CUBA ELECTS A NEW PRESIDENT

That’s right, Fidel Castro’s career as Cuban president is over...too bad it’s been passed on to his brother.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Volume 86, Issue 19

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Page 15Word of the Week

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WILL FERRELL IS IN AN-OTHER SPORTS COMEDY

Ferrell and sports seems to be the winning combination. But is Semi-Pro as funny as the rest?

DELTA CHI HOSTS ANOTH-ER SUCCESSFUL DRIVE

Find out why the American Red Cross loves to visit UNH.

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By JULIA COCCAMEISA

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The sisters of Phi Sigma Sigma rock in the quad, Friday, Feb. 29.A DAN OSIPOVITCH PHOTO

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MEISA Showcase Finds UNH Talent

WEST HAVEN— Satur-day, Feb. 23 MEISA hosted UNH’s first ever Rap/Hip Hop Showcase to show off some serious campus talent. Over 170 people packed the German Club to watch students rap an original song, spin an origi-nal beat, or show off some dance moves.

The showcase was judged by Nicole Tierney, Marquis Bell, Roseanne Rodican and special per-former Childs, to find the winners to share in $225 worth of prizes.

The first category show-cased two acts in the beats category: two from Geoff Peterson, a.k.a. Phable, and one by Matt and Isa. It was “Opposite Endz” by Matt

and Isa that took the prize for this category.

To start the second part of the night, Jeremy Wil-liams, Ed Sites, and How-ard Eady Jr., aka Zu Krew, showed off 10 minutes worth of original rap. The Krew was followed by a solo act from Patrick Wel-lington, followed by the dynamic duo, Ambitious and Relapse. After anoth-er flawless performance, the fourth act of the night was by an off campus up-and-comer Jeff Terwilliger, a.k.a. Twig. If you didn’t know Twig when he got on the stage, he made sure you knew him by the time he got off. After Twig’s pow-erhouse performance, Isa took the stage, making sure not to disappoint. Isa deliv-ered like a natural, bringing

Phi Sigma Sigma Rocks On Despite Cold and Snow

WEST HAVEN— On what could possibly end up be-ing the coldest night of the year, Phi Sigma Sigma (ac-companied by Kappa Gam-ma Rho, Sigma Chi, and many others) rocked for 24 hours straight to raise mon-ey for the National Kidney Foundation.

The first Rock-a-Thon took place in the Bixler/Botwinik Quad on Fri-day, Feb. 29. Contrary to popular belief, the Rock-a-Thon involved very little

rock music; although it definitely attracted a crowd as more than six rocking chairs moved in motion

throughout the night. The snow, rain, and bitter tem-peratures tried to stop the sisters from completing

their 24 hour goal, but as the night rolled on it was obvious that no one was willing to give up on Phi Sigma Sigma’s philan-thropic vision.

Armed with blankets, a heater, a large tent and plenty of hot chocolate and coffee, the sisters of the University of New Haven’s Phi Sigma Sigma sorority showed their extreme dedi-cation and heart as they sup-ported their chapter’s lead-ing charity. With a rocking chair donated by a woman touched by the heartbreak

Modern Fairytale Twists its Morals

By SARA MCGUIRESTAFF WRITER

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When I went to see the new fairy tale, Penelope, I entered the theater ex-pecting to see a children’s movie, and in this respect I was not disappointed. While the movie itself is decent, the plot is very hackneyed and the les-sons it barely conveys are cliché. Nonetheless, Penelope is an extraordi-narily colorful, interesting, and modern take on more traditional fairytales, and vaguely touches some-thing of a cross between Cinderella and The Ugly Duckling, had the Ugly Duckling been a pig and Prince Charming, a bus-boy.

The film opens spec-tacularly, with the title

character describing the circumstances of her birth and situation. Penelope, who is played by Chris-tina Ricci, explains to the audience that many centu-ries ago, an ancestor broke the heart of a poor young woman when he, being a blueblood, was talked into marrying someone wealthy of his parents choosing and not of his own. The mother of the young woman, after her daughter had commit-ted suicide, cursed Penel-ope’s family, exclaiming that the next daughter born will have the features of a pig. The curse could only be broken when the ac-cursed daughter found true love with “someone of her own.” Flash forward to the present and we meet Pe-nelope, the embodiment of

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The cockroach infestation in Bartels, no worries, should be cleared up as a work order for exterminators has been filed to clear up the bugs. I’ve checked my sources.

Who is crazy enough to spend an entire night in the quad during a snow/rain/sleet storm while rock-ing in a rocking chair? Apparently the girls of Phi Sigma Sigma are. I still think you are all nuts, but you made it! I swear, the things people do for charity…

Thanks to SCOPE for that Laser Crystal Imaging event. I was thorough-ly surprised by the quality of the products and it was well received by stu-dents on cam-pus. Definitely a good pick.

Again, the school likes to charge us with meaningless fees. The big one this time is the money needed to petition to graduate, which is in the ballpark of $110 initially, plus $50 per extra degree. No one can argue that this money is needed for some esoteric fund because next year the fee will cease to exist! Yeah, that’s right. The rumor is that seniors have to pay the fee this year, but next year it will no longer exist. So then what’s the point? I’ll put it as the people around me have, “pay to get in, pay to get out.” University of New Haven, Inc.

This isn’t a posi-tive or negative, it

is just weird. A few others and I witnessed a vacuuming of the patio. Yes, they were tech-nically vacu-uming it. They even lifted up the tables to clean under-neath them. This one just deserves a roll of the eyes.

Positives NegativesA weekly recap of the positives & negatives at UNH

By Dan Osipovitch

Wednesday, March 5

Leadership Brown Bag Lunch Upper Student Lounge, 12-1pm

Senior Series Upper Student Lounge, 4-5pm

Exercise Safety German Club, 7-8pm

Thursday, March 6 Wellness Dinner

Dining Hall, 4:30-7pm Men’s Volleyball vs. Baruch

College North Campus, 7:30pm

Saturday, March 8 Games All Day

Bartels, 11:30am Hypnotists/ Illusionists

Evansons Dodds, 8pm

Tuesday, March 11 Make Your Own Women’s

Care Packages Bartels Lobby

Friday, March 7 Trip: Rock Climbing Movie: I Am Legend

Alumni Lounge, 7pm Ska Show

German Club, 8pm

Sunday, March 9 Movie: I Am Legend

Alumni Lounge, 7pm

Start packing your bags…

SPRING BREAK IS IN ONE WEEK!

National/World NewsThe Charger Bulletin | March 5, 2008Page 3

NEWS BrIEFSBy Associated Press Writers

Your place to find the oddest stories in mainstream news.By Zack Rosen

Zack’s Wacky Stack of News

By HEATHER BROWNSTAFF WRITER

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CUBA— After al-most 50 years of being ruled by Fidel Castro, 81, Cuba has elected a new president. Cas-tro announced that he planned to remove himself from office earlier last week. This news comes after years of health prob-lems.

The new Cuban president is Castro’s younger brother, Raul Castro, 76. Raul an-nounced that “Fidel is irreplaceable; the people will continue his work when he is no longer with us physically, though his ideas always will be here” during his ac-ceptance speech. He

Cuba Names New Presidentalso said that he will be m e e t i n g with Fidel to discuss press ing issues that should be taken care of.

The an-n o u n c e -ment of C u b a ’ s new pres-

Fidel’s retirement has also been accepted by the people of Cuba. Juan Alvarez, 72, said “Fidel is the greatest for us, but the most important thing now is that he rests and takes good care of himself. I think that he made an intelligent decision — like all the deci-sions he made.” Fidel

had been president of Cuba since leading its revolution in 1959.

Also among his announcements, Raul vowed to remain wary of Cuba’s neighbors, namely the United States. Only time will tell if Raul’s presi-dency is as well-liked as Fidel’s was.

ident has been wel-comed by citizens. Carlos Muguercia, a 78-year-old crafts-man, said that “this is the best that could have happened to Cuba. Raul already knows the situation. He knows how to solve problems, in any case the most serious ones.”

AN AP/ CRISTOBAL HERRERA PHOTOFormer President Fidel Castro and brother Raul together at a Cuban Parliament session in Havana in 2004 when Raul was minister of defense.

Pennies Are Illegal In New Jersey?R E A D I N G T O N TOWNSHIP, N.J.— Twenty-nine New Jer-sey students punished with two-day deten-tions after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches are getting a pardon.

School Superin-tendent Jorden Schiff informed parents in an e-mail Sunday that he has changed his mind regarding the after-school deten-tions. They will only be restored if parents ask that their children serve them.

Officials say a group of middle school students upset by their shortened lunch pe-riod paid for their meals with pennies last Thursday, Feb. 28. Schiff gave them detentions for slowing down the lunch line and disrespecting caf-

eteria workers.In his e-mail, Schiff

said the students de-scribed their actions as a prank and that news reports inaccurately called it a protest.A Crappy BirthdayAHMEDABAD, In-dia— A newborn baby girl survived an igno-ble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman un-expectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

"My delivery was so sudden," said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months pre-maturely. "I did not even realize that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet. They stopped the train and ran on the tracks to find the baby," she said, speaking from her hospital bed in

the western city of Ahmedabad.

Railway staff at a nearby station were alerted and soon found the newborn girl lying uninjured on pebbles by the track. She is now in intensive care because of her pre-mature birth, doctors said.

The Associated Press then adds: “Most toilets on Indian trains are filthy chutes emp-tying directly onto the tracks.”Um, Maybe He For-got A Hairnet?WEST BEND, Wis.— A restaurant cook is out of a job and facing a felony charge after being accused of hid-ing hairs in a ribeye because a customer complained the first steak served to him was overcooked.

Kevin Hansen, who dined at the steak-house with friends

and family Saturday, Feb. 23 said he or-dered a 16-ounce rib-eye cooked medium rare, with a warm, red center, according to the criminal com-plaint filed against cook Ryan Kropp.

When restaurant service manager Mi-chael Liberatore stopped by the table, Hansen told him the steak was cooked medium, not medium rare.

Hansen declined an offer of a new steak, but Liberatore persist-ed and offered a new steak he could take home, the complaint said.

Kropp, 24, of West Bend, was charged Wednesday, Feb. 27 with a felony of plac-ing foreign objects in edibles, carrying up to 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

US says it launched an airstrike in Somalia to go after a terrorist suspect MOGADISHU, Somalia— The U.S. launched an airstrike Monday on a Somali town held by Islamic extremists to go after a group of terror-ist suspects, U.S. defense officials said.

Three missiles hit Dobley, a town four miles from the Kenyan border, destroying a home and seriously injured eight people, police and wit-nesses said. The remnants of an Islamic force that had once ruled much of southern Somalia took over Dobley last week.

"It was a deliberate, precise strike against a known terrorist and his associates," one U.S. military official said in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the record.

He gave few other details, except to say the targets were believed staying in building known to be used regularly by terrorist suspects.

Venezuela, Ecuador order troops to Colom-bia border over deadly attack on rebels CARACAS, Venezuela— Venezuela and Ec-uador ordered troops to their borders with Co-lombia, sharply raising tensions after Colombia killed a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil.

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised Venezuela would respond militarily if Colom-bia violates its border, where he ordered tanks as well as thousands of troops. He also ordered closed Venezuela's embassy in Bogota.

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said he deployed troops to the border while also with-drawing his government's ambassador from Bo-gota and expelling Colombia's top diplomat.

"There is no justification," Correa said Sun-day night, snubbing an earlier announcement from Colombia that it would apologize for the military incursion.

Chavez called the killing of rebel leader and spokesman Raul Reyes and 16 other guerrillas on Saturday an attack by a "terrorist state," say-ing it shows Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is a "criminal."

Defense to present witness in sailor's terror-ism trial NEW HAVEN— Defense attorneys for a for-mer Navy signalman accused of helping terror-ists are expected to call one witness Monday before closing arguments in his trial.

Hassan Abu-Jihaad does not plan to take the stand in the federal trial against him. The 32-year-old Phoenix man has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors allege he provided material sup-port to terrorists and disclosed classified infor-mation about the movement and vulnerabilities of U.S. ships. The government rested its case Friday.

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By SAMUEL COXDELTA CHI

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PHOTO COURTESY OF SAMUEL COX

Brothers of Delta Chi run the sign in table at their annual blood drive.

•Two-week early summer study tour in China, open to all undergradu-ates. •Earn 6 UNH credits including 3 credits in Business: Topics in Chinese Business (BA 450) and 3 credits in Global Studies: Topics in Chinese Culture (GLS 450)•Personally guided by Professors Ben Judd and Chien Wen Yu.•Seminars in both Chinese Business and Chinese Culture will be con-ducted in English before departure and supplemented by a Chinese pro-fessor in Beijing.•Company visits currently in planning include Chinese divisions and branches of the U.S. corporations and other MNC such as Subway, Ethan Allen, and Yanjing Beer Factory in Beijing; Pfizer, Notifier, Mi-cron and Sikorsky in Shanghai. •Cultural and sightseeing tours to the Great Wall, Ming Tombs, the Summer Palace, and the Forbidden City in Beijing; the Cheng Huang Temple, the Jinmao Tower and the Bund in Shanghai; West Lake and Temple of the Soul’s Retreat in Hangzhou. •Evening activities highlight watching Chinese acrobatics and the Pe-king Opera, visiting shopping areas, and enjoying the river cruise and night life.•Accommodation in Beijing will be at the hotel-style dorm of Capital Normal University and regular business (3 or 4 star) hotels in other cit-ies. •Participation fee of $4,800/student will cover 6 UNH credits, lectures, room, board, round-trip air to Beijing, and all travel expenses inside China. Students may use alternative student loan to cover the tuition and other expenses.For more information and an application form, please contact either Ben Judd at 932-7205 or Chien Wen Yu at 860-884-4777. Email con-tacts: bjudd@newhaven.edu and cyu@newhaven.edu. Please inquire by March 3, 2008 to beginning travel planning. Seats are limited.

a flawless end to the rap category.

Our last catego-ry was dance, with UNH’s Emanon Dance Crew, E3, and the Elite Steppers. Emanon ruled the stage, keeping their large crew in sync for 10 minutes of non-stop dance. Next, with three members work-ing as one, E3 took

MEISA Finds the Beatthe breath out of its audience, ending with as big a bang as their routine began. Finally, the Elite Steppers hit the stage, proving that music isn’t necessary to give a full-throttle performance.

Finally, Childs took the stage as the points were being tal-lied up, leaving the audience with a final, and equally awesome,

performance. In the rap category, Zu Krew came out on top, and E3 took the prize for the dance category.

The next MEISA show will be Friday, March 7 at 8:00 p.m. in the German Club. The annual ska show will include Johnny 9 and the Racers, CCS-KA, Tip the Van, and Legitimate Business.

Delta Chi Gets Huge Turnout During

Annual Blood Drive

WEST HAVEN— It is early in the spring semester and that can only mean one thing: the annual Delta Chi American Red Cross blood drive.

Last week on Mon-day, Feb. 25 and Tues-day, Feb. 26 the broth-ers of the New Haven Chapter of the Delta Chi Fraternity had

over 100 University of New Haven students, faculty and staff do-nate generously to a good and very needed cause. “This is a very good site,” said a Red Cross Blood Drive staff worker. “You guys [UNH students] help us out a lot.”

Overall, the Red Cross’ preliminary numbers have around 100 pints of blood for use in a much deplet-ed area. Connecticut

has had to resource outside to surround-ing states for blood. That’s why the broth-ers will be hosting a second blood drive at the end of April, when donors will be eligible to donate again.

Delta Chi and the American Red Cross again would like to thank all UNH stu-dents and urge you to look out for the sign up table to donate blood again in April.

Attentionclubs and organizations:

Unfortunately, The Charger Bulletin staff can-not be everywhere and see everything. That’s

where you come in!Do you want your big event covered in The

Charger Bulletin? Then send us an article and pictures. Depending on the available space in a given issue, we will most likely be able to print

your story.

E-mail chargerbulletin@newhaven.edu if you have any questions

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A DAN OSIPOVITCH PHOTOPhi Sigma Sigma sisters support each other during the cold Rock-a-Thon.

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USGA President’s CornerWhat’s Going on at USGA

Louis Eswood IIIUSGA President

What Happened This Week:

What’s Coming Up:

of kidney failure, the girls and their support-ers rocked on. Rock-ing chairs brought

Sorority Rocks All NightSigma. The univer-sity’s sororities and fraternities came out to support the event, bringing with them

away and the chairs brought back inside. The Rock-a-Thon for the National Kidney Foundation proved

by the broth-ers and sisters of the UNH’s G r e e k c o m -munity joined the do-n a t e d chair in the all-n i g h t Rock-a-Thon.

Many people at the university may not have understood the meaning of the Rock-a-Thon upon first no-tice, but anyone who walked by the quad Friday night realized just how important the event was to the sisters of Phi Sigma

laughter, music, priz-es, and entertainment to pass time and forget about the frigid condi-tions.

By three p.m. on Saturday, Mar. 2, it was obvious just how cold the night had been, but no one seemed in the mood to complain as the tent was packed

to be a huge success, and hopefully some-thing Phi Sigma Sig-ma continues to do in the years to come. Hopefully, next time around, snowball fights and raindrops won’t accompany the hours and hours of rocking. Good job la-dies!

•President Kaplan came and visited the USGA. Students were able to voice their concerns to him directly. If you missed it the USGA will be hosting a stu-dent forum on April 21 at 3:00 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge.

•The USGA re-

viewed and voted on the revised election guidelines which will govern the elections for USGA President, USGA Treasurer, and USGA Senators!

•A complete over-haul of the USGA constitution was con-ducted by the consti-tution committee and

was presented at the meeting. The general student body will have the opportunity to vote on the changes during USGA elections.

•This will be the last meeting prior to spring break!

•Don’t forget! The March 10 meeting

will be held in the German Club!

•We will be con-tinuing the revisions on the USGA.

Save the Date!Thursday, April 17 is College Night

Get ready to spend the night downtown with fellow col-lege students from Yale, Quinnipiac, and Southern. And

don’t forget about the great discounts...

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Celina NatolaEditor-in-Chief

Zack RosenAssistant Editor

Get your Voice heardVoice your opinions in the charGer bulletin. send

your editorials to charGerbulletin@newhaVen.edu

I am writing in re-sponse to Samantha Sullivan's editorial.

I found your reac-tion to the editorial about the rec center very childish. The editorial was not an attack on the A-Team whatsoever. The peo-ple on the A-Team are not in charge of what to show tour groups, the university is. So therefore the editorial is speaking out against the university’s deci-sions, not yours.

From what I read, I did not think that Celina was trying to offend the A-Team. I am one of those peo-ple who feel that tours should not be brought into the rec center. It makes me feel very uncomfortable when there is a group of people watching me exercise. And it does not matter whether the group consists of five or 20 people, I still do not appreciate it.

I understand that it

Response to “We Ain’t Show Offs!”

is important for po-tential students to see all that the university has to offer. However with that being said, a person should not be choosing a school based upon the rec center. The education a university has to of-fer is more important than what its rec cen-ter looks like.

I do not think Celina should be put under scrutiny for saying how she feels, because she is not the only person who feels this way. Also, I feel like you also misun-derstood what she was saying about the new residence hall. Yes, I guess it is ex-citing that a new resi-dence hall is going to be built. However, I highly doubt that the residents are excited about having to deal with another year of construction; which is what Celina was saying. I can almost guarantee that people

are not excited about listening to construc-tion noise yet again.

Also, I know that it is the A-Team’s job to inform tours of new developments on cam-pus, that's great. How-ever, we do hear what you tell groups as we walk by, without you yelling.

I am sure you can excite people about the new residence hall, but it’s convenient how you leave out the part about the noise that goes hand in hand with the construction of this "fabulous" new residence hall.

From what I read in Celina’s editorial, she did not really say any-thing that you accused her of saying. I also know that she is far from the only person who feels the way that she does about these issues. So next time read an editorial more carefully, before you start pointing fingers.

-Anonymous

Let’s Try This Again...Dear Big Brother,I am certainly not

one for redundancy (I am certainly not one for redundancy), but I feel I’ve got to address the flag is-sue again. For those who read my editori-als weekly, you may have been wondering why I didn’t write one last week. The reason is because I was so happy that UNH ac-tually listened to me, and was taking the flag down at night!

Then this past Thursday happened. The big brothers of UNH must have been watching me on Wednesday when I left Maxcy Hall after work to head towards my car, which was parked in a different location than usual. Leaving Maxcy from a different entrance on Wednesday must have caused them to think I would leave that way again the next night!

So Thursday, when I parked back at my normal spot and left Maxcy my normal way, ah ha! I caught them! They thought I wouldn’t notice the flag waving all over the place, in the cool evening mist!

Up until Thursday, I was glad that things

were changing in terms of the flag situ-ation. Last year, stu-dent Carl Soderberg brought up the same issue and got the same result – nothing! But this is something (and probably the ONLY thing) that Carl and I agree on.

We may drift on specifics; personally, I believe that one should have the right to burn the flag. It’s a peace-ful form of protest, and taking away that right would be against the First Amendment. Would I do it? No, I see no reason to. But I believe it should be a right to be able to do so.

But when the flag is being displayed at a public location (and

the University of New Haven certainly quali-fies as public, in this regard), it should be treated with respect and follow all appro-priate flag laws and code.

You made a nice try, Big Brother, try-ing to trick me. You wanted me to report back to Mr. Soderberg that UNH finally met our wishes! But alas, you failed. You will never know where I park from day to day, and I will continue to trick you! Ha!

All joking aside, however, there is no doubt that this is dis-respectful to many students on this cam-pus. Do I find it offen-sive? Frankly, no I do not. But I have a close friend in the military, and I completely re-spect people such as Carl for his service in the military. So for them, please, follow flag code. Better than taking it down, illumi-nate it!

This is my last warning. You don’t want Carl writing to you next time.

Much love,Z

With Spring Comes Looming Grass TroublesI know it’s early,

but I must start com-plaining now.

It is the first week in March. We haven’t even hit our rainy sea-son yet. And the quad is already disgusting.

That grass that was grown specifically for Parents Weekend? It’s dying. Now that we have our background information, I think we are ready for my lingering question: what’s going to hap-pen now?

One option: ad-ministration will be too busy deferring complaints about the upcoming construc-tion and parking space depletion to care any-more about grass.

The more likely oc-currence: that we will go through the same thing we did in the fall. Especially with the ongoing fascina-tion with the recre-ation center and the increasing attention to our “beauty,” we

could be headed for another semester of that gross green stuff that does nothing but wash away.

I think it would be great if we had some green grass. How-ever, roping off the quad (our only real open air hang out spot now that athletics will be increasing their use of the new turf field) is just not fair. It wasn’t fair to rope it off during the fall, and it wouldn’t be fair

to rope it off as the weather gets nicer this spring. I hope that’s taken into consider-ation.

You might be thinking that it is not fair for me to jump the gun and accuse UNH of doing something it might not end up do-ing. I agree with you. Sadly, I have just lost my confidence a lit-tle bit in the school’s ability to think ratio-nally about something and do what is best for

EVERYONE.Not admissions.Not administration.Not athletics.

Not residents.Not commuters.Everyone on this

campus as a whole de-serves to be taken into consideration.

When the quad was roped off in the fall, who was considered?

Parents. Not stu-dents. If UNH had thought of its stu-dents, it would have realized it took away a major location dur-ing the fall’s last nice weather. That isn’t consideration at all.

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The Escargotreviews of restaurants in the New Haven area for your dining pleasure

By Kaitlyn Glatt

Wild Ginger- Orange, CT• Type of food: Japanese Fusion • Bar: 21+

• Average sit-down meal cost: $15 • My favorite thing: The creative dishes

Wild Ginger in Or-ange was a great sur-prise to my original feelings on this place. Ever since I’ve been going to the Univer-sity of New Haven, I’ve been driving past Wild Ginger and no-ticing it was there, but not having any inter-est in dining there. It wasn’t until my best friend suggested it one night that I decid-ed to give it a try.

From the street, Wild Ginger does not look like much of a restaurant. There is a medium-sized lit up sign in its front yard and the restaurant is pushed back from the

street, but once you walk inside you feel like you are at an au-thentic Japanese res-taurant. The coy fish tank is personally my favorite accent of the atmosphere.

After being seat-ed, I looked over the menu. It is a little hard to understand some-times, but once you know what you want the waitress will help you out with every-thing else. I ordered a strawberry daiquiri and my guest ordered a glass of white wine. I was surprised when I looked at the bill and noticed that the dai-quiri was double the

amount of the glass of wine ($10). I now know to get wine the next time I go there!

For our main courses, we ordered a California Roll with-out fish eggs, and my guest ordered a Vege-table Roll with brown rice. This is probably the cheapest sushi I’ve ever ordered, and it was presented on the plate very well. Each roll is approximately $5 which puts a smile on my face. After hav-ing an extremely ex-pensive habit, it was very reassuring to know that there is a place right down the street that can accom-

modate your average college student.

As we were wait-ing for our sushi, we looked to the left and noticed that there was an extremely large goose looking thing with flowers all over it. A couple was sit-ting in candlelight and eating this massive creation. I was curious to see what this was, so I looked at the back of the menu. It was a sampler of many dif-ferent types of sushi with the most creative presentation that I’ve ever seen. For under $30, I’d order this with my friend next time just because it is

really pretty to look at!

In no time, the waitress came back with our rolls and af-ter the first bite I knew I would be coming to this restaurant more often. Sometimes when I go out for sushi rolls I am ex-tremely disappointed in the temperature of the fish. Isn’t fish sup-posed to be kept cold so that you don’t get sick from it? This su-shi roll was the per-fect, cold temperature and I ate everything off of my plate.

My night at the Wild Ginger was a very pleasant experi-

ence while also be-ing kind to my wal-let. It seems to be the best place that I’ve found so far to go to with friends when you don’t have much money. With the staff being friendly and the sushi at the perfect temperature, I’m sure the University of New Haven will benefit from this restaurant in the near future. I know I did!

If you have com-ments about my re-views, or if you would like to recommend a restaurant for me to try, send me an email at TheChargerEscar-got@gmail.com.

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James McAvoy and Christina Ricci star together in Penelope.

Will Ferrell makes his audience laugh once again in Semi-Pro.

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By GREG DICKINSON and DAVID FIELDSTAFF WRITER

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the curse. Penelope is a very sweet and na-ïve character whose reputed hideousness presents a problem in the film, as the so-called disfiguration is, in all honesty, quite adorable.

Penelope’s mother, portrayed almost too eccentrically by Cath-erine O’Hara, has hid-den her daughter away all her life, and has hired a match-maker-to-the-wealthy to find her a Prince Charm-ing. The guidelines set include a willing-ness to marry Penel-ope and the posses-sion of the ability to break the curse, as the guidelines of the curse specify that she must find someone like herself: a blueblood. The dilemma Penel-ope faces, after being groomed for marriage all her life by her very wealthy family, is that she cannot find anyone willing to ac-cept her once they see her face. In a highly memorable scene, we see Penelope intro-duce herself to a room full of suitors who all bolt out of the house in one manner or an-other (after, of course, signing a mandatory document silencing them before they even enter the room), be it through a window or out the front door with the butler right on their heels in red run-ning shoes. The twist to the story is that one of the suitors is left behind.

James McAvoy is Max, a blueblood whose wealth has dis-sipated in a flood of gambling debts and his continuation of

Cute With a Side of Confusingthe habit. Max’s rea-son for meeting Pe-nelope is less noble than even those of the other suitors in that he had been paid to take her picture, but after

having technical dif-ficulties, fails to do so. After spending time with her and getting to know her more, Max comes to see the girl he can only converse with through a dou-ble sided mirror in a completely new light. He is the only char-acter in the film who has any real demons, other than Penelope’s strange situation. His fate takes a twist when it is revealed that he never was a blue-blood, but an ordinary individual with quite a past to overcome throughout the movie.

These circumstanc-es set up the rest of the story, which is an interesting take on the road of self-discovery and acceptance. There are some continu-ity and flow issues throughout the movie, and it often feels like the audience is being pulled along with the plot instead of enjoy-ing it, but the movie, overall, is a cute one. The location of the movie is another is-sue, as it is blended in a very strange and

sometimes contra-dictory way. Brit-ish, American, and other European ac-cents blend together in a New York-like atmosphere that has

a small-European-vil-lage vibe. The result of such a combination is an interesting choice, but leaves the audi-ence a little confused. Where the blending of the cultures was un-successful, however, the blending of the old world with the new was unbelievable. Di-rector Mark Palanksy has seamlessly com-bined the old world of fairy tales with the modern world in such a way as to truly add magic to the film and set up an interesting time for the story to play out.

The lessons and morals the film seeks to teach are conflict-ing and often contra-dictory. The values of the wealthy were far too overstated and of-ten opposed the main lesson of tolerance, self confidence, and acceptance. Another aspect to consider is what the movie teach-es its younger audi-ence in regards to self-image. Penelope, who for the most part ac-cepts herself for who she is, also believes

that her situation is a temporary one and will change as soon as she meets the right person who is willing to accept her physical appearance. Shouldn’t

the mes-sage be that one s h o u l d a c c e p t o n e s e l f no matter what, re-gard less of wheth-er or not a change can be ef-fected?

T h e acting in the movie is very well done, but the choices are question-able. McAvoy, after coming off the steam of a strong perfor-mance in the critically acclaimed The Last King of Scotland, en-tered into this movie, which was originally completed in 2006. His talent is undeni-able, but as an actor, this movie doesn’t help further his career. Christina Ricci, a tal-ented actress from the nineties, needs a mov-ie to come back with, and while her perfor-mance was spectacu-lar, this film is not of the right caliber.

With this film, go-ing to see it in the-aters is nice. How-ever, it’s really a film I could’ve waited to see when it came out on DVD. Had the film not been delayed in theaters, it may have gotten a better recep-tion what with other fairy tale films, such as Enchanted, hold-ing the bar for movies of the same genre this year.

Not Quite a Slam Dunk, But an Al-ley-Oop Will Do

Set in 1976, Semi-Pro stars Will Ferrell (Blades of Glory, An-chorman) as Jackie Moon, a man who uses his earnings as a one-hit wonder dis-co singer to buy the American Basketball Association’s (ABA) Flint Tropics basket-ball team. Despite a dwindling fan base, Moon, an enthusiast

promoter, is not fazed by the lack of support for his team of which he is owner, coach, and starting power for-ward. However, after an ABA owners meet-ing, which announces that the top four ABA teams will merge with the NBA while the rest will be terminated, Moon becomes des-perate to start winning games and bringing fans back to the arena. To help them place fourth, Moon trades their washing ma-chine for Ed Monix, (Woody Harrelson, No Country for Old Men) a former NBA point guard, who takes over as coach and attempts to lead them to victory on the court as Moon uses his promotional skills to increase at-tendance.

Ferrell’s latest of three comedies, which

are set in the sports world, uses a famil-iar formula that many viewers may find has gone stale. Because of this, the audience is re-luctant to give the film a chance, believing it will be a carbon copy of Talladega Nights or Blades of Glory. While this may be true, it does not deter Semi-Pro from deliv-ering a decent amount of laughs.

U n e x p e c t e d l y , Semi-Pro is a rated R

comedy that restrains itself from going too far as witnessed ear-lier this year in films such as Strange Wil-derness. Its R rating is derived from its vulgarity instead of gross-out humor, of which there is sur-prisingly little. Most of the hilarity comes from the two radio sports casters played by Will Arnett (Broth-er’s Solomon, Ar-rested Development) and Andrew Daly (Mad TV). These two characters provide the bulk of the crude-ness and the humor as they bicker with one another and bring an unorthodox announc-ing style to the games. Arnett and Daly steal every scene in which they appear, while other supporting cast

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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.— Defending NCAA Division II and ECC Champion C.W. Post has been chosen as preseason favorites in the East Coast Conference women’s lacrosse poll, as voted upon by the conference coach-es. University of New Haven was picked in a tie for third place, while Brigid Brady and Ashley Griffin were both picked to the Preseason All-Conference squad.

The Pioneers, un-der a new head coach for 2008, posted a perfect 17-0 season in 2007 including a 5-0 ECC mark to capture the conference title. The Pioneers topped Stonehill College in the NCAA national semifinals and went on to defeat West Chester for the title.

C.W. Post earned 48 points, including six first place votes in the polling, edging second-place Adelphi (43 points, one first place vote). There was a tie for third be-tween the University of New Haven and Philadelphia Univer-sity (28 points each). UNH defeated Philly,

Women’s Lacrosse Tied for Third in

ECC Preseason Pollthen ranked 10th in the nation, in the reg-ular-season finale last year to cap off a 7-10

second consecutive year. She led UNH in goals and points and was eighth in NCAA

Division II in goals per game and 30th nation-ally in points per game. She broke the single-season school records in both goals and points, and has already broken school’s career records in both categories.

Adelphi ju-nior attack Ra-

chel Ray was the coaches’ pick as pre-season Player of the Year. Ray, a First Team ECC selection last year, notched 40 goals and 33 as-sists for 73 points and added 45 groundballs and went on to earn IWLCA All American accolades.

Joining Brady, Griffin and Ray on the preseason all confer-ence first team were Adelphi's Aly Tu-multy; Jackie Napoli, Mallory Poole, Katie Hogan, Lauren Scipi-one and Kimberly Williams of C.W. Post; Rebecca LaFlare and Kelly LaClair of Molloy; Jessica Sny-der of Philadelphia; and Kimberly DeLo-renzo of St. Thomas Aquinas.

record under then-first year head coach Jen Fallon.

The remainder of the field included a Molloy College (26), St. Thomas Aqui-nas College (16) and Dowling College (7). Dowling will be field-ing a varsity program for the first time in 2008.

UNH's Brady and Griffin were both se-lected to the Preseason All-Conference team. Griffin started all 17 games on defense last season and tied for fourth on the team with 12 caused turn-overs. Brady was one of the league's top of-fensive players, earn-ing Second Team All-North Region from the IWLCA and a Second Team All-East Coast Conference award for

SPARKILL, N.Y.— Briiana Rende scored 14 points, with 12 coming in the second half, to help the Uni-versity of New Haven women's basketball team close out its regular season with a 74-67 East Coast Conference win over St. Thomas Aquinas College at Aquinas Hall on Saturday af-ternoon, Mar. 1.

UNH, the top seed for the upcoming ECC Championships, im-proves to 19-1 in con-ference play and 19-8 overall. Rende, who was just 3-for-12 from the field, knocked down seven free throws, including four in the final 1:27 to help seal the victory.

Sophomore center Alysia Saunders had

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13 points on 5-of-6 shooting for the Char-gers, who used a bal-anced attack featur-ing nine players with at least four points. Lindsay Salt had nine points and seven re-bounds, while Natasha Pierre-Louis added eight points.

For STAC (9-18, 8-12 ECC), Takiyah Ingram scored a game-high 28 points, includ-ing the 1,000th of her career on a 3-pointer to open the second half. That shot cut the Chargers' lead from 37-28 to 37-31.

Raven Brinkley had 12 points and sev-en boards for STAC, while Claire Wilson got 10 points off the bench.

Early on in the sec-ond half, STAC rode the energy from In-gram's 1,000th-point shot to erase the entire nine-point halftime

deficit. Ingram hit a layup and another 3-pointer, sandwiched around a 3 from Kait-lin Page, and STAC was suddenly behind by just two points less than three minutes into the final period.

They would get the margin down to 42-41 a few posses-sions later on a pair of free throws by Erika Ostrove, and eventu-ally tied the contest at 45 with 14:31 left on a jumper by Brinkley.

But Rende cashed in a tough layup on the next possession and UNH led the rest of the way.

The No. 1 Chargers will host No. 8 seed Dowling College in the ECC Champion-ships on Wednesday, Mar. 5 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Char-ger Gymnasium.

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Lindsay Lohan post-rehab the first time, pre-rehab the second time.

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Black Crowes’ lead singer Chris Robinson.

members, like Andre Benjamin, Jackie Ear-le Haley, and David Koechner also give amusing performanc-es.

One of the least and most predictable char-acters is Will Ferrell himself. Ferrell yet again plays the exact same character he has been ever since he be-came a star. It is incon-ceivable that whether he is a NASCAR driv-er, male figure skater, newscaster, average fraternity brother, or a professional wedding/funeral crasher he is always Will Ferrell. However, hardcore

Ferrell Stays Funny inLatest Sports Flick

fans will still enjoy his performance, while the causal viewer will most likely have reached their limit by the end of this film.

In comparison to Anchorman, Ferrell’s most famous, yet overrated film, Semi-Pro is more consistent. The main attraction of Anchorman wasn’t so much watching the actual movie as it was quoting the movie with your friends af-ter you had all seen it. While Semi-Pro is somewhat lacking in such quotable lines, it is better in that it avoids the pitfall of unfunny jokes, which

Anchorman seemed to stumble in all too often. Semi-Pro also features a slightly bet-ter plot and humor, all of which is actually funny while you are watching it.

Bottom line…it doesn’t matter what we say here because chances are if you are a Ferrell fan you have already seen this and thought it couldn’t be greater. But if you know any better, you will wait for this on DVD and borrow it from one of those hap-less fans who are most likely to buy it.

Shubert Theater Presents Concert Series

NEW HAVEN— The Shubert Theater will present three diverse concert events begin-ning with the Gram-my Award-winning group Los Lobos on Saturday, Mar. 8 at 8 p.m. On tour in support of their new CD, Day Trip, the Pat Metheny Trio comes to the Shubert on Monday, Mar. 17 at 7:30, followed by the Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile on Sunday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for all shows are now

on sale at the Shubert Box Office, by phone at 800-228-6622 and online at www.shubert.com.

A three-time Gram-my Award-winner, Los Lobos has pre-vailed for more than three decades. They were one of Ameri-ca's most distinctive and original bands of the '80s, topping the charts with their 1987 hit, "La Bamba."

Pat Metheny's versatility is almost nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, Meth-eny has garnered ac-claim from critics and peers and has won

countless polls as "Best Jazz Guitarist." He has also won six-teen Grammy Awards spread out over a va-riety of different cat-egories.

Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile follows on Sunday, April 6. The group comes to the Shubert Theater shortly after the release of their new CD, Punch (Feb-ruary, 2008). Widely regarded as one of the most interesting and inventive musicians of his generation, he balances between the finest jazz improvisa-tion and classical per-formance.

The best way to fol-low rehabPlayboy! That’s right, our friend Lindsay Lohan has been ap-proached about being featured in a Playboy spread.

This offer comes after her nude ap-pearance in New York Magazine last month.

For anyone that saw the pictures, I think you’ll agree with me when I say that I didn’t want to see that body the first time. I surely don’t want to see it again. The picto-rial apparently caught Hef’s eye (ick, I have no idea why).

Some claim that

she did the shoot so we would compare her to Marilyn Mon-roe. Coincidentally, Anna Nicole Smith once was compared to Marilyn Monroe…do we see where I’m going with this?I say we take her Os-car backDuring the Oscars,

Marion Cotillard cried with thanks as she ac-cepted the award for best actress. Some-time after that (I’m not sure when), she made a terrible com-ment about 9/11.

According to TMZ.com, the La Vie en Rose star “did indeed say that Americans destroyed the Twin Towers themselves because they wanted it rebuilt and blow-ing it up was cheaper than renovation,” de-spite what her lawyer claims.

We might be stupid for giving you an Os-car, but we are not stu-pid enough for you to claim that you didn’t say something that you really did.

As she runs away from the backlash that has erupted from the statement, I think it’s a good time to take the award away and give it to Ellen Page for her

role in Juno.Maxim makes a big uh ohIn its March issue, Maxim magazine pub-lished a review of the Black Crowes’ new album, Warpaint. Too bad the author had never listened to it.

The writer claims that he wrote a pre-view of the album, stating what he fig-ured it was going to be

like. Ac-cording to him, M a x i m ed i to r s e n d e d up pub-l i sh ing the story as a full b l o w n r e v i e w with a star rat-ing that he never a u t h o -rized.

T h e Black Crowes were obviously furious at the mistake, espe-cially since Warpaint is their first album in seven years.

Maxim, you might as well just not write articles at all if you’re not going to research things. No one reads your articles any-ways.

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