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QUADNEWS@WCUPA.EDUNews WCU students travel to Argentina

By Nicole BairStaff Writer

Over the month of June, 11 determined West Chester students trav-

eled to Argentina for a month of vigorous Argentine cul-ture. They attended Univer-sidad del Centro Education

Latino Americano (UCEL), a university based in Rosario, Argentina and stayed with loving host families who as-sisted the students with full culture immersion.

Excursions were also available for the students, to places such as Buenos Aires, Iguazú Falls, and La Estan-

cia. First, the determined West Chester Eleven spent a weekend in Buenos Aires, the city of the tango. Here the students saw some of the many famous sites like La Casa Rosada, El Obelisco, La Recoleta Cemetery, and they also shopped the city’s artesian markets, attended a tango dinner show, and ex-plored the beautiful city.

One of the Seven Natu-ral Wonders of the World, Iguazú Falls, was another excursion the students were able to attend.

“Easily the coolest thing I’ve ever seen!” stated Cody Davis, one of the West Ches-ter Eleven students.

The student travelers de-scribed Iguazú as similar to Niagara Falls, but incredibly larger and more breathtak-ing. At some parts of the Iguazú National Park, there are astronomical-sized falls and other parts consist of gaping holes in which the ample water cascades into.

Argentina is known for many things, but it is prob-ably most famous for its food, in particular the specially cooked meat known as “asa-

do.” The students were able to experience this fine meat in style at a local Argentine farm, la Estancia. Alongside a five- to seven-course meal, the beef asado was prepared over an open flame, cooked slowly and cautiously to keep in the immense flavor.

“Best piece of meat man has ever experienced,” stated Christina Thomson, another member of the West Chester Eleven.

Horseback rides and tan-go lessons were also offered throughout the day at la Es-tancia to those students who were willing and able.

Excursions aside, the West Chester Eleven still had to put some time aside for class, but since all of the classes were in the morning, the students had afternoons and weekends to wander about the third largest city in Argentina. Either trying to figure out the city trans-portation, ordering lunch in Spanish, or bargaining at the local art fair, the stu-dents were constantly receiv-ing the experience of a new culture.

“The best part of my trip

was the home-stay. My fam-ily really opened their arms and hearts for me during my stay,” said Derek Mad-rigale in reference to the life-changing experience the West Chester Eleven had in Argentina. The host fami-lies helped submerge the students in the Spanish lan-guage and Argentine culture with the country’s typical foods, traditions, beliefs, and just how they executed their everyday lives.

Having been back in the

Refurbished hotel opens in downtown West Chester

United States for over three months, all of the West Ches-ter Eleven are still raving about their amazing experi-ence in Argentina. Professor Campillo-Fenoll is starting to gather interested students for an even more memorable experience for the summer of 2013. Stop by room 112 in Main Hall for more informa-tion.

Nicole Bair is a fourth-year student majoring in Liberal Studies. She can be reached at NB777106@wcupa.edu.

By Eryn AielloPracticum Writer

The Hotel Warner is finally open, add-ing an extra touch of

historical charm to down-town West Chester. The revival of the old time 1930s Warner Theater has created a buzz in the area. As the first and only hotel in the borough, the Hotel Warner radiates class and sophistication, something that guests can sense even before walking through the doors. The ho-tel is in a prime location, surrounded by West Ches-ter’s high-quality restau-rants, trendy boutiques, upscale salons, affluent businesses, and historical landmarks. The hotel is located at 120 North High St., right around the cor-ner from Iron Hill Brew-ery.

The hotel is named af-ter the Warner Theater, which was built in 1930. A

large black and white pho-tograph covers the entire left wall of the lobby, dis-playing what The Warner Theater looked like in its prime. The hotel’s general manager, Lisa Stephens, explains that this photo-graph was taken in 1949 and is something that truly captures the essence of the history behind this establishment.

“The hotel is a major tourist attraction,” said Stephens.

Many West Chester residents who remember the Warner Theater fre-quently visit the hotel to reflect on the memories they have of the theater.

“One couple wanted to come in and see the hotel because they became en-gaged in the theater. Oth-er people come in explain-ing how they remember exactly where the popcorn machines were and tell stories from when they used to work at the the-

ater,” Stephens said. The history of the hotel

is something that is truly valued by the community, especially for a small, his-torically rich town like West Chester.

The Hotel Warner’s grand opening was on Aug. 17. Brian and El-len McFadden, who are a part of the McFadden Hotel Group, own the ho-tel. The hotel is a part of the Centerstone brand of hotels, which is a brand-new franchise. This hotel is only the fourth property built under the Center-stone Hotel franchise.

Stephens explained that a wide variety of guests stay at the hotel, rang-ing from business people, West Chester University alumni, wedding parties, and families.

Guests are drawn to this area because of all of the major attractions that are closely surrounding the town. Longwood Gar-

dens, QVC Studios, King of Prussia Mall, Brandy-wine River Battlefield, Valley Forge National Park, and of course the city of Philadelphia are all in close proximity to the hotel, among others.

As far as rates are con-cerned, Stephens explains, “The rooms range from around $139 to $169 per night.” Many families took advantage of these rates during Family Weekend a number of weekends ago.

“Rooms for graduation are already booking fast, so families should start making arrangements for May as soon as possible,” Stephens said.

The hotel has four floors, with a small park-ing garage underneath. There are only 25 parking spots available to guests on the hotel’s premises, which are priced at $15 a night. However, the hotel also validates parking for guests at the major park-

ing garage located on Wal-nut and Chestnut streets, which is only about a block away from the hotel.

With all of the perks and attractions that West Chester has to offer, it is amazing that it has taken this long for the town to have its own hotel estab-lished.

The picturesque seat-ing area located behind the hotel is complimented by umbrella tables, which gives guests the opportu-nity to sit outside and en-joy the trendy, small-town atmosphere.

Guests and residents alike can also appreciate the authentic staircase in the main lobby, which dates back to the old days of the Warner Theater. The building’s Art Deco architecture is also the au-thentic style from decades ago.

The restoration process from theater to hotel is something that both histo-

ry buffs and the everyday traveler can appreciate.

“All of the artwork in the hotel displays images of different buildings and landmarks in the town and were all created by local West Chester art-ists,” Stephens said. The owners pay homage to the historical aspects of the building, yet also add a touch of contemporary charm.

The Hotel Warner is the perfect place for families of students to stay for a weekend visit. Guests can experience the beautiful town and take advantage of the easy 10-minute walk to campus. This ho-tel is a true historical gem and gives guests the op-portunity to take a peek into West Chester’s rich, thriving past.

Eryn Aiello is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies. She can be reached at EA694104@wcupa.edu.

Photo by Nicole Bair

Photo by Nicole Bair

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WCU students travel to Argentina

United States for over three months, all of the West Ches-ter Eleven are still raving about their amazing experi-ence in Argentina. Professor Campillo-Fenoll is starting to gather interested students for an even more memorable experience for the summer of 2013. Stop by room 112 in Main Hall for more informa-tion.

Nicole Bair is a fourth-year student majoring in Liberal Studies. She can be reached at NB777106@wcupa.edu.

ry buffs and the everyday traveler can appreciate.

“All of the artwork in the hotel displays images of different buildings and landmarks in the town and were all created by local West Chester art-ists,” Stephens said. The owners pay homage to the historical aspects of the building, yet also add a touch of contemporary charm.

The Hotel Warner is the perfect place for families of students to stay for a weekend visit. Guests can experience the beautiful town and take advantage of the easy 10-minute walk to campus. This ho-tel is a true historical gem and gives guests the op-portunity to take a peek into West Chester’s rich, thriving past.

Eryn Aiello is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies. She can be reached at EA694104@wcupa.edu.

WCU plans summer session in Ireland

By Dr. Edward LordanSpecial to The Quad

What could be bet-ter than summer travel to the Em-

erald Isle?How about learning

all about the media in Ireland and picking up three credits along the way?

The Department of Communication Studies, working with the Center for International Pro-grams, will offer a course on Irish media in Dublin during the second sum-mer session in 2013. The course, directed by Dr. Edward Lordan, will in-clude guest lectures from internationally known authors and media fig-ures as well as visits to some of the top media or-ganizations in the Irish capital.

“I’m extremely excit-ed to help our students learn about the past, present and future of me-dia in Ireland,” Professor Lordan said. “The coun-try is beautiful, the city is fascinating, and the Irish people are incred-ibly friendly. I hope this will be the trip of a life-time for students inter-ested in expanding their knowledge of the world.”

The course, open to un-dergraduate and gradu-ate students from any major, will include three

weeks in Dublin, where students will stay at Dublin City University and visit media organi-zations such as RTE (Ire-land’s national television station), the Daily Mail (one of the country’s lead-ing newspapers), and the General Post Office (not

only a major media cen-ter, but the site of the major battle of the Irish revolution). “We’ll also be covering marketing, public relations, and ad-vertising,” Lordan says. “A trip to Dublin should include a visit to the Guinness Storehouse, but we’ll go one step fur-ther, meeting with the director of marketing for the company, who will talk with us about how Guinness is distributed and promoted around the world.”

Students will also visit Google’s European head-quarters and explore the city’s centers for history and culture. “To really understand the Irish me-dia, it’s important to un-derstand Ireland itself – the economy, the politics, and especially the his-

tory,” Lordan explains. “We’re going to take in as much as possible so that students come away with an appreciation for how a variety of factors help to shape a country’s media system.”

Interested students should attend an infor-mation session on the course on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 6:00 pm in Main 403. If you cannot make the session, Dr. Lordan encourages you to get in touch with him to discuss your interest at elordan@wcupa.edu, or visit him in his office, Main 317.

Dublin is only one of a number of locations for courses offered by the WCU Center for Inter-national Programs. For more information about all of the classes avail-able to WCU students, visit the Center for In-ternational Programs, Room 101 in the Old Li-brary.Dr. Lordan is a professor of commu-nications studies. He can be reached at elordan@wcupa.edu.

Apple iPhone 5 finally releasedBy Clare Haggerty

News Editor

On Friday, Sept. 21, the long-awaited iPhone 5 was fi-

nally released. The new-est member of the Apple family has people hur-rying to the closest store in droves. However, ac-cording to the Huffington Post, most stores were sold out of the device by Sunday morning. Many people have even tried or-dering online, but Apple reportedly said that ship-ments could take up to four weeks.

Although this frenzy has happened with near-ly all Apple releases in the past, the iPhone 5 might be the fastest seller yet. Experts are project-ing over 6 million sold in the first weekend, which beats the most recent Apple release, the iPhone 4S, by about 2 million.

The newest iPhone model comes with several changes. The change gen-erating the most buzz is the new dock connector.

Apple has used the same connector for the last nine years in every prod-uct made, so the change to a smaller connector, about the size of a micro-USB plug, is generating a lot of talk.

“I’ve been using Apple products for the last three years,” said West Chester student Shannon Nolan, “and I’m really disap-pointed that I’ll need a new dock and a new charger. It was nice to have one connector that worked on everything.”

Apple has also made it a personal mission to make each model of iPhone thinner than the last, and the iPhone 5 is no exception. The phone measures a mere 7.6 mil-limeters and 112 grams in weight.

Apple is also on a mis-sion to continue improv-ing the iPhone software, and the newest iPhone is also reportedly the fast-est yet, complete with advanced technology in-cluding 4G LTE. The ad-vanced technology also

extends to the processing power. The phone comes equipped with an A6 processor chip, which is twice as fast in graphics processing as the A5 chip in the previous iPhone model.

Lastly, Apple has im-proved the camera and microphone included in the phone by improving the camera capabilities and adding two extra mi-crophones for improved sound pickup. Apple also made improvements to Facetime, the Safari web browser, and SIRI voice recognition. There is an entirely new feature that has been introduced as well: Passbook, an app that allows users to store concert tickets, movie passes, coupons, and membership cards all in the same place.

With so many improve-ments, the latest Apple iPhone model promises to be nothing less than an absolute success.Clare Haggerty is a second-year stu-dent majoring in English. She can be reached at CH757342@wcupa.edu.

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WCU’s Faculty & Coaches Union congratulates our 2011-2012 Championship Teams & wishes success to

all student athletes & those coaching them. GO RAMS!

National Champions: Baseball

Head coach Jad Prachniak Field Hockey

Head coach Amy Cohen

National Championship competitor: Lacrosse

Head coach Ginny Martino

Chester County hosts annual Restaurant Festival

By Theresa KellySpecial to The Quad

The 33rd Annual Chester County Res-taurant Festival took place on Sunday, September 16, 2012 from 12 pm to 5:30

pm. The festival stretched across several streets of downtown West Chester, includ-ing Gay Street, Matlack Street, Darlington Street, Market Street, and High Street.

More than fifty restaurants had booths at the festival, as well as over 100 arts and crafts and information booths. There were also three stages where live music was play-ing, and an outdoor seating area on Church St. Some restaurants had their booths set up in front of their actual locations. Restaurants in attendance included Timothy’s (located off Rt. 202 in the Parkway Shopping Center), Kildare’s Irish Pub, and the Pita Pit (both lo-cated on Gay Street).

Restaurants were competing to win the Town Dish Choice Awards. People at the festival could send a text message to vote for the best appetizer, best entrée, and best des-sert. First place awards went to Más Mexicali Cantina as well as Olive Branch.

There was the typical festival food avail-able: funnel cake, pizza, kettle corn, and lem-onade. People at the festival could also buy burgers, tacos, fresh smoothies, and more.

Restaurants had some of the most popular items off their menu available at the festival.

There were also over 100 art and informa-tion booths at the festival. Banks, as well as other information booths, handed out free-bies, like cups and pens.

One unique booth had a large TV screen. In another, an artist was spray-painting various works. Both booths attracted huge crowds.

The Chester County Culinary Challenge took place in front of the courthouse. Crowds of people watched as four chefs cooked an ap-petizer, entrée, and dessert, all with the hope of being declared the best chef in Chester County. The chefs were from different res-taurants scattered around Chester County, including Amani’s in Downingtown, Majolica in Phoenixville, General Warren Inne in Mal-vern, and Twelves of West Grove.

By 5 p.m., the crowds had begun to die down, so booths began slashing their prices. Some went as far as putting an “everything half off” sign out.

“I think it was really interesting to see the mix of booths, both food and art. It was a great way to spend a Sunday,” Keila Zanella, a West Chester University freshman, said.

Theresa Kelly is a first-year student majoring in English literature secondary education. She can be reached at TK780615@wcupa.edu.

WCU Public Relations Club hosts speakerBy Kelly Ratka

Special to The Quad

The university’s public relations club, PRSSA, invited Heather Read, a pro-fessional in the field, to speak at its first

meeting of the semester held in 413 Main Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 18th at 7:00 pm.

Read was invited to West Chester Uni-versity by the board members of PRSSA to speak about her duties and responsibilities as a career woman involved in public relations. PRSSA, or the Public Relations Student So-ciety of America, is a student run organiza-tion that exists on over 300 college campuses across the nation and consists of more than 10,000 student members.

The main focus of the group is to enlight-en students who are interested in the field of various career opportunities available to those who pursue public relations as well as offer them connections to professionals. The official website for the organization avows that the “foundation is committed to invest-ing in and providing support for the next generation of professionals.” One of the ways the West Chester chapter attempts to provide its members with such support is by inviting professionals with careers in diverse areas of the field to campus.

With hopes of luring new students to join, the board members of PRSSA-WCU decided that hosting a guest speaker at the first infor-mational meeting of the semester would be a great way to demonstrate the overall goals of the group. If that was not enticing enough, a large display of doughnuts, candy, and soda positioned by the room entrance may have been another reason for the impressive audi-ence turnout.

The elected speaker of the evening, Heath-er Read, is the current Public Affairs Program Manager at DuPont. DuPont is a science-based products company that is constantly searching for ways to improve the lives of oth-ers by developing safer, healthier, and more sustainable products. It is a 210-year-old company originated in DuPont, France that Read described as having “a reputation of be-ing very ethical.”

Although she was only allotted 30 minutes to speak, Read was able to seize the attention of the eager students as she delivered her pre-sentation entitled Social Media Crisis Man-agement. When she opened with the question “What is social media?” nearly every member of the crowd surrendered an arm to the sky, a clear indication of ability to answer.

Read, who was anticipating this reaction, continued, “While you have all grown up with social media, is it considered relatively new still.” She informed her audience, all of whom she expected to be present on one or more forms of social media, that uses of these media are “hard for even the Nike brand to figure out.”

She reiterated the already known fact that topics discussed on Facebook or Twitter can

reach mass audiences in mere seconds due to their ‘in real time’ design. However, most of the students in the room that use such media do so to chat with friends or follow the every move of their favorite celebrities.

“Did you think that someone like me is sitting on the other side of the computer ev-eryday watching what you’re posting?” she asked, causing some students to shift uncom-fortably in their seats. In an attempt to ease the noticeable anxiety she had just instilled in some of her listeners, she referenced a study conducted at the University of Iowa on the use Twitter. Without going into great detail, she explained that by monitoring trends of tweets, as those involved in the study report-ed, crisis’ can be identified faster than over any other media.

“Most significant commentary happens in the first 1-2 hours,” she makes the connec-tion, “and dies within 5 unless it is continu-ously fueled.” This is important to any com-pany that provides any product or service to a consumer. Read’s job is to monitor these online conversations about DuPont (and its products) and try to dissect what she called the baseline. Put simply, the baseline is the answer to the question: What do people/cus-tomers think about us?

She laid out a two-step model to simplify what it is that she does on a daily basis. The first step is to monitor the conversations on social media in order to “understand the discussion.” Ideally, customers would be ex-pressing satisfaction or joy.

If she finds there is a negative trend to-wards a product or service, she takes the next step, which is to engage. The engagement step consists of trying to manage or change perceptions, followed by demonstrating com-pany responsiveness. “We want to tell our customers that we are people, we are there, and we care.”

She stressed the fact that emphasizing the organizations core values is of upmost im-portance. “Whatever company you work for, make sure they have that,” she insisted, add-ing that this will determine the ‘voice’ of the company which must stay consistent. “Don’t change your voice for a crisis,” Read educated, “try to make the best of what you know to be true.”

Read revealed that her nightmare crisis would “really be more the aftermath then the start of it.” Having so much pride in the ethi-cal values that DuPont stands for, she fears “ruining a 210-year reputation.”

A student in the crowd, who seemed to be overwhelmed with the plethora of important things to remember, asked Read if her job was stressful. Read smiled and responded sweetly, “All PR jobs are stressful, but it’s very rewarding.”

Kelly Ratka is a fifth-year student majoring in communica-tion studies with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at KR 676071@wcupa.edu.

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Disclaimers

The Quad

This past weekend marked the beginning of autumn and my fourth autumn here at WCU. I must say that my absolute favorite aspect of fall at WCU is how aesthetically warm and vibrant Church Street looks lined with mul-

ticolored leaves. The changing leaves and crisp air definitely make the walk to class much more appealing.

Along with the crunchy leaves and sweater weather, autumn brings a lot with its arrival. Autumn brings boots and hoodies, chimney smoke and the smell of cinnamon, anything and everything pumpkin-flavored, candy corn and costumes, and homecoming season and football games. And autumn also brings change. From the beginning of September to mid-October, nothing is the same at WCU—the trees look different, the air smells and feels different, the walk to our now-stressful-because-it-is-almost-midterm-season classes even sounds different. There are a lot of changes and honestly, change is scary.

Personally, this autumn brings with it more changes than I would have liked. Within the past month, I moved back to WCU for the very last time, I turned 21, and I suffered the loss of my father. Experiencing just one of those changes would have been scarier than any ghouls or goblins I might see this Halloween, so all three of them occurring has been quite overwhelming. Therefore, I am re-luctantly resigning as The Quad’s Editor-in-Chief so that I can focus on healing with my family and dealing with my upcoming launch into the “real world” after graduation in December.

I have great hope that autumn will bring everyone at WCU some happy, won-derful changes this year. One change that I am completely certain will positively affect the WCU community is the appointment of our new Editor-in-Chief, Kenny Ayres. I know all of our readers have seen the extraordinary, hard work he has done with our Sports section, (the newspaper might as well be called WCU Sports, right?) so just imagine the immense effect he will have on the entire newspaper. I wish him and the rest of our wonderful staff the best of luck this year.

~Carol FritzEditor-in-ChiefThe Quad

Farewell from Editor-in-Chief Carol Fritz

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Who is Mitt Rom-ney? That is the question many

have been asking since he ran in the 2008 pri-mary. He is a CEO, gov-ernor, and now, candi-date. In all of these roles he has varied differently. Some would even go as far as to call it erratic. That would be an inaccu-rate statement, because being erratic would imply that Romney has no goal or destination. That is not his problem. He has a goal: to be president. The problem is that to be president, Mitt Romney would present himself as anything. Depending on whom he is trying to please he presents him-self as a liberal, mod-erate, or conservative. He has been in favor of certain positions when it is politically expedi-ent. This is going further than trying to appeal to voters. Every politician paints themselves in a certain light to appeal to voters. Romney’s problem is that he casts aside any prior beliefs or stances in order to get new votes.

Romney bragged many times to other Republi-cans that he fought gay marriage during his ten-ure as governor. His own website says he thinks that marriage should be between a man and a woman. He even sup-ports a constitutional amendment which would make this the law of the land. These statements were an attempt to si-phon support from social conservatives like Penn-sylvania’s own Rick San-torum. He is welcome to have his own beliefs, yet during his Massachusetts campaigns, he was quite the pro-gay candidate. In 1994 when he unsuc-cessfully ran against Ted Kennedy, Romney sang a different tune. Trying

Will the real Mitt please stand up?By Jack Barnett

Op-Ed Editorto court Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans (Gay Republicans), Rom-ney sent a flyer stating he will fight for making “equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern.” In his success-ful 2002 campaign, a Romney flyer was passed around claiming again that Romney would fight for equal rights for gays. Currently the Romney

campaign disavowed this flyer stating that it was done without his con-sent. This is despite the fact that the flyer read “paid for by the Romney for Governor Commit-tee” at the bottom. Why the change? The answer is the political environ-ment. Massachusetts is a notoriously liberal state, while the 2008 Republi-can Primaries were nota-bly conservative. Romney simply changed his views to fit the environment.

Romney also set him-self up as an NRA (Na-tional Rifle Association) advocate, claiming he was a very pro-gun gov-ernor and is an avid hunter. Both those state-

ments are shaky. In 2004, he signed a permanent ban on assault rifles. This is a big no-no among NRA members who are against most gun con-trol ban laws. Romney himself has called this a concession bill because it had some pro-gun mea-sures in it. He still is against the use of assault weapons. His history of gun control does not stop

him from b l a s t i n g O b a m a . D e s p i t e his past with gun c o n t r o l , he accuses Obama of being “af-ter your guns.” This was said by Romney to jumpy NRA mem-bers in or-der to get s u p p o r t . Obama has done little for the gun c o n t r o l cause. He is against gun bans except for assault ri-

fles. This is the same po-sition as Romney. Rom-ney is trying to buddy up with the NRA despite them only giving him a B rating during his 2002 race. Romney is quite the convenient gun nut.

Romney does not like to talk about his tenure as governor too much. This is because it brings up his moderate or even lib-eral past. The infamous Massachusetts health-care reform, passed un-der Romney, was virtu-ally the same as Obama’s health care reform. It was successful in Mas-sachusetts, but Romney backpeddled and tried to claim they are nothing alike. Whenever he tries

to tout his conservative credentials, they turn out to be half-truths. He trumpeted that he bal-anced the budget during his tenure. That is true, but it is less impressive because Massachusetts has a provision to have a balanced budget every year. To his credit he did close some corporate tax loopholes that helped stimulate the state.

Alexander Hamilton once had to choose be-tween Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson to sup-port as president. He was a Federalist and they were both Democratic-Republicans. He de-tested both men in vari-ous ways, yet in the end chose Jefferson. That is because he detested Jef-ferson’s politics, but had some respect for the man. Jefferson stood by his beliefs. Burr, on the other hand, was merely a political opportunist. He would say or do anything to be president. Hamil-ton would rather have a president with different morals than no morals at all.

I disagree with Liber-tarian candidate Gary Johnson on many of his beliefs. He would pull the government out of just about anything if he could. Yet I would rather have him as presi-dent than Mitt Romney because he stands by his beliefs. Romney, on the other hand, chooses whatever is politically expedient. He has no core set of values for which he is running on. Whatever is popular at the time he would do without think-ing of the consequences. In the end the question is: who is Mitt Romney? The answer is: whatever you want him to be.

Jack Barnett is a fourth-year student majoring in history and political science. He can be reached at JB723722@wcupa.edu.

Weekly CommentsRomney is taking flack for his ill-made com-

ments about not caring about 47 percent of vot-ers. People are jumping the gun and saying that he doomed his own candidacy. It is still a long time ‘til November folks. Every president has gaffes that hurt their campaigns. Obama made his ill-made comment about people “clinging to guns and religion” and he was able to bounce back. This shows the larger problem of Romney running his mouth. Just a week before this comment, he made inappropriate criticisms of Obama in the wake of the deaths of Americans abroad. Before that, he was criticizing Britain for not doing the Olympics correctly. This one comment will not cost Romney the election, but he should watch his mouth.

Weight loss is a major issue in this country. Everyone knows it is a problem and everyone would like to end it. The problem is that there seems to be no major progress made. This is for a myriad of reasons ranging from lack of fitness to the food we eat to how we try to lose weight. What I am concentrating here is the how we as a nation try to lose weight. There are proposed mag-ic pills and other things that promise to radically lose weight. This is a quick fix solution that does not work. I am not saying that they do not work, but without eating healthy and exercising, they are useless. Eating healthy and exercising is the key to weight loss, but they take work. This work many do not want to do so they try to find easy solutions.

Chick-Fil-A has recently been mired in con-troversy about President Dan Cathy’s comments about gay marriage. He was in opposition to same-sex marriage. Chick-Fil-A has had a history with fighting against same-sex marriage. Large dona-tions of money have been given to organizations that fight same-sex marriage by Chick-Fil-A. This, of course, caused a firestorm of controversy across the country with both sides taking action. The worst was Boston mayor Thomas Menino who vowed to block Chick-Fil-A from opening up new franchises. I do not agree with Chick-Fil-A’s position, but trying to shut out businesses because you disagree with them is nothing but a bully tac-tic. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated that “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago’s values.” What about the Nike stores in Chicago? Nike uses child labor and has poor working conditions for its employees. Does Mayor Emanuel think child labor counts as Chicago values? If people disagree with Chick-Fil-A, then they should not go there. Trying to shut them down does not make a point. It hard-ens the other side’s resolve to stay in their position.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 THE QUAD OP-ED PAGE 7

The many ages of man and our current state of societyBy Raz RobinsonSpecial to the Quad

I can be one of those sometimes irritatingly idealistic people who

believes with his whole heart that if you tell people truth, they can-not help but do the right thing. People fight and people panic in the name of things that they believe to be total truths. That inner turmoil that makes violence, panic, and even love possible (yeah, love…think about it, man) is only amplified when you insert one’s personal in-terpretation of justice. People will fight continu-ously because they do not fully understand why it is that they are fighting. Many times, that is be-cause they have been told only a fraction of what the truth actually is. See, you tell a man that “I’m fight-ing this war so you can live, because the enemy is dangerous.” Next, if he believes you, there is a good chance that he will fight his brother, quit his job, and sell his house to make that point. He can easily commit even when

he has not been told the whole truth because he has been raised to ignore idiosyncrasy.

The everyday American has been told that in the name of their freedom, they need not ask diffi-cult questions about what wars we fight or who we make our money off of. Thus there is no need for difficult answers. Many would rather just be told “the enemy is dangerous” and, sadly, feel no need to know more.

I feel like the most trou-bling aspect of this issue is that figuring things out for yourself has become something we have grown less and less interested in doing. So if we are not told directly and we do not spend time trying to figure out what the truth is, we are likely to act without substantive knowledge. It is as if we no longer ask questions to understand, but only because we want to be told what we should do and what it is that we should think. That yearn-ing to simply be told what to do is not necessarily a bad thing, given that we

live in a world of major distractions and seeming-ly unfathomable complex-ity. Sometimes, for the sake of efficiency, it is fine to just be told what to do. But consider the fact that you are a citizen of the United States. You should be asking questions, and that is a much more seri-ous responsibility than say, being a supermarket clerk. Naturally, a person who lives in this coun-try should be asking way more questions as a per-son who lives in this coun-try than they should as a supermarket clerk.

I sincerely hope you can see the problem with this and feel as I do, that it is cause for alarm, given that we are moving into an age where our palette, spec-trum, capacity for knowl-edge and acquisition of that knowledge is grow-ing faster than it ever has before. (Metaphor time!) If monkeys got smarter, they would move out of trees and start building houses, no? Therefore, as humans who are getting smarter, should we not be building houses? I mean

to say that we should try something new. I am talk-ing about us as people who sometimes willingly take instructions and con-voluted explanations from people whose job it is to talk, not make sense. We have not been asking our public mouthpieces for an elevated level of discus-sion. We instead tolerate partisan and ideological regurgitation. It is break-ing us down and leaving us uninterested, ergo, jaded. And how could you say we are not when not even three fourths of the eligible population voted in the last presidential election? That means not even half of the country is interested in steering it.

I assure you, you under-stand so much more than you think you do. You also would be astonished by what you can will yourself to do and what you can will others to do. People my age and people in the coming generations are going to need better ex-planations than some of the drivel we have been getting.

We live in a more com-

plex world now. We have dealt with a major na-tional tragedy, two wars, international protests, and elected the first black president of the United States of America. So let us welcome some com-plexity and progressive behavior. This is one of the scariest, most tur-bulent, but also exciting ages of man in history. So I am asking you to not let anyone insult your in-telligence by feeding you garbage. How? Do this by making up your own mind. Do not just oper-ate on the whim of what any political collective deems to be true simply because they deem it to be true. Then they own you, and you are way too smart to owned. Rational-ity and logic are the legs on which political truth stands, they are all that separates the truth from a transient notion, and we need not forsake them.

For us to move our country and world for-ward, we should be listen-ing to voices other than the ones who want to spoon-feed us their less

than adequate insights. You do not let a man with a microphone talk down to you simply because he has a microphone. He talks to you like that because he thinks he can under-stand more; he thinks he is smarter. You do not try and bring a man like that down to your level. That is what he wants. As fast as you bring him down is as fast he is back on his horse. You rise to where he is, you look him in the face, you let him know you are his intellectual equal, and that you refuse to be spoken to like an idiot.

We have the capacity to be so much brighter and say so much more, but we have been giving up. We have been accepting the idea that our intel-lect is insufficient, and assume we do not under-stand before we have even tried. But you should not be afraid, because we can change all of that togeth-er. We just have to say something.

Raz Robinson is a third-year student majoring in philosophy. He can be reached at rr740881@wcupa.edu.

Want to be the next Op-ed Edi-tor of The Quad? E-mail qua-doped@wcupa.edu stating your year, major, and a statement of interest. Interested students can also come to a staff meeting in the Quad office at 3:30 p.m. on

Tuesday (Sykes 253).

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Wheels in motion to cure cystic fibrosis

By Liz ThompsonPracticum Writer

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is hold-ing its 3rd annual

Cycle for Life bike tour on Oct. 14 at the Mann Cen-ter in Philadelphia. The event is held to fundraise for cystic fibrosis.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited chronic dis-ease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States. This disease clogs the lungs, which makes breathing difficult, and obstructs the pancreas, so the body cannot break down and absorb food efficiently. In the past, children with CF would not live to attend elemen-tary school, but today, be-cause of medical research and therapy treatments funded by the foundation, many people who have CF live well into their thirties, fourties, and be-yond

This Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which is a non-profit donor-sup-ported organization, is the world’s leader in the search for a cure for cys-tic fibrosis. They fund more CF research than any other organization. They are dedicated to attacking cystic fibrosis from every angle. Their focus is to support the de-velopment of new drugs to fight the disease, im-prove the quality of life for those with CF, and ultimately to find a cure.

Cycle for Life is a 35 or 65-mile bike tour that travels throughout the Delaware Valley. The tour begins at Fairmount Park and takes cyclists

through historic areas such as East Falls, Mount Airy, and Fort Washing-ton, then returning to the city along the banks of the Schuylkill River and passing along the infa-mous Boat House Row.

“This is the only char-ity ride that will both start and finish within the city of Philadelphia. The start/finish site is the same location, The Mann Center. We cre-ated a ride that travels through the most scenic terrain that the Dela-ware Valley region has to offer and does so in a time frame that centers on the needs of the cyclist,” ex-plained Jason Brinn, an events manager for the foundation who planned the event.

Each cyclist must raise a minimum of $185. They have a payment timeline so they can stay on track with fundraising. Cyclists must raise $25 from April to June, another $35 from July to September, and an additional $45 which will be due the day of the bike tour. However, if a cyclist has additional fees due, they have one month after the event to raise the remaining funds. Ad-ditionally, each cyclist submits a fundraising goal when they register so they have an idea of how much they will need to fundraise.

So far, the founda-tion has received large amounts of donations which were raised by the registered cyclists. The top fundraiser, Amy Cummins, a member of team Cummins Cruis-ers, has already raised $2,704, and Maria Lim-beris, a member of Team

CF, is in second place with $2,033.

“The goal is to raise $100,000 and aware-ness for the Cystic Fibro-sis Foundation. Funds raised will go towards vital CF research medical and education programs,” said Brinn.

Last year, the foun-dation raised almost $60,000 through the event. Brinn is hoping for almost double. He may reach his goal consider-ing there are already 120 registered cyclists.

The foundation is also supplying cyclists with prizes based on how much they have raised for CF. The minimum amount raised will give cyclists a Cycle for Life T-shirt. Some of the oth-er prizes include under armor cycling apparel, cycling gloves, DVD play-ers, mileage trackers, and bike computers. All prizes are intended to motivate registered cy-clists to raise as much as they are able to for CF.

The foundation has many fundraising events throughout the year, all of which are created to raise money to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Right now, there is no cure for CF, but the foundation has been able to donate enough money to fur-ther medical research and create new types of therapies for people with CF. Hopefully with their efforts, along with the many donors, there will soon be a cure for cystic fibrosis. Liz Thompson is a fourth-year student majoring in communi-cation studies with at minor in journalism. She can be reached at LT715984@wcupa.edu.

The venture for vintage venue

By Nicholas DevoeSpecial to The Quad

While the roaring traffic flows at the intersection

of Frankfort and Girard avenues, a gently lit wa-tering hole sits nestled on a corner that stands out from the rough neighborhood, furnish-ing concert-goers with a different blend of funky fresh flavors for a night of fun almost any day of the week.

Johnny Brenda’s is the name of the joint, and from the outside, this gem seems like a nor-mal neighborhood bar that most would suspect is a dive with a cluster of apartments above. I would suggest from the shell you see that the bar is as daunting as a spook-house you might frequent on All Hallows Eve.

However, upon en-trance you are immersed in an absolute vintage aura. First, you en-counter a couple of pool tables to the side of an enormous bar-top that leads down a hallway to a legitimate dining room. The size of the spot surprises you, im-possible to tell from the outside.

The crowd can only be described as a medley; some blue collars, a few roughnecks, a handful of gangsters, plenty of proper well-to-do musi-cians, and an abundance of punk college kids seeking the wild ride Philadelphia so gener-ously offers. All in all, everyone, regardless of what demographic they might fit, chooses to frequent this Philly hot spot with the same goal: good times, great music, and an open room to dance and get down to some grooving beats.

This unique slice of musical heaven goes up and up, as guests ven-ture upward from the dining room billiards section, where a nicely-sized open dance floor greets you with anoth-er full bar. Behind the varnished cherry wood counter of the bar hangs several chalk boards de-scribing varieties of craft beers most folks haven’t even heard of from all over the state.

The stage was minute compared to bars and clubs in other parts of Philly, but against the grain more-so in the mir-rors adorned all along the back wall behind the entertainment. The band we partook in was He’s My Brother She’s My Sister. They ampli-fied bumping melodies full of strong guitar riffs and catchy choruses. It was an indie concert, if a genre must have been attached, but like the variety the crowd was, Johnny Brenda’s totes a widespread schedule of shows. There was a timeless feeling to the crazy vintage saloon-style music playing be-tween bands, adding to the genuine coziness of Johnny Brenda’s.

There is more to the il-lustrious Fishtown spot; exit upward yet again to another level of a dance area. This section wields balcony viewing, plenty of room to dance, and high top tables along the back. A humble six or seven foot bar sits situ-ated in the corner of the third floor, leaving the thirsty concert-goers quenched regardless of level top to bottom. The Hospitality of Johnny Brenda’s, needless to say, stays on top of their game.

Fuzzy colors of blues

and purples traversed the vaulted ceiling at the top flight of the mu-sical site. The balcony style adds a different atmosphere to the whole experience, with the pro-fessional light system beaming up our direc-tion. The ambiance of Johnny Brenda’s was complemented quite well by the earthiness of the hardwood floor and dark tree bar tops in the dim light. “Memorable” is the word to capture this signature spot.

“Johnny Brenda’s is somethin’ special that’s for sure. I love this place,” music lover Clay-ton Perry stated about the establishment after the show.

The experience of this Philadelphia hub for good spirits and incred-ible times is a secret to those who partake in its pleasures. Audiences are in for a very different sample of the concert ex-perience when frequent-ing Johnny Brenda’s. I am a connoisseur of the sort for vintage locations and this place reeks of genuineness.

Pouring out into the streets at 2 a.m., those who sought for the right ambiance, groovy tunes and everything else you could be seeking in a venue have reached sa-tiety. Taste the flavors of this establishment’s musical delight, whether in the surrounding sub-urbs or throughout your travels to our birthplace of liberty. The pursuit of happiness is in enjoying yourself in the comfort-able surroundings of pos-itive vibrations. Thanks Johnny Brenda’s.Nicholas Devoe is a fifth-year stu-dent majoring in English with a minor in journalism. He can be reached at ND626335@wcupa.edu.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 THE QUAD FEATURES PAGE 9

By Gabrielle RosatiPracticum Writer

There is an ordinary cluttered room, one wall shelved top to bottom with books in various stages of decay from over-

use, on the fifth floor of an aged, ordinary building that is home-on-campus to an in-explicably infectious teacher who conveys intelligence and passion in every breath. Kuhio Walters sits contemplatively in his swivel chair, legs crossed, content smile on his face, surrounded by instruments that exercise his mind, and anybody that sees him cannot help but notice there is some-thing more to his story.

Born in Central Valley, California, this clean-cut intellectual took a sporadic path through life to get to where he is today: a suc-cessful teacher who inspires his students, with a beautiful wife, and two unparalleled boys at home.

If you have been lucky enough to be in one of Walters’ writing or theory classes, you have felt the reverberation of his academic astute-ness pulse through the walls, the desks, and your own brain. He is the ultimate “students’ teacher” – he takes a genuine interest in his students, and knows what works for who and how hard to push them. Beyond that, he knows his students as individuals.

At 16, Walters did what almost every 16-year-old in the country wishes they could do – he dropped out of high school. His par-ents signed for him to join the military, and a month after 17 he began his term in boot camp. Before entering boot camp, he had to take an entrance exam, which (not surpris-ingly) he scored exceedingly well on. “They au-tomatically put me in a position of leadership because of my entrance scores. That lasted a day,” he tells me as he cracks a broad smile that shouts reminiscence, “I got in trouble a lot.”

Leaning forward on his knees, he begins relaying the memories of the levels of pun-

ishment because, after all, he spent multiple hours serving time in these, and the flicker as the reel of im-ages from his past flashing through his head was im-possible to not notice.

Level 1: (He shakes his buzzed head slightly and smirks, going through the circular motion with his hand in the air) Shine brass on a fake ship

Level 2: (Dips his head with a deeper smile) Inten-sive training

Level 3: (Coughs out a laugh as he looks up and demonstrates) Locked in a room with the other Level 3’s with all winter gear on, no air, running in place holding a lead filled M2 at 90 degrees for an hour, then sprint-ing.

He holds up three fingers, shakes his head with a nostalgic smile. “Three times. There would be men passing out after 15 minutes and you just stand there and keep going.”

Not one to pass up an opportunity to laugh, or make a lasting impression, on the second day of boot camp as Platoon Leader, he ran up to get the key for the gun cabinet. As he turned to run back, the rest of his platoon, lined up, stiff and robotic, was too tempting for the young soldier. Approaching the line, he held up his hand and slapped each person in the face. About four men in, he heard his name shouted, and his reign as Platoon Leader was over.

“Silly things would get me in trouble, I would have my Chit in the wrong pocket or the wrong way, I was a smart aleck, and a little

bit recalcitrant,” his pointer finger and thumb are held an inch apart as he cocks his head to the side and squints one eye with a smirk.

Stationed on the West Coast, he began learning his electrical trade, and became first in nau-tical technician and a fireman. Working 16-18 hour days, he was responsible for fixing ev-erything electrical on his ship, making every part of its mo-tors. As a young, aspiring elec-trician or motorcycle mechanic (a career inspired by The Fonz), working on the amphibious air-craft career showed him what working with his hands was really like, and Walters knew that was not for him.

After serving four West Pa-cific tours, each one six months long, around Hawaii, Southeast Asia, Australia, Korea, and Hong Kong, and earning his G.E.D.,

Walters started a new chapter in his life in academia. He began at a community college and finished at California State University; studying the hard sciences to be pre-med his first three years until taking a creative nonfic-tion course for an elective.

Putting his hands up and shrugging, as if to surrender to something that was prede-termined for him, he confessed. “That was it; there was no question of ‘Should I be doing anything else?’ I’ve always been a big reader.” He looks through everything in front of him as though transparent, searching for the precise words, “and I like the academic treatment of ideas.”

He continued to get his MA at Cal State and moved across the country to further his

Overcoming the stresses of a new semester A motivational reminder to help keep us on track

By Laura WayneSpecial to The Quad

The moment my car, loaded to the max with college gear,

pulls onto West Chester’s campus, I already feel the familiar feelings of stress commence. My hands be-gin to sweat and my pulse steadily increases - and it is not even the first day of classes. College is an en-tirely new environment, especially for those of us living on campus who are pulled away from the real-ity of home life and sent to an, at times exciting while still overwhelming and perhaps terrifying, place where class and school-work seem to dominate our world. The reality to which we adjust ourselves on campus can be a diffi-cult one to face but it is the transition period between summer vacation and

school that is most crucial to our success here at West Chester University.

Why do we bother going to school? We attend class and often walk away feel-ing like we just got slammed with another round of way more work to do than we have time in which to do it. Often, I feel like a lab rat running constantly, spin-ning my wheels and getting nowhere; the work we finish just gets replaced by more week after week. Albert Ein-stein once said, “It is little short of a miracle that mod-ern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”

But this cannot pos-sibly be all there is in go-ing to school, and it is not. Although at times we feel boggled down with work and stress, the accomplishments we make, step by step, accu-

mulate overtime and become something worthy of praise. As freshmen, the mountain before us seemed endless, but as each semester has passed, we have come to re-alize our own capabilities by putting our minds over mat-ter. The work that makes us feel stressed, that sometimes feels tedious, unnecessary, or useless, is actually the work that elevates us towards an admirable goal: graduation. We are educated individuals able to use our knowledge to better ourselves and to lead a better life. The work we do and the skills we learn (i.e oral and written com-munication, networking, ex-tracurricular involvement, time management) are such valuable techniques that we will carry with us through-out our lives. The work we do may not seem to directly correlate to the real world, and it may not at a surface

level. What are more im-portant are the skills and relationships we acquire and refine. Every day in class, you are exclusively exposed to material and information that is inaccessible to many people. It is what you make of this experience and what you do with your time here at school that will help turn these stressful events into something of value.

Now the trick is how do we stay sane and move past the stressful parts of school in order to enjoy it? Should we drive ourselves crazy all week running on empty in a high-stress environment and then spend the weekend par-tying? Some might say yes, but perhaps a more reliable source of inspiration might come from within. Our bod-ies work in such mysterious ways, but we are so accus-tomed to these bodily reac-tions that often, we miss or

ignore the signals and allow these seemingly uncontrol-lable feelings to dominate and determine our course of action. Stress comes from the mind. Buddha once said, “Man’s troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.” It is so vitally important that we remain in control of our thoughts and our reac-tions to stressful situations because our reaction to an event is much more impor-tant than the event itself. We must utilize the stress in our lives to work in our fa-vor, to create a better reality for ourselves. In the words of Anwar Sadat, “He who can-not change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.”

We go to school to foster our love for learning and

to better ourselves to live an enriched life. So, as you are sharpening your pencils for the new school year and cracking open those text-books, remember first and foremost to breathe, and then, try to remember why you are in school and enjoy every moment you spend here. These first few weeks, during the transition be-tween summer vacation and school, is the perfect time to start fresh and approach the new semester with new tac-tics. The feelings of intense stress will fade with time (without too many side ef-fects!), but the memory of those precious things you learn while you are here, we hope, will stay with you for-ever.

Laura Wayne is a third-year student majoring in English literature with minors in spanish and business and technical writing. She can be reached at LW738484@wcupa.edu

education at the University of New Hamp-shire, where he got his PhD.

Not unlike the rest of his life, Walters’ list of favorites hits every spot on the spectrum. From using his books in the classroom recent-ly, his interest in Roland Barthes, a French lit-erary theorist, is newly revamped. His love for Rudyard Kipling (best known for “The Jungle Book”), however, has not dwindled.

Walters flexes his academic muscles, “He was a British author who spent his life in In-dia. He brought the colonialist/imperialist per-spective to the continent. He was subversive, cranky, and a racist. His anthology was given to me when I was 10, and that was my first idea of literature,” he says, always smiling, scanning his packed bookcase for the book, guaranteed to be browned and worn.

After listening to Walters speak, especially in the classroom, for even the shortest amount of time, one cannot help but wonder if he has ever wanted his ideas to be published. He just tilts his head back and laughs, “I try never to write like I talk. It doesn’t translate well to the written word.”

His oldest son, now a sophomore in high school, is talented beyond his years, and is sure to be a great baseball player and a force to be reckoned with on the field for years to come. His youngest, however, is still playing with colorful plastic bats and balls in the yard. His chubby face never goes without a smile as he runs around the yard away from and toward the outstretched arms of his parents.

This is the Kuhio Walters that will forever be prominent to most people that are fortunate enough to know him outside of the classroom; clad in basketball shorts, surrounded by the most important people to him, and radiating happiness, love and passion.

Gabrielle Rosati is a fourth-year English major with a minor in Journalism. She can be reached at GR688985@wcupa.edu

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Additional Tours will be offered on Oct. 19 and 20.For more information, please call Student Affairs at 610-436-3511.

West Chester University Student Recreation Center

“Grand Opening Celebration”

You are cordially invited to attend the...

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. at the new location on the corner of North Campus Drive and South New Street,

adjacent to Lawrence Center and Tyson Hall

Featuring a greeting from WCU President Dr. Greg Weisenstein, and SGAPresident Ms. Michelle Strausbaugh, a ribbon cutting ceremony,

Rec Center tours, food, music, and give-a-ways to mark the occasion!

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Marching Band Facts• TheWestChesterUniversityMarchingBandwas es-

tablishedin1930undertheleadershipofEdwardZim-merJr.andS.PowellMiddleton.

• SubsequentdirectorsincludePaulCarson(1964-1966),Richard Boerlin (1966-1968), James R. Wells, (1968-1992), John Villella (1992-2007), Andrew Yozviak(2007-present).

• Acolorguardwasaddedtothebandin1970andwom-enwereallowedtoparticipateinthegroupforthefirsttimein1974.

• The band currently consists of 250musicians and 50colorguardmembers.

• The group is a corps-style marching band that hasthroughoutitshistory,definedandmaintainedcurrenttrendsinthemarchingactivity.

• ThebandperformsregularlyatWCUfootballgamesandinexhibitionatnumerousregionalmarchingcontests.

• ThebandhasperformedinexhibitionatBandsofAmer-icaGrandNationalChampionshipsandRegionalCham-pionshipperformances,duringPhiladelphiaEaglesandPittsburghSteelersfootballgames,PhiladephiaPhilliesWorldSeriesappearances,andmarchedintheMacy’sThanksgivingDayParade,the ‘WethePeople’ParadeandThanksgivingDayParadesinPhiladelphia.

The Incomparable Golden Rams Marching Band250 Musicians and 50 Color Guard Members

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Two indie rock favorites debut new albums to fan’s delight

Ben Folds Five: “The Sound of the Life of the Mind.”

Ben Folds Five have not partied like it’s 1999, well…since their 1999 release of “The Unau-thorized Biography of Re-inhold Messner,” which marked the end of their short-lived career. Now 13 years and three polo shirts later, the piano-rock trio is back for the release of their fourth al-bum, “The Sound of the Life of the Mind,” which is out now on ImaVeePee Records.

During the band’s breakup, Folds kept a high-profile career, drum-mer Darren Jessee has been the head songwriter behind the band Hotel Lights, and bassist Robert Sledge has stayed local, giving bass lessons in the band’s hometown of Cha-pel Hill, N.C.

The opening track of the album, “Erase Me,” kicks off with a pounding piano and Sledge’s notorious fuzz bass tone (that we all have missed). It quickly drops off into a slow, me-lodic piece where Folds dips in and out of falsetto. The track sounds like it could be a B-Side from Folds’ 2008 solo record, “Way To Normal.”

The single from the al-bum is “Do It Anyway.” Folds delivers the lines, “Do it anyway, it’s done, you did it…Do it anyway, it sucks, but do it anyway” in a spoken-word style. It is almost as if Folds was

Drew DrevyankoSpecial to The Quad

collaborating with Wil-liam Shatner (oh wait…that already happened). The fast-paced, minor-chord piano and steady

snare drum beat resemble the instrumentation in the classic song, “The Last Polka,” from their self-titled, debut album.

A lot of fans will proba-bly argue that “The Sound of the Life of the Mind” does not sound enough like the old records, or maybe that it is lacking some of Sledge and Jes-se’s signature background vocals. However, at some point, listeners have to remember that these guys are 15 years older than they once were.

We may not be hearing about high school bul-lies or sexual frustration anymore, but the lyri-cal content stays true to the band, dealing with relationships, losses,

and growing old, in the typically humorous-Ben-Folds-Five manner.

Other songs to check out include “Draw a

Crowd,” “Michael Praytor, Five Years Later,” (which the old fans will appre-ciate) and “Thank You For Breaking My Heart,” which brings the album to an end on a slow, peaceful note.

Although this new re-cord may not be the pop, geek-rock album the die-hard fans were looking for, the important ele-ments such as harmonies, bass solos, improvised jams, hints of profanity, and of course, lack of gui-tar, are all still present. It adds character to the Ben Folds Five catalog, giving significance to the trio playing again after a 13-year hiatus.

Folds once categorized the trio as “Punk rock for

sissies.” This album picks up right where they left off. Be sure to catch Ben Folds Five live at the Tow-er Theater in Philadelphia on Sunday, Oct. 7th.

Dinosaur Jr.: “I Bet On Sky.”

“I Bet On Sky” will mark Dinosaur Jr.’s third release since the original trio of J. Mascis, Murph, and Lou Barlow reformed in 2005.

Overall, this will be the band’s 10th studio album. Coincidentally, Lou Barlow’s departure in 1989 was after their third album, so hopefully we won’t be seeing line-up changes anytime soon.

The great thing about Dinosaur Jr., or “Dino” as

us fans like to call them, is that they made it okay for indie-rock to have guitar solos. Before them, the genre pretty much con-sisted of jangle-pop riffs

from Peter Buck. “I Bet On Sky” certainly

has its share of killer so-los- usually more than one per song- like in the sin-gle, “Watch the Corners.” The beginning starts off with partially muted strumming, then quickly bursts into the loud, open, minor-chord Dino that we all know and love. The ending chorus of, “Hey me, watch the corners, watch me cause I know what you done,” (or maybe it’s Amy, I don’t think we’ll ever know) leaves us sing-ing along during an ear-bleeding solo by Mascis and a crash-cymbal mas-sacre by Murph. Check out the video for the song on Funnyordie.com. It

features Tim Heidecker from Adult Swim’s “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!”

Barlow takes the role of head songwriter on the

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tracks “Rude” and “Recog-nition,” which both have the vocal melodies and instrumentals to be Seba-doh songs. He is not to blame, because how often does Barlow get to put his work on a Dino record?

“Pierce The Morning Rain” is a fast, punchy, punk jam that sounds like Mascis singing over a Henry Rollins-era Black Flag riff. We usually do not see too many Dino songs shorter than three minutes, but when we do, we know Barlow will be quickly strumming bar chords on his bass, with Murph beating the life out of his hi-hat and snare drum.

“I Bet On Sky,” out now via Jagjaguwar, is another great album to add to the books for Di-nosaur Jr. The record is a steady transition from the 2009, critically ac-claimed “Farm.” Between touring, songwriting, and side projects, it is amaz-ing how the original trio is able to keep releasing quality records that never seem to disappoint. They have stayed true to their sound through these 27 years, keeping their indie roots alive.

Do not miss Dinosaur Jr. live at Union Trans-fer on Saturday, Oct. 27. These guys are truly leg-ends in the game today. However, remember one small thing…earplugs.

Drew Drevyanko is a third-year student ma-joring in communication studies. He can be reached at AD739888@wcupa.edu.

Album cover for “The Sound of the Life of the Mind”

Album cover for “I Bet On Sky”

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The ‘Perks’ of turning a beloved novel into a movieKristin Fenchak

Special to The Quad

Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is un-

doubtedly “The Catcher in the Rye” of my gen-eration. Most of us have read it, either by our own will, or begrudgingly for an English class in high school. Either way, those who have read the book have unexpectedly fallen in love, and carried its heartfelt message about the agony of growing up in their hearts.

When it was announced that a movie adaptation was in the works, most of my friends were up in arms. I was still unde-cided about the matter; after all, I had not heard any details about the film yet. I did wonder: is a film adaptation necessary for a book that has already had such an impact on so many young people? Could it be a way to reig-nite interest in the novel?

A lot of my friends had criticism for the celebri-ties picked to play the title characters, “Emma Watson as Sam?? Prepos-terous; she could never play the part right.” Most

people have forever type-cast her as Hermione Granger from the “Harry Potter” series, but from what I have seen in the trailers so far, Watson is the perfect Sam. She is a fantastic actress who has depth and a sense of wis-dom about her that I im-mediately felt from Sam in the book. I do not think anyone else would be able to play Sam the same way that Watson does.

I am also very excited about Logan Lerman playing the 15-year-old boy most of us can identify with, Charlie. He is almost exactly how I pictured Charlie to be in terms of looks and personality. Le-rman had a breakthrough performance in the movie “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” for which he garnered several award nominations. Lerman is not a widely known actor, which makes him perfect for playing the soft-spo-ken, little wallflower.

Some people may fierce-ly disagree with me, but I feel the movie may be a good thing for the book. With young, attractive ac-tors such as Watson and Lerman, the movie may draw in an entirely new

Competition is fierce on NBC’s “The Voice”

Rhonda BartlettPracticum Writer

The competition on this season of “The Voice” is already

heating up— not between the competitors, but be-tween the coaches.

Just five episodes into the third season, the com-petition has become fierce between judges Adam Levine and Blake Shel-ton, as they go head to head to choose members for their teams. It seems that “Team Adam” is win-ning the battle with the most members between the two coaches. Levine’s team has a total of 11 members, while Shelton has only 7 members on his team. The other judges featured on the show are Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green. “Team Xti-na” has 10 members and “Team Cee Lo” ties “Team

Adam” with a total of 11 members.

The season began with blind auditions, during which the coaches based their decisions on a con-testant’s voice rather than his or her looks. The coaches’ signature rotat-ing chairs prohibit them from looking at the contes-tants during the audition. If a coach is impressed by what he or she hears, he or she pushes a button to select that artist for their team. At this point, the chair will spin so that the coach can face the artist he or she selected.

Last week’s episode of “The Voice” started strong. Each coach added two singers to his or her team. The final blind au-ditions will take place during the two episodes airing this week.

After the blind audi-tions, when all team mem-

bers have been selected, the battle is on with the live performances. The coaches will dedicate themselves to developing their singers’ voices, giv-ing advice and sharing secrets of their success. During the battle rounds, the coaches will pit two of their own team members against each other to sing the same song together in front of the studio au-dience. After the face off, the coach of that team must choose which of his or her members will ad-vance to the next round.

“The Voice” airs Mon-days and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC.

Rhonda Bartlett is a fourth-year student major-ing in professional studies and minoring in theatre and journalism. She can be reached at RB681837@wcupa.edu.

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audience. Maybe the mov-ie will entice a whole new generation of young peo-ple to read the book, and these young people will grow to cherish it—much like we have. A movie has the power to touch people immediately on a visceral level, and this could be beneficial to spreading the incredibly relatable story of our friend Charlie.

I did wonder for a while if the movie was neces-sary. There are some things Hollywood just should not mess with. The book has become a cult classic among many peo-ple my age. These people claimed they were never the same person after reading it. After hearing nothing but good things about the film, I can say with excitement that I will definitely be seeing this movie. With the film’s release slated for this coming Friday, hopefully I will be able to say I can carry this movie as close to my heart as the book.

Kristin Fenchak is a sec-ond-year student major-ing in english. She can be reached at KF763925@wcupa.edu.

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Seasoned veterans, promising youth look to take WCU hockey back to Nationals

By Kenny AyresEditor-In-Chief

The 2011-12 season was an extreme re-bound year for the

West Chester men’s D-I hockey team. They went from a 12-21-1 season in 2010-11 to go six games over .500 and make the ESCHL playoffs, losing to Stony Brook in the first round.

This year, they will look to a sound group of veter-ans, young talent, and a new coach to help com-plete the turnaround and make a run at Nationals.

The Rams lost only two players to gradua-tion at the end of last season—Bob McInerney and Brian Ruskowski—and Matt Feeney chose not to return. Despite the presence that these three were defensively, there has been no worry about guys being able to step up on the back end.

The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Jeff Dugan anchors a re-vamped defense corps, joined again by Mike Ahle, the offensively skilled defender who put up 20 points last season. Sophomore Billy Pel-legrino will likely see a lot of ice time as well, as he proved he could handle the duties last season.

“Over the course of last year [coach] Dorsey gained a lot of trust in him on the ice,” junior forward Matt Sklodows-ki said. “He has a year under his belt and he has a lot of good playing experience.”

Some other returning defenseman include Ted Case and Scott Musser, who played in 19 and 14 games last year, respec-tively.

One “new” player who is not all that new is Gordon Nicholson, who played

here during the 2010-11 season. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Nicholson is one of the bigger defens-man on the team, but that is not all he brings to the table.

“Gordo is one of the most solid sound po-sitioned defenseman I’ve ever played with,” Sklodowski said. I think we’re going to be pretty set on defense.”

The other rookies on the back end are fresh-men Kevin Lewis, Alec Davidson and Trey Mu-nice, who have all been impressive in the pres-season according to head coach Mark Gonsalves.

As forwards go, there are a lot of familiar fac-es. Senior captain Steve Meade will return for his fourth and final year, coming off of an incred-ible season, in which he led the team with 25 goals and 48 points, and was tied for first with 23 assists. Meade is not new to captaincy, as he took over for the injured Tom Scocozza last year, and he is well respected amongst the group.

“I think he is a great guy to have as a captain and a leader,” junior goalie Randy Japchen said. “He’s really what

we need. He skates hard everytime he is out on the ice, he leads us off the ice and he finds a way to bury the puck too. By all means, he is absolutely our captain.”

Meade also takes a lot of pride in his position, and accepts the responsi-bility with a cool attitude.

“I am not the type of guy that is going to call peo-ple out when they make a mistake, as long as it isn’t repetitive,” Meade said. “I try and lead by example, and teach guys things along the way that way. I’m always willing to do anything the team needs.”

Joining Meade as the senior-most forwards are Tim Higgins, Tim Mar-gadonna, Mike Kozza and Adam Ball.

Higgins is coming off of a solid year with 11 goals and 21 points in 29 games, and is expected to put up similar, if not bet-ter numbers this year. He is one of the most power-ful forwards on the team and is careful with pro-tecting the puck.

Margadonna is one of

the more physical play-ers, and throughout his years at West Chester he has matured. He fits right into the rough, “bang-em”

Senior Captain Steve Meade returns for his fourth season with WCU, freshly removed from a team-leading 25-goal, 48-point year in 2011-12.

brand of hockey Gon-salves is looking for.

“He’s a power forward who will get you some points but he likes to throw the body,” Gon-salves said. “I think Mar-gadonna has grown a lot. He’s not as undisciplined as he was earlier [in his career].”

Kozza and Ball, despite only putting up five and six points last season, are offensive depth pieces and are extreme threats on the ice.

Two other returning forwards who will con-tribute greatly to the of-

fensive production are Chris Gentile and Harrison Welch. Gen-tile played a limited season last year due to shoulder injuries, but still managed 28 points. He is one of the fastest skaters on the team and has an uncanny ability to find the net. Welch is a bit different; his ability is being able to find the open man. He scored just seven goals last year but tied for the team lead with 23 assists.

Jimmy McKee, who stood out on the pen-

alty kill last year, will cer-tainly see some ice time as well. He is sturdy, has some offensive touch, and

gets in the way of shots, very similarly to the way Ruskowski played.

Sklodowski also adds tremendous size and strength, and has proven that he can score when called upon as well.

Rookie forwards in-clude Zach Jensen, James Davis, Chris Tamminga and Michael Dorfsheider.

In the crease, there are only returning players, with the exception of Mi-chael Hanson who previ-ously played on the D-III team and was moved up. Randy Japchen will be the starting goaltender for the second straight year, with veteran Will Parra backing him up. Though Japchen had a solid year last year, he feels he is in better shape this time around.

“Last year I came in a little bit heavy because I did a lot of weight train-ing over that summer to build size and strength but this past summer I just tried specifically building strength so I came in probabaly 10-15 pounds lighter than last year. You notice the ben-efits as soon as you step on the ice, you can move a lot faster side to side,” Japchen said.

The other big change came in the coaching de-partment, where Mark

Tim Margadonna’s physical style of play fits right into coach Gonsalves’ plans for the season.

Photo by Lukas Jenkins

Photo by Lukas Jenkins

Gonsalves, who returns to the Rams after a two-year stint with Downingtown West, will take over for Shawn Dorsey, who is no longer with the team.

Gonsalves has already made it clear what he wants of his players.

“He has already in-stilled in us a sense of go-ing hard no matter what,” Japchen said. A lot of the practices we’ve had the past two weeks have been high tempo, with guys throwing the body around.”

West Chester kicks off its season Friday evening against Syracuse, and will play them again Sat-urday afternoon. It will be the beginning of the journey to a common goal for the coaches and play-ers alike.

“Our goal is to be No. 1,” Gonsalves said. “To grow as a team, play the best hockey we can play and get back to the big dance: nationals.”

“We have no excuse not to go deep this year,” Sklodowski added. “This is a big year for us.”

Kenny Ayres is a third-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a journalism minor. He can be reached at KA739433@wcupa.edu.

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Phillies’ Howard making history with the longball

Phillies slugger Ryan Howard reached a tremendous person-

al plateau on Saturday, becoming the second-fast-est player to ever hit 300 home runs, accomplish-ing the feat in just 1,093 games.

His momentous, tower-ing drive fell high against the ivy in centerfield, just like so many of his round-trippers have before.

For Howard, it has been a nine-year career of domi-nance to this point, slowed slightly by injuries, but nonetheless something truly remarkable. How remarkable? Let’s take a look at some of the num-bers associated with How-ard’s first 300 homers.

It started on Sept. 11, 2004, at Shea Stadium. Met’s pitcher Bartolome Forunato left a pitch in a bad location, and received a less than fortunate re-sponse from the slugger. It was the first home run of Howard’s career, and boy, did it get the ball roll-ing.

After hitting 22 home runs in his 2005 Rookie-of-the-Year season, Howard established himself as the premier longball hitter in the MLB in 2006. In April, he became the first per-son to ever hit a ball into Ashburn Alley—a feat he would accomplish several more times—and in June, he became the first person to hit a ball into the third deck in right field at Citi-zen’s Bank Park. Impres-sive. He would hit four homers that year longer than 450 feet, and to this day in 2012, he has hit 15 of them just as long or lon-ger.

Howard finished his second year with an MVP award and 58 home runs, which is the most ever by a second-year player and

tenth most all-time in one season. Three of those 58 came in one game, and all three of those came off At-lanta’s Tim Hudson. Fit-ting, because the Braves are the team Howard has homered against the most, with his 300th homer against them on Saturday being the 42nd of his ca-reer against Atlanta. Also fitting that it happened in September, the month in which Howard has hit 64

home runs.By the way, he hit an

extra 23 big flies in 2006 if you count the exhilarat-ing home run derby show he put on, winning with a 440-foot bomb with one out remaining in Pitts-burgh.

Over the next year he climbed his way to 100 ca-reer homers— the 100th being a 505-foot shot off Aaron Harang on June 27, 2007—and was the fastest player in terms of games played to do so. Then he was the fastest to 150, 200, 250, and he fi-nally lost to Hall of Famer

By Kenny AyresEditor-In-Chief

The Golden Rams field hockey team extended its win

streak to four games last Wednesday against visit-ing LIU-Post as they shut out the Pioneers, 6-0. This win gives the Rams sole possession of first place in the PSAC Eastern Divi-sion and makes them the only undefeated team in division play.

Kelsi Lykens powered the Rams’ second straight offensive outburst with a hat trick. The first goal came in only the fourth minute on a wrap-around from Lykens that trickled by the goalkeeper.

Shortly thereafter, Mi-chele Schrift tipped in her fourth goal of the season off a shot from Lykens, doubling the Rams lead to 2-0.

Lykens added her sec-ond goal of the game right before time expired in the first half, giving the Rams the 3-0 edge heading into the locker room.

West Chester continued their scoring barrage late into the second half, scor-ing three more goals all within 12 minutes of one another. Carly Buckwal-ter scored her first goal of the season off a pass from Stef Pirri to extend the lead to 4-0. Four minutes later, Alexis Versak net-ted her fourth of the sea-son in the 54th minute, stretching the score to 5-0.

Lykens completed her hat trick in the 63rd min-ute, bouncing a shot off the post and in, making it 6-0 and ending any hope of a late Pioneer rally.

The Rams’ defense was dominant throughout the game, holding LIU-Post’s All-American Carlee Dragon to just one shot, and the whole Pioneer team to just four. The Rams had 23 shots of

their own.“We just knew today

was a must-win for us. We had a game plan and ex-ecuted. It was a team ef-fort,” Lykens said humbly after the game, following her first career hat trick.

In their second game of the week, the Golden Rams welcomed the Mill-ersville Marauders into town on Saturday after-noon for a PSAC East matchup. Coming off two straight 6-0 victories, the Rams continued their dominance and won their fifth straight contest, 4-0.

Schrift followed up Lykens’ spectacular per-formance against LIU-Post with a hat trick of her own, leading the Rams to their third straight shut-out and fifth consecutive win.

Schrift started off the scoring in the 18th minute off a pass from Lykens. She added one more just before the half ended, stretching the lead to 2-0.

Kayla Gluchowski scored the third goal of the game and her fifth of the season halfway through the second half. Shortly thereafter, Schrift completed the hat trick giving the Rams a 4-0 ad-vantage.

The defense only al-lowed three shots through-out the game and just one shot on goal, helping the Rams wrap up the victory.

“We are just very or-ganized in the backfield and it starts with Kristin Arnold’s voice. She knows how to direct [the team] and is very confident back there, which eases everyone in front of her,” Lykens said.

The Rams improved to 6-1 for the season, 2-0 in conference play, and an impressive 5-0 at Vonnie Gros Field.

Timothy Mulqueen is a third-year stu-dent majoring in marketing. He can be reached at TM734386@wcupa.edu.

Golden Rams continue field hockey dominance

Ralph Kiner at 300, ac-complishing the milestone in just six games more.

His place in Phillies his-tory is secure. Only four Phillies have ever hit 250 home runs. Pat Burrell, Del Ennis, Howard, and Mike Schmidt, who is the only man standing in Howard’s way with 548 career blasts.

As the years went by, the home runs kept com-ing. In 2007 he hit 47,

Lady Rams remain perfect through first eight gamesBy Timothy Mulqueen

Special to The Quad

Ryan Howard strikes a familiar pose after hitting his 299th career home run. He would hit No. 300 one day later.

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then 48 in ’08 and 45 in ’09. The next three years were “slow years” with just 31 and 33 and 14 (due to injury), but still his 162 game average is at 44 home runs and 136 RBI.

He has hit 226 home runs off righties, and sig-nificantly fewer against southpaws (74), although three of his last four home runs to this date in 2012 have been off lefties, in-cluding No. 300. Oh, and those last four homers he has hit came in four straight games, one shy of the team record.

He has hit more than

one home run in a game 28 times, and has even done it in the World Se-ries—in game 4 of the 2008 Fall Classic against Tampa Bay. He has eight total postseason homers as well, which is third most in Phillies history.

How about those who say Howard’s bombs come only when the team is down by a lot or up by a lot and that he is not clutch? He has four walk-off home runs, 35 that tied the game and 113 that put the team ahead. So almost half of his home runs ei-ther tied or gave the Phil-lies the lead, not even counting the ones that helped pull them closer in already close games.

And he is no stranger to perhaps the most impres-sive home run of all: the grand slam. Yeah, How-ard has 12 of those in his career, which is second in the N.L. to Carlos Lee’s 17 and the most in Phillies history.

He doesn’t seem to care if he is away from home either. His numbers are practically identical: 151 homers at home, and 149 on the road.

What is crazy about these numbers is that they are a sample of nine seasons. Who knows what he can do if he can play another five or six, or what he would have done if had not been injured the last few years.

Hitting 300 homers is no easy task, and doing it in just over 1,000 games is absurd. So pay attention to Howard over the next few seasons. He may be slower and he may strike out more, but he can still hit ‘em with the best of them and that won’t change any time soon.

Kenny Ayres is a third-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a journalism minor. He can be reached at KA739433@wcupa.edu.

A look inside the The Big Piece’s career home run feats

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Lady Rams remain perfect through first eight gamesBy Taylor Maren

Special to The Quad

The West Chester women’s soccer team (8-0) has done

an amazing job so far this season, and is one of the hottest teams on campus. Each facet of their game has been executed at the highest level, which is the main reason why the girls are undefeated. Heading into this week, the Lady Rams were faced with conference foes Shippens-burg and California Uni-versity of Pennsylvania.

For the struggles that the Raiders (3-3-2) have incurred this season, the Lady Rams could not take them lightly as they had to travel out to Shippensburg for a Wednesday night game. Jen Hutchinson, a senior leader for West Chester, played extremely well as

Marie D’Angelo looks to maintain possession of the ball during West Chester’s win over California. D’Angelo registered an assist during the Lady Rams’ 2-1 victory.

West Chester plays a lob pass downfield during the game against California. The win preserved the team’s undefeated record.

she notched two goals in a 5-0 rout of Shippensburg. Not only did she play es-pecially well, she has more responsibility being a senior captain for her undefeated squad.

“I am confident in our senior captains, Me-lissa McKeary and Jen Hutchinson,” coach Betty Ann Kempf said last week. “They are responsible for developing cohesiveness within our team.”

Another star was goal-keeper Shannon Fedyk, as she completed her sixth shutout in the first seven games of the sea-son. Credit also should be placed on the defense, as Shippensburg was only allowed three shots on goal for the entire contest.

Kempf came into the game respecting the tal-ent of the Raiders.

“They are an improved team that is fast and

works hard. It will be a challenge that we are ready for.”

Even with their im-provement, Shippensburg was no real match for all of the fire power of the Lady Rams.

Coupled along with the usual stars, the ladies spread the ball around equally as four different girls scored for the Lady Rams on Wednesday. McKeary, Cori Little-johns, and Brianna Hires each tallied a goal and shots for the game over-whelmingly favored the Rams, 32-4.

Next up for the Lady Rams was California University Vulcans (5-2) down at South Campus on Saturday at noon.

Coming into the season, the coaches’ poll ranked West Chester right be-hind California to win the PSAC. Even after suffer-

ing a loss this season, the Vulcans came into Satur-day ranked in the Top 25 in Division II.

In the end, the girls from West Chester would not be denied as they squeaked out a close vic-tory against California, 2-1.

Carly Yost would strike first for the Rams in the 44th minute right before half to give West Chester a 1-0 lead. Just 10 min-utes into the second half, a familiar face, McKeary, would double the ladies’ lead as she beat Califor-nia goalkeeper Ashley Magrunda. Magrunda would end up stopping eight of the ten shots the young sophomore faced.

The Vulcans would not go without a fight and would answer in the 82nd minute when freshmen Janelle McCann finally ended Fedyk’s scoreless streak. Fedyk had only allowed one other goal this season until McCann, who has four goals of her own, ended her impres-sive record. West Chester would buckle down after that and held off Califor-nia, their toughest oppo-nent up until now.

“It is a total team effort. They all put [the] team first,” Kempf said. “I am excited about the number of goals we are scoring and the variety of indi-viduals scoring.”

With Kempf having such trust and ability to count on multiple girls to step up, it makes this team even more danger-ous as the season contin-ues. She also commented on her team’s desire to win, a key aspect to win-ning over a long competi-tive season.

Up next for the Lady Rams is a trek up to Erie to face Mercyhurst on Fri-day at 3:30 p.m. and Gan-non on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Both teams are hav-

ing good years, with Gan-non just defeating Edin-boro by a 4-0 count. West Chester must bring their top game, as this road test will give them a great in-dicator of how they stack up in the big picture. By

keeping up their recent play, the Rams hope to continue their undefeated record as they climb the polls in the search for a championship.

Taylor Maren can be reached at TM741168@wcupa.edu.

Photo by Brynn Pezzuti

Photo by Brynn Pezzuti

WCU athletics schedule 9/24-9/30 Sept. 29 -men’s golf @ Vulcan Invitational 1 p.m. -field hockey @ Mercyhurst 1 p.m. -volleyball vs. LHU 2 p.m. -men’s soccer @ Gannon 2 p.m. -football @ California (Pa.) 3:30 p.m. -women’s soccer @ Gannon 4:30 p.m. -volleyball vs. Glenville State 6 p.m.

Sept. 26 -men’s golf @ Vulcan Invitational 9 a.m.

Sept. 24 -no sports scheduled

Sept. 25-men’s soccer @ Wilm 1 p.m.-field hockey @ ESU 4 p.m.

Sept. 26-women’s tennis @ Phila U. 4 p.m.

Sept. 27 -no sports scheduled

Sept. 28-cross country @ Lehigh noon-men’s soccer @ Mercyhurst 1 p.m.-field hockey @ Slippery Rock 3 p.m.-women’s soccer @ Mercyhurst 3:30 p.m.-volleyball vs. ESU 7 p.m.

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game out of reach. Brett Snyder had his shot in the 55th minute saved by Donovan.

In the 79th minute, Cal-ifornia was whistled for a foul, giving West Chester a free kick from about 29 yards out. On the ensuing set piece, senior defender Dan Venuto stepped up and rocketed the free kick into the left side of the net to give the Golden Rams a 3-1 lead.

California continued to press the West Chester defense, with Karns and Jeffrey Kyel each putting attempts on goal in the last 10 minutes. But Ble-iler was there for the save on both occasions, and the Rams held on for a mas-sive victory in their first home league match of the

Women’s golf team places seventh at Michael

Corbett Invitational

Volleyball team drops first four at PSAC East Crossover

After finishing the non-league portion of their schedule

at 9-5, the women’s vol-leyball team entered this weekend looking to con-tinue that success into the PSAC schedule. With each of their nine wins coming in authoritative fashion, either 3-0 or 3-1, there was no doubt that this squad has the fire power to stand up to any team in the league. Senior captain Lexi Kegerise continues to be produc-tive on offense, leading the group with 134 kills so far this season. Setters Mary Faust and Mandy Flynn have posted simi-lar numbers with 254 and 220 assists, respectively. Flynn, a freshman, cer-tainly plays with the con-fidence of a much more experienced player, with head coach Kassie Bel-laver commenting that she has adjusted quickly

to the speed of the college game. On the other side of the ball, junior libero Dana Markol has been solid defensively, racking up 112 digs in 15 games.

The 2012-2013 PSAC season was officially un-derway Friday afternoon as the Rams clashed with a red-hot Slippery Rock team. “The Rock” came into Friday’s con-test riding a four-game win streak, and had no intention of stopping there. They disposed of the Rams in just three sets (25-21, 25-18, 25-17), handing West Chester a loss in their first league game of the season. Both teams had over 90 total attempts in the match—total attempts equal the sum of kills, errors and “0” attacks—but West Chester’s conversion rate was significantly lower at a mere .088% in the con-test.

As if facing a tough team in Slippery Rock wasn’t enough, the Rams

second outing on Friday would come against a Clarion squad that has only lost t h r e e games so far this s e a s o n . The Gold-en Eagles soared to their 10th victory of the year in only three sets (25-14, 25-19, 25-20), leav-ing Coach B e l l a v e r and the team with some ad-justments to be made moving into Saturday’s a c t i o n . Clarion set-ter Laura Subject had a remarkable game on of-fense, leading both teams with 32 assists.

Unfortunately, Sat-urday would prove to be equally unsuccessful, as

the Rams w o u l d again have t r o u b l e c o n v e r t -ing their opportuni-ties into points. The first match of the day came against a familiar foe in the Cali-fornia (Pa.) V u l c a n s . The same team that k n o c k e d West Ches-ter out in the second round of the playoffs last year would con-tinue their

dominance, outplaying the Rams to a victory in three sets (25-20, 25-18,

25-12). The Vulcans held West Chester to their low-est scoring set (12) all sea-son, and improved their record to 13-2 on the year.

In the afternoon af-fair, the Rams managed to win their only set in four matches opposite the Indiana (Pa.) Crim-son Hawks. The Hawks, led by offensive leader Morgan Cerveny (122 kills), took the first two sets (25-18, 25-17) before the Rams, after losing 11 straight sets, finally stole one (25-21). The match concluded with a fourth-set victory (25-21), with IUP earning the win.

With the first PSAC weekend in the books, it is now time for the players to figure out what went wrong. Obviously, an 0-4 start is not what they were looking for to begin the season, but Rams cap-tain Kelly Martin is posi-tive looking forward.

“It is still early in the season and we have been playing well, however,

we can and need to play better, ” noted the senior middle hitter. “I feel very confident in our team this year as we have had spurts of amazing game play; we just need to be consistent. We’re coming out of an 0-4 weekend so we just need to keep our heads up and focus on our upcoming games.”

Martin is no stranger to adversity and has been in situations similar to this one over the course of her career at West Ches-ter. She knows what hap-pened is in the past, and the best remedy for a bad weekend is to come out strong in the next match.

The Rams will have an opportunity to do just that next weekend, as they continue their seven-game home stand against East Stroudsburg on Sept. 28, followed by Lock Haven on Sept. 29.

Joshua Shapiro is a second-year student majoring in English and education. He can be reached at JS762110@wcupa.edu

Soccerfrom page 20

The WCU men’s soccer team looks on as sophomore midfielder John Frederick peers downfield. Frederick tallied an assist on Saturday.

By Joshua ShapiroSpecial to The Quad

season.To put into perspective

how important the victory was, West Chester did not win a game in the Penn-sylvania State Athletic Conference throughout the entire 2011 season. Now the Rams have a win and a tie from their first two league games of 2012. In fact, with four points, West Chester has already eclipsed their PSAC point total from 2011, which was three.

It was also West Ches-ter’s first victory over California since Septem-ber 2007. California was picked to finish third in the PSAC preseason coaches’ poll, while the Rams were picked to fin-ish seventh. But with Saturday’s win, the Rams have demonstrated that they could have what it takes to make a postsea-

son push this year.“The win was a progres-

sive one,” said sophomore forward Cameron Scott, who was on the field for 35 minutes against Cali-fornia.

“We have been on an unbeaten streak these past three games and with this win putting us near the top of the table, it gives us confidence and hopefully more wins to come,” Scott said.

Earlier in the week, the Golden Rams hit the road for their first PSAC contest of the season as they traveled to Shippens-burg on Wednesday. West Chester played strongly throughout, earning a 1-0 lead when junior forward Kevin McCann scored in the 53rd minute. But Shippensburg’s Jonathan DeNicola equalized in the 68th minute.

Neither team was able to bag a winner despite two 10-minute overtime periods, and the game ended as a 1-1 draw. Each side left the game with a single point to start the PSAC season. It gave West Chester positive momentum to carry into their first home league game, which they ended up winning, 3-1, over Cali-fornia on Saturday.

West Chester returns to action on Tuesday as they travel to Delaware to face the University of Wilmington. The Rams will return to PSAC action over the weekend, facing Mercyhurst on Friday and Gannon on Saturday in a pair of important road tests.

Joey Samuel is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in political science and Spanish. He can be reached at JS719745@wcupa.edu.

Mandy Flynn prepares a serve dur-ing this weekend’s tournament.

Jess Guzzardo/ Photography Editor

Jess Guzzardo/ Photography Editor

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of the game, concluding with running back Curtis Wortham’s 11-yard scam-per halfway through the first quarter. The Golden Rams answered right back, as Mattei hooked up with receiver Jim Kelly on a 29-yard pass with just over three minutes re-maining in the first to tie it at seven.

In the second quarter, West Chester started to take control with a 48-yard field goal by kicker Shawn Leo, tying his career long, which was followed up by one-yard plunge by White with just under four min-utes remaining in the half. With all the momentum, the visiting Rams took a 17-7 lead into the locker rooms.

In the second half, the Golden Bears did their best in keeping it close by returning the kick-off 98 yards for a score. It marked the second straight week in which West Chester’s opponent returned a kickoff for a touchdown; last weekend Millersville took one 97 yards in one of their few bright spots against the Rams. Mattei had the an-swer, which seems to be a common theme this sea-

son, as he connected with receiver Adam Dempsey for a 38-yard touchdown. The defense got in on the action as defensive line-man Andrew Cohen re-turned a fumble for six points to stretch their lead to 31-14.

A Kutztown field goal late in the third pulled them within 14, but that was the closest they would get on this night. Two White touchdowns in the first six minutes of the fourth put the game be-yond reach. With over 11 minutes to play, White ran one in from four yards out, capping off an 11-play, 73-yard drive that took up almost six minutes. The second one came exactly two minutes later, this one being an eight-yard run to finish off a drive that started at Kutztown’s 13-yard line.

Kutztown scored with under three minutes to go, but that really just delayed the inevitable, bringing the final score to 45-24. In their two PSAC East matchups so far this year, the Golden Rams are outscoring their op-ponents 101-38. This has been done without their starting quarterback, Sean McCartney, who broke his ankle in the first game of the year against

Delaware and will miss the remainder of the sea-son.

Kutztown came into the game having lost their last two games, both to nationally-ranked oppo-nents. Two weeks ago, they fell to top-ten-ranked California (Pa.), 48-45, and last week fell to PSAC East rival Bloomsburg, ranked No. 12, 44-37. The two PSAC East losses put the preseason favorites in a deep hole with five games remaining against fellow PSAC foes.

The Golden Rams were once again led on offense by Mattei. Last week, Mattei was named Co-Of-fensive Player of the Week in the PSAC with his six-touchdown performance. This week, he went an impressive 19-for-26 for 318 yards and two scores. After Saturday’s perfor-mance, Mattei has com-pleted 65.9 percent of his passes for 953 yards and 11 touchdowns compared with only one interception. His quarterback rating is an astounding 200.41.

As far as the ground game goes, White had his first score since his break-out game against Delaware. He scored three times Saturday afternoon on 29 carries piling up 78 yards along the way. As a

Footballfrom page 20

The West Chester University women’s golf team finished

in seventh at the Michael Corbett Invitational held last Monday in Clymer, New York. The Golden Rams were led by golfers Gabby Couture and Nicole Cavalcante who each shot a 168 in the 36-hole event. They each tied for 18th place overall. The Golden Rams finished with a 693, w h i l e F i n d l a y U n i v e r -sity won with a 632.

As usu-al with collegiate golf tour-naments, the scor-ing con-s i s t e d of each t e a m ’ s l o w e s t five golf-ers’ score cards.

During day one, the Golden Rams finished with a score of 344. Cou-ture and Cavalcante each shot an 83 as they bird-ied the 15th hole and the 13th hole, respectively. Grace Battista shot an 87, Nicole D’Urbano shot a 91, and Jenna Hopkins shot a 95.

On day two, Couture and Cavalcante each shot an 85. Battista shot an 84, finishing with a 171. D’Urbano shot a 93 finishing with a 186 and Jenna Hopkins shot a 95 finishing with a 190.

Golden Rams coach Douglas Hendricks was encouraged by the team’s performance.

“I was satisfied with the team’s performance at the Michael Corbett Invitational,” Hendricks said. “Finishing seventh out of 16 teams wasn’t bad for our first event.”

Although this was the first contest of the sea-son, coach Hendricks did not believe the team was unprepared for the course.

“I don’t think rust was a factor, even though it was our first event,” Hen-dricks said. “Most of the team had seen the course

before, and we had a couple good weeks of practice. The challenge in golf is to be ready physi-cally and mentally.”

The team understands how impor-tant the fall season, and specifically the PSAC Champion -ships held in Hershey, is to putting themselves

in position to win come spring.

“I’m very excited about the fall season and we will hopefully peak at the PSAC Championships in Hershey,” Hendricks said. “Trust and confi-dence come from practice as well as prior success in tournaments.”

The next tournament for the team was the Clarion Invitational, which was completed be-fore this issue was was printed.

Justin Park is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a psychology minor . He can be reached at JP727711@wcupa.edu.

By Justin ParkStaff Writer

Women’s golf team places seventh at Michael

Corbett Invitational

Cross country teams place seventh at Lock Haven

The men’s and wom-en’s West Chester University cross

country teams finished fifth overall at the Lock Haven Invitational on Saturday morning, Sept. 22.

Senior Sean Sebeck and freshman Amanda Eis-man each lead their teams in the Golden Rams’ third outing of the year.

No. 18 finisher Sean Se-beck’s time on the course

was 26:19.3, which is the best time on this course by a West Chester University athlete in the past nine years.

Amanda Eisman fin-ished sixth with a time of 22:22.5. This is the third best time on this course by an athlete from a West Chester Golden Ram in the past nine years.

Other finishers on the men’s team included Zack Mussleman (23rd), with a time of 26:27.1.

Curran Kneebond had a time of 26:27.4, Ed Brit-

tingham’s was 26:54.2, and Jake Siegel finished with a time of 26:59.4.

The men finished fifth out of a field of 12, which was only four points out of fourth place.

For the women, besides Eisman’s showing, fresh-man Mara Kelly turned in a time of 23:36.3 for 21st place, sophomore Brit-tany Boyer took 25th with a time of 23:57.4, Megan Berberich was 35th with a time of 24:14.2 and Leigh Manning-Smith rounded out the field with a 24:23.2.

The women’s team was fifth out of a field of 12 with a total of 111 points, coming only a point behind the fourth place finisher of 110 and two points behind Manfield’s 109 who are ranked as the No. 5 team in the region in the latest coaches’ poll.

The Paul Short Run at Lehigh University is the next scheduled race for both teams, on Sept. 28 at 10 a.m.

Kyle Banta is a third-year student majoring in English. He can be reached at KB683859@wcupa.edu.

By Kyle BantaSpecial to The Quad

team, the Rams managed only 85 yards rushing on 37 carries with neither team having much suc-cess throughout the game. Kutztown averaged 2.8 yards per carry, slightly more than West Chester’s 2.3 yards per carry. Kelly and LaRonn Lee were Mattei’s primary targets through the air. Kelly caught five passes for ex-actly 100 yards and one score. Lee had six catches for a respectable 70 yards.

Linebacker Ronell Wil-liams led the defense in slowing down the Golden Bears offense. Williams had a team-high 12 tack-les, a sack and an inter-ception which he returned for 29 yards. Defensive back Matt Carroll and de-fensive lineman Anthony McCloskey each recorded a sack with Carroll forc-ing the fumble that Cohen scooped up and took to the house in the third quarter.

Next up for the Golden Rams is a trip to Califor-nia (4-0) to take on the top-ten-ranked Vulcans. The Vulcans will be a great test for this streak-ing West Chester team. Saturday’s game will kick off at 3:30 pm.

Riley Wallace is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a journalism minor. He can be reached at RW718681@wcupa.edu.

Women’s golf looked to fine tune their game this week as they push

towards the PSAC Championships in late October.

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Golden Rams topple California for first

PSAC win since 2010

The West Chester women’s soccer team celebrates after Melissa McKeary scored what would end up being the winning goal in Saturday’s victory over California. The team remains perfect through eight games. Story on Page 17.

West Chester downs Kutztown 45-24By Riley Wallace

Staff Writer

The Golden Rams improved to 2-0 in PSAC play Saturday

as they traveled to Kutz-town and defeated the Golden Bears, 45-24, be-hind another solid perfor-mance from quarterback

By Joey SamuelSports Editor

One week into the conference portion of the 2012 season,

the West Chester Univer-sity men’s soccer team has already done something that it could not do all of last year.

Tommy Ryan, Alex Katz, and Dan Venuto all got their names on the scoreboard as West Ches-ter won its first conference game since October 2010, beating California (Pa.) by a 3-1 score at the South Campus soccer fields on Saturday afternoon.

West Chester came out swinging early on, and senior defender Brett Snyder almost gave the Golden Rams a lead in the eighth minute, only for his shot to be saved by Cali-fornia goalkeeper Shane Donovan.

After 20 minutes of back-and-forth soccer be-tween the two teams, West Chester broke the dead-lock when sophomore de-fender Tommy Ryan took a pass from sophomore midfielder John Frederick and found the back of the net in the 28th minute. It was Ryan’s second goal of the season, having scored off a free kick play in last week’s 3-0 win over Holy Family.

Then, only six min-utes later, junior forward

Mike Mattei.The senior quarterback

had his second straight game of over 300 yards passing, and while he did not find the endzone six times like he did against Millersville last week, he did not throw an intercep-tion for the third consecu-tive game.

The offense was once again unstoppable, scor-ing on seven of its 12 pos-sessions, and the defense slowed down a very good Kutztown offense and even scored a touchdown of their own on a fumble recovery. Running back Rondell White set a career high in touchdowns with

three scores. The offense scored touchdowns on all four of its redzone posses-sions, including all three of White’s touchdown runs.

Kutztown (1-3) started things off by going 71 yards on their first drive

Conor Malarney found sophomore midfielder Alex Katz, who beat Don-ovan to put West Chester up 2-0.

West Chester would take that lead into half-time. They had more work to do, though, because California wasn’t pre-pared to go home without a fight.

Just moments into the second half, California’s Chris Moehler was tak-en down in the area by a West Chester player, and the referee awarded California a penalty kick. Moehler then stepped up and slotted the spot kick past Golden Rams goalie Garrett Bleiler to cut West Chester’s lead to 2-1 in the 48th minute.

California then began aggresively searching for an equalizer. A minute after Moehler’s goal, Cali-fornia’s Brad Colvin came close to scoring, but Ble-iler was there to make the save.

Bleiler continued his strong performance deep-er into the second half, making several big saves. He denied Moehler in the 58th minute, and stopped a Christopher Karns shot in the 74th minute.

West Chester had their own share of opportuni-ties as well, though, as they looked to put the

Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay struggled mightily on Saturday, going only one and two-thirds innings in an 8-2 loss to Atlanta. It was Halladay’s shortest outing since 2006, and his shortest outing ever in a non-injury situation. The 15-year veteran has recently admitted that his age is catching up with him, and that he needs to adjust his game accordingly.

See SOCCER page 18See FOOTBALL page 18

Photo by Brynn Pezzuti