The Aquinas - 09-15, 2011

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Volume 85, Issue 1 The Student Voice of The University of Scranton Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Tropical Storm Lee slams NortheastBy NICoLENA BASSo

Staff Writer

Massive rainfall last week in the surrounding area led to evacua-tion and devastation for local resi-dents, students, faculty and staff.

A Reuters journalist, Paul Eck-ert, wrote that Tropical Storm Lee raised the Susquehanna River to a record high of 42.6 feet, which ex-ceeded the 40.9 foot level caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972.

The record levels of Tropical Storm Lee forced students from Wilkes University to evacuate. Students from Wilkes were wel-comed to the Byron Center at The University Thursday afternoon, and they expected to stay until Sunday.

Wilkes student April Bechteo came to The University because she was unable to get home.

“I have family and friends in Honesdale,” Bechteo said. “I know the conditions are very bad there as well. People had to be rescued with rafts.”

Jaimie Osborn, a graduate as-sistant at Wilkes, was there to help take care of the 26 students staying in the Byron.

“When we left, the water was about five feet from the top of the levee,” Osborn said.

Wilkes students were not the only students to be affected.

University student Tara Car-madella was also affected by the massive flooding, and was shocked when she returned to her neigh-borhood.

Carmadella left her Duryea home Thursday to stay with a friend at Marywood University, and when she returned on Friday evening she was shocked.

“I got the call that it was bad, but I didn’t realize how bad it was,” Carmadella said. “Many houses were condemned because it was mainly sewage water. We have friends that live down the street and they lost everything.”

Unlike Carmadella and Wilkes’ students, Communication Depart-ment secretary Julee Modzelewski did not have to evacuate, but was forced to stay home.

Modzelewski was advised by her boss to go home Thursday morning because the Cross Val-ley, which led to her West Wyo-

ming home, was already bumper to bumper.

“Traffic was insane with people trying to get back home to get their things, but at that point, the water wasn’t as high as it would eventually get, and the levees were still holding strong,” Mod-zelewski said.

Modzelewski said the chances of her house getting flooded were slim because of her home’s eleva-tion, but she didn’t want to take any chances.

She packed a bag with several days’ worth of clothes and filled

her washer and bathtub up with water. She made sure all her de-vices were charged and that her important papers were set aside.

“Thankfully, none of those preparations were necessary, but it was comforting to know that I was ready just in case,” Modzelewiski said.

Modzelewski worked from home on Friday, but the areas around her were not so fortunate. Towns like West Pittston, Jenkins Township and Edwardsville were severely damaged.

“Thank heavens the levees held,

otherwise it would have been total destruction,” Modzelewski said. “There was some concern about the strength of the levees after they found leaks in Forty Fort, but they were able to get them under con-trol and the valley was spared.”

Many locals are comparing this severity of this storm to Hurricane Agnes.

“USA Today” noted that Agnes was, “…the worst natural disaster to ever strike Pennsylvania.” After 24 hours of rain Pennsylvania was left with $2.12 billion in damages.

Carmadella was not alive for the storm, but has heard about it, and said that the damage done back in the early ‘70s was nothing like what she saw as a result of Tropical Storm Lee.

“I mean nobody here has ever seen anything like this, Carmad-ella said. “This is completely new to everyone, nobody expected it.”

According to pennlive.com, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has already started assess-ing the damage of the floods, but no exact number has been calcu-lated.

With families around them los-ing everything, students and fac-ulty may be wondering what they can do to help the victims of the local flooding. At this time the Community Outreach Office does not have anything planned.

“We’re waiting to hear from the Red Cross about what we can do as an institution,” Community Outreach Office head Pat Vaccaro said.

She added that any students who want to donate food to flood victims could bring it to the Com-munity Outreach Office, and they would be happy to distribute it ac-cordingly.

By RoSEMARy SHAVEREditor-in-Chief

The Reverend Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., J.D., Ph.D., will be inaugu-rated as the 25th president of The University Friday. Just days before his inauguration, Rev. Quinn is beginning to discuss potential changes to Scranton’s growing community.

Formerly the executive direc-tor of the Ignatian Center at San-ta Clara University, Rev. Quinn served much of his career as an administrator and professor at Jesuit institutions. On July 1, Rev. Quinn began his service as presi-dent of The University.

Commenting on set priority goals for his first year in office, Rev. Quinn reported no major changes in the works for The Uni-versity at the moment. Rather, he will continue the five year strate-gic plan that is now in its second year.

“I have to say, I am glad there is already a strategic plan in place,” Rev. Quinn said.

“Go set the world on fire,” The University’s strategic plan, is sched-uled to extend through 2015. Its ef-fect is evident throughout campus. Visible in the construction projects that are now dominating the campus landscape, The University’s ambi-tious strategic plan pursues expan-sion and deeper connection with

Jesuit roots. Rev. Quinn is excited about the

plan, a sentiment he will expand on more in his inauguration address Friday.

“My intent is not to rewrite the strategic plan, but to build on it,” he said.

Plans for a football team are not

on Rev. Quinn’s expansion agenda. He also dismissed rumors of a law school for The University.

During his first year Rev. Quinn expressed intent “to listen, to learn,” and “to have conversations” with the campus community. To do so, he will make an active effort to meet in-formally with faculty, staff and stu-dents to in order “pick their brains” on campus life.

After the conclusion of Inaugu-ration Week, Rev. Quinn plans to become a familiar face around cam-pus, hinting that students will see him walking around the DeNaples Center and participating in student events.

As president, Rev. Quinn will also participate in The University’s academic life. He intends to teach a course in the style of the incum-bent Rev. Pilarz, S.J. and is listed as a professor in the Philosophy Depart-ment. Students can expect to see a new course, likely in bioethics, ap-pear sometime in the coming years.

Perhaps some nuances in Presi-dent Quinn’s approach will be con-veyed in his inaugural address Fri-day. Rev. Quinn said the address will emphasize service, which is

the “defining characteristic of what it means to be educated at a Jesuit catholic university.”

Inauguration week kicked off with a University sponsored day of service. This and several other fac-tors, including his recent work with Santa Clara’s Ignatian center, point to service as being central to Rev. Quinn’s presidency.

Despite The University’s his-tory of tension with the city, Quinn hopes the two could “mutually bene-fit one another” through service and cooperation.

In this regard, Rev. Quinn has high expectations of The University. While he is not opposed to students socializing, Rev. Quinn judges the role of students as a job.

“Being a student is a job, and you should spend the bulk of your time on the job,” Rev. Quinn said.

There are great expectations of President Quinn as well. With the guidance of Rev. Quinn, The University has the potential to become much more than it is now. Rev. Quinn brings a new energy to the job, and will likely prove an ally to students and fac-ulty.

Father Quinn reflects on new position as president

peter portanova / photo co-editorRESIDENTS ARE just beginning clean-up efforts after Tropical Storm Lee ravaged through the Pittston area last week.

peter portanova / photo co-editorFATHER QUINN prepares for his first year at The University. He will be inaugurated as The University’s 25th President Friday.

2 THE AQUiNASCAMPUS NOTES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

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Notable briefs:DATE: September 4 LoCATIoN: 400 Block of Taylor AvenueINCIDENT: A fight between 100-150 people broke out in the middle of the street on Taylor Avenue at approximately 1:00 a.m. Scranton Police activated emergency lights and arrived on the scene. The crowd eventually dispersed.

DATE: September 10LoCATIoN: Redington Hall, U of S CampusINCIDENT: A student falsely reported that he was robbed at knife-point in front of Redington Hall around 11:55 p.m. Later, it was discovered that the story was fabricated to avoid embarassment of losing money in internet scam.

report statistics:INToxICATIoN: 14 countsDAMAgE To UN. PRoPERTy: 7 countsTHEFT: 6 countsHARASSMENT: 5 countsASSAULT: 4 countsPRIV. PRoP. VANDALISM: 2 countsFIRE ALARM: 1 countDISoRDERLy: 1 countFIgHTINg: 1 count

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Ca m p u s Ca l e n da rThursday - September 15

+Farmers Market Founder’s green at St. Thomas Circle11:30 a.m.– 3:30 a.m. +Photography Exhibit: Taiwan SublimeHyland Hall, Hope Horn gallery, 4th FloorThrough Sept. 30+Rev. Kevin P. Quinn inaugural Liturgy 4:00 p.m.Byron Complex

Friday - September 16

+Latin ExplosionDeNaples Center, First Floor10:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. +Rev. Kevin P. Quinn, S.J. inaugurationByron Complex 11:30 a.m.

Saturday - September 17

+USPB Movie Event: Super 8 gLM Patio 10:00 p.m.

Sunday - Septermber 18

+Privilege: Exploring the invisible Knapsack presented by The Northeastern Pennsylvania Diversity Education Consortium in collaboration with The University

office of Equity and Diversity

Monday - September 19

+Suicide Prevention Week Kick – Off Event DeNaples Center, Moskovitz Theater

8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Tuesday - September 20 +Suicide Prevention Week EventDionne green 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. +Red Cross Blood DriveJohn Long Center 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday - September 21

+Red Cross Blood DriveJohn Long Center10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.+Suicide Prevention Week Event11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.+Health Professions Organization Meeting Brennan Hall, Pearn Auditorium8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.+Residence Hall Association Meeting8:00 p.m.+SJLA Freshmen ReceptionBrennan Hall, McShane Executive Center8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Thursday - September 22

+Farmers MarketFounder’s green at St. Thomas Circle11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.+Performance by Daraja Children’s Choir of AfricaMcIlhenny Ballroom, DeNaples Center11:30 a.m.+”A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965” series perfor-mance by The Swing Set:Presented by the Schemel Forum and Friends of the Weinberg Memorial LibraryWeinberg Memorial Library, Heritage Room 6:00 p.m.+italian Society Meeting 6:00p.m.+Suicide Prevention Week EventDionne green

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.+USPB Comedy: Josh WadeDeNaples Center, Moskovitz Theater

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NEWS 3THE AQUiNAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

people profile: stephanie adamec, Director of the new off-campus and commuter affairs office

Helping to give students a voice at The University is just one goal of Stephanie Adamec, the Director of the Off-Campus and Commuter Student Affairs off ice.

With an extensive back-ground in higher education and administration, alumni affairs and residence life, and previ-ous experience working with off-campus and commuter stu-dents, Adamec is excited about working at The University.

“I like reaching out to stu-dents, and I especially like working with off-campus and commuter students,” Adamec said.

Before coming to The Uni-versity, Adamec worked at Binghamton University in the off ice of Off-Campus Housing, Local Commuter Students and Commuter Relations.

At The University, the Off-Campus and Commuter Student Affairs off ice opened Aug. 1.

The off ice is focused on students that do not reside on campus. The mission of this of-f ice, and the goal of Adamec, is to help make The University better for these students.

Despite al l of her experience, Adamec said that it was more than her education that has prepared her for this job.

“I enjoy talking to new peo-ple and connecting them with resources and events that are innovative,” Adamec said. “I am working on streamlining my office with other off ices on campus, including the Office of Residence Life, the Center for Student Engagement and the Dean’s off ice.”

Adamec said that although there have been previous ef-forts to integrate off-campus and commuter students, there was definitely a need for the of-f ice on campus.

“Students need to have a contact person,” Adamec said. “They need someone who would be able to provide re-sources and lead educational outreach efforts as well.”

Another part of Adamec’s job is to help get off-campus and commuter students involved at The University.

“Students don’t get informa-tion from resident assistants like on-campus students do,” Adamec said. “I really want to integrate them into campus life.”

Through Adamec’s efforts and her off ice, off-campus and

commuter students’ relations have already improved.

Adamec held an Open House in order to spread the word about the opening of the off ice.

“Many students attended the Open House,” Adamec said. “We held it at lunch, when the majority of commuter and off-campus students were on cam-pus.”

There was also a coffee hour held for students early in the morning.

“I want students to know that I am here for them and to be aware of the services that are available to them,” Adamec said. “I also want to give stu-dents the opportunity to meet other off-campus and commut-er students.”

Adamec said there will be another coffee hour coming up for students to attend. She also plans on joining her off ice with other organizations and events that she believes students should be aware of.

“I am open to suggestions for events,” Adamec said. “What the students want is really im-portant to me.”

If you want more informa-tion about the Off-Campus and Commuter Student Affairs Of-fice, contact [email protected].

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By SHANNoN gIoELLoStaff Writer

The Inauguration Lecture of Reverend Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., J.D., Ph.D., was held in The Rev. Ber-nard R. McIlhenny S.J., Ballroom Tuesday.

Reverend Frank Brennan, S.J., A.O., a Jesuit priest, lawyer and professor, was the keynote speaker at the event.

With standing room only, the master of ceremonies, Patrick F. Leahy, Ed.D., introduced Elise Gower, International Service Pro-gram Coordinator of University Ministries to offer an opening prayer.

Leahy then introduced Rev. Quinn, who spoke of Rev. Brennan as “a model of all that we seek to be here at The University of Scran-ton.”

Rev. Brennan has a Bachelor of Arts in politics, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor of Divinity in theol-

ogy from the Melbourne College of Divinity.

He also has a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of the University at the Queensland University of Technology.

Rev. Brennan’s lecture was ti-tled “A Jesuit Perspective on Mak-ing Human Rights and Religion Friends, Not Foes.”

Rev. Brennan stressed the im-portance of inviting all to a new commitment between faith and culture.

Within his lecture, Rev. Brennan elaborated on his theme of social justice by drawing upon his own experiences and observations.

He also asserted the thoughts and opinions of his contemporaries in his speech.

After the conclusion of his speech to members of The Univer-sity community, both Rev. Bren-nan and Leahy offered best wishes to the soon-to-be President of The University, Rev. Quinn.

By CHRISTINA SCULLyNews Editor

Fr. Brennan speaks at inaugural Lecture

The University of Scranton held its annual Volunteer Fair Tuesday, invit-ing students to connect with agencies in need of volunteers.

Nearly 80 groups and organiza-tions were stationed around the Mc-Ilhenny Ballroom of The DeNaples Center. Students had the opportunity to receive information on what in-terested them most and sign up for a good cause.

Volunteer opportunities ranged from the American Red Cross to Adopt a Boxer Rescue. One of the more well-known charities present was the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

According to its website, Make-A-Wish is a non-profit organization that

grants wishes to children ages 2 to 18 with life-threatening illnesses. The organization began in 1980 and has granted more than 250,000 wishes in countries around the world. The mis-sion of the organization is to “enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.”

Make-A-Wish serves 11 counties throughout Pennsylvania, and grants approximately 65 wishes a year. Those who volunteer can serve as a “Wish” volunteer, an event and fundraiser volunteer or in another position. More information can be found on the or-ganization’s website, www.wishgreat-erpa.com.

Another organization grabbing the attention of students was the Adopt a Boxer Rescue organization. Running for 17 years, this organization rescues

the boxer breed of dogs from puppy mills, shelters and other unsatisfac-tory situations.

The organization has a “home for life” policy, which means each dog it rescues will be placed with a loving family after a home check and refer-ences. More information can be found at www.adoptaboxerrescue.com.

University student Christina Mur-phy attended the volunteer fair look-ing for somewhere to help out.

“It’s great that the university holds this fair here,” Murphy said. “I love going around and checking out all the tables. I’m thinking of volunteering at the Lakawanna County Children’s Li-brary.”

The Volunteer fair was a huge suc-cess, and it gave many students the op-portunity to help others in need.

When Rob Cermignano and Tim Plamondon first thought of a program that would help prevent student suicides last year, they had no idea of how much of a follow-ing they would accumulate.

The club, Students for Suicide Prevention, confronts the issue of suicide on college campuses in a communal way that emphasizes togetherness. It hosts about 150 members who run the club events, which many students have attend-ed.

The club’s first major event of this year is Suicide Pre-vention Week, which will begin Monday. The kick-off event for the week is a student-run presen-tation.

Plamondon is the vice presi-dent of Students for Suicide Pre-vention. He hopes this will help propel the club forward, and really understand what the club’s objec-tives are.

The following day, the club will host a tie-dye event on Di-onne Green, where students will be invited to tie-dye T-shirts that

will be worn for the last two main events for the rest of the week.

The club will line up empty shoes on the Green Wednesday, to represent those who have taken their own lives. Students are en-couraged to write names in me-moriam on slips of paper and put them inside the empty shoes.

The final event of the week will take place Thursday, once again on Dionne Green.

Sixteen minute relays will be taking place, “to symbolize the statistic that every sixteen min-utes a person commits suicide”, Plamondon said.

The club wants to get as many students as possible involved in these events, which are unique to the University of Scranton. Or, as Plamondon put it, “Scranton-patented.”

The club points to a quote from Mother Theresa as inspi-ration, which says, “The issue confronting our world is that we’ve just forgotten that we be-long to each other.” Students for Suicide Prevention are look-ing to change that and to show, whether it is to the entire com-munity or just one person, that no one is alone.

Club raises suicide prevention awareness

By CHRISTINE PANzITTAStaff Writer

thoMaS heintZ / photo editorTHE NEW Director of the Off-Campus and Commuter Student Affairs office, Stephanie Adamec, welcomes students to her office.

thoMaS heintZ / photo editorREVEREND FRANK Brennan giving his Inauguration Lec-ture Tuesday evening.

inauguration events:sept. 15 - inaugural eucharist

sept. 16 - inauguration of

Kevin p. Quinn, s.J.

sept. 17 - president’s inauguration event

Scranton hosts Volunteer Fair

4 THE AQUiNAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011NEWS

Students are known for em-bracing the Jesuit mission of ‘educating men and women for others’ through a long-standing tradition of service to the com-munity.

As a part of the events cel-ebrating the Inauguration of The University’s 25th presi-dent, Rev. Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., the Celebration of Service Day took place Friday and

The University community was invited to participate.

Starting at 8 a.m. and end-ing with a barbeque at 6 p.m., students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to volunteer in two-hour blocks throughout the day, for as much time they could afford.

The day was organized to in-clude volunteer opportunities at 21 locations. Events on cam-pus included making blankets for local neonatal centers and

writing letters to soldiers as well as the elderly in the DeNa-ples Center. Other service op-portunities included the chance to paint a mural, and organiz-ing donated goods in the Leahy Community Health and Family Center, located in McGurrin Hall.

Students Maria Saverino, and her brother Ciro Saverino, spent a few hours on the fourth floor of the DeNaples Center making bag lunches for the lo-cal community.

“This is a great service op-portunity for the whole com-munity, not just for individual courses or people,” Maria said. “It is a great way to spread our Jesuit traditions throughout the community.”

Ciro also added that he hears a lot about people wanting to do more community service.

“I’ve talked to Rev. Quinn a few times, because we both live on the seventh floor of Con-dron Hall, and he’s a great guy,” Ciro said. “This is a great way

to get everyone more involved.”Karen DiBenedetto also vol-

unteered on the fourth floor for Celebration of Service Day.

“I hope this becomes an an-nual event,” DiBenedetto said. “I feel like it would be a great legacy for Rev. Quinn.”

Off campus, members of The University community volun-teered with local non-profit or-ganizations cleaning streets and assisting local food pantries.

Legal assistant Laura Car-roll, a resident of Scranton and a member The University com-munity for close to 12 years, spent some time at Lackawanna Heritage Valley weeding and clearing garbage from the river trail, along with members of the women’s softball team.

“This was a great event to get our community volunteering together,” Carroll said. “I hope it will become an annual event, because so much can get done.”

Donation boxes could be found on the first floor of the DeNaples Center throughout

the day as well. This way, stu-dents with busy schedules were also able to partake in the spirit of service by making donations of spare change, clothing, non-perishable food items and hy-gienic products. These items went toward assisting the relief effort of Hurricane Irene, as well as other local services.

This first inaugural event was a foreshadowing of Rev. Quinn’s Jesuit traditions of commitment to service and community.

Historically, the Jesuits have held concern for social prob-lems and the promotion of jus-tice. Often setting up schools in less fortunate neighborhoods, the Jesuits offer themselves to the community.

Following this tradition, Rev. Quinn wrote in one of his initial letters to The University community that he is “commit-ted to community engagement, and to educating our students to become men and women for others who can go and set the

world on fire.” Each year, about 2,850 Uni-

versity students contribute more than 170,000 hours of volunteer service through lo-cal, domestic and international service programs and service learning. This year The Uni-versity will likely exceed those numbers due to a strong start.

Rev. Quinn was found lead-ing students by volunteering at the St. Francis Soup Kitchen. He also attended the barbeque on the DeNaples Center’s patio.

“This might become an an-nual event. We will have to evaluate what the community thought of the event,” Rev. Quinn said. “But this is really advertising what we should be doing every day. This event should really encourage stu-dents to volunteer regularly, even outside of their class re-quirements.”

event should really encour-age students to volunteer regu-larly, even outside of their class requirements.”

Scranton community calls for a new tradition of serviceBy JACQUELINE SEMBoR

Staff Writer

Tremendous growth has taken place at The University within the past year, including many new faces on campus, new aca-demic buildings and new hous-ing.

Before the students of the class of 2015 set foot on cam-pus, they were breaking records. With 1,059 freshmen, this is the biggest incoming class The Uni-versity has welcomed. They were chosen from a record breaking applicant pool of 9,045 applica-tions.

Due to the growth in student population, Residence Life has expanded freshman housing to include the Gonzaga, McGowan and Blair houses.

Traditionally used for upper-classmen, these houses have been re-commissioned as freshman housing for this year.

The houses include a semi-private living experience, fully equipped kitchens, a common

lounge and living areas.Comfortable housing is just

one way The University helps students make the transition from home to school a little bit easier.

Kathryn Ross, a freshman at The University is just one student who is adjusting to the Scranton community.

“I really thought getting used to things here would be more dif-ficult, but it has been a smooth transition. The professors are nice, I have small classes, the in-teraction is great and it doesn’t feel like work,” Ross said. “I love the fact that it is a Jesuit school. It feels like a family here, it feels right.”

While freshmen are adjusting to life on campus, upperclassmen are also adjusting to the newly constructed apartment building.

The building accommodates 400 students in two or four single occupancy rooms with a shared living and kitchen area.

In the new building, there will also be a new fitness center, din-

ing facility, convenience store, student lounges and indoor and outdoor seating.

Stanley Zygmunt, Director of News and Media Relations, said that The University is hoping to dedicate the new apartment building sometime in October or November, when the construc-tion of the fitness center and din-ing area is complete.

In addition to expanding housing on campus, Scranton has also expanded its academic buildings.

The Loyola Science Center, Scranton’s newest academic ad-dition, holds 22 class and semi-nar rooms, 34 labs, 80 offices, a rooftop greenhouse and a coffee shop.

The building is designated for all natural science research and instruction, including biology, chemistry, computer sciences, math and physics.

With the new housing and academic building additions, Scranton’s growth seems to be exponential.

University campus continues to expand

Sunday morning found the members of the student senate as-sembled in the Denaples Center for a day of training and prepa-ration for the new school year. Though forced to give up the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, all were excited to meet the new faces of the senate and executive board. There was definitely a sense of en-thusiasm in the air.

The highlight of the day was the presentation of summer proj-ects. Ideas ranged from incorpo-ration of more social media ad-vertising to promoting a greater awareness of sustainability on campus. Both new and old sena-tors contributed to the brain-storming and idea swapping.

In addition to the discussions of ideas, the senators were given a goal to live up to over the course of their term for the year: lead by example.

Adam Gault, student body president, urged the senators to be active in campus life.

“We have to encourage students to go to all the great activities that our clubs and organizations of-fer,” Gault said. “It’s a great way to bump up the school spirit.”

One of these events, sponsored

by Student Government itself, is First Friday in the Forum. Each committee of the senate will be organizing an event that helps to familiarize the student body with what they do. It also provides a means for students to voice their concerns directly to their class representatives.

Two other events that student government will be hosting are Street Sweep and the perennially popular Midnight Madness. These two events rally the school com-munity and create a heightened

sense of identity. Both are right in line with the student government vision for the year.

Adam Gault has his own per-sonal goals for the school year.

“I want every student here at Scranton to be able to find their niche, their place in something they truly love,” Gault said. “I hope that our student government will be an attentive and strong ad-vocate for students and that we continue to be the open and car-ing Scranton community we are.”

Here’s to a great year.

Student government hits ground running Flood pictures

courteSy of SaMantha MoSca STUDENT GOVERNMENT officers and members gathered to-gether to work to work on plans for the new school year.

By CHRISTIAN BURNEForum Editor

By CoLLEEN DAyStaff Writer

peter portanova / photo co-editorPHOTOS FROM the Pittston after Tropical Storm Lee.

5THE AQUiNAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Invite your family and friends to join us for these and other Family Weekend events September 30–October 2.

A full schedule of events, discounts at local vendors and registration is available at www.scranton.edu/familyweekend

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Forum EditorForumScranton diners not getting bang for buck

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photo by Sean MuldoonSTUDENTS ENJOY dinner in the first floor food court. A better distribution of meal swipes would help many students.

What exactly do we pay dining services for? Food?

Meal swipes don’t roll over from week to week or semester to semester, and that’s not fair to the students who pay their full dues at the beginning of the semester. At the very least, The University should allow Flex points to roll over, considering that they’re as good as cash at the C-Store, coffee shops and cafeterias on campus. It’s incredibly frustrating to run out of meal swipes in a given week, knowing that that week before you had a surplus.

It’s understandable that The University only allows students to access their current week’s meal swipes rather than giving the whole semester’s worth away right at the beginning. They do this to guard against the possibility of foresight-lacking students swip-ing in for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night every day at the be-ginning half of the semester, then starving during the second half because they have no meals left. Under the current system, how-ever, eating an extra meal early in the week means giving up one later in the week, unless the student has an unlimited plan, even if they had an extra one the previous week. In

other words, if you skip a meal, The University profits by not hav-ing to deliver food that you’ve al-ready paid for, and if you want an extra meal, The University profits from the extra revenue you’ll be giving them out of your own pock-et. Either way, they gain, you lose.

If you were asked to detail where and when you’ll be eating your next 14 meals, would you be able to answer accurately? If your schedule is so regimented that you can answer precisely, congratula-tions on developing such disci-plined time management skills,

soldier. For most of us, we have a general idea of when we’ll eat- during this gap between classes, or before that practice - but things change. Events and projects change our schedule throughout the week, and sometimes our roommates surprise us with pizza or our

friends want to bring us to Panera Bread. The University’s meal plan should be more flexible to account for the unexpected.

Additionally, Dining Services constrains not only which week meal swipes can be used within, but which time of day. It’s true that swipes are accepted at all times throughout the day, yet only one swipe is allowed per meal period. If a student, for instance, ate lunch at 11:15 and wanted to eat again at 3:30, they would not be allowed to swipe in again because both times are within the same lunch period.

Although the logistics of the meal plan system may benefit from some tweaking, the meals themselves at The University are delicious. Students who have never tested the dining services at other colleges may take for granted how wonderful our food is and how broad of a selection we have, but those who are fa-miliar with other college’s food standards must know that The University goes far above and beyond them. Let’s keep the food just as it is, but change our sub-scription policy to make sure that all students are getting what they pay for.

Alternately, if The University agrees to start allowing the Meaner Weiner to accept meal swipes, all will be forgiven.

CoMMENTARy By SEAN MULDooN

Forum Editor

Sean Muldoon Forum Editor

Sometimes, I have to remind myself where I am. I sit in the common room Friday night, watching “Pirates of the Carib-bean” with the rest of the stu-dents and talking about how awesome Johnny Depp is. A stu-dent’s phone goes off in class and the ringtone is “Moves Like Jag-ger.” Someone blasts Adele and Beyonce on the commons. I walk past McDonald’s and Subway and the lines are ridiculously long for dinner. Yes, sometimes I have to remind myself I am truly in Egypt.

Some things, though, are truly Egyptian. I get to eat Falafel or Koshary (the national Egyptian dish made with dittalini, spa-ghetti, rice, lentils, chick peas, and chili sauce) for lunch with mango juice for less than two dollars a day. I’m sitting in Khan al Khalili Bazaar, the largest ba-zaar in Cairo, drinking tea and smoking peach sheesha (hookah) while people try and hawk their goods. I’m sitting in the pews of the most famous Coptic Church in the world, The Hanging Church, dating back to the third century A.D. Crossing over the Nile is done a few times a week by bus to go grocery shopping. And, then, I’m looking up at and going inside the pyramids, the

only surviving ancient wonder of the world. Yes, I am definitely in Egypt.

Then, there are the events that remind me about what I signed up for. Our weekend trip to Al-exandria was postponed due to the streets being closed in Cairo because of the rallies in Tahrir Square. I see Hosni Mubarak in a cage on TV, going on trial at a location less than an hour away from me. We get an e-mail late Friday night urging us not to go downtown as Egyptians just

stormed the Israeli embassy and they don’t know what the impli-cations will be, but we hope for the best. These are the events that will make the news in America.

While Egypt has a storied past known by almost all, its future is captivating our world. That is exactly why I decided to study abroad at the American Univer-sity in Cairo for a year. Having previously been to the Middle East before, studying in Jordan last summer, I’ve come to know that everything we see in our

media isn’t always the full story. I wanted to come see for myself what is happening in the land of the pharaohs.

As of right now, I can’t say enough great things about Egypt. The AUC campus is gor-geous; the students are very welcoming, even putting up with the standard Arabic I’ve studied for the past two years, which is nothing like their col-loquial Egyptian dialect. Also, Cairo itself is bustling and vi-brant, and everyone is very friendly and curious why I am here and if I am enjoying my time in Egypt.

Already, I see a lot of hope in the youth I encounter and cannot wait to delve more into their lives and the thoughts of the Revolution, having already had conversations with some who were there Jan. 25. They believe Egypt can be a better place, and I hope to witness that transformation with them this upcoming year.

If you have any questions about anything to do with Egypt or the Middle East, please feel free to Facebook message me or email me at [email protected]. Also, if you would like to read about my travels more in-depth, follow my blog at: w w w. m y t b . o r g / t h e t r a v e l i n g -pole. I look forward to sharing this journey with you. Until the next time, ma’al salaama.

Reflections from the Land of the Pharaohs

photo courteSty of elena haberSkyELENA HABERSKY, a University Junior, poses in front of the Three Pyramids at Giza.

CoMMENTARy ByELENA HABERSky

Staff Writer

9/11 tweets for the 10th anniversary

@USAToday American history never followed a straight line. But we always move forward #Be-yond911

@TimeMagazine Obama- “We are stronger a decade after 9/11”.

Freshman tweets about encountering college problems

@_marLs_barkley_Having to wear nice shorts and a top on Sunday because you haven’t done your wash …where’s your mom-my when you need her? #colleg-eproblems

@LindzSAYHEY I hate college but love all the parties #collegelife

@Anonymous Waking up on a Friday morning and being early for class…no one else shows up and then finding out it’s a Monday Wednesday class #classicfresh-manmistake

College Town Life

@CollegeTownLife I’ve success-fully stumbleduponed, face-booked, and tweeted my way through class today #CTL

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The content of The Aquinas is the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Staff and does not necessarily reflect the views of The University, its staff or faculty. The University adheres to the principle of responsible freedom of expression for its student editors.All letters become the property of The Aquinas and will be considered for both print and online editions unless the writer explicitly states otherwise. The Aquinas will not print anonymous or pseudonymous letters, except in unique circumstances.Letters will only be edited for style.

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Ask Ken: Advice about college lifeCoMMENTARy By

kENNETH ToNg

Contributer

‘U’views

Neil Jayakar Shelton, Conn. Class of 2015

“I hope he brings a more well-rounded education and more focus on health and fitness, such as health-

ier food.”

“I hope he tunes all the pianos on campus.”

Ryan Sylvestre Lebanon, N.J. Class of 2014

“I would like to see him on campus a lot. I’d like to be accquainted with

him.”

Warren Wharton Woodbridge, N.J. Class of 2012

“I want the president to fix the flex meal plans. I feel like the students are not allowed to take full advantage of them as

they currently are”

Samantha Grimaldi Fords, N.J. Class of 2014

Question and column compiled by Forum Staff.

What would you like to see at the top of

Father Quinn’s agen-da?

Q: I have been with my boy-friend for over three years now. We have a true monogamous relationship. He decided that he would go to school out in Arizona while I move to Penn-sylvania. We both decided that we sti l l want to continue the relationship, but after a few weeks of being away from him and with school starting, I have been having some second thoughts about our relation-ship. We do talk a lot via web-

cam each week, and we never miss a date. I have asked him if he thinks that a long-dis-tance relationship is the best decision, and his answer to me was that he wants to continue this relationship. He is such a sweet person and I am fearful of losing something that I think I will not be able to replace. What should I do?

A: Well, I would f irst l ike to say kudos to you for being in a relationship for three years. Now you say that you have a monogamous relationship, but how do you really know if it’s

a true monogamous relation-ship? Imagine that you are in a room. There are two doors: behind one door you see your boyfriend. Behind the other door you f ind the true man of your dreams. He represents al l that you have ever wanted: a life full of prosperity and hap-piness. The question is which door would you choose? Would you choose the door with all that you ever want with no wor-ries at al l, or do you join your boyfriend and be tied back to reality and live out your life?

Ask yourself this: from the time you have been go-ing out with him, is he really the only person who you think about, or do you sti l l fantasize

about other men? Does he look at other women even though he is committed to you? Maybe you should try getting some time off for a week or two and become single for the time. If you f ind that you can hold onto your feelings for each other, then maybe continuing the long-distant relationship will be the best thing. If you see that you can date other people, and you forget about your relation-ship or just have slight thoughts about your relationship, then maybe it’s t ime to move on and try to meet new people. Love is a tricky thing. The best thing to always think about is what is going to keep you happy and what your heart wants.

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By oLIVER

STRICkLAND Columnist

oliver’s Twist: ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m yours!)’It was about 9

p.m. on a Sunday in July and I had just finished mov-ing into my new apartment when I realized there were no cleaning supplies in the house at all. After

a few attempts at several different places in the city, I found myself in a dollar store in West Scranton shop-ping for cleaning supplies five min-utes before they were to close.

I was about half-way through getting my list of things when the manager of the store approached me. “Excuse me, we are closing. You need to check out now; the cashier is nine months pregnant and not in

a good mood,” he said. “Okay, not a problem,” I said,

and proceeded to the front of the store

As I walked to the front of the store, I had two main thoughts: the first was “West Scranton never disappoints. You really can’t be sur-prised with what had just happened, Oliver.” But my second thought was, “How am I going to take this op-portunity to brighten this woman’s day?”

I approached the cashier with a big smile and happy “Hello!” and she responded with a really long “Ugh.” As I was scrambling for ideas on what to say next, my phone began to ring. The beginning riff of one of my all-time favorite songs—Stevie Wonder’s ‘Signed, Sealed, De-

livered (I’m Yours)’ began to fill the store with jubilance! It was almost heaven-sent.

I decided to use my cell phone as an opportunity to brighten this miserable lady’s day. I let my phone continue to ring. I had just started to dance as Stevie Wonder was screaming out “Hey! Hey!” when I had asked her if this made her any happier. Her response was very straightforward; “No. It’s actually really annoying,” she re-sponded.

Boom. I silenced my phone, kept smiling, paid the total and left the store.

That night I was reminded of something that had not occurred to me in a long time. I was reminded that there will be times in which

people will be miserable and there is nothing I can do to change that. I realized that I may not be able to make everybody smile, or feel in-spired, or become motivated or even just believe in themselves like I want to. But that doesn’t mean I won’t try.

“One person may not be able to change the world, but one person can certainly change someone else’s world. And that’s equally as power-ful,” a close friend of mine once told me. This column is my attempt to change your world; hopefully, be-cause of my attempts, you will try to do the same for others. Because, in the end, if we can all change some-body’s world for the better, we have all just changed the world for the better. “Signed, sealed, delivered (I’m yours).”

Nauture’s hidden sweetener

Truvia is a natural, zero-cal-orie sweetener made from the stevia leaf. The Rebiana is the sweetener from the leaf and it is native to South America. Erythri-tol, the sugar alcohol, yields the least impact on blood sugar. As for the process of making Truvia, the sweetness of the dried leaves is released by being drenched in water, which is then purified. This sweetener is a great alterna-tive for people with Diabetes and it is also kosher. A packet of Tru-via is equivalent to two teaspoons

of sugar. It is alkaline, as opposed to artificial sweeteners such as Splenda or Equal which tend to be acidic. I highly suggest trying Truvia.

CoMMENTARy By

APRIL DUDzINSkI

Staff Writer

courteSy of Mct caMpuSTRUVIA IS now used as a sweetener in certain Breyer’s ice creams.

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The Scranton Cultural Center started a new season of its Up and Coming Com-edy Series Saturday,

The night started off with the comical music of John Niemiec, a student at the University. John combines comedy and music to create songs that mock pop culture, comment on awkward so-cial situations and so much more.

After the opening music, Rob Placone took the stage and kept the audience laugh-ing from his first joke until his last. Placone talked about everything from growing up with his parents to his rela-tionships.

Placone, graduate student by day and comedian by night, has been doing com-edy for just over four years. He tours the United States and Canada often and has appeared on CNN, accord-ing to the Scranton Cultural Center’s website.

The headlining come-dian was Paul Lyons. A huge part of Lyon’s act was com-menting on his failed re-lationships. Lyon’s act was inspiring, however, as he re-

minded the audience to not give up and to live life to the fullest with his catch phrase “Carpe Diem, mañana.”

Lyons is also an author and actor. He wrote a book called “Carpe Diem, maña-na,” which is full of comi-cally inspirational stories.

He has also appeared on “Ev-erybody Loves Raymond,” Showtime’s a“Love at Stake” and several Comedy Central promos, according to the Scranton Cultural Center’s website.

The Scranton Cultural Center has an Up and Com-

ing comedy night every month from September to April. Each one features ex-perienced comedians as well as novice comedians. Check the calendar of events on the Cultural Centers website, www.scrantonculturalcenter.org/, for future event dates.

Arts & Life arts & life editorNicole Lopez-Isa

By JoHN NIEMIECSTAFF WRITER

Comedy tour comes to Cultural Center

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“Good. Really good..”

Christina MurphyiRidgewood, N.J.

“Pretty good with a wide variety.”

Santiago ParraCliffside Park, N.J.

“Good, just wish for more healthy things. ”

Shannon Gioello

“Pretty good for college food.”

Meredith CallanderWall, N.J.

“Really good that I might go broke.”

Chelsea RizzaScranton

Alexander’s provides relief

thoMaS heintZ / photoGraphy editor

THE DRAGON mural engraved on the outside of the Cultural Center presides over the front entrance.

Campus Comment What do you think of the food in DeNaples?

“This CiTy”

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LUPE FiAsCO

Born and raised outside of C h i -cago, IL, Patrick Stump was ex-posed to music at an early age, with his father being a folk singer and his older brother a vio-linist. Stump is known for his work as the vocalist, guitarist, and main composer in the band Fall Out Boy. Today, the now-solo artist is known by some as one of the best voices in pop-punk.

Stump’s material is described as a soulful R&B sound, which is evident in his single, released on July 26, “This City” which fea-tures his fellow Chicagoan, Lupe Fiasco. The song is a dance/pop ode to his beloved Chicago, with lyrics praising the city with lines such as, “You can take my picture/You can take my name/But you’re never going to take my city away.” In three minutes and 37 seconds, Stump accurately describes how many others feel about their own cities or towns; you feel a sort of fondness for the place you were raised in regardless of any flaws or problems it may hold.

Patrick Stump’s debut solo album, “Soul Punk”, which is self-written, produced, and performed, will be released on October 18.

Being the particular per-son that I am, I was extreme-ly concerned about where I would get my hair done while away at school. I begged my hair dresser to come visit me, since driving two hours for a haircut did not seem to be an option. However, she told me that driving up to Scranton was not exactly on her list of things to do while running a business back in West Chester, so I set out on a quest to find another salon. While walking around Scranton I stumbled upon Al-exander’s. The clean and tran-quil atmosphere was incredibly inviting and relaxing, so I im-mediately booked an appoint-ment.

I learned from my new hair-dresser, Thomas, that Alexan-der’s was originally established on Linden Street in the nineties and named after the owner’s deceased father. With the rap-idly growing clientele and need for expansion, the salon moved

twice more and has settled a convenient walking distance from campus on Lackawanna Avenue. Alexander’s has three floors of services. The first floor contains a fabulous juice bar. Personally, as a vegetar-ian, I think the juice bar pro-vides fresh food and delicious options. They also have an ar-ray of services, ranging from a make-up counter to spa/medi-spa treatments and a high end hair salon. Alexander’s also has a gym with personal train-ers, yoga and Pilates classes.

Their staff is incredibly helpful and my hair dresser sat down for a consultation before

he began the haircut, which immediately put me at ease. He was extremely friendly while he chatted about various social events that take place in Scranton when he learned that I was a freshman new to the area. Alexander’s provides great services in a beautifully decorated, incredibly clean and relaxing atmosphere. This salon offers high end services at reasonable prices for any-one, even college students. I highly recommend Alexan-der’s, especially for anyone who was feeling as anxious as I was about finding a salon similar to my own back home.


By MARLo MURPHySTAFF WRITER

Embassy Vinyl played host to a weekday all-ages concert that showcased local bands Tuesday night.

For the past five years, the owner of Embassy Vinyl, a local-ly-owned music retail store, R.J. Harrington has hosted concerts at his shop featuring local artists.

Harrington said, “We had shows since our first years of business. We’ve always had small musical stuff like bands that have CDs to promote or if I know of people are coming through [that would like to perform],” Har-rington said. He said that Tues-day’s concert was organized by the request of Brian Langan of Langor, a band who performed at the show.

A small price of five dollars gained admission into the con-cert Tuesday that featured three bands: Family Animals (Scran-ton), Adam Faucett (Little Rock, Ark.) and Langor (Scranton).

Harrington said he does what-ever he can to support local mu-sic and musicians such as Fam-ily Animals, Adam Faucett and Langor. He said that the store welcomes bands and artists to perform at Embassy Vinyl to promote their CDs as well as carry their albums in store if the band asks.

“[Local music] is a good snap-shot of what is going on in an area at a time,” Harrington said, “you can kind of get a good gauge of what is happening in whatever region you’re in just by listening to their music scene.”

If you are interested in gain-ing more insight in the Scranton community outside of The Uni-versity or you enjoy live music, then make sure to stop by Em-bassy Vinyl at 352 Adams Ave. For more information on Embas-sy Vinyl, you can call the store at (570)341-9350 or e-mail them at [email protected].

By MEgAN DAVIDoVICHSTAFF WRITER

Embassy Vinyl

THE AQUiNAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

“On certain days it’s good!”

Leonardo FernandezYonkers, N.Y.

“I like [it]. Best of the schools I tried.”Deanna Russoi

Hillsborough, N.J.

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Photo exhibit brings Taiwan to ScrantonOn Monday night, the Hope

Horn Gallery on the 4th Floor of Hyland Hall introduced a new art exhibit: “Taiwan Sublime: Four Photography Masters’ Visions of the Treasure Island.” The ex-hibit, lasting until Oct. 7, features a mixture of scenic and artistic photographs relating to Taiwanese clothing, theatre, dance, sculpting and festivals.

Taiwan, the Republic of China, is an island of East Asia found off of the southeastern coast of China’s mainland. It is known for having the largest population and for its beautiful landscapes. The beauty of Taiwan can be seen in its mountainous regions in the east, its western plains and its harbor in the Pacific Ocean. These ele-ments are what the four photogra-phers featured in the exhibit try to display. They, by traveling Taiwan and its islands, have captured the human and natural marvels that Taiwan has to offer.

Starting at the back wall, the exhibit begins with a landscape of a city in Taiwan. Not to be mis-taken for New York City, there are no skyscrapers, traffic jams

or yellow taxis. There is a peace-ful mood given off by the sunset in the background that is reflect-ed off the surrounding harbor. Through the use of slow shutter speeds on the camera, car light trails can be seen throughout the roads, and the atmosphere is bus-tling yet calm.

The scenic photographs con-tinue with one of the mountains in Xizhi, Taipei County. The moun-tains in the background look blue and are surrounded by fog. A

town on a mountain in the front of the photograph is defined, and many houses can be seen by their lights. It doesn’t seem like any in-habitants can be bothered there.

The last pictures on this wall show harbors in Taiwan: the Nei-bei harbor, Su-ao harbor and the Kaohsiung harbor. The Neibei harbor is located in the town of Nanfang-au in Yilan County. This picture includes the fishing en-trepot, which is where seafood flourishes. The Su-ao Harbor,

another fishing harbor in Yilan County, is shown with a light-ning bolt in the distance, against a play with the lighting effects. The Kaohsiung harbor displays the oceanic metropolis that is Tai-wan. Here, in this harbor, lies Tai-wan’s premier maritine shipping hub. Taiwan’s longest river, the Zhuoshui, can be seen in the pho-tograph “River-laced Rice Bowl.” It has this name because the river irrigates rice fields and farmlands on its 186 kilometer journey.

The photos continue to show Chinese-style attire in Taiwanese theatre. The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Company is featured in the apparel, and actors are shown both individually and in perfor-mance. The singular actor in one photo is raking sun-drying rice harvest in his picture, which re-flects his meditative intensity.

This theatre company, founded in 1973 by dance choreographer Lin-Hwai-min, is “known for its fusion of traditional themes with contemporary sensibility, includ-ing striking special effects made possible by modern technology,” according to a photograph cap-tion.

Taiwanese theatre is not lim-ited to physical human action,

however. Wuchouyuan hand pup-pet theatre is also popular and displayed through photographs. The puppet theatre is carried out in Taoist temples because temple festivals are all the rage in Taiwan. Pictures of moments in these fes-tivals show craftsmen designing bamboo frame paper lanterns, hand and string puppets that tell historical and folk tales to on-lookers, dough sculpting and chil-dren playing games, such as top spinning. At these festivals, the Taiwanese enjoy dressing in tradi-tional clothes and wearing hand-made hats that are said to bring on successful hunting. Further-ing the arts, photos of the Taipei dance circle are also shown, as well as the Han-tang Yuefu music ensemble, which uses Nanguan and other Chinese musical tradi-tions that are thousands of years old.

With Taiwan’s beautiful scenery and unique culture, this exhibit is a sight to see. It is free, open to the pub-lic and co-sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office and the Asian Studies Program. If you’re inter-ested in visiting the gallery, the hours are as follows: Sunday through Friday from noon – 4 p.m. and Wednesday evenings from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

“It’s delicious and a great variety.”

Maci MutarelliHuntington, N.Y.

“Absolutely delicious.”

Zach Bell Philadelphia

“I think it’s awesome.”

Chris PeticcaFranklin Lakes, N.J.

By NICoLE LoPEz-ISAArts & Life Editor

thoMaS heintZ / photoGraphy editor LEFT TO right: “Fishing Entrepot” reflects a city in Taiwan and “Mountain Magic” shows the mountains in Xizhi, Taipei County. Both photographs were taken by Chen Chih-hsiung.

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When people typically hear about announcements from the Federal Reserve in the news, they brush it off as unimportant be-cause they think it does not affect them as individuals. While it is true that the Fed does not service you as an individual in the sense that you cannot walk into the Fed and open up a savings account, it does provide services to institu-tions that the average person uses, such as commercial banks and lending institutions.

The Fed keeping interest rates at .25 percent through 2013 has been a hot topic in current finan-cial news, and it affects you per-sonally.

The Fed controls the monetary policy of the country; how much money is actually available to con-sumers. The Fed has several tools on monetary policy that are com-plex financial concepts, but the one that is most relevant to you is the federal funds rate.

A simplified approach on the fed funds rate would be to describe it as the interest rate, or essentially the price, that banks are allowed to borrow money from other banks in the financial system. It is important to understand that the .25percent is not how much you can finance anything at, but lower rates for them translate to lower rates for you.

The Fed is trying on help the

struggling economy by allowing banks to borrow from one another to finance their activities at a very low fed funds rate.

“In normal times, lower rates reduce the cost of borrowing for households, businesses and finan-cial institutions, which spurs bor-rowing and economic activity,” a Wall Street Journal article from 2008 said.

So this seems like a good thing, right? Well, not necessarily. Low interest rates are supposed to in-crease demand by enticing people

to finance large items with a lower

rate than available in stronger eco-nomic times. This is supposed to pump money into the economy to help it grow.

If rates are kept artificially low without consumers spending the money in the economy, it lessens the purchasing power of the dollar.

Supply and demand dictates that the more there is of something, the less valuable it becomes because it is more easily accessible. Ideally, as more people buy the product, then the price of the product goes up because there is less of it available.

In this case, because there is more

money available to consumers, it means money is worth less than it would be if there were higher rates, because then there would be less money available.

So, the low rates can be a good thing for you if you’re looking to finance a car for yourself after graduation, but interest rates kept this low, for this long, could make your dollar buy less gas to put in the car because the purchasing power of your dollar decreased due to more money flooding the market.

Fed lowers interest rate in attempt to relieve economyBy MARk WoRMUTHBusiness Correspondent

Conveniently located next to Northern Lights in downtown Scranton lies Freedlove, a new clothing store aimed for the young at heart. Walking into Freedlove feels like walking into a trendy, brand name Soho store. The clothes are stylish, spunky and fun, but the best part is that it doesn’t include the New York price tag.

Freedlove is owned by sisters Nadine and Elizabeth Bryant from Honesdale. After having diff iculty securing a job after college, the girls thought it was good timing to open a store. They noticed there were no fun stores aimed towards young people in the area and decided to pursue Freedlove.The girls f irst opened the store in Hon-esdale and, due to Freedlove’s success, decided to expand the business to Scranton. Eliza-beth, a graduate of Marywood University, was familiar with the Scranton area and saw it as the ideal place to grow their business due to the proximity to many universities.

Having worked for a New York City fashion designer, Elizabeth was familiar with the New York designers and trade shows. By going to the trade shows and being highly selec-tive with what they purchase, the girls are able to f ind stylish, yet affordable, clothing.

Freedlove brings something different to the Scranton area. The sisters compliment each other and are working on get-ting their name out there. They are currently focusing on mar-keting via social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. In the future, they look to grow the business and make Freed-love a name that is recognized and brought up in conversation around Northeastern Pa. So, the next time you’re walking to the Steamtown mall or grab-bing a latte at Northern Lights, be sure to stop at Freedlove and take a look at the newest trend in Scranton style.

By LAUREN BRIggSBusiness Correspondent


Freedlove new and rising Scranton business

Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, The Wall Street Journal published a very intriguing article about the global gloom that could poten-tially be offset by the European market downfall. Even though the article centered its attention solely on the European market, it affects college students in the United States as well.

A plethora of European na-tions are in a debt crisis. Un-fortunately, some nations such as Greece are in head over their heels with debt, causing them to need bailouts from other nations. Countries who lend these handouts face a decision because they f lirt with the idea of not getting their investments back. The PIGS nations, which includes Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, are facing the highest deficits. This proved true when Greece asked Germa-ny for a bailout, and Germany granted them one. The nations who are undertaking the most are relying on bailouts from other nations to stay af loat. This is taking a toll on the oth-er European countries because they share the same currency through the central banking

system. In order to keep their budgets balanced, these suffer-ing nations need to cut back on programs that people usu-ally take for granted. These cut backs have led to civil unrest because the citizens desire the programs they once had. Poli-ticians are in a very formidable position; do they make room for programs that citizens want,

or cut back to spend on more dire investments? The decisions these prominent leaders make are precarious and truly affect the rest of the global economy.

The European nations inabil-ity to import and export goods is causing a snowball affect globally. Since these nations cannot import, other nations do

not have a way to export their goods. Thus, these nations need to slow down production, which means fewer goods are being bought. Less goods being pro-duced and bought discernably means less revenue. The price for a product consequently in-creases because the scarcity of the product makes it more valu-able. Immense export nations such as China and the United States are taking a cantanker-ous hit economically. Thus, United States manufacturing has slowed down increasingly. With fewer products to pro-duce, the need for workers is at a minimum. Companies need to cut back on spending so sal-ary increases are non-existent.

Besides the evident reasons why importing and exporting cut backs are gruesome, there are side effects which hit home a little more personally. The European situation has made people extremely worried about a possible global recession. People need to make wiser in-vestments due to the sharp decrease in the stock market. This immensely impacts indi-vidual’s investments and pen-sions. With less investments and people cutting back, the college process becomes tan-gled in a glutinous web. The average costs for colleges in the

United States are as follows: public four-year colleges are an average $9,605 per year, private nonprofit four-year colleges are an average $27,293 per year, and public two-year colleges are an average $2,713 per year, as stated by The College Board. What does this mean for the average college student? There are less merit based scholar-ships granted from institutions, and financial aid is at a mini-mum. Students who could only attend a higher education insti-tute based on financial aid are facing troubling times. These severe cut backs bollix the col-lege process for students. With the average cost of college on the rise, students are facing a hard decision about how to fur-ther their education.

Even though the situation of economic gloom may be over the pond in Europe, cut backs there affect the rest of the world. Economics lead to a snowball effect for every-one who participates in global trade. The countries that share the same currency are facing tough times, along with every other country that trades with them. This economic gloom is touching home and affecting the lives of business owners, all the way down the spectrum to college students.

By ANDREA RICkETTIBusiness Correspondent

“Students who could

only attend a higher ed-

ucation institute based

on financial aid face

troubling times.”

European debt crisis snowballs

FEDERAL RESERVE Board of Governors Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks for theEconomic Club of Minnesota Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011.

11THE AQUiNAS September 15, 2011

I got dealt some pretty bad hands in the last few days by forc-es far out of my control. I awoke April 15 to find that the feds had indicted 11 executives on multiple felony charges, including bank fraud and money laundering, at the three top sites in America’s on-line poker market and seized their Web domains.

If you logged on to Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker or Poker-Stars, you got to look at the shiny logo of the FBI. I like to play the 50-cent minimum, no-limit game on Full Tilt, and that’s what I saw that Friday instead of direct ac-cess to the $216.05 that was in my now-frozen online account. No sooner than Monday morn-ing comes around and Standard & Poor’s downgrades the U.S. debt outlook, the Dow plummets 140 points and boom, I’m down an-other six or seven thousand out of my stock-based retirement ac-counts. Where can a sucker get an even break nowadays? Certainly

not from the Obama administra-tion’s Department of Justice, with what can only be called this asi-nine clampdown on online poker.

“Donkey” is the common epi-thet branded on the worst player at any poker table and, in this game, that seems to be the Feds. No one knows for sure how many Americans play online poker for money, but most reliable estimates are about 10 million. What we do know is that last year our fel-low citizens, myself included, wa-gered a whopping $16 billion on the sites now under attack. That’s more than Americans spend going to the movies. Only burro-minded pols would not figure out that with that kind of money on the table and that kind of mass popularity, the logical thing to do would be to fully legalize online poker, regu-late it and tax it the same way we do with brick-and mortar-casinos. Or, if you prefer, as we do with alcohol. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has been leading the charge to do just that and after these in-dictments, he told the Hill news-paper that the crackdown was “an incredible waste of resources.”

And he chided the administra-tion for “protecting the public from the scourge of inside straights.” Well, no player enjoys seeing his or her pocket aces cracked by a don-key indeed, drawing successfully to make that miracle straight. But we’re willing to play the odds and take our chances. It’s our money, not the Justice Department’s. I am not about to defend the specific crimes alleged in the indictments, which boil down to site operators allegedly setting up front compa-nies so that Americans could by-pass absurd legal barriers to trans-fer their money back and forth to the sites, which are based overseas. But this financial monkey business was made inevitable in 2006 when Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed a measure that did not exactly make online poker illegal, but rather outlawed U.S. financial institutions from processing online poker deposits and withdrawals.

For the last five years, play-ers and site operators have found myriad workarounds (good poker players are nothing if not clever), and some of the site operators may

have been a little too creative. It’s not a defense that’s going to work in court, but the money-launder-ing schemes alleged in the federal charges were as predictable an outcome of that 2006 law and the federal mismanagement of online poker as Al Capone was the in-evitable product of Prohibition. And just like Prohibition, this clampdown, which took down the Big three of the American online poker market, cannot and will not stand.

Either the poker community will find one more workaround or, heaven forbid, the U.S. gov-ernment will see the light and use this incident to finally get on with legalizing and cashing in on a mainstream pastime much more popular than either political party. (How many Americans spend nearly as many hours in front of their laptops clicking through the sites of the RNC and DNC as they do sitting in a Texas hold ‘em game?) Indeed, we players even have a formal lobby, the 1.2-mil-lion-member Poker Players Alli-ance, headed by former Republi-can Sen. Alfonse D’Amato of New

York (online poker being the only issue I’ve ever agreed on with for-mer Senator Pothole).

I guarantee you we are not about to fold. Poker is a game of nerve, and all the feds have done is raised the stakes, they haven’t swept the table.

There is, of course, a compel-ling counterargument to be made against online poker. University of Illinois professor John W. Kindt told the Christian Science Moni-tor last week that online betting was “the crack cocaine of gam-bling, putting it in every living room, on every school desk and work desk, and on every iPhone and BlackBerry.”

I know what he means. When I saw the Dow tanking Monday morn, I almost wore my fin-gertips to the bone, using my iPhone to frantically transfer my online stock accounts back and forth trying to offset a face-less house that was handing me a much worse beating than any I had ever suffered from a don-key’s inside straight draw on Full Tilt.

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Colleges price out middle class: even best and brightest can afford it

The wildest college ad-missions story of the year involves a 4-year-old. The tyke’s mother sued a New York City preschool, claim-ing it hadn’t lived up to ad-vertising claims that the $19,000-a-year tuition would set her child on the path to the promised land.

Instead of drilling for the intelligence test needed for admittance to a prestigious elementary school, it seems the girl spent most of her time playing.

“It is no secret that getting a child into the Ivy League starts in nursery school,” the mom said in a legal brief.

Well, Harvard admitted only 6.2 percent of its ap-plicants this year, so perhaps this mother is on to some-thing. In other news, waiting lists for selective schools are at an all-time high. And be-

ing raised by a tiger mother paid off. The daughter of Amy Chua the Chinese mom who recounted her stern childrearing methods in a controversial book was ac-cepted by Harvard and Yale. These are the stories we hear this time of year, as the ac-ceptance and rejection no-tices from top-flight colleges roll in. It’s an entertaining exercise to watch. But from a public policy perspective, it’s almost irrelevant.

Dips in endowments aside, the Ivies and their students will be fine. Even their re-jects will get by. Kids who as-pire to the Ivy League usually have plenty of other choices. Here are some more mean-ingful higher education sto-ries to keep an eye on: Stu-dents at all four campuses of the University of Missouri system will pay higher tu-ition next year. Increases also may be in store at some Kan-sas universities. A report last year by the American Coun-

cil of Trustees and Alumni warned that if tuition at Big 12 universities continues to increase at the rate seen in the last five years, the av-erage family with a middle school student can expect to spend a quarter of its annual household income on that child’s college tuition.

In a milestone moment last year, the total amount of debt owed on student loans moved ahead of the na-tion’s collective credit card debt. Students who bor-rowed money left college last year with an average debt of $24,000. And many are ask-ing whether a college degree still carries enough weight in the job market to make the cost worthwhile. Every autumn, on community col-lege campuses, students and teachers alike weep over test results that show too many high school graduates lack the reading and math skills to enroll in college courses. These students are chan-

neled into remedial classes an expense they hadn’t budgeted for. Lack of preparedness is a big reason that less than a third of the students who en-roll in a community college with the goal of attaining a two-year degree ever receive one.

Four-year colleges also struggle with completion rates. Four of 10 students who enroll at a college or uni-versity don’t earn a bachelor’s degree within six years. For too long, we’ve been focused on the campus entrance.

“Go to college,” we’ve told our young men and women, holding out a degree as the key to the American dream. We’ve offered them scholar-ships and grants and loans and applauded them as they’ve walked through the front gate. But no one pays much attention when they slip quietly out the back door with no degree and tons of debt. That’s starting to change.

The Obama administration has asked states to come up with new approaches for im-proving college completion rates. The Gates Founda-tion is offering incentives to community colleges to work on the problem. Those are good moves, but they confine themselves to the conven-tional wisdom that at least some college is good for ev-eryone.

A growing number of counselors, economists and, yes, academics, are question-ing that wisdom, and instead recommending more ap-prenticeships and vocational training to prepare students for middle-skills jobs.

The solution isn’t one ap-proach or another. Students need options other than col-lege and those who opt for college need support once they get there. College ad-missions dramas make for good reading. Jobs and finan-cial security make for happi-er endings.

Catherine Erbicella

Science & Technology EditorScience Tech12 THE AQUiNAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

On the morning of August 30, 2011, the sun shone brilliantly as Father Quinn announced the name of the new Integrated Sci-ence Center. While the $85 mil-lion project is yet to be completed, the newly-elected President of The University christened the new building as the “Loyola Science Center.” He expressed the need to connect the excellent science pro-grams at The University with the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius Loyola. He noted that this new building, in its containment of the sciences and its connection to St. Thomas Hall, has the potential to become the “academic heart of campus.”

With its transparent glass walls, making for seemingly endless windows, Father Quinn hopes that the Loyola Science Center will serve as a “place to find God in all things.” It is on this architectural feature that Dr. George Gomez chose to elaborate in his explana-tion of the Loyola Science Center. Gomez is considered to be the “project shepherd” of this build-ing. He explained that the glass lends itself to the “transparency of activity” to engage all students in the learning processes that are slated to occur in the Loyola Sci-ence Center. He hopes that the wide-open feel of the building’s structure will lead to the informal sharing of work and research be-tween students and professors of all disciplines. These informal sessions, Gomez noted, are where the most learning and develop-

ment can take place. Since the building is not yet

complete, Gomez focused his at-tention and hopes on the future, hoping to “define culture and tradition” within the transparent walls of the Loyola Science Center. He also announced that phase two of the project, the pending con-nection to the Harper McGinnis wing of St. Thomas Hall, is slated for the fall of 2012.

Completing “the most signifi-cant building in our history” took a whole team of people, whom Fa-ther Quinn acknowledged in his address. He praised the decade-long dedication of the Associate Provost, Dr. Joseph Dreisbach, as well as Provost Dr. Harold Baille, the Board of Trustees and Trea-surer Edward Steinmetz. He cred-ited former President Father Scott Pilarz for being “bold enough” to begin the project. He commended the architects and builders who

made the deadline of phase one, so that students could start their classes of the fall 2011 semester in the Loyola Science Center.

On a tour of the finished part of the Loyola Science Center, facili-tated by Gomez, one can see the beautiful work of those architects, masons and builders. The second floor of the building houses fac-ulty offices on one side, in an in-formal space cased in glass. These offices will be open to other dis-ciplines, in order to foster a more united, interdisciplinary approach to learning.

Across the hall, one does not have to open the doors to view the research labs, for they are also cased in glass. This architectural use of glass, as noted by Gomez, serves to “engage the casual pass-erby” in the learning experiences that are occurring in the labs. He noted, once again, that the com-fortable interaction between stu-

dent and faculty is where the best science occurs; the entire building “becomes a facility for science.”

Even the preparation rooms have been mapped out to fulfill this goal of unity and collabora-tion. They are built in blocks with the one innermost block serving as a teaching lab, while the three outermost blocks serve as research labs. Gomez noted that this ar-chitectural design “blurs the line between traditional teaching and traditional research.”

According to Gomez, even specifically designated labs are considered to be flexible, while remained structured enough to function as an efficient work-space. This flexibility achieves two goals: first, it fosters inter-disciplinary interaction with oth-er branches of science, as well as other fields all together, and, sec-ond, it reduces the overall number of rooms that have to be built. The

latter statement demonstrates the environmentally friendly and effi-cient goals behind this mammoth project.

Gomez remarked that “the greenest space is the one that is not built.”

He explained that the building is built in what he calls “neigh-borhoods” of disciplines, being built across two floors, in a verti-cal expansion. This creates pock-ets of rooms, labs and offices, and also provides for “pockets of cul-ture.” This also creates multiple entry and exit points in order to navigate the non-traditional ver-tical grouping of disciplines. Go-mez explained that it is this “mix-ing and interaction” that creates an inviting, and exciting, atmo-sphere in the Loyola Science Cen-ter. This atmosphere is further enhanced by the plethora of nat-ural light streaming in from the window-walls, which also serve as dry-erase boards that, once written on, will begin to define the pockets and spaces of specific disciplines. However, dry-erase markers are temporary, and the windows will always be transpar-ent, thus always contributing to the “transparency of ideas” that was one of Gomez’s key points about the building.

In his closing remarks, before the tour, Father Pilarz quoted the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “We shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day...man will have discov-ered fire.”

This is his hope for the Loyola Science Center, a hope that can only be fulfilled by the students and faculty collaborating here at The University.

Loyola Science Center, place to find God in all thingsBy CATHERINE ERBICELLA

Sci/Tech Editor

courteSy of the univerSity public relationSUNIVERSITY STUDENTS gather around the laboratory tables in the new Loyola Science Center, which aims to house a variety of research ventures between students and professors.

Karen Hudzinski, a psychol-ogy major with a minor in Span-ish, is a senior and will graduate with the Class of 2012. She has been involved in the Psychology Club, the American Psychological Society Student Caucus (APSSC) and The University Programming Board (Travel and Recreation). She is also a member of The Uni-versity’s Honors Program and Psi Chi, which is the International Honor Society in Psychology. In addition, she is very active in the Psychology Department, and is a teaching assistant and a research assistant. Catie Erbicella asked her about her summer research project, titled “Social Influence and Fleeting Attraction: Generat-ing Compliance through Conver-sational Pausing.”

Q: Why is this subject or area important to you?

A: My honors thesis has its roots in the literatures of social influence and conversational anal-ysis. More specifically, the present project focuses on behavior within a conversation and one’s willing-ness to comply with a request as a result of the preceding conversa-tion. This subject area is impor-tant to me because, as a psychol-ogy major, I possess an interest in individuals’ interactions with others. By collecting and analyz-ing the data I have collected, I can learn more about common social interactions and the way in which individuals interpret certain ele-

ments of a conversation.

Q: What do you want people to learn from your research?

A: As a result of my research findings, I would like people to be aware of the potential effect of pausing during a conversational exchange. More specifically, I would like individuals to know how conversational pausing is re-ceived by the person with whom they are conversing and how con-versational pausing, if used to one’s advantage, may potentially increase a person’s likelihood of complying with a request.

Q: What future developments can come from your research?

A: The data gleaned from the

field study that I conducted this past summer to answer my re-search question has already in-spired a follow-up laboratory study, which is scheduled to be completed this fall to supplement the findings of the field study. My honors thesis is unique in that it marries the diverse literatures of social influence and conversa-tional analysis, which, to the best of my study of published research, is a novel approach to examining the dynamics of a conversation. It is my goal to make a meaningful contribution to the field. I also aim to inspire fellow researchers to seek beyond the boundaries of their respective disciplines and to incorporate seemingly diverse fields of study into their research

to generate more interdisciplinary projects.

Q: Why did you choose this particular person with whom to work and conduct research?

A: I chose to work with Dr. Jes-sica Nolan for my honors thesis because I have been a research assistant under her direction for the past two years. My present hypothesis grew out of a project for which I was a research assis-tant hired through an internal grant received by Dr. Nolan in the summer of 2010. Because she was overseeing that project, she was most familiar with the research question that I raised. Dr. Nolan is also a social psychologist, and my honors thesis examines a so-cial psychological phenomenon and draws on the literature of so-cial influence.

Q: What qualities make him or her an inspirational faculty mem-ber here at The University?

A: Dr. Nolan is an inspiration to all of her students, and I am ex-ceptionally grateful that I have the opportunity to work alongside her and contribute to the field of psy-chology. Dr. Nolan consistently greets her students with a warm smile and expresses a genuine in-terest in the enrichment of their academic careers. One of the most patient and optimistic professors I have encountered, Dr. Nolan en-courages her students to display their talents and challenges stu-dents to extend beyond their as-sumed academic and professional boundaries.

Science scholars: Karen Hudzinski, class of 2012

thoMaS heintZ / photoGraphy editorKAREN HUDZINSKI, a senior psychology major, completed a summer research project about conversational pauses.

On Thursday, one can look for Jupiter below the waning gibbous moon in the evening. The sun sets at around 7:13 this evening; how-ever, the moonrise does not occur until 8:23. Although the moon and Jupiter appear to be close together, Jupiter is 1,560 times farther away in actuality and the planet is also 40 times wider in diameter.

On Friday, Jupiter shines to the right of the waning gibbous moon once the two rise. The moon is predicted to rise this evening at 8:56 p.m.

On Saturday, the Big Dipper has swung around to lie level, sit-uated low in the north-northwest. This can be seen around 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. The farther south one is, the lower it will be.

The late moon rising times will leave a space of moonless observ-ing time, when one will be able to see the newly-discovered M101 supernova at its peak. This su-pernova, discovered in late Aug., is the brightest observable one in decades in the mid-northern lati-tudes.

The mid-northern latitudes stretch vertically 30 to 60 degrees, on either side of the equator. Most of the United States of America is contained within 45 to 50 degrees north of the equator; therefore, it is within the observing area.

By CATHERINE ERBICELLASci/Tech Editor

This week in the sky:Sept 15-Sept 17

By CATHERINE ERBICELLASci/Tech Editor

13THE AQUiNAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Faith Andrew MilewskiFaith Editor

Mass ScheduleMonday-Friday

12:05 p.m. & 4:40 p.m.Chapel of the Sacred Heart

Sacrament of ReconciliationMonday-Friday 11:30 a.m.

Chapel of the Sacred Heart, Reconciliation Room

Sunday11 a.m., 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

Madonna Della Strada ChapelRock Hall, 419 Monroe Ave.

Students and faculty enjoy lecture on bioethicsBy W. RyAN SCHUSTER

Staff Writer

Last Thursday, Sept. 8, the theol-ogy and philosophy departments of The University, jointly with the Diocese of Eastern Pennsyl-vania of the Orthodox Church in America, sponsored a lecture on bioethics by Dr. Tristram Engel-hardt of Rice University. Engle-hardt, a native Texan, holds doc-toral degrees in both medicine and philosophy and is a profes-sor emeritus of medicine at Bay-lor College of Medicine.

As a member of the Orthodox Church in America, he is also an adjunct professor of bioeth-ics and philosophy at St. Herman Seminary in Alaska. His lecture was entitled “Christian Versus Secular Bioethics: Incompatible Versions of Morality and Real-ity.”

Speaking to a room full of students and faculty in Bren-nan Hall, Englehardt argued that contemporary bioethics began as an attempt to provide a moral, yet secular, basis for healthcare in the modern world. He asserted that contemporary debates about issues in medi-cal ethics and bioethics between Christians and secularists result from irreconcilable differences in worldviews, or more basically, disagreements about what mo-rality means.

He described the modern situ-ation as a “culture war,” in which

traditional Christian beliefs about reality and morality are giving way to a secular modern culture with radically different ideas.

This modern culture is marked by relativism, and any attempt to assert a countercultural morality is dismissed as one cultural tra-dition trying to unjustly assert its dominance. Englehardt re-marked that this sort of cast-iron relativism is foolish and harmful.

As an analogy, he used the ex-ample of a doctor diagnosing an illness. A doctor does not present his findings in relativistic terms based on his own worldview but rather asserts them as the truth. Just as we trust in objectivity on the part of our doctors, we need to have moral certainty to navi-gate the complicated modern world. Englehardt argued that attempts to resolve disputes be-tween worldviews by reasoned argument end up inconclusive, as the differing points of view do not have any common ground from which to begin a meaning-ful discussion.

Englehardt next outlined the development of modern bioeth-ics as an attempt to provide a universally-acceptable basis for making moral decisions in the rapidly changing medical field. He traced the lack of an accepted medical morality to legal chang-es of the past century. The medi-cal profession used to function as a guild in which members set their own industrial standards

and code of ethics. Anti-trust legislation, particularly against the American Medical Associa-tion, resulted in a loss of author-ity and autonomy by doctors, particularly with regard to their self-imposed code of profession-al ethics. Efforts to regulate the medical profession from outside disrupted the medical ethics that doctors had set for themselves, and helped create the moral vac-uum in which medicine was, and is, practiced.

The discipline of bioethics was developed to fill this void, according to Englehardt, but it

has failed to do so. Intended to provide a secular code of moral-ity, bioethics has gotten bogged down in the culture of relativism, and has avoided taking a resolute stance on issues so as to avoid causing division. Each politician that adopts a bioethics commit-tee, according to Englehardt, fills it with people that are only go-ing to confirm his already-deter-mined viewpoint.

As a result, bioethics serves as an inadequate replacement for traditional morals. Any attempt at reasoned discourse to come to a moral consensus between op-

posing views is doomed to fail as well without what Dr. Englehardt calls a ‘God’s-eye view,’ or tran-scendent, absolute foundation of moral truths and principles.

Our times present a challenge in the form of a world that is increasingly hostile to the mes-sage and mission of Christianity. Within the realm of medicine, this manifests itself in conflicts over issues such as artificial in-semination, abortion, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The only viable course of ac-tion for Christians, according to Englehardt, is to remain faith-ful to the basic tenets and moral foundations of thier faith, and to live a Christian lifestyle based on prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

Upon finishing his lecture, Englehardt held a question-and-answer session with the audience. Prompted to further explain his comments on the fu-tility of rational argument with respect to morality, he explained that the Orthodox tradition plac-es less emphasis on attempting to discern divine truth through reason than the Catholic Church traditionally has done. Asked by one of the students what advice he had for aspiring physicians, Englehardt replied that he be-lieves in the future it is going to be increasingly difficult to prac-tice medicine morally without breaking the law, and that, in order to preserve any semblance of morality, doctors will have to hold fast to traditional ethics.

By MICHELLE DoUgHERTyStaff Writer

After graduation and before the start of a job or graduate school there is an opportunity that may never come again: the chance to spend a year doing service.

The Jesuit Volunteer Corp (JVC) provides an opportunity such as this to graduates who wish to work full-time serv-ing those in need in the United States and in developing coun-tries.

For those who have made ser-vice a part of their college expe-rience, joining JVC is a way to further grow in one’s commit-ment to service. It is a chance to gain experience that might al-low for a better understanding of future goals.

“It allows you to become more involved with social justice is-sues, and to grow in awareness for issues in the community in which you are living,” Jesuit volunteer, Kim Hotchkiss said.

In August, Jesuit Volunteers

came to Scranton to begin their year-long commitment serv-ing at organizations, including the St. Joseph Center, the Unit-ed Neighborhoods Center, St. Francis of Assisi Soup Kitchen and two parishes in South Side. These volunteers live in an “in-tentional community,” staying in the same house together, sharing meals, and ref lecting on their respective service assign-ments every week.

“I don’t expect for my service experience to change how I live my life, but I do expect it to change how I will teach one day in my classroom,” Nancy Sue Moore, another volunteer, said.

Jesuit volunteers work for a wide spectrum of organiza-tions in 39 U.S. cities and 6 countries. Nearly 300 schools and non-profit organizations around the world depend on the work of Jesuit Volunteers. These volunteers are commit-ted to living simply with each other and in the same environ-ment as those they serve. In all of their work for social justice, the Jesuit volunteers incorpo-rate a strong sense of Ignatian

spirituality. The JVC started in 1956,

when the first Jesuit volunteers began their service to the na-tive people of Alaska in Copper Valley. These volunteers so in-spired others across the country that regional organizations be-gan to form across the country.

In 2009, f ive of the six Je-suit Volunteer Corps organiza-tions merged to form the JVC. With shared resources directed toward one common mission, the JVC is building upon its grassroots history and strives to strengthen and improve the or-ganization.

The decision to take wit-ness to those in need, work for peace and justice, and spend a full year doing so is a weighty one. The choice to “take a year off ” may be cause for hesitation for some, but for others, such as Seth Einterz, it is nothing other than appropriate.

“In college I had a good teacher who suggested that I do this. People led me to this, and I followed because it seemed like the right thing to do,” Seth Ein-terz said.

New Jesuit volunteers help Scranton INAUgURATIoN EUCHARIST

ToDAy, SEPT. 15, 20114:00 P.M.

THE ByRoN RECREATIoN CoMPLEx

PRINCIPAL CELEBRANTMost Reverend Joseph C. Bambera, D.D., J.C.L.

Bishop of Scranton

HoMILISTReverend Michael C. McCarthy, S.J.

Edmund Campion ProfessorExecutive Director, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education

Santa Clara University

DEACoNDeacon David E. Marx

Professor, ChemistryThe University of Scranton

photo courteSy of WikiMediaWithin the realm of medicine, the conflict of Christianity and secu-larism manifests itself in conflicts over issues such as artificial insemination, abortion, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

14 THE AQUiNASCROSSWORDS / NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

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NASA made its next vi-sion for space travel official Wednesday by unveiling plans for a massive rocket it hopes could blast astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, while laying the foundation for a future trip to Mars.

The new rocket, a hybrid of the space shuttle, would cost at least $30 billion through 2021 and was billed by NASA as the most pow-erful in its history, more ro-bust than even the Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon. The agency has targeted an un-manned test flight for 2017 with a second, crewed flight in 2021, though no destina-tion has been selected for either flight.

“The next chapter of America’s space exploration story is being written to-day,” NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said. “Today I am pleased to announce that NASA has selected the design of its new deep-space system that will take Ameri-can astronauts further into space than any nation has gone before.”

What remains to be seen, however, is whether NASA can keep the new project on budget and maintain public support for a mission that won’t launch a crew for a decade.

Another question mark is how NASA will pay for ad-ditional exploration tools, such as landers, which as-tronauts would need once the new “Space Launch Sys-tem” gets them off Earth.

“Rockets are tools. Asking whether it’s a good or bad tool is beside the point. The question is what is the job? What’s it for? What are we doing? I haven’t seen a bud-get scenario in which there is funding for SLS (Space Launch System) and also funding for missions for us to do with it,” Jeff Greason, member of a 2009 presiden-tial panel that examined NASA’s future, said.

The new rocket’s design, as previously reported by the Orlando Sentinel, in-cludes an external fuel tank and twin boosters, similar to the space shuttle, with the plane-like orbiter re-placed by an Apollo-like capsule atop the tank and a new second stage.

Previously, administra-tion sources had hinted its initial flights would loop around the moon. but not land, but NASA said noth-ing was set in stone. The only definite is that NASA still intends to send astro-nauts to an as-yet undes-ignated asteroid by 2025, a goal set by President Barack Obama last year.

“We got to do some searches for asteroids to identify targets. As we look more, we find more and more potential candidates. We need to do some more discovery to see where those targets are,” Bill Ger-stenmaier, associate admin-istrator for NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, said.

The announcement comes at a time of new con-straints on the federal bud-get. Obama has asked agen-cies to submit 2013 budget requests that are 10 percent below their 2011 levels, es-sentially a $1.85 billion cut to NASA.

At three billion a year, the new spaceship would fit within a reduced NASA budget, but future cost overruns could mean NASA having to cannibalize other programs to pay for it, not a rarity for the agency. The Congressional Budget Of-fice has found that NASA cost overruns of 50 percent or more are commonplace.

NASA’s last attempt to re-place the shuttle with a gov-ernment-built spacecraft, a moon program called Con-stellation, was cancelled af-ter five years and more than $13 billion was spent on it, although pieces of Constel-lation, such as the capsule, remain in the current pro-gram.

“The days of unaccount-able calendar and cost over-runs are over, and I look forward to working with my colleagues in the House to hold NASA accountable for the future of human spaceflight and job creation on Florida’s Space Coast,” warned U.S. Rep. Sandy Ad-ams, R-Fla., in a statement.

Much of the new space-craft won’t be up for compe-tition, either.

The agency has settled on a crew capsule built by Lockheed Martin. And the new rocket’s twin boosters, at least initially, would be the same shuttle boosters built by Alliant Techsystems of Minne-sota. New ones, perhaps liquid-fueled, would be selected in a competition, the agency said.

The plans also allow the rocket to grow, from a vehicle capable of lift-ing 70 to 100 metric tons, as much as four times the shuttle’s capacity, before evolving to a lift capac-ity of 130 metric tons, ac-cording to NASA.

It’s a plan championed by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who said the ben-efits were more than what could fit on a budget led-ger.

“In the bosom of ev-ery American, there is a yearning for us to explore the heavens,” he said.

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The top five runners for the men’s cross country team all finished in the top 35, while junior Kathleen Druther led the way for the women Saturday in the Dutchmen Invita-tional.

Senior Patrick Casterline ran the course in 16:58.18 and finished 25th overall to lead the men’s team to a fifth place finish out of 14 teams. Ju-nior Matt Wilcox, senior Jason Bo-henek and sophomore Stefan Boss-baly finished 29th, 32nd and 34th. Freshman Jacob Kanavy rounded out the Royals’ top five with a time of 17:11.46 and placed 35th. Kanavy ran the course just 13 seconds slow-er than the Royals’ top runner.

Druther ran the course in 20:22.64 and paced the Royals with a 19th place finish. The Royals fin-ished seventh out of 12 teams. Soph-omore Mary O’Neill finished just 10 seconds behind Druther but placed 42th overall. Freshman Laura Fay and junior Marissa Dussel finished 83rd and 127th. Sophomore Abby Kearns placed 175th to round out the Royals’ top five.

Both cross country teams will race Sept. 24 in the Dickinson Invi-tational.

By JoE BARESSSports Editor

courteSy of nj SportSKATHLEEN DRUTHER finished 19th overall to lead the Royals to a seventh place finish in the Dutchmen Invitational. Pat Casterline led the way for the men’s team. Casterline placed 25th overall while the Royals finished fifth as a team.

Casterline, Dru-ther lead men and women’s cross country

golf team starts season strongEd Karpovich has been the

head golf coach at The University for over 29 years and has seen his fair share of teams. This may be one of those years that he has a good team on his hands.

The Royals golf team shot a 302 and won the Sept. 4 Utica Invita-tional by ten strokes over Elmira College. They followed up their Utica Invitational performance by defeating King’s College Monday by 30 strokes.

“I’m pretty excited about this

year’s golf team,” Karpovich said. “Everyone’s game has really im-proved and the team is playing at another level than last year.”

Depth has also been a contrib-uting factor to Scranton’s early success. The Royals lost only one starter from last year’s team. This year’s team is lead by co-captains senior Rob Bresnahan and junior Chris Schank. Bresnahan is a four-year starter for Scranton, while Schank has received the nickname “Mr. Consistency” from his head coach, likely for his 21 rounds of sub-80 golf in his college career. Schank shot a 76 against King’s.

Other starters include sopho-more Justin Riley, who is the lon-gest hitter in the Empire 8 Con-ference and has an unbelievable amount of potential, according to Karpovich. Jamie Bresnahan, Rob Bresnahan’s cousin, was named 1st team All-Empire 8 Confer-ence last season as a sophomore. Other players include sophomore Charles Hudacek, who had the lowest score for the Royals at the Utica Invitational, and sophomore transfer student Grant Gulick, who Karpovich said immediately stepped into the lineup because of his talent.

“We can put any of our guys in the lineup and we don’t lose much,” Karpovich said.

The Royals will play the first two rounds of the Elite 8 Confer-ence championships Sept. 17-18 at Yahnundasis Golf Club in New York. Karpovich believes that Scranton has a good chance at winning this year and hopes to re-ceive an accolade that would be an unbelievable accomplishment. A positive outcome in the first two rounds of the conference champi-onships is important if the Royals want to stay in contention for the final two rounds.

By PAT ToUCHEyStaff Writer

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ALSo INCLUDEDMen’s soccer winlessDruther leads cross country

Field hockey team wins threeWomen’s soccer splits gamesGolf team off to solid startSports

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Field hockey team undefeatedBy ToM FoTIStaff Writer

The Scranton field hockey team erased a two-goal deficit to defeat Arcadia University 4-2 Saturday. The victory improved Scranton’s record to 3-0, which is its best start in the program’s history since 1998 when the team won 16 games, tying a school record.

Arcadia jumped out to an early lead, scoring within the first two minutes of the game. At the eight-minute mark, Arcadia scored again and Scranton found itself in a 2-0 hole.

Junior forward Gretchen Kempf decided to take matters into her own hands and scored her first goal of the match to cut the Arca-dia lead in half. The team found momentum and began to push for another goal before halftime. Kempf scored her fifth goal of the

season and her second of the game about 26 minutes into the first half to tie the game at two.

“After the second goal went in, it was the light at the end of the tunnel for us,” Kempf said. “I feel like after our two goals were scored we had a much more offen-sive state of mind. Scranton field hockey hasn’t exactly been known for making up for lost time in past seasons, but after our two goals we realized just how fast a game can change.”

The Royals immediately took control after halftime when Cait-lin Liberatore scored 87 seconds into the second half to give Scran-ton its first lead of the game.

The Scranton defense shut down the Knights in the second half and only allowed one Arcadia shot.

Kaela Mahon, one of the team’s two captains, scored the fourth and final goal of the match to ex-

tend the lead to 4-2. Kempf credit-ed the second half outburst to the team pushing up and rushing the ball instead of waiting to attack.

“We wanted to be the first to the ball and knock them off their feet as well as tire them out,” Kempf said. “The other team was getting frustrated and this just added to our offensive state of mind, be-cause we knew the pressure of us pushing up was really getting to them.”

Mahon’s goal secured the vic-tory for the Royals and kept its undefeated season alive.

Kempf extended her scoring streak to three games with her two goals. Heading into the game, Kempf had already matched her total in goals from last year.

In the past four games, the team has outscored its opponents 10-3, while only allowing an average of four shots per match. Kempf said that the idea of matching the 1998

team kept everyone focused.The team will look to extend its

winning streak Thursday against

Immaculata University. The next home game for the team will be Wednesday at 4 p.m.

courteSy of nj SportSJUNIOR FORWARD Gretchen Kempf, right, fights for the ball in a game against Marywood University earlier this season. Kempf scored two goals in the Royals’ 4-2 victory over Araca-dia. Scranton remains undefeated this season with a 3-0 start, which is the best start for the program since 1998.

The Royals’ soccer team was un-able to stay perfect at home over the weekend during the Joe Boch-icchio Memorial Classic, winning against Lebanon Valley 3-2 Satur-day but losing to Swarthmore in overtime 1-0 Sunday.

Scranton went into its third game of the season against Leba-non Valley after a pair of strong showings on the road. The Royals shut out York College of Pennsyl-vania 4-0 Sept. 1 and overwhelmed William Patterson University 5-1 Sept. 3.

Scranton struck first in its game against Lebanon Valley when sophomore forward Rebecca Hex-tall scored off freshman Katie O’Hanlon’s cross fewer than six minutes into the game. The Fly-ing Dutchmen answered back three minutes later, when junior Stevi Laird scored off a header assisted by senior Sara Drabenstadt. A few minutes later Laird converted a penalty kick, giving the Flying Dutchmen a 2-1 lead.

Junior midfielder Sydney Park-er led the comeback for Scranton. Parker assisted senior Christina Cognetti’s game-tying header with

a corner kick near the end of the first half.

Both sides remained tied throughout much of the second half, until Parker broke through the Lebanon Valley defense. In the final two minutes of regulation, Parker scored what would be the game-winning unassisted goal. It was her ninth career goal and her first goal of the season.

The Royals hoped to remain un-defeated this season in their first game against Swarthmore since 1992, but the Garnet stifled the Scranton attack.

Despite the Royals 19-4 shot ad-vantage, Scranton couldn’t break through the Swarthmore defense. Sophomore forward Samantha Russo led the Royals with nine shots.

Junior goalkeeper Marie Mutryn shined for Swarthmore, recording seven saves, five of which came within the first 25 minutes of play.

Strong defensive play pushed the game into overtime. Hextall had an opportunity to win the game with a score, but Mutryn made another save.

Swarthmore senior Emily Cole-man claimed a loose ball on the right side of the field 26 minutes into overtime and drilled a shot

from 16 yards out to score the game-ending goal.

Swarthmore improved to 3-2 with the win. Scranton’s first loss of the season dropped the Royals’ record to 3-1. It was Swarthmore’s first win over Scranton in school history.

The Royals will face Delaware Valley in their next game on the road Saturday at noon.

Women’s soccer team splits non-conference home games

By CoRy BURRELLStaff Writer

courteSy of nj SportSJUNIOR MIDFIELDER Sydney Parker scored the game-winning goal in the Royals’ 3-2 victory against Lebanon Val-ley. Parker also had the game-tying assist. Despite their suc-cess Saturday, the Royals lost their first game of the season in overtime Sunday.

The men’s soccer team remains winless after dropping two straight road games this weekend in upstate New York. Roberts Wesleya Col-lege beat the Royals 3-0 Saturday while St. John Fisher College held Scranton scoreless again in its 1-0 win Sunday. With the two losses, the Royals drop to 0-2-2 on the season.

The Royals fell behind early in their match against Roberts Wesleyan. The Raiders’ freshman midfielder Michael Cunningham scored the first goal just over eight minutes into the game on an un-assisted play. Roberts Wesleyan added to their lead later in the half when senior forward Brent Ow-ens scored an unassisted goal with fewer than 15 minutes remaining. The Raiders headed into halftime up 2-0.

Roberts Wesleyan added its fi-nal goal in the 75th minute when freshman midfielder Stephen Stew-art scored an unassisted goal to seal the game. The Royals ended the game with just four shots on goal compared to 12 shots by Roberts Wesleyan. Junior goalkeeper Jamie

Dillon played the entire game for the Royals and finished with four saves.

“We got down early and had a hard time playing catch up for the whole game,” junior midfielder Bill McGuiness said. “We needed to execute our game plan better. We have three winnable games coming up so we are beginning to focus it on those teams.”

The Royals looked to turn things around Sunday against St. John Fisher College. The entire first half was a defensive battle and was scoreless at the half. Freshman Matt Silvi of St. John Fisher broke the tie 10 minutes into the second half by scoring off a corner kick. Both teams battled for the rest of the game but the Royals were un-able to answer. Scranton held the advantage over St. John Fisher in shots on goal 10-7 but was unable to capitalize on any of the oppor-tunities.

Dillon again had four saves for the Royals in the loss.

The Royals will look to get their first win of the season when they play at home for two weekend games at Fitzpatrick Field against Mt. St. Vincent College and Mt. St. Mary University at 1 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

By kEVIN DERMoDyStaff Writer

Men’s soccer team still searching for first win

UPCoMINg gAMESFiELD HOCKEY

9/17 @ king’s 1 p.m.

9/21 Albright 4 p.m.

9/25 goucher 12 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY

9/24 Dickinson Invitation-al 11 a.m.

10/8 Desales Invitational 10:30 a.m.

MEN’S SOCCER

9/17 Mt. St. Vincent 1 p.m.

9/18 Mt. St. Mary’s 2 p.m.

9/20 Misericordia 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

9/17 @ Delaware Valley 12 p.m.

9/21 Marywood 7 p.m.

9/24 @ gocuher 3:30 p.m.

GOLF

9/17-18 Empire 8 Confer-ence Championships

“It wasn’t a dream. It really happened.”

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