The Montclarion - March 11, 2010

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The majority of students who aren't graduating this May might need some guid-ance when making a sched-ule. Whether they get that help or not is another situa-tion that some students may be facing this spring. When it comes to advising, a lot of students have mixed feelings. For senior, Tashom Carroll, advising did not go as smoothly as she expected.

“I was advised by my first-year counselor for two years, even though she wasn't sup-posed to be my advisor. And then I used the Education Department's advisor as my advisor. She's not my special-ty advisor, but she helped me out, so I kept on going back,” said Carroll. Charles Miller, Director of the Center for Academic Advising and Adult Learn-ing, said fron his experience, there seems to be a lack of knowledge. Is it a lack of knowledge on

the students' part or the ad-visors? While many students don't even know who their advisors are, those that do know find it very difficult to get in touch with their advi-sors. Sophomore, Carly Chupka explained, “My advisor is not helpful at all. Every time I e-mail her for an appointment, she e-mails me back saying that she is all booked, every time.” Considering that courses

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10 Greek Organizations

No Longer Face Threat of Decharterment

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After having a helpful freshman advisor, Carroll felt that her faculty advisor was not up to par. She explained, “I've barely ever met with him in my life. The one time I met with him it was kind of just to check in with him and he was like, 'I don't know why you are here.' It was an open advis-ing session.” As a sophomore at the time, Carroll did not know what classes she should be taking in order to graduate on time.

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This past January, the legal-ization of medical marijuana was passed and students in 14 states nationwide were poten-tially capable of smoking legally on campuses; Montclair State University is one of those cam-puses. New Jersey was the fourth state on the East Coast to legal-ize medical marijuana when they passed the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act. The only way to qualify for it medically is if you have a specific disease. Cancer, AIDS, Lou Gherig’s disease, muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis are just a few examples. Montclair State Police Department Lieutenant Kieran Barrett says that New Jersey will have “the most stringent laws in the nation.” New Jersey will not be as lib-

Three closed sessions, 10 Greek organizations no longer at risk and one pending trial were the results of the Student Government Association meet-ing last night. At last week’s SGA meeting, President Pro Tempore Jared Shababb sent 35 to 40 student organizations up for re-charter-ment, 10 of which were Greek. In the past, an organization that was up for re-charterment went to the constitution review committee who voted on its approval, and then, a bill would be presented to the SGA legisla-ture. However, Shababb skipped this step and wrote all the bills before they went through com-mittee. “In an effort to make consti-tution review run smoother, not only for the committee but for all organizations involved in the re-charter process, I submitted the bills for all the organizations that needed to be re-charter this

Students Express Frustration with Advising on Campus

Criminal mischief to four-teen cars occurred in Lot 46, next to the Village, on the night of March 5. The damage was done to the side-view mirrors of the cars, according to Montclair State

QUICK FACTSFrom 2006-2008, there have been 17 reported motor vehicle theft. Damage related incidents occur more then theft with cars.

University Police Department's Lieutenant Kieran Barrett. "The damage appeared to be caused by an individual, or individuals, kicking the mirrors committing the crime of crimi-nal mischief," Barrett said. Whoever it was that per-formed this act could have done it between the hours of 10:30 p.m. on Friday night, March 5, and 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 6. "Multiple acts of criminal mischief that appear related such as this are rare. Criminal,

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Anyone who has information regarding these incidents is urged to call the police station from any campus phone at T-I-P-S (8477). All calls are strictly confidential.

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78 A student reported the theft of his laptop computer from his unsecured

residence in Bohn Hall.

A student reported being harassed by a known suspect while in Bohn Hall. Charges are pending.

10A student reported being harassed via mobile phone by an unknown suspect while at the Clove Road Apartments.

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On March 6: Fourteen vehicles were discovered in Lot 46 with criminal mischief damage. See page 1 and 4 for full story.

Two students reported the theft of three iPods, a wallet and a DVD from their unsecured residence in Bohn Hall.

6 Justin Pitman was charged with aggravated assault, theft and obstruction of law while outside of Fenwick Hall.

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A student reported the theft of his laptop computer from his unsecured residence in Bohn Hall.

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Alex Dombrowski was charged with underage consumption of alcohol while in Bohn Hall.

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3 On March 3: Ryan Pierce was charged with disorderly conduct for urinating in a stairwell in Bohn Hall.

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The LGBT Center and the Office of Residential Education and Services will be starting its Stonewall Suites Living Learning Community this up-coming fall. Six students will be participating in the pilot program in September. The living community will be one suite in Frank Sinatra Hall.

“Stonewall Suites Living Commu-nity has been designed to create an educational experience for the resi-dents of the community by linking coursework, advocacy and education-al programming and services to the community,” Amie MacMath, pro-gram assistant of the Center, said. The living community also plans to connect students with the means to educate themselves and their com-munities about the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, questioning/queer/ally community. This living community has many goals for its participants. Some of their goals include: exploring one’s

Zachary NewcombstAff writer

Frank Sinatra Hall's First Living Community,Stonewall Suites, Aimed to Bring Students Together

“Stonewall Suites Living Community has been designed to create an educational experience for the residents of the community.” Amie MacMath Program Assistant of LGBT Center

According to its mission statement, “The mission of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender (LGBT) Center at Montclair State University is to create a campus environment inclu-sive and supportive of sexual orien-tation and gender identity or expres-sion through education, advocacy and support for students, faculty and staff.” Some of the ways that the Center does this is by offering many work-shops and presentations for the com-munity. The Department of Equity and Di-versity and the Office of Residential Education and Services have been collaboratively planning this commu-nity throughout this academic year.

gender identity in a safe, inclusive and open environment, developing a deeper understanding of issues fac-ing the LGBT community and dem-onstrating the necessary skills to be an effective ally to this community. The program encourages its stu-dents to take courses in areas, such as Women’s and Gender Studies, to help them be proactive in advocating for the LGBT community. Stonewall Suites has a living agree-ment in which participants must ad-here to maintaining a lifestyle free of gender or sexual discrimination. Also, they will be participating in assessments of the living community

in order to provide feedback and eval-uate the community. The name Stonewall Suites refers to the Stonewall Riots, which started in the early hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. These riots are believed to be the first instance in America where peo-ple fought against sexual repression of gays and is deemed the start of the gay rights movement. “We honor this important part of LGBT history by naming this com-munity ‘Stonewall Suites.’ The name is empowering and allows for conver-sations about social movements and civil rights," MacMath said.

Frank Sinatra Hall will have its first learning community called Stonewall Suites.Jillian Keats | The Montclarion


Three visitors to Montclair State University were victims of aggravat-ed assault by Montclair State Uni-versity students on March 6. There were two MSU students in-volved, Justin Pitman and Kareem Julien; both were arrested on crimi-nal charges. Pitman was arrested and charged that night. “He was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, obstruction of law and theft of a mobile phone," Montclair State University Police Department’s Lieutenant Kieran Barrett said Julien was arrested on March 9, and was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, according to Bar-

rett. Pitman was released on $7,500 bail. Julien’s bail was set at $30,000 and is currently in police custody. The students involved in the fights had gathered outside Williams Hall and Fenwick Hall. Two physical fights had occured. The first physical fight happened at approximately 2 a.m., but students were gone by the time police arrived. The second fight broke out at ap-proximately 3 a.m. and included twenty to twenty-five students and non-students. “It was later determined through investigation that both fights in-volved the same parties,” Barrett said. The three assault victims were at Montclair State University visiting friends.

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The Information Techonology (IT) Department has announced changes that will be occurring over the next month concerning the waiting time for computers and the issue that is in turn, created with printing. Dr. Edward Chapel, assistant vice president of information technology, acknowledged the “flow challenge” and long lines that accumulate dur-ing peak hours of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. during the school week and has in turn, already start-ed to make changes to address the is-sues. Towards the end of last semes-ter, an additional printer was added to the Surf-n-Print Depot that only prints double-sided pages. “All printers are not equal as far as pages per minute ratios are con-cerned,” Chapel said. If a printer can print more pages in a minute by strictly printing dou-ble-sided, the wait time to get onto a computer will be decreased. Getting to a computer and printing items out goes hand-in-hand. "Though it is inevitable that the problem will exist during finals and midterms, when students are print-ing out large documents that covered a portion of the semester,” Chapel said, “The ideal situation is that there will be no wait.” While the ideal situation may not necessarily be able to be reached all the time, the IT department will be adding at least 10 more computers to the Surf-n-Print Depot, a popular area on campus that students stop by to quickly print items out before classes. Since University Hall is also a common place where many go to to print daily, the IT Department will be transforming the overflow laptop lab on the fifth floor to a Surf-n-Print facility with a 10-minute time limit

Changes and additions will be made concerning the usage of computers and printers on campus.Stefanie Sears | The Montclarion

during peak hours or whenever a line forms. If there is not a line, students will be able to use the laptops with no time limit. “The lab assistants will have to be trained for crowd-control for once those lines start forming,” Chapel said. In addition, eight computers will be added to the overflow laptop lab on the fifth floor of University hall that are “only for printing always,” Chapel said. These eight computers will always run on a 10 minute time limit and will be set up so students have to stand at the computer, print their items and leave. Sprague Library printing will be

slightly altered, as well. The IT de-partment has been working diligent-ly to solve the problem of laptop wait by purchasing charging trees and ad-ditional batteries. Chapel did not expect students to utilize printing options in Sprague Library to the level that they clearly have been. “That's a happy problem. We cre-ated this facility because we thought the library needs to be invigorated,” he said. At least three Surf-n-Print com-puters will be added to the Student Interactive Multimedia Lab on the second floor of the library that will be under a 10 minute time limit for stu-dents that just want to print some-

thing very quickly while they may be studying or reading in the library. Furthermore, three more high ca-pacity printers will be added to the campus, one each in the Information Commons Lab, Overflow Laptop Lab in University Hall, and the Laptop Lending Lab in Sprague Library. In order to better understand the issue of printing, a brief survey will be added as soon as students sign on to computers or laptops. The questions will include: 1. Did you have to wait for a com-puter? 2. If you had to wait, for how long? 3. For what purpose are you using the computer (i.e. printing only, per-sonal use, classwork, etc.)

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IT Department Address Improvements with Printing, Computer Use on Campus

mischief, itself does occur on campus largely in residence halls and at times in academic facilities," Barrett said. At the moment, Montclair State University is still "actively pursuing this investigation," Barrett said. Any knowledge of this criminal mischief incident can be reported to the Montclair

State University Police Department by contacting them at (973)655-5222. If you wish to remain anonymous while putting in a report, you can con-tact the police department confidentially through campus telephones by dialing extension 8477.

Criminal mischief to four-teen cars occurred in Lot 46, next to the Village, on the night of March 5.

Three Visitors Assaulted by Two Montclair Students

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Montclair State University’s din-ing services composed an online sur-vey that tracked the buying behaviors and eating habits of MSU students, faculty and staff. The survey ended on Monday, and all participants that took the 10 to 15 minute survey were eligible to win a prize as a "thank you" for giving their feedback. E-mails were sent out to encourage all of the campus to participate, and the survey was extended two addi-

ues.” Some questions in the survey allow for suggestions or opinions of what new venues could be introduced to MSU’s campus, such as Taco Bell and Veggie Heaven, which could impact the consumer purchasing greatly if there are a high amount of requests for a particular venue or change to be made. A good sample size that could ac-curately represent MSU’s whole cam-pus community for the dining servic-es research would be 1,000 or more participants. When asked what the main rea-son why prizes were being awarded to participants was Robinson said it was for two primary reasons — “Priz-es serve as a reward to respondents who take time out of their schedules to provide organizations with their opinions,” said Robinson, “and it is proven that a greater number of re-sponses to surveys are seen when prizes are offered.” Several MSU students took the sur-vey and believe that is a good idea for dining services to allow the campus community’s opinions to be heard. “I took the survey because of the prizes and to ask for more pierogies to be served at the Blanton Caf-eteria,” junior Michelle Steindhardt said. “But seriously, I just suggested that more options should be available on campus." Another student commented about the location of student food facilities. “There should be an accessible food venue near Clove Road Apartments and the Village,” sophomore Brittany Benevento. “A healthy alternative like Panera Bread would be good, since Café Diem is overpriced and far.” The dining services survey allowed the MSU community to display their opinions on their personal needs, as well as proposing new venues that could benefit for all campus life. The budget, as well as the quality of the food was weighed in this survey.

Vanessa HargreavesstAff writer

Campus Dining Survey Asks Suggestions for New Venues

“There should be an accessible food venue near Clove Road Apartments and the Village. A healthy alternative like Panera Bread would be good since Cafe Diem is overpriced and far.” Brittany Benevento Sophomore

tional days due to the previous week's weather conditions. James Robinson, coordinator of dining services, commented that the university had conducted a similar survey in 2008 and were trying it again in 2010 in hopes of changing the meal options that are available to campus life. Their “master plan,” Robinson said, "is to determine the outlook of dining services over the next 3-5 years. Data from this master plan will help deter-mine the placement of and the menus of existing and new campus food ven-

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(Left) Jared Shababb presents a formal apology to the SGA and the 10 Greek organiza-tions that risked decharterment.

Kristie Cattafi | The Montclarion

semester,” Shababb said in an apology letter to the SGA. Shababb explained at the meeting that he was confused by the new set of rules that was enforced halfway through the semester. The SGA recently started to enforce a rule that a re-charterment bill had to be written before an organization comes into constitutional review, which confused him. One of the main problems with the re-charterment bills was that the Greek organizations would be considered uncon-stitutional. The SGA statutes explain that in order for a Greek organization to be re-charted through the SGA, the bill first has to pass through Greek Council. After it passes through Greek Council, it then can be presented to the SGA legisla-ture. If Shababb presented the 10 Greek organizations on the list from last week, they could have lost their charterment for next year. During the meeting, SGA Vice President Mike Morano, said that those organizations are no longer at risk of los-ing their charters. However, the fraternities and sorori-ties that almost lost their charterment didn’t even know their groups were at risk. “I want to hear about the re-char-terments from the SGA, not The Montclarion,” Laura Hess, a member of one of the sororities that was up for re-chartment said during the open forum. The SGA agreed that there was a

“breakdown in communication” through-out the proceedings last week. Shababb will also be attending the first Greek council meeting after spring break to explain the misunderstanding. Shababb faced disciplinary charges of misfeasance, which means trying to do his duties, but in a wrongful manner, at the end of the meeting around 7 p.m. The SGA went into closed session last week to select jurors for his hearing. The SGA went into two more closed sessions last night because of the jurors. Later Wednesday night, SGA President Jon Preciado sent Shababb a letter say-ing, “ … Pending that you address the Greek Council on March 23, I will offi-cially drop the charge of misfeasance.” Preciado continued to explain in the letter that he felt this was a better way to handle the situation through communica-tion and to make others aware of how to handle such a mistake. “People started to back out of being jurors,” SGA Justice Michael Melvin said. “The procedure for selecting jurors was incorrect.” The juror selection was supposed to be done in one closed session meeting last week. Becasuse of all the changes, the SGA resorted to dissolving their disci-plinary committee. The committee will have to be rees-tablished in another closed session at the next SGA meeting after spring break. “This is new territory for us,” Melvin said. “We need to start from scratch.”


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are not posted up on WESS yet, many students have not even thought about meeting with their advisor to map out their fall semester. According to Miller, “If some-one came in now, we can take their WESS report and write down options for their philosophy and religion re-quirements or their math options. Even if classes are not posted yet, we wait and see what is available, and this way, they have options and a back-up plan.” According to Miller, the Center for Academic Advising and Adult Learn-ing sends out an e-mail a month and a half into the semester to urge stu-dents to make an appointment with their advisor. A student who would prefer to re-main nameless explained, “I have had this specific advisor since spring semester freshmen year. She has been so busy with her classes and her clubs that she doesn't make her stu-dents a priority.” “I called her and left her many voicemails, and she never returned one call. I, then, e-mailed her and she called me a liar and told me she didn't appreciate the tone of my e-mail because she never received any of my messages." Senior Maureen Grimaldi had the opposite experience with her advisor as she explained, “My advisor was very helpful. I had class with him and had never met him before that, so he saw me hard at work and it was easier for him to see where I was at academically.” While some students have great relationships with their advisors, some, unfortunately, do not. For stu-dents that are undeclared, the path to graduate in four years is sometimes a very frustrating one. Sophomore Allen Teplitsky is cur-rently a psychology major, but he is not sure if he would like to keep this as his major.

He said, “I went to my freshman advisor last year and they helped me, but only enough that they wanted me to help myself. They just reviewed a career aptitude test with me and told me what I can read for myself.” Miller explained, “We want the student to take ownership of their education with us as their support.” Thinking back on his freshman year, Teplitsky said, “At the begin-ning, my advisor gave me a print out of what classes to take for my major, but now it's less control. I've been tak-ing some English major classes even though I'm a Psychology major.” The Center for Academic Advis-ing and Adult Learning would like to help students to the best of their abil-ity, but not tell them exactly what to do because they feel that this is a personal choice. Miller believes, “It's hard because we don't want to tell a student what to take because the choices are per-sonal choices. Students pay a lot of money for school, do you want the university to tell you not only what major you have to be, but what class-es you have to take within that major too?” “Don't you want to know what the rules are, so you can say, 'Aha, I can be this major and I can be that ma-jor and I can take a minor.' Then

the question is, where's your advisor and you talk to them about how to do this,” Miller said. Miller says that counselors are present to “help you on the right path, but when it comes to fine-tun-ing, what path did you take?” As far as undeclared students are concerned, Miller believes, “You can get through, easily, to forty-five hours if you're undeclared with just General Education Requirements.” Though taking all major classes in the last few years of college is chal-lenging, it is possible to graduate on

a four-year track by doing so. “We send out invitations for un-declared students with 30-45 credit hours to come to workshops that will help them put together, 'what major do I want to chose,'” Miller said. Also, for students who do not need in-depth advising, there are various resources available at the Center for Academic Advising and Adult Learn-ing website. One of which includes, live advis-ing online between the hours of 10-2 p.m. Details can be found at: http://www.montclair.edu/AcademicAdvis-ing/live.html.

Sciences Receive More Room on Campus

Biancia FrancisstAff writer

A new building, Center for Envi-ronmental and Life Sciences (CELS,) is expected to be constructed at Montclair State University. The building is to be about 100,000 square ft., with a current $55,000 estimated cost pending. Construc-tion is currently at the programming stage. “Once the pending documents are approved, then the architect will be contacted,” Vice President of Univer-sity Facilities, Greg Bressler said. Mallory Hall currently shares space with the university's Science

needed space for students to perform research and studies. “Out of all majors, Biology is one of the fastest growing careers. Mi-croscopy is already in Mallory Hall, which shows it’s about time; we need more room,” senior Fahad Rouf said.

“Mallory Hall will be renovated to create space for a growing and modern department of computer science, now housed in tight quarters in Richardson Hall.” Robert Prezant Dean of College of Science and Mathematics

Hall to house science classes for the students. “Mallory Hall will be renovated to create space for a growing and modern department of computer sci-ence, now housed in tight quarters in Richardson Hall. In turn, space made available in Richardson will be renovated to allow growth of our large department of mathemati-cal sciences and other CSAM disci-plines,” Dean Robert Prezant of the College of Science and Mathematics said. The validation for the new build-ing is the growth in science and the

“Out of all majors, Biology is one the fastest growing careers. Microscopy is already in Mallory Hall, which shows it's about time, we need more room.” Fahad Rouf Senior

Much of the space will involve re-search areas that will bring together people from different departments such as Physics and Chemistry. Currently these departments are all separated, according to the chair of biology and molecular biology, Quinn Vega. The plan of the pro-gram is made across the entire sci-ence and math building. The expected date for the begin-ning of construction is not yet final-ized. “As a plan, I think it’s a good idea. [The building] provides multiple re-sources for multiple disciplines,” said Vega. Mallory, Science and Richardson Halls are all to be looked at, but ac-cording to Bressler, the focus is on the planning of the environmental building right now.

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marijuana plants at your residence is prohibited, while other states, like California, allow it. In other states, patients prescribed are allowed to possess the marijuana as long as they have a simple consent from a doc-tor. In New Jersey, all patients will have to have their identification card stating permission. If a patient of a disease that is permit-ted to smoke medical marijuana is discov-ered in possession without their I.D. card, they will still be charged. The disease becomes “irrelevant,” Barrett said. Barrett said that “law enforcement will be trained to identify a real I.D. card from a fake one.” He does think students on campus may be prescribed medical marijuana. Police will be very “reliant” on that I.D. card. In 2009, there were 23 arrests con-cerning marijuana; in 2008, 26; in 2007, 28; in 2006, 32, according to Barrett. “People may be choosing to not do drugs on campus,” Barrett said. “Montclair State University Police Department has been cracking down heavier.” Sophomore Janet Korr is worried that more students will have marijuana now that it is legalized medically. She is also nervous that this may lead to situations of “peer pressure.” She would feel much more content if more police dogs patrolled the dorms. Tommy Bonard, a junior, feels differ-ently. He thinks that “students will con-tinue to smoke, regardless.” “The [police department] is always looking to crack down on catching stu-dents smoking.” "There are many medical indications that have been proffered for the use of marijuana," Professor at Montclair State, instructor at the School of Public Health, Newark, Trauma Registry Manager at the New Jersey Trauma Center, Newark, Robert Lavery said. Some of these include: appetite stim-ulation, an anti-emetic effect which decreases nausea and analgesia which is an absence of pain without unconscious-ness.

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The facilities department at Montclair is devising a new clean-ing strategy. The changes to the current cleaning arrangements are expected to begin during the spring break and will be effect when the students return. “Changes often incur cost, what will it cost us as students,” sopho-more Enoch Nimene said. Vice President of University Fa-cilities, Greg Bressler said that no additional costs come with the new plan. It is a rearranging of staff shifts and supervisors. The current staff for the Facili-ties Department provides cleaning for all of the buildings at the uni-versity. “We think this [rearrangement] will make the cleaning better. We are trying to manage it to a num-ber of four supervisors,” Bressler said. The employees’ shifts are to

change from three to two shifts a day. Cleaning for academic buildings are expected to begin at 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. for residence halls. Cleaning at the university is cur-rently done over three shifts a day for a seven day period with separate staffs for the each shift. With the change, the first shift for the employees will begin at 4 a.m. with a second shift at 1 p.m. in the afternoon. “This allows us better supervision. We think this will be an improve-ment to the level of service provided to the constituency,” Bressler said. The new change has stirred thoughts amongst the student body. “I think an upgrade to the clean-ing service is very vital to the en-vironment; it is great health wise,” senior Lacy-Ann Dean said. Changes will go into effect dur-ing the week of spring break for students. A letter is to be circulated by the facilities department to the students about this change Bressler said in the upcoming week.

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Poetry readings have become common on Montclair State Uni-versity’s campus. The English de-partment, The Normal Review and Speaking Through Silence have all organized readings this semester. The English department holds Live Lit readings about once a month, with many different themes and po-ets. Earlier this semester, there was a reading in memory of Lucille Clif-ton, a well-known feminist poet who died on Feb. 3. All were welcome to attend and read poems by Clifton in celebration of her life. On March 23, the Live Lit reading will be focusing on Bilingual Latin American poetry. These readings do not offer students a chance to read their own poems, but rather give them a chance to witness published poets read their own works. If students are interested in perform-

ing their own work, there are several organizations on campus that are involved with providing outlets for creative writing. Speaking Through Silence, a new club at MSU, revolves around spoken word poetry. This type of poetry is performance driven, and the group regularly holds poetry slams

in which anyone can come and read their poetry. Speaking Through Silence also holds slam competi-tions at least once a semester and par-ticipates in outside competitions as well. The Normal Review, the campus literary magazine, holds po-etry readings and of-fers students a way to publish their poet-ry, prose or art once a semester in a maga-zine that is available

to all students. The Normal Review normally holds a poetry reading ev-ery semester and also has readings at their premier party at the end of every semester. These readings are also an opportunity for students to read whatev-er work they like. While they are billed

as poetry readings, art and prose have been presented at these readings. In ad-dition to having an open forum for stu-dents to read their pieces, The Normal Review has begun featuring Montclair State University’s published Creative Writing professors during readings. At the last poetry reading on March 4, Dr. Tom Benediktsson read many of his published poems for the students. The Normal Review plans on featuring Dr. Susan B. Somers-Willet at their premiere party. Though only these two professors are being fea-tured this semester, all of the Creative Writing professors are published writ-ers and will mostly likely be featured in the upcoming semesters. In addi-tion, many students read their po-ems that night and past issues were available for those who attended. If any of these poetry readings interest you, keep an eye on In The Loop, e-mailed to your campus account every week.

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Hello and welcome to another in-stallment of Cooking with Nelson. I know it has been quite a while since my

last recipe. Please forgive me, faithful fans, for I was hired to be a culinary consultant for NASA and I have had my hands full with all types of space food. At least we know our astronauts will be eating well out there in space.

But this info is neither here nor there. Now on to today’s recipe.As we all know, St. Patrick’s Day is this Wednesday. Now before you go wash away your college educa-tion with beer and whiskey, at least make sure you are going to eat well! See, St. Patty’s Day is an interesting holiday for me. Obviously my heritage is Italian, and although I love the idea of this “National Inebriation Day,” there are a very small amount of Irish recipes in my family’s secret vault. But no worries, Italian recipes can in-deed harbor some of that Irish appeal. Here is the classic dish: spaghetti and meatballs, but with an Irish twist. Let’s just say, that eating the food, it-self, is more than enough for a pregame.

Ingredients:•spaghetti•meatballs•Two cups of Jameson Whiskey•Two cups of Bailey’s Irish Whiskey•Two cups of Bushmills White Rush•Tomato sauce (a.k.a. gravy)

Instructions: The first step here is the first thing you do anytime you make spaghet-ti: put the water on. While the wa-ter is heating up, have your gra-vy on the stove with a low flame, just enough to keep the sauce hot.

Before you cook the meatballs in the sauce, marinate them for three min-utes and 17 seconds in each of the liquors stated above. Make sure it soaks up a modest, yet legitimate amount. Next, put the meatballs in the sauce to be-gin the cooking process. But keep those whiskeys out, their job isn’t done yet. When the water comes to a boil, put the spaghetti in. Now you must keep a close eye on this because you cannot let the spaghetti finish cook-ing in the water. Just before the pas-ta is limber enough for consumption, take it out and marinate it in each of the liquors (just like the meatballs). Don’t keep the pasta in for as long. I would say 45 seconds is a good enough marinating time. The marination will get the spaghetti to pass the “fling-on-the-wall” test. The remaining liquor can be poured into the sauce at your own discre-tion. If you dump all of it in, make sure you are not eating alone. My aunt Josephine learned the hard way. Well that’s all for Cooking with Nel-son’s St. Patrick’s Day edition. Hope you enjoy the tasty treats! But just remember: everyone looks more at-tractive on St. Patty’s Day, so beware. Have a good one darlings! Hope to see you next week.

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The Workout Station:Jumping and Kicking Exercises

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Hello MSU! I know you’re excited for spring break next week, but also want to stay in shape, so I’ve prepared another workout that will help you get leaner muscles and that toned look. This week is all about jumping and kicking exercises that you can do in the comfort of your own home, apartment or dorm! 1. High Jumps: Stand feet together and knees slightly bent, swing your arms up to the ceiling while jump-ing up and down in repetition. It is best to aim for a height that you want to maintain with each jump you make. You can look at the height of a furniture leg that is anywhere from six inches to 12 inches high. Continue jumping for one minute continuously. Take a break, and then do it again four more times. 2. High Jump in a SquatPosition: Get into a squat position like you did before, while raising your arms. Jump high enough that your knees come to your elbows. This is a tough jumping exercise to do, but over time you will become a jump-

Hmm, the perfect date for St. Patrick’s Day? Well this one is pretty tough con-sidering I don’t really consider St. Pat-rick’s Day to be a very romantic holiday. However, no matter how muchIrish is in your blood, it seems that when St. Patty’s rolls around, everyone is little bit “Oirish.” So, if you’re planning on bringingout your Irish roots (or pretending you have them), here are some suggestions on how to celebrate with your partner: 1. If you’re 21, the St. Patty’s day celebration is a no-brainer. Deck yourself out in green, go out to an

Irish Bar and drink some Irish beer with your special someone. 2. If you’re not 21, make some Irish goodies to share with your partner and wash it down with a nice glass of milk … 3. If you’re trying to win herover, give her a bouquet of four-leaf clovers. They say that for every ten thousand three-leaf clovers, there lies one four-leaf clover in the bunch. So if you sincerely love your girl, spend-ing the time to find a whole bouquet of them is no big deal, right? So in the spirit of St. Patrick’s day, good luck! 4. Personally, I love Gerard Butler along with his Irish accent. This day gives the perfect excuse to relax, get into the Irish Spirit and watch some of his latest movies. The Ugly Truth and P.S. I Love You are great for the ladies; however, to prevent the guys from losing their sanity, The Law Abiding Citizen and 300 are also up for consideration. Personally, I consider St. Patrick’s Day to be more of a guy’s holiday, since the girls had their time in the spotlight last month, on Valentine’s Day.

ing champion and feel awesome! Do three sets of one minute intervals or as many as you are able to complete. 3. Ski Jumps: Pretend like you’re skiing down a mountain. With your knees slightly bent jump from the left to the right, maintain good posture and balance with tight abs. Do three sets of one minute intervals. 4. Switch Kicks: While jumping from one leg to the other, make fists with your hands, like you are boxing; keep them close to your chest. As you jump, kick out and make sure your knee is as high as your hip bone. Power through, and do three sets of one minute intervals. 5. Mummy Kicks: You’re in luck, I have a cool down for you guys. Ex-tend both hands out in front of you and gently do soft kicks, switch-ing legs quickly with heels tapping the floor. Keep your chin up without touching your neck and engage your abs for two minutes continuously. So there you have it, my jumping and kicking crazy workout that will speed up your heart rate and get your arms, legs, abs, everything moving! There will be a new segment after spring break!

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Ideally, if you’re looking to take your sweetheart out for St. Patty’s Day, take a big step back, lift up your fist and slap yourself in the face. Why would you ever want to have a date on St. Patrick’s Day? It’s one out of the five days during the year that you have a free pass to go out and get ripped with your friends. Wasting that on some romanticopportunity is nothing short of ob-scene. I think I’d prefer if you asked about Fat Tuesday or Cinco de Mayo. But seriously, ask yourself, “Is there a specific reason be-

hind this date? Are you guys go-ing out for the first time, or do you have something long term going?” If you’re in the latter scenar-io, you should definitely postpone it; unless it’s your anniversary or you ran over your girlfriend’s dog and are trying to make up for it. If you find yourself in the formercategory, however, you have just put yourself up the creek without a paddle. Then again, there’s no reason you can’t hop in and kick. Specifically, I’m saying you haveto get away from the epicenter of St. Patrick’s Day and show her you’re a little different from the average stock. Take her somewhere nice, a little ro-mantic, and if possible, quiet. All girls want to be wooed on the first date, so take her away from the hustle and bus-tle and throw out an extra buck or two. I guarantee you’ll make a hugeimpression if the modern world is throwing back a shot and you take her out for a glass of wine. Just don’t stare longingly at any group of trashed college students who pass you by. That, or you just take her out, get her hammered and hope for the best.

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issue like the aforementioned whale biologists mapping a stur-geon’s genome. Perhaps most in-sulting is that the tale they tell was ripped off from The Chron-icles of Narnia and even culmi-nates in a final “epic” battle. Alice in Wonderland takes place thirteen years after Alice originally plunged down the rab-bit hole. A grown-up Alice only

remembers Wonderland as a dream. Though a completely bland and lifeless charac-ter, everyone around her acts as if she’s some sort of nineteenth century feminist revolutionary. Taken aback by her dully delivered and passionless ideas (were they supposed to be outrageous?), Alice is seen as an odd girl. After a proposal from an impossibly ugly man, Alice sees the white rabbit that has haunted her dreams since childhood. Following him, she soon winds up in the fantasy land, but discovers things are much darker than she last remembered. The red queen has usurped the entire kingdom, and her tyranny has devastated ev-erything beyond the rabbit hole. After about an hour of see-ing once crazy and lovable characters miserable and sane, you might just want to stand up and start scream-ing at the screen, “Stop it! Stop making sense! Who’s been painting my roses red? Where’s my medicine?” and throw your popcorn at the screen! Ambiguity was the great-est strength of the source material; you never knew what was going to happen. At any minute a talking pizza roll could fall from the sky and say “Hey I’m a talking pizza roll.” What audiences are given instead is tantamount to a very un-merry un-birthday indeed.

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Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Uni-versity 1040, Professor Roberta and the film department host what they call the Film Forum. They bring in someone from the film industry, show films or clips from that filmmaker or profes-sional’s body of work, and have them field questions from Mont-clair State students and guests. This week, they hosted the Chi-nese Film Festival featuring several Chinese filmmakers, and even an American and a German filmmaker. Unfortunately, this was not as interesting or enter-taining as one would hope. It started out with American filmmaker Katy Martin’s seven-minute short film, Breathing Twice, which was based in Chi-natown, New York. It was a se-ries of close ups of some strange

black object with lines, store-front windows and a soundtrack of only ambient noise fading in and out with sporadic Chinese voice overs without subtitles. It gave off the impression that a twelve-year-old could make a better film. The film that followed, Chinese filmmaker Zhou Tao’s E. 6th St. to Location One, was not any better. It was six and a half min-utes of tripod shots of two peo-ple finding weird ways to walk around. Not to mention, the ed-iting (or lack there of) featured about half a second of black be-tween each shot, enough to make any filmmaker cringe. The only thing that saved it was the last clip of someone being thrown in a trash can. The third film, The Garden, made by Chinese filmmaker Chen Qiulin, was fourteen minutes of two delivery boys carrying large

vases of flowers through a city, broken in the middle by a poor-ly-edited geisha dance sequence, followed by more walking, more poorly edited dancing, more walking and a few random shots of the city; all seemingly filmed by a fourth grader with a handy-cam. The soundtrack, however, was amazing. Although it did not quite fit in the film, it was a great trippy industrial style. The fourth film, Cornland, made by Zhou Hongxiang, was a boring monotone voice speak-ing in Chinese about cornfields, amongst other things, over a rapidly changing series of pic-tures of cornfields. This was fol-lowed by war images and explo-sions, and featured what might be the worst voice recording and sound editing of all time — then followed by more corn. Housework Ritual, made by Fang Lu, was thirteen minutes

of attractive Asian women chop-ping vegetables in a lobby, wash-ing peppers in a bathtub and throwing them on the floor, sew-ing buttons on each other and washing dishes in a bedroom. What this could all mean, we will never know. The sixth, Reed, made by Tang Dixin, featured a boy and a cam-eraman who speak different lan-guages and follows them on a journey to find an island. It was a little more interesting with some accidentally funny moments. It ended with the boy being buried in a hole up to his head and was very pointless. Some of the cam-erawork in the beginning was interesting, but still lacked real professional quality. 1, 2, 3, 4 was made by Zhou Tao and featured three and a half minutes of various company em-ployees counting to six in a se-ries of team building exercises,

which was completely pointless. At this point in the evening, the audience’s applause was start-ing to fade as more people were falling asleep. Novel City, filmed by Leslie Thornton, was seven minutes of rooftops and pointless clips ending with a shot of a picture of Obama’s face on a windowsill and a title saying how it was filmed from a window at a hotel where Nixon and Mao first start-ed negotiations. Travel was four and a half min-utes of a man annoying everyone by walking up a down escalator. That is all he did the entire time. At this point, someone close by was snoring quite loudly. After 2000-2: When the moun-tain flowers are in full bloom, she will smile, mingling in their midst was made by Chinese filmmaker Li Xiaofei, and was

Alice in Wonderland is easily the worst drug trip this review-er has ever endured. It’s even worse than that time I mistook a pit viper for a garden hose. And while the fiery agony of the snake’s venom was eventually sucked away, the painful images of this movie will forever haunt this acid-riddled brain with flashbacks … in three torturous dimensions … forever! There have always been two problems with adapting Lewis Carrol’s opus to LSD. Firstly, those in charge of creating the scripts were, themselves, addicted to drugs. While there is no ba-sis for that accusation, one only needs to look as far as the original Disney classic to realize that its creators were jonesing for narcotics ... Walt Disney, itself! The second problem is far more complicated than finding a dealer on the down low. Essentially, the book has virtually no narrative and is instead a trippy collec-tion of moments. Alice, herself, is actually a very passive character — only a vehicle to bring the reader from each psychedelic hal-lucination to the next. In short, it doesn’t make any sense. The risk is two-fold. If the film makers decide to give the story context, they could undermine the source material. But if they do it straight, pun intended, the film could lose its audi-ence. To tackle these dif-ficult problems, Disney hired director Tim Burton, a man who looks like he’s done some serious dope. If there’s one dilemma Bur-ton has always had, it’s his

inability to tell a coherent story. So naturally, he should have been perfect for making a seri-ous adaptation of the material. As the movie played out, one question was begging to be asked: What wasn’t he smoking? The greatest problem of the film is that it has a story, a really weak one. Basically, the yarn exists as an excuse to go on the

journey, but it’s so lame, it ulti-mately betrays both the plot and the weirdness. To give this co-nundrum some light, allow this reviewer to share an analogy. Fish Sticks: Sometimes when you cook those deep-fried hot dogs of the sea, the outer crust comes out all bunt; but the inside is still a frozen heap of salmonel-la-ridden goop. Whale biologists

have spent eons studying how these masses of icy dolphin, uh, fish reproductive organs could have such a strange reaction to heat. The mystery has plagued mankind, since the invention of the toaster oven. How could something be both overcooked and half-baked? For the serious film buffs, Alice in Wonderland illuminates this

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Travis Strikes AgainNo More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

“Punk Is Not Dead,” is among the first lines gamers will read upon booting up No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. Ob-viously, Grasshopper Manufacturer and its eccentric director Goichi Suda, a.k.a. Suda51, are up to, and have been up to, doing things in a different, creative way. With previous games killer7 and No More Heroes attracting a rabid cult follow-ings, Suda51 and company looked forward to continuing this success. Thus, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle was released Jan. 26 and pub-lished by Ubisoft. The story begins where the previous left off. Travis Touchdown, the protago-nist of both games, previously bested ev-

ery ranked assassin in a bloody haze and became ranked number one himself. Tra-vis is also a newly appointed icon of Santa Destroy, the mock California city where the game takes place. Inevitably, corporations seized the op-portunity to cash in on the trend of assas-sination, and Travis is no longer on top. Also, Bishop, a friend of Travis is the victim of mafia retaliation and must be avenged. Thankfully, the developers depict all of this with tongue firmly in cheek. Similar to the last game, Grasshopper drenchs the game in a colorful punk type art style. Blood explodes bright red after every kill, fluorescent colors are everywhere, the old-school anime flavor is prominent in the cel-shading, and sex and violence

are barely seconds apart. In fact, the physics have been improved only to make certain aspects more bouncy. Clearly, Grasshopper knows how to grab attention. Gone is the tedious need to acquire money for ranking battles. Instead, the assassin-ranking battles are always read-ily available after the plot develops. The free roaming part of the game has also been taken out. Now, gamers will just choose where they want to go instead of having to stumble there. Other than that, not much has changed. Travis still carries around multiple beam swords as well as a plethora of Mexican wrestling moves. Throughout the game, players will run through short levels which lead to impres-sively creative ranking battles.

Some of these fights include, but are not limited to a city-wide fight in gigan-tic robots with a football player and his cheerleader army to a killer pimp with a gadget-filled mansion. Players can level up their stamina and strength or buy clothing with money, which is acquired from 8 bit-esque mini-games. The soundtrack this time around hap-pens to be just as awesome, attention grabbing and more varied. No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is a game that drips in style, violence, sex and hilarious narrative. The end product is a game that will pur-posely offend, yet more easily gratify. Just try to ignore the judgmental stares from your housemates if they walk in when the camera is focused on cel-shaded cleavage.

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Actor in a Leading RoleJeff Bridges in Crazy Heart

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not much more than Chinese children answering very basic questions such as, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and being shown in tiny boxes scat-tered around the screen. Two or three of the children’s responses received a chuck-le from the audience, but other than that, it was a boring twelve and a half minutes of watching little kids talk at you. German filmmaker Caspar Straake’s film, Rongxiang, showed several shots of a strange building called Rongxiang, followed by a 3-D model of it being spun around. Ellisis, made by Chen Quilin, was six minutes of a woman putting on

makeup in front of a mirror while cake is being thrown at her, followed by a build-ing collapsing and ten minutes of women with heavy makeup and traditional dress dancing in rubble along with a few shots of random construction workers. And last but not least, A Puff Of Wind by Zhou Hongxiang was the only film with any repectable filmmaking qualities. Using some editing and specific cam-era angles, Hongxiang was able to make a series of strange optical illusions, but bleeding apples, dead birds on plates and a bird dissapearing into a mess of bird poop on some poor guy’s head make this

avant-garde film a little too weird for most people. The camera work in these films, other than A Puff Of Wind, is amateur to say the least. The editing is also amater and the meanings of these films are all but lost on the viewer. Following the films, Katy Martin, Zhou Tao and Fang Lu sat in front of the forty or so people in the room to field questions. They gave a short background of their ca-reers and films and then opened the floor for questions. Most of the questions the audience asked were based around their past experience

and work in other mediums. After three or four questions the group was dismissed after two hours and forty five minutes. The Film Forum series is usually rath-er entertaining and this review should not discourage you from attending future ones. Professor Roberta and the film depart-ment usually put on a great event, but this week the films shown were less than spectacular. Previous forums include filmmakers, producers and theorists from many differ-ent types of films, but this week’s special festival left much to be desired.

By Jenifer Credidio

The enduring art of china

Opening Reception at the George Segal Gallery President Dr. Susan A. Cole welcomed four artists from China that are showing in an

exhibit at the George Segal Gallery. The exhibit, “The Enduring Art of China,” opened officially March 4. Geoffrey Newman, dean of the College of the Arts, spoke along with Dr. Cole. They presented artists Zhiyuan Cong (co-curator and professor of art at Wil-liam Patterson), Chen Lusheng (Research Director, National Art Museum of China), Wang Huangsheng (director of the Guangdong Art Museum) and Fan Chuxiong (art professor). Theresa Rodriguez, director of the George Segal Gallery was also in atten-dance. The artwork covers the walls of the galleries and provides a great setting for any stu-dent here at MSU to experience art from all around China. The department of broad-casting has also lent a hand in making this exhibit the best it can be by putting together a loop of interviews from all the artists that are featured in the exhibit.

Wang Huangsheng (Director, Gungdong Art Museum)

Li Yang (Professor, Chinese Central Fine Arts Institute, Beijing)

Chen Lusheng (Research Director, National Art Museum of China)

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t’s official: Effective May 1, NJ Transit prices will increase by 25 percent.

This is despite a stimulus the transportation company received from the recovery and reinvest-ment act of 2009. The state subsidizes NJ Transit with $296 million a year. Last month, Gov. Christie announced his plans to withhold $32.7 million from the budget, which results in 25 percent price increases to fares for riders. New Jersey is currently facing a $2.2 billion dollar budget gap, but the state’s public commuters are begging the governor to seek alternatives to NJ Transit price hikes. A $5.50 train ride from Hackensack could cost $7 with the new price hikes. The increase will not only affect tickets for daily riders, but monthly passes as well. What does this mean for Montclair State University stu-dents and professors who rely on public transportation everyday for their commute to campus? Obviously, they will end up spending more on their daily

car. At any rate, cuts to the NJ Transit will do little to help the immediate deficit. If anything, they

We Need A Ticket to Ride (And They Don’t Care!)

commutes for the same excellent service they’ve grown accustomed to, right? Actually, stations and times will also be cut from the schedules. Passengers at major train stations can expect to wait about 10 minutes longer for their rides. MSU is always encouraging stu-dents to use public transportation to reduce both pollution and traffic congestion on and around campus. Fare hikes are not any kind of incen-tive. Some New Jerseyans have pointed out that the gas tax hasn’t increased in years, as Christie stat-ed that he would not, under any circumstances, increase the gas tax. Mass transit users are bearing the brunt of hastily made attempts to fill the budget hole. As the state scrambles to find money, students and professors will have to shell out more change for a train or bus ride to the city. One of the perks of Montclair State’s campus is its proximity to New York City. Fare hikes won’t make the experience any more enjoy-able or efficient. Nor will it encourage commuters to take the train instead of their

will inconvenience the thousands of riders who depend on the services. Although public transportation will remain more environmentally

friendly then cars, budget and service cuts will make using it more of a challenge. -KM

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You’re Welcome ... Good news folks! The day has finally come. For once, students spoke out against a clear injustice, and the university listened. Gone are the days when standing in line for the chance to use a comput-er takes more then ten minutes. The Department of Information Technology is beginning to imple-ment changes that will continue through the month. They will be adding at least ten more printers to the Surf-n-Print depot for start-ers. This particular depot is a hot spot for students who need to print out something right before class. We have all been in similar situa-tions; twenty minutes before class begins, you realize that your pro-fessor required you to print out an excerpt or an assignment. Panicked, you run to your nearest printer, only to wait on a lengthy line. Hopefully, now that there are additional computers, that line will diminish and students can safely procrastinate. We find it refreshing that the IT department is active-ly initiating change. Contributing to this movement to end printing lines, IT is adding eight computers to the fifth-floor computer lab in

University Hall. These computers are under a ten-minute time limit and students must stand to use them. We are inclined to agree with the time restraint; the only way to promote efficiency is by setting dis-tinct rules. If students didn’t have a time limit, then long lines would be a guarantee. However, IT did provide some leniency in how much time a student can spend at the computers. If there is no line, then students are not required to give up their spot after ten minutes. This is a fair and comprehensible guideline for students to follow. To increase efficiency, students will have the option to complete a sur-vey regarding printing issues when they log into a computer or laptop. With such initiative, the department is displaying how much they truly care about student convenience. We would like to see the entire adminis-tration react to student frustration in the same manner. Our praises go directly to the Department of Information Technology for their steady progress; thanks guys!

-LW

Novels to Film: Fans Left Lost in TranslationStudent Thinks Films Will Never Live Up to Their Original Forms

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Katie Winters, an English major, is in her first year as Assistant Copy Editor for The Montclarion.

We’ve all gone out and seen them, movie adapta-tions of popular novels. Often times they are box- office hits, but inevitably, fans of the book feel that the adaptation did not do the book justice, and it never can. Film is a

As young adults living in America, we are privileged to a multicul-tural melting pot of diversity. We are sur-rounded by the opportunities this diversity provides, but we rarely take advantage of what’s present-ed to us. Our

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generation, specifically, seems to have cho-sen the road of oblivion. Our grandparents, or even great grand-parents, were completely aware of the diver-sity that surrounded them. In contrast, young adults living in the United States today grew up in the melting pot. Now it’s not an unusual occurrence to find someone whose nationality consists of four different backgrounds. Despite all of our cultural steps forward, there is still something deeply tragic about being too multicultural.

When my great grandparents immigrated to America, they held their old customs and practices in high regard. They did not lose their cultural identity and spoke their native language, Italian. Although my grandpar-ents picked up on the language, my parents lost that opportunity. Italian was only spo-ken with other natives, with the exception of when my grandparents wanted to exclude the children from some cryptic conversation.

different medium with its own limitations and strengths, which are completely dif-ferent than those of a novel. The top of the list includes time limitations and the visual aspect. Movies can create for our eyes what books can only let us imagine. There will always be something magical about the visu-als that a movie can show rather than tell. On the other hand, films can only spend so much time telling a story; no one wants to sit through a 12 hour movie, but it is not uncom-mon to spend that much time or more to read a novel. This means that something must be

cut out. Whether a movie claims to be “true” to the novel or only reveals the original mate-rial in the ending credits, it can never be the original. As such, it is not the easy way out. Screenwriters, directors and producers can-not just adapt a book when they’re low on ideas, adaptations need special care. Why is it that adaptations are so com-mon in the film world? Sometimes a book is wildly popular and producers can foresee the dollar signs. Some directors wish to take on a classic and do it “justice.” Other times, books are simply picked up by screenwrit-ers. Now, none of these categories necessar-ily produces better films than the others. A bad film can come from anywhere, anytime. However, the last category has the best and the worst reason to create an adaptation. These screenplays can come from a genuine interest in the original story, or they can come from a lack of ideas. Obviously, if a screenwriter discovers a story they like in a novel and think they could create something great by adapting it for film, that’s good. However, adapta-tions are not the easy way out. If someone simply picks up a book to avoid creating their own plot, they may also avoid putting in the work to translate it to the screen

well. Screenwriters are supposed to be indi-viduals, like authors, who write and create. There is no excuse for them trying to be lazy and getting away with it. The adaptation of classics is a slightly different case. Even though these films nor-mally start with a genuine interest and hon-orable intentions, the chances are lower for a good film. Plays and short stories are entirely differ-ent cases, but books like Ulysses are better left alone. There are a few cases that speak to the contrary, such as Apocalypse Now and some Frankenstein adaptations. Apocalypse Now, loosely based on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was a well-made film, not only good in its own right, but also communicated the mes-sage of Conrad’s novel. But it did this well by changing every-thing else. While the film was based on the book, the two are nearly unrecognizable on the surface, and this led to its success. People do not watch Apocalypse Now expect-ing Conrad’s novel, nor did the filmmakers lessen the quality by attempting to give the viewers that. Apocalypse Now was well thought out, well executed and very different from the novel. The same goes for many of the early Frankenstein films. Classic novels are hard to pick up “as is”

and create an acclaimed film, even more so than some relatively unknown book. Though they may serve as a sort of cliff notes, albeit inaccurate normally, the care needed to make a well-known book into a shortened visual version is more than most filmmakers seem to take. Just because Wishbone did it, doesn’t mean everyone can. The adaptation of bestsellers is my least favorite kind of adaptation, but at least they are normally well done. This is simply to parlay book sales into film profits and often leaves fans, like myself, disappointed. Worse, it encourages some authors to attempt to write adaptation ready novels. However, given the nature of business, this is mostly going to continue. Thankfully, this type of movie occasionally gets people to actually read the original. So why attempt adaptations? The medi-ums are completely different. I simply cau-tion anyone considering grabbing a novel to find a fast way to write a script. Creating a good adaptation is harder than one thinks, only attempt it if you are ready for as much effort as it takes to come up with an original screenplay.

Open Your Mind: Learn Another LanguageStudent Offers Opportunity to Expand Knowledge of the World

And therein lies the trag-edy. W h y didn’t my g r a n d p a r -ents teach my mother Italian? If a child grows up in a bilin-gual home then a sec-ond language comes natu-rally to them.

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They wouldn’t need to be taught by a text-book, their understanding of the language would be deeper then college level courses. This is what I consider a major flaw

“Life is too short, and the world is too

large to simply go about life never

experiencing something new and exciting.

If the opportunity presents itself, by all

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in being too multicultural- modern young adults have lost their ancestors’ authentic languages. Speaking anything but English in America is met with confusion, and often, frustration. We are a melting pot that is over-saturated in vital ingredients. Young adults should not restrict them-selves to English. To do so would promote a narrow perspective. When you learn another language, you aren’t only learning phonet-

ics. You are e n r i c h i n g your knowl-edge of the world that surrounds us, consider ing that to truly understand a language you must under-stand the cul-ture as well. I cannot think of a single

negative aspect to learning a second lan-guage. In Montclair, there are various opportuni-ties for a student to learn a second language.

The beauty of language is that you are not restricted. You can pick whichever happens to interests you most. Montclair alone offers: Chinese, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Spanish and ASL. Of course, learning another language requires a fair amount of work, but the end result is incredibly rewarding. Plenty of stu-dents chose to study abroad for a semester during their four years at college. The experience would be authentic if the student had a basic understanding of the language. Instead of giving off the impres-sion of a tourist, you would actually be able to hold a conversation with the natives. By directly interacting with native speak-ers, a student may further their own under-standing of the language and culture. Life is too short, and the world is too large to simply go about life never experiencing something new and exciting. If the opportu-nity presents itself, by all means, seize the chance to learn a second language. There is quite literally nothing to lose by doing so, except narrow and limited perspectives.

Lori Wieczorek, an English major, is in her first year as Assistant Opinion Editor of The Montclarion.

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This past week’s Sprint Cup Series race had fireworks as a feud between drivers Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards turned dangerous. Early in the race, Keselowski bumped Edwards, send-ing him into the wall and battering his racecar. An obviously frustrated Edwards went looking for revenge once he was back on the track. After all, NASCAR told the drivers to “have at it.” Edwards, 154 laps down in the race, ended up running side by side with Keselowski, who was in fifth place. Finally, on the front stretch, Edwards bumped Keselowski, sending his car high into the air and landing with the hood crushed up against the wall. Keselowski was clearly dazed after the crash, but escaped with no injuries. After the crash, Edwards was parked by NASCAR. On Tuesday, he was put on probation for the next three races. Many fans called foul, but I think it was the right move. Edwards handled himself a little recklessly on Sunday and wrecked a driver contending for a win. However, he policed himself, just as NASCAR told the drivers. NASCAR didn’t overreact with

the small probation punishment either. Rather, the sentence handed down to Edwards was a way of saying that sha-nanigans won’t be punished too severely. NASCAR is also concerned about why Keselowski’s car flipped over the way it did on a speedway that is, suppos-edly, slower than at Talladega, where Edwards’ car flipped in a similar way. However, people tend to forget that Atlanta has been a consistently faster track than Talladega since the advent of restrictor plates in 1988. With the cars moving so fast at Atlanta, maybe it’s not necessarily an aerodynamics malfunction of the car that caused Keselowski’s car to overturn, but rather it might have been a speed factor. My message to NASCAR is to sit back and relax. You got what you wanted in drivers policing themselves. You got what you wanted in exciting finishes and this week, you got the attention you wanted with the crash. People don’t want to see a driver killed, but I heard numerous times this week from non-NASCAR followers about how exciting the fireworks on the track were. Take a breath NASCAR and revel in the moment. You achieved what you set out to do.

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Sophomore Tyler Meth has become a dominant force on the Men’s Lacrosse team. In the season’s first game against Moravian, he scored six goals.

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Men’s Lacrosse Fall to Undefeated Dickinson

A rough start on Saturday doomed Men’s Lacrosse as they failed to over-come a 7-1 halftime deficit, falling to the Dickinson College Devils 9-6. It was the second straight road loss for the Red Hawks and also the second con-secutive game where they were forced to play down late after falling behind early in the game. Against Dickinson, they ran into a well-prepared team that was 3-0 heading into the contest. The first half was all Dickinson; they outshot the Red Hawks, 25-13, and kept ball possession for much of the half. Devil senior attacker Ted Sirvaitis scored all three Dickinson goals in the first quar-ter, including one with just one second on the clock. The Red Hawks got their lone goal of the first half from senior Taylor Bonner, and the Devils led 3-1 through one quarter. In the second quarter, Dickinson scored four unanswered goals to break the game open. The Devils scored on four of 13 second quarter shots and four dif-ferent goal scorers with Sirvaitis scoring his fourth goal of the game, putting the


It’s a chilly day as brown and orange leaves begin to fall from the trees. There is almost no sound in the area, except for the sound of cleats digging up the grass and a ball hitting the net. Tyler Meth is getting better at the game he loves, no

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matter what time of the year it is. “Growing up, I spent most of my time out in the backyard, perfecting my game as much as possible,” said Meth, a sopho-more sensation for the Montclair State Men’s Lacrosse team. “I would sit out there and shoot in the dark and snow until I felt I had improved.” Meth currently leads his team with nine goals in the team’s first three games. The attacker led the squad last season with a phenomenal 49-goal effort as a freshman.

Meth first became interested in the sport at the age of eight after his father brought him to a college lacrosse game. “[My father] took me to see a Princeton-Syracuse game,” Meth said. “I fell in love with the sport immediately. The speed, hitting and the style really caught my eye.” Meth became infatuated with lacrosse, but there was also another love in his

life: ice hockey, a sport he had also been playing from an early age.“Lacrosse was always a second sport to me compared to hockey, until I got to high school,” Meth said. It was there at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge that Meth began to excel at lacrosse. In his four years playing at Ridge, Meth scored an incredible 130 points and 102 goals. After an astounding high school career, Meth hoped to continue that same success in college. Meth spent his first semester

at Lynchburg College in Virginia, but left to attend Montclair State shortly before the lacrosse season began. “I transferred for many reasons, including the long distance from home,” Meth said. Meth cites his father as being a sup-portive resource in improving his lacrosse game. “My dad and I would shoot for hours in the back yard until I found my shot,” Meth said. Meth credits the coaching staff and teammates for helping him feel at home once he transferred. “The guys on the team were all really nice to me. I got along with everyone, and it made trans-ferring a much easier process.” Since the moment that he put on a Red Hawks jersey, Meth has helped his team achieve new heights, including the team’s very first NCAA tournament berth. This has led to an immense amount of pres-sure for Montclair State and Meth, indi-vidually, to take their success to the next level this season. Meth was announced as a pre-season All-American by Inside Lacrosse Magazine, revealing Meth to no longer be one of the nation’s best kept secrets. “Although I don’t like to admit that I feel pressure to excel, I do,” said Meth. “I have to perform at my best in order to help my team win, but I am also young

and I have to develop aspects of my game still.” The pressure may be getting to Meth and the rest of the Red Hawks, who have dropped their last two games. A loss to Western Connecticut on Friday would give Montclair State it’s first three-game skid since March 2005. “We have played some close games lately,” Meth said. “We need to try and start quickly and hope to hold onto leads late.” Meth is currently playing with a torn labrum in his left hip, an injury sus-tained during off-season training in the fall. “The trainers are aware of the injury, and they help me deal with the pain,” Meth said. “Our trainers are fantastic and keep me in the game.” Meth hopes to play the remainder of the season with the injury before sur-gery and rehabilitation in the off-season. Rehabilitation for the injury is expected to take nine months, but should give Meth enough time to get ready for the 2011 season. As far as the future is concerned, Meth, a general humanities major, is contemplating a career in business and hopes to promote the game of lacrosse. “Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in New Jersey,” said Meth. “It will just keep growing in popularity.”

2009 Season

Goals — 49 Assists — 13

Points — 62 Shots — 106

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Goals — 9 Assists — 1

Points — 10 Shots — 25

Red Hawks in a deep hole at 7-1. “We realized whatever we were doing in the first half was not our playing style,

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nor was it successful,” said Bonner. “So when we put that passed us, we just ran our plays and played our game.” Montclair State seemed to finally come alive in the second half as they attempted to mount a comeback. Early in the third quarter, Montclair got goals from Robert Sinicola and Bonner to cut the Devils lead down to 7-3. Sirvaitis would score his fifth goal of the game to make it an 8-3 Dickinson lead, but the Red Hawks would get the goal back on a Tyler Meth score before the end of the quarter. In the fourth quarter, Montclair State would climb to within three goals, after Mike Corsetto scored his first goal of the season just 20 seconds into the fourth quarter. However, the Devils would buck-le down and an extra insurance goal from Mike Cherry would give Dickinson a com-fortable 9-5 lead with just six minutes to go. Bonner would complete his second hat trick in as many games late in the

fourth, however, that’s all MSU would get, as they fell short in their comeback attempt. Despite the loss, the Red Hawks out-played Dickinson in the second half and showed spurts of the defending confer-ence champion team that they are. They also hope to use Saturday’s experience as a lesson to learn from. “In order to become successful in any-thing, you have to overcome adversity, and that is exactly what we had to do,” Bonner said. “Unfortunately, we did not come all the way back to take the lead and win, but it definitely helped prove to ourselves what kind of team we are. No matter how hard times are, if we do what we practice and work hard, we can play with anyone.” MSU will be back in action on Friday, when they will visit Eastern Connecticut at 6 p.m. The Red Hawks return to home on Monday when they host Wesleyan College at Sprague Field. Game time is at 4:30 p.m.

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Freshman midfielder Steve Feliciano battles for a ball behind the Moravian net in a game earlier this season.

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Who’s Hot This Week

Morgan MacPheeMidfielder — Women’s Lacrosse

MacPhee was named NJAC and Skyline Player of the Week after scoring five goals in a 17-1 victory over

Rutgers- Camden on Saturday.

Men’s Lacrosse

Women’s Lacrosse

Mt. Saint V. 0-0 2-0

Stockton 0-0 1--0

Farmingdale 0-0 1-1 Kean 0-0 2-2 MSU 0-0 1-2

Bard 0-0 0-1

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Maritime 0-0 1-0

Ramapo 0-0 1-0 MSU 0-0 1-3

Mt. St. Mary 0-0 0-0

Bard 0-0 0-0

Farmingdale 0-0 0-0

Sage 0-0 0-1

Kean 0-0 0-2

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This WeekEnd of Regular SeasonLast Week

3/6 Dickinson 9, MSU 6

This Week3/12 @ Eastern Conn. 6 p.m.3/15 vs Wesleyan 4:30 p.m.

Last Week3/6 MSU 17, RU- Camden 13/10 FDU-Florham 9, MSU 8

This WeekNo Games Scheduled

BaseballContinued from page 24

Taylor BonnerMidfielder — Men’s LacrosseBonner earned his second hat trick of the season in the Red Hawks 9-6 loss to Dickinson College on Saturday.

Baseball

Softball NJAC OverallTCNJ 0-0 4-0 NJCU 0-0 3-1Rowan 0-0 2-2MSU 0-0 0-0 RU-Camden 0-0 0-0Stockton 0-0 0-0 Kean 0-0 0-0Ramapo 0-0 0-0NJCU 0-0 0-0W. Paterson 0-0 0-0

Last WeekNo Games Played

This Week3/14 vs Nazareth 9 a.m. vs Millikin 1 p.m. 3/15 vs St. Norbert 1 p.m. vs Springfield 3 p.m.3/17 vs Endicott 9 a.m. vs Nichols 11 a.m.

All Games Played at Kissimmee, Florida

NJAC Overall Kean 0-0 5-1

MSU 0-0 2-1

Rowan 0-0 3-3

William Paterson 0-0 1-1-1 TCNJ 0-0 1-2

NJCU 0-0 1-3

Stockton 0-0 1-3

RU-Newark 0-0 1-3

RU-Camden 0-0 1-4

Ramapo 0-0 0-0

Last Week3/5 Denison 10, MSU 8

3/6 MSU 17, NC-Wesleyan 63/7 MSU 10, Piedmont 6

This Week3/13 @ Heidelberg 11 a.m.3/14 @ Oglethorpe 3 p.m. 3/16 @ LeGrange 3 p.m.3/17 @ Emory 3 p.m.

Game of the WeekMen’s Lacrosse

Monday March 15vs. Wesleyan

Sprague Field

The Red Hawks return to Sprague Field for the first

time in March to battle undefeated Wesleyan

Our very own NJAC was represented mightily with five teams receiving bids for the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament: William Paterson (Men and Women), Richard Stockton (Men), Rutgers-Newark (Men) and Kean (Women). Of those five teams, only one had the success of making it past the first round. Can you guess which one? Of course, it is the Kean’s women’s team, who are still alive in the race for Division III superiority, making it to the Sweet 16. Here is the scary part, though (at least for KU’s opponents); they have made it this deep into the tournament without superstar Melissa Beyruti! The number one seeded Pioneer men were shockingly upset in the first round by Albertus Magnus, 57-55, due to a

Kean Women Still Alive For Titleheart-wrenching half-court buzzer beat-er at the end of regulation. D3hoops.com calls it, “The shot heard ‘round the bracket!” Video footage of the shot can be seen on that same website. Richard Stockton also lost a close battle in the first round against Virginia Wesleyan, 85-82. Rutgers-Newark’s loss was not as dramatic as the aforementioned schools, losing to Rhode Island College 72-60. With three men’s teams from the NJAC being invited to the big Division III dance, it proves that our conference is one of the best and deepest out there, even though they all had early exits. William Paterson continues to stamp its name on any bracket they see, as the women’s team joined their male counter-parts to go dancing. However, also like WPU’s men’s team, they found them-selves tripping on their own dancing shoes on their way out of the tournament in the first round. The William Paterson

women’s team never stood a chance against Mary Washington University as they were decimated, 84-53. The Kean University women never cease to amaze the NJAC spectators. With star guard Melissa Beyruti day-to-day from suffering a knee injury in the NJAC Championship game against WPU, the entire Cougars squad has continued to dominate any opponent they tip-off against. Led by Defensive Player of the Year, Tiffany Patrick and Rookie of the Year, Naimah Clemons, the women breezed their way past Penn State-Berks and Tufts University, win-ning 105-68 and 75-56 respectively. They face Bowdoin on Friday, March 12, in the Sweet 16 showdown. If Beyruti can come back close to full strength during the tournament, Kean’s women’s team will be nearly unstoppable and can possibly jitterbug their way across the bracket en-route to a NCAA title.

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runners up, scoring Bionde and moving runners to second and third with just one out. After Bergman was intentionally walked, the Red Hawks scored on a wild pitch from Lion reliever Matt Collins, making the score 8-1. Singles from Mickey McGraw and Scott Glozzy gave the Red Hawks a 10-1 lead. Piedmont would put up five runs in a comeback attempt in the ninth, but with no avail. “The key to our two victories was how focused our hitters were at the plate as well as our pitcher’s resilience on the

mound,” said Boggi. “Our line up was able to put together good at bats and keep pressure on our opponents. Our pitching staff handled themselves very well and did a great job of letting oppos-ing hitters get themselves out.” On the weekend, the Red Hawks tied with Denison with a 2-1 record over three games, while NC-Wesleyan and Piedmont finished 1-2. For the Red Hawks, it was a big confidence builder with play in the tough NJAC only three weeks away. “As a squad, we are very excited and eager to see how good we can be this

year,” said Boggi. “As far as we are all concerned, with the talent we have, the sky is the limit.” “Our lineup is feeling very confident, and we our looking forward to Saturday,” Evangelist said. The Red Hawks will be Georgia-bound again next week, when they will go on a five game road trip beginning at LaGrange, Georgia on Saturday. Baseball’s home opener will be on Saturday March 20, when they will host a two game weekend series against Rensselaer. For a complete baseball schedule, log on to www.mont-clair.edu/athletics.

Michael BoggiOutfielder — Baseball

Boggi had six hits, including two doubles and five RBIs, in the Red Hawks’ opening weekend trip to

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The bats were out of the closet early this baseball sea-son, as Montclair State scored 35 runs in their opening three games of the season. The Red Hawks visited Piedmont College this past weekend. By falling in their opener to Denison, 10-8, before defeating NC-Wesleyan, 17-6, and Piedmont, 10-6, the Red Hawks gained a solid 2-1 start to their season. “Our bats look great; espe-cially for it being the first time we stepped foot on a baseball field since October,” right field-er senior Scott Evangelist said about the team’s offensive out-burst. Montclair State came out firing on Friday against the Denison Big Red, scoring four runs in the second inning; three of the runs came on a bases clearing double from junior catcher Mike Ercolano. The Big Red would charge back, tying the game up with two unearned runs in the third. The tie held until the fifth inning, when junior center fielder Michael Boggi knocked a two-run double, giving the Red Hawks a 6-4 lead. After Denison scored one in the sixth inning, DH Kevin Bond’s homerun gave MSU a 7-5 lead at the seventh inning stretch. The bottom of the seventh

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Sophomore Cora Delfini scored three goals in the Red Hawks loss Wednesday. Photo Courtesy of Sports Information

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Lauren Adams wound up for a potential game-tying goal with one minute left. She shot. She scored. But she landed in the crease. In the game of lacrosse, if part of your body is in the goalie crease (a circle surrounding the net) during or after a goal is scored, the goal does not count. This often happens when play-ers loose their balance or fall because of the momentum of the shot. In rare occasions, defend-ers are caught pushing offensive players into the crease to nullify goals. “I felt she [Adams] was pushed,” sophomore midfielder Cora Delfini said, who was on the field when the referee called the goal back. Nevertheless, after Adams scored, she fell forward and the referees called the goal back. It was a fitting ending for a matchup that momentum played such an important part of the game. Breana Kilpatrick scored the first goal of for FDU five minutes in. Junior midfield-er Kayla Henderson tied it up at one just three minutes later when she and Morgan MacPhee wrapped around from behind the goal. MacPhee got the assist on what looked like a perfectly

was a killer for the Red Hawks as the Big Red erupted for five runs — three coming on a home run from center fielder Drew Rice off reliever Giovanni Caraballo. This gave Denison a 10-7 lead, enough of a cushion for reliever Dan Kraus to hold. MSU would go down one-two-three in the ninth inning to take the loss. Saturday against NC-Wesleyan would be the big day for the MSU offense, as they unload-ed 17 runs off of the Battling Bishops. The Red Hawks opened up an insurmountable 11-0 lead through five innings. A triple by Bond, followed by a double by Boggi, gave the Red Hawks a 2-0 lead in the first. Then, in the third, a two-run homer from Evangelist and sacrifice fly from Boggi made the score 5-0. An Andrew Himmelfarb two-run triple helped trigger a four-run fourth inning, and the rout was on from there. Offensively, the Red Hawks would total 17 hits. Evangelist went 2-3 with a double, home run and four RBIs. Himmelfarb was 3-5 with a triple and two RBIs, and Bond went 2-4 with a triple and two RBIs as well. Montclair State’s offense was also helped by five shutout innings of pitching from starting pitcher Sean Hille. Hille allowed just three hits and three walks while striking out five in his first outing of the season. The relievers also got the job done,

with four of the Bishops’ runs coming unearned in a meaning-less ninth inning. The Piedmont Lions, who were hosting the weekend’s set of games, didn’t give the Red Hawks much more of a chal-lenge as MSU knocked them off 10-6 with another offensive fireworks display. Baseball Continued on page 23

After the Lions took an early 1-0 lead, the Red Hawks tied the game in the second on an RBI double from shortstop Jay Bionde. They would take the lead in the third on a four hit outburst led by a double from second baseman Adam Bergman and a Boggi single. The game remained close

until the eighth inning, when the Red Hawks scored five runs, despite not having an extra base hit. Evangelist walked with the bases loaded, earning an RBI and making it a 6-1 lead to start the rally. A ground out from Ercolano would move all the

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executed play. This goal started a rally for the Red Hawk offense. Less than two minutes later, fresh-man Kailee Beal and Delfini, who was explosive on offense all game as she earned a hat trick, scored goals within 35 second of each other. This gave MSU momentum and some breathing room. After a scoreless 10 minutes where teams traded sloppy turn-overs, it was the Red Hawks miscues that proved to be most influential. “We were inconsistent,” head

coach Nicol Parcelluzzi said. “We should have taken care of the ball. We committed silly turn-overs, which made our midfield-ers run more and get tired.” The Devils capitalized on these turnovers at the end of the first half. Erika Depelteau scored off a turnover, and Lindsay Parent scored twice in four minutes. One goal was unassisted, and the other, off a free position shot, was a bouncer that went right between the legs of Red Hawk goalkeeper Tiffani Henderson. FDU led 4-3 at the half.

Turnovers prevented MSU from getting any offensive rhythm in the second half. An Ashley Schlindwein goal gave Florham a 5-3 lead with 27 min-tues left. Delfini scored her sec-ond goal of the game with a tre-mendous individual effort; she weaved in and out of defenders as she made her way to the net with 23 mintues left. FDU answered back with two more goals and a 7-4 lead. The Red Hawk offense woke up with a few attacks of their own. Kayla Henderson and Morgan MacPhee cut the lead to one

with only 10 minutes left. After FDU made it 8-6 with a Sara Franckowiak goal, Morgan MacPhee and Cora Delfini scored back to back goals to tie the game at eight with 3:13 to go. Lindsay Parent completed her hat trick for the Devils with what was the ultimately game-winner with 2:10 left. A minute later, came the crease call. This crushed MSU’s chanc-es of finishing their comeback attempt. But if the Red Hawks didn’t commit sloppy errors, they could have avoided the whole situation. “Not taking care of the ball and playing smart, that about sums up the whole game for us,” Parcelluzzi said. “We need more production on attacks and to place our shots better around the goalie.” “I felt like we worked together very well,” Delfini said. “We con-nected on offense and defense, and we did a good job today. We deserved to win. It was the little things like catching, throwing and transitions that we had trouble with.” With a 1-3 record, funda-mentals is something the team will be looking to address and correct once the Skyline Conference matchups start on Saturday, March 20 against Mt. St. Vincent at home.

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Red Hawks shortstop Jay Bionde fields the ball in a game during the 2009 season. Bionde hit .364 during the Red Hawks road trip to Georgia.

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