October 15, 2012 Volume 34, Issue 3

Battle of the ChefsFaculty take part in cook-off- page 10

Nurse Frances talks marijuana - page 18

Health

Sports and morality Finding the intersection between both with a real-life example - page 6

ReligionTempo

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Cardinal Mahony visits campus, addresses immigration

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An ongoing topic of dis-cussion among Lewis stu-dents is the quality of the In-ternet connections available on campus.

Whether the complaints are about certain sites being blocked or about the reliabil-ity of the connection itself, they are commonly heard from students everywhere.

First-year graduate stu-

dent Rigo Bernal started a Change.org petition titled “Unblock the Lewis Univer-sity Internet. We Deserve to Be Free.” The petition, posted in late September, specifically mentions Lewis’ restrictions of certain sites and the filters that alleged-ly cause connection speeds to be slower. At the time of publication, the petition has 59 signatures.

John Dalby, Lewis’ chief information technology offi-cer, explained that the wired network is more restricted than the wireless network

because the wired network contains personal informa-tion about students.

“We are trying to stop people from getting on our network,” Dalby said, add-ing that the network receives about a million attacks per day. “We want to minimize access people have to your data.”

Bernal clarified that his pe-tition referred to the wired network.

“The wired connection is all I use,” said Bernal, a resi-dent of North Hall studying public safety administration.

“The wireless has never been good enough to connect to it due to the lack of signal.”

Depending on where they use their devices, other stu-dents may find themselves, like Bernal, depending on the wired network because they can’t access the less-restricted wireless network.

“We know we have to upgrade the wireless, and we’re working on it,” said Helene Marzec, director of instructional technology.

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Wireless upgrades move forward after setback

Cardinal Roger Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles, visited Lewis University Oct. 11 to dis-cuss immigration reform.

Mahony facilitated two dialogue sessions about the relationship between biblical teachings and im-migration, and presided over a Mass in the Sancta Alberta Chapel.

“Immigration reform is a hotbed topic in America with many different solu-tions available,” said his-tory major John Nickas. “I hope, after this event, I will be discussing the is-sue with other students so I can learn from their ideas and see what others consider to be successful tactics when addressing this issue.”

During the dialogues, Mahony talked about the figures in the Bible who were cast out of their homeland and sought shelter within lands where they were not once wel-comed. He interpreted the biblical stories in light of the current immigration issue in the U.S.

“I hope people will leave with a better under-standing of immigration and what is our response as a people of faith,” said Martha Villegas-Miranda, co-chair of the Immigra-tion Reform Team (IRT), a group of students, faculty and staff at Lewis whose goal is to reach out to stu-dents who are either pas-sionate about or directly affected by national immi-gration policies.

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“I have seen many students who never fully understand the mission of Lewis until they get

involved in a service project,” said Villegas-Miranda, the coordinator of

outreach for University Ministry.

As Martha E. Villegas-Miran-da sees it, students involved in acts of service discover the true meaning of the university’s mis-sion.

“I have seen many students who never fully understand the mission of Lewis until they get involved in a service project,” said Villegas-Miranda, the coor-dinator of outreach for Univer-sity Ministry. “It is an experience that brings the mission to life for them.”

Villegas-Miranda has been organizing service outreach at Lewis for many years. In col-laboration with the Office of Ser-vice Learning (OSL), she contin-ues to support student service activities from Joliet to Bolivia. In connecting students with service opportunities that re-late to their field of study, OSL’s partnership with University Ministry has been particularly vital to its success. In fact, OSL is somewhat of an outgrowth of University Ministry.

“University Ministry used to manage all of the service ac-tivities,” said Villegas-Miranda, who was the coordinator of vol-unteer outreach for all of Lewis. “With OSL, we’re able to orga-nize different types of service and structure service courses.”

In leading the outreach for University Ministry, her service efforts are now more centered on fulfilling the university’s Lasallian mission. Dr. Christie Billups, the coordinator of OSL concentrates on service activities that are more curriculum- or ca-reer-oriented. Yet, it’s clear that their work goes hand-in-hand.

Since 2010, leaders of Univer-sity Ministry, Service Learning and Student Leadership and Development have met month-ly to discuss and coordinate their related efforts. Known as the Community Engagement Cooperative (CEC), this group works to customize service events to fit students from each department.

“There is certainly overlap in the service projects and the students who volunteer,” said Villegas-Miranda. “Whether they are volunteering for per-sonal reasons or if they are vol-unteering as part of a course or major, we make sure they are

engaged in the activity.”On a local level, Villegas-

Miranda and Billups continue to coordinate student service efforts at MorningStar Mission in Joliet. While the opportunity to work in the mission’s soup kitchen or assist the organiza-tion’s staff is open to all students, Billups’ focus is on managing the experience of students and faculty in a related curriculum, such as social work.

“At Service Learning, we draw the connections,” said Billups. “But it is only through partnering with faculty and leaders like Martha that we can put it all together.”

For the last 12 years, Villegas- Miranda has helped organize an international service activity that has taken Lewis students to the barrios of Bolivia. For the Diocesan University Mis-sion, which involves three area universities, Lewis faculty, staff and students travel to the capi-tal of Bolivia, and for two weeks, work with impoverished youth in the streets and at orphanages.

In drawing connections along with Billups, Villegas-Miranda typically leads a mission team that includes students of nurs-ing, special education, social work and other specialties. In previous trips, Lewis nursing students have set up health clin-ics and have even gained experi-ence as part of a surgery team.

Villegas-Miranda is currently readying to interview those in-terested in the next trip, which is set for June. Participants need time to organize fundraising ef-forts for the mission.

“Like other activities, it is open to anyone, but we do in-terview people to explore why they are interested in being part of the mission,” she said. “We like to know if they have given it some thought, and if it ties in with what they want to do as a profession.”

Whether a student is studying to become a pastoral minister, teacher, social worker or nurse, according to Villegas-Miranda, the journey makes an impact on each participant.

“For most students, it is a life-changing experience,” she said. “It connects them with the es-sence of our Lasallian heritage.”

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University Ministry and Service Learning make a mission of student service

Lewis University hosted the semester ’s first campus visit day Oct. 8 for high school and transfer stu-dents at the main campus in Romeoville.

Prospective students were able to tour the cam-pus with a current Lewis student, have the opportu-nity to meet some faculty and hear admission and financial aid presentations for scholarship opportuni-ties. Special sessions were offered for students inter-ested in aviation, nursing and pre-professional sci-ences.

“We spend a consider-able amount of time coordi-

nating each program,” said Ryan Cockerill, director of admission. “This includes ordering and arranging all of the logistical operations (e.g. tables, chairs, linens, etc.), as well as securing speakers and faculty com-mitments.”

Occasionally, Lewis as-sists with group visits from select high schools, but this campus visit day was one of the many were stu-dents and families arrived on their own. The prospec-tive students were primar-ily high school seniors and community college stu-dents who are considering transferring.

Most of the transfer stu-dents come from nearby

community colleges, such as Joliet Junior College, College of DuPage and Moraine Valley Commu-nity College. Many trans-fer students come from a range of four-year univer-sities as well.

“We hope that students and families leave campus with a better understand-ing and appreciation for what it means to be a Lewis Flyer,” Cockerill said. “We think students will fall in love with the beauty of the campus and the environ-ment of a close-knit com-munity.”

Lewis will host two more campus visit days this se-mester on Nov. 10 and Dec.

Prospective students welcomed to campus Lauren barnesasst. news editor

Marzec and Dalby ex-plained that their depart-ment had intended to up-grade the wireless network this past summer, but their plans were hindered by what they call “the iPad Christmas.” Students be-gan to bring iPads onto campus this past January after presumably receiving them as Christmas gifts.

“IPads have inundated the wireless network,” Marzec said, explaining that with resident students bringing two or three wire-less devices to campus, the demands on the wireless network exceeded even the planned upgrade.

“Now we have to re-engi-neer things,” Dalby said.

Lewis’ Instructional Technology Services Orga-

nization put its new plan into action at the beginning of this semester. Calling it “The Great Wireless Exper-iment,” ITSO tested three different wireless provid-ers in different areas of the campus: Benilde Hall, the center of De La Salle Hall and the Learning Resource Center and the Science Center.

ITSO informed all stu-dents of this plan in an email sent out at the be-ginning of the semester, as well as in its submitted column in the Sept. 17 issue of The Flyer. Both of these notices asked students to give feedback about their experiences.

“Comments from stu-dents are very important to us,” Marzec said.

According to Dalby, the wireless upgrade will most likely be implemented one

building at a time, with academic buildings being given first priority. The cost of the entire project would be between $0.5 million and $1 million, Dalby said, explaining that it wasn’t a process he wanted to rush.

Despite the improve-ments Lewis will eventu-ally see, Dalby cautioned students not to compare In-ternet access at school with access at home.

“It’s not going to be like it is at home,” Dalby said, noting the difference be-tween a home network shared by a few people and a school network shared by a few thousand people.

ITSO plans to move for-ward with the wireless upgrade by selecting one of the three providers now that the testing period is ending.

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Hailey Gurgul, Carisis Martinez and Marissa shultz try to access the internet on the wi-Fi network in their Lewis dorm room.

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Lewis University welcomed three musicians to the music department this year as music instructors. The three new in-structors are trumpeter Dr. Mark Ponzo, harpist Nichole Luchs and violinist Casey McGrath.

“All three are professional players, known for their virtuos-ity and musicianship, as well as experienced teachers,” said Dr. Lawrence Sisk, chair of the mu-sic department. “They can tutor and mentor Lewis students in trumpet, violin and harp. Ap-plied music means that the stu-dents get a private lesson (one-on-one with the instructor) every week. Lewis students in any ma-jor (not just music) can sign up for lessons with these instruc-tors without paying additional tuition, as long as they don’t already have 18 hours.”

Mark Ponzo is a professor of trumpet at Northern Illinois Uni-versity who will also serve as a trumpet instructor at Lewis. He has been a member of the Roch-ester Philharmonic Orchestra,

Mexico City Philharmonic Or-chestra and Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

Ponzo is a regular substitute with the Elgin Symphony Or-chestra and Chicago Brass Quin-tet, and he has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orches-

tra, Music of the Baroque, Illinois Chamber Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Illinois Philharmonic, Millar Brass, Light Opera Works, as well as many local orchestras.

He has been a featured soloist with The Music of the Baroque, Elgin Symphony, New Sousa

Band, Southern Tier Symphony, Kishwaukee Symphony, NIU Philharmonic, Wind Ensemble and Windy Symphony. He has released three solo recordings, including “Music for Trumpets by Dexter Morrill, Dexter Mor-rill: Three Concertos” and “The

Trumpet Music of Verne Reyn-olds.”

Nichole Luchs joins the ap-plied music faculty as instructor of harp.

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dr. Casey McGrath, professor of the violin and viola, practices the violin before instructing classes at Lewis university.

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Lewis University has six re-gional sites that make going to school easier for working adult students. The regional campus located in Shorewood, Ill., is one of these six sites.

The Shorewood campus is lo-cated about 20 minutes south-west from the main campus in Romeoville. It aims to serve students who live and work in the area.

“In our mission to serve the adult student population, we create an inviting environment and we believe we are encour-aging to adult students,” said Shorewood Regional Campus Director Patricia Perrier. “I’m an adult student (now gradu-ated) myself, and I feel that I can relate to the juggling act. We want our students to have a good experience, and of course get an education that will help them in whatever direction their lives take them.”

The Shorewood campus wants to be as convenient as possible for all its students and also make them feel almost as if they are entering the main cam-

pus with the “inviting environ-ment.”

This campus has several students who normally attend classes there.

“The number of students var-ies per semester. Running an accelerated program, students step in and step out as their lives require,” Perrier said. “At any given period, we can have 200 to 300 people per semester, sometimes more. Our average class size is about 12 to 15 stu-dents, and we run classes Mon-day through Thursday nights and all day Saturday. As an example, the summer was very light. This fall, it’s a little heavi-er, and we’re not sure what to expect yet from spring.”

Students who have had class-es at the Shorewood campus like the class sizes as well.

“The class sizes help me to get more one-on-one inter-action with my professor in case I need help with some-thing in the class,” said senior business major BJ Boldog.

Saturday classes often fit well into the schedules of working adult students.

“I went there for the ‘Satur-days at Shorewood’ program

and was very happy with the class times and how they went about the program,” Boldog said.

New this semester, “Satur-days at Shorewood” is a two-year program designed for working professionals who want to complete an under-graduate degree in business ad-ministration.

“We also have nursing classes on Saturdays as well, because this format is very popular,” Perrier said. “(Saturday classes) are all held in a blended format where students come to some

face-to-face sessions and do some sessions online.” As well, the (education degree) program meets at this campus both dur-ing the week and on Saturdays. We’re very happy to have them out here as well. And finally, we are very proud to have the paralegal program out here. We serve adults in the sessions held out here, and it’s growing nicely.”

For more information about the Shorewood campus, call 815-744-0504 or email shore-wood@lewisu.edu.

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the shorewood campus serves adult students who live and work in the area.

Mahony addressed the hu-man aspect of immigration, and he provided both sides of the political argument to give the Lewis community a comprehensive view of the topic.

“As long as you welcomed a stranger and treated him or her with compassion, you shall be treated with compas-sion,” Mahony said in the di-alogues. “Some immigrants sought adventure in Ameri-ca, and others got away from religious persecution.”

The main goal of the dia-logues was to inspire stu-dents and faculty within the Lewis community to take action with the Immigration Reform Team, according to Nickas.

“I think this event will open the eyes of students and faculty alike,” Nickas said. “My personal involve-ment will be to address the student perspective and why we can make a difference,” said Nickas. “I will provide information regarding the IRT and to what lengths we plan to take in our communi-ty. I hope to be a resource for other students who are inter-ested in learning more about the topic and the IRT.”

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supreme Court to hear affirmative action case

AUSTIN, Texas — The Su-preme Court is to hear a case this month addressing wheth-er affirmative action is neces-sary if a university is meeting diversity without race. The case comes after a ruling by a U.S. Appeals Court in Texas that race-based admissions was prohibited in 1996, and a follow-up ruling by the Court in 2003 that race could be con-sidered, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

The case concerns specifi-cally the University of Texas’ campus in the state capital Austin. Speaking in February after the Court announced its decision to hear the case, Bill Powers, the university’s presi-dent, said the university need-ed an admissions policy that reflects “the educational bene-fits of a diverse student body.”

defaults on student loans increase

WASHINGTON — Statistics from the U.S. Department of Education show an increase in borrowers defaulting on feder-al student loans. The statistics, released Sept. 28, said 9.1 per-cent of students who had loans due after October 2009 were unable to pay them, an increase from 8.8 percent since data was last recorded, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Most of the debt is owed by students to the gov-ernment, the Journal adds.

New government rules, due to take effect in January, are to cap student loan payments at 10 percent and have remain-ing debt forgiven after 20 years, according to the Journal.

Former new york times publisher dies

NEW YORK — The former publisher and chief executive of The New York Times, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, died Sept. 29 at the age of 86. Sulzberger, who served for more than 30 years, was notable in overseeing the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, detailing the response of the administration of Richard Nixon to the Vietnam War. The papers resulted in a landmark Supreme Court case on freedom of the press in the United States. President Barack Obama, in a statement, praised Sulzberger’s work.

“He was a firm believer in the importance of a free and independent press, one that isn’t afraid to seek the truth, hold those in power account-able, and tell the stories that need to be told,” Obama said, according to a report from the Poynter Institute. “Arthur’s legacy lives on in the newspaper he loved and the journalists he inspired.”

obama, romney begin series of debates

DENVER — President Barack Obama and the Repub-lican nominee Mitt Romney began a series of three debates at the University of Denver

Oct. 3. The debate examined domestic policy, including the economy, taxes, reductions of the federal deficit and the role of the government.

Romney accused Obama of not getting the U.S. economy back on track, according to a report from The New York Times. Obama asked Ameri-cans to be patient, while both candidates accused each other of misleading voters, the Times report adds.

The next debate will be held at Hofstra University in New York state Oct. 16, with the se-ries concluding Oct. 22 in Boca Raton, Fla. The vice presiden-tial debate was held Oct. 11 in Kentucky.

California passes social media law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed a law Sept. 28 banning access to employees’ social media accounts by companies. California becomes the third state (behind Maryland and Illinois) to do so, according to a report from the technology news site Mashable. Brown said the law was significant.

“California pioneered the so-cial media revolution,” Brown wrote on his Facebook page, according to Mashable. “These laws protect Californians from unwarranted invasions of their social media accounts.”

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Lewis University’s “Elec-tion 2012” series presented by the Arts and Ideas Program will hold a lecture titled “The Israel-Palestinian Question and the Candidates’ Perspec-tives” Oct. 15. The event will discuss the conflict between Israel and Palestine in light of the 2012 presidential election.

“Foreign policy is an issue, albeit not as big an issue as the economy, in this year’s Presidential election,” said Dr. Michael Cunningham, di-rector of Arts and Ideas. “In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Palestine-Israel conflict remains an important issue; the solution to the long-stand-ing conflict has vexed many American administrations and frustrated many interna-tional diplomats.”

Lewis alumnus and author Greg Harms will be present-ing not only information about the Israel-Palestine conflict, but also the 2012 presidential candidates’ per-spectives on it. The event’s main purpose is to provide a cultural and educational pro-gramming experience for the Lewis students and commu-nity.

Harms is a graduate of Lewis with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, as well as an independent scholar with a specialization in the history and politics of the Israel-Palestine relationship. He has written several books about the United States’ Mid-dle East policy.

“The Palestine-Israel Con-flict: A Basic Introduction,” now in its third edition, dis-cusses political science and history courses about the Middle East. “It’s Not about Religion,” which has been re-cently published, analyzes the problem and suggests ways the United States and nations of the region might move to-ward a resolution. “Straight Power Concepts in the Mid-dle East: U.S. Foreign Policy, Israel and World History” discusses the U.S. involve-ment toward the Middle East.

These three books are Harms’ top sellers.

During the event, Cunning-ham will ask Harms a wide range of questions to educate the audience about the con-flict. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask Harms questions of their own.

Harms will share a brief background to the situation in Israel and Palestine, while providing some history on the region. Also, he will ex-plain the different approaches taken by President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Rom-ney toward the conflict.

“Both presidential can-didates have continued the tradition of allegiance to Is-rael and the defense of its de-mocracy,” Cunningham said. “There are some differences, some large, some subtle, in the approaches of Obama and Romney, differences that reflect differences in their ap-proaches to a whole range of issues in the Middle East.”

The event will be held at 1 p.m. in room AS-158.

‘Election 2012’ series discusses Israel-Palestine conflictLauren barnesasst. news editor

Lewis University’s newest doctorate program debuted this semester with the im-plementation of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program.

The program prepares nurses for advanced nursing practice with a focus in clini-cal practice, management of care, organizational admin-istration and the develop-ment and implementation of healthy policy. The DNP program is designed for RNs who currently have a bache-lor’s degree, master’s degree or advanced practice degree.

Students who are enrolled in the DNP program will be expanding their level of clinical judgment, systems

thinking and accountabil-ity. In addition to judgment and research, students get an understanding of how to ex-pand their leadership skills and influence legal, political and organizational policy to support access to care.

Senior nursing major Alex Boldyga is excited about the possibility of earning a Doc-torate of Nursing.

“I feel Lewis is providing us another tool to succeed in our careers,” Boldyga said.

The DNP is different from the PhD program in nursing, which is more research-fo-cused. The number of credit hours to earn a DNP de-pends on the student enter-ing the program.

For more information, con-tact a graduate admissions counselor at 815-836-5610.

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Nursing doctorate program offered

nursing students listen intently to the instructor going over the days lesson.

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Apple picking is a tradition that many families hold each fall when visiting orchards throughout the country. How-ever, weather problems this past year have caused orchards to suffer a reduced crop, leav-ing few the opportunities to pick apples directly off the tree.

This past spring, there were 80-degree temperatures, forc-ing the apple blossoms to ar-rive early. The hard frost that followed several weeks later diminished the future harvest.

County Line Orchard in Hobart, Ind., will not be of-fering its traditional you-pick apple operation since 70 per-cent of its crop was lost to an early spring, a late frost

and a summer drought.Many Midwest orchards

have experienced similar prob-lems and will not open for the fall 2012 season.

Owner Ryan Richardson said that closing was not an option for their passionate staff and their many loyal followers.

“We knew we had to do something,” said Richardson. “We had to get creative and get to work.”

Staff members worked throughout the entire summer to find apple sources from oth-er family-owned orchards in the Midwest. County Line Or-chard wanted to make sure that they found apples that were grown by similar orchards to their own.

In order to ensure that cus-tomers were provided with

a similar experience, the staff came up with the idea to make it “Rain Apples.” The orchard installed more than three miles of apple-holding gut-ters throughout the grounds and spent more than 2,000 man hours stocking them with orchard-quality apples so that families can enjoy a true or-chard experience this fall.

“The customers have been amazing,” said Richardson. “Everyone has been very sup-portive about the ‘Raining Ap-ples’ initiative.”

County Line’s barn, bakery, tractors, kid’s farm and other parts of the orchard will func-tion as usual this season.

For more information about County Line Orchard, visit http://countylineorchard.com/index.html.

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Apple picking limited this fall

County Line orchard in Hobart, ind. added gutters filled with apples to their trees due to the drought that killed most of their crop in the spring.

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She holds a master’s degree in harp performance from Northwestern University, and is currently an active freelance musician, performing through-out Illinois and Iowa. In addi-tion she is the principal harp-ist for the Peoria Symphony, DuPage Symphony and Illinois Valley Symphony.

Luchs has performed with many orchestras in the area including the Rockford Sym-phony, Evanston Symphony, Skokie Valley Symphony, Fox Valley Symphony, Quad City Symphony and Dubuque Symphony. She also per-formed in chamber concerts with the Naperville Cham-ber Players and was a soloist with the DuPage Symphony

Chamber Orchestra. Recently, Luchs was a fea-

tured performer in the “Paidiea Project,” a documentary on the music of ancient Greece. She is an active teacher and harp in-structor at Fox River Academy of Music and Art and at North Central College.

Casey McGrath returns to Lewis as instructor of violin and viola, having recently completed her doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also serves as concertmaster for the Fox Val-ley Orchestra and violin soloist for the Antigua Baroque Con-sort and Tango Espejo.

McGrath also performs with the New Philharmonic and Northwest Symphony Orches-tra and has appeared with the Elgin Symphony, the New Mil-lennium Philharmonic, the Pro

Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Lafayette, Kokomo and Mari-on Symphony Orchestras, the Symphony Orchestra of the Pa-cific and the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca.

McGrath has recorded as violin soloist with the Argen-tinian band “Los Pinguos” for their album, “Serenata,” and re-cently finished recording with Tango Espejo the soundtrack for the upcoming film, “Deadly Embrace.”

“All three players are high-profile soloists who play with many orchestras and chamber music groups in the area, and all over the country,” said Sisk. “Two of them have doctoral degrees; all have master’s de-grees. Adding instructors of this caliber to our roster raises our profile and attracts more advanced students to Lewis.”

At Lewis University, the Psychology Department is in the top five majors based on degrees conferred, according to the Office of Admission. Looking specifically at this area, what can students do to prepare themselves for their future career?

Psychology itself lends itself to several areas of specializa-tion. Most people know only about the counseling aspect; however, other areas can in-clude developmental psychol-ogy, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and experi-mental psychology.

“There’s a variety of areas of psychology, and I think that a benefit to students is that a lot of what they’re interested in can be applied in many differ-ent aspects,” Dr. Valerie Hill, assistant professor of psychol-ogy, said. “Psychology is not in a sense that’s so specific that if you’re going to be a psycholo-gist, this is the one thing you can do … there’s many options for you out there, which I think is a positive for students.”

Depending on what students want to do with their degrees, there are some jobs that will need master’s or doctorate degrees, while bachelor’s de-grees are appropriate in other areas. Lewis offers two gradu-ate programs in counseling, one in which students work in schools.

“Even within that, students can get certain special certifica-tions to work with individuals with substance abuse; they can be a licensed clinical practi-tioner,” Hill said. “It depends what students are interested in.”

In the major, 36 credit hours are required; half of these must be core courses that are required of all the psychol-ogy majors, and the other half includes whatever courses would interest the student. Many majors choose to take classes in criminal social jus-tice, social work or sociology, depending on what they want to do after graduation, accord-ing to Hill. She teaches seminar courses on infant development to help in the future job field.

“Some occupations are look-ing for specific classes,” Hill said. “For example, I have some students that want to be early child life specialists. They’re looking for the devel-opment classes for that; we have an abnormal child class as well. We encourage them to take those classes, because that is what those occupations are looking for.”

Jobs in the psychology field are typically looking for stu-

dents with good organizational skills and good interpersonal skills.

“In general, what people are looking for are you being able to find information that’s needed,” Hill said. “They’re looking for good interpersonal skills, being able to work well with others. In your life, you’re going to be working with indi-viduals on certain projects or things that you need to do, so that cooperation with others can apply not only to psycholo-gy, but to other majors as well.”

When applying to graduate schools, each school has a dif-ferent deadline; however, most students sign up in the fall. Many start applying one year before they’d like to go, accord-ing to Hill. Taking the summer before their senior year to re-search can give students a bet-ter idea of what they want to do and where they want to go.

Employment of psycholo-gists is expected to grow 22 percent from 2010 to 2020, ac-cording to the Occupational Outlook Handbook. That growth is faster than the aver-age for all occupations. To ac-company this, the psychology department holds a yearly con-ference to talk about letters of recommendation, the GRE (a standardized test for graduate school admission) and differ-ent areas of psychology.

“One of the things I think our psychology department tries to do, and is doing well, is we try to set up our students for what-ever type of degree that they would like to have,” Hill said. “For example, once a year, we have a psychology conference/colloquia, and in one aspect of that, we talk about different talks that the students are in-terested in. We want to make sure our students are set up the best possible way to do what-ever they want, whether it’s to continue on to more schooling or to try to find a job.”

Psychology majors com-plete their capstones with field placement that can potentially link them to jobs after gradu-ating. Many people enter the field of psychology to help people, according to Hill.

“It was just something that I was always interested in; it’s always been something that I just love,” junior psychol-ogy major Lindsay Cabay said. “I’m hoping to become a child psychologist. I love working with little kids, helping them with their problems and things like that.”

While the students are still in school, they can make further connections by joining the Psy-chology Club, which can con-nect them to other students and open communication in their field. The club meets Wednes-days at 5:30 p.m. in SB-144.

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As the nation turns away from organized religion, Lewis University students are doing quite the oppo-site.

Held every Sunday night at 8 p.m., Mass consists of a Roman Catholic Eucha-ristic Liturgy, which has always been a constant in the ever-changing campus programming. But this year, more than any in the recent past, has seen a significant increase in attendance. This spike in numbers has left some wondering: did we ex-pect this to happen?

“I don’t know if I really put any ‘expectations’ on at-tendance at Mass; I always have a hope that our atten-dance will be greater each year,” said Sabrina Poulin, university minister and co-ordinator of national im-mersion trips.

This hope has become a reality as seats become more packed every Sunday.

“I would say that a solid number of our attendees are

either first-year students or new students,” Poulin said.

Senior Ron Pollak, who has been attending Mass ever since he was a fresh-man here at Lewis, has been pleasantly surprised by the increase.

“As an upperclassman, I am a little surprised at the increase in attendance,” Pollak said.

Although surprising, the growth in attendance had been already in motion.

“My first two years, it re-ally didn’t change,” Pollak said. “It seemed to start at the beginning of last year and really take off last spring.”

Freshman James Weis-sensel, a Sunday Mass regu-lar, has felt that attending

Liturgy at Lewis helps him ease his transition into the community.

“I go to Mass to strength-en my spiritual life, and University Ministry is the best way to get involved,” Weissensel said.

Even after the Catholic Church made new liturgi-cal translations, that didn’t stop students from attend-

ing weekly worship. “The Lewis students eas-

ily adapted to the Mass changes,” said Fr. Daniel Torson, university chap-lain and assistant professor of theology. “They became comfortable after about a month.”

Last year, the new transla-tions were introduced, and they have now become part of the normal vernacular.

“The faithful Mass at-tendees at Lewis would not be deterred by a new Mass translation,” Torson said. “In fact, many students wel-comed it as a more literal translation.”

Blessing Honey, one of the new Mass attendees, felt that this transition was made an easy one.

“I like the religious at-mosphere, and Fr. Daniel Torson puts things in a way that is easily relatable,” said Honey.

Students who plan to attend Mass this semes-ter should arrive early to get a seat.

RELIGIONCampus Mass sees attendance rise Joey Preston Contributor

Students and staff form communal relationships by celebrating the Catholic faith.

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It’s not every day we see examples of morality in sports, let alone in the locker room. More often than not, professional athletes are sur-rounded by drama, infideli-ties, drug use or other illegal activities.

We tell our children they’ll learn dedication, teamwork, how to share and many other skills in sports, yet it seems like many pros today have forgotten those lessons. Kansas City Chiefs’ offensive lineman Eric Winston is an exception.

On Oct. 7, the Kansas City Chiefs faced off with the Baltimore Ravens, ending in a 9-6 win for Baltimore. But as saddening as the defeat was, the truly devastating loss came from the injury to Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel, who was pummeled by Ravens defensive end Haloti Ngata.

After a few heart-stopping moments on the field follow-ing the hit, Cassel was taken to the locker room, and train-ers later determined that he had a concussion. However, it wasn’t the sack that got such a negative response — it was the reaction from Chiefs

fans that had the Internet and newsrooms abuzz.

After Cassel hit the ground, fans began to cheer. Not jeer, cheer. While it’s hotly de-bated whether the cheers were for the first down or for the fact that Cassel, who had been playing poorly, was going to be out of the game, the response nonetheless en-raged many, including Win-ston.

Following the game, Win-ston called an impromptu press conference in the locker room to make it clear that the fans’ response was not acceptable. He told report-ers “when you cheer some-body getting knocked out — I don’t care who it is, and it just so happened to be Matt Cassel — it’s sickening … We are not gladiators, and this is not the Roman Coliseum. This is a game.”

Even Ngata pointed put such a reaction was “not cool.”

It only took one per-son to make such waves in the press, and launch a worldwide response. While Winston points out that it is just “a game,” it can be dangerous. Concussions can cause serious brain damage, not to mention the risk to spi-nal cord injuries.

As a student interested in people, places and events in the news, it was nice to read about someone taking a stand for a change to defend what’s right. The only acceptable re-sponse in such a situation to hope and pray that player is OK, no matter the team.

While it may not seem like he did much, it would have been easy for Winston to walk away and keep silent, like the other 58 players. But he didn’t. Instead, Winston chose to defend his fallen teammate and stand up for what he knew was right,

even when it wasn’t the pop-ular opinion. Sound familiar?

When sports fans hear Win-ston’s press release or see the play online, hopefully it will make them think about the moral, or at least ethical, im-plications that affect sports and reach beyond sports.

Morality should not be abandoned in sports Megan schlegel Contributor

rare actions such as Eric Winston’s provide a more positive outlook for the ethics and morality.

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Thérèse Martin was the last of nine children born to Louis and Zélie Martin on Jan. 2, 1873, in Alencon, France. Only five of these children lived to adulthood. Thérèse spent most of her life sickly and dealt with many hardships including the death of her mother at 4 years old.

Thérèse found comfort in the Virgin Mary, and said Mary appeared to her at age 9. Thérèse was described as very spiritual and had a close relationship with God — so much so that at 15, she entered the Carmelite con-vent. She took the religious name Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, and lived a hidden, simple life of prayer.

While at the convent, Thérèse gave up every small act to God and never would complain. She was just 24 when she died on Sept. 30,

1897, from tuberculosis. Much of Thérèse’s life

is known through her au-tobiography, “Story of a Soul.” This book is widely acclaimed and has been translated into English,

Polish, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. In the book, she describes what matters in life is “not great deeds, but great love.” Her childlike

Thérèse of Lisieux — a modern saint and exampletheresa Marten Contributor

the 115th anniversary of St. thérèse’s entrance into eternal life was commerated on oct. 1 of this year, her annual feast day.

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Lewis University cel-ebrated its annual Homecoming/Family Day on Sept. 29. Parents of cur-rent students and alumni of the school were welcomed to return to Lewis to ex-plore the campus, take in some sporting events and go to Mass.

Being a Catholic and La-sallian University, Mass is celebrated every Sun-day night at 8 p.m., but on Homecoming/Family Day, there is a special 4 p.m. Mass on Saturday.

It’s really nice to have that Mass because it’s great for students to celebrate the Catholic faith with their families. If you are a resident, you likely are cel-ebrating Mass with Lewis students (which is great), but you are not attending Mass with your family.

Another added bonus is alumni attend the Mass as well, and it’s really spe-cial to see them come back to their alma mater. A few of the alumni did the first and second readings at Mass, while current stu-dents and faculty served as Eucharistic Ministers.

There was a great turn-out at Mass this year as the entire chapel was al-most completely filled. It is great to see that so many families care about at-tending Mass and alumni are anxious to come back and celebrate Mass with Fr. Dan Torson, university chaplain and assistant pro-fessor of theology.

I, and many other stu-dents, have always loved attending Mass at Lewis and being able to attend the Homecoming Mass with family and other alumni is very special as well.

Homecoming Mass a special traditionryan tadych Contributon

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Sunday Mass, 8 p.m. Sancta Alberta Chapel Monday - FridayMass, NoonBlessed Sacrament Chapel

Tuesday InterVarsity Prayer, 4 p.m.Living Room (Inside Sancta Alberta Chapel)

Students for Life, 5 p.m.D’Arcy Great Room (next to Sancta Alberta Chapel)

Wednesday STAND, 5 p.m. Morton Boston Room(on the 2nd level of Student Union)

ThursdayJava Detour, 9:30 a.m.-10 p.m. D’Arcy Great Room (next to Sancta Alberta Chapel)

InterVarsity, 8:45 p.m.-10 p.m. Living Room

In the United States, we’re called a melting pot for a variety of reasons. We have a wide variety of interests, ideas and religions that we see on a daily basis. Because of the differences in values and beliefs, there have been numerous disagreements not only among the various religions, but also between those with beliefs and those without.

From my own perspec-tive, it seems that as far as the religions go, there are many values that they share. Wouldn’t it then be easier to dialogue and listen to each other and celebrate common-alities rather than condemn each other for the differenc-es? Respecting each other’s beliefs could make great changes for the future of our country and the world.

Lewis is taking this ap-proach in dedicating the school as a Sanctified Zone. According to Lewis’ Let-ter from the President, “Given the inspiring and unifying Mission of Lewis

University, it is most appro-priate that the university be experienced as a community of mutual respect and appre-ciation of the enriching di-versity that characterizes us. By contrast, intolerance and lack of knowledge regard-ing all dimensions of diver-sity can create unnecessary tensions and unwelcomed conflict.”

Much of the conflict in our society also comes from reli-gious sects and non-religious groups fighting over who’s right. In today’s day and age, people are taught to ques-tion everything and analyze what they see. With the ad-vancements in science, these lead to additional questions as well, giving way to those that proclaim their agnostic

or atheist views. According to a Pew poll

of about 35,000 Americans, about one out of every 20 Americans call themselves an atheist or agnostic. The religiously unaffiliated total comes to about 16.1 percent: 1.6 percent claim to be athe-ist, 2.4 percent claim agnostic and 12.1 percent claim noth-ing in particular. To put this in perspective, in a country of 300 million people, there is a combined total of 12 mil-lion atheists and agnostics.

Religious sects work to gain the faith of the group, but if they don’t bend, the religious sects tend to shut them out because they be-lieve their way is the only way. Similarly, atheists and agnostics typically don’t

consider anything besides the science behind their views.

No one is really able to say that they’re right, no matter what their beliefs are, which makes the fighting harder to control and more difficult to support. If they took the time to really sit down and listen to each other’s arguments, the chances of understand-ing could lead to something so much bigger.

I’m not saying that you have to agree with all reli-gions, but understanding that people have ideas other than your own and respect-ing that would make a major breakthrough in bringing peace to the masses and the possibilities of future ad-vancements.

Various beliefs should be respected lauren PircEditor-in-ChiEf

spirituality is known as her “little way.”

What is so powerful from St. Thérèse is that she is truly a modern saint. People read the Gospels and admire the saints, yet have trouble relating that to their everyday life. Thérèse shows that the call to love is for everyone — all that is essential is to say “yes.” Thérèse did not do any big acts of love toward God, but every day, she devoted her life to loving God by doing things for others.

St. Thérèse was canon-ized by the Church on May 17, 1925, when she would have been only 52 years old. She has been ac-claimed “the greatest saint of modern times.”

In October of 1997, Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church — the only Doctor of his pon-tificate — because of the impact and challenge her spirituality has had on so many lives. His declara-tion was made in tribute to the powerful way her spirituality has influenced people all over the world.

The national shrine of St. Thérèse is located in Darien, Ill., less than a half hour from Lewis Univer-sity.

this popular images serves as a symbol of major religions and beliefs working together in harmony.

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In a recent University of Texas case, the Supreme Court must consider whether affir-mative action can be justified if a school is achieving diver-sity without using race. The issue is that other students are claiming to be turned down because of the affirmative ac-tion.

On one hand, race does play as a factor in admissions. It al-lows minorities that may not have done well in their high school to have the opportunity of a college education. As far as that aspect, it can change lives for many families. There are many students that do not do well testing, but are still very bright and anxious to learn.

However, you cannot achieve diversity through race alone. Diversity must also be

achieved by the experiences that those admitted would bring to the population. Even if you do achieve diversity through race — if everyone has the same story, what’s the point, then? What sort of learning do you hope to gain from people who are exactly like you?

The idea of admitting stu-dents who were extraordinary or special would also allow more students the chance to be seen without making it into the top 10 percent. This par-ticular selection could come from teacher recommendation or work done in the school.

Admission should not re-volve around racial factors alone, but rather take every-thing about a person into ac-count when choosing poten-tial students.

Staff Editorial: WHERE WE STANDDiversity is more than just race

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The school year has already taken off at a brisk pace, and many events have already been a success this year. Many of the biggest events of the fall semester have already passed, leaving Homecoming, Fall Formal and the week’s ac-tivities a nostalgic memory for Lewis University.

Many people are unaware of the history of Fall Formal and how it has evolved into the great success it has today. Five years ago, Homecoming Formal was held in a tent in between Mother Theresa Hall and Pope John Paul II, with only 45 students attending. There were only chips and fruit punch served during that year.

The next year, Fall Formal was moved to the Carillon Golf Course, and was too ex-pensive for many students to attend, but participation in-creased to 70 students.

Three years ago, the loca-tion was moved to where many of us know, the Hangar, where student participation drastically increased to about 400 students with more food and beverages served to make the event a huge success. The formal has been held in this location three times due to the successful outcome of hav-ing the dance in that location the first time. Although we experienced a successful at-tendance rate three years ago, student attendance began to decline over the next couple of years.

This year, the Student Gov-erning Board decided to take into consideration the stu-dents’ preferences and desires while planning for Fall For-mal and the rest of the Home-coming week activities.

Chicago isn’t a city known for its devotion to ethical principles.

That’s an understatement, of course. Chicago is the brunt of all kinds of jokes about shady, underhanded behavior. You don’t have to pay close attention to Chicago politics to know. If

you’ve heard the phrase “vote early, vote often,” that’s a refer-ence to Chicago.

So when I saw the Oct. 3 Chicago Tribune report saying Mayor Rahm Emanuel had re-vamped the city’s ethics board, I took notice.

According to the Tribune re-port, the board meant to over-see enforcement of ethics and

campaign finance rules at City Hall had been criticized for be-ing lax. The report said that in the board’s quarter-century ex-istence, it hadn’t found a single case of wrongdoing by alder-men, even though more than 20 were convicted of felonies in that period.

Hmm… I didn’t even know Chicago had an ethics board,

and now I’m not surprised that I didn’t know.

“It’s a new day for ethics and accountability in Chicago,” Emanuel said in an Oct. 3 news release from his office. “With a new board and the most com-prehensive set of ethics reforms in more than a decade, we have clearer rules of the road and will have stronger ethics enforce-

ment.” So, basically, after years of in-

competence, Oct. 3, 2012, is sud-denly the day when the city of Chicago turns over a new leaf in the ethics department? Sounds nice, but is that really going to happen?

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Debate: Do we have Bieber fever?I’m a BelieberMusic needs one less phony boy

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I seriously cannot stand Justin Bieber. Just listening to one song make me want to vomit… much like the Biebs did on stage. (Party too much, did we, Bieber?)

Now, I know I’m bashing the wonder boy from Canada, but seriously, that in-cident alone proved that he lip syncs to at least one of his songs. I’m not naïve enough to believe that all artists sing everything live, but seriously, when you have to pay over $100 per ticket for a seat in the nose-bleeds, you’d better well be actually singing.

Sure, he dances in order to entertain the audience, but I didn’t come to see that; I came to see singing — dancing is mere-ly an added luxury. If you really want to dance, don’t d o choreogra-phy that’s as intense, or maybe ac-

tually do the exercises to be able to sing and dance at the same time. Maybe he should take some notes from his men-tor, Usher, and sing a few lines, then go in for an extended dance break.

Katy Perry and Lady Gaga dance like crazy, but they still sing live. It may not sound the best, but I can sleep well at night knowing that it was money well spent to see the real thing and not a pre-recorded segment. There are also many artists that simply walk on the stage and engage the audience. There are no gimmicks there, just singing, and it’s still a great show.

His songs are also pretty meaning-less. I mean, “Baby?” Probably the most overused title ever. “Never Say Nev-er?” Pretty sure you just said it about 20 times in the song. Just saying. “As Long As You Love Me?” Seriously, what are you, a Backstreet Boys wannabe? “One Less Lonely Girl?” Biebs, you have thousands of girls that’d kill to be that girl, and you’re re-ally going to be able to pick one out of them?

I’m not denying that Bieber is talent-ed. I do think that he can dance pretty well and has some singing ability, but I just don’t understand why he is such a big deal His story is one of lucky meetings, and maybe that’s part of it, since we wish that we could have that same sort of experience. As he’s getting older, though, his music is

drastically changing its style, and it’s going to turn off more of his fans.

Eventually, Bieber will end up on an episode of “Where Are They Now?” as the washed-up child singer. Maybe

we’ll even see him on “Dancing With The Stars,” but by then, most

people will have forgotten all about him.

Let me start off by saying if you would have told me two years ago I’d be writ-ing an article supporting Justin Bieber, I would have called you insane.

I’ve realized something over the past year, however; as I hear about Justin Bieber from fans, haters, various news outlets and essentially, well, everywhere, I have grown to hate him less and less.

Do I have “Bieber Fever?” I wouldn’t say that, but I have realized the hatred I once had for the Biebs was for absolutely no reason at all.

Over the past five years or so, teen girls have had anything they even remotely

like dismissed by the general public. One Direction. Big Time Rush. The Jonas Brothers. The list goes on and on.

Do you think any of those people I just mentioned care about the fact that 20-some-

thing-year-olds call the aforementioned people names on YouTube? Absolutely not.

Justin Bieber isn’t targeting me to buy his music, T-shirts, Halloween costumes, perfume, etc. He knows his audience, and it’s making him a boatload of mon-ey.

When the Biebs came out with his own perfume, I held nothing back, mak-ing fun of him for actually releasing girls’ perfume while still claiming to be of the same gender as me. In retrospect, though, would any man buy Justin Bieber cologne? Nope, but what about those girls who have as many posters of Justin Bieber in their room as the Dug-gars have children?

What other criticisms do I have of Bieber? Well, he is a musician, and songs like “Baby” weren’t the best on the ears,

I’ll admit, but once again, little girls love songs about falling in love, even though the audience’s average age is probably roughly half mine.

When “Boyfriend” came out, though, I couldn’t believe I was actually listen-ing to Justin Bieber. The song had a great beat, and the lyrics were slightly more mature than what the public was used to hearing from the Biebs.

But of course, fans hated it, simply because it was Justin Bieber. If you lis-ten to the song, it sounds very Justin Timberlakian.

Justin Bieber is simply being a smart businessman. A talented, vocally-gifted, dancing-machine of a businessman.

If this doesn’t persuade you, then maybe the story of Avalanna Routh will.

Avalanna, a 6-year-old girl from Mas-sachusetts, was diagnosed with a deadly yet aggressive cancer when she was a baby. The little girl, always loved Jus-tin Bieber, calling herself “Mrs. Bieber.” Friends and family soon made the Face-book page “Get Avalanna to Meet Justin Bieber.” The teen heartthrob heard about Avalanna and flew the girl and her fam-ily out to spend the day with him.

Bieber became friends with the little girl, even bringing her on stage at a con-cert in June.

On Sept. 26, Routh passed Shortly af-ter, Bieber tweeted “just got the worst news ever. one of the greatest spirits i have ever known is gone. please pray for her family and for her,” and then, “RIP Avalanna. i love you.”

Justin Bieber isn’t some macho rock star, nor is he a guy’s definition of a “manly man.” He’s a talented kid who just so happens to care about his family, faith and fans. I don’t care who you are, but that deserves respect.

It seems a bit puzzling that in this “digital age” we still consume an enormous amount of paper, most of which gets used or looked at once or twice and then tossed or recycled. The greenest pa-per is no paper at all. The more that we do online, the less we need paper. By keep-ing files saved on comput-ers or USB drives instead of printing them, the better for the environment.

Printing is a common activ-ity that results in the creation of waste and energy use. Lim-iting the amount of paper cop-ies printed by using digital alternatives helps to reduce waste. ITSO is committed to providing the Lewis Univer-sity community a digital op-tion to paper copies by install-ing scanners in the library and our local regional campuses.

At these locations, you can scan to USB, email, Google

Docs and print. Documents saved to USB, email and Google Docs are free and can be edited and resaved. Docu-ments sent to print will be deducted from your account through the print manage-ment system and released at the closest printer. Scanning documents is a simple and rapid process using easy-to-follow touch-screen instruc-tions.

In September, the first month after the scanner im-plementation, a total of 6,947 pages were scanned. Of those, 4,465 were digitally saved. With the combination of scan-ners and the new print man-agement system, the Lewis University community has saved ONE tree during the first five weeks of the fall se-mester by choosing to print wisely.

Small actions can create big change — especially when it comes to the environment. Help to save a tree — scan to USB.

As the 2012 presidential cam-paign goes into the final five weeks, voters were able to see the two candidates in the first debate. This debate covered major domestic topics affecting America today.

Of the topics covered, the two most contested were taxes and health care. While several points were gained by each candidate on these topics, the real winner of the debate was the man who was the most passionate, relat-able and presidential. In the end, voters will not remember who said what, but how it was said.

Going into this debate, many voters admitted they had not been closely following the elec-tion. For them, the chance to see the candidates in this forum was necessary to be able to make a fi-nal choice for whom to support.

Beyond the normal jabs both candidates gave each other, the real story of the debate was what

was not said. As an Obama sup-porter, I expected him to be char-ismatic, passionate and able to utilize his unique ability to con-nect with voters. There were mo-ments when he did achieve the connection, but they were short and he seemed flat throughout the debate.

As a contrast to Obama, Rom-ney seemed very excited and spoke directly to the middle-class voters. His comments focused on concrete ideas that voters were much more likely to relate to and understand. Obama spoke about abstract plans that were not as down to earth as his opponent’s. Imme-diately after the debate ended, it was clear that Romney had gained ground on Obama, and that the momentum had shifted.

Following the debate, the fact-checking began on both candidates. Among the top-ics discussed, taxes and health care had the most notable truth-stretching. For example, NBC reported that Romney’s prom-

ise to not reduce taxes for the wealthy was found to be un-true. His current fiscal plan will actually cut taxes by $246,000 for the wealthiest Americans. For Obama, his claim that four million jobs were created by his administration is also being questioned. Many analysts have said that only about 900,000 jobs have been created during the three years of his presidency.

Overall, the focus of both can-didates during the debate was to convince voters to believe them. Also, it seemed as if they hoped their statements would be seen only at face value.

In the end, this debate showed that when pushed, Romney is a very strong candidate who will certainly make the next five weeks interesting for Obama.

This home stretch of the cam-paign will have three more de-bates, two presidential and one vice presidential. All three will certainly play a role as undecid-ed voters attempt to choose be-fore going to the polls on Nov. 6.

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Dr. Joseph Gaziano of Lewis’ political science de-partment points out that while Emanuel has, in fact, strengthened ethics laws in Chicago by signing several executive agreements, the new ethics board is proba-bly not going to bring about a major, noticeable change.

“Chicago is one of the most, if (not) the most, cor-rupt city in the U.S.,” Ga-ziano said. “It has a cul-ture of corruption that is not easily ended by laws and ethics boards. (Ethi-cal reform) would really take a whole new attitude on the part of people in the government. Right now,

I just don’t see that.” I have to say I don’t re-

ally see that, either, as good as the idea sounds. Call me cynical, but I can’t help wondering how much more these actions are about scoring political points than about actually

making things better. It will be interesting to

see whether the new ethics board will hold Chicago of-ficials to higher standards. If that is the sincere intent of the members, then more power to them. They’ll cer-tainly need it.

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The 70 million viewers who tuned in to the first presidential debate witnessed a spectacle virtually every political pundit failed to predict. What they saw was the result of a president without a record on which to run being challenged by a con-fident, considerate and capable opponent with a detailed plan to bolster our economy.

This was the first time vot-ers have seen the candidates both unfiltered and unspun. Governor Mitt Romney knew this was his opportunity to ap-peal directly to voters, and he capitalized on the opportunity.

President Obama won in 2008 largely because of an anti-Bush, anti-Republican sentiment. His entire platform was based on being someone NOT Bush. He offered no specifics for his vi-sion for the country.

For months, Obama simply delivered colorful speeches sell-ing us on “Hope and Change.” What we have had for four years is a presidency reflecting that lack of a vision, and now the president’s reelection cam-paign is simply a reincarnation of his ‘08 framework. I think this was clear in the debate, as the president looked distant, unfo-cused and seemed to ramble in his answers without a central theme to his economic message.

The debate was controlled from beginning to end by Rom-ney. He countered every point and jab the president threw his way. He offered clear, direct and concise answers and rebuttals with nearly every statement.

When discussing his plan to

create 12 million jobs in his first term, Romney outlined five points: for the U.S. to become energy independent, increase trade with Latin America and China, improve schools, bal-ance the budget and gear tax reform to benefit small busi-nesses.

One of the Romney highlights in the debate was in response to Obama’s claim that companies who outsource jobs receive fa-vorable treatment in the tax code. “I’ve been in business 25 years and I have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe I need a new accountant,” Rom-ney said. This is just one ex-ample of how Romney made Obama appear incompetent, unqualified and simply out of his element. Even Obama sup-porters like the MSNBC crew were beside themselves and on the verge of total meltdown because of the president’s poor performance.

The narrative and personas previously portrayed by the me-dia were shattered by the candi-dates’ differing performances in the debate. The media has protected Obama for five years now, and his high reputation as a debater and politician have been successfully fictionalized by his supporters in the media. Romney has been painted as a wealthy, insensitive, unintelli-gent recreation of overused past Republican policies.

Viewers were able to see both of these preconceived notions undone by the candidates’ ac-tual performances. Romney has now changed the trajectory of the race and shifted the mo-mentum strongly in his favor.

Presidential debate showed candidates’ true colors

The Flyer’s Media: In defense of PBSalex VeenemanOPiNiONS EDiTOR

brandon whiteCONTRibuTOR

It is rare in these columns I write for The Flyer that I dis-close my personal political opin-ions. However, in light of some comments conveyed during the Oct. 3 presidential debate at the University of Denver, I felt this column should do so. At the debate, the Republican nominee for president, Mitt Romney, made his intentions known of removing funding to PBS — the public television ser-vice of the U.S. He made the re-marks in response in addressing the federal deficit to moderator Jim Lehrer, who is the executive editor of PBS’ NewsHour pro-gram.

“I’m sorry, Jim, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS,” Rom-ney said, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter website. “I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not gonna keep on spend-ing money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.”

The funding from PBS comes from the Corporation for Pub-lic Broadcasting, established in 1967 under then-President Lyn-don Johnson through the Public Broadcasting Act. CPB also pro-vides funding to NPR. The CPB received $444 million, according to a report from the Washington Post.

There are two views of why removing this funding isn’t a good idea — the first is the prac-ticality. The funding to the CPB is one one-hundredth of 1 per-cent of the federal budget. Al-though it is not the first time that funding for public broadcasting has been under threat (many calls were made this year in the Republican-led House, before then-House Speaker Newt Gin-grich made it one of his priori-ties in 1995, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times), the removal of this funding (or act to do so) is merely an exer-

tion of one’s political views. It would do nothing to resolve the federal deficit.

However, Romney, while he was governor of Massachusetts, gave funding to one of PBS’ standout stations in the U.S., WGBH in Boston, through a law signed creating Massachusetts’ film tax credit program, accord-ing to a report from the Boston Globe. His campaign spokes-woman Andrea Saul told the Globe that Massachusetts had the funding to do it, compared to the federal government.

Still, the elimination of federal funding would not go down well, especially with those in Massachusetts, considering it is one of the nation’s hubs for pub-lic media (in addition to WGBH television and radio services serving Boston and New Eng-land, there is WBUR, an NPR station based out of Boston Uni-versity which produces content aired on most NPR stations).

The second reason, however, is the most important. I (and I imagine yourself, dear reader) grew up with Big Bird, learn-ing the basic alphabet and nu-meric structures, in addition to some essential basics of life. “Sesame Street” has become an essential tool to a child’s learn-ing. Indeed, when I become a parent, I aim to incorporate “Sesame Street” into my child’s life, as my mom did with mine. Yet, PBS has become more than

“Sesame Street.” Its tools to en-tertain with drama and culture, science and nature, and current affairs have allowed many to see the strengths (and downfalls) of America and the world. It has provided a unique view into the past, present and the future of this society, something its com-mercial counterpart cannot do. You can be a better person by being informed, educated, en-tertained and exposed to culture through PBS.

Moreover, you, the college student, can be ready to tackle the world through being better informed when you watch PBS. If the funding is cut to public broadcasting, all we have left to prove of modern television in the United States are Honey Boo Boo and Snooki, who pres-ent no redeeming value whatso-ever. Indeed, we will be unable to understand ourselves and the world around us succinctly and accurately through the unique medium of television. Honey Boo Boo and Snooki do not al-low us to understand ourselves and what we can become — they remind us of quite the op-posite.

It is essential to the future fab-ric of the United States that pub-lic broadcasting remains viable and operational, and that fed-eral funding remains constant.

Don’t worry, Big Bird. I’ve got your back.

The city of Chicago is known for political corruption. A new ethics board may not be enough to change that.

This resulted in the outcome of holding the Fall Formal in the Field House for the 2012 school year.

The Student Governing Board decided to alter the typical lo-cation of Homecoming dance held in the Hangar based on the feedback from the campus yearning for an exciting change for Homecoming. The date was also changed from the end of the Homecoming week to the begin-ning of the week to kick off the exciting events planned. In addi-tion to this, we realized that the hardworking students who are crowned Homecoming King and Queen often go unrecognized after the dance, so we wanted to offer the Homecoming King, Queen and court a chance to reign throughout the week and embrace their positions.

The casino theme was also added to offer a sense of variety for those who do not prefer to dance the entire night. This ad-dition resulted in a huge success

for the formal, attracting close to 400 students. This outcome generated comparable results to the first year holding the event in the Hangar because of the di-versity provided to students. The Homecoming week activities held a separate “Life’s a Beach” theme to connect to the follow-ing Spring Formal festivities.

The changes this year’s Fall Formal and Homecoming week embodied liberation and enter-tainment, giving the students a new experience for Fall Formal that is different than the tradi-tional expectations generating low attendance rates. Lewis University students embrace change, in which is exhilarating and refreshing.

With the semester soon ending, the Student Governing Board will continue providing ways to make college life more entertain-ing and different from traditional expectations. We encourage you all to continue “enriching your community for future develop-ment” and the Student Govern-ing Board will continue to work hard pleasing students!

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HEALTH

FREAKY FAST DELIVERY!©2011 JIMMY JOHN’S FRANCHISE, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

FREAKYFASTDELIVERY!

It’s 21:00 (that’s 9 p.m. for you non-military people), and it’s Monday. However, this isn’t just a typical Mon-day night. On the contrary, it’s the worst Monday night of your life.

You just got in an argu-ment with your significant other. You have five pa-pers due at the end of the week–each one ranging five to eight pages, APA format and all are related to nurs-ing in some way. You also have an exam this upcoming Wednesday on the respirato-ry, cardiovascular and renal systems.

All this stress is really put-ting you on edge and mak-ing it almost impossible for you to sleep. You close your computer screen and think, “I wish there was a drug that made me happy!”

Just then, as if on cue, your friend knocks on your door and says, “Hey, I just got the hook-up on some quality weed, bro! Here, I made you a blunt. You’ll need it, being a nursing major and all.”

You take the blunt and look at it. It’s as if your prayers

have been answered. You’ve just received happiness that you can inhale. But before you take a puff and escape to a land of magical unicorns, you might want to know what you’re getting yourself into.

According to WebMD, marijuana comes from the hemp plant Cannabis Sativa, and it is the most commonly used illegal drug in the U.S. The hemp plant is then processed and com-bined with THC, which is short for Delta-9-Tetrahy-

drocannabinol. The THC is rapidly absorbed after smoking, and within min-utes, you feel like the hap-piest person in the world. You are also suffering from physical side effects such as rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, increased rate of breathing, red eyes, dry mouth, increased appe-tite (sometimes called “the munchies”) and slowed re-action time.

While your body is going haywire, your mind is as well, and you begin to suf-

fer from a distorted sense of time, paranoia, magical thinking, short-term memo-ry loss and anxiety and de-pression. These effects last for three to four hours, and once they wear off, you usu-ally feel either the same as you did before or worse be-cause you just essentially ate an entire three layer birth-day cake by yourself.

Contrary to what many be-lieve, marijuana is addictive. It may not be as addictive as tobacco-based products, but it is still pretty addic-tive. Also, marijuana stays in your system for up to a month after smoking it. That means if you have a drug test and you puffed the mag-ic dragon two weeks earlier, you may still come up posi-tive for THC and a few other substances in your system.

Once that happens, not only will you possibly fail the drug test (light users may not show up as positive if they stay off the bong for a week), but you may also have to face the justice sys-tem for using and possess-ing illegal substances.

Lastly, marijuana is a “gateway drug,” mean-ing that people often use

marijuana as a precursor to drugs like cocaine, heroin and ecstasy, just to name a few. I’m not saying that be-cause you smoke marijuana you will “graduate” to more hardcore drugs, yet I am saying that marijuana isn’t as innocent a drug as people make it out to be.

Now that you know the pros and cons of marijuana usage, you must make a de-cision. Are you or are you not going to light up that blunt that your friend gave you? The choice is yours. You have been warned and enlightened to the truth.

If you have any health re-lated questions and want me to answer them, email me at francescbrown@lewisu.edu.

Every week, I will choose a few of the questions sub-mitted and answer them to the best of my ability. The answers will be in the Ask Nurse Frances column of the paper, and no names will be mentioned. That’s right, you’ll be in the newspaper, but no one will know that you were. You’ll be an anon-ymous superstar.

*Nurse Frances is not an actual nurse, just a nursing student.

Ask Nurse Frances: MarijuanaFrances BrownContributor

nurse Frances is excited to answer your medical questions.

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You know how you have this supernatural charge of energy when you set a goal? Imagine that nothing in the world can stop you, and you feel like Batman owning Go-tham City. Then it all comes crashing down like a defec-tive batarang.

This weight loss journey is a rollercoaster, and I’ve only just started. Boot Camp has been going at its usual pace…actually, it’s getting better. Every week I sweat and won-der if I can survive that hour on Wednesdays, but each time I pull through. Props to Sam DeLegge-Stevenson for being so supportive. I did

miss a day because I didn’t sleep very well, but I’m get-ting back on the wagon. The hard part is working out out-side of Boot Camp.

People who know me un-derstand that I have a pretty hectic schedule. As my friend Nic Martinez has pointed out, I’m often running from one building to the next, my head held up to the sky, bob-bing and weaving through the endless appointments, deadlines and everything else that has to get done be-fore I can dream of sleep. Ev-ery day holds something dif-ferent, and I’m forced to see yet again that I have an is-

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College students have a lot to look forward to: countless school lunches, endless home-work, reckless roommates, ex-pansion of worldly knowledge, new and exciting relationships and of course — the parties.

With these parties comes un-expected consequences, how-ever, and that is where Alcohol Awareness Week on campus comes in.

Alcohol Awareness Week oc-curs during the third week of October at Lewis University, and it is used as a tool to edu-cate inexperienced Flyers about the dangers and consequences associated with alcohol con-sumption, parties and long-term drinking.

Activities include simulated intoxicated-driving with vision-impaired goggles, speeches by educated and experienced in-dividuals, a mass presentation and the Wall.

According to the Center for Health & Counseling Services, “Tell it to the Wall” is a way for students to connect to each other through their experiences

— good or bad — with alcohol. Students can find the Wall on campus and anonymously de-scribe how the consumption of alcohol has or will continue to have an impact on their life.

The National Institute on Al-cohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) reported four out of five college students drink alcohol and consume through binge drinking.

This practice may result in ac-ademic problems, health issues, psychological issues, injury, as-sault, drunk driving and some-times death. Nearly 31 percent of these college students meet

the criteria for alcohol abuse and dependency, and these con-ditions could develop into alco-holism down the road.

The NIAAA reports that 1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-related uninten-tional injuries.

A 2012 CORE Survey on cam-pus revealed the average Lewis student who drinks consumes 3.4 drinks per week. The survey also revealed that one-third of the student body would prefer to not have alcohol at the par-ties they attend, and four out of five students who responded said they have not driven under the influence in the past year.

Finally, the survey reported more than half of the students at Lewis admitted to drinking alcohol twice a month or less in the last year.

Since Lewis has involved students in Alcohol Aware-ness Week, statistics have im-proved. As Lewis has informed its Flyers of the do’s and don’ts of partying, the student body has evolved into more respon-sible, accountable and less risky partiers.

Alcohol Awareness Week comes back to campus asia GunterContributor

Students should be aware of all the risks associated with alcohol.

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Lighter Buffalo Wings

Gina’s Weight Watcher Recipes

Recipe courtesy of Skinnytaste.com

Makes 9 Servings

Serving size: 2 wings

Calories: 204 Fat: 5.4 g Carbs: 2.3 g Fiber: 0.6 g

Directions:

in a large bowl, combine chicken, 2 tablespoons of hot sauce, vinegar, oregano, paprika, garlic powder, chili powder and salt and pepper. Mix well and let marinate for 30 minutes.Place wings on a broiler rack and broil on low, about 8 inches from the flame, for about 10-12 minutes on each side. While chicken cooks, heat the remaining hot sauce until warm. toss the hot sauce with the chicken and arrange on a platter. Serve with celery, carrot strips and blue cheese dressing for dipping.

Photo is courtsey of skinnytaste.com

Ingredients:3 pounds (about 18) chicken wings

1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons Franks hotsauce

1/4 cup white vinegar

2 tablespoons of oregano

4 teaspoons of paprika

1 tablespoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon chili powder

Salt and fresh pepper

2 celery stalks, sliced into strips

2 carrots, peeled and sliced intostrips

low fat blue cheese dressing (extra pts)

sue with over-commitment. Any free time in my sched-ule is quickly filled up with events, family obligations, organization meetings and

not to mention homework and trying to find a job. I’m not complaining (well, may-be a little), but I have no time for myself, and I know it’s my own fault.

The one thing I’ve real-ized is that you have to be

accountable to yourself in this weight loss journey. And honestly, I’ve done myself a disservice by not making time to exercise or to simply just breathe for 10 minutes. I’ve gotten a better workout over fall break, but

the challenge is getting it down consistently. I’ve got a few methods to try, and I’ll fill you in on how well they work. Also, I’ll report my first weigh-in next issue.

Life’s a rollercoaster, but I’m here for the ride. So look

out, world, and don’t judge how I scream and duck through the loops. I’m still here and enjoying the mo-ment! #fatkid2fitkid @ross-thewriter

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Charlie’s Place was filled with food and fun Oct. 10 as faculty and staff took to the kitchen in the first annual “Faculty/Staff Battle of the Chefs” competition.

The event, sponsored by Sodexo and the Food Com-mittee, was organized by An-thony DeRose, the Sodexo dis-trict marketing manager. The four teams had a challenging objective: create an appetizer, entrée and dessert in 90 min-utes using the ingredients provided plus three mystery ingredients. The mystery in-gredients were various cuts of beef, several varieties of squash and chocolate.

Once the teams finished and time expired, a panel of six judges evaluated the dish-es. The judging panel includ-ed Sodexo Executive Chef Asa Brown, Sodexo General Manger Juan Perez, Sodexo District Manager Maureen Brown and Robert DeRose, senior vice president for busi-ness and finance. The two hosts of the event, seniors Da-vid Anderson and Anthony Lyen, critiqued the meals as well.

Pamela Jessee, interim dean and member of Team Two, entered the competition be-cause of her love for cooking.

“We [Team Two] do a lot of cooking together, and we enjoy sharing recipes,” Jes-see said. “We actually took a crepe class together, which in-spired our appetizer.”

Throughout the evening,,

Lyen and Anderson doubled as MCs, asking trivia ques-tions to students dining at Charlie’s Place.

At the end of the night, one team came out on top. The team that took the prize was Team One, consisting of Brother Armand Alcazar of the theology department, Adam Setmeyer of University

Ministry and Leslie Colonna of the Art department.

“The competition was tir-ing, but we had a ball with each other,” Alcazar said.

The winners received their choice of a $100 gift card to either the university book-store or any eating establish-ment on campus. Each of the other teams received one $100

consolation gift card for their amazing efforts.

This marks the second Bat-tle of the Chefs competition held at Lewis University. Last spring, a student edition of the event took place. Senior Michael Deimert was one of the participants in the event.

“Having been on a team for the Battle of the Chefs com-petition last semester, I think everyone should consider be-ing part of it this year,” said Deimert, an air traffic control major. “It was a great experi-ence working and collaborat-ing to come up with the ulti-mate dish.”

Deimert is also part of the university’s Food Committee, which helped organize the Battle of the Chefs event. The committee meets with Sodexo weekly to discuss new ideas and improvements for cam-pus dining.

While watching the event was enjoyable, Deimert is ready to get back to the com-petitive cooking. Unfortu-nately, he’ll have to wait until next semester to get his inner-Bobby Flay going. The second annual Student Battle of the Chefs will be back in Charlie’s sometime next spring, and all students are highly encour-aged to get a team together and show of their cooking skills.

Francesca Gervasi Contributor

anthony Lyen tempo editor

Faculty showcase culinary creations

Remember the days when after an episode of Fox’s hit show “Glee” aired, the songs that were featured soared to the Top 10 list on iTunes? Now the show is lucky to get eight mil-lion viewers each time it’s on. These numbers are low compared to the first sea-son, which would draw anywhere between 10 mil-lion to 13 million viewers.

It seems “Glee” has been experiencing quite a slump.

Although the show has only aired three episodes from its current fourth sea-son, each episode has seen a slow drop in ratings. Ac-cording to the Chicago Tri-bune, the third episode of this season, which aired Oct. 4, only saw 6.2 million viewers. This was a drop of about two million from the season premiere a few weeks earlier.

Now, I am definitely not one of those people who de-

spise the show; I have been a faithful “gleek” since it first premiered in 2009. While seasons one and two created a massive hype around epi-sodes focused on musical icons such as Britney Spears and Lady Gaga, the show’s third season took a different route.

Ryan Murphy, co-creator of the show, had different plans that didn’t focus so heavily on tributes, celeb-rities and special guests, but rather on heavier is-sues afflicting high school students. An article on Fox News blames these new storylines for the show’s

decline that began some-where in its third season. The headline of the article reads “Does [Glee’s] audi-ence prefer less sex, more music?”

Based on the current slump, I think that could be the issue. Sex sells, but fans of the show miss the happy-

go-lucky mood prevalent in seasons past.

It seems that the critics aren’t the only ones who are concerned with the show’s sudden plot changes.

“I don’t watch ‘Glee’ any-more because the plot just sucks,” said Sarah Derry, a senior majoring in public relations. “They aren’t fun kids anymore, and it is way too raunchy now.”

Will “Glee” ever retain the vitality it saw early on? In an attempt to boost the rat-ings, FOX moved the show to Thursday nights after their other smash hit, “The X Factor.” While this move may prove to be beneficial once “The X Factor” gets into their highly viewed live shows, it hasn’t seemed to do much right now.

Many hope “Glee” loses the seriousness and returns to the days of being a light-hearted, fun family show. If not, it may continue to lose the interest of fans every-where.

aLyssa ciceroCopy editor

Why the dismal ratings, ‘Glee?’

the cast of “Glee” doesn’t excite viewers as they did in seasons past.

brother Armand Alcazar, FSC, and Associate professor Leslie Colonna work on part of their meal to be judged during the battle of the Chefs competition.

photo courtesy of fox.com.

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When people think of Halloween, they instantly recall the classic images of corn mazes, pumpkin carving, candy and haunt-ed houses. The student group the PULSE is plan-ning an event that will bring all these Halloween elements to the Lewis Uni-versity campus.

The PULSE, an organiza-tion run by students, for students, is a group that plans, organizes, markets and decides what types of events are brought to cam-pus. The group has had a role in providing many exciting and entertain-ing events for students on campus, including musi-cal performers, comedians and hypnotists.

With Halloween right around the corner, the PULSE is hoping to bring the spooky spirit to cam-pus. Junior Kristina Zwolf-er, an active member of the group, could not be more excited.

“If everything goes ac-cordingly, the PULSE is planning a day for a ‘Haunted Nature Trail Walk,’” Zwolfer said. “Be-fore dark falls, the over-flow parking lot by the nature trail will be full of activities, such as pump-kin painting with hot cider

and cocoa. Those are just a few of the activities before the actual walk.”

By holding this type of event, the group is seeking to offer students and staff opportunities to enjoy the Halloween season. With many students being un-able to make it home for the week, the spirit of Hal-loween will be brought to them.

“I really want to get ev-eryone excited about this fun holiday coming up,” said PULSE member Shel-by Ray.

The event is being planned for Oct. 29 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. During the earlier hours, there will be activi-ties before the official walk begins at 7 p.m.

As for Halloween itself, the group is also asking other organizations and offices to give out candy to students throughout the day.

Although all the plans have yet to be finalized, the PULSE has one goal in mind: to bring the Hallow-een spirit to Lewis.

Brent sumnerASSt. tempo editor

The PULSE brings Halloween to Lewis

‘Quick-Change Room’ proves to be successful

Lewis University’s Philip Lynch Theatre presented the unique and humorous com-edy, “The Quick-Change Room,” subtitled “Scenes From A Revolution” Sept. 28-30 and Oct. 4-7.

The play was set in Soviet Russia in the early 1990s at a theater in St. Petersburg where the crew of dressers, actors and workers were all dealing with the changes of the economic state of Russia during the downfall of com-munism.

In the story, the characters rehearsed for a play called “The Three Sisters” by An-ton Chekhov.

Junior Sabra Thomas played Marya Stepanova in the production.

“My character was trying to cope with the new chang-es that the fall of the Soviet Union brought,” Thomas

said. “Her main assistant, Lena, played by Victoria Vega, was fired during the course of the play. That left Marya doing a job that re-quired two people at least.”

“The Quick-Change

Room” included economic factors that made the whole cast uneasy.

“To compete with the new demand for engaging the-ater, the straight play was turned into a lighthearted

musical,” Thomas said. “Half of the cast was ec-static, while the other half feared they wouldn’t be able to find another job. Though the characters’ lives were bleak, the play was a com-

edy. The characters could be real people living in Russia during the time. They were trying to learn how to sur-vive in a chaotic world in which suddenly, there was no government organiza-tions to provide them with help.”

Junior Adam Smetana played the part of Timofey, the assistant to Sergey, the theater director.

“He was basically Ser-gey’s sidekick, or mini-in-tern, as he followed Sergey around, helping him with all his needs,” Smetana said. “[The production] gave the audience a behind the scenes look at the inner workings within a theater during an interesting period in Russia’s history.”

Many students enjoyed the opportunity to view a theater production on cam-pus, and Smetana hoped that “The Quick-Change Room” entertained the au-dience with its vast array of characters.

sheLBy rayContributor

Brent sumnerASSt. tempo editor

the semester’s first theater production was a lighthearted yet thoughtful look at economic conditions in russia during the downfall of communism.

The weather is changing, and so are the clothes. Fall fashion is everywhere you look on cam-pus. At the start of any season, fashion designers, bloggers and magazines weigh in on the top fashion trends.

Wearing a denim shirt is a great way to look polished and chic without looking too fancy this season. A perfect way to wear a denim shirt to class is to pair it with leggings, riding boots or an infinity scarf.

Buying a nice pair of riding boots is a great investment. Not only are they versatile, but they can be dressed up or down and are comfortable to walk in. Rid-ing boots were one of the styles showcased in Teen Vogue’s web-site list “100 Best Flat Boots for Fall.”

Self Magazine Online pro-motes the use of infinity scarves by emphasizing that they help one to stay warm, and can look cute worn both indoors or out-doors.

Edgy jewelry is another must-have this season. Some popular pieces this fall are skull necklac-es, snake rings and spiked brace-lets, all of which can give any outfit a little extra pizazz.

The hottest colors for this fall are black, navy blue and hunter green. Try buying pieces with a black and navy blue pattern (stripes or color block), or pair a navy blue shirt with black jeans.

According to the blog Style-

Bakery.com, hunter green “is a surprising substitute for black, but also looks gorgeous paired with tones, brown and tan.”

Here are some more ways that you can wear the hottest fall trends with some pieces that you already own:

-Pair a navy blue shirt with black leggings, a black scarf and black riding boots.

-Pair a denim shirt with riding boots, jeans, an infinity scarf and a skull ring.

-Pair hunter green skinny jeans with a white v-neck, black infinity scarf, spiked bracelet and black riding boots.

For anyone who needs a bit of help figuring out how to utilize these fall fashion trends, doing a bit of research is a great starting point; pick up a magazine, read a blog or watch a fashion show. These media outlets will help improve your style dramatically.

Freshman Nicole Kappelman says her fashion inspiration is Jennifer Aniston. Aniston wears a lot of neutral colors and sim-pler outfits, and Kappelman channels her inner Jennifer by wearing a lot of black, white and brown to keep things casual yet polished.

Student Ashley Chaplan chan-nels her inner Blake Lively by wearing sweaters and scarves when the weather gets colder.

Although trying to channel your inner fashionista can seem like one huge credit card bill af-ter another, many students have found ways to dress nice without breaking the bank. The top five

places to shop on a tight college-budget are Forever 21, Target, Charlotte Rouse, H&M and Ur-ban Outfitters (on the sale rack). Even though the words “sale rack” can make some shoppers wary, Urban Outfitters is known for having great deals on theirs.

The next time you go shop-ping, make sure to keep an eye out for ways you can incorpo-rate the fashion trends of the sea-son into your wardrobe.

noeLLe trainorContributor

Fall trends dominate the fashion world

photo courtesy of pinterest.com.

Fall fashions evoke the chic and the cozy at the same time.

photo courtesy of pLt Facebook page.

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Anberlin is coming out with another highly anticipated

album under the title “Vital.” Being their sixth album, Anberlin hopes that it will be their hardest-hitting record to date. The album was produced by Aaron Sprinkle for Tooth and Nail Records. A bonus track is available on the iTunes version of the album, and fans can also get a second song, “Self-Starter,” ahead of the release. Look for Anberlin’s sixth studio album when it hits shelves Oct. 16. They will also be opening for the Smashing Pumpkins at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont Oct. 19.

“American Horror Story” has been a delightful and

exciting surprise for the cable channel FX. Fans of the bizarre yet intriguing horror-drama are just as excited for the second season of the haunting series, which will be titled “American Horror Story: Asylum.” This season will head to the year 1964 and be set inside an insane asylum run by the sadistic Sister Jude, played by Jessica Lange. Expect plenty of creepiness when “American Horror Story: Asylum” premieres Oct. 17 at 9 p.m.

“Silent Hill: Revelation 3D,” the latest installment in the

popular yet terrifying video game-turned-film franchise, is a sequel to the 2006 horror film, “Silent Hill.” In the new film, Heather (Adelaide Clemens) discovers, through a series of nightmares, her life is not what it seems. She’s also haunted by her father’s disappearance, and she ultimately begins her search in eerie Silent Hill, a town as mysterious as it is horrifying. The film is filled with plenty of secrets and scares, so make sure you check it out when “Silent Hill: Revelation 3D” hits theaters Oct. 26.

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Fans of FX’s hit comedy “Louie” were a bit taken aback when it was announced the show would be going on a brief hiatus following its third season finale. Comedian Louis C.K.’s acclaimed comedy stars the funnyman as a fictionalized version of himself, living life as a divorced stand-up comedian in New York City. C.K., who stars, writes and directs the show, asked FX president and GM John Landgraf for an extended hiatus between now and the upcom-ing fourth season. Fans of the show shouldn’t worry, though. C.K. and Landgraf have both stated the time-off is so C.K. can have a little break and really focus on the fourth season of the show while traveling for his current comedy tour.

“Paranormal Activity” is back with the fourth movie in its supernatural franchise. The

story takes place five years after Katie kills her family and takes

her sister’s son, focusing on a new family who begins to experience weird occur-

rences after Katie and Hunter move in next door. The film seeks to use new

technology to provide the jump-scares the series is known for. The main char-

acter uses her iPhone, Skype, webcams and even Xbox 360 Kinect to investigate the ghostly happenings. Be prepared for plenty of scares when “Paranormal Activ-

ity 4” hits theaters Oct. 18.

“The Lone Ranger” entertained many of our parents and grandparents when it was a hit television show running

from 1949 to 1957. Now “The Lone Ranger” franchise is back, and the highly anticipated teaser trailer has just recently been released. The Lone Ranger is a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American sidekick Tonto, fights for justice in the American Old West. The new film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and will star Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as John Reid (The Lone Ranger). The trailer has fans yelling “Hi-yo Silver! Away!” in anticipation for the movie, which comes out July 3, 2013.

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How sweet is your room? RHA wants to know

Resident students here at Lewis University come from near and far. Some students are from as close as Lock-port to as far as California. In fact, some resident stu-dents aren’t even from this country.

In order to relieve the feeling of homesickness that (sometimes) occurs, students tend to go all out when decorating their rooms. Whether it means loading up on posters, fill-ing plenty of picture frames or simply finding that per-fect feng shui, students want to make their room, whether it’s a single or double, their “home away from home.”

Well, if you think your room is cool enough, you could have the chance to win $200.

That got your attention, didn’t it?

Lewis University’s Resi-dence Hall Association, or RHA for short, is running the “Sweet Room Sweep-stakes” for all resident stu-dents. The contest is quite simple: take a picture of your room, send the photo to lewisurha@gmail.com and vote for the best-decorated room on campus through RHA’s Facebook page (face-book.com/lewisuRHA). The student whose room gets the most likes on Facebook will win a $200 Visa gift card, while additional winners from each hall will win $20 gift cards.

Not too shabby for having an outgoing room, is it?

The members of RHA couldn’t be more pumped for the event. Just ask soph-omore Gaby Flores.

“I’m really excited for this contest,” said Flores, a psy-chology major. “This would be the first event we’ve put on this semester, so I’m ex-cited to see the outcome.”

RHA hopes the event will generate plenty of buzz about the organization. While RHA aims to add some fun and excitement for resident students, the group hopes to bridge the gap be-tween Lewis administration and the students who live on campus.

“Students should be inter-ested in RHA because this or-ganization allows residents to convey their comments and concerns to the admin-istration,” said sophomore Symone McCoy. “Being in-volved in RHA also enables residents to meet other stu-dents who live on campus and form new relationships within this organization.”

Residence Life Area Co-ordinator and RHA adviser Scott Baietti saw the need for students to show off how cool the residence halls at Lewis can look based on some pretty outdated pic-tures of the rooms of yester-year.

“RHA noticed that Lewis’ Web page has some pretty old pictures of rooms, and they don’t really reflect what the rooms look like since furniture, computers and decorations have changed,” Baietti said. “RHA started a Facebook page and wanted to get some activity on there,

so they combined the two to create the Sweet Room Sweepstakes.”

While the contest allows students to show off how cool their rooms are, RHA hopes to get their name out there, letting students know they are always ready to lis-ten to any comments, ques-tions or concerns resident students may face. RHA meets every Monday at 4 p.m. in the Morton Boston Room, located in the Stu-dent Union.

So get those cameras out, resident students. Who knows? Maybe all that deco-rating on move-in day will finally pay off.

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Two different student or-ganizations on campus came together to help educate and entertain local children on Oct. 10 from 3 until 4:30 p.m.

The Phi Kappa Theta fra-ternity joined forces with Big Brothers Big Sisters to bring a fire truck on campus. The reason? To teach the children about fire prevention and safety.

The kids were given the op-portunity to hop aboard the giant fire engine, from the Romeoville Fire Department. Students were taught the ba-sics of being a firefighter as well as how to use the vari-ous tools on the truck.

The event was held on the University Cobblestone, lo-cated between Sheil Hall and the Student Recreation and Fitness Center.

Being fire prevention

week, Big Brothers Big Sis-ters and the Phi Kaps knew it would be beneficial to teach the young children about fire safety. The ultimate benefit, however, was helping out lo-cal area children.

“The fire department was very happy to show the kids everything about the truck,” said Joey Preston, a senior Phi Kap. “The sirens brought smiles to the children’s faces, which was really great to see. All in all, it was a good event for everyone involved.”

Phi Kappa Theta and Big Brothers Big Sisters aren’t done with their partnership just yet, either. On Oct. 17, the groups will merge yet again, offering pumpkin painting to the children who participate in the Big Broth-ers Big Sisters program.

Anyone interested in join-ing Big Brothers Big Sisters should email ministry@lew-isu.edu.

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big brothers big Sisters and phi Kappa theta show children a fire engine from the romeoville Fire department.

your bed may not look this cool, but if your room looks sweet enough, you could win $200 from the residence Hall Association.

Sept. 23 - Oct. 22LIBRA

ScORPiO (10/23 - 11/21): You have no way to justify your behavior today. Could make for a great YouTube video.

SAgiTTARiuS (11/22 - 12/21): You need to be surrounded by people you trust today! You attention hog.

cAPRicORn (12/22 - 1/19): Cappy, it’s up to you to see that order gets established in life! Because that cry baby Pisces sure isn’t going to do it.

AquARiuS (1/20 - 2/19): You’re great alone, but let someone new polish you up! Cold nights alone don’t suit you.

PiScES (2/20 - 3/20): Some new energy is coming your way! Finally you can stop whining and do something with your life.

ARiES (3/21- 4/19): Don’t be an arrogant turd! Listen to someone else for a change!

TAuRuS (4/20 - 5/20): Boring doesn’t become you honey! Add a little spice in your life and don’t apologize for doing it!!

gEmini (5/21 - 6/21): That brain of yours is working for a change! Don’t waste it. Do something that’s actually important.

cAncER (6/22 - 7/22): Your domestic life might be experiencing some rain, but the sun comes out soon! Don’t cry too much.

LEO (7/23 - 8/22): People will find what you say enlightening! Like your ego needs be stroked any more! Have fun with it!

ViRgO (8/23 - 9/22): Be daring, be bold, shake it up and shimmy it down! Time to go out tonight!

LiBRA (9/23-10/22): It’s your birthday month and what better time to boast about your great taste! Happy Bday! Today, show off what you’re most proud of. Make sure it’s with an audience who cares!

HOROScOPES OF THE WEEKBy ross reed

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The Internet is a powerful tool among college students. With countries being able to exchange data, news and opinions, the In-ternet has become a vast database for students to gain knowledge.

However, the Internet can also be very entertaining. With the ability to watch hilarious vid-eos, listen to music or read great stories, the world wide web has become a great tool to waste pre-cious time. With that six-page paper due tomorrow, why not watch a video of Justin Bieber throwing up on stage?

No matter how a student uses the Internet, there will always be those infamous sites known to be black holes of time. Granted, there are tons of websites out there to keep you from doing homework, but here are some of the most notorious sites to lose time on.

(Listed in no particular order)

#7 Any sports websites Whether the choice be ESPN.com, Yahoo Sports or Fox Sports, these sites are

always popular, no matter what season is in full swing. Sports sites not only give current scores of games, but they also give insight into viewers’ favorite teams. The biggest time-wasting appli-cation on these sites at the moment is fantasy teams. Walk into any class on cam-pus, and it is almost guaran-teed there will be students checking their fantasy score or the score of the real team they support.

#6 StumbleUpon.com

StumbleUpon is one of the top websites for wasting time with the ease of click-ing one button. By clicking the “Stumble!” button, the viewer is carried away to countless websites featur-ing videos, photos and oth-er sites that pique interest. With StumbleUpon users saying it is “a map to an ad-venture you wouldn’t other-wise have found out about,” it is evident that Stumble-Upon can help waste time.

#5 Cracked.com

Cracked.com was founded in 2007, and it records 300 million monthly page views. The site continued to grow in promi-nence after merging with an-other popular website, Pointless Waste of Time. The site contains blogs, videos, writer’s work-shops and image manipulation contests. Over 90 percent of Cracked’s articles come from a “virtual writer’s room,” where more than 2,500 amateur writ-ers pitch articles to be edited and reviewed. With humorous articles coming out daily, people can waste time on this site every day.

#4 Etsy.com

Etsy.com is a website where people can buy and sell hand-made or vintage items as well as arts and craft supplies. Etsy is usually referred to as a “crafty cross between Amazon and eBay.” Founded in 2005 by Io-space, Etsy continues to grow, and saw a revenue increase from $180 million to $314 million

in 2010. Whether a user wants to just virtually window-shop or get that vintage, handmade necklace, Etsy is the place to go.

#3 Explosm.net

Explosm.net is a magnet for people wanting to waste some time by viewing humorous com-ic strips or animated shorts. With most comic strips being very dark, cynical and often offensive, the website has gained a lot of popularity among college stu-dents. Four authors draw most of the comics, and there are occa-sional contributions from guests. The site claims more than a mil-lion visitors a day, and is ranked 2,777th among the most viewed websites, according to Alexa.com.

#2 TheOnion.com

News sites are frequently visited online. However, when comedy and satire are added to the subject, you get The Onion. Claiming a

national print circulation of 400,000 and 61 percent of their readers being between the ages of 18-44, The Onion hits the college-age niche. The satirical news organiza-tion has been so successful that they even came out with “The Onion Movie,” which took the written stories to a whole other level.

#1 Cheezburger.com

Cheezburger.com is the brain behind the “Lolcats,” which are pictures of cats and other animals with humorous captions. Since the website’s launch in 2007, Cheezburger.com has grown into a website known for its FAIL Blog and Know Your Meme sections. Cheezburger.com claims to have a fan base of about 24 million people who upload more than 500,000 pictures and videos a month. With 25 sister sites connected to Cheezburger.com, the site continues to grow and pro-duce entertaining material to entice viewers.

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Where did the time go? 7 distracting websites that are totally worth it

SPORTS

You know what play an-noyed me more than any other in the last NBA season? It starts with a Miami Heat fast break against the Chicago Bulls. Dwyane Wade is one-on-one with Kyle Korver (for-mer Chicago Bull, now with the Atlanta Hawks). This one should be relatively easy for Wade, as Korver isn’t a very good defender. Instead of making a nice move and try-ing to make the basket against the lesser player, Wade runs and brushes against Korver’s arm, throwing the ball at the hoop and trying to pick up the foul.

When Korver doesn’t react to the contact initiated by his counterpart, Wade proceeds to sprawl across the floor and roll over several times as if he was hit by an actual bull.

And the worst part of it? (Besides being a pansy, for lack of a better term.) The of-ficial actually believed his act and called the foul on Korver,

when in reality it was just a solid defensive effort paired with a lazy layup attempt.

“Flopping,” as it has be-come known, is just what it sounds like, and is exactly what happened in this par-ticular case involving Wade and Korver. Essentially, it is pretending you were hit hard and fouled by falling to the ground, a desperate and pa-

thetic way to play the game of basketball.

Sadly, over the past sev-eral years, it has become an epidemic in the sport and it’s ruining the respect that the game once garnered. De-cades prior to this one, it was a lot more physical, and the rules allowed for that.

No more acting in the NBABrian neal Asst. sports Editor

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phoenix suns’ Marcin Gortat flopping from the “contact” by former-Washington Wizards’ Javale McGee.

“Yes, there has to be; and we’ve got to take it one game at a time. We have the ability to compete with anybody, we just need [to work on] consistency for 90 minutes,” Fiffles said.

He also explained that three of the four goals giv-en up in those two losses were off of restarts such as a corner kick or a penalty. To fix that, he believes the team needs to work on its “organization and atten-tiveness.”

Needing a couple of wins, the Flyers headed to Missouri for two road games against Missouri-St. Louis and Maryville. In both games, they were able to come away with 1-0 vic-tories.

In the first game, the winning goal wasn’t scored until the 85th min-ute. Sophomore George Thomson was able to score his second goal of the sea-son and propeled the Fly-ers to victory. Senior Rob-ert McGowan assisted on the play.

Against Maryville, it was junior Julian Montiel with the late game heroics. With only 27 seconds left in regulation, he put in the only goal of the afternoon despite out-shooting their opponents 18-3 (nine were on frame).

“The guys played well today,” Fiffles told the Lewis University Athletic Department. “We had a good weekend getting two wins and shutouts on the road.”

The two victories come at a time when the Flyers re-ally need them as they are just outside of the GLVC Tournament, and there are only five games remain-ing in the regular season. Each one will be critical in determining their playoff hopes.

Their final home game of the season is on Friday, Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. against Saint Joseph’s. Their last two games of the regular season will be on the road against Indianapolis on Oct. 21 and UW-Parkside on Oct. 24.

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The men’s and women’s golf teams have made head-lines lately, with both teams achieving success in their fall season.

Each team has posted in-dividual and team wins, along with finishing at the top of the charts at tourna-ments and national invita-tions.

In September, the wom-en’s team finished sixth at the Green Bay Invitational, earned 12th place at the Chicago State Cougar Golf Classic and rounded out the month by finishing in tenth place at the UIndy Fall In-vite.

The men’s team enjoyed some success of their own in September by finishing second overall at the Green Bay Invitational, winning the UW-Parkside Invita-tional and placing ninth at the NCAA Midwest Region-al.

“[UW-Parkside] was a re-ally good way to start off the season,” freshman Alex Thode said. “To place sec-ond as a team was a good start to hopefully many more events that we place well in this year.”

With each team’s suc-cess also came individual achievements. Top finishes for the girls at the tourna-

ments included seniors Ni-cole Tucker and Vanessa Phillips, junior Danielle Coffman, sophomore Bre-anne Fredette and freshmen Alexandra O’Laughlin and Jordan Nichols.

Seniors Brandon White and Harrison Carmi-chael led the men’s team, along with juniors Thomas Hearden and Dan Petrarca, sophomore Eric Lederman and freshman Alex Thode.

Freshman Alexandra O’Laughlin is enjoying her first season as a Flyer, as she is starting to make an impact of her own on the women’s team.

“It honestly feels great be-ing able to play with the up-perclassmen,” O’Laughlin said. “The first tournament I was able to go out and take fourth, so I know I can com-pete with them. I am able to learn from my competitors too since some of them have been competing for much longer than I have.”

O’Laughlin finished fourth individually at the Green Bay Invitational rounding out at 75 for the first day and a total score of 153. Junior Danielle Coff-man posted an 80 on day one, helping bring her team to a final score of 655 over the two-day invitational.

Thode led the team at the men’s Green Bay Invitation-al, along with White. White

shot a 153 at the two-day event, just missing Thode’s final score of 152. Thode finished fifth individually for the men’s team, getting them to their second place finish.

On Sept. 17 and 18, both Thode and White helped the team to its first place finish at the UW-Parkside Invitational.

“We worked on putting a lot before going to Park-side’s tournament at Straw-berry Creek,” Thode said. “The team went to Cog Hill to practice putting on the quick greens to get ready.”

Both White and Thode tied for third individually at the Parkside Invitational, with an overall score of 150.

The women’s team will travel to Pana, Ill. on Oct. 13 and 14 to participate in the Oak Terrace Fall Invitation-al. Over the same weekend, the men’s team will travel to Chicago, Ill. Oct. 15 and 16 to take part in the Cou-gar Golf Classic.

“As far as preparations for the next event go, each of us will just work on our own aspects to get ready for the Cougar Classic,” Thode said. “We just need to get physically and mentally prepared because you never know what the weather will be close to Lake Michigan in the fall.”

Coming into the 2012 season, many of Major League Baseball’s experts had the White Sox as a dud.

The “experts” claimed their veterans were too old and their young players were too young to make an impact this year. There were plenty of question marks all over the roster, which caused fans to think the season was over before it even started.

Heck, even Sports Illus-trated had the Sox down for 95 losses.

But after the first three weeks of the season, the Sox started clicking. Phil-lip Humber got things go-ing with his perfect game in Seattle on April 21. Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn hit their 400th home run of their careers, and the Sox created a MLB record by pitching eight rookie pitchers in the same game and walking away with the victory.

Plenty more positive things happened through-out the year as the Sox found their future number one pitcher in Chris Sale, and they found out Addi-son Reed has the ability to be a lights-out closer.

You would think with all of these achievements, the Sox would have earned a postseason berth. Which is why this season was a disappointment, and the biggest reason is because they had the division lead for 117 days.

If you were to look at stats for any team and saw that they were in first place in their division for over half the season, you would expect them to be division champs. That should have been the case for the Southsiders if they hadn’t blown their three game lead with 15 days to play.

Jake Peavy said it best when talking to Scott Mer-kin of MLB.com.

“You got guys like Adam Dunn and Alex Rois, these guys have never had the chance to play (in the postseason),” Peavy said. “They’ll tell you how hard it is to be on a team that makes the playoffs. We feel like we let one slip away.”

At times, they even looked like they were a World Series-caliber team when they swept the Rang-ers in July and when they took three games from the Yankees in August.

What hurts the most is seeing the Tigers play the Athletics in the ALDS. De-troit had a stacked lineup from the beginning of the year, and they didn’t achieve the numbers they were predicted to put up. In fact, you could say they backed their way into the playoffs. The only thing they did better than the Sox was play their best baseball at the end of the season.

This is why the Sox are now dusting off their golf clubs, because they went 3-10 from Sept. 19 to Oct. 1.

In professional sports, there is no nice way of putting things when you don’t succeed. The Sox flat out blew it. You never know when you’re going to have the opportunity to go to the postseason, and the Sox blew their perfect chance.

Now I’m not saying the Sox can’t make the play-offs in 2013, because I be-lieve this year was a build-ing block for next year. But you never know when that next opportunity is going to come, and for players like Dunn, Rios and Peavy, they better hope (if they’re all still around) that their chance comes sooner than never.

Flyers golf achieving success this fall

Was the Southsiders’ season a success or disappointment?

Kevin ryansports Editor

In professional sports, there is no nice way of putting things when you don’t succeed. The

Sox flat out blew it.

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Harrison Carmichael contributed to the men’s golf team by helping them finish 10th at the Midwest regional.

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Flyers in the glvc

The Flyers started the year 4-6 (mostly non-conference games), but with a seven-game winning streak that lasted from Sept. 18 through Oct. 6., “They are currently second in their division and fourth in the entire GLVC with a 7-2 conference record.

Though that streak ended Oct. 7 against Missouri S&T (tied for first in the GLVC) in a three sets to none de-feat, there’s no question the team has been playing much better as the season has pro-gressed.

Of those seven wins, three were 3-1 decisions, defeat-ing St. Francis, Kentucky Wesleyan and Bellarmine. The other four were all 3-0 victories playing against UW-Parkside, Southern Indi-ana, McKendree and Drury, which was the final game of the streak.

Head Coach Lorelee Smith responded to whether or not the team had turned a corner by saying it was more like they “rounded a curve.”

“[The coaches and] even the team says there is more they can do.” Smith said. “We need to get better in our learning curve. [The] talent… and athleticism is there. We need to be smarter, though.”

Certainly after winning so many games consecutively, to believe there is more they can improve upon is a posi-tive thing. Nobody wants to

be playing their very best at the midpoint of the season, and that’s exactly where they are. They’re 11-7 overall, but still have 17 games remain-ing.

The Flyers’ success so far this year has been a great team effort, but individually, several players have stepped up.

Senior Colleen Mitros is currently sixth in the confer-ence in kills averaging 3.23 per set. Sophomore Leigh Barea is ninth in assists with 8.31 per set. Senior Jillian Carlberg is fifth in both hit-ting percentage (.305) and blocks (1.09 per set). And ju-nior Amy Choi is fifth in digs averaging 4.62 per set.

As a team, Lewis also stacks up well compared to other teams in the conference. Cur-rently, they’re fourth in as-sists with 11.61 per set, third in kills with 12.94, fifth in blocks at 2.04 and second in digs with 17.31.

After playing No. 21 ranked Ferris State, Ashland and Northern Michigan Oct. 12-13 in Aurora, they return home. They play Monday, Oct. 15 at 4 p.m. against Michigan Tech, and later that night at 7:30 p.m. versus IU Kokomo. Then on Friday, Oct. 20 they continue their conference schedule with a match against William Jewell at 5 p.m. They will end their home stand against Rock-hurst on Saturday, Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. before heading on the road for a three-game road trip.

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school Conf Cpct. overall pct. streakWilliam Jewell 8-2 0.800 10-2 0.833 W5Drury 7-1-2 0.800 9-1-2 0.833 W1Rockhurst 7-2-1 0.750 9-2-2 0.769 L1Quincy 6-1-3 0.750 8-1-3 0.792 W1Bellarmine 5-1-3 0.722 6-2-3 0.682 T2Southern Indiana 7-3 0.700 8-4 0.667 W1Missouri-St. Louis 5-4 0.556 6-5 0.545 L3Missouri S&T 5-4-1 0.550 6-4-2 0.583 T1McKendree 5-5 0.500 7-5 0.583 L2Lewis 5-5 0.500 5-7 0.417 w2Indianapolis 4-4-2 0.500 5-6-2 0.462 W1

UW-Parkside 4-6 0.400 5-6-1 0.458 W2Saint Joseph’s 2-8 0.200 3-9 0.250 L1Maryville 2-8 0.200 2-11 0.154 L7Illinois Springfield 1-9 0.100 2-11 0.154 L11Kentucky Wesleyan 0-10 0.000 0-12 0.000 L12

school Conf Cpct. div overall pct. streak

eastIndianapolis 9.0 1.000 7-0 17-2 0.895 14Lewis 7-2 0.778 6-1 11-7 0.611 L1Southern Indiana 7-2 0.788 5-2 9-9 0.500 W2Bellarmine 6-3 0.667 4-3 9-4 0.692 W2UW-Parkside 4-5 0.444 3-4 12-6 0.667 W1McKendree 3-6 0.333 2-5 7-12 0.368 L1Kentucky Wesleyan 2-7 0.222 1-6 7-13 0.350 L1Saint Josephs 0-9 0.000 0-7 4-15 0.211 L2

west Missouri S&T 9-0 1.000 7-0 13-5 0.722 W9Rockhurst 7-2 0.778 6-1 15-3 0.833 L1

Missouri-St. Louis 5-4 0.556 4-3 6-12 0.333 W1Quincy 4-5 0.444 3-4 10-7 0.588 W1William Jewell 4-5 0.444 3-4 9.9 0.500 W1Drury 3.6 0.333 3-4 8-12 0.400 L5Illinois Springfield 1-8 0.111 1-6 4-12 0.250 L2Maryville 1-8 0.111 1-6 2-16 0.111 L3

school Conf Cpct. overall pct. streakWilliam Jewell 9-2 0.900 11-1 0.917 W8Rockhurst 8-0-2 0.900 10-0-2 0.917 T1Quincy 8-2 0.800 10-2-1 0.808 W2Bellarmine 7-2 0.778 9-2 0.818 W3UW-Parkside 7-2 0.700 8-3-1 0.708 W5McKendree 6-3-1 0.650 7-3-1 0.682 W2Lewis 5-4-1 0.550 7-4-1 0.625 t1Southern Indiana 5-4-1 0.550 6-5-1 0.542 T1Drury 4-5-1 0.450 6-5-1 0.542 L2Indianapolis 4-6 0.400 5-7 0.417 W1Missouri-St. Louis 3-6 0.333 3-7-1 0.318 L1

Missouri S&T 3-7 0.300 5-7 0.417 L2Maryville 1-5-4 0.300 2-7-4 0.308 T1Illinois Springfield 2-8 0.200 3-8-1 0.292 L4Saint Joseph’s 1-8-1 0.150 2-10-1 0.192 L2Kentucky Wesleyan 0-9-1 0.050 0-10-1 0.045 L2

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senior Carly perschnick attempts to make a block against st. Francis on sept. 21.

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As the lockout in the NHL in-tensifies, questions have arose in two Canadian provinces as to its legality. Lawyers for the Calgary Flames, the Edmonton Oliers and the Montreal Canadiens have been speaking to the Labor Relations boards of Alberta and Quebec and have said it is not legal. However, NHL lawyers have said no laws can be the same, considering a majority of the teams are U.S.-based, where laws are regulated by the fed-eral government, according to a report from the Canadian Press news agency.

This is one of many unfold-ing chapters in the lockout of the NHL, the third in 15 years, and the Alberta case is the latest argument against the legality of the lockout.

“No one gets to choose what labor laws apply to them in this province,” said Bob Blair, the NHLPA’s lawyer speaking to the Alberta panel in remarks ac-cording to the Canadian Press. “The law is the law is the law.”

Blair added that the players of the teams in the province did not agree to give up their rights under Alberta’s labor code.

The NHL said all players were in one bargaining agreement.

“The NHLPA has never bar-gained with individual teams. It has only bargained with the NHL,” said Peter Gall, the

NHL’s lawyer in remarks to the panel according to the Ca-nadian Press. A spokesperson for Alberta’s Labor Relations Board declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Calgary Flames declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Edmonton Oilers did not return a call seek-ing comment.

The Montreal Canadiens had launched a similar bid with Quebec’s labor relations board, but it was declined, according to the Canadian Press. However, the report added that more in-formation was needed to come to a conclusion. No dates for further testimony were released, the report adds. A spokesper-son for Quebec’s labor relations board declined to comment, and a spokesperson for the Cana-diens did not respond to a call seeking comment.

These developments come as NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, NHLPA chief Donald Fehr and delegations meet in New York to discuss issues that

would see the lockout be called off. It is said, according to re-ports, the sides remain opposed on issues of a fiscal nature, and as a result games have already been called off.

With the first two weeks of the season already canceled and more games in jeopardy, fans and players alike have been questioning the decision-making on behalf of NHL upper management. The players have been pretty vocal too.

“It’s another disappointing but expected move from the league,” said Chicago Black-hawks’ captain Jonathan Toews about the often scrutinized Bett-man. “This seems to be our com-missioner’s bread and butter. It’s almost like he is excited to take away hockey from the fans and the players just because he can.”

There are issues galore with the lockout. The two sides are not getting along, and they’re making it quite vocal. Fans are upset, and revenue has already been lost. NHL Deputy Com-missioner Bill Daly reported the NHL has already lost roughly $230 million just by missing the preseason and first two weeks of the season.

There is hope a season may still be salvageable, possibly starting sometime in December or January. Although an agree-ment cannot be made between the NHLPA and NHL owners, one can be made by all NHL fans: we want hockey, and we want it now.

Around the NHL: Questions over the legality of the lockout

donald Fehr, the deputy counsel for the nHL is under pressure alongside commissioner Gary bettman to resolve the lockout as questions of its legality emerge.

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Going into the end of September, the Lewis Uni-versity men’s cross-country team enjoyed being ranked nationally for the first time in six years.

Since then, the Flyers have taken that momentum and ran with it as they con-tinue to move up the nation-al poll.

“The reason we go to the bigger meets is to run head-to-head with the top teams in the region, and the nation,” head coach Dana Schwarting said to the Lewis Athletic Depart-ment. “This helps us to set our expectations later in the year when we get into the GLVC meet and the NCAA Regional meet. We know

now that we should be a top 20 team in the nation, and a top 5 team in the region.”

A 17th place finish at the Greater Louisville Men’s Cross Country Classic helped the Flyers to go from being ranked 34th to 15th place.

Junior Andrew McLain was the first Flyer to cross the finish line in 32nd place with a time of 24:30.35.

Finishing behind McLain was junior Sean Smith at 24:50.10, senior Thomas Campbell at 25:57.50 and sophomore Andrew Knapik at 26:10.15.

Schwarting was very sat-isfied with his runners’ per-formances.

“We came here to see where we stacked up with the top regional and nation-al teams, and we now know

that we look pretty solid,” Schwarting said to the Lewis Athletic Department. “This will give us confi-dence going into the next few weeks leading up to the GLVC Championship.”

Lewis then traveled to Kenosha, Wis. the following weekend to compete in the Lucian Rosa Invite.

Knapik finished first for Lewis in 44th place with a time of 26:11.1 while senior Alex Kluchki and freshman James Weissensel finished with times of 26:51.3 and 26:55.6.

The Flyers will be back in action the weekend of Oct. 20, where they will go up against conference op-ponents in the GLVC Men’s Cross Country Champion-ship in Springfield, Mo.

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Flyers make big jump in national rankings

Andrew Knapik has helped the Flyers climb all the way to 15th place in the nation rankings.

Now since the game was been made “safer” with the way fouls are interpreted, the ease of getting a call, or faking one, has become much easier for players.

Even more depressing is that the more athletic and talented you are, and the higher your superstardom has reached, the more like-ly that your acting will get a call. What I mean is that the general perception is if LeBron James (or someone near his caliber) goes to the hole and doesn’t make the layup, then there’s no way that he didn’t get fouled, right? Nobody can play good defense even once and a while against these kinds of players. And when they go flying onto the hardwood, it so clearly means they must have been hit.

While there’s no ques-tion as to how great these players are, there’s no ex-cuse for faking a foul when they don’t make the play. So finally, the league has stepped in — hopefully — put an end to it.

“Flops have no place in our game — they either fool referees into calling undeserved fouls or fool fans into thinking the refer-ees missed a foul call,” Vice President of Basketball Op-erations Stu Jackson said in a statement. “Accordingly, both the Board of Gover-nors and the competition committee felt strongly that any player who the league determines, following vid-eo review, to have commit-ted a flop should — after a warning — be given an au-tomatic penalty.”

After officially determin-ing whether a player has flopped with video replay,

the first one will result in a warning; the second with a $5,000 fine; the third with a $10,000 fine; the fourth with a $15,000 fine; the fifth with a $30,000 fine; and ev-ery one following will be subject to suspension.

The fines won’t bother players like James, Wade and other notable flop-pers such as Manu Ginobli, James Harden and the like, as they all make more than enough money to make the fines relatively petty. How-ever, the suspensions could make a very big impact, and as soon as a few of those get handed out, play-ers will have to take notice and play the right way.

Still, there are issues that could arise where the flop-ping cannot be stopped un-less further action is taken.

Imagine it’s the play-offs. An important, series-clinching game is under way. Do you think a player on either team will think before flopping just to avoid a fine in that kind of game? Especially when it’s a crucial moment and a foul would really benefit their team?

In that sense, the league has not done enough. The only way that type of play could be fixed is if the of-ficials were told to review any questionable call they have made on the spot. Or perhaps some sort of coach’s challenge, just like in the NFL. Alas, we won’t know until we’ve seen the playoffs with this penalty-system in place.

Nevertheless, the league has certainly taken a posi-tive step in preventing this problem. Maybe one day, the only acting by NBA players that I see will be in a commercial, just as it used to be.

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October 15, 2012 Volume 34, Issue 3

Athletes oF the Week• Placed second in the DePaul/Lewis Invitational Flight A doubles

• Came in first place in the Midwest Regional Doubles Tournament

• Competed in the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships in Mobile, Alabama

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It’s been an up-and-down season for the Flyers who now sit at 5-7 (5-5 in GLVC play) on the year.

After losing three straight to Southern Indiana, McK-endree and Bellarmine, they’ve rebounded with back-to-back victories over Missouri-St. Louis and Maryville.

There was a point, though, where the season was in jeopardy of being complete-ly lost. The difficult overtime loss to Southern Indiana was followed up with the game against McKendree. The Flyers had every opportu-nity to win as the score was tied 1-1 going into the 88th minute of play. That’s when the Beareats found a way to put one in the net and take the game.

Lewis’ only goal of that match came from freshman Isaac Oberlin right before the end of the first half

Following that loss was probably the lowest point of their season — a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Bellarmine. This was only the second game of the season that was decided by more than one goal, and unfortunately for Lewis, both have been loss-es.

Head Coach Evan Fiffles commented on whether there was still hope that his team could turn it around with a then-3-7 record.

Men’s soccer trying to find ways to win

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The Lewis University women’s tennis program, for the second consecutive year, will be represented by two of its best players on the na-tional stage.

Juniors Zsofia Lanstiak and Zsofia Kranczicki went 5-0 at the Midwest Regional Dou-bles Tournament hosted by Grand Valley State, and they now have a spot reserved for them in Mobile, Ala. in the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships.

“I am very proud of every-thing the Zsofias have done here at Lewis, not only on the court, but in the classroom as well,” said head coach Bret Bridel. “They are the best doubles team in our region,

and easily in the top three or four in the country. Winning the regional this time was quite an accomplishment be-cause I don’t think either of the Zsofias were playing their best tennis during the tourna-ment. They got by on desire and tenacity that weekend.”

The tournament will take place Oct.11-14. They will compete against other Divi-sion II schools as well as Di-vision III, NAIA and junior college players.

Confident in the Zsofias’ ability to win the champion-ship, Bridel stated, “I will not be surprised if they win it. It will be very tough because the teams are obviously good at the nationals, but they definitely have the talent to win it. They will need to play well, be smart and be mental-

ly tough during every point throughout the tournament. If they can do that, I believe they will win it.”

The following weekend, Lanstiak and Kranczicki con-tinued their success, but this time it was on their home courts as the Flyers hosted the DePaul/Lewis Invita-tional.

On the first day of the tournament, Lewis came out strong as they only lost one match the entire day. Lan-stick and Kranczicki teamed up again as they went on to beat Megan Barthels and Kai-tlyn Hamel from Valparaiso University 8-0, while junior Kendra Mills and freshman Jill Wetmore added two wins of their own.

However, the Zsofias could not pull out the victory in

the Flight A doubles cham-pionship as they fell to Mil-waukee’s Maddy Soule and Christina Colarossi 8-5.

A Flyer that did catch the attention of some was Wet-more as she advanced to the Flight D singles champion-ship. In the end, though, she came up short to DePaul’s Jarret Fischer 6-0, 6-0 in two sets.

Despite the loss Coach Bridel said, “Jill played a great tournament and even played very well in the finals loss in the D Flight singles. The girl she lost to could have won the B flight.”

The Flyers will now have a few months off as winter be-gins to settle in. The next time Lewis will be in action is Feb. 24 when they travel to Michi-gan City, Ind.

Kevin ryansports Editor

Zsofias represent LU women’s tennis

Zsofia Lanstiak competed in the ustA/itA national small College Championships with her counterpart Zsofia Kranczicki.

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Juniors zsoFiA krAnczicki & zsoFiA lAnstiAk

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