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Student duo to host major laser tag event on campus Saturday

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Kappa Alpha Theta will be opening up the runway in the Thwing Ballroom from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for its fifth annual KATwalk philanthropy event this Saturday.

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President Obama’s religious advisor speaks to campus audience

Students of Case Western Re-serve University are no strangers to long hours of studying, even on weekends, and that mentality is undeniably part of CWRU’s reputation. “It’s Laser Tag!” aims to soften that image.

This Saturday, Oct. 6th, the Case quad will be completely commandeered for the game. “It’s Laser Tag!” is a free event from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., with registration opening at 8 p.m.

This student-run event, open to CWRU, Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland Institute of Music students, as well as faculty, staff, and friends of the univer-sity, will feature a large outdoor laser tag arena encompassing the entire quad, free food, free neon t-shirts, strobe lights, fog ma-chines, as well as live music from seven DJs and a live band.

The laser tag arena will be able to host up to 50 players at a time and will have barriers designed by CWRU’s various Greek chap-ters, modeled after their Greek letters. The DJs are DJ Deeb, DJ Pretty Ricky, Pruvit, DJ Mo-bitus, Friendly Fire, DJ Vol Mek, MWMW; the live band is Blank.

The event creators, Paige Veta and Chrissy Cavasinni, want to prove that CWRU students make time for non-academic activities.

“We study hard, we work hard, and now we play hard!” ex-claimed Veta.

Veta and Cavasinni began planning for the event in March, wanting to organize something fun for the whole student body by themselves.

“We originally wanted to play laser tag after having a conversa-tion of fun things kids do, and we started looking for locations when we came across outdoor laser tag equipment,” said Veta.

“We started talking to our friends to see if they wanted to chip in and play too, and things just kept snowballing to our cur-rent event of hundreds of people playing laser tag on the quad all night long!”

The event was originally planned to take place last semes-ter, but it was postponed due to concerns about the liability of two

On the evening of Satur-day, Oct. 6, the Eta Pi chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta women’s fraternity will be opening up the runway in the Thwing Ballroom from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for its fifth annual KATwalk philanthropy event, a mock fashion show that lets student organizations from across campus flaunt their model-ing skills while raising money for Voices for Children, a program created by the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Lorain County.

“It has been a part of our chap-ter since our founding, which was five years ago in 2007,” said Christie Ellis, Chief Marketing Officer of Case Western Reserve University’s chapter of Kappa Al-pha Theta.

Last year, KATwalk raised $2976 and won the Pitte Cup, awarded annually for the most

successful Greek philanthropy event on campus. The sorority’s goal this year is to raise an amount close to $3000 once again.

“It is a funny way to get to know the personalities of the dif-ferent organizations on campus,” said Kate Morgenstern, member of Kappa Alpha Theta and lead organizer of this year’s event. “There are some groups year after year that put together some really awesome outfits.”

This year, student organiza-tions and other Greek chapters will compete for the best and most entertaining personally de-signed outfits in the following categories: “Case-wear” to show off Spartan pride, “Green-wear” to reflect CWRU’s sustainability efforts, “Patriotic-wear” for the upcoming presidential election, and “your-wear,” a looser catego-ry that gives freedom to the par-

Last Friday, Sept. 28, part of President Barack Obama’s cam-paign made a stop at Case West-ern Reserve University. While it may not have been Obama him-self visiting that night, his ad-ministration’s religious adviser Joshua DuBois spoke to about 60 people, most of whom were CWRU students, in the Thwing Ballroom. Case Democrats orga-nized the event.

DuBois answered attendees’ questions about the role of faith in government and what it is like to work for the president, and discussed the relationship be-tween church and state.

One of the major points Du-bois emphasized during his speech was that while church and state should remain separate from a political standpoint, faith should be considered and exam-ined by political leaders, since faith often plays an integral role in a person’s values.

“There are a lot of people in the country who are motivated by their faith and values, and it’s important to communicate what your candidate’s values are, and see if there is some alignment, and, if there is alignment, see why they should consider sup-porting your candidate,” DuBois said during his speech.

Later in the night, Du-Bois added that more people of faith should “come out of the closet and talk about who they are, what their values are, and what they believe.”

“There are people of value

and beliefs all around us, they may not call themselves ‘X’ but they are motivated by a system of values,” DuBois said.

During the question and an-swer portion, freshman Brylan May, a member of Case Demo-crats, was the first student to ask DuBois a question. May won-dered if the president consulted with DuBois before he publicly announced his support of gay marriage on May 9. May says that he was impressed with Du-Bois’ openness and honesty.

“I thought he was really straightforward. He wasn’t too political in his answer. He didn’t

try to dodge like a lot of politi-cians,” May said.

In response to May’s ques-tion, DuBois stated that the president’s stance was not a for-mulaic stance, but a “deeply per-sonal” choice that he made.

“It was really made on the ba-sis of friendships that he has had. It wasn’t necessarily an equation that we set down and said ‘Look, here are the pros and cons’,” Du-Bois said. “It was more of a per-sonal decision.”

During his time speaking, DuBois also lauded CWRU’s involvement in the President’s Interfaith and Community Ser-

vice Challenge. This initiative, started in 2010, seeks to bring together people of different re-ligious backgrounds. According to DuBois, the challenge looks to create the next generation of leaders that can “better navigate religious differences.”

This is the second year that CWRU has participated in this challenge. Last year, the efforts consisted of three retreats with student leaders of various faith-based groups.

Newman Catholic Campus Minister Tony Vento, who sits on

arianna wage / observerPresident Obama’s religious adviser Joshua DuBois spoke to about 60 attendees on Friday, Sept. 28 in the Thwing Ballroom.

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Outside the Circle News

On the Beat

>>police blotter

Sept. 24 - Unattended laptop taken from study cubicle, petty theft, Kelvin Smith Library

Sept. 24 - Unattended wallet taken, felony theft, Kelvin Smith Library

Sept. 26 - Unattended backpack taken from common area, felony theft, NRV-2

Sept. 28 - Apartment entered through unlocked back door, items tak-en, burglary theft, E. 116th St.

Sept. 28 - Bike taken and cable lock cut, bicycle theft, Dental School

Contact On the Beat at policecol-umn@case.edu.

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As we get deeper into the school year, we have unfortunately started to see an up-tick in theft reports. Most of us have seen some variation of the police crime map on television or film, usually shown as a bunch of serious looking men in uniforms punching colored pins into a map and star-ing intently at it. As a television tip, if you want to get a taste of what police work is actually like, watch “Cops.” Do not watch “CSI” or its endless spinoffs.

While we do not have anything exactly like that here at Case Western Reserve Uni-versity, there are some patterns that can be detected and some tips we can pass along to the campus community to help keep ev-eryone’s property safe.

The first tip is a combination of “lock up your stuff” and “do not leave valuables unattended.” This is a simple guideline, but one that is often ignored, which can lead to you standing in front of a police officer stating, “I only left it for a minute…”

Many thieves are lazy. They would much prefer to enter an unlocked door or snatch an unattended backpack or laptop than try and smash a window or grab a laptop from someone’s hands. The risk of getting caught go up in both cases. Do not make it easy for them.

Unlike robberies, where victims tend to be alone, usually after dark, many thefts occur in crowded areas with lots of people. Thieves like the anonymity of a crowd, which is why they often target pub-

>>cwruPOLICE lic spaces where no one is sure who is or is not supposed to be there. Common ar-eas, lounges, eating areas, or public access buildings like Thwing are always hotspots for theft. Athletic fields, where people put their stuff down to run, and athletic areas, where people might put stuff in unlocked lockers, are also possible targets.

One additional note about bikes is that all of the bike thefts reported to the CWRU Police Department since the start of school either involved unsecured bikes or bikes secured with cable locks, never ones se-cured with a U-lock. Draw your own con-clusions.

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Checkers comes to Cleveland

Transit projects expedited We Can’t Wait, an initiative announced

by President Barack Obama on Monday, Oct. 1, was created to speed up the con-struction of two major transit projects in Minneapolis, Minn., and in Cleveland. The hope is that the initiative will provide jobs for Americans and provide Minne-sota and Ohio with a more modern trans-portation option.

The expedited completion time is due to organizers conducting concurrent permit-ting and environmental review processes, according to a press release from the White House Office of the Press Secretary. These options stem from a presidential executive order that was issued in March.

The order states that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be in charge of a government-wide effort to streamline permitting and review pro-cessing. This increased efficiency will ideally allow the OMB to save more time and provide better outcomes for local communities.

The Minnesota and Ohio transit systems are not the only infrastructure projects that will be expedited. More projects will be announced in the upcoming weeks. Ray LaHood, U.S. Transportation Secretary, said, “Investments in infrastructure are

putting people back to work in Minnesota and Ohio building and modernizing our transit systems.”

“The Obama administration is com-mitted to doing its part to help communi-ties across the country move forward with these critical projects as quickly as pos-sible,” he continued.

The Southwest Light Rail Transit is the current focus in Minneapolis. This project aims to provide better access to employ-ment centers and attractions from down-town Minneapolis and the southwestern suburbs to Eden Prairie.

Fifteen miles of new track will be cre-ated, complimented by multiple new sta-tions. The Southwest Light Rail Transit is expected to be completed in Nov. 2014.

The University Circle-Little Italy Rapid Station in Cleveland is expected to be com-pleted in April 2013. The project consists of the relocation of the E. 120th St. station, construction of a new rail transit station, and construction on the two transit track bridges at Mayfield Rd.

The E. 120th St. station will be trans-formed into an energy-efficient building that uses community resources. The goal of this project is to connect the Little Italy area to University Hospitals.

Cleveland will be host to a world title checkers match on Saturday, Oct. 6. The American Checker Federation is hosting the event at the Cleveland Pub-lic Library in the John G. White Special Collections Area at 10 a.m. The match will continue from Oct. 7 to 9 at the Rodeway Inn and Medina Conference Center in Medina, Ohio.

Alex Moiseyev, from Dublin, Ohio,

Voter IDs not necessaryA judge in Pennsylvania halted full ap-

plication of a state law that requires vot-ers to have photographic identification in order to vote in the November election. Judge Robert Simpson said that authorities had not guaranteed that the voters would have access to the new documents in time.

The law was passed in the spring with no Democratic support. Eleven similar laws have been passed across the United States. The original purpose was to prevent voter fraud. However, it has been argued that the Republican Party wants to pre-vent poor and minority groups from vot-ing. Some have claimed that these groups might not have the necessary photographic ID or the ability to go obtain one.

The state law was contested by liberal and civil rights groups in August and the outrage has not relented. The state’s Su-preme Court told Simpson to hold further

25 killed in NigeriaAt least 25 people were killed in execu-

tion-style shootings at a college in north-eastern Nigeria on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The reason behind the attack is suspected to be an election held the previous Saturday. The election was vehemently opposed be-cause of religious and ethnic issues.

Godfrey Ameka Okeke, police com-missioner for Adamawa state, said, “Most of the people killed were executive lead-ers that were elected. We cannot exoner-ate the students completely.” The Associ-ated Press reported that some fraternities had been using gang violence in order to exert their power.

However, the region has seen hun-

The new University Circle-Little Italy Rapid Station in Cleveland, Ohio is expected to be completed in April 2013.

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hearings, focusing on whether “enough had been done to ensure ‘liberal access’ to the picture ID cards or alternatives,” ac-cording to the New York Times.

Simpson’s ruling on Tuesday, Oct. 2, said that Pennsylvania voters could be asked to show the new photographic identification, but if they did not have them, they could still vote. Penda Hair is the co-director of Advancement Proj-ect, one of the groups that contested the state law.

Hair commented to the New York Times, “While we are happy that voters in Pennsylvania will not be turned away if they do not have an ID, we are concerned that the ruling will allow election workers to ask for ID at the polls and this could cause confusion. This injunction serves as a mere band-aid for the law’s inherent problems, not as an effective remedy.”

dreds of deaths in the past year due to Islamist sect Boko Haram’s attacks. The college was already on an afternoon-to-morning curfew because of these at-tacks. Okeke said that the attackers had the names of the intended victims. They called everyone out of the compound, and then took the selected people aside and shot them.

Ibrahim Muhammad, a spokesman for the Adamawa state police, said that of the 25 people that were killed, 19 were polytechnic students, three were students from another college, one was a former soldier, one was a guard, and one was an elderly man.

will be playing against Richard Beckwith from Willoughby, Ohio. Moiseyev will be defending his 11-man Ballot World Title. This match is distinctive because before the start of the game, each competitor re-moves one checker in order to prevent knowledge of previous games played.

The match, which is sanctioned by the World Checkers Draughts Federation, will have 4 games per day with 16 games total.

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A conversation with…Dean Michael Mason>>victoriaROBINSON

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After working at Kent State University and Ohio State University, Dean Michael Mason is now the Interim Dean for First Year Students in Undergraduate Studies at Case Western Reserve University. As inter-im dean, he works with students and fac-ulty to make sure the first year experience goes smoothly for everyone. The Observer sat down with Dean Mason and discussed his background and his role at CWRU.

Victoria Robinson: How long have you been working at Case Western Reserve Univeristy?

Michael Mason: It has been about a year now. I first came to CWRU in June of 2011 and I was the Assistant Director of First Year Student Academic Affairs. At the time, Julie Amon was the dean, so I was working for her. Since she re-signed from here and took a job at Rutgers Univer-sity, I have held the title.

VR: How did you become involved at CWRU?

MM: I have been in higher education since 2006, when I started my master’s program at Kent State University. I went there for a Master’s in Higher Education Administration and while I was there, I started doing academic advising as my graduate assistantship. For two years, I was an adviser for what they call their “Ex-

ploration Program,” which was essentially made up of students who hadn’t decided on majors. That was kind of my main interest when I started in higher education and aca-demic advising, because I really like work-ing one-on-one with students and helping them figure out what they want to study and what they want to do.

So after I graduated, I started job search-ing and found a job at Ohio State Univer-sity in their college of engineering. I had a couple of different roles. I was an academ-ic advisor in the college for undecided en-gineering students who knew they wanted to do engineering, but didn’t know which kind of engineering they wanted to do. And then the other half the time, I was a coordi-nator of a residential learning community that was focused on green engineering.

I did that for three years and then after that time, I got to the point in my career where I realized I wanted to expand my scope a little bit. I enjoyed working with

engineering students, but, when I worked at Kent State, I worked with students in a full range of student inter-est and I wanted to get back to that.

I wanted to work with a wider popu-lation. I had always worked with first year

students, so I really like the first year popu-lation, specifically because I think it’s a re-ally exciting time in college. Everything is new, everything is exciting, and there’s just a lot of, from my perspective, growth and a lot of positive things that happen from the beginning to the end of the first year and it’s a cool thing to be a part of.

I knew I wanted to stay focused on first year students, but I wanted to widen my scope so I started looking at different positions and I came across this one here. I was familiar with CWRU because, go-ing to school at Kent State, I was familiar with Northeast Ohio and the reputation of CWRU.

Some people in my master’s program were doing their graduate assistantships here, and I had always heard good things about it. One of the other things I did at Ohio State was organizing the honors pro-gram for the engineering college, so I was working with students doing honors theses and there was a graduation with honors in the engineering program. I kind of liked the concept of working with high ability students that were looking for ways to re-

ally get the most out of their undergraduate experience and I know CWRU really was known for having that kind of population.

In the end, all of those factors combined and I saw this job and was really excited about it and was fortunate enough to get it.

VR: Do you have a favorite part of working as a dean?

MM: It’s hard to say what I enjoy more because I enjoy working with both faculty and students for different reasons. I will say I do really like the individual one-on-one interactions that I have with students and the same could be said for faculty. I like talking with faculty about their class-es, their advisees, not that I dislike any of the larger group stuff.

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Interim Dean Michael Mason works with new students as they transition into university life at CWRU.

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ticipants to dress in a way that represents their organizations.

According to Ellis, teams will be judged by various campus and commu-nity figures, including Professor Chris Butler, Colleen Hosler, a Kappa Alpha Theta graduate and last year’s Panhellen-ic Council president, and a representative from CASA of Lorain County.

“CASA is a very important part of Theta as a whole,” Morgenstern said. The organization facilitates adult community volunteers appointed by juvenile courts to represent the best interests of a child who

from KATWALK | 1 is involved in court proceedings as a result of abuse or neglect.

“Megan Ritchey, 2010 Kappa Alpha Theta graduate, just finished training to be a guardian ad litem, which means she’s assigned to a child and helps him or her through the judicial process,” Morgen-stern said. All money raised at the event will go toward training for CASA’s new legal guardians.

Presale tickets are available through Friday, Oct. 5 in the Nord atrium for three dollars and include a raffle ticket for a total of 14 prizes to be raffled off at the event. Tickets are also available for five dollars at the door.

“I try to, as much as I can, maintain a balance between the more administrative things that I do and having the opportunity to sit down and interact with students in a supportive way.”- Michael Mason, Interim Dean for First Year

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>>A Closer Look at Voting

Source: CWRU Center for Civic Engagement and Learning

Rock the Vote’s campaign tour bus descended upon Case Western Reserve University’s campus to try and get more young students registered to vote on last Sunday, Oct. 1.

Rock the Vote is a non-partisan or-ganization whose mission is to motivate and inspire young people from the mil-lennium generation to use their voices to bring about positive and effective political change. Since its founding in 1990, Rock the Vote has registered more than five mil-lion young voters.

“As a college student, it is really im-portant for us to get involved in Ameri-ca’s political system. Although some may think voting does not affect young people, it does,” said CWRU undergraduate Iso-bel Fetter.

“A lot of the problems our parents face will become our problems in the future.

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Plus, a lot of us have taken out student loans to come to CWRU, which is a big debate now,” she continued.

In order to accomplish their goal, Rock the Vote partners with artists and musicians from across America in hopes that they will be able to captivate the attention of young people. Former participating artists have included Snoop Dog, the Far East Move-ment, Justin Timberlake, and will.i.am.

In 2000, Rock the Vote started a college campus bus tour. The bus tour would bring artists to college campuses across America, while registering students to vote. DJ Tank was the artist featured during CWRU’s Rock the Vote campus tour.

“I really enjoyed the music and the overall atmosphere of Rock the Vote. It drew me into the event. It rocked,” said CWRU undergraduate Tyler Clary.

In addition, CWRU students had the opportunity to taste and take home free samples of MIO liquid water enhancers and Kiefer breakfast smoothies; as well as

Rock the Vote is a non-partisan organization that motivates and in-spires young people from the millennium generation to use their voices to bring about positive and effective political change.

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More information is available online at http://tinyurl.com/ccelvote

get a sneak peek of the highly anticipated video game, Assassins Creed III.

“I thought the event was very well put together, and everyone who was on the Rock the Vote staff and the volunteers were friendly. I also really liked sampling

the smoothies and Mio,” said undergradu-ate Elishma Kanu.

For students who have still not regis-tered to vote, the final day to register is Oct. 6, 2012, and general election voting will occur on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.

You must be a United to voteStates citizen

Out-of-state students can registerto vote with his or her campus mailing address if they affirm that they intend on living in the state

Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012The deadline to register in the state of Ohio is

This Saturday, Oct. 6 from noon until 6 p.m., the Squire Valleevue Farm will be hosting the Student Sustainability Coun-cil’s (SSC) third annual Farm Harvest Fes-tival, the organization’s largest communi-ty-gathering event of the year.

Over the past few years, the festival has become a beloved welcome back event of the first semester, where students can find their off-campus fall adventure right in their own backyard.

“Every year is more and more popular. It is our third year and we keep adding more activities,” said Dr. Ana Locci, farm director. The Farm Harvest Festival began as a joint initiative between the farm and the SSC, the premier environmental orga-nization on campus.

Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, their guests, and outside community members can get a chance to see what the farm food program has pro-duced for Bon Appétit and all of the cafés on campus and enjoy fresh food straight from the farm.

This year’s activities will mix tradition-al and new, including hayrides, bonfires, s’mores, a tall grass maze, music, hiking, cookie decorating, cooking demonstra-tions, and outdoor games, as well as ex-ploring bee-keeping, berry farming, and herb planting.

“The farm is like a verdant oasis away from the city, yet only about 10 miles

Farm Harvest Festival hosted this weekend

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away,” said Chris Bond, a horticulturist at the farm. “It is a great place for the Case Western community to come and both learn and recreate.”

Fresh food will be available for free for students with a CWRU ID and guests will be charged a five dollar fee for food and drinks, with proceeds going to the SSC. The menu will include vegetarian chili, apples, apple cider, roasted vegetables, and fresh salads made with farm produce.

“This year we will have a small farm-er’s market selling some seasonal produce, including honey, inside the sheep barn...We will have pumpkins available for sale at the market, as well as some that can be picked,” Bond said. “For the first time, we will have yoga and Zumba classes,” he continued. Yoga and Zumba will be pro-vided by 1-2-1 Fitness, and the farm will also be displaying its new honey house for honey extraction.

CWRU student performers will in-clude Case in Point, the Spartan Tappers, Speakeasy, Juggling Club, Case Ballroom Dance Society, Solstice, Voices of Glory, the Case Men’s Glee Club, and Dhamaka-pella. Members of Greek Life and Center for Civic Engagement and Learning will be participating as volunteers, and certain activities will be run by the SSC and vari-ous Residence Hall Association Commu-nity Councils.

The SSC will be putting their trademark “zero waste” stamp on the event, promot-ing the Office for Sustainability’s “Green your Event” campaign. “Zero waste basi-

cally means just getting the event to send the lowest possible amount of materials to the landfills,” said Abby Dwornik, SSC Vice Chair. Volunteers will be running the waste stations to ensure correct compost-ing and disposal.

“For us it’s really about getting people out to the farm to realize it exists and to re-alize we have local food in our backyard…it’s an important part of sustainability at Case Western,” she said. “The Farm Har-vest Festival is special [for the SSC] be-cause it’s an event where everyone can get involved and have fun as a community.”

The festival is also a great way for first-time visitors to explore the academic and volunteer opportunities the farm has to offer. “[The farm] is the university’s out-door classroom. It serves all the university schools,” she said. “[The Farm Harvest Festival] really showcases the farm food program and the farm’s facilities.”

The farm food program is a new initia-tive to provide local and healthy food to the CWRU dining halls. The farm has pro-vided over 18,000 pounds of fresh food to the campus dining halls, and student vol-unteers provide 25 percent of the labor. So far this year, the farm has had 289 student volunteers with a total of 1430 hours.

In addition, the farm has provided over 10,000 hours of teaching instruction to un-dergraduate, graduate, local schools, and continuing education programs in 2012.

“I would like to have a many fresh-men as possible get to visit the farm very early in their time at Case Western,” said Locci. “As several students have pointed out to me, their time at the farm has made their Case Western experience an unfor-gettable one.”

Complimentary transportation to and from the farm will begin at 11:30 a.m. in front of the Thwing Center.

The Farm Harvest Festival has become a beloved “welcome back” event of the first semester, where students can find their off-campus fall adventure in their own backyard.

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Oct. 2 to Nov. 4

Registered voters can vote early in

CountyCuyahoga

at the Board of Election office in downtown

Cleveland from

identificationVoters should be able to produce some form of

that shows the address inwhich they are registered to vote

Utility bills are available at the Housing Area Officeas a form of voter ID

Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.in the state of Ohio

You must be18 on Election Day (Nov. 16, 2012) to be eligible to vote this year

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The general assembly of Case Western Reserve University’s Undergraduate Stu-dent Government met in the Toepfer Room in Adelbert Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 2.

The meeting started with a short pre-sentation by Chris Vlahos, the associate vice president of the Alumni Associa-tion. Vlahos welcomed and introduced himself to all the new members of USG and informed the GA of the various goals and undertakings of the Alumni Association.

The meeting continued with nomina-tions for nursing, engineering, and arts and sciences representatives. Sophomore Meghna Srikanth was elected representa-tive for the School of Engineering cau-cus. Vacancies still remain in all student caucuses.

Parliamentarian Taylor Gladys then introduced a new version of the judicial board to the GA. In the amended propos-al, the board would consist of four USG members, one non-USG member, and a non-USG alternate member. This time, there were no objections to the composi-

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tion of the judicial board, and it was ap-proved with 94 percent affirmation.

Two bills, B. 22-05 and B. 22-06, were passed. The former bill recognized two student organizations, the Case Western Reserve University Culinary Club and the Spartan Dance Team, which has previous-ly been active on campus but had not ap-plied for recognition from USG. The bill was passed with 97 percent affirmation. The latter bill, providing $5175.78 in roll-ing funding for student organizations, was also passed with 86 percent affirmation.

In his committee report, Andrew Brown, the vice president of information technology, informed the GA that the con-tract of the Print2Here printers on campus has expired and the printers should be re-placed by next semester.

Vice president of student life Patrick Vaughn reported that the Committee of Student Life would be cooperating with Bon Appétit to reduce unrecyclable waste in Grab-It and Bag-It.

Vice president of finance Colin Wil-liams noted that almost all of the rolling funding for student organizations has now been allocated, even though it was planned to last until the end of October.

The white walls near the Jolly Scholar restaurant in the entrance of Thwing Cen-ter are looking barer than usual. The Case Western Reserve University Police Depart-ment is currently investigating the theft of one of the prints comprising “American Dream #5” by Robert Indiana, the artwork that used to decorate this space.

Student shift workers at Thwing Center reported seeing the full set of paintings at 5 p.m. this past Saturday. However, by 10 p.m. on the second day of Homecoming Weekend, the set was one print short.

Adorning the first floor entryway of Thwing East, the prints were donated to the university many years ago and have been a building staple as long as Thwing Center director Casey Medley can re-member.

The series features four square prints surrounding a centered print with the works’ title. The other four prints contain the words “Err,” “Eat,” Hug,” and “Die.” The “Die” screenprint was the subject of the bandit’s thieving efforts. While Thwing Center administration believes the theft was meant to be humorous, the $5750 val-

Snatched paintings brings unwelcome close to Homecoming Weekend

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ue of the set of prints is no laughing matter to Medley.

“If the culprit brings it back in good shape, we’ll just forget about it,” she ex-plained. “All we want is the print back.” According to Medley, the culprits are guaranteed a safe exchange by leaving the painting outside of her office on the second floor of Thwing West, up the stairs from the LGBT Center.

While this robbery is the first of the aca-demic year for Thwing, it is not the first time thievery has struck the center. Over past years, a marble-top table, a television,

and other pieces of artwork have been illegally removed from this student hub.

Because of past burglaries, many offices, such as

those belonging to the Undergraduate Stu-dent Government and Media Board, re-quire card access to enter. While this may protect these offices from experiencing theft, the decorations and furniture in the center’s hallways remain vulnerable.

According to CWRU police sergeant Jeffrey Daberko, the painting theft remains under investigation by the department. In the meantime, the faded outline of a per-fect square fills the void left behind by the vacated artwork.

“American Dream #5” normally contains five separate prints. Following the theft of the right-most print (pictured left), Thwing administration removed all of them from the wall in fear of future theft.

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individual students planning an event inde-pendent of a club.

However, after partnering with the Big Games Club (BGC), they were finally able to plan the event, as BGC is an organiza-tion recognized by the Undergraduate Stu-dent Government.

Even though they partnered with BGC and received financial support from the Univeristy Program Board and Residential Housing Association, Veta and Cavasinni still organized the event mostly on their own.

“We’re not run by any organization,” stressed Cavasinni.

Veta and Cavasinni worked tirelessly to put the event together. To streamline the planning process, each dedicated herself to a separate section of the event. Veta handled the business portion of the event, focusing mainly on the laser tag equipment, music, and food, while Cavasinni handled the aes-thetic portion of the event, such as the t-shirts, strobe lights, and fog machines.

“We were both putting about 20 hours per week into this,” said Veta.

“The hardest part of this is that we’re only two people,” added Cavasinni.

“This is like our child now,” Veta chuck-led. “And we’re running ourselves ragged to make sure it’s awesome for everyone!”

After putting so much work into the event, the planners have high expectations, having advertised throughout the CIA and CIM buildings, online, and all over the CWRU campus. In addition, they have talked and worked with residential advi-sors, Greek chapters, alumni, and graduate program leaders.

Overall, they feel as though “It’s Laser Tag!” was worth the huge commitment and that they learned something from it.

“All the uncertainty, sleepless nights, crunching numbers, and putting laser tag first was so worth it,” said Veta, “Honest-ly, it made Chrissy and me learn so much about our limits, multitasking, and both be-ing professional and keeping it real.”

Veta and Cavasinni hope that everyone who attends “It’s Laser Tag!” has an enjoy-able night, but more importantly, they hope that others will follow their example and plan events of their own.

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This Saturday, Oct. 6, the main quad will be overtaken by “It’s Laser Tag!,” a free event from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., with registration opening at 8 p.m.

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USG Brief

On Saturday, Oct. 13 at 4 p.m., Andrea Fuller Cooper will be giving a presenta-tion at Case Western Reserve University. Cooper is the mother of a college-aged woman named Kristin who fell victim to acquaintance rape, became depressed, and ultimately committed suicide.

Cooper’s goal is to not only tell her story, but to encourage people in similar situations to seek help, to teach individu-als how to recognize symptoms of depres-sion, and how to prevent similar situations from occurring.

Ruth Thomson, president of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, commented on the im-portance of Cooper’s story, “Rape, sexual assault, and suicide are problems that af-fect every college campus.”

She continued, “Hopefully by hearing “Kristin’s Story,” both male and female students will be better prepared to face these problems in both their own lives and

Kristin’s Story: the impact of rape

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Andrea Fuller Cooper is the mother of a college-aged woman named Kristin who fell victim to acquaintance rape, became de-pressed, and ultimately commit-ted suicide.

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in the lives of others.” Cooper’s presentation, open to the en-

tire campus and community, will be held in the Spot, below Leutner Commons. Food and beverages will be provided.

“We wanted to show that anyone at Case Western can make the campus fun,”

“If the culprit brings it back in good shape, we’ll just forget about it. All we want is the print back.”

-Casey Medley, Thwing Center director

With additional reporting by Anne Nickoloff, music reporter

said Veta, “you don’t need to be the presi-dent of an organization to do so!”

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Choices 2012: Exploring Academic & Experiential Opportunities

Events for October and November

Department Event Date Time Location Aerospace Eng. TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information Anthropology Info Session 10/26 11:30am -1:00pm Mather Memorial 201

Art Education, Art Studio, Pre-Architecture

Faculty Art Exhibition Tour

Through 10/12

TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Art History Sandwich Social 11/1 12:30pm – 2:00pm Mather House 100

Asian Studies U.S.-China Business and Government Relations Discussion

10/29 7:00 pm TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Astronomy Astronomy Journal Club Meeting

TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Sears 552

Biochemistry Info Session 11/7 5:00pm SOM Wood Building Room W428

Bioethics Movie Night and Faculty Discussion

10/24 7:00pm Biomedical Research Building 105

Bioethics Study Abroad

Lunch and Guest Lecture Info Session

10/24 11/1

12:00 – 1:30pm 12:30 – 1:15pm

School of Medicine (Room TBA – Contact Academic Rep for information) School of Medicine TA200

Biology / Sys. Bio Biology Gala 11/2 12:30 – 1:45pm Hovorka Atrium

Biomedical Eng. TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Career Center Open House 11/9 11:00am- 2:00pm Sears 206

Center for Civic Engagement & Learning

Info Session 10/8 1:30pm Thwing Center – Lower Level

Chemical Engineering

Meet the Faculty Pizza Lunch

TBD 12:30-1:30pm AW Smith Lobby

Chemistry Coffee and Bagels with Chemists

10/31 10:00am-12:00pm Millis 123

Childhood Studies Pre-Lecture Info Session

10/30 4:00pm Mandel Center 115

Civil Engineering Structure Lab Tour 10/11 4:00-5:00pm Bingham 1st Floor

Classics Major and Travel Info Pizza Party

10/10 12:00 – 1:00pm Mather House 408

Cognitive Science Open House 10/12 12:30-2:00pm Crawford 6th Floor

Communication Science

Pizza Lunch and Open House

10/26 12:30 – 1:30pm Mather Memorial 1st Floor

Dance Backstage Tour 11/11 2:00pm Mather Dance Center

Economics Meet the Faculty Lunch

10/12 12:30 – 1:45pm Peter B. Lewis Building 258

Electrical Eng. & Computer Science

Link State 2012 ACM Conference

10/27 All Day (begins at 9:00am)

Nord (various locations)

Engineering Physics

Evening Coffee Social

10/16 8:00 – 9:00pm Coffee House at University Circle

Earth, Env., & Planetary Sci.

TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Engineering Student Programs

Open House 10/29 1:30 – 3:30pm Nord 304

English Open House 11/9 12:30-2:00pm Guilford House Parlor

Ethnic Studies Lecture – Emma Sepulveda

10/9 10:30am-12:30pm Clark 206

Evolutionary Bio. Open House & Trivia Pumpkin Carving & Dissection Discuss.

10/9 10/22

12:00pm 6:00pm

Clapp 108 Happy Dog Café (email evolution@case.edu for information regarding transportation)

History, History & Phil. of Science

TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Department Event Date Time Location International Studies

Coffee Hour with Majors, Director, & Study Abroad

10/16 10/18

4:00 – 5:00pm 9:00 – 10:00am

Mather House 100

Judaic Studies

Faculty Meet & Greet 10/26 1:00-2:00pm Crawford Lobby Café’

Macromolecular Science & Eng.

Open House 10/19 12:30 – 1:30pm Kent Hale Smith 318

Master of Engineering and Management

Open House TBD (Dec.)

5:30-7:00pm Nord, TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Materials Science & Engineering

Open House Lunch @ Case Club

TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Mathematics Open House TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Mechanical Eng. TBA – Contact Academic Rep for information

Modern Languages & Lit.

International Tea TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

MSASS Information Session 10/13 10:00am-12:00pm MSASS, room TBD MSASS Study Abroad

Information Sessions 10/12 & 10/18

12:30-1:00 p.m. MSASS 108

Natural Sciences Individual Appointments with Department Representative Nursing Open House 11/7 3:00-6:00pm School of Nursing, 1st Floor Lounge

Nutrition Meet & Greet 10/12 10:30am-12:00pm SOM Woods Building Room G38 Philosophy Open House 10/16 11:30am Clark Hall 206 Physics Evening Coffee

Social 10/16 8:00pm-9:00pm Coffee House at University Circle

Political Science Pizza & Political Science: Election Discussion

10/17 12:30pm Thwing Center, Spartan Room

Pre-Health Student Panel Summer Plans Talk

10/12 11/5

12:30-1:30pm 5:00-6:00pm

DeGrace 312 DeGrace 312

Pre-Law Lawyer Panel 11/2 12:30-1:45pm Nord 400

Psychology Pizza Lunch and Open House

10/26 12:30 – 1:30pm Mather Memorial 1st Floor

Religious Studies Faculty Meet & Greet 10/26 1:00-2:00pm Crawford Lobby Café’ Sociology Lecture/Open House

Open House Grad School Talk

10/18 10/26 11/14

4:30pm 11:30am–1:00pm 4:30pm

Mandel108 Mather Memorial Building Mather Memorial 201

SOURCE Research Info Sessions

10/8 10/18 10/30

12:30pm 3:30pm 8:30am

Sears 354 Nord 310 Nord 310

Statistics Pizza Lunch 10/10 11:30am-12:30pm Yost 327 Study Abroad Interest Session 10/12 1:00pm Tomlinson 1st Floor

Teacher Educ. Information Lunch TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information Theatre Spring Auditions Nov.

(TBD) TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

Eldred Theatre

Weatherhead School of Mgmt.

WSOM Open House 10/26 12:30-1:45pm Peter B. Lewis Building 208

Women’s and Gender Studies

Lecture – Emma Sepulveda

10/9 10:30am-12:30pm Clark 206

World Literature TBD – Contact Academic Rep for information

More departmental sessions will be added. All Undergraduate Students are welcome to attend. For the most complete and up-to-date list of events and information sessions, visit http://www.case.edu/provost/ugstudies/year1/year1.html

the committee for the Interfaith Chal-lenge, said that the program opens up new conversations between the differ-ent groups.

“The president’s challenge is an im-portant contribution to building the common good,” Vento said.

Vento attended the event, but asserts that his presence was not a show of sup-port or nonsupport of either presidential candidate.

“It was exciting to see [DuBois] here,” Vento said. “It is a good thing that the highest office in the land gives support to the challenge.”

DuBois began working for Obama in 2005, when President Obama was an Il-linois state senator campaigning to be

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It’s just for me, I try to, as much as I can, maintain a balance between the more ad-ministrative things that I do and having the opportunity to sit down and interact with students in a supportive way.

VR: What’s your best memory since you got to CWRU?

MM: One of the things that I really liked doing was being a facilitator of the Emerg-ing Leaders Program last spring. I really enjoyed getting to know all the students in the program and having the opportunity to, outside of my office and the tradition-al walls of the university, get to do some fun things, and watch students get excited about doing projects that were directly im-pacting the community.

It’s nice to have those kinds of experi-ences that supplement what you do on a day-to-day basis because it re-energizes you and I think, for me, it was a lot of fun. I would have liked to do it again this fall, but the timing of it didn’t work out, but I hope to get back into it.

VR: Are there any difficulties that come with being a dean of undergraduate studies?

MM: The challenge is trying to main-tain that balance between all the different responsibilities that you’re dealing with. There may be days and weeks at a time where I’m really focused in on a particu-lar project or the week is really heavy with meetings and things like that. At some points, you have to look for ways to get reconnected with the student population whether it’s going to a residence hall and doing programs or going to study breaks and hanging out for the evening. I think the biggest challenge is trying to balance everything.

I think another challenge actually has been to get students to see me as something other than an authority figure. I think that

there are a lot of connotations that come along with the title “dean,” and what I re-ally want students to know about me is that my main responsibility and goal here is to help them get the most out of their experi-ence here at CWRU. I want students to re-alize that they can come to me for anything – large or small – and I am here to support them. I don’t think students always see me in that light.

VR: How does working at CWRU compare to when you worked at Kent and Ohio State?

MM: It’s just a much more connected environment. Ohio State obviously is at the opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to size and Kent’s probably somewhere in between. I’d say what really makes CWRU different is just that when you’re dealing with a smaller population of students and a smaller administrative structure and a smaller faculty group, it makes establishing relationships much easier to do.

When I was at Ohio State, working in the college of engineering, I would rarely, if ever, have conversations with or interact with the director of residence life or one of the vice presidents for student affairs or any of those kinds of people. Now I see and I communicate with them here on a regular basis. I know almost the entire resi-dence life staff that works with first year students here.

You just get a really good feeling when you’re walking across campus and you reg-ularly see faces that you recognize. It just makes it feel like a really close-knit com-munity and that’s what a lot of students are seeking, it’s what a lot of faculty members are seeking, and it’s a lot of what we at Stu-dent Affairs are seeking. That’s not to take anything away from Ohio State or Kent, but I think just the size and the way that we structurally work together just makes it feel like a much more cohesive unit.

a United States senator. He says that he wanted to work for President Obama be-cause he believes the president “is a man who can communicate his values.”

“I don’t think that I have blinders on,” DuBois said. “He’s a human being like ev-eryone else; there are things I agree with and things I don’t, but I know he has a heart for our country, he has a heart for his family, and he has a decision-making pro-cess that really takes a diversity of views into account before he moves forward on a given issue.”

Before he was hired, DuBois spent several months attempting to contact President Obama. His first tries were un-fruitful, but he says that he persisted be-cause he had a “really strong sense that government could be a force of good in the world and wanted to be a part of that.”

A campaign video from Barack Obama opened last Friday’s forum with religious advisor Josh DuBois.

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>>josephVERBOVSKYtheatre&danceREPORTER<<

This is not Strosacker! Rather than actors simply acting out the scenes from the iconic

Late night double feature: Rocky Horror comes to

Eldred Theater

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Nehru Jackets by Himanshu

“I ain’t got love handles, got thug han-dles” are the first lines Himanshu gives us on Nehru Jackets, his first solo mixtape, and they kind of sum up the whole thing.

There’s no doubt that Himanshu, also known as Heems, and the other members of Das Racist, his main act, are immensely

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talented rappers. The question, however, has always been how seriously are we sup-posed to take them? How seriously do they take themselves?

On one of the greatest songs in the Das Racist catalog, “Rainbow in the Dark,” they name-drop everything from White

Eldred Theatre presents Rocky Horror Show, in all its glamour and camp. sheehan hannan/observer

cult film on stage, Eldred is pleased to bring you an authentic theater production of the Rocky Horror Show in all its campy glory. Moreover, this is a very special production

for Eldred. The last time Eldred put on a mu-sical was Godspell back in 1976. It is quite literally a once in a lifetime opportunity to see a musical on Eldred’s stage. Indeed, af-

ter the 36 year hiatus, Eldred aims to please with a production full of the glitz, glamour, and gore of a B-movie rock musical.

Album: Nehru JacketsArtist: Himanshu

Release date: 1/27/12Rating: 3.5 / 5

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Upcoming local concertsMidterms are quickly approaching. With

that in mind, it is important to remember we are in the city of rock and roll. This is a city where live music can be found on vir-tually every corner on any given night. In years to come, students will not remember the hours spent studying fruitlessly for the coming exams, but the experiences they had. Concerts are a great way to escape from the stress and to let loose.

Here are a few concerts that may be worth going to in the weeks to come in the greater Cleveland area:

13th Annual Benefit for Roots of American Music with Guy Forsyth

Saturday, October 6Beachland Ballroom (15711 Waterloo

Road, contact 216-383-1124 for tickets)

The local organization, Roots of American Music, is a local non-profit trying to “preserve the past, enrich the present, and inspire the fu-ture” through American music. One way they do this is by visiting classrooms in the greater Cleveland area. Attending this concert is a great way to support them. Guy Forsyth, the founder of Alysum Streek Spankers, will be playing across genre lines, including folk, jazz, punk, reggae and Tin Pan Alley tunes. The Beachland is not reachable using public transportation, but is easy to find with a car.

Coheed and Cambria/ The Dear Hunter/ 3Tuesday, October 16House of Blues (visit livenation.com

for more information)

With a discography full of concept al-bums, Coheed and Cambria have a lot of talented lyrical writing under their belt. Not only that, but the comic books and novel based on their albums show the sup-port of fans and professionals alike for their post-hardcore, progressive genius. The Dear Hunter, hailing from Providence, R.I. blares indie rock with much instru-mentation. Although the band has had a high member turnover rate, the quartet is sure to put on a great show showing their varied talents.

Dinosaur Jr./ShearwaterTuesday, October 23Beachland Ballroom

Dinosaur Jr. is widely regarded as an amaz-ing band that puts on an amazing show. Origi-nally formed in 1984 and re-formed in 2005, the trio blasts through amplifiers with distortion-filled hardcore punk that might help get the an-ger out after that last biochem exam. Shearwa-ter will be a more calming experience, though, as members of Okkervil River Will Sheff and Jonathan Meiburg formed this quintet to make folk music. A fun fact for the anthropologists: many of the songs from their album Palo Santo were written in the Galapagos Islands follow-ing Charles Darwin, as Meiburg is a biological researcher who has spent time there.

The music crescendos, along with the crowd’s cheers and sounds of excite-ment. Standing on the field is a group of students, no wait Spartans, dancers! The Spartan dance team performances at

Halftime Hype: The Spartan Dance Team

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games and events have certainly brought not only excitement, but spirit and enjoy-ment as well.

“We promote school spirit, to keep everyone on the team physically active. They can continue dancing and staying in shape at the same time,” stated Camille Dyquiangco, the president of the Spartan

dance team. “It’s also promoting the university, es-

pecially with Case athletics. We try to be a part of the sports experience,” added Me-lekte Melaku, one of the captains of the team. The dance team is not under athlet-ics, but they work with athletics.

Heading off the football field and into

the studio on late Tuesday and Thursday nights is where one will find these dedi-cated dancers. Having just learned new choreography a couple of days before the homecoming performance, the dancers set their minds on not only learning it, but

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While many Case Western Reserve Uni-versity students were donning their school colors for the Homecoming football game, I wore my best dress for my first Cleveland

Orchestra concert. Severance Hall was as busy as any part

of CWRU this past weekend. Fancily-clad people of all ages bustled around the build-ing’s lobby before the show. My friend, a novice composer, and I had difficulties working our way through the crowds.

B.o.B. versus Berlioz

Finally, after travelling through several beautiful staircases, lobbies, and hallways, we arrived at the balcony and found our seats in the dress circle. These seats, considered some of the best in the entire hall, allowed us to see every musician in the group.

When the lights dimmed, a wave of si-

lence rushed over the huge crowd. Conduc-tor Franz Welser-Möst entered the stage, welcomed by thunderous applause.

The first piece, titled “Kammermusik No.

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Hey Cartoon Network! Long time no see! You just turned twenty. Wow. It feels like just yesterday we were growing up together and watching “Hanna-Barbera” shows together and then you starting mak-ing your own shows and they were great. I have to confess that I haven’t seen you in quite some time. I meant to post on your Facebook wall, but apparently we’re not friends. I mean, it’s not that I don’t like you. I mean, technically, I’ve never clicked your like button on Facebook. It’s just that we’ve grown apart and I don’t want to get spammed every ten hours with a post on my Facebook feed about “The Looney Tunes Show.” I caught an episode yester-day and it, quite frankly, makes me want to impale myself with one of those pointy Viking helmets that Elmer Fudd wore in “What’s Opera Doc.”

I remember the first time I ever laid eyes on you. I am pretty sure it was Christmas 1996 and you were playing this commercial that revealed that ev-

ery cartoon character exists in this same, shared universe and my young mind ex-ploded with the idea that Secret Squir-rel was friends with Yogi Bear and they solved crimes together with the Amazing Chan and all of the politically incorrect members of his Chan Clan. Episodes of the entire “Hanna-Barbera” catalogue followed, until shows by modern masters made whole families like the Flintstones and the Jetsons obsolete. A new wave of filmmakers inspired by these very shows crafted series like “Cow and Chicken” and “Johnny Bravo” as the successors to a legacy of colorful characters placed into ludicrous situations. The closest your network has ever come to auteur theory involves talented animators like Genndy Tartakovsky, with “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “Samurai Jack,” and Craig McCrack-en, with “The Powerpuff Girls”.

You weren’t always alone, CN. You had “Toonami,” which provided our first exposure to foreign animation and anime. Waiting for Goku to throw a spirit bomb at Freiza over twelve episodes taught me more about patience than any kindergarten

experience or standing in line. Adult Swim is like your older, immature brother who has these casual strokes of brilliance, when he isn’t cautiously structuring his next fart joke. My personal sense of humor became so corrupted by “Space Ghost Coast to Coast” that the idea of any celebrity an-swering a ridiculous question or provid-ing a ridiculous answers to serious ques-tions triggers a physiological response to smile. However, having to fight past hours of “Family Guy” reruns and shows about hillbilly squids destroys any goodwill I once had. Perhaps the only certainty for your next twenty years will be those end-less reruns of that Seth MacFarlane series in the late evening. For a creator who be-gan at your very network, it is only fitting that season 37 of Family Guy will be the one to destroy it.

Our separation was gradual. For each “Ed, Edd and Eddy” and “Codename: Kids Next Door,” there was a “My Gym Partner’s a Monkey” or a “Megas XLR.” If you haven’t realized by now, Cartoon Network, no one has ever cared about “Whatever Happened to…Robot Jones?”

Eventually, you started showing live-ac-tion series with premises that were taken from the Nickelodeon junk pile. What ex-ecutive told you that it was a good idea to let Andrew W.K. host a game show in-volving dynamite and children? You for-get your name, Cartoon Network. Cartoon is your given name and you forgot it. Only by stretching your wings with new epi-sodes of “Hole in The Wall” and watching them melt away in the sun did you have the intervention that provided you with a reason to change.

People grow apart. I hear that your new shows like “Adventure Time” and “Regular Show” are pretty good, although I have not seen enough episodes of either to pass judgment. I mean, for starters, we don’t get you on Case cable. Oh wait, I just checked the schedule and apparently we do. Well, this is awkward. Maybe I’ll pass by you when I’m flipping through the channels sometime in the next few years and stop to catch an hour or two. At least we’ll have “Boomerang” reruns to remind us of when everything was right with the world in the meantime.

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Editor’s NoteDoes history matter?

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Why women need to voteIn the same vein as Andrew Breland’s space last week, instead of my usual

column, I would like to present a letter from Natalie Portman on behalf of the Obama campaign. Ms. Portman’s letter serves as an excellent reminder of the advances both women and students have made in the last four years, as well as what is at stake in the upcoming election. Early voting began in Ohio today, so make sure you get out there and vote! – Andrew Schriver

Op-Ed by Natalie PortmanWhy Women Need to Vote

It was great to be back in Ohio last week to see my family and talk with some amazing college students about your choice, voice, and vote this November.

My mom grew up in Cincinnati and my grandmother still lives there. I look up to them so much, and I can’t help but think of generations of women who made giant steps forward for the things that matter to us: equality in the work-place, opportunities in the classroom, and control over our health care. That’s progress we’ve won and the progress that’s at stake.

The first law President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, helping women in the fight for equal pay. When women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, that costs a typical working woman hundreds of thousands of dollars over her career. That’s an economic issue that affects our families and economy, and why as a father of two daughters and son of a working mother and grandmother, President Obama will continue the fight for your economic secu-rity as you graduate and start your careers.

And he understands what you face when you graduate, especially when it comes to paying off your college loans. Both the President and the First Lady just paid off their own loans a few years ago.

And it’s why the President reformed federal student loans and is making it easier for you to pay yours back. He doubled the value of Pell Grant scholarships and extended college tax credits that have helped hundreds of thousands of Ohio families send their kids to college. He wants you to have the same pathway to opportunity he and the first lady had.

But while it’s one thing to balance loans and tuition – or a family and a job – no one should have to worry about a health crisis that forces you to choose between paying hospital bills or paying for tuition, rent, or basic necessities.

One of my best friends got into a car accident just after she graduated from college. She didn’t have insurance at the time, and 10 years later she’s still pay-ing off her medical bills. Because of Obamacare, that won’t happen to young people like you.

Obamacare also means insurance companies can no longer charge women higher premiums than men, or deny women coverage by counting pregnancy or domestic violence injuries as pre-existing conditions. And now women can re-ceive preventive cancer screenings, contraception, and checkups without copay or deductibles.

We’ve come so far with equality in the workplace to opportunities in the classroom to control over our health. That’s progress worth defending with our voice and our vote.

The college women I met in Cincinnati and across the country understand that we are a majority of this country. We’re half the workforce and half the elector-ate. And you will join them in this economy. This is your education, your health care and your economic security. So speak out and share your story.

As a granddaughter, daughter and now a mother, this election is about my son and the world I want him to grow up in. So I shared my story by writing “wom-en’s rights” on my hand and placing it on my heart. Then I had it tweeted out as part of the campaign’s “For All” launch. Write what progress over the last four years means to you – Obamacare, Pell Grants, marriage equality, clean energy, or whatever is most meaningful to you. Then share your own photo on Facebook, Instagram, or tweet it with the hashtag #forall.

But the most important way to make your voice heard is through your vote. Women in Ohio are the center of this election. You have power to choose which direction we go – so make it count. Visit GottaVote.com to find out where, when, and how to vote. And then vote early starting on Oct. 2, so you can help get more folks to the polls on Election Day. Make sure you are registered by Oct. 9! On Case Western Reserve University’s campus, there are voter registration drives every day.

I know about the power of stories and how they tell us about who we are as Americans. And the great thing about President Obama is that he backs his word with deed and based on the values that generations of women have fought for. It’s up to us to defend that progress and keep moving us forward.

As any first-year student can attest, the life of a freshman temporarily revolves around the first-year seminar, which is a required component of the SAGES curriculum. Each of these seminars attempts to attract students with interesting course descriptions and catchy titles; mine asked if his-tory mattered.

The weekend prior to Homecoming weekend, the staff of The Observer received a message from Paul Kerson, the paper’s first news editor, who helped launch the publication in 1969, just as Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University had “merged” to become one.

Six days after his initial message, Kerson was seated in front of a circle of Case Western Reserve University students, faculty, and staff, discuss-ing what it was like forging a college newspaper at one of the most turbu-lent times in U.S. history.

The founder of his New York law firm and the former assistant attorney general for the state of New York, Kerson was joined by vice president emeritus for public affairs, university historian, and SAGES fellow Rich-ard Baznik.

From the distribution of draft cards in Adelbert Gym to the rampant prospect of war threatening the university’s male community, their dis-cussion revealed that CWRU was anything but boring between 1969 and 1972.

“National news was made at CWRU or by CWRU students in those years,” Kerson explained. “I covered the Woodstock Music and Art Fes-tival in August 1969, the Great March on Washington in November 1969, the National Student Mobilization Committee Convention at CWRU in February 1969, and the Kent State shootings and subsequent partial clo-sure of CWRU in 1970.”

Forty years later, I can’t help but wonder how this editorial board or the student body of this university would react under such social pressure. Put frankly, I have to wonder if a call to action would be rejected or embraced, a question I think only reality could answer.

After all, compared to the historic events that have unfolded across campus fields and in building corridors, our current era may be judged as insignificant. Not by me.

Rather, if it is one lesson I learned in our founder’s visit, it is that every effort taken in the name of this university or one of its student organiza-tions does not occur in vain. We may not be living during the Vietnam War or a particularly impactful era, but we are shepherding the organizations and institution that were founded and safeguarded by students who did.

As CWRU’s current undergraduates, we are responsible for ensuring that the work of the alumni who came before us is maintained. We are en-trusted with leaving this campus in better condition than when we found it for the benefit of future students.

When my first-year SAGES seminar concluded my freshman year, the meaningfulness of history had been yet to be determined. No finite answer was decided, and we were left to draw our own conclusions.

Meeting the man who started this newspaper and helped create the shoes that I now fill changed my perception of history. And his aged face and still unyielding passion has finally allowed me to draw my own con-clusion.

History matters.

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As an individual who has befriend-ed many avid gamers, I’ve always found the virtual worlds that can be explored fascinat-ing. I don’t partake in too much gaming, but I certainly understand what captivates people in this medium. It allows people to take on the persona of a hero and face his or her challenges. It lets people dream and cre-ate realities that they seek, or just waste time randomly shooting birds at pigs.

One aspect of video games that I’ve al-ways been curious about is the hardware itself. What do people do once the console hardware rusts? Are old PS2s just thrown away, or perhaps recycled? As I explored the waste that circuits and computers pro-duce, I found some weird things under de-velopment.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as research-ers at Tufts University have created circuits that dissolve in water. This fascinating com-ponent is made from silk and magnesium. A special coating is sprayed onto the material that allows it to last anywhere from a few hours to many years. Its implications in the medical field are astounding.

This could be used to make temporary sensors that need to enter the human body. Rather than worrying about an extraction process, biomedical engineers can design the circuits to harmlessly self-destruct in a set period of time. It can even be used with bacteria and viruses, ushering in new ways to fight disease.

Other applications include mini cameras and solar cells. The solar cells could be used as a temporary energy source in locations

where other forms of energy are being de-veloped. For example, if a city is construct-ing a geothermal plant – an energy source much more efficient than solar – one could use these special solar circuits during con-struction. Once construction is complete, the solar cells can be destroyed completely to save space for other things.

I think I may be interested in seeing de-velopments of gaming systems that have options of being biodegradable after 10 or 15 years. After that period of time I’m usu-ally moving on to the next system anyway. Regardless of what you believe about the “green” movement or the environment and the implication of human actions, it is never a bad idea to conserve resources and the space around us. Robert Redford once said, “I think the environment should be put in the category of our national se-curity. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?” If we run out of things to use, or innovative ways to use what we have, it will be tough to live as a species on this earth. That truth is what drives me to innovate and create value out of everything, big or small.

Join me next time as we continue to ex-plore the weird of our universe. Through the vast monuments erected by mankind to the peculiar discovery of scientific phenomena, there is plenty left to discover around us.

Aditya Rengaswamy is a sophomore ac-counting student at CWRU. He enjoys doing various service projects like Kids Against Hunger, being a part of USG, and hanging out with his brothers in Theta Chi.

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From our founder:Last week, members of The Observer staff received a special email from one of

our papers’ founders, Paul E. Kerson, J.D. Kerson was the last Sports Editor of the Reserve Tribune in 1968-1969, and helped merge with the student publication at Case Tech to form The Observer as the two universities became one. Kerson served as the first News Editor of The Observer in 1969-1970, covering some of the most important events of the time including Woodstock, the Great March on Washington in November 1969, and the Kent State shootings. He has gone on to become a lawyer in New York City and is the Editor of the Queens Bar Bulletin, the monthly journal of the Queens County Bar Association. In recognition and respect for our founder and all other alumni for their past, present, and future contributions to our university, we are publishing Kerson’s latest Editor’s Note. Read it in its entirety at observer.case.edu.

A Better Life for EveryoneBy Paul E. Kerson

This past summer, I went on a ten day tour of Turkey with the Friends of Queens College. It was a tour of Turkey’s present and deep into its past. We toured the world of the Hittites, Asia Minor, Anatolia, Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul, the Ottoman dynasty, Rome, Alexander the Great, the early Christians and the sites of many of the stories of both the Old and New Testaments. Ironically, these names-out-of-time are all on the same piece of land, a country approximately the size of Texas sitting in both Europe and Asia. The Europe and Asia sides are linked by (you guessed it, shades of Robert Moses) near duplicates of the Verrazano and Throgs Neck Bridges, one for cars only, and the other for trucks and buses.

I was eligible for this tour because I have taken a Queens College pre-law student in my office every term for the past 20 years. They get four college credits for run-ning around finding records at the Courthouses, City Register, and County Clerk. They also photograph crime and accident scenes and track down and interview wit-nesses. Their written reports are often the most valuable items in my case file.

I designed this internship to be similar to the one I had at the U.S. Attorney’s Office back in 1974-75. In retrospect, the internship I had back then was the most useful course I took in both college and law school.

But more to the point, my wife, Prof. Marleen Kassel (Kerson), was one of the organizers of the tour. She is Director of Asian Initiatives, and she teaches History of Asia at Queens College. During the tour, Marleen and three of her colleagues gave us college-level lectures.

Prof. Joel Allen, Chair of the History Department, spoke about “Constantinople and the New Rome and All That Entails”. Joel took the position that Constantine used Christianity to consolidate his power, not for religion at all. He told how Con-stantine built basilicas such that the Emperor and the Altar were one.

Prof. Gloria Fisk of the Department of English and Comparative Literature gave a talk about the Works of OrhanPamuk, the Nobel Prize winning Turkish novelist. Gloria explained that Pamuk was a bridge between East and West and has written his country into being for Western readers. His Turkey is perceived as a model for reform in the Middle East.

But more interesting for our QCBA membership, Gloria described how the cur-rent Turkish Government has prosecuted Pamuk for violating the Turkish Laws Article 301, the crime of insulting Turkishness. This statute was enacted in 2006 in direct response to Pamuk’s 2005 novel, “Snow.” (What an illustration of the impor-tance of our American Constitutional ban on ex post facto laws).

Fortunately, Pamuk was acquitted by a Turkish Court, and his many books enjoy wide popularity both within Turkey and all over the world. With his Noble Prize money, Pamuk erected a “Museum of Innocence” in today’s Istanbul based on his novel of the same name. We visited it. The man is a Salesmanship Genius. The Museum Shop sells only his books.

Unfortunately, certain elements of Turkish society have marked him for assas-sination. There have been conspiracy theories and arrests. What to do in such a situation? You guessed it, like so many eccentric dissidents before and after him, he lives among us here in New York, lecturing at Columbia University. He has also spoken at Queens College. Turkey’s loss is our gain

Prof. George Hendry spoke to us twice about Climate Change. George is Distin-guished Professor of Environmental Science at Queens College’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He tried to impress upon us the fact that we all, col-lectively, emit too much carbon dioxide. This fact is causing the Earth to warm at a dangerous rate, melting polar icepacks and causing the Earth’s Oceans to rise in height. This will soon imperil Staten Island, Coney Island, Far Rockaway, the Five Towns, the entire South Shore of Long Island, the entire East and West Coasts of the United States, and coastal cities everywhere. Because we are a wealthy country, we will probably cope. But Bangladesh will most likely be wiped out.

I gave George’s talks a lot of thought. Should we legislate away the internal combustion engine and require only electric cars? George thought this would only help a small amount. What about requiring windmills and solar energy? Again, only a small amount of help. It is the rising industrialization of China and India that is causing the greatest change. George told us that the United Nations’ Intergovern-mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is working on this.

This gave me much food for thought. Who created the United Nations anyway? Was that Harry Truman and George Marshall and Dean Acheson of the American Federal Government back in 1945? In hindsight, having just inspected the ruins of the Hittites, the Romans, Byzantium, the Greeks, and the Ottomans, the United States is looking rather like a shining star in the battered field of World History...What’s Happening Wednesday

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from 7 | jacketsCastle and Big Macs to Gruyere and Roquefort to Goodfellas, G-chat, Stephen Hawking, and Neutral Milk Hotel (“catch me at the crib getting light to Jeff Mangum / it’s fun to do bad things like rap about handguns”). Then they end the song with “no trustem white-face man like Geroni-mo / tried to go to Amsterdam they threw us in Guantanamo.”

Das Racist lyrics run the gamut from “I’m at the fashion party wearing fashion clothes putting fashionable powders up inside my nose” to Heems shouting “I’m fucking great at rapping!” to referencing Michael Foucault, W.E.B. DuBois, Dinesh D’Souza, and John Phillip Sousa.

They sum up the situation best them-selves on “hahahaha jk?” where the chorus is “we’re not joking / just joking / we are joking / just joking / we’re not joking”.

Heems doesn’t make things any more obvious on Nehru Jackets. “Thug Handles”, the ninety-second opening track and prob-ably the best on the album, is Heems brag-ging about eating. “Doctor said, ‘Please Himanshu, watch your cholesterol’ / I said ‘Dr. please, man, please just let me ball’”. Heems wants us to know that his “junk food game is of another pedigree” and “I do me / chew Now & Laters, Skittles, and them fruit that’s juicy”. It’s no joke: the chorus of the song is “I don’t wanna wait / for my life to be over / so I do it now.”

The rest of the tape (24 more songs and

70 minutes) is as varied as his output with Das Racist. He tells us that he “never liked rapping but I decided to try harder / then I shot the cover of Spin and tried Prada / went from ‘why bother?’ to ‘I’ll holla’ / for the mighty dolla.”

“NYC Cops” starts off with the most original of rap lyrics, “fuck the police,” and then Heems continues to breathlessly tell us for four minutes about cases of police brutality and murder in New York City.

On “Womyn,” Heems gives us his take on, well, women: “Ayo, I think women re-ally like diamonds / yo I think they don’t usually like violence;” “they’re the great hope / they’re very dope / sometimes they like to smoke / sometimes they drink drinks with little umbrellas in em;” “I’m glad to be part of your ranks / if you accept me, women.”

Then there’s the two minute “Jason Bourne”, where Heems makes typing noises and tells us he’s “hacking into the mainframe / THE MAINFRAME” and raps the plot line of The Bourne Identity for us. He excitedly yells the ending: “But what’s next? / Operation Blackbriar! / Whoaaaah”.

All in all, Nehru Jackets is exactly what you would expect if you’re familiar with Das Racist: moments of brilliance, hi-larious jokes, and off the wall references. Nehru Jackets suffers from having a little more filler than other Das Racist releases and, in the end, isn’t as strong as their clas-sic mixtapes.

Eldred’s show is based on the original Rocky Horror Show written by Richard O’Brien, who plays Riff Raff in the film. It is important to note that, as the original theatrical production, it differs slightly from the film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Certainly, the main plot, story, and characters remain the same, but for those who have seen the film, you will certainly get some surprises. Thematically, Rocky Horror addresses the issues of identity and finding oneself, particularly associ-

Kelly McCready says “Everyone knows that with this show you either go big or go home.” That is no lie. The set design takes great pains to mix the antiseptic Pleasant-ville-esque innocence of the 1950s with the gothic camp of a B-movie horror flick, as well as the rock aesthetics of the 1970s. The costume design, too, including stripper heels and kinky corsets, brings the classic raunchy over-the-top nature of Rocky Hor-ror to the stage. Most impressive however, is the sound design, which features live music played on a full four-piece rock set. Likewise, the cast has spent considerable effort perfecting their co-ordination and harmony. Kelly quotes the musical director as saying “I’ve never seen a show go from zero to bitchin’ so quickly.” This looks to be an exciting and unique experience for anyone going to the show.

Speaking of unique experiences, those who are familiar with Rocky Horror should already know of the cult following it en-tails. For those who don’t, be prepared for a thrilling experience, both on and off the stage. Rocky Horror has a rich tradition of audience participation known as call-outs in which audience members shout out vari-ous words and profanities, like “APE S---” and “A------” during the performance. There are even scripts online that provide details for the appropriate timing. For El-dred’s production, there will no doubt be call-outs, which should make each run a to-tally different experience, giving audience members a good reason to see it more than once. However, audience members should be aware that throwing things during the production is strictly forbidden.

Eldred’s production of The Rocky Hor-ror Show premieres Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. It continues on Oct. 6 and the 12 and 13 at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees on Oct. 7 and 14 at 2 p.m.

ated with gender, something with which O’Brien struggled. This is most apparent in the character of Dr. Frank N. Furter, played by Thayer Juergens. He describes Frank as “mercurial,” shifting throughout the play from “a super sexual transvestite to a mad Frankenstein doctor to a proud mother/father and in between.” Other char-acters also undergo transformations, such as Janet Weiss, played by Kelly McCready. She goes from “a demure girl who sings about weddings to a corset- and high-heel-wearing liberated woman.” Brad Majors, played by Amnon Carmi, must contend

with his own repressed feelings aroused by Frank. On top of the characters’ experienc-es, there is also O’Brien’s perspective with which to contend. Director Jerrold Scott said, “It’s great fun to explore the English-man’s view of 1950s America.” O’Brien produces a truly zany mishmash of Ameri-can culture from the modest 1950s up and through the sexually liberated 60s and 70s with an added dose of American B-movie horror kitsch.

This cultural miasma can be seen, beau-tifully rendered, in the impressive produc-tion values of this show. This is huge. As

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perfecting it up to performance level. “We do performances every week, two

weeks, so we have to learn a new routine each time,” explained Melaku.

By the end of rehearsals, the dancers are treating the studio like the stage and the game field, ready to showcase their hard work and dedication.

“I tried out for the Spartan dance team because I could tell they were a great group of girls and I loved the idea of per-forming at football and basketball games, and cheering on Case Western athletics. It’s been really fun; I enjoyed hanging out with them and dancing,” said a junior member of the team.

The dance team typically learns hip-hop and jazz routines. Though the team consists of dancers with different back-grounds, such as those with years of ex-perience in ballet, their passion for dance works as an impetus for being versatile in any type of dance. This motivation allows them to get pumped up for just about any

1,” by Paul Hindemith, began the concert with a quick string melody and small flute riff splashes. The music flowed into a more morose theme with the second movement, and the entire piece ended with a siren-like melody.

With the hall’s amazing acoustics, even tiny triangle parts were audible. Between songs was the only time I heard a cough or a sneeze; the amount of respect shown to the performers was unbelievable.

Richard Strauss’s “Oboe Concerto in D major” was my least favorite song of the night. While the soloing oboist was clearly very talented, the music was too repetitive for my taste.

However, after intermission, I expe-rienced a sure favorite, the “Symphonie Fantastique” by Hector Berlioz. The full or-chestra then performed the first movement, consisting of two sections titled “Reveries” and “Passions.”

“Reveries” introduced a very slow mel-ody full of anticipation, building into the racing “Passions” section. Moving with the song, each musician’s energy added another wonderful element to the live performance.

The song rushed through a strange waltz piece, then continued to a gentle, passionate third movement. After this, the fourth move-ment marched in, low and heavy. Finally, the song finished with a dissonant, victori-ous fifth movement that shook the building.

The audience must have clapped for at least five minutes. The conductor left the stage, and entered again two more times for repeating encores.

This was an amazing performance with an explosive ending, but sat in great contrast to the next day’s B.o.B concert, which I also attended with my composer friend.

Now, I am not a big fan of B.o.B, and I knew that my friend, a lover of all things

classical, certainly would not be overly ex-cited about it. However, I knew we should both give it a shot, especially since it was free.

Live rap, we first discovered, is loud. Inside Veale, the music boomed from stereos so loudly that we wished we had earplugs. On top of that, flashing lights quickly made us wish we had sunglasses too. Before long, we both had headaches and ringing ears.

Our second discovery was that rap, at least in this case, was extremely vulgar. B.o.B’s opener, Chance the Rapper, began yelling out profanities in a high-pitched, squeaky voice. I started to think that any pubescent boy could be a rapper if this guy was one.

Every song was Chance the Rapper’s “last song of the night.” I heard him say this at least three times until he finally left the stage.

Then the crowd waited for about 15 min-utes as some cleaners came out and mopped up all the water he spilled. Finally, the crowd started to get pumped for B.o.B I did too; it was my very first rap concert.

B.o.B’s music was definitely better than Chance the Rapper’s, and he put on a much better show. Of course, I enjoyed “Airplanes” and a couple of other famous songs, but what really blew me away was the light show.

Images of tigers and fire burst upon the screen behind him, and strobe lights flashed madly against fog in the air. Laser beams shot up to the ceiling, and the spotlights changed color with the mood of the song, creating a dazzling effect overall.

However, as far as music goes, I definite-ly preferred the regal atmosphere of Sever-ance Hall to this headache-inducing mob of people. I can see the allure of rap concerts, with the dancing and relaxed feel, but not for the underprepared.

dance piece. “I’m really excited for this weekend’s

performance; a lot of people are going to be there and I love performing at big crowds. It’s like I’m in a different world, me and the music, and people are watch-ing. It’s just an amazing feeling, to be out there. It’s also a stress-reliever for me,” says freshman member Courteney Asase.

The Spartan dance team performance during the half time of the Homecoming football game brought the crowd even more enthusiasm.

“Being a part of the team, I mean, we’re the Spartan Dance Team. A lot of what we do has to do with bringing spirit to the school, hyping people up. It makes me feel more connected to the school, a part of the school because I’m represent-ing something,” shared Asase.

So next time there is an event or home game, be sure to check out the Spartan Dance Team. They certainly always have their best foot forward – with every dance move they have.

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After leading the defense to a pair of shutouts last week, Case Western Re-serve University women’s soccer senior captain Maeve Goede has been selected as the University Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career.

At John Carroll University on Wednes-day, Goede and the Spartan backline limited the Blue Streaks to eight shots, including just two on goal. Also, during a corner kick, Goede headed in her first goal for the fall

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and the second of her career on an assist from fellow senior captain Deena Levey.

In the UAA opener at home on Satur-day, New York University managed just five shots on goal as the Spartans tallied their fifth shutout of the fall. In addition, Goede assisted on the team’s first goal in the victory.

Through 10 matches, the Spartans have held opponents to just 10 goals and have sur-rendered only one in the last three matches.

Goede and the Spartans will open a four-game road trip Saturday when they travel to Brandeis University for the sec-ond game of the conference slate.

Senior defender Maeve Goede earned UAA Athlete of the Week honors last week after scoring a header against John Carroll and adding an assist against New York University.

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with 13 tackles and a pair of sacks.Scouting the SpartansThroughout their first four games, the

Spartans averaged 20.2 points, 147.4 yards rushing, and 208.6 yards passing for a total 356.0 total yards. The Case defense has held opponents to an average of 14.2 point per game, 76.6 yards rush-ing, 218.8 yards passing and 295.4 total yards per game. The Spartans have a -10 turnover ratio.

Previous MatchupDespite a game-high 163 yards from

scrimmage by sophomore running back Manny Sicre, Case fell short by a score of 14-10 against the No. 21 nationally-ranked Wittenberg in front of a capacity Homecoming crowd at Case Field.

Spartans to Watch:Erik Olson, Quarterback – The senior

has completed 87 of 138 passes (63.0% completion rate) for 1025 yards with sev-en touchdowns and six interceptions.

Manny Sicre, Running Back – Sicre has a team-high 424 yards rushing on 107 carries (4.0 yards per carry) with three touchdowns. The junior also has 17 recep-tions for 241 yards and two scores.

Ryan Ferguson, Outside Linebacker – The defensive specialist has recorded a team-high 49 tackles with a forced fumble and three pass breakups. Ferguson, along with fellow senior linebacker Self, has totaled 93 stops with four pass break-ups and a blocked punt.

Scouting the Fighting ScotsIn their first three games, the Fighting

Scots averaged 17.5 points, 93.0 yards rushing, 191.5 yards passing and 284.5 total yards. Wooster’s opponents have average 21.2 point per game, 152.2 yards

rushing, 163.8 yards passing and 316.0 total yards per game. The Fighting Scots have a -3 turnover ratio.

Fighting Scot to WatchRichard Barnes, Quarterback – The

junior has completed 62 of 116 passes (53.4% completion rate) for 660 yards, six touchdowns while registering three inter-ceptions. Barnes has also carried the ball 53 times for 107 yards and a score.

Jordan McIntyre, Wide Receiver – The senior has team-highs of 17 receptions and 199 yards (49.8 yards per receptions) along with one touchdown.

Mitchell Czerniak, Defensive Back – Czerniak along with Hood are tied for the team lead with 33 tackles.

Running ComboSicre totaled 163 yards from scrim-

mage versus Wittenberg last Saturday, in-cluding a career-high 83 yards receiving. Over the last three games, Sicre has 525 yards from scrimmage (294 rushing and another 231 receiving) with three scores. In each of the games, Sicre has reached at least 163 yards from scrimmage.

STADIUM RECORDLast week’s Homecoming crowd of

2758 was the largest in Case Field his-tory. Since 2005’s inaugural opening, the stadium’s previous attendance record was 2600, set on Oct. 15, 2005 versus Wash-ington University.

Prediction: Spartans 24 Wooster 14The Spartans will look to end their

first three-game losing streak since 2006. Case is on a five-game winning streak against Wooster. Look for them to con-tinue their success against the Fight-ing Scots. Despite the losing streak, the Spartan offense has been consistent and should be able to prevent another last minute letdown.

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Sophomore running back Manny Sicre gets wrapped up in the 14-10 loss to No. 21 Wit-tenberg. Sicre continues to propel the Spartan offense, racking up a game-high 163 yards in the loss.

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Tomorrow marks the end of an era for the Case Western Reserve University football team. The annual tradition, the Baird Brothers’ Trophy Game, will see its last match as the Spartans host the Col-lege of Wooster on Saturday, Oct. 6 at Case Field. Case will attempt to snap its first three-game losing streak since 2006 after falling short, 14-10, in an upset bid against the No. 21 nationally-ranked Wit-tenberg University. The Wooster Fighting Scots have dropped two straight, includ-ing a 30-22 defeat at Denison University.

Series Notes:The Spartans and Fighting Scots have

met 24 times on the gridiron with Wooster holding a 13-11 advantage in the all-time series. While Case has won the last five meetings dating back to 2007, Wooster won the previous 10 contests dating back to 1995. The teams have met regularly since 1984, including games in each of the last 10 seasons. Case won the first meet-ing between the two, 21-14, at Wooster during the 1984 campaign.

The Baird Brothers’ TrophyThe Baird Brothers’ Trophy was in-

troduced during the inaugural meeting between the two schools in 1984 by Bob Baird, an economics professor at CWRU, and Bill Baird, an economics professor at Wooster. The brothers incorporated their passion for fishing into the rivalry by rewarding the winning team each sea-son with a golden fishing stringer with carved brass fish representing each meet-ing. Each year, a new fish is added to the stringer with the final score and winner engraved on the side. Bob Baird passed away several years ago, but his brother, Bill, still carries on the tradition by pre-senting the trophy at the conclusion of the game. The Baird Brothers Trophy was noted in the 1995 issue of Sports Il-lustrated as one of the most unique tro-phies in college football.

This year’s meeting will mark the final annual installment of the Baird Brothers’ Trophy as the University Athletic Asso-ciation and North Coast Athletic Con-ference football scheduling agreement expires. Wooster will begin playing a

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complete NCAC round robin schedule, while Case will join the Presidents’ Athletic Confer-ence as an affili-ate member in 2014.

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coached by Greg Debeljak, who is in his ninth season in 2012 with a 63-26 (.707) record. Debel-jak has led the Spartans to four UAA Champi-onships in five years, including three-consecu-tive undefeated (10-0) regular seasons from 2007-09 with b a c k - t o - b a c k NCAA Playoff berths. Since the beginning of the 2007 season, Case has posted an outstanding overall record of 50-9.

Wooster is coached by Mike Schmitz in his 13th sea-son with a 77-49 (.611) overall record. A two-time NCAC Coach of the Year, Schmitz led the Fighting Scots to a perfect regular season (10-0) with the program’s first outright conference title since 1934 and its first ever NCAA Playoff berth in 2004. Also the 2004 National Football Foundation Ohio College Coach of the Year, Schmitz has led the Scots to three 8-2 seasons.

Last MeetingThen-senior placekicker Daniel Vasil

booted a game-winning, 31-yard field goal in overtime as Case defeated Wooster, 24-21, on Oct. 22, 2011 at John P. Papp Stadi-um in Wooster. Current senior linebacker Wade Self recorded 10 tackles, a sack,

and a forced the fumble that set up the winning field goal in OT. Current senior quarterback Erik Olson finished 20 of 31 for 161 yards and a touchdown. Wooster linebacker Quinn Hood led all defenders

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Spartan Spotlight

Wade Self is a senior on the football team. Self is from Lake Zurich, Ill. and is studying bio-medical engineering.

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Ben Yavitt: Wade, welcome. Let’s start off as usual. How many years have you participated in football?

Wade Self: Four.BY: I like the dedication. What in-

spired you to start playing?WS: I knew I wanted to play football

when my dad told me he would stop rid-iculing me and questioning my gender if I joined the team. He did not follow through on said promises.

BY: Sorry to hear that. Do you have any extracurricular activities or hobbies you want to share?

WS: I slice my own meats and chees-es and I’ve been known to partake in non-sexual orgies.

BY: Those sound like they might go well together. Who is your favorite athlete?

WS: Tim “The Mantis” Maleski. A true inspiration to us all.

BY: Indeed. Let’s hear about your athletic honors.

WS: My coach told me I run really, really fast. Like a deer or an otter or something. Some kind of animal. But yeah, that was cool.

BY: I have never seen an otter run, but I believe you still. What about aca-demic honors?

WS: Five gold stars in third grade, which was fourth most that year.

BY: Gold stars are the ultimate GPA booster. Too bad we don’t get them at Case. What is your best foot-ball memory?

WS: In 10th grade, I finally worked up the courage to shower without my jean shorts on. I was a late bloomer, but

I’ll never forget how refreshing the wa-ter felt on my smooth, hairless body.

BY: What was your worst football memory?

WS: I killed a kid. On the field. Killed him dead. Next question.

BY: Okay, next question… What is your favorite quote?

WS: “Got in my power stance and I was like ka-ka-KAKAKAKAKAKA-KA” – Montez Walker

BY: Inspirational advice that applies to all aspects of daily life. In your opin-ion, what makes football stand out from other sports?

WS: People love the violence and all of our well-toned calves, with the ex-ception of Andy Berkebile.

BY: Defense wins championships, but well-toned calves sell tickets. If you could invite any three people to dinner, who would it be and why?

WS: I would honestly just eat with my family. We love each other so much, when we’re together there’s Self love everywhere. You can’t be around us and not see some Self love.

BY: I can see it. Would you rather have the strength of 1000 men, be able to fly, or be invisible?

WS: I’d like to be invisible so I could follow Mike Harris around and listen to him talk.

BY: As you wish. Let me ask, if they made a movie about your life, who would you want to play you?

WS: The Neanderthal in the Geico Commercials.

BY: Not the Gecko? I think he is a better actor. If you could be a girl for a day, what would you do and why?

WS: If I were a girl, I would seize the opportunity to go on a date with the very single Trip Duchscherer.

BY: Go for it. If you could partici-pate in any other sport, which would you pick and why?

WS: Jai alai. I only compete in sports in which death is a realistic possibility. Which is the same reason I hunt sexu-ally frustrated badgers.

BY: Both of those sound pretty dan-gerous. What might we find in your locker right now that would surprise us?

WS: A pizza box with a nice girthy hole in it.

BY: Surprising, indeed. Let me ask, what goes through your mind during a match?

WS: I spend a lot of time wondering how my bulge looks from the stands. The fans pay upwards of two dollars for our games and they deserve the finest bulge I can provide.

BY: Would the pizza box help? Just a suggestion. What is the high point of the season?

WS: Writing jokes about exploring your body for the school paper.

BY: Cherish this moment. Who is the best athlete you have ever competed against and why?

WS: Myself. Every day I compete against the odds. They said a young scamp with one testicle and mild autism from the swamps of Illinois could never make it in the high stakes world of Di-vision III athletics, but look at me now, world. I made it.

BY: Any insights on the how the sea-son is going so far?

WS: The fall lineup on NBC looks fantastic. It should be a great season.

BY: Thanks for your time, Wade. It was great to chat. Good luck with the rest of the season!

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University, Emory University, and Carnegie Mellon University. The Spar-tans are sitting pretty, with an away record of 5-0-1, but with a combined record of 16-1-2, Brandeis and Emory should prove to be tough tests.

The Spartans are at home again on Saturday, Oct. 20, when they take on in-state rival Kenyon College at 1 p.m. on Case Field.

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Defender Katie Dolansky and the Case defense have been stellar over the past two weeks, leading the Spartans to three straight shutout wins.

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The Case Western Reserve Univer-sity men’s soccer team faced a monu-mental task in taking on No. 6 New York University for the conference opener. Unfortunately for the Spartans, the Violets were simply too powerful, as the visitors outmatched the hosts to the tune of 3-1. The loss drops the Spartans to 3-6-1 overall and 0-1 in the Univer-sity Athletic Association. The loss also drops the Spartans to 1-3-0 at home this season, where they were nearly unstop-pable last season.

The win for the Violets held them steady at No. 6 in the National Soc-cer Coaches of America Association coaches’ poll. The Violets, who are un-defeated this season at 9-0-0, have been remarkable in their first nine games, allowing just three goals, one of which came from the feet of the Spartans.

NYU, who is 37th in Division III in scoring with 2.78 goals per game, threat-ened to get on the board early when, in the seventh minute, center back Sam Kuehnle was able to redirect a loose ball that was on its way to the back of the Spartan net. The Violets managed to break through the Spartan backline a minute later; New York University for-ward Kyle Green chipped a ball over senior goalkeeper Ryan Koepka to give the visitors a 1-0 lead.

The Spartans, who were facing the No. 4 scoring defense in the country, managed to get their revenge 20 minutes later in the 34th minute, when freshman midfielder Chris Cvecko won a 50-50 ball in the box and turned it into the net to equalize the score at 1-1. The goal

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Case Western Reserve University opened the conference volleyball sea-son in Boston, Mass. at Brandeis Uni-versity where they defeated the hosts in straight sets on the way to a 2-1 record. The Spartans opened the first University Athletic Association Round Robin with victories over the host Judges and the University of Rochester before falling to No. 1 Washington University.

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The first weekend left the Spartans with an impressive 14-4 record overall and tied for third in the UAA with No. 13 University of Chicago. Washington and No. 6 Emory University ended the week-end tied for first with perfect 3-0 records.

The opening match saw the Spartans cruise to a comfortable victory over Brandeis. The Spartans swept the Judges (11-7, 0-3) in straight sets: 25-18, 25-19, 25-20. Sophomore middle hitter Natalie Southard paced the team in the opener with 12 kills in 21 attempts for an impres-

sive hitting percentage of .429. The reigning UAA Athlete of the Week, freshman outside hitter Carolyn Bogart, finished second on the team with nine kills. Bogart also had 11 digs, leaving her a single kill away from a double-double.

In support, senior setter Breana Freeman recorded 17 sets in the win while senior libero Rachel Gulasey had 11 digs.

The Spartans contin-ued the strong opening to the season with a 3-1 victory over the Univer-sity of Rochester (16-6, 1-2). Case defeated the Yellow Jackets 25-20, 18-25, 25-19, and 25-12. Bogart led the Spartans in attacking with 11 kills, while also adding 10 digs for a double-double. Southard finished with nine kills.

Freeman and fresh-man Robyn Marks fin-ished with 19 and 17

assists, respectively. Gulasey led the de-fense with 17 digs and also led the team with four service aces.

The final match of the weekend came against the No. 1 Bears of Washington University. The Spartans were deter-mined not to be intimidated by their op-ponents; the last time the two teams met when Washington was ranked No. 1, Case shocked the favorites by upsetting the Bears 3-1 in 2010 at Brandeis.

Unfortunately, the odds caught up to the Spartans as the Bears (16-1, 3-0)

proved true to form, sweeping the chal-lengers 25-15, 25-17 and 25-21. The Bears dominated the match, allowing just 26 kills and keeping the Spartans to a dismal .101 hitting percentage. Lead-ing the Spartans was Bogart, who tallied nine kills on the weekend, giving her 31 for the weekend. Freeman finished with 14 assists and Gulasey had 15 digs.

The Spartans will have a week to bounce back at the Blue Devil Invita-tional in Fredonia, N.Y. before the sec-ond UAA Round Robin. The Spartans will play four matches, two each on Fri-day and Saturday. They will take on the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford at 4 p.m. on Friday and Buffalo State Univer-sity at 8 p.m. On Saturday, they will take on Nazareth College at noon, before the championship game at 2 p.m.

The Spartans will need to take the op-portunity to claw their way onto the na-tional picture as they face a tough gaunt-let at the second UAA Round Robin at Carnegie Mellon University. They will face No. 6 Emory in their second match and save what will likely be the match for the third seed in the UAA tournament when they take on No. 13 Chicago in the final match.

The Spartans will return home on Oct. 17 when they face Hiram College at 7 p.m. That weekend, on Saturday, Oct. 20, Case will host a Seniors’ Day in a tri-match against Defiance College and Muskingum University.

Freshman outside hitter Carolyn Bogart goes for the kill. Bogart finished the weekend with a team-high 11 kills in three matches as the Spartans finished 2-1 in the first UAA Round Robin.

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Freshman Chris Cvecko scored the Spartans’ only goal in the conference opener, a 3-1 loss to No. 6 New York University.

austin sting / observer

was Cvecko’s second of the season.

NYU’s of-fense kept churning, how-ever. Just be-fore halftime, the Violets won a penalty in the box. Senior captain Niki Chow slotted it past Koepka for the 2-1 advan-tage.

The Spartans continued to press, but were unable to put shots on goal, forcing the Vio-lets’ goalkeeper Jonas Poster to make just one save during the match.

The Violets added an in-surance goal to prevent the home side from stealing a point when Green connected on a header off a long pass by the Violets’ Ryan Horch in the 78th minute. That goal gives Green eight in seven games, ranking him 11th in the nation in goals per game.

In goal, Ryan Koepka tallied three saves to go with the three allowed goals. He falls to 2-4-0 on the year.

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conference record at Brandeis Univer-sity this weekend as they begin a four-game road trip. Case will take on the Judges tomorrow, Oct. 6 at 1:30 p.m. The Spartans will travel to Emory Uni-versity and Carnegie Mellon University next week on Oct. 12 and 14, respec-tively.

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For a game that, from past history and current records, was guaranteed to be a close game, the Case Western Re-serve University women’s soccer team was able to make it anything but against a talented New York University team.

In their opening University Athletic Association matchup, which fell on Homecoming weekend, the Spartans dominated the Violets on both sides of the ball to earn their first UAA win of the season, and a 2-0 shutout in the pro-cess.

“Winning our first UAA game gives us momentum and confidence going forward,” says senior Maeve Goede.

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“We need to take [the season] one game at a time and continue to improve each game in order to find success in the UAA.” With the improvement already shown this season, look for the Spartans to keep building on their current four-game winning streak.

Goede, who anchors the center of the back line, earned UAA Defensive Athlete of the Week honors not only for helping Case to its second straight shut-out of the season against NYU, but also for getting an assist off a corner in the game as well.

That goal, the first of the game for the Spartans, came just 18 minutes into the game off a perfectly placed corner. Goede directed the cross to sopho-more forward Jessica Sabers, the cur-

rent Spartan points leader, who headed it strongly into the left side of the goal for her team-leading seventh goal of the season.

Knowing that the Violets have a tal-ented line of forwards, the Spartans kept up the pressure after their early goal and were rewarded with one of the more per-fect strikes of the season. The Spartans were able to string together a series of perfect passes before junior Leah Levey found a streaking Rachel Bourque, who placed the ball perfectly in the side of the net, before the keeper could get within a foot of saving it.

Luckily, the Spartans would only end up needing one goal as Goede, Katie Chapin, Megan Novak, Kate Dolansky, and goalkeeper Megan Romelfanger

prevented the ball from reaching the back of the net, despite the Violets’ 15 shots on goal.

Perhaps the singular defensive play came from sophomore Allie Debeljak.

“When Allie [Debeljak] reached across the net to preserve our shutout by clearing what would’ve been a certain goal, everyone in the stands collectively held their breath before they started to cheer like crazy,” says Goede.

On Tuesday night, the Spartans earned their third shutout in a row, earn-ing a 1-0 victory over the Ohio Wes-leyan University Battling Bishops. De-spite dominating the possession battle, the Spartans were unable to score until the 80th minute when sophomore for-ward Christine Straka was able to use a perfect cut to lace a shot into the empty side of the net.

With 27 minutes left in the first half, the Spartans came close to gaining an advantage when Leah Levey got a strong shot off, which was barely saved by a diving Hannah Zacharias of OWU. Just five minutes later, Leah Levey again had a chance at a goal, but was stopped short by Zacharias.

The Battling Bishops’ best chance came with just one minute left in the first half. With OWU knocking on the door, Battling Bishop forward Jessie Huschart blasted a shot from the penalty box, which streaked above the gloved hand of Romelfanger to hit the crossbar and arc right back into the path of Hus-chart, who again barely missed the goal, sending the ball over the crossbar by a couple of inches.

Case hits the road to take on three straight UAA opponents in Brandeis

Spartans fall 14-10 to No. 21 Wittenberg

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Midfielder Leah Levey plays a ball into the box as part of the Spartans 2-0 victory over New York University. Levey recorded an assist on Case’s second goal in the conference season opener.

arianna wage / observer

Senior Brian Rice finds himself in space after catching a pass. Rice had three receptions for 48 yards in the Spartans 14-10 loss to No. 21 Wittenberg.

austin sting / observer

Despite a game-high 163 yards from scrimmage by sophomore running back Manny Sicre, the Case Western Reserve University football team fell short by a score of 14-10 in its upset bid of No. 21 nationally ranked Wittenberg Univer-sity in front of a capacity Homecoming crowd at Case Field.

The Spartans (2-3) lose a third-straight game for the first time since 2006. The undefeated Tigers (4-0) improve to 9-1 all-time versus CWRU.

The Spartans held Wittenberg score-less in the second half, but saw several of their own late drives end without points. Sicre totaled 83 yards receiving on eight catches and rushed for 80 yards on 21 carries. Over the last three games, Sicre has 525 yards from scrimmage.

Both teams saw their initial drives fizzle out in opponent territory, but Wit-tenberg took its second drive 80 yards on 10 plays and found the end zone when quarterback Reed Florence took a de-signed run six yards to the end zone. Sean Williams hit the extra point to make the score 7-0 with 7:22 remaining in the first quarter.

The ensuing Spartan possession reached the Wittenberg 13, but a field goal try from 30 yards out hit the right upright, leaving the score at 7-0. The key offensive play of the drive was a 21-yard slip screen from senior quarterback Erik Olson to senior wide receiver Brian Rice.

Undaunted, the Spartans kept the pressure on and took their next drive 80 yards on 11 plays to tie the score as Olson

Third straight loss is worst streak since 2006rolled out of the pocket and found fresh-man wide out Bryan Erb for a three-yard touchdown pass. Freshman Won Kun Park hit the PAT to cap a five-minute, 25-second drive at the 7:34 mark of the second quarter.

However, the Tigers came back on their final possession of the half and marched 74 yards on seven plays with Florence connecting on a 16-yard TD pass to WR Brendan Cunningham with 1:50 left be-fore the break. Williams nailed the PAT to cap a drive that took only 1:02 off the clock and made the score 14-7.

On Case’s second drive of the third quarter, the Spartans orchestrated a 64-

yard drive on 14 plays that resulted in a 20-yard field goal by Park with 3:35 remaining in the period. The possession took 7:15 off of the clock and brought the score to 14-10.

In the fourth quarter, the Spartans’ best chance came at the end of a seven-minute, 42-yard drive. Sicre was stopped on a fourth-and-one at the visitor 19 yard line with 10:02 left to play.

For the game, Sicre was the game’s leading rusher and receiver. Olson com-pleted 21 of 32 passes for 175 yards, one TD, and one interception. Rice totaled three receptions for 48 yards, while soph-omore RB Ricky Hanzlik contributed a

career-high 59 yards rushing on 10 car-ries.

Defensively, senior outside linebacker Ryan Ferguson and senior inside line-backer Kevin Nossem each recorded 11 tackles.

Wittenberg was led by Florence with 181 yards passing and 36 yards rushing. Linebacker Spencer Leno led all tack-lers with 17 stops. Defensive tackle Josh Montgomery totaled 1.5 sacks.

The Spartans are back in action at home on Saturday, Oct. 6 versus The Col-lege of Wooster in the final installment of the annual Baird Brothers Trophy game at 1 p.m.