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University looks to alter study abroad aid

NYU BA students take charity abroad

By Gentry Brown

During their fall break in Octo-ber, 10 NYU Buenos Aires students dedicated their week off to com-munity service and embarked on the first-ever study abroad Alterna-tive Break trip.

NYU’s Alternative Break Program gives selected students the oppor-tunity to engage in community service projects around the world over university breaks and some weekends. Last year, more than 280 NYU students participated in the program.

Alejandra Lombardo, assistant director of Student Life for NYU Buenos Aires and organizer of the excursion, said the call for the trip came largely from the Student Life Office. She said she was over-whelmed by the volume of student interest she received and wanted to give students the option to vol-unteer.

By Brian tam

NYU is looking to alter some of its financial aid policies in an ef-fort to make study abroad more accessible to students.

The university has filed an application to participate in a Department of Education pilot program that would allow the school to disburse study abroad financial aid as early as 30 days before the first day of classes. Currently, students are told about their financial aid pack-age no more than 10 days in ad-vance.

The objective of the pilot is to determine whether provid-ing early disbursement of these funds will increase participation in study abroad programs.

“In our experience, NYU stu-dents who study abroad of-ten need funding earlier than is currently permitted,” said

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By CoDy DeListraty

Olivier Dessyn’s face lights up as soon as he starts talking about his croissants.

“Aren’t they really some-thing different,” asked the French-accented pastry chef and the owner of the Greenwich Village’s bak-ery Mille-feuille.

In New York City, where croissants are often mass produced, Dessyn’s warm, flaky creations are a remind-er of how properly prepared pastries should taste.

But it’s Dessyn’s maca-rons — tiny button-shaped confectioneries with butter cream or almond paste — that are the colorful stars of his bakery. He recommends the salted caramel (a peren-

nial Parisian favorite) and the passion fruit, both of which are the perfect, sug-ary ending to a long after-noon in the library.

“Other than the macaro-ns at Ladurée in Paris, these were probably the best I’ve had,” said Joanna Harkins, a sophomore Food Studies major who studied abroad in Paris last year.

Dessyn fell in love with New York after visiting with his wife in 2009. Together, they decided it would be a “dream come true” to move to the city and open a bak-ery. His pâtisserie opened in February.

Dessyn trained at the prestigious Ritz Cooking School in Paris and under

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Win keeps Violets on NCAA bubbleBy DanieL Hinton

As time wound down in a must-win game at Brandeis University on Saturday, the NYU women’s soc-cer team felt its NCAA Tournament hopes slipping away as the match remained scoreless. Then, with just eight minutes left to make a state-ment to tournament selectors, NYU sophomore forward Erin Ahmed in-jected a ray of hope into the minds of her teammates with what proved to be the game-winning goal.

Ahmed’s goal was the only score of the game, and NYU escaped with a 1-0 victory.

“We knew that the game was a must-win if we were to be considered for the postseason,” Ahmed said. “We have worked very hard to get to where we are, and it feels great to have something to show for it.”

The first half was even, ending with both teams taking seven shots but none going in the net. That trend continued for much of the

second half, setting up Ahmed’s late heroics. After winning possession of the ball at midfield, Ahmed set her-self up from 25 yards out and scored her seventh goal of the season.

Although the Judges created op-portunities and maintained pres-sure through the final minutes, the Violets earned their sixth shutout and 12th win.

The Judges ended their 2011 sea-son winless against University Ath-letic Association teams.

“Team defense has been extreme-ly important the past few games,” said freshman goalkeeper Meg Pat-ten, who made seven saves in her ninth complete match. “We had strong defensive shape and cover in the back and worked together to combine for the shutout.”

The victory concluded a three-game road trip during which the Violets won twice and lost once, in overtime.

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Lynn Higinbotham, director of the NYU Office of Financial Aid. “The earlier access to their funds would likely have benefi-cial effects.”

If the program is passed, it would not only allow students to meet financial obligations for travel but also provide them with a longer time period to meet each country’s visa requirements.

“I would feel more financially secure if I was able to get a hold of the funding that I needed as soon as possible,” Gallatin sopho-more Melissa Bean said.

Schools will gather both quan-titative and qualitative infor-mation for an annual Depart-ment of Education report. The data will include the number of students receiving aid, at-tendance at the foreign institu-tion, students’ progress toward completion of the foreign study program, academic withdrawal rates and loan defaults.

The Department of Education has launched similar experi-mental programs since 1995.

Proposed programs involving federal work-study disburse-ments and loan options have been adopted in the past as a result of these experiments. A new electronic system to record time entries for work-study stu-dents replaced the traditional handwritten system, and a rule that forbid community college students who have not received a high school diploma from receiving financial aid was re-moved.

NYU hopes similar progress will be made on their financial aid for study abroad.

“In general, for those students who rely on loans to fund their education, NYU has been sup-portive of the flexibility that the experimental site program has allowed in the past,” Hig-inbotham said. ”We hope to be able to participate going for-ward as well.”

Brian Tam is a deputy city/state editor. Email him at [email protected].

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“At NYU Buenos Aires, we had always offered volunteer work but nothing that was to this caliber,” Lombardo said. “So I proposed to implement an alternative break during the fall semester that would be volunteer-related as a try-out project.”

Along with Christine Paiva, the student life and administrative as-sistant at NYU Buenos Aires, Lom-bardo accompanied the students to the Misiones province in the northeastern part of Argentina.

The group traveled for more than 20 hours by bus and truck to the rural town of Tamanduá, nestled between lush, rolling hills and red-earthed rocks. The town itself, home to 140 people, is part of the Mbyá Guaraní com-munity.

CAS junior Salvatore Callesano said one of his most memorable moments during the trip was learning the language.

In Tamanduá, people speak

both Spanish and the native dia-lect of the Mbyá Guaraní.

“My most vivid memory is when I sat down with one eight-year-old boy and he taught me a list of words in Guaraní,” Callesano said. “I still have this list and I continue practicing those words.”

Callesano described the trip as “the greatest experiential learn-ing time” of his life and said that many of the trips’ participants planned to travel back to the community at least once before returning to New York.

“I wanted to see for myself the difficulties of trying to help people in places that don’t neces-sarily make it easy for you,” GLS junior Andrew Cole said. “Having the opportunity to see what fits under the umbrella of ‘Argen-tine,’ from Guarani villages to fancy shops, allowed me to get to know this place a little better.”

Students helped the town reno-vate parts of their community

center, which serves as a school and play place for children, as well as a central meeting area for other community members. NYU Buenos Aires students repaired walls, coated them with fresh paint and worked with commu-nity children on a mural.

Throughout the week, students engaged in community outreach activities, such as discussing the rights of indigenous people with the Mbyá Guaraní and shar-ing their personal experiences of their lives in America with schoolchildren.

Lombardo said the site plans to run alternative trips every fall break in the future.

This past weekend, NYU Flor-ence students followed suit and went on their own alternative trip to Italy’s Dynamo Camp.

Gentry Brown is a deputy university editor. Email her at [email protected].

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By JuLie DeVito

CAS sophomore Barton Lewis walked up to the stage with a turquoise blazer and a har-monica around his neck, eager to perform at Gramercy’s Ul-tra Violet Live Preliminary last month.

After sounding the first note on his keyboard, Lewis let out a string of melodies that had the audience singing along with him by the end.

Lewis, who jumps at any op-portunity to perform, also audi-tioned at the Third North pre-liminaries a year ago. This year, he decided to perform solo on the piano but said he never ex-pected to win.

“I was flabbergasted and total-ly surprised,” Lewis said. “I had no expectations whatsoever. I was just having a good time.”

Still, Lewis said he was hon-ored to have gotten first place in the competition.

“It feels good to be recognized for something and to make peo-ple happy,” he said.

Aside from performing solo, Lewis sings and writes material for his own band, The Medicine, and plays a number of instru-ments, including the keyboard, guitar and kazoo. He is also a member of the Tisch Drama Cantorum, a choral group that performs songs in Italian, Span-ish, Latin, French and other for-eign languages.

As a child in Los Angeles, Lewis recalled being introduced to old MGM musicals by his parents. Having traveled to New York with his family growing up, the young artist said he always loved being in the city and go-ing to the theater. Eventually, he decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and attend NYU.

But upon being accepted into the College of Arts and Science and becoming a politics major, Lewis saw that there was less opportunity to perform within the school. So when by chance, he met a member of the Tisch Drama Cantorum his freshman year, he decided to try out for the group.

“It’s actually the only choir that is open to every single NYU school,” Lewis said. “I never thought of myself as a singer. I was sort of just able to sing musical theater. But then I real-ized that I can also sing Orlando D’lasso [and] 15th-century Span-ish choral pieces.”

Tisch junior Jon Seidemann, who saw Lewis perform last year in the Third North piano room, quickly joined The Medicine and started playing with Lewis. Seidemann said Lewis never hesitates to live in the moment and that he makes every perfor-mance an improvisation.

“One of the things I like most about Barton is [his] modesty,” Seidemann said. “I have never

heard the guy brag about how talented he is. He just pushes himself to work harder.”

This work ethic brought Lewis into a recording studio with In-ternet sensation Jonathan Mann and his favorite band, The Spin-tos, this past summer. Three of the songs they recorded are in-cluded in Mann’s album “Song A Day.”

“Being someone who writes songs, I feel guilty [about ig-noring] someone else’s creative work,” he said.

As for the future, Lewis said he believes that he will always be per-forming on the side because music is a part of him that he’ll never get rid of. He added that he is honored by the opportunity to perform with other talented NYU students at UVL in February.

“I’m not going to think about winning,” Lewis said. “It’s going to be an amazing show. It’s complete-ly beyond my wildest dreams.”

Julie DeVito is a deputy university editor. Email her at jdevito@nyunews.

CAS singer to represent Gram at UVL

By raCHeL HawatmeH

Children living in poverty are less likely to succeed in school be-cause of their stressful living situ-ation, a recent NYU study found.

The study was a joint effort by NYU, Pennsylvania State Univer-sity and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It found that children in well-off house-holds outperform poverty-strick-en children in school.

A team of researchers led by Clancy Blair, an applied psy-chology professor at NYU, con-ducted the study to observe how children from different backgrounds develop executive functioning differently from one another. Examples of these cognitive processes include memory, reasoning and multi-tasking.

A team of research assistants made annual visits to the homes of approximately 1,300 children from the ages of seven months and up in a range of economic demographics. Researchers ob-served household environments and collected saliva samples to measure stress hormones.

Blair said the team is current-ly in the ninth year of its study and hopes to continue it over the course of the next 20 years.

Once participating children turned three years old, research-ers examined the correlation be-tween executive functioning and

the quality of care that the chil-dren were receiving.

The studies revealed that chil-dren from low-income house-holds were experiencing cha-otic lifestyles with less positive parenting. This contributed to higher stress levels, leading to less-developed executive func-tioning abilities.

Jay Belsky, a professor of hu-man and community develop-ment at the University of Cali-fornia, Davis, said the study is important because it helps ex-plain the issues facing children who live in poverty.

“We have known for a long time that poverty is bad for children’s development,” he said. “But what this study does is illuminate how this hap-pens — that is, what some of the physiological and cognitive mechanisms are.”

However, Margaret Beale Spencer, a professor of urban education at the University of Chicago, said the information the study provided was not groundbreaking.

“In fact, the report runs the risk of further stigmatizing fami-lies’ efforts to survive and raise healthy children under chroni-cally impoverished and untow-ard conditions,” she said.

Rachel Hawatmeh is a staff writer. Email her at [email protected].

Study: Poor children more stressed at home

Lewis has a diverse repertoire that won him a spot in UVL.JULIE DEVITO/WSN


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By HannaH orenstein

It was a delicious party for a good cause when non-profit She’s the First hosted its second birth-day bash at Molly’s Cupcakes in the West Village. The event, which took place last Thursday, raised money for girls’ education in developing countries.

Party guests were encouraged to purchase the Bleeker Street bakery’s tie-dye cupcakes for $2.44 each, with all proceeds go-ing toward STF. The party was filled with young students and professionals with colorful cup-cakes in one hand and smart phones in the other, so they could tweet about the event.

Tammy Tibbetts, the social media editor at Seventeen mag-azine and founder of She’s the First, launched the organization in November 2009. Her goal was to raise money for girls’ education by harnessing young adult creativity. In addition to the non-profit’s headquarters in New York, there are chapters in 12 college campuses across the country.

Last year, the president of the University of Notre Dame chap-ter raised $900 for STF through a tie-dye cupcake bake sale on her campus. The trendy desserts became an emblem of STF. Now, a large portion of STF’s fundrais-ing comes from tie-dye cupcakes sold on college campuses. Tib-betts marked the organization’s birthday with a week-long “Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake-Off” (Nov. 1 to

8), during which 92 participating teams from 31 states, Washing-ton, D.C., and Sydney, Australia, are hosting bake sales.

NYU sophomore Stephanie Beach has been involved with STF this semester. Beach is also the editor-in-chief of the NYU branch of the online lifestyle magazine Her Campus, which recently partnered with STF on a contest to design a tie-dye cup-cake-inspired t-shirt.

“I wanted to do something to get more students involved on campus,” Beach said. “We worked with STF to promote their bake sale at Molly’s Cupcakes, and I helped model the Cupcake t-shirts which are currently on

sale at HerCampus.com.”Tibbetts encouraged a team of

motivated, socially-conscious stu-dents to start a STF chapter at NYU.

“Because She’s the First is headquartered in New York, the NYU chapter would be able to have a close relationship with the national organization,” Tib-betts said.

Chapters are required to hold at least one event every semester and to raise awareness for girls’ educa-tion through Facebook and Twitter.

“It’s a great way to leave a leg-acy behind after you graduate,” she said.

Hannah Orenstein is a staff writer. Email her at [email protected].

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Pierre Hermé, the “king of maca-rons.” But he said his most useful experience came when he stud-ied at the five-star Meurice Hotel in Paris with the celebrated Ca-mille Lesecq.

“Do you know Mr. Lesecq?” asked Dessyn without waiting for an answer. “He, uh, he…” Dessyn momentarily stumbled with his English, so he turned toward the other two chefs working in the tidy, open kitchen to ask for help: “Stéphane, comment on dit ‘il a gagné?’”

“He won,” Stéphane said be-fore going back to slicing fine cheese and ham for the bakery’s sandwiches.

“Ah, Mr. Lesecq won,” Dessyn said. “It was Best Pastry Chef 2010.”

Mille-feuille’s name is derived from the delicious French layer cake (Americans call it a napo-leon) and is also a tongue-in-cheek, play-on-words referring to the nearby Bobst Library — “mille-feuille” means “a thou-sand pages.”

Mille-feuille is an accessible place for rich hot chocolate,

an espresso, a pastry or a sand-wich. It’s surprisingly inexpen-sive, but beware: A macaron addiction is easy to obtain and, with macarons priced at $2.10 each, it could become a costly one.

mille-feuille is located at 552 Laguardia Pl., between third and Bleecker streets.

Cody Delistraty is a staff writer. Email him at [email protected].

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Miille-feuille opened its doors in the Village in February.AARUSHI CHOPRA/WSN

Tie-dye cupcake sales were donated to charity She’s the First.RACHEL KAPLAN/WSN

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By JessiCa Littman

If there is one week this semester where you should allow yourself to splurge, con-sider making it this weekend for the New York Comedy Festival. Shows around the city will feature top comedians and up-and-comers. Here’s a guide to the best events on each day of the festival, which runs Nov. 9 to 13.

Best of ny sketchUpright Citizens Brigade Theatre,

307 W. 26th St. | Wednesday, Nov. 9 | 8 p.m. | $5

This is one of the cheapest shows at the festival but also one of the best. There will be performances from six sketch comedy groups based in New York City, including Murderfist, which the Village Voice called the best sketch comedy group of 2011. The show will also feature BriTANick, a sketch group made up of two Tisch graduates.

Louis C.K.Beacon Theatre,

2124 Broadway | Thursday, Nov. 10 | 7:30 p.m. | $30 to $60

If you’ve seen his cult-hit show “Louie” on FX, you know Louis C.K. is hilarious. He is a veteran of the New York City circuit, but this is a chance to see him at the his-toric Beacon Theatre. Tickets are likely to sell out quickly, so buy yours in advance.

Live from new york … a Discussion with the “saturday night Live” writers

Paley Center for Media, 25 W. 52nd St. | Sunday, Nov. 13 | 4 p.m. | $25

Although it’s not the cheapest event of the festival, this is a good deal considering that you will see five of SNL’s writers (including Seth Meyers). They will discuss the show in a panel moderated by Steve Gaydos, the execu-tive editor of Variety. This event is bound to be funny and educational for those interested in television and comedy.

tracy morgan: the experienceBeacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway |

Friday, Nov. 11 | 8 p.m. | $52 to $81The “30 Rock” star’s stand-up is as leg-

endary as his TV and film appearances, making this a show not to miss. Since the next season of “30 Rock” will not air until early 2012, get your Tracy Morgan fix at this event instead.

new york’s funniest stand-up Competition (finals)Caroline’s on Broadway

1626 Broadway | Saturday, Nov. 12 | 4 p.m. | Tickets from 212.757.4100

This is an open-call comedy competition that hundreds audition for. At the finals on Saturday, only the nine funniest will perform. This is an opportunity to discov-er new comedians at a famous venue.

Get the best laughs at the New York Comedy Festival

Jessica Littman is a staff writer. Email her at [email protected].

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Deficit supercommittee must be scrapped

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Sleep imperative for the college student

Political outsiders have no place in elections

Two and a half weeks away from their dead-line, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction are tasked with establishing a def-icit reduction package for the United States. The supercommittee, as it is called, is made up of six Democrats and six Republicans, and in an ideal America, this committee would produce an effective compromise.

But, as we have seen in the recent past, the only result that this supercommittee will produce is a false sense of debate that will ultimately end with inaction. The WSN Edi-torial Board would like to see the secretive supercommittee disbanded and the discus-sion of deficit spending brought into a more public arena.

The next few years promise to be trying times for struggling Americans. At least a $4 trillion cut from the deficit is necessary to sustain the economic health of the nation, according to Obama’s deficit committee. The next election year will reflect this tectonic shift in the priorities of the voting public. Whereas the hot-button issues used to be social matters such as abortion, gun control and gay marriage, the issue that is most im-portant to voters in upcoming elections will be the economy.

It is in the public interest to have a receptive Congress that can adjust to current econom-ic woes. But the shadowy deficit committee and whatever it produces will have been cre-ated in the back rooms of Washington. With a goal so important to the American people, the decisive body should not be hidden from its citizens.

The country needs a voice that is repre-sentative of the American people in a time when bipartisanship seems to be our biggest deficit.

By riCHarD ZHanG

It’s seven in the morning and my roommate’s alarm rings. Turning off the alarm, he gets up and massages his temple. “The headache is killing me,” he said. He tells me that he suffers from partial insomnia. “Sometimes I just don’t want to sleep at night,” he said. “I just play games until two or three in the morning. Other times, like if an essay’s due, I would start working from 1 a.m. to 4. When I wake up in the morning, I feel so tired.”

My roommate represents a large number of sleepless stu-dents at NYU, a college in the city that never sleeps. According to a study done in 2001, college students represent one of the most sleep-deprived populations in the United States. The study also shows that only 11 percent of the students sleep well, and 40 percent sleep well just two days of a week.

Despite its popularity among college students, sleeplessness has a significant negative influ-ence on academic performance by affecting the learning pro-cesses. Our brains take three steps to learn new things: ac-quisition, consolidation and recall. The lack of sleep affects all three processes. If you’re

drowsy, you certainly cannot concentrate during classes. Also, a significant number of students who pulled all-nighters in the 2001 study have showed a diminished ability to consoli-date factual information.

Furthermore, sleep research-ers from Hendrix College have shown that the lack of sleep corresponds to lower GPAs. In a study involving 89 college students, those who routinely pulled all-nighters had an aver-age GPA of 2.84, and students who got enough sleep had an av-erage GPA of 3.18.

Lack of sleep causes health issues too, including cardiovas-cular diseases and depression. “Sleep deficit built over just five nights can significantly stress the heart,” the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania researcher Siobna Banks said. Our body is set in a way that we want exposure to natural light dur-ing the day and darkness dur-ing the night. In an article in Newsweek, Andrew Weil said, “Our cycles of sleep and wak-ing ... are maintained by expo-sure to bright light during the day and darkness at night. Lack of bright natural light during waking hours and exposure to artificial light at night disrupt these rhythms, interfering with our sleep, energy and moods.”

If we do not sleep enough, we do not give our bodies enough darkness at night, disturbing our moods and leading, finally, to depression.

One way to attack sleepiness is to change your sleep schedule so that you don’t feel tired dur-ing the day. Based on my per-sonal experience, it takes three steps to change your schedule: choose two consecutive days that you do not have too many things to do so that you can go to bed early, try to wake up ear-ly on a consecutive basis and do not fall asleep during the day. No matter how tired you are, do not sleep and do not drink coffee. To help, NYU should fur-ther their efforts to teach stu-dents about the effects of pull-ing all-nighters. Maybe closing Upstein before 3 a.m. should be first on the list.

We as college students need to find a balance between sleep, work and other entertaining ac-tivities, such as playing games and partying. We cannot work for 24 hours with little rest. After all, even robots need to recharge themselves from time to time.

Richard Zhang is a columnist. His column, “A College Student’s Handbook,” is about contemporary college issues. Email him at [email protected].

By mattHew HuGHes

He has only rudimentary knowl-edge of foreign affairs, and his economic plan is centered almost entirely on an arbitrary number. His no-nonsense bluntness and straight-shooting answers have given him a gaffe reel that would make even Joe Biden blush. But the most defining quality of for-mer Godfather’s Pizza CEO and current Republican presidential frontrunner Herman Cain: He’s never held political office.

It’s no coincidence that Mr. 9-9-9 has been sitting atop poll after poll in the past month. As we have seen ever since the economy imploded in 2008, out-siders are in. Gone are the days when candidates used to flaunt their lengthy government ré-sumés and compare legislative accomplishments. Now, they de-bate their detachment from gov-ernment and proudly tout how little they’ve done for it. In this campaign cycle, the best qualifi-cation seems to be no qualifica-tions.

It makes sense on the surface. With Congressional and other government approval ratings deep in the gutter and not a whiff

of economic recovery in the air, it’s no mystery why candidates would want to disassociate them-selves from the establishment. Even people with substantial records — like Mitt Romney, for example — have sought to down-play their achievements.

When the country is in the kind of rut it’s in now, nobody wants to be connected to the root of the problem. No one wants to be held accountable. For fear of be-ing punished politically, no one wants to do anything.

That’s the problem with the outsider mentality. The people who toil in the trenches of gov-ernment every day are the ones who get the short end of the stick. Barring the complete and successful resolution of every problem, the insiders and es-tablishment players can be criti-cized in ways that the never-rans never can. What they’ve actually done is the complete opposite of what would have, could have and should have been done, and that can never work in their favor.

It’s a lot easier for the Her-man Cains of the world, who can shape-shift into whatever the campaign needs because there exists no tangible record

of who they are. The outsiders can say anything and critique everything without repercus-sions. Government has its limi-tations; spoken promises do not. The pomp and poetry of ab-stract criticism will often seem more appealing or convincing than the nitty-gritty decisions that politicians must make and defend. But ultimately, it takes no talent to grumble on the sidelines. Your plays only mat-ter when you have the ball.

The ideas of an outsider can provide a fresh and innovative outlook on a problem. But at the level of the presidency, especial-ly in these times, we really need someone who knows how things work and who has a record of political action and leadership. It might not sound sexy, but an “insider” is often the best for the job. Sometimes, outsiders are on the outside for a reason. If ac-tions speak louder than words, then their silence is blaring.

Matthew Hughes is a columnist. His column, “Campaign in the Membrane,” is about the sociology of politics. It appears every Monday. Email him at [email protected].

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Men’s soccer season ends at Brandeis

Women’s volleyball awaits postseason fate Wrestling opens year with sixth-place finish

Win keeps Violets on bubble wsoC continued from PG. 1

what we are capable of as such a young team and shows much promise for our future,” Ahmed said.

The Violets had their most successful regular season since 2002, when they finished first in the UAA. They finished the 2011 regular season, 12-6, and UAA competition 3-4, good enough for fourth place, a vast improvement over last year’s 7-10-2 record.

Statistically, NYU had the third-best offense in the UAA with 2.39 goals per game.

The two biggest UAA matches this year were the Violets’ win on Oct. 14 over Washington University at St. Louis, which

finished in second place in the UAA, and their overtime loss to first-place Emory University, during which they became the first team to score more than one goal against the Eagles.

But, of course, NYU’s victory against Brandeis may prove to be the most important, as NYU hopes to make the Big Dance for the first time since 2002.

The Violets will learn their fate on Monday when the NCAA Selection Committee decides if NYU is among the best 64 teams in the country.

Daniel Hinton is a deputy sports editor. Email him at [email protected]

By JoHn axeLroD

The NYU wrestling team kicked off its season last week-end by placing sixth out of nine schools at the Ithaca Invitation-al. The Violets finished with a total of 133 points, 83.5 behind the winner Centenary College, who had 216.5 points.

Host Ithaca College placed second with 208 points.

NYU received some strong individual performances, par-ticularly from senior David Rice, who placed first in the 165-pound division and senior Steve Massey, who came away with first place in the 197-pound division.

Junior Janik Santana-quinta-na finished second in the 125-pound division after losing the final by one point in a double overtime thriller, while senior Gregg Martino was runner up in the 174-pound division.

The Violets also had strong debuts from freshmen Sam Friedfeld (157) and Pat Sheehan (174). They each finished one win short of placing.

Head coach Bruce Haberli was pleased with his players’ stand-out performances.

“Our guys showed a lot of heart and toughness this weekend,” he said. “We had four finalists out of 10 weight classes.”

After a strong finish last sea-son, NYU has high expectations for this year. Last year the team finished second in the Universi-ty Athletic Association, just one point behind division-winning University of Chicago.

The Violets lost three seniors last year, but the core of their team has returned and seeks to build off their momentum from last year.

Haberli expects the team to be

“very competitive” this season. But he also noted, “a great deal of our success will be based on health.” The team battled inju-ries all through last year and is already dealing with health problems this year.

Martino did not practice all week because of injury, but he was still able to beat a ranked wrestler to make it to the fi-nals. Rice also dealt with a banged-up knee.

Haberli noted that the team will need luck and careful man-agement in order to prevent its season from being held back by injuries. The Violets are es-pecially vulnerable to the con-sequences of injuries because of their small roster. NYU has only 21 wrestlers on its roster, compared to Centenary, which has 30.

The Violets’ next match will be the John Reese Duals in Wil-kes-Barre, Pa., on Nov. 12.

John Axelrod is a contributing writer. Email him at [email protected].

Senior David RiceCOURTESY OF NYU ATHLETICS

By Laura BuCCieri

The NYU women’s volleyball team closed its conference season, placing sixth out of eight teams and going 1-2 at the University Athletic Association Champion-ship this weekend.

In their first match, the fifth-seeded Violets fell to fourth-seed-ed Case Western University in five sets (25-20, 20-25, 25-5, 25-23, 15-3). Sophomore Alex Mao led NYU with 17 kills alongside soph-omore Hope Bogle, who tallied 47 assists for the match — two short of her career high.

After the loss, the Violets were put in the consolation bracket and faced eighth-seeded Brandeis University. NYU swept Brandeis (28-26, 25-19, 25-14) with help from senior Kolby Warren, who had 15 kills. Mao contributed 17 digs and Bogle added 37 assists.

The Violets then took on the Uni-versity of Rochester and lost in four sets (20-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-21), but the game was much closer than the final score reflected. Freshman Sarah Buckingham had 16 kills while Bogle had 37 assists.

“We did good things in this match,” Bogle said. “But it is sad that we couldn’t pull it together. Rochester came out today with vengeance because we beat them on their home court earlier this season. Not everyone showed up at the same time to play, and I

think that comes from still being a young team.”

Head coach Jolie Ward said Buckingham had a stand-out per-formance.

“She came alive in our second game of the tournament and car-ried that play into today’s match,” Ward said.

The match was particularly emotional for the team because

it could be their last of the sea-son and the last ever for seniors Warren, Jordan Mylet and Carla Stachurski. The Violets are hop-ing to qualify for the Divison III tournament — their fate will be decided by the selection commit-tee today.

Laura Buccieri is a staff writer. Email her at [email protected].

Alex Mao had 17 kills against Case Western on Friday.DAVID LIN/WSN

By Krista GoLia

The NYU men’s soccer team’s 2011 season came to a disap-pointing end Saturday afternoon against Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

The 2-0 loss gave the Violets a 7-9-1 final record, good for a sev-enth-place tie in the eight-team University Athletic Association.

The Judges dominated the first

half, out-shooting NYU, 5-3. At-tempts for the Violets came from junior forward Paolo Luciano, freshman midfielder Mickey In-german and sophomore forward Ian Cassell.

Luciano’s and Cassell’s at-tempts both went wide, while Ingerman’s attempt was blocked by Brandeis’ junior goalkeeper Blake Minchoff.

The first goal for Brandeis came in the fifth minute from junior midfielder Sam Ocel. Sophomore midfielder Kyle Feather threaded the ball to Ocel, who drove it past diving NYU freshman goalkeeper Forrest Sexton. Sexton would go on to save five shots for the match.

Just three minutes later Ocel scored the second goal for Bran-deis. Senior midfielder Theo Ter-ris crossed the ball towards the back post, where Ocel was able to head the ball in the back of the net.

The second half continued in a similar fashion, as Brandeis out-shot NYU, 8-4. Shot attempts for the Violets came from sophomore midfielder Colm Dillane, senior co-captain midfielder Adam Fein, junior defenseman Ryan Horch and Ingerman.

Minchoff saved Dillane and

Horch’s shots, while Fein’s and Horch’s went high off the post.

Overall, NYU had four corner kicks to Brandeis’ three and held much of the possession for the first half.

The shutout was Minchoff’s 10th of the season, which ties him with the school record for single-season shutouts. The Judges out-shot NYU, 13-7, on the game.

Speaking about the Violets’ season in retrospect, Luciano said, “The season didn’t unfold as it should mainly because of a lot of injuries and a lot of un-lucky games. We had a bunch of overtime losses and unfortunate games.”

Fein and classmate Matt New-man were the team’s two seniors, who finished their collegiate ca-reers on Saturday. Fein ended his run as a Violet tied for third in school history for assists at 14.

The Violets will have a busy spring as they hope to rebound and contend for the UAA title next year.

“Next year we’ll have all but two starters returning,” Luciano said. “It should be another win-ning season.”

Krista Golia is a staff writer. Email her at [email protected] Adam Fein

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