Charles Street on the way back from the FAC. My only hope is that they were being taken down or the speed they take a picture at was being changed. Not that I’m promoting speeding, but if I’m going to get a ticket, I’d rather be go-

ing faster than 42 miles per hour.

The “calories burned” function on the treadmill could just be a random number for all we know. The only way I can really tell that I’m getting a good workout is when I sweat so much that I can’t work the scroll wheel on my iPod.

I get nervous whenever they give you a bracelet at the bar. You get that adhesive on your arm hair by accident and it feels like you’re getting your wrist waxed all night. And why do bouncers always put the bracelet on so damn tight? They’re not handcuffs, dude. I’m here for the open bar, not to Occupy Wall Street.

Why don’t the clocks on washing machines keep on counting after the laundry is done? That way you’d know how long someone else’s clean clothes have been sitting there and whether or not to toss them on the floor so that you can use the machine.

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money actually goes to the community.These questions are not something I can answer,

but I do know that I feel guilt if I do not have a certain product that is helpful to a community. I received TOMS Shoes as Christmas present last year from my parents. This year, I’ve found a new foundation that I’d like to help support—the Tory Burch Foundation.

Designer Tory Burch became inspired by her own experience as a business owner and working mother in order to come up with the idea for the Tory Burch Foundation (TBF), which was created in 2009. Its goal is to support the empowerment of women and families who want to become entrepreneurs. As outlined on toryburchfoundation.org, the mission of the foundation is “[to be] a nonprofit organization, TBF invests in the success and sustainability of women-owned businesses through grants and microfinance for women entrepreneurs. Through mentoring opportunities, TBF provides women and girls with the information and tools needed to achieve their aspirations as entrepreneurs and leaders.”

The Tory Burch Foundation has a variety of different products such as candles, bracelets, headphones and shirts that give 20 percent of its proceeds as donations to the fund for women and their businesses. These women have designed some, if not all, of the products, but they would not have sold enough if it had not been for the name brand of Tory Burch.

When it’s my turn to give gifts, I know that I would look to these websites first. These foundations are not all good; you must always read the fine print. Some foundations are not foundations at all, and they are just selling you products to get your money for themselves and maybe throw a penny or two at the communities they claim to being supporting. As long as you can be a smart fashion philanthropist, you, as a consumer, should look into these fashion foundations immediately.

walls for the sake of breaking down walls, is far too coincidental. At least in my school, this detracking program came skipping down the halls, arms linked with an overhaul of the bullying code—which included an overwhelmingly large banner on our main stairwell that can be noticed driving by the main doors—and other tweaks to the social atmosphere of the school.

Don’t misunderstand me, I’m a very big advocate of social issues in our country; I do see a discrepancy in a lot of areas that should be reformed and I openly call for them. However, detracking appears to be a method of transference that does not accurately solve the problem, only removing the spackle from one hole to fill another—a very glittery spackle, at that. Yes, the mission statement sounds great: Eradicate the tiers and the students at the lower end will rise to meet the standard.

The problem is that all brains are different. It’s a fact of biology that not everyone learns the same. Some students will tell you that they need a deep concept to be slowed down and worked over; it’s not an attitude or mindset that can be overridden by assaulting them with a new environment. On the other side, it is ludicrous to expect teachers to find a way to accurately teach these different modes of learning. It’s paradoxical! The affect is, to me, way worse than what was projected: The standard is being equalized.

In a study done at Progressive High School in Missouri City, Texas by James E. Rosenbaum of the American Federation of Teachers (“If Tracking is Bad, Is Detracking Better?”), a detracking program was slowly implemented into the curriculum with a point to make sure no

preconceived notions of the program existed as it was installed. At first, the reception was great: Teachers were astounded and excited by their diversified classrooms and the absence of bias towards any given student’s ability. These feelings were short lived, though, as new irresolvable conflicts occurred in a lot of areas. The homework level was inadequate for the faster students (their term, not mine); “two-thirds of the class of the often did not understand the questions”; the vocabulary of the accelerated students often

escaped the lower students’ understanding; rapid pacing confused slower students while slow pacing bored and disinterested faster students; and they did not know to what standard to hold the classwork received from the students.

When talking with my teachers, one in particular relayed these same concerns to me. He taught an advanced placement (AP) class, which is a college-level class that can be taken in high school for future college credit. He noted that the class he had been teaching for years was now being overloaded with an influx of students who didn’t grasp the material as quickly as others so

he was not able to hold the same standard in his class. He started to see an increase in the number of failures on his exams, which before had been a pristine “zero.”

Even on our campus, there are particular prerequisites that must be adhered to for most of our classes (the EN203 English literature alpha seminar requires AP credit on the high school English literature exam). It does not cross the other students’ minds that they are being misrepresented because these classes are viewed with a sense of

prestige or reward of past accomplishment.

The point being missed in detracking is that it is not the students that should be held accountable, but the teachers themselves.If a lower-end class is not viewed with comparable expectations, racism is considered a factor in success and high-caliber

minority students are left unattended to; the setting should be reformed, not the curriculum. Obviously, a concern for the representation of minorities and students is one that is prevalent in our society and politics, and it should be dealt with. Yet the overhaul of the school system is placing the teachers in a tough position, forcing them to work in constraints that are absurd. In the end, they are tasked with edifying the youth of our country and preparing them in the best way possible. Let’s have a little faith in them that they can do their job.

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towards a legacy of believing that black skin needed to be defaced and lightened in order to blend in. Yet, the quest to lightness will continue, especially in a market estimated at over $10 billion dollars globally by 2015, according to the grio.com. In Southeast Asia alone, The Huffington Post found that the “skin lightening industry is expected to turn a $2 billion profit in 2012.”

While the economic argument to this issue can be made, it is way more than that; it is real, internal and historical. Years after slavery had differentiated between the superior house slave (lighter black skin) and the inferior field slave (darker black skin), people still maintain and struggle with these inferiorities and limitations. And while black people have struggled with it, other minorities have as well.

Dr. Oon Tian Tan, a Chinese dermatologist, told grio.com that “My Asian clients love lightening. Because to them, fair skin means a life of luxury where you don’t have to work out in the field. So they love these bleaching creams.” Evidently, as with the black community, the Asian community has had its own fair share of skin complexity issues, with fairer skin equating higher social status, class and wealth.

Twenty-six-year-old Haitian-American Debbie Saint-Clair also spoke with the website and said, “I think the consensus

throughout the world is that lighter skin is the best. People are taught at a young age that lighter skin is better, and some are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that.” And she’s right, many are taught that lighter is better or that the perfect Mediterranean tan is best, and so as a society we seek to fit these norms without considering the psychological damage done to our minds as we erase what we may internalize as a blemish.

And so, these balloon tosses don’t just potentially represent a hate crime, but a psychological and historical battle over what color holds privilege, power and prettiness. These bleach bombings encompass an overall larger issue of race, colorism, privilege and discrimination. We’re not a perfect world and we still do maintain our biases, though we have grown from the 1960s. Still, these actions of University of Texas students and those around the world are a reality that we can’t ignore and have to face. Otherwise we may be closer to 1960 than we think.

and inclusive procedure in place—such as Wikipedia’s community, consensus-driven review or the establishment of a ‘good citizens’ review panel—to help decide what materials to remove.” Taking this course of action would provide a way for YouTube and Google to keep checks on the content that is posted, as well as be aware of what the people of the community are feeling regarding the content. If this type of procedure was in place for all forms of social media, offensive and harmful content could be more easily monitored and removed when necessary.

Many countries have requested the ban of the video, but its removal from YouTube has yet to happen. Technically, the author, Nakoula, is allowed to post such content because the First Amendment protects his opinion and words. The video, however, is affecting millions of people in a negative manner. After seeing such repercussions, I

think YouTube and Google should step in and remove the content; after all, what is the point of it even being on the site any longer? It was created with the intention of expressing a negative viewpoint of a people and religion as a whole, and is obviously causing extreme harm in places far outside the United States. If we were to follow Tim Wu’s strategy, I think it would be clear that the “YouTube community” would give a negative review of this video and most certainly request to remove it. Yes, Nakoula is certainly receiving his share of backlash and ridicule, but is that enough? When his thoughts have caused outrage, violence and even death around the world, where do we finally draw the line?

Free speech is being abused; there is no doubt about that. While there is no way to prevent this, there are certainly ways to control it, and we as a nation can find better ways to do so.

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As many of you are aware (at least I hope many of you are aware, as avid readers of this section), last year a staple of this section was Kevin Breen’s weekly column, “Concert Thursdays.” His column chronicled the adventures of Breen and his friends as they went to atypical places on Thursday nights to hear music that most Loyola students may not have thought of, and he did it cheaply by either walking or taking the 11 bus to the venues. In the April 17 issue of The Greyhound, the entire experience culminated in a yearbook-style superlative cover story, easily recognized amongst the other issues of the paper because of the large map of Baltimore marked with all of the venues he went to over the course of the year. I mention this history not to simply praise one of my talented writers, because the entire section is filled with talented writers whose work I could discuss just as easily. This history is to give context for my story this week. As someone who read and edited “Concert Thursdays” every week, I always wanted to go to one; so rather than intrude on my writer, I convinced my roommate to accompany me last Thursday night.

Because it is still warm out, we decided to walk to Hampden and go to the Golden West Café, which is only a 37-minute walk from campus. Without a car on campus, we have decidedly become bus people or walkers, preferring to go with the “we like the exercise/we are cheap” excuse to explain why we have not been in a cab so far this semester. A quick look at the Golden West Café’s website showed us that they were having three performers last Thursday night for $7. On a whim, we decided to go in blindly with absolutely no research into who exactly was performing, because whether

By Kate McGinley

Arts & society editor

they were amazing or not, we would get a good story out of it.

At 9 p.m., we set off from our apartment and got decidedly weird looks as we walked towards Cold Spring in the opposite direction of York Road, the location of so many other people’s Thursday night escapades. The walk from campus to the Golden West is not too long, and gave me ample time to hang out with my roommate in a different setting. I feel like when you are walking, you have different types of conversations than you do when sitting in your common room.

We got there at about a quarter to 10 and decided to get some food, since the bands were not scheduled to go on until 10 p.m. and would most likely be late. We selected garlic fries—“available without garlic, but why?” says the menu, and who can disagree—along with the Frito pie, a staple at the Golden West containing Fritos, jack cheese, chile sauce and salsa fresca. We somehow managed to resist the various cupcakes and cakes sitting in a display case by the entrance, in favor of appetizers.

Having time before the concert, we had the chance to really look around the venue. The second you enter any place in Hampden, particularly the restaurants, your senses are overwhelmed by the smells of the food, the interesting conversations and the decorations that surround you. The walls were covered with awards from local papers about everything from the beloved Frito pie to the strength of the venue itself. There was a giant buffalo head on one wall and a collection of paintings of The Last Supper on another. A shelf full of magazines, games and knickknacks that use the phrase “golden west” lined one of the walls. One table was covered with a giant map of the world. In the back there was a bar, proving that beer and cake can indeed go together. We, of course, looked at what other people were eating and overheard a strange debate over what exactly

sexting was, and we shifted to new seats for the concert before they started to illustrate by using examples from their own lives.

I am not going to lie—the music was not exactly my scene. The crowd was probably about 20 people and most of them were there because they were friends with the final band. Around 11 p.m., Three Legged Race performed his solo electronics a little loudly, and I thought it resembled touch-tones, since I prefer music with lyrics. Idiot Glee, the headliner, played both the piano and the guitar, singing his original songs. It was a little hard to understand what exactly he was saying because his instruments were so loud. His songs blended the elements of synthetic bass, warm melodies and strong vocals to create a unique sound. The final group, Colora, was extremely into their music, termed “hard driving psyche” by their Facebook page, but one of their guitar players seemed a little unsure of how to perform on stage; he rocked back and forth with his

Does the phrase, “Sometimes I feel like I should do crystal meth, but then I think, mmm better not,” cause you to erupt in peals of laughter every time you hear it? Do you suddenly feel the inexplicable desire to burst into Ace of Base’s “The Sign,” followed by an impromptu beat box of Jessie J’s “Price Tag”? Well, then you are one of the millions

of Americans who have become obsessed with the 2012 musical comedy film Pitch Perfect.

For those of you who either don’t own a television or always catch the last 15 seconds of the trailer, Pitch Perfect follows the Bellas, Barden University’s all female a capella group, in their attempts to beat the reigning champs, their all male counterparts, the Treble Makers. After a more than unfortunate

setback at last year’s Nationals involving a pretty astonishing display of projectile vomiting, the remaining Bellas, Aubrey (Anna Camp) and Chloe (Brittany Snow), start scouting new members to catapult them back into the finals. However, starting over isn’t as easy as it sounds, and the best recruits they can solicit are nothing more than a pitiful group of social rejects. Some of the more memorable Bellas are “Fat” Amy (Rebel Wilson), the hilarious and outspoken Soprano who affectionately refers to herself as such so that “twig bitches like you don’t call me that behind my back”; the alternative wannabe DJ Beca (Anna Kendrick); the overly sexed Stacie (Alexis Knapp); the undersexed Cynthia Rose (Esther Dean); and the under spoken Lily (Hana Mae Lee).

No longer being able to fundraise for Sectionals with a bikini car wash isn’t the only problem the Bellas have to overcome to get to Nationals. Among them is Aubrey’s suffocating hold on the Bellas’s set list, which features the same female vocalist compilation of ’90s hits for every competition. I could not get “I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign” out of my head for days continued on page 14

My Concert Thursday: An outsider’s perspective of an atypical Thursday night

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Golden West Cafe is located in Hampden and not only features an expansive menu, but also provides a variety of performers in weekly concerts.

guitar Charlie Brown style. This band had the biggest crowd following and even had a film crew there for their set. It was not the kind of show where people were dancing or even standing. We all sat around at tables, drinking waters or beers respectively and clapping politely at the conclusion of each song.

While the music was not exactly my style and clearly I did not even dedicate much of this article to it, I still had a great time. Going to a concert is not always just about the music. Yes, the reason I went was to attend a concert, but I got to enjoy the full experience of the food and atmosphere of the Golden West, the companionship of my roommate and have an atypical Loyola Thursday night. Maybe my version of “Concert Thursdays” was not exactly what I thought it would be, but it was not only enjoyable, but memorable. I encourage anyone to pick a random concert and go because life comes down to the stories we tell, and I promise you will get a good story that you will remember.

Pitch Perfect: If you haven’t been pitch slapped yet, you should

By Valentina Guzzo

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Rebel Wilson, last seen in Bridesmaids, brings down the house in Pitch Perfect as the sassy and sarcastic soprano.

after watching it—and there it goes again. Another obstacle to overcome is that one of the powerhouse soloists, Chloe, gets “nodes” (not contagious like an STD, but said with the same level of shame) and can no longer perform in a high octave. Perhaps the biggest obstacle of all, aside from stage fright or tone deafness, is the long-standing rivalry between the Bellas and the Treble Makers. Naturally, this means that Beca ends up falling, despite her best intentions, for the good-natured movie buff Jesse (Skyler Astin); this poses a problem for both her “jaded” persona and the number one rule of the Bellas, which is “not allowing a Treble Maker to penetrate you.”

With an almost unheard of approval rating of 74 percent on Rotten Tomato Reviews and an “A” on the Cinemascore scale of audience approval, Pitch Perfect is nothing short of cinematic genius. Pitch Perfect creates the perfect symphony, combining the comedic timing of Rebel Wilson—reminiscent of film favorites like The Hangover and Bridesmaids—with the musical remixes of Anna Kendrick that have become popular with musical shows like Glee and Smash.

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College etiquette: Being considerate goes a long way in Boulder

Whether you eat there every day or do your best to avoid it at all costs, Boulder is a fixture in the lives of pretty much every single Loyola student. No matter how much of your own cooking you do, we all end up there sometimes. Consequently, there’s more we could all be doing to make going to Boulder a more pleasant experience for all of those involved.Know what you want, dang it

Everyone knows an indecisive eater. Maybe you are one yourself. These are the people who turn the question of “cheese or pepperoni” into a moral dilemma The Oscars would fawn over.

It’s fine if what to put on your salad overwhelms you. Considering how long it takes me to get dressed in the morning, I know what it’s like to sweat the small stuff. But please take your epic, ethical quandary off to the side. The front of the line, speaking to the person who’s trying to take your order is not the time or place to be questioning whether you really want a grilled cheese or if you just think that’s what you want.

There is, shockingly, only a finite number of items you can order. Even better, they write them down for you to help you remember. Try to plumb the depths of your cravings before you get in line. And if you have the sudden,

crippling realization that you ordered the wrong thing just as soon as you moved away and you want nothing more than to rush back and change your o r d e r — w e l l , that’s t ragic . We all have our crosses to bear.Remember the magic words

As someone who has also w o r k e d i n c u s t o m e r service for many years, I cannot stress enough h o w m u c h the incredibly simple “please” and “thank you” mean. Just as one rude customer can shoot down a good day, one exceptionally polite one can make a long, bad day feel a whole lot better.

So say please when you order and thank you when you pay. Say “hello” and ask, “how are you?” Everyone who works at Boulder is doing work that benefits you; they’re not furniture. If you engage them in even just a few seconds of conversation every time you interact, you’ll find that they are some pretty awesome people.Please pay the heck attention

This is related to my previous point.

Several times I’ve been at the end of a long line just trying to pay for my Pop Tarts when they’ve opened up another register. Though

I’m usually towards the back of the line, I’ve found that I’m the only person who noticed, and so I got rung up while the other people in line were still chatting away.

This isn’t just limited to standing in line. If you’re just standing around in the middle of the floor, you’re guaranteed to be in the way at some point. This is pretty much unavoidable; after all, it’s a relatively small space. What is not unavoidable, however, is being so oblivious that whatever employee or fellow student who is trying to surreptitiously slip past you has to stop and ask you to move. Please don’t be that person.

Please also don’t be that person who is talking on the phone while ordering or paying for food. Trust me, everyone hates that person. Everyone.Leave some room for other people

So you’ve managed to decide upon, order and pay for your food without making a total jerk of yourself. Mission accomplished, right? You know what’s coming—wrong.

Sitting to eat in Boulder is something I generally try to avoid, but that’s mostly because of the gathering hoards, which make it impossible to a) find a table and b) get to it.

Please don’t be one of those people who takes up a big table all by themselves. I’m not judging if you want to eat alone; as someone who pretty much doesn’t like anybody, I understand the impulse. That’s what they made the little tables for. The more sociable members of this school might need six seats. Although I don’t understand that, I respect it.

Make sure that you’re also not tossing your stuff in the middle of the floor or sitting three feet away from your table. Go lounge in your room; I need more than three inches of space to walk past you.

None of this is all that hard, and if we’re all a little more considerate, I think that Boulder might then become something more than a last resort for most of us. Well, maybe not, but it will at least be better.

Some Batman origins: A look at Frank Miller’s Batman

As we have all been settled in for a little over a month now, our dorms are beginning to feel like home. Photos of our friends are tacked up, wall ornaments dangle from above and you and your roommates have finally bought a shower curtain to brighten up the dull bathroom. Yet as midterms and Fall Break approach, we are reminded that Halloween is around the corner, and what dorm room is a home without some decorations? First impressions count.

The old adage says “never judge a book by its cover,” but when it comes to decorating this rule never applies. If you want your floormates to know you have spirit, your door is the first stop. The most basic way is to create new name tags for you and your roommates. Print out pumpkins, leaves, ghosts or bats to either trace or color and hang them outside your door. You can also buy colorful dry-erase markers to replace the basic black to enhance your fall fever. If you want to go real crazy for Halloween, take a trip to Party City to buy yellow “BEWARE” tape and Halloween tinsel.

However, your door is not the only first impression people will see. Only a few will actually get a chance to look at your door, while the majority will judge your creativity and love of holidays while walking past your building outside. Catch the attention of passersby by hanging fall colored lights around your window and placing real (or fake) pumpkins on your windowsill. Don’t forget cling-ons; they are the easiest way

In our modern pantheon of heroes, the Batman has emerged out of the rugged night to become one of the most notable and iconic characters in the graphic novel genre. He is a brilliant detective, whose physical toughness pushes him beyond the limits of human physicality to establish justice. Batman is a true hero in every sense of the word. He is so admired as a character that he has been featured in numerous TV series and films, most notably the recent Christopher Nolan series. This character, of course, was not originally written for the screen, but delivered in the form of a graphic novel, where words and images shaped the Dark Knight into the hero we know today.

Over the years, there have been several comic book writers to dawn the cowl of Batman. Among the many talented authors is Frank Miller. Miller is famous for works such as 300 and Sin City, known for their grittiness and sharp action. What carries the artwork is his distinctive focus on individual characters and their psychology. Under Miller’s pen, we see a more savage setting for the Batman mythology to occur.

Miller loves to play with the dark and deeper aspects of human nature, the media and politics and the inner brooding thoughts of his characters. Even the color scheme of his Batman comics has a soft tone, far less vibrant so as to set the mood of a mystery drama. The series ranges from Miller’s own telling of Bruce Wayne’s initial beginning as the Batman in Batman: Year One, to his longer The Dark Knight Returns, which follows Wayne’s return to the role of Batman, despite his retirement. The entirety of Miller’s work tells the story of Batman

pursuing justice, even while the media and authorities condemn him as a psychotic vigilante. Miller depicts Batman as an outlaw for the law, the hand of justice that holds every person accountable for his or her actions. Ironically, the story also has media and professionals expressing sympathy for murderers like the Joker, blaming Batman for the deeds they independently committed. Yet it is Batman who brings down the Joker, while maintaining his own code: not to kill. Miller seems to be commenting on our own tendency to try to explain away or soften the malicious actions of individuals. What makes Batman the Dark Knight is his steadfast dedication to his principles and drive to protect the good despite its cost. Batman makes sacrifices.

Throughout the texts, Miller colors the plot with excellently drawn fight scenes. Unlike Superman, though, Batman isn’t bulletproof, albeit very skilled. While the Dark Knight brings the pain, he also sustains incredible physical trauma in the process. The Dark Knight Returns showcases a Bruce Wayne past his prime but still fighting the good fight. Relying on simple painkillers and sheer will, Batman fights past gunshots and other injuries to obtain his objectives. In this, Miller illuminates the true depth of Batman’s character and heroic drive, not to mention his own mortality.

The beginning of Returns is marked by Bruce Wayne’s conflict over whether to accept his retirement from being Batman, or dawn the cowl again to stop the rising crime consuming Gotham. Being the Batman is Wayne’s obsession, almost to the point where we wonder which is the alter ego. The haunting murder of his parents and inability to just look away compels Wayne to take on the mantel of Batman yet again. What defines the

Batman is this obsession. Despite the enmity of the press and the government, Batman does not stop his pursuit of justice; nor does he compromise his own ethical values. His signature value that sets him above all the other heroes is that if necessary, Batman is willing to act alone. Despite the disbandment of DC’s Justice League, Batman refuses to abandon his “crusade.” This leads to a clash between the Dark Knight and Superman, who has been ordered by the government to force him to retire. It leads to an epic showdown between the two titans as Batman confronts the Man of Steel himself.

Miller dedicates the pages to unraveling Batman’s insights, told mostly through his

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first person thoughts. In tight frames, the reader is literally prompted to step into the mind and action of the characters. In addition, Miller also explores the character of Jim Gordon, who is presented as a hero in his own right, rather than just the Batman’s inside man. All of this is told through a combination of insightful dialogue and dramatic images. Whether a fan of the Nolan films or just an interested reader, this series is worth investigating for its sheer scope and approach to the heroic role. Exciting and meaningful, the Frank Miller Batman collection is truly a work that bridges both the written word and art to deliver a hero in his iconic presence.

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As someone who has also worked in customer service for many years, I cannot stress enough how much the incredibly simple “please” and “thank you” mean.

Pictured above is a page from Frank Miller’s Batman graphic novel series, featuring a more savage setting for the Batman mythology.

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Top 10 ways to rock the Vote this election season

SGA’s Rock the Vote Campaign: SGA has launched an unbelievably well-respected campaign of registering students to vote. Don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because it’s everywhere. It’s the best way to avoid the cranky DMV agents if you haven’t registered yet. (They really are very unhappy aren’t they?) And if you are registered and aren’t going home on Tuesday November 6, then you need to send in an application for an Absentee Ballot. Yes, I know you forgot about that one, but don’t worry—SGA’s got your back on that too. God Bless SGA.

Educate, educate, educate yourself: There is nothing more annoying or aggravating than when someone is trying to talk about a candidate and is

trash talking another candidate without being able to back up their argument. You don’t look intelligent; you look stupid. Read news articles in favor and not in favor of each candidate. Research and understand the issues at hand, and learn how they affect you. It is imperative as a citizen and a young adult in this country that you are educated in the politics of the election. Also, you just look cooler when you can back up an argument.

Watch debates, have debate parties and discussions: This goes along with educating ourselves, but educating ourselves doesn’t have to be boring. Discuss your ideas with others, as long as you have the understanding that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Make the debates fun! There will be a vice presidential candidate debate on Thursday, October 11, as well as two more presidential candidate debates on October 16 and 22. I promise, you will be able to find all of these debates on TV. If not, there are multiple viewing parties around campus. No excuses!

Communicate with a campaign: There’s nothing that politicians appreciate more than feedback from the public. Communicate with the candidate, tweet at them and join their mailing lists. Let them know that you’re thankful for what they’re doing, or tell

them what you’d like to see from them. Talk, talk, talk!

Join a canvassing team: If you feel really passionate about a certain party, find a local canvassing team (there are some representatives on campus), and travel to local areas and go door to door asking people for their support. It’s a great interactive way to help your candidate.

Help inform others about voting: It’s as simple as it sounds. Ask your friends if they’re registered to vote or have their absentee ballots. Explain to them the importance of practicing their right to vote and being educated about it. People died for this right and others don’t have it at all. Let’s not disappoint them.

Attend a Loyola Republicans or Loyola Democrats meeting: Both are active groups on campus that can help you understand the issues facing the country on a college student’s level. They will also help you gain awareness about the two different Parties.

Actually vote: In the first and second grade when there was a choice to be made, everyone shot up their hands to represent their vote—we also did this last week in my sociology class. It may not be as simple as shooting up your hand because there is an option

to have a quiz moved, but it’s just as important. Find a pen, drive to your voting booth and contribute to America’s future.

Celebrate America: It can be hard to remember through all the negativity that the reason these two men and their cabinets are standing up on those podiums is because they have a general love for the United States of America. Remember that. It’s autumn: Go apple picking, make pies, watch the O’s fight their way to the World Series and watch the greatest American sport ever: football (preferably the Giants). Celebrate all that makes this country so great.

Respect each other’s opinions: If nothing else, keep in mind that if you don’t agree with a candidate, you don’t have to hate him, make fun of him or insult his family. They’re not idiots; clearly they have made it this far in life. Instead, be proud of the fact that freedom of speech is a right that you are able to practice each and every single day. Be proud of the fact that you are surrounded with other educated, opinionated people. And just make sure that after November 6, you’ll still be friends and, in some way, respect and support that man who wins.

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stAff Writer

With the first round of presidential debates winding down, I’m sure your Twitter feeds are just as covered as mine with opinionated thoughts on each candidate. Both sides have commented on everything, from their policies to their haircuts. It is incredibly frustrating to see people being rude and criticizing insignificant details of two very intelligent, well-intended men. On the other hand, it is really awesome that Loyola is so opinionated and active in current events and our country’s future. If you have dove head first into the circus that is politics, here are a few ways to get even more involved.

dorm decorating: Spook up your space this halloween with some tricks and treatsBy Katie nolan

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As we have all been settled in for a little over a month now, our dorms are beginning to feel like home. Photos of our friends are tacked up, wall ornaments dangle from above and you and your roommates have finally bought a shower curtain to brighten up the dull bathroom. Yet as midterms and Fall Break approach, we are reminded that Halloween is around the corner, and what dorm room is a home without some decorations? First impressions count.

The old adage says “never judge a book by its cover,” but when it comes to decorating this rule never applies. If you want your floormates to know you have spirit, your door is the first stop. The most basic way is to create new name tags for you and your roommates. Print out pumpkins, leaves, ghosts or bats to either trace or color and hang them outside your door. You can also buy colorful dry-erase markers to replace the basic black to enhance your fall fever. If you want to go real crazy for Halloween, take a trip to Party City to buy yellow “BEWARE” tape and Halloween tinsel.

However, your door is not the only first impression people will see. Only a few will actually get a chance to look at your door, while the majority will judge your creativity and love of holidays while walking past your building outside. Catch the attention of passersby by hanging fall colored lights around your window and placing real (or fake) pumpkins on your windowsill. Don’t forget cling-ons; they are the easiest way

to display your love of fall from the inside out. Go big or go home

If you are going to take time out to decorate your room, don’t do it halfheartedly. A measly paper pumpkin hanging on the outside of your door just looks sad; if you do have a lot on your windows or doors, then people are expecting the same on the inside. When friends walk in, impress them. Get a Halloween door hanging ornament to put on your walls. Stores offer a wide variety of them, ranging from cute ghosts to scary goblins, depending on your Halloween taste. Stores also offer a vast range of cut-out wall

decorations. If you’re looking to save some money, you can go online and print these out, or you can even use the skills you gained from your fine arts core class and make them yourself.

But don’t stop with your wall—friends will eventually wander into your bathroom and kitchen (if you have one). Swap out the old dishrags and hand towels with brand new fall ones, or to be savvy, just buy orange ones so you can use them all year (excluding other holidays, of course). You should also pick up Halloween placemats, because they will make every Ramen meal more enjoyable. Don’t forget the little things

While it is easy to grab the big decorations when shopping, don’t forget the little things for that extra touch. Replace your hand soaps with fall scents. Creamy Pumpkin by Bath & Body Works is a favorite in my room. Try to purchase the paper towels and napkins with little pumpkins or leaves on them, and choose fall-themed tissue boxes as well. Stores also usually sell autumn paper plates and occasionally make orange plasticware. Have fun

It’s Halloween, so don’t be too serious. Freak your friends or roommates out by placing plastic spiders around the room. Have some blood and brains for dinner and make red punch and spaghetti one night. Decorating isn’t just the stuff you put up, it’s the work you put into the holiday. If your room is dressed for the part, people are expecting you to serve. Have some scary movies on hand or if you hate being scared, have fun Halloween films like Hocus Pocus or It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Watch ABC Family’s 13 Nights of Halloween starting October 19th. And don’t be embarrassed to hang up the “pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern”—you have definitely owned a lot more silly things than that.

But most importantly, it isn’t really Halloween without the treats! Grab a plastic jack-o-lantern, fill it with candy and stick it by your door. Soon everyone will be gravitating towards your room.

For other tips on how to decorate your room for Halloween, feel free to check out GreyComm’s Dorm Sweet Dorm. Currently there isn’t a set air schedule, but you can watch episodes on YouTube or the Facebook page.

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I and Love and The Avett Brothers at Pier Six PavilionBy BridGet Bunton

contributing Writer

The weekend of September 22 marked the commencement of autumn, as well as my birthday. Though sometimes I wish it were possible to turn the clock back to when I was six years old, I still get to feel like a little munchkin (in terms of wonderment, awe and pure happiness) at concerts. I was able to revisit that mentality when, as a result of a spontaneous Sunday night, I ended up at the Avett Brothers concert at a little old place called Pier Six Pavilion. It was a wonderful opportunity I couldn’t pass up because, well, it was The Avett Brothers, people—the Avett Brothers! This phenomenal band that got its start in 2000 has a truly distinct sound, incorporating different aspects of bluegrass, folk, rock, country and even ragtime, to produce the tunes their fans have fell in love with since their debut album, The Avett Bros. Seven full-length albums later, they are still playing to devoted fans at sold out venues like the one on Sunday night.

Arriving at our outdoor waterfront destination in the Inner Harbor, the sky was already black, my cheeks flushed from the crisp air and my blood stirred with excitement from the tremendous energy and life surrounding the space. Late to the concert, we heard the music getting louder as we approached the gates. The opening act already played, and the Avett Brothers had begun their set when we first caught a glimpse of their figures and instruments on stage. There was so much liveliness all around as people sung along and danced in place, moved by the music.

The crowd was much older than I expected, with many middle-aged fans. However, there was the crowd of hipster 20-somethings, all with a spirited beverage in hand to keep them

warm. I was swimming in a sea of flannel—everyone was smart to bundle up. Outside the venue, all along the waterfront people were camped out on lawn chairs with quilts to hear the captivating croons. The blanket of night overhead was clear and enveloping in a comforting way. Autumn was finally upon us, I was at Pier Six listening to the Avett Brothers play and I couldn’t have been happier in that moment.

The Avett Brothers’ lead singers Sett and Scott Avett, bassist/violinist Bob Crawford and touring members cellist Joe Kwon a n d d r u m m e r J a c o b Edwards, performed on a stage back-dropped by a magnificent billowing red velvet curtain. The lights danced along the crowd, illuminating the band and their instruments. You know that moment when stage lights fall on a person serenading you with their guitar, casting a perfect shadow on them, illuminating their figure in just the most perfect way? In that moment you know you’re experiencing something amazing, something fleeting that will always be remembered. That moment has been felt at performances rocked by Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Jeff Buckley, and on Sunday night, I experienced that with Scott Avett.

He and the rest of the band, reigning from Concord, North Carolina on the outskirts of Appalachia, entertained the crowd with a mixture of old favorites and songs from their new album, The Carpenter, released on September 11. Their music, while having evolved and changed, has maintained its Appalachian roots and base sound. My favorites from their performance include “A Fathers First Spring,” “Kick Drum Heart”

Pitch Perfect Cont’dand “Down With the Shine.” They ended their encore after 25 songs with “I and Love and You,” the last lines sung a cappella with the entire audience—it was brilliant. Voices of strangers somehow all blended perfectly and drifted along the air with wonderful bliss. I got to touch Joe Kwon’s talented hand too,

which was pretty stellar. Despite the fact that my 5’1” frame was forced to stand on tiptoe to see over the crowds, the concert itself was flawless. The Avett Brothers were fantastic, and the fresh air added to the atmosphere and vibes of the concert. As I made my way home and crawled into bed, my body shivered from the cold, but my spirit was warm with the energy and excitement of the night.

If you have never heard The Avett Brothers or are looking for some new tunes, I suggest you go to iTunes right now and click “Preview All” on their recently released album. Listen to it. Love it. Check out my favorites; they might be yours too. Their unique Appalachian sound of bluegrass/folk/rock, similar to that of Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers, could not be more fitting for this transition into autumn and everything wonderful that comes along with the new season. Hopefully, the youthful excitement of their music will fill you.

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Locals only: Mybmore.net helps you discover locally grown businesses

Arts and Society quiz: In the September 11 issue, the “Top Ten” was what? Places in Baltimore beyond the Inner Harbor. Good job for those who read it (or who just kept reading this article), and for those who didn’t know the answer—start reading more. I guarantee that many of the businesses featured on mybmore.net, a Baltimore born and bred website featuring “locally grown businesses,” will exist in some of those unknown parts of the city. And here are some Bawlamorians who are down to help you discover and check out them all.

When opening up mybmore.net, the first thing that catches my eye is the obvious photograph; however, it’s not the picture itself that is so intriguing, but rather what reads behind it. On those bus stops that we all know so well, the advertisement behind it reads, “What do you love about your city life?” City life—that’s the whole gist of the website, created by Baltimore local Etosha Lankatilleke. Lankatilleke started it all originally for a high school project, which was to make a website that benefited a community. Three years later, mybmore.net has touched countless local businesses mainly focusing on food, local artists and musicians, services, events and Baltimore non-profits.

Through the website, Lankatileke’s mission is to expose and uncover the real culture of Baltimore through video clips of what all other B’more businesses are standing for. With its eclectic feel and locals only attitude, mybmore.net displays the Baltimore style in the perfect light. It has a no nonsense, edgy, we-do-what-we-want attitude, still glided with rich culture and open hearts. “Don’t be a stranger in your own city,” the website warns; so don’t think that locals only attitude means that you can join in on it all. “It’s about showing the rest of Baltimore who they really are. Doing videos and visual effects really can create a vivid scene in their minds,” the sophomore at the University of Baltimore says proudly.

With the intent of creating a strong sense of community, Etosha and mybmore.net have personally gone out into the crescent corners of the city and tasted, listened, talked, interviewed, built and played. It’s a hands-on organization that is dedicated to making sure there is no detail left unknown.

When you click on the picture that says, “what do you love about your city life,” the infamous videos of mybmore.net come up with a silent video related to Twitter about different people and what the love about living in Bawlamore. “Living in the city and still having a grassy yard for my dog” and “All of the city’s wonderful farmers’

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markets” were just a few to name. Exploring the site further in the Zagat-like section of food, I stumble upon a few new restaurants such as Water for Chocolate, a café in Upper Fells Point where the owner says, “we make something that is old and pedestrian…and we make it brand new again.” Thank you mybmore for giving me a new place to go next time I walk those cobbled streets. After a few more mindless clicks, I see a black and white video to smooth jazz about traveling back in time to an antique store in Fells Point, where a record player, phonograph-looking thing looks like it never stops playing. Clearly, I need to brush up on my antiques.

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While the critics seem to be few and far between, there are those who were skeptical that having an all-star cast would make the college film less believable (think Valentine’s Day and New Years Eve). However, I think the actors do a great job of really owning their roles. I almost didn’t recognize Anna Kendrick under the heavy eyeliner and the Beats headphones, and while Rebel Wilson is certainly hard to forget from her “Mexican drinking worm” tattoo in Bridesmaids, she positively exudes sex appeal with her bikini car washing technique, “squeak, squeak.” Others may be quick to say that this is just a movie version of Glee, but believe me, nothing could be farther from the truth, stereotypes and adolescent angst. Pitch Perfect feels like the older, rebellious stepchild of Glee (aka no real connection, except people randomly know all the words to every song). The only semi-criticism I have—and I only bring this up because I feel like potential viewers should be forewarned—is that there are a couple of puking scenes which put the infamous vomiting scene in The Exorcist to shame. However, getting over that initial moment of disgust was incredibly easy, as I was laughing so much during the movie that even the more serious moments caused me to giggle. I guess what I’m trying to say is, if you haven’t been “Pitch Slapped” yet, what on Earth are you waiting for? Go!

promising. With more and more local businesses joining in, Etosha and his company can only continue to grow, never losing in the sense of trying to help local Baltimore businesses and locals becoming one. “I feel connected. Baltimore’s my home. Ravens, O’s from Loyola down to UB, Roland and even our Inner Harbor, we’re all apart of it. This is their city, this is our city. It’s time that we all can shine some light on the real art of Baltimore.” So come on Loyola, we’re all locals! Let’s get moving! Tweet at us @artsgreyhound, and let us know what you love about your city life. And this should go without saying: Make sure to visit mybmore.net! Go, right now!

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Richard III

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PFI Historical Park

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11Saleem

(Songwriter) 9-11 p.m.

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12Cox’s Point Haunted Mansion

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Cox’s Point Haunted Mansion

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13Baltimore Running Festival

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Metro Gallery1700 North Charles St.

15 Bus Stop

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Spotlighters Theatre

817 St. Paul St.

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)—It’s all about friends. To honor John Lennon’s birthday, remember the words of his wife and friend, Yoko Ono, “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)—Talk to everyone, and more money may even come in. Ignore distractions to focus on a creative project. Learn from mistakes. Reconnect with someone from your past.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)—Express love to your significant other, friend or family member. With a few adjustments, you get the perfect picture. Saving is better than spending now. Savor kindness.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)—You’re entering a transformative cycle. Out of the rubble, something new gets built. Work with a partner, listening carefully. Optimism expands to fill available space.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)— Care for houseplants or garden work goes better with the help of a female. You’re more exposed to the elements now. Make sure you understand the rules before proceeding.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)—You’re getting busier and very productive. Behind-the-scenes negotiations lead to a sweet deal. Finish a tough job before going out. You’re making a good impression.

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Aries (March 21-April 19)—You can find plenty of work and income, if you’re willing to look. Keep your objective in mind. Leave time for romance. Tiny deceptions get unveiled, so avoid them.Taurus (April 20-May 20)—Make changes, but not to core values. Talk it over with family before deciding. Old lessons prove useful again. Find a way to do what you love.Gemini (May 21-June 21)—Reorganize your workspace for maximum productivity. There’s a lot to learn, and plenty of work to practice with. Your curiosity rewards you with useful skills. Get into powerhouse mode.Cancer (June 22-July 22)— Seek balance between power and pleasantries for a philosophical partnership. Creative opportunities abound. Emotions surround you, but true love is not for sale. Go with your heart.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)—You’re more than ready to make changes for the better over the next few days. Learn from a master, and listen to the whole lesson. Be generous with your appreciation.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)—Friends can be a great help, especially in solving a puzzle and fixing old problems. But don’t follow blindly. Your intuition is excellent. Reaffirm a commitment.

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Jen Adams honored as Mid-Atlantic coach of the year

Loyola women’s lacrosse coach Jen Adams is used to success by now. Throughout her own collegiate lacrosse career at University of Maryland, she became the NCAA’s all-time leader in assists and points and owns every scoring record at UMD. In her time as a Terp, the team captured the national title all four years.

Her list of accolades goes on to include being named national player of the year on three occasions, winning the first ever Tewaaraton trophy and being named to the Division I Women’s Lacrosse 25th Anniversary team.

As of this week, Adams has another award to add to the list. After leading the Loyola women’s lacrosse team to a BIG EAST championship and a NCAA tournament bid for the second year in a row, Adams was named Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association’s Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year for the second time on Tuesday.

When asked to what she owed her success as Loyola’s head coach, Adams gives the credit to the great people who surround her every day. She sings the praises of the Loyola administration and of the assistant coaches with whom she works closely. But she gives the most credit to the team. “I wouldn’t be here without the support of the players,” she says. “They’re always inspiring me and I’m learning from them every day.”

At the end of the 2011 season, there was certainly some doubt that Adams would be receiving this award for the second time at the close of the 2012 season. This past spring

Loyola women’s lacrosse coach Jen Adams was named Mid-Atlantic coach of the year by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association.

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looked as if it was going to be a “rebuilding year” for the Greyhounds, with the loss of 73 percent of the team’s scoring at the close of 2011. And yet, a year later, there were the Hounds, once again lifting the BIG EAST championship trophy after toppling No. 2 seed Syracuse in the final, the team responsible for the Hounds’ only conference loss in 2012.

Adams says that the team did not allow the loss of so many of their key players to be an excuse coming into the season. She emphasizes that they were coming in with a “fresh perspective” and a team that was youthful and “green,” as she describes it.

In the 2012 season, the Greyhounds’ freshman class under Adams contributed to over 50 percent of the team’s goals and

scoring. Annie Thomas, member of the class of 2015, was the NCAA’s highest-ranked freshman with 69 points. Both Annie Thomas and classmate Sydney Thomas broke the Loyola record for most all-time freshman assists, notching 31 and 23 respectively, toppling the former record of 19.

In addition to the offensively potent freshman class, Adams’ team in 2012 boasted some of the biggest-name players in the BIG EAST conference. Kellye Gallagher became the first-ever Greyhound to capture the title of BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year. In addition, Marlee Paton, who is currently competing internationally as a member of the Australian women’s national lacrosse team, was named BIG EAST Midfielder of the Year.

Seven Greyhounds were named to All-BIG EAST teams under Adams also, with a program record six earning first-team spots, including three from that magical freshman class.

Adams emphasizes that the program, rather than focusing on individual achievements, “supports and encourages team success,” after being asked how the players were reacting to the award.

“If anything,” she says modestly, “it’s a big tribute to them.”

Jen Adams has led the Greyhounds to back-to-back BIG EAST lacrosse titles and consecutive NCAA Quarterfinal finishes.

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The Greyhounds ventured up to Long Island for the second time this season and returned with two more wins to push their record to 7-4-3 (3-1). The Hounds scored seven total goals over the weekend to knock off St. Peter’s College 6-0 and Manhattan College 1-0.

Senior Brittany Yancey led the charge against the Peacocks on Friday, scoring her first two collegiate goals. Junior Katelyn McFadden started off the scoring with an early goal in the eighth minute, followed shortly by Yancey’s first score of the day. Sophomore Kelly Santangelo would make it 3-0 Greyhounds in the 30th minute before going into the half.

Junior goalkeeper Didi Haracic recorded three saves in the first half, and senior Danielle Ippolito recorded three in the second.

The Greyhounds outshot the Peacocks 28-7. Junior Nichole Schiro scored two goals and added an assist to become the first Loyola player to score over 100 career points. Seniors Kelsey Donahue, Lauren Norcia and Tessa McClenahan each added an assist, along with freshman Rosy Hayes.

On Sunday, the Hounds moved on to Manhattan College to take on the Jaspers. Loyola once again outshot their opponent by a huge margin, but struggled to capitalize. Loyola only managed one goal on 27 shots ,but it was all they needed. The defense, led by goalkeeper Didi Haracic, held the Jaspers

to only six shots. Haracic recorded five saves in the match.

In the 28th minute they scored their game winning goal when Kelsey Donahue lofted a cross into the box for senior Julia Hajjar, who beat the keeper for the score.

“We created a lot of opportunities today and defensively, we had a good game,” head coach Katherine Vettori said. “We did a good job of controlling the game and in the last 10 minutes, we played with a lot of composure, which is a great step forward for us.”

The Hounds had a few more opportunities to extend their lead in the first half but failed to capitalize. In the 43rd minute, senior Gigi Mangione’s shot was blocked by the keeper to set up a corner kick; Lauren Norcia lofted the corner kick into the box, but Nichole Schiro’s header went just high of the crossbar.

The Hounds will stay on the road next weekend when they take on Rider.

Nichole Schiro scored twice and added an assist in Friday’s victory over St. Peter’s to become the first Loyola player to eclipse 100 career points.

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Cross Country

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TennisLehigh

Invitational

30Men’s SoccerVs Siena1 p.m.

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Loyola dominated St. Peter’s College in three sets on Saturday afternoon, but fell just short against Manhattan on Sunday. The Hounds came back from a 2-1 deficit but lost 3-2.

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Back-to-Back Athlete of the Week

Faye Lukas, Volleyball

Lukas topped last weekend’s career high with 29 kills

against Manhattan College on Sunday,

along with six kills in the Greyhounds’ win over St. Peter’s

on Saturday.

The Loyola Women’s Volleyball team concluded their four-game homestand this weekend, defeating St. Peter’s on Saturday in straight sets, 25-23, 25-11 and 25-19, but falling to Manhattan in a thrilling five-set match on Sunday.

During Sunday’s loss, Faye Lukas set a career-high with 29 kills, passing her old career-high of 28, which she set last weekend.

The Greyhounds got off to a slow start in Saturday’s match against St. Peter’s, falling behind 11-3 in the first set and later finding themselves in a 17-10 hole.

With their backs against the wall, the Hounds fired back, outscoring the Peacocks 15-6 the rest of the way to win the first set 25-23.

Mindy Maloney had four kills and four blocks in the first set alone to spark the comeback. With Loyola down 20-17, Lauren Arnold notched a sideout kill, assisted by Lauren Anderson. An attack error by St. Peter’s followed by a solo block by Maloney tied the set 20-20.

With Loyola ahead 24-21 at set point, a block error and an attack error on Loyola cut their lead to 24-23, but a kill by Lukas won the set for the Greyhounds 25-23.

After the tight first set, the Lady Hounds never looked back in the second set. Although the Peacocks hung around early on, the second set belonged to Loyola.

After a service error cut the Greyhounds’ lead to 13-9, they went on to score five straight points to take a commanding 18-9 lead. From there, Loyola outscored St. Peter’s 7-2 to win the second set 25-11. Simone Reid tacked on the kill to wrap up the set.

The third set was also dominated by Loyola, who won the set 25-19. St. Peter’s made a late run, but a service error by the Peacocks sealed the match victory for the Greyhounds in straight sets. Jac Bullock notched 10 kills to lead the Hounds and Arnold converted eight.

Lukas and Katie Dircks added six kills

each. Janet Pressler had 13 digs to lead the Greyhounds, and Anderson led the team with 28 assists.

“The slow start was a little disappointing, but once we focused on our side and really executed, it was just a matter of time,” said Loyola head coach Jake Lawrence.

The Greyhounds looked to build on their success the next day against the Manhattan Jaspers, and they got off to a solid start, winning the first set in impressive fashion, 25-17.

Lukas notched six of her eventual 29 kills in the first set. She would add 10 kills in the second, but Manhattan won that set 25-21 to knot the match 1-1.

Lukas was held to only three kills in the third set, which Manhattan won to take a 2-1

lead in the match. In the fourth set, Loyola stormed back to even the match with 20 total kills. In the fifth and final set, a solo block by Maloney gave the Hounds a quick 1-0 lead, but the Jaspers scored four consecutive points and won the deciding set 15-11 and the match 3-2.

Despite the loss, Loyola held advantages in kills, hitting percentage and blocks. Anderson set a career high in assists with 61 and added 18 digs. Dircks piled up 23 digs to lead the team.

The loss dropped Loyola’s record to 10-8 overall and 3-4 against MAAC opponents. The Greyhounds begin a five-game road trip with a rematch against Manhattan on Wednesday night at 6 p.m.

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Canisius Golden Griffins in Buffalo. The victory marked Loyola’s first against MAAC conference opponents this season.

The Hounds weren’t able to generate many offensive opportunities until the 40th minute when A.C. LaFlore of Canisius was called for a yellow card, leading to a free kick. Greyhound senior Kevin Curran then played a ball into the box to fellow senior Gerwyn Jones, who struck a shot into the right side of the net for a goal. The goal was the first of the season for Jones and it put Loyola up 1-0.

The Hounds were outshot 11-6 by Canisius in the first half, but went into the second period with the lead thanks to outstanding defense by goalkeeper Thurman Van Riper. Van Riper continued his strong defensive presence Sunday afternoon, recording seven saves in total. He posted 11 saves combined in the two games this weekend and now has 47 on the season.

Larry Ndjock and Gerwyn Jones were both issued yellow cards in the period, but neither of them resulted in Canisius scores.

Canisius had multiple opportunities to even the score in the second period, posting 13 shots to Loyola’s four, but could not get through the defense of Van Riper.

Canisius had four shots in the final six minutes of the game but could not convert any

Gerwyn Jones scored his first goal of the season to give the Greyhounds a 1-0 victory over the Canisius Golden Griffins on Sunday.

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This weekend, the Loyola men’s soccer team split their two games, falling to Niagara on a late penalty kick but pulling off an impressive shutout against Canisius, giving them their first MAAC conference victory of the season.

The Hounds began conference play Friday night in New York against the undefeated Niagara Purple Eagles. Many games this season have come down to the wire for the Hounds, and this one was no exception.

Loyola put together a strong first half against the undefeated Purple Eagles, playing good defense while creating some offensive opportunities as well.

Goalkeeper Thurman Van Riper had three saves in the half, keeping Niagara off the board early. The Hounds’ offense had seven shots as well as a corner kick, but were unable to score in the period. Niagara finished the half with eight shots and five corner kicks, but Van Riper’s defense kept the game scoreless.

Going into the second period of play,

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Loyola looked to freshman Larry Ndjock, their main offensive threat this season, to get them on the board. Ndjock came through in the 54th minute on an unassisted score to put the Greyhounds ahead 1-0.

The goal was Ndjock’s seventh of the season, and he leads all Greyhound scorers. With the goal, the Hounds found themselves with the lead and a chance to hand Niagara their first loss of the season.

Less than a minute after Ndjock’s goal, however, the game was tied up. Niagara’s Ken Cooper would provide the equalizer on a shot 20 yards out that would find the top left corner of the goal. After the score, Loyola’s offense began to struggle, only getting one more shot on goal for the remainder of the game.

With 10 minutes to go and the score tied at 1-1, it looked as if the game was headed into extra time. Then, in the 82nd minute, Loyola was called for a crucial handball penalty in the box which would end up deciding the game. Rene De Zorzi of Niagara shot the penalty kick and scored, giving the Purple Eagles a 2-1 victory and extending their unbeaten season to 7-0.

Sunday afternoon, the Hounds finished their weekend road trip by bouncing back and posting an impressive 1-0 shutout of the

of them, including a shot by Asani Samuels at 89:50 that was blocked by Loyola defenders. Despite being outshot 24-10 and only having two shots on goal the entire game, the Hounds were able to pull out the victory on the road against a tough opponent.

After falling to Niagara but defeating Canisius, Loyola’s record is 6-5-1 with a 1-1 record in the MAAC conference.

Next weekend, the Hounds will return to the Ridley Atheltic Complex to take on conference opponents Marist and Siena. Game times are set for 7 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

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