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► h i n e s wa r dMatt Mascolo offers his analysis of the respective futures of the Steelers and Hines Ward.

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► T R A S H I O N S H O WAllegheny sustainability will strut its stuff down the runway on Saturday for the annual S.E.A. Trashion Show.

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Special interest housing to declineBy CHELSEA FLEISCHMANNews Co-Editorfleiscc@allegheny.edu

Next year there will only be nine special interest houses on campus, a decrease from the 17 houses the college currently sponsors.

Aft er reviewing student feedback from Allegheny Stu-dent Government’s 2011-2012 Student Life Survey, the Offi ce of Residence Life originally set aside just seven special interest houses for next year, according to Joe Hall, assistant director of Residence Life

Out of 17 applications, fi ve house proposals were accepted for the 2012-2013 school year.

Only twenty-three percent of the 637 students that re-sponded to the survey felt that there should be less special interest housing, according to Nicole Piccirillo, ’12, director of student aff airs.

Th irty-nine percent thought that the current number was adequate and the remaining 38 percent thought the school needed more special interest housing.

Th e Musicians in Mead-ville and Student Experimen-

tal Th eatre houses are the only two of the fi ve approved houses that are new to campus.

Since just fi ve of the seven potential houses were fi lled, the two remaining houses will be included in the room selec-tion process for a total of 15 college-owned house options in the 2012-2013 year.

Hall said that students fi rst submit an application with their proposed house theme. Th ey are then given the op-portunity to present their ideas and a mission statement to a committee made up of Resi-dence Life faculty, staff , resi-dence advisors, and an ASG representative.

“We review past perfor-mance, new ideas, creativity, and ideas that can easily be in-tegrated into the campus com-munity,” Hall said in an e-mail.

Th ere are four additional special interest houses, ABC, Social Justice, Queers and Al-lies, and Sustainability, that were not included in the spe-cial interest proposal process but will still be present next year.

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Musicians work to revive local sceneBy DAN BAUEREditor-in-Chief of Webbauerd@allegheny.edu

Once upon a time, in the nineties, the Meadville area had a music scene.

A real live music scene, for local bands and national acts alike. Fred Oakman, Mead-ville native and local musician, rattles off the names of a few bands that came through the Edinboro-Erie-Meadville cir-cuit.

He rattles them off casually while my jaw drops. Goldfi n-ger, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Th e Dillinger Four.

Th e Alkaline Trio once tried to come through, having heard great things about “Th e Shack” in Meadville by word of mouth.

But Th e Shack turned out to be a high school kid’s par-ents’ barn and the show would have been on a school night, so things didn’t work out. So it goes.

“Meadville happened to be almost a strange kind of Mecca in Pennsylvania,” he says, again quite casually. “It’s a smaller town and kids don’t have as much to do. So we made things to do.”

Oakman was in a variety of bands back when the scene was thriving. He picked up guitar in seventh grade aft er seeing a local band called Jerkwater play at the Woodcock Town-ship Building.

“It was the greatest thing I had ever seen in my life,” he

said. “It was angry, it was fun, it was really raw... I saw these people a little older than me who were, in my opinion, masters of guitar in these bands. I was like, ‘If they can do it, I can do it.”

Oakman started Th e Twir-pentines, a punk band, with some friends in 1994. Th is was before Green Day had really broken through and before Blink-182 had inspired every-one and their brother to start a band. It was, in Oakman’s words, a “diff erent” time.

“My buddies and I, we would get out of school and people would throw mud at us,” he said. “People were re-ally judgmental back then. So this little thing we had, we felt like it was our own place to get away, and there weren’t a lot of people who really under-stood.”

Th e Twirpentines evolved as they got older. Th ey put out two CDs along with a seven-inch record and an eight song demo tape. Th ey toured the United States. But eventually, things came to an end.

“We played, we had a run, we all got a college educa-tion... everybody had their own thing they had going on,” said Oakman. “We said, ‘we’re not paying the bills, we’ve had a great run. Let’s have one last show.”

Th e Twirpentines played their farewell show to a packed house in 2002.

“Th ere wasn’t even shoulder room,” said Oakman. “It was crazy.”

Not long aft er, Oakman formed another punk band, Signal Home.

“At that point, we had legs on us,” he said. “Coming out of the Twirpentines, people knew who we were. We had a little bit of traction.”

Signal Home’s break came

out of an instant message from JT Woodruff of Hawthorne Heights, who Oakman had met while still playing with the Twirpentines. Woodruff was starting up a label called Car-

Photos courtesy of Fred OakmanABOVE: Signal Home and their debut album, “A Fragile Constitutional.” Signal Home was signed briefl y to Carbon Copy Media. BELOW: The Twirpentines and their album, “Goodnight, Porchlight.”

bon Copy Media, and soon enough, Signal Home was signed.

“It was crazy,” said Oak-man. “Coming from being in seventh grade, being made fun of for looking a certain way, being from a small town and not really living anywhere else, to going to Best Buy and Target and seeing your CD on a shelf... we said ‘You know what, if you’ve got a passion, you can follow it. It just takes a lot of time and eff ort.’”

Signal Home began tour-ing, playing shows around the country, sometimes headlin-ing, sometimes opening for Hawthorne Heights. Th ey released their fi rst album, A Fragile Constitutional, in 2006. Th ey still had the trap-pings of the small-town, do-it-yourself punk band. Th ey were traveling without a booking agent or a manager, handling things as they came.

“It was at the point where it was either going to go one way or another,” said Oakman.

And, as it turned out, it didn’t last long. Hawthorne Heights got into a lawsuit with their label and Carbon Copy Media went defunct. Signal Home’s contract was voided.

“It just didn’t pan out,” said Oakman. “We were getting

a little older, and we said ‘We don’t have enough money to sit and write a new record. We

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didn’t make the right kind of contacts while we were on the road because we thought we had a bed to lay in at the end of the night and it turned out that we didn’t.”

Signal Home went on indef-inite hiatus and Oakman began a solo career playing folk mu-sic. He released an album and started a tour.

“Touring was cathartic, but it was equally depressing,” said Oakman. “Th ere was a point where I opened my guitar case and I had this wad of money that was all I had to my name. It was in some faraway state. I looked at it and I thought, ‘Wow. To go from playing shows to 4,000 people and hav-ing a CD in Best Buy... to open-ing up my guitar case and hav-ing 35 dollars to my name and having no idea when I’m going to get paid next is a tough thing to go through... I better get a le-git job. Th is isn’t cutting it.”

Oakman came back to Meadville and got a job with the Commonwealth of Penn-sylvania. He’s still playing as a solo act and just released an EP. He also started a new band in December 2011 called One if by Land.

“I’m trying to fi nd that happy medium where you can aff ord to do the things you love and not worry about your debt,” he said.

Oakman is also trying to revive the music scene that he grew up playing in by opening up venues such as the Gard-ner Th eater above the Market House to local music.

“I would not be the per-son I am today if it weren’t for those shows,” said Oakman. “It changed my life. I would like to see that happen again.”

Along with local musician Seth Brewster, Oakman orga-nized a last-minute show at the Gardner Th eater last Decem-ber and was encouraged by the response.

“Th e turnout blew our minds,” said Oakman. “Th at told us that people want to go out, they want to see local music, and they don’t want to necessarily sit in a smoky bar to do it.”

Th at show inspired an on-going series called Indie Nights on Market. On the fi rst Friday of every month, the Gardner Th eater will open up to musi-cians from Meadville and the tri-state area.

Th e fi rst show is tonight, Friday, March 1. Oakman will headline, along with Tyler Smi-lo of Ohio and Lauren Joyce of Edinboro.

“We’re just trying to create an awareness of the talent in our backyard,” said Oakman. “We feel like we can get some-thing off the ground.”

Photos courtesy of Fred OakmanABOVE: A Twirpentines show in Erie, featuring My Chemical Romance before they signed to Reprise Records. BELOW: “When prom came around, we felt like we didn’t fi t in,” said Oakman. “We’d get dressed up and have amazing bands play right now the road.

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Th e committee off ers some special interest houses a three-year reapplication process al-ternative, which was applied to these four houses. Hall said that the decision to extend a three-year alternative to houses is based upon a strong review of past performance and the importance of those particular organizations on campus.

Th e Lighthouse, which of-fers a space of Christian fellow-ship, and the Animal Welfare House, created by the Animal Welfare of Allegheny club, were also off ered the three-year alternative for next year’s appli-cation process.

Under this alternative reap-plication, selected houses must only reapply every three years.

Hall said approximately 65 students lived in special inter-est housing for the 2011-2012 school year.

Houses can accommodate anywhere between three and seven students. He said that many of the current houses did not reapply for next year.

“Th ere are no fi nancial ben-efi ts to these specifi c commu-nities,” he said. “Th e houses are there to provide programming and educational opportunities to students and the commu-nity.”

Katie Horan, ’13, and Liz

Lennon, ’13, have lived in the Animal Welfare House for the past two years.

Th ey said that four offi cers from the Animal Welfare club resid-ed in the house be-fore them. Horan and Lennon ap-plied for the house their sophomore years, along with two other club members.

“Th e fi rst year we were worried because we were all new people ap-plying and were unfamiliar with the requirements of a special inter-est house as well as the application process,” Lennon said. “It was cer-tainly made easier, however, by the fact that the house was already in ex-istence.”

Th e Meditation House, though present in years past but not this year, was one of the fi ve pro-posals accepted for next year.

Neither Lennon or Horan could remember fi lling out

questions regarding special in-terest housing, but both agreed that the number of houses should not be reduced.

“Special interest housing should be in-creased because it will look better for resi-dence life as the stu-dents that live in these spaces provide the col-lege with a greater ben-efi t than students that live in college owned houses without provid-ing events to campus,” Horan said.

Katrina Hohlfeld, ’13, also applied for special interest housing for 2012-2013. Her and her three friends’ idea for a “Cultural Cooking House” were rejected.

“We came up with it because we all love to cook, come from diff erent cultural back-grounds, and currently have insuffi cient kitch-ens,” she said. “Th e idea revolved around hav-ing open houses where we could present the campus with one style

of cooking and explain a bit about how food operates in the social fabric of that specifi c culture.”

Hohlfeld said that she thought their presentation be-fore the committee went well. She said that the committee asked a question or two before thanking and escorting them out. She also said there was no explanation as to why their proposal was rejected, just that many groups had applied for few spaces.

“While we were disap-pointed, we were not shocked by this decision,” Hohlfeld said. “Th is is not the fi rst time that residence life has failed us. Honestly, it’s hard not to take it personally when no explana-tion is given as to why some-one else received funding for their ideas.”

Hohlfeld said that she was frustrated by the room draw process, but because she would lose her fi nancial aid in living off campus senior year, she will endure it again.

“If student feedback indi-cated that they wanted to cut special interest housing, it is because the houses that exist have not proven to have the eff ect on campus that they are supposed to,” she said. “Hon-estly, that’s a shame, because I know my roommates and I would have done something special and would have really appreciated that house.”

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If student feedback indi-cated that they wanted to cut special inter-est housing, it is because the houses that exist have not proven to have the effect on campus that they are sup-posed to.

Katrina Hohlfeld, ’13

I almost feel bad for relating how I really feel about this fl ick because I went into it with such high hopes, but truly, this one stunk.

In the equation of mov-ies, this one made sense. Paul Rudd plus Jennifer Aniston plus quirky premise equals good movie? Th at’s what we all hoped.

What started off as a cre-ative spin on the classic rom-com spiraled into exaggeration, and what seemed like painfully scripted antics had me begging for the credits to roll.

Paul Rudd and Jennifer An-iston are a overworked Man-

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‘Wanderlust’ lacks luster

Although ‘Wanderlust’ started out with potential, the fi lm’s poor plot and stale jokes quickly caused the movie to fall fl at, despite the presence of hollywood veterans Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston.

By BEN DAUBERMovie Reviewerdauberb@allegheny.edu

One lone can of pumpkin sat on my dresser for weeks, staring at me, begging to be eaten. Since the end of winter break, I’d saved it, not knowing what to bake.

Eventually I grew tired of only looking at the pumpkin and landed on a classic recipe of my childhood: pumpkin cookies, compliments of my mom Jane. It’s about time you become acquainted with her on a fi rst-name basis. She’s the person I get most of my recipes from. She’s been a wonderful cook and baker throughout my entire life, so I have a habit of sharing with you some of her recipes that I loved growing up. Touching, isn’t it?

Well, I’m no amateur at baking these pumpkin cook-ies. Sometimes I use raisins or chocolate chips, but I decided to go au-natural with this last can of pumpkin in my posses-sion.

Th e last time I baked them, a friend coined them “cloud cookies.” In comparison to my pumpkin muffi ns, these cookies are light, airy and scrumptious. INSTRUCTIONS:

First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and get out two bowls: one for dry, and one larger bowl for wet ingredients.

In the smaller of the two

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bowls, combine two cups fl our, one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon baking soda, one teaspoon cinnamon and one-half teaspoon of salt.

In the larger bowl, mix (in the following order): one cup soft ened butter with one cup sugar, and then add one cup pumpkin, one egg, and one teaspoon vanilla extract. Mix well before gradually adding the dry mixture to the wet bowl.

If you want to add nuts or raisins or chocolate, now’s the time.

Th en, using a spoon, drop cookies onto nonstick cookie sheet. If you do not own a non-stick cookie sheet, be sure to grease your cookie sheet.

Size is left up to your per-sonal preference here. Make them big or small, but don’t try all diff erent sizes on the same cookie sheet. You’re wondering why, huh? Because they cook at diff erent speeds, dumbass.

But if you use a normal ta-blespoon, then they take about 10 to 12 minutes. A batch makes well over two dozen too, so there are plenty to share with your friends.

Th ey go well with tea and/or coff ee, according to my per-sonal experience. I even like to grab one on the go for break-fast on the way to my 8 a.m. class.

ELAINA MERCATORIS/THE CAMPUSElaina’s pumpkin cookies are “light and airy” treats.

The fi nished cookies, freshly baked.

Anais Mitchell’s “Young Man in America” best album of 2012, so farBy CODY MILLERMusic Reviewermillerc3@allegheny.edu

hattan couple that suddenly fi nd themselves out of work and at odds in their relation-ship. Th eir only option is to move in with Rudd’s caustically obnoxious brother Rick.

Along the way, they stumble upon a laid back hippy com-mune called Elysium which seems to be exactly what the stressed out duo needed.

At fi rst the stereotyping of both Rick (the commercial polo wearing suburban d-bag) and the Elysium (dirty nudist vegan hippies) seemed a de-lightful contrast.

Quirkiness abounded and the fi lm seemed to be heading the right direction. However, not even Rudd’s sarcastic and relatable style of situational

humor could pull this fi lm out of the crapper.

Th e true issue with the fi lm is that despite a creative and unexplored premise the fi lm squished all of the plot devel-opment into the fi nal third of the fi lm.

In the fi rst third I was de-lightedly optimistic. Th e sec-ond third I started to notice the jokes were getting old. In the closing portion however, I was biting my lip, checking the time and coming to grips with the reality that this movie was awful.

Th e actors did their best; truly this fi lm was neither Rudd nor Aniston’s fault. Di-rector David Wain needs to be sat down…. Immediately. So

much potential with so little substance left a bitter taste in my mouth.

A handful of low caliber one liners and an eclectic cast of funny people just can’t over-come the poor plot develop-ment. If beating a dead horse was a crime (which it may very well be) everyone who green-lighted this movie should go to jail.

To put it metaphorically, this fi lm was like a kid with all the potential in the world who tried meth, and as we all well know, you can’t try meth, not even once. Th is fl ick is a C-, don’t see it. Just imagine that it was good and go with that.

Earlier this year, I called P.J Harvey “rock’s most consis-tently brilliant songwriter,” but I can’t help to think that with Young Main in America, Anais Mitchell might just be on the fringes of claiming this distinc-tion.

Mitchell’s previous release, Hadestown, was something akin to a ‘folk opera’ – a con-cept album framed around the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Ambitious, grandi-ose, and poignant, it was a mu-sical tour de force that, in a just world, would have catapulted Mitchell to stardom.

Young Man in America, the Vermont-based folkie’s fi ft h studio release feels somewhat less ambitious, but ever more poignant.

In the opener “Wilder-land,” Mitchell immediately immerses the listener in a dis-parate atmosphere of wrench-ing, trudging guitar, dissonant, screeching violins, and sim-plistic yet powerful thudding percussion. Th e piece is a tes-tament to Mitchell’s songwrit-ing prowess – she uses the lush instrumental interplay not to mask any sort of inadequacy within her music. Instead, each

gritty note rings with purpose. All of this held is together by Mitchell’s gorgeously morose vibrato, which sounds like a slightly graceful, tuneful nod to Joanna Newsom.

Th e title track builds upon this launching point as Mitchell leads the listener through the despondency and disillusionment of ru-ral America. It rings with organic, aff ect-ing texture akin to Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock.

Mitchell’s great-est strength is her childlike wistfulness. With this, she guides the listener through a supple, fl uid course of brilliant tracks that conveys at rustic landscape of timeless, genre-defying beauty. Th is bolsters Young Man of America as not merely a collec-tion, but a genuine album. Individually, none of these tracks would make ex-ceptional singles, but that is the point. Th ese are songs that demand to be listened to with-in the context of something greater.

Even “Venus,” by far the al-bum’s most poppy track, feels somewhat meaningless absent of context. On the chorus, Mitchell sings, “I’m not mak-

ing any other plans, I just want to see your face again.” Without the spine-tingling anguish of the preceding track, “Dyin’ Day,” the piece feels cheap-ened, and the full extent of this bliss-ful triumph is lost.

Th e conclusion of this journey is also perhaps its peak. “Ships” plays like a placid, pas-toral reverie. But it never veers off into pretent iousness , retaining a sort of campfi re-like sin-cerity. It shows that Mitchell doesn’t need to sound huge to sound powerful. She commands an atmosphere of her

own. Almost a direct retort to the title track, it speaks to a perennially naïve American optimism that opportunity will come, you just have to wait un-til ‘your ship comes in.’

Th ese pieces air humility

and pastoral homeliness. May-be that is because Mitchell has never truly ascended beyond her humble beginnings. She is a relatively obscure, albeit critically adored, well-educat-ed thirty-something trudging along a busy tour circuit of cof-feehouses, downtown bar ven-ues, and the occasional theater.

But, this is centrally why Young Man in America is so brilliant. Mitchell feels un-scathed by misguided ambi-tion and utterly transcendent of label pressures or fan expec-tations, and this rawness bleeds into her quality of her work. I get this sense, that while Young Man in America is certainly thematically rich, that Mitch-ell is not over-thinking these tracks. She’s just gliding along, impetuously following what feels right.

Young Man in America is the work of incisive social criti-cism and raw authenticity. It is the best album I have listened to this year, and placed against the recent stream of Pitchfork-darlings, this feels even truer. Anais Mitchell has released an album that is above trendy. It is a rare album that touches upon the world we live in, while si-multaneously perched in a world of its own.

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“Mitchell is not over-thinking these tracks. She’s just gliding along, impetuously following what feels right.”

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Heather Neylon, ’12, re-members the precise moment she stepped onto the runway for the annual Trashion Show.

“It was sophomore year. My friends just came up to me last minute. It was literally the day of the Trashion Show and [they] wanted to make an out-fi t,” she said. “I literally sewed plastic bags together and made this really ramshackle dress thing. And she made an ar-mored suit out of cardboard.”

“It was probably the worst one at the trashion show that year,” she added. “But it was fun because no one really cared.”

Now on her third year of participation in the Trashion Show, an annual event that showcases creative outfi ts com-posed of trash and compost materials, Neylon carefully stitched together her latest out-fi t, a dress made of coff ee fi lters unsuited for GFC’s machines.

Cloth-like materials suit her best, she explained. For couple years, Neylon crocheted strands of discarded plastic bags into bracelets and worked in the Playshop’s costume shop, building costumes for theatre majors.

“Obviously not all trash can be made into something,” she said. “But there are some things that have potential that you can really use.”

“Really anything you have around the house can be turned into something if you put the time into it,” she added.

“[Th e show is] a good way to engage the campus commu-nity,” said Tiff any Ng, ’14. “Our message is always emphasizing the importance of waste mini-mization and I think it’s a great way to use trash. It’s not just something you throw away.”

Nathan Malachowski, ’14, the Trashion Show’s Master of Ceremonies, agreed.

“Also, it keeps focus on cre-ative aspects of innovation to

environmental problems, not necessarily in that direct sense, but through being creative and having fun,” he said.

Ng plans to put together the outfi t for her model, Pranav Aurora, ’14, on Friday before the show. Originally, she only planned to help organize. But when Aurora asked if she would design a costume for him, she agreed.

“I played around with a lot of objects,” she said. “I have old CDs and I smashed them, and I think by now I want to make a turtle design, just because I thought it was very appealing and I’d like to have a water de-sign theme.”

In the three years since its inception, the Trashion Show’s popularity exploded. Maranda Nemeth, ’13, president of Stu-dents for Environmental Ac-tion, created several commit-tees to handle the logistics of the event.

“It’s really gotten a lot big-ger,” she said, citing the rising number of volunteer models. “Th e number grew enormous-ly more because people know what it was and got much more excited. I hope to see more people than I did last year and defi nitely the fi rst year.”

“Th is year we have a lot more coverage. We’re getting so much publicity,” she added.

Nemeth began planning the show during winter break and believes the planning process is going well.

“It’s not as hard as it used to be,” she said. “Th e last two years were a lot harder. We al-ready have things established. We already know what to ex-pect and know the things we need to do in order to make it what it is. And everything’s re-corded.”

Th e fashion show has had its fair share of bumps in the road. Nemeth feels nervous inherit-ing command of an event the former president of SEC, Paula Frisch, passionately promoted and organized. While she won’t

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be wearing a costume or stand-ing as an MC, she remains op-timistic about Saturday’s show.

“I’d rather be working on organizing a rally for the tires to energy facility. Th at’s what I always get nervous about, too,” she said. “But I think that on Saturday it will be really good.”

Th e Trashion Show is or-ganized solely by Allegheny students. Malachowski com-mented on the diffi culties of getting already overscheduled students to commit.

“It’s hard to get positive con-fi rmations out of people, but it’s still working out,” he said.

Other problems with fac-ulty arose as well, according to Nemeth.

“On Monday, four of our judges dropped out of fi ve. Abby was calling me and tell-ing me we don’t have any judges,” Nemeth said. “And I was just like, ‘Shit, it’s Monday! It’s in like fi ve days!” So within a couple days, the majority of our judge board dropped. But we picked it up and now we have new judges.”

“Sometimes these things just happen and you think, ‘Oh my God, this is horrible,’” she added.

Nonetheless, the Trashion Show quickly attracted the at-tention of other organizations. Second Nature, an organiza-tion dedicated to promoting sustainability in higher edu-cation, has moved Allegheny College into a semi-fi nalist slot for its Climate Leadership Award. Two other magazines have indicated interest in cov-ering the show.

“Th ere’s a lot more campus interest,” said Neylon. “When we were starting to make our costumes this year someone was already interviewing us for their class.”

Nemeth agreed. “Th is year we have a lot more coverage. We’re getting so much public-ity.”

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While the majority of the track and fi eld team took a weekend away from competi-tion to prepare for the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships in Wabash, Indiana, teammates Taylor Or-dines, ’15, Nathan Taggert, ’15, and sophomore Zach Hill be-gan competition last weekend.

Prior to the break, the team has competed every weekend for the last three weeks.

Th e break left valuable time not traveling and allows ath-letes to catch up with anything they need to on or off the track.

A weekend with no com-petition does not translate to a weekend of relaxation.

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“We are touching up on some main things we need to work on,” said Head Coach Brent Wilkerson. “We are fo-cusing on the faster, harder workouts.”

Senior Taylor Th rockmor-ton understands the reality of his diffi cult midweek training schedule.

As a senior, Th rockmor-ton is prepared for the heart pounding runs that come with the weekend away from the track.

“It gives us the opportunity to really work hard this week,” Th rockmorton said.

Th e time between competi-tions will allow the team to re-cover from injuries and illness. Th e squad will depart next Th ursday for Wabash.

Wabash is the clear favor-ite to win their second suc-cessive indoor title. Th e sheer size of Wabash’s squad cannot be combated with the Gators’ hard training sessions.

Last season, Allegheny took nine individual event titles to lead the meet. Wabash came out on top by placing more competitors in the top eight.

“Th ey have always had the total package for track,” said Bobby Over, ’13. “Th ey are a team you have to look out for in every event.”

Wilkerson believes that the tough competition benefi ts his team.

Wabash and OWU are oft en ranked in the nation’s top 25, with Allegheny oft en compet-ing for a spot as well.

By JOHN LICHINA Staff Writer lichinaj@allegheny.edu

RYAN BAKER/SPORTS INFORMATIONBobby Over, ’13, looks to improve Allegheny’s fourth place standing in the NCAC Championships in Wabash this weekend.

Men’s track and field hopes to improve on fourth place standing in NCAC Championships

Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers have released the 36 year old wide receiver Hines Ward, arguably the most con-sistent pass catcher in the past 14 years for the team, Pitts-burgh and NFL fans alike are wondering: Is the receiver done? And if so, is he a hall of famer?

Ward has nothing left to prove in the NFL. He is a four-time pro bowler with two su-per bowl rings, and a Super Bowl MVP.

One of the interested teams is the Carolina Panthers, but there are several reasons why the Panthers would not be a suitable fi t for Ward.

Th e Panthers, aft er losing Steve Smith, are extremely limited at receiver, and Ward could provide some veteran leadership on a young team, but there are two reasons why Ward isn’t a great fi t there.

Th e Panthers play in a di-vision with the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons, both teams with ten or more wins last season. Th e Panthers are a couple of years away be-cause they are young. If Ward is to go to another team, they must be a contender.

Second, with a solid bunch of receiver prospects com-ing into the 2012 draft (Justin Blackmon, Michael Floyd, and Kendall Wright), expect the Panthers to go aft er a sizeable receiver in the draft , even if it’s not in the fi rst few rounds.

Unless Ward takes a huge pay cut, he won’t be signed by a team. Ward doesn’t have the top end speed (though, he nev-er really did) to be consistently eff ective in the league anymore.

Cris Carter has been de-nied the Hall of Fame for fi ve straight years. He tallied 100 more catches and 45 more touchdowns, but never won a Super Bowl with the Eagles or the Vikings.

Tim Brown was also refused

Hall of Fame honors. Brown was largely more dominant than Carter, boasting nine straight seasons of 1,000 yards receiving, seven of those with at least seven touchdowns. He also made an impact in spe-cial teams, as one of the most feared returners in the game throughout his career. He ap-peared in Super Bowl XXXVII, losing to the Tampa Bay Buc-caneers, 48-21.

If Ward retires this year, he should have some big name company in fi ve years when he is eligible for the Hall of Fame: Randy Moss and Terrell Ow-ens. Moss is a fi rst ballot Hall of Famer even with the contro-versy that has surrounded him in certain periods of his career.

Owens should get in the fi rst ballot too. He had 153 touchdowns and, aside from maybe Moss, was the most dynamic pass catcher in the NFL during his career. Owens might have been a head case, but his numbers far exceed the headaches he caused.

Ward, with over 1,000 catches, 10,000 yards, and 85 touchdowns, has Hall of Fame caliber numbers, but none of those quite match Owens, Moss, Brown, or Carter. Ulti-mately, the Hall of Fame is not going to vote all fi ve of those guys into the Hall of Fame, at least not anytime soon.

Owens and Moss will get in right away, but Carter and Brown will continue to have trouble. Th at only is a sign of things to come for Ward. Yes, he has two Super Bowl rings, but that statistic bears greater weight for quarterbacks. In-stead, a receiver’s impact on the fi eld and on defenses is crucial in determining Hall of Fame status. Ward doesn’t have that on his side. He will be re-membered in Steeler lore for-ever, among Bradshaw, Harris, and the Steel Curtain, but he’ll never garner the yellow jacket. It is a sad, probable truth for Steeler fans.

“Track and fi eld is all about competition,” said Wilkerson. “It is defi nitely and asset to have a good conference.”

While his teammates trained, sophomore Zach Hill fi nished fi ft h in the heptathlon, a two-day event.

Allegheny is currently sit-ting in fourth place overall.

Ohio Wesleyan was the winner of the heptathlon, plac-ing three in the top six. Th ey are leading heading into com-petition this weekend.

Freshmen Taggert and Or-dines failed to enter the scor-ing, fi nishing ninth and thir-teenth, respectively.

Ordines also fi nished tenth overall in the hurdles and the pole vault.

Th e men’s tennis team en-tered their match with Case Western last weekend aft er starting the season 5-1 overall, but the Spartans got the best of the Gators winning the match, 9-0.

Sophomore Patrick Cole played a solid match and near-ly beat number 12 regionally ranked player Will Drougas in fl ight one singles. Cole’s match ended 3-6, 7-6, 11-9. Other close matches included Frank Mosconi’s match against Ben McClaren, which ended 7-5, 6-1.

Th e number one doubles pairing of Cole and freshman Kevin Kacer lost their fl ight one doubles match 8-6.

Assistant Coach Greg Kre-itzer believed his team was not intimidated going into the match against Case Western, he thought the team could compete and ultimately win the match.

“We have not played a match against a team the same caliber as Case all year, and this exposed us to the level of play that we will be seeing for much of the remainder of the season,” Cole said.

Th e Gators look forward to their spring break trip to Hilton Head, South Carolina. Again, the team will face solid competition there from several regionally ranked teams.

“In Hilton Head, we are playing three regionally ranked teams and this is our chance to prove ourselves,” said Cole.

“Th ese next two weeks are in-credibly important for us and our team as a whole needs to step up the intensity in practice to get ready for spring break.”

Th e men’s team will focus on their doubles game going into spring break competition. Th ey look to be more aggres-sive and more eff ective in clos-ing down the net.

Th e women’s team will trav-el to Cleveland this weekend to play Case Western. Th e Case Western’s women’s team is also very strong, ranked 14th in the Central Region.

Last year, the Gators upset the Spartans 5-4 and eye doing the same this year.

Th e Spartans look to avenge a close defeat to Denison in last weekend’s match, and enter the match this weekend with an

overall record of 6-2, while the Gator’s are 3-3 and ranked 20th in the region.

“Case is defi nitely a solid team, and we know it’s going to be a battle, but we defi nitely know we can beat them,” said Kretizer. “Th ey are a similar team from last year.”

Th e Gators have three se-niors in their starting line-up, Janna Dickerson, Elyse Schmitt, and Deborah Landau.

“Our seniors play in three slots out of the six, therefore there is a lot of experience out on the court,” Schmitt said. “It will be up to the seniors to re-mind everyone not to get ahead of themselves, be patient, and play our game.”

By DAN MARCUS Staff Writer marcusd@allegheny.edu

Tennis faces off against Case WesternMen fall to Spartans over weekend, women look to triumph

CHARLIE MAGOVERN/THE CAMPUSThe men and women’s tennis team will travel to Hilton Head, South Carolina over Spring Break where they will play three regionally ranked teams.

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