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Have a healthyHalloween

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Zom(burgh)fied

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To recognize the 25th anniversary of National Coming Out Day on Friday, doors were placed in Market Square to cel-ebrate openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals. There were more than 30 decorated doors on display.

  Many seats were  left unfilled at what were scheduled to be the first two mayoral candidate debates on Monday and Tuesday.  “I don’t need the microphone,” Democratic  candidate  Bill  Pedu-to  said  on  Tuesday  at  The  Car Barn, Hazelwood’s Senior Center. “There have been so few debates, I still have my voice unlike in the primary [election].”   The  first  event  held  at  Lincoln Place  Presbyterian  Church  on Monday was attended by 22 voters and only one candidate: Peduto.  The  forum  was  attended  by mostly  members  of  the  Lincoln Place  Presbyterian  Church  who use the space to meet regularly.  The  room was  largely  uninhab-ited,  the  refreshments  table  al-most untouched and the long table in  front  of  the  speaker  remained completely vacant.  Both  the  Republican  candidate Joshua Wander  and  Independent candidate Les Ludwig were invited to the forum on Monday.

  “I don’t  think we’re going  to be having  any  debates,”  Peduto  said to the nearly empty room.   Wander  has  yet  to  return  to Pittsburgh  to  campaign.  Wander is a security consultant and is cur-rently working in Israel. He has yet to set a determinative return date.    Bill  Hillen,  a  representative for Wander’s  campaign,  said  that Wander “will be returning shortly, within a week.”  The  second  forum  was  slightly more  attended.  Peduto  and  Lud-wig came to pitch their campaign, and  Hillen  was  in  attendance  to represent  Wander.  Voters,  35  in total, came to the Hazelwood cen-ter  to fill out  their notecards with questions for the candidates.  Being the first time that all of the candidates have been  represented in the same location, the speakers made the best of the small crowd.  “We’ve seen a lot of things go in this city. You don’t want to say that ‘I blame this person or that person.’ Because it’s not one person’s fault. It’s pretty much every one of these empty chair’s  fault,” Hillen said  in reference  to  the  low attendance of the forum. “You people are here to-

night because you are concerned… there  is no important time in your life than a municipal election cycle.”  Wander’s empty chair  forced Hil-len  to  address  concerns  from  the crowd about Wander’s absence.  “Josh  isn’t  a  career  politician. He works  for  a  living. He  has  six 

kids and has to support his family.  Sometimes his work takes him out of  the  country,”  Hillen  said.  “I’ve tried  to find out exactly what he’s doing, especially in Russia, but he won’t tell me ... he does diplomatic 

Off to the Races: Forums fail to draw votersAAron WArnick

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Alumni gather on campus

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  Many  generations  of  alumni, current  students  and  perspective Dukes  crowded  A-Walk  on  Satur-day  in  celebration  of  homecoming weekend and Autumn Fest.  Homecoming weekend  this  year was a reunion for the class of 1963, but alumni from other classes took part  in  the  festivities. Among oth-er  events,  attendees  watched  the football game and visited their old learning halls.  According  to  executive  vice president of  student  life  the Rev. Sean  Hogan,  homecoming  has been  a  strong  campus  tradition since the football program was re-vived in 1972.

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Mayoral candidate Bill Peduto speaks at the Lincoln Place Presbyterian Church on Monday morning. Peduto was the only candidate to appear at the first forum.

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  Duquesne  University  officials said  this  week  they  are  awaiting a  ruling  from  the  National  Labor Relations  Board  before  making any  changes  to  the  part-time  fac-ulty system, a source of controversy since the death of a former adjunct French teacher.  Timothy  Austin,  provost  and vice-president  for  academic  af-fairs,  said  the  administration  is not  commenting  on  issues  sur-rounding  the  adjunct  faculty union  or  initiatives  to  address adjunct treatment until the NLRB renders  a  ruling  on  whether  the University  is  exempt  from  recog-nizing the new union.  In  an  emailed  statement  to The Duke,  Austin  said,  “Because a decision on Duquesne’s appeal of a ruling by the National Labor Relations  Board  is  still  pending, we aren’t  commenting  further at this time.”  Union  officials  have  sought  to keep  up  pressure  on  the  Univer-sity  since  the  September  death  of former  adjunct  instructor  Marga-ret Mary Vojtko. Friends and fam-ily  said  she  died  nearly  penniless months  after  the  school  told  her she would not be returning.  Adjunct  Faculty  Association  of the  United  Steelworkers  member Joshua Zelesnick started an online petition  on  CredoMobilize  in  Sep-tember asking University adminis-tration to recognize  the union and “bargain  a  fair  contract  in  good faith.”  The  petition  has  accumu-lated over 17,000 signatures.   Vojtko’s  death went  viral  online and  “galvanized”  adjuncts  across the nation to strive for better treat-ment, said Maria Maisto, president of the New Faculty Majority, a na-tional  advocacy  group  that  pro-motes  better  treatment  of  part-time faculty.  “I think that what they see in her story  is  a  reflection  of  either  their current  reality  or  future,  and  it’s disturbing,” Maisto said. “It’s mak-ing adjuncts realize that we need to 

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liberal arts position   The  McAnulty  College  and Graduate School of Liberal Arts has named former West Virgin-ia  University  student  services coordinator  Jason  Broadwater its first assistant dean.   The  new  position  will  have Broadwater lead the liberal arts school’s  student  recruitment and  marketing  efforts,  print and  web  communications  and social media. 

Experts to examine JFK assassination at conference

  “Passing  the  Torch:  An  In-ternational  Symposium  on  the 50th Anniversary of  the Assas-sination  of  President  John  F. Kennedy”  begins  today  in  the Power Center Ballroom.   Experts  participating  in  the conference include Oliver Stone, Josiah  Thompson,  Mark  Lane and Robert N. McClelland.  The symposium will conclude Satur-day evening. 

police briefs  Uncle  PB  was  surprised  at the way Duquesne students re-sponded  to  last  week’s  article about  liquor  law violations. He is  very  familiar  with  the  situ-ation,  and  he wants  to make  a few things clear.  It  is  not  that  our  students drink  more  alcohol  than  stu-dents at other schools. It’s about how strict  the policies are, and here  on  the  Bluff,  DU Cares  is making  sure  everyone  in  the vicinity of alcohol gets help ad-dressing the problem.   With  that  being  said,  there were seven more liquor law vio-lations this week.   An underage intoxicated stu-dent was transported to UPMC Mercy  on  Thursday  from  St. Martin  Hall.  Another  student from  the  same  building  was transported  for  treatment  the following day.   Late  Friday  night,  an  intoxi-cated female student in Towers was  transported  to Mercy,  and early Sunday morning, another was  found  intoxicated off  cam-pus  at  Pizza  Vespucci  and  re-turned to campus.   Two  intoxicated  males  were found on  the  city  steps,  another was found on a Seitz Street bench and  one  was  found  exiting  the loop bus early Sunday morning.   Marijuana was confiscated from a room in St. Martin on Tuesday morning,  and  paraphernalia was confiscated  from  a  room  in  St. Ann Hall the night before.   A  person  exiting  a  dark  two door  vehicle  outside  of  the Union stole a bundle of newspa-pers last Thursday.

security and stuff like that”  By  and  large,  reform  of  local government  was  the  message  of the day.  “Right  now,  city  government  is a  mess,”  Peduto  said.  “This  city is  small  enough  that  we  can  do things  that  it  will  happen  and  it’s big enough that people around the world will look and take notice.”  Ludwig, 80, said he is “looking at the city in a different way” and urged voters  to give him a chance to ad-dress problems in city hall.    “Les  wants  to  be  in  the  chair, study  the  problem  and  pull  it apart,”  Ludwig  said  on  Tuesday. “[Previous mayors] have had really good ideas, but how much of it was air? Les isn’t talking about air.”   However,  Wander’s  absence did  not  completely  prevent  Hil-len  from  speaking  about  the campaign  and  Wander’s  plans  if elected. Hillen asked the crowd to “give us a chance.”  “We’re  going  have  a  proactive public  works  department  instead of  a  reactive  public works  depart-ment,” Hillen said. “We’re going to have a proactive police department instead of reactive.”  The  candidates  are  scheduled to meet  one more  time before  the Nov.  5  election  in  a  forum hosted by WTAE on Oct. 29.

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Freshman early childhood education major Elizabeth Osche picks out a book in the Gumberg Library. Students who want to read for pleasure can visit the McNaughten Popular Book Collection across from the front desk at the library.

  A  study  released  by  the  Pew Re-search  Center  revealed  that  today’s college students read more than any other age group in the United States.   According  to  the  study,  88  per-cent of all young adults in the Unit-ed  States  ages  18-24  have  read  at least part of a book, essay or article in  the  last  year.  The  2,986 mem-ber  study  showed  that,  while  the college-age  group  read  frequently for  school  or work,  they were  sig-nificantly less likely to have read a book for pleasure.   A small poll of a Duquesne fresh-men Honors Inquiry class support-ed this finding. Out of the 15 mem-ber class, every student testified to reading at least one book for school in the  last  two months, while only three could recall reading for plea-sure in that time.   Chris  Cornett  was  one  of  the freshmen that found time to enjoy more than his assigned books.   “I  read  about  three  hours  every day, mostly  fantasy,” Cornett said. “The  last  book  I  read  was  down-loaded onto my laptop.”

  Duquesne  University  sopho-mores  Ben  Unpingco  and  Brian D’Orazio said they do not have the time to read for fun. D’Orazio said he started reading a book for plea-sure a few weeks ago, but “with all the  stuff  I’ve  had  to  do,  it’s  been hard to get past the first 100 pages.”   Unpingco  also  said  his  time  to read for fun is limited.   “I’d  say  about  80  percent  of  the reading I do is for school,” Unping-co said. “I haven’t read a whole book purely for enjoyment since July.”    Reading  for  pleasure  does  not have  to  be  limited  to  fiction,  ac-cording  to  the Pew Research Cen-ter.  It  can  include  news  articles, magazines  and  anything  else  that is not assigned for work or school.   Duquesne University  offers  sev-eral  programs  to  allow  students access  to  such  reading  materials. The  College  Readership  Program provides  free  daily  newspapers  to students  and  faculty,  according  to Student  Government  Association vice  president  of  academic  affairs Zachary Hudak.   The  subscriptions  available  are the New York Times, USA Today and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They are distributed to stands in the res-

idence halls, the law school and the Student Union, Hudak said.  Sophomore  finance  major  Mi-chael  Rand  occasionally  picks  up a  copy  of  the  New York Times, but  says  the Readership  Program could expand.  “I really wish they had the Wall Street Journal,” Rand said. “There is  an  entire  business  school  that could benefit.”

  Another  resource  for  non-aca-demic reading is the McNaughten Popular  Book  Collection,  accord-ing  to  Gumberg  Library  resource sharing  librarian  John  Euliano. The  collection  is  located  at  the entrance  to  the  library,  directly across from the front desk.   Popular  bestselling  fiction  and 

Student wins contest for FeelGood

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Kaitlyn Kerrigan, the student who won $10,000 for a project she chairs, enlightens FeelGood committee members on world hunger issues at a meeting on Sunday.

  Senior  occupational  therapy  ma-jor  Kaitlyn  Kerrigan  won  $10,000 in Amway’s  “Who Cares Challenge: Youth Leadership Contest” for Feel-Good,  a  project  she  works  with  in conjunction with Duquesne Circle K.   Circle  K  International  is  the world’s  largest  student-led  colle-giate  service  organization  and  the umbrella organization of  the Feel-Good project at Duquesne.  Kerrigan,  21,  wrote  to  Amway, which is short for “American Way,” this  past  summer  about  how  she wanted  to  work  with  FeelGood  to raise money for The Hunger Project, which  is  a  non-profit  organization that works to end world hunger.  Of  the  100  semifinalists  for  Am-way’s “Who Cares Challenge,” Kerri-gan’s piece won a top-10 prize, which garnered the $10,000 reward.   Currently, FeelGood operates  at Duquesne in a deli format, serving grilled  cheese  sandwiches  to  stu-dents  for  donations  at  10  p.m.  on Friday nights.  In Kerrigan’s entry to Amway, she claimed  that  FeelGood  had  raised almost  $1,000  toward  The  Hun-ger Project by selling grilled cheese sandwiches to Duquesne students.   Kerrigan  said  she  first  heard about  FeelGood  at  the  University of  Vermont  and  thought  it  would be great to bring to Duquesne, as it would be an easy way  for her and other students to volunteer.  “Duquesne  students  are  usu-ally  really  busy  with  schoolwork, 

so this is an easy way to help out,” Kerrigan said.   Kerrigan is the chair of the Feel-Good  project  and  has  been  in-volved with FeelGood since she was a sophomore.   Splitting  the  responsibility  is junior  mathematics  major  and business minor Joseph Gault, who serves as co-chair of FeelGood.    Gault  said  he  joined  FeelGood last year when he heard about the project and wanted to help out.  Gault  said  he  handles  the  busi-ness aspects of Feel Good like web-site design, advertising and putting up flyers around campus.   Kerrigan’s role in the project is in-tegral, as she actively participates in retreats and conferences promoting FeelGood, according to Gault.  “Katie’s involvement is wonderful and honestly inspiring,” Gault said.   Ben Andrick,  last  year’s Circle K 

president, said he credits Kerrigan’s dedication  to  the  project  through-out  its growing process. Andrick  is currently a fifth year pharmacy stu-dent and a member of Circle K.   “Katie’s  dedication  was  nothing less  than  awe-inspiring,”  Andrick said. “You get people with an  idea like this that are very dedicated for the first 20 or so days, then it kind of tails off, but not Katie.”   Andrick also said Kerrigan could be one of  the “most amazing” vol-unteers  and  her  level  of  passion blows his mind.   FeelGood  is  doing  well,  in large part because of Kerrigan, as awareness  for  the  project  across campus  has  increased,  according to Andrick.   “At  the  end  of  the  day,  it’s  all about  helping  people  who  need food,” Andrick said. “That is a truly noble cause.”

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do something.”  The  administration  and  union have been awaiting the NLRB rul-ing for over a year, adjunct English instructor Robin Sowards said. Ad-juncts contend that a union-backed collective  bargaining  agreement will  wrest  better  working  condi-tions including higher pay and pos-sible benefit options.  Duquesne  rejected  voluntary recognition  of  the  union  in  May 2012.  After  a  NLRB-sponsored election, the University filed a mo-tion  claiming  they  were  exempt from  the  jurisdiction of  the NLRB based  on  religious  grounds,  ac-cording to Sowards.   The  administration  and  union are  still  waiting  on  the  ruling, which has been delayed by the re-cent government shutdown.   Without the ruling, the adminis-tration can still recognize the union in order to “open up a line of com-munication  between  the  two  par-ties”  to  better  address  problems, Sowards said.   The  first  problem,  Sowards said,  is  that  adjuncts  are  paid $3,500  per  course  with  a  maxi-mum of two courses per academic year and are not given health care or retirement benefits.   Another  problem  is  the  Uni-versity’s “refusal” to hire full time faculty, according to Sowards. The 2013 Duquesne Fact Book’s statis-

tics show that there are 485 part-time  instructors,  making  up  50 percent of faculty.  “Fundamentally,  it  undermines our ability to do our job,” Sowards said. “If I have a student who wants to meet with me, there are days of the week and times of the day I can-not meet with them.”

  Part-time  instructors  taught 31.2 percent of  the  total  credits  in McAnulty  College  and  Graduate School of Liberal Arts last year, ac-cording  to  Dean  James  Swindal. There  were  111  part-time  and  159 full-time professors last year in the college, he said.   “[Part-time professors] are a sig-nificant and  important part of our teaching  mission  in  the  college,” Swindal said.  Swindal  declined  to  comment further  on  the  treatment  of  ad-juncts until the NLRB’s ruling.

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Rachel Whitcomb was instrumental in starting third grade music lessons.

  The City Music Center and assis-tant  music  professor  Rachel  Whit-comb  have  introduced  a  new  pro-gram  that  invites  third  graders  to attend music  lessons taught by stu-dents on campus.  Musical  Creations,  featuring weekly music lessons, officially be-gan  on  Sept.  10  and will  continue until Nov. 12. Each week there are 15 Duquesne sophomores enrolled in  “Elementary  General  Music Methods” who teach the class, and there  are  15  children who  partici-pate in the lessons.   Students enrolled in Elementary General  Music  Methods  combine practical  experience  in  the  field with  learning  classroom  tech-niques,  such as developing  appro-priate  materials  and  lesson  plans for children grades 3-6.  Christopher  Bromley,  executive director of the City Music Center, no-tified several local contacts and orga-nizations of the program in an effort to promote the free music lessons.   “We reached out to the Housing and  Urban  Development  Center of  Pittsburgh,  more  specifically the  Housing  Authority  of  Pitts-burgh,”  Bromley  said.  “We  also had  students  try  and  spread  the word in order to get the program more publicity.”   According  to  Whitcomb,  reach-ing  out was  a  success  considering the lack of initial interest when the program was first developed. After word got out, a large group of inter-

ested kids emerged.  Whitcomb  specifically  chose third  graders  to  be  the  partici-pants  in  the  program  because they “are at a point developmen-tally  where  they  have  enough ability  to  do  improvisation  and composition.”  “The class focuses on mid-to-late elementary,” Whitcomb said. “Stu-dents already work with young kids at  the  child  development  center here on campus.”   Musical  Creations  allows  the children  to  focus  on  creative  en-deavors. The  kids  are  able  to  play xylophones,  recorders  and  drums. A  SMART  Board,  which  is  an  in-teractive whiteboard, is utilized for group composition.   The program is beneficial to both 

the  students  who  teach  the  course and  to  the  children who attend  the classes,  according  to  Whitcomb. Students enrolled in the music edu-cation program are able to get early experience with teaching.   “I  have  seen  the  students’  pro-cesses  changing  while  responding in  the  moment  to  a  child,”  Whit-comb  said.  “Teaching  children  is a  more  natural  fit  than  teaching peers.  This  is  [a]  developmentally appropriate  practice  in  relating with kids in a positive way. The stu-dents do not seem as nervous when they are teaching these children.”  Mary  Pappert  School  of  Music Dean  Edward  Kocher  said  he  be-lieves  the  program  is  an  asset  to aspiring music teachers.   “Many students have the oppor-tunity to read textbooks or to go on field excursions but this is a chance to be in physical proximity to chil-dren  and  to  watch  an  expert  like Rachel  Whitcomb,”  Kocher  said. “Dr. Whitcomb has a calming and soothing  approach  with  children, and  the  students  can  learn  a  lot from watching her work.”   Whitcomb said she has high as-pirations for the program.   “I  hope  that  the  program  be-comes  larger  and  that  more  kids are  able  to  create music  that  they are  proud  of,”  Whitcomb  said.  “I hope that kids will feel like they can and want to create and take part in the musical process.”  The students teach for the experi-ence rather than for a grade, enabling them to apply the methods they have learned in class, in a relaxed and fun atmosphere, according to Whitcomb.

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Senior history major Brian Bost (left) and senior education major Devin Walker (right) pose for a photo after being crowned homecoming king and queen. The announcement came during halftime of the homecoming football game on Saturday.

  Hogan  said  his  favorite  part  of homecoming  weekend  is  seeing the alumni.   “I  have  officiated many  of  their weddings  and  they  have  come  in from many  places  throughout  the country,” Hogan said. “I enjoy hav-ing them get together very much.”  Brian Doak  and  his wife  Emily, graduates  from  the  class  of  2001, stopped  by  the  campus  on  their way to New Jersey to see family.   “We knew  that  homecoming was this weekend so we figured we would bring our family here,” Doak said.  Doak  said  he  is  “very  proud”  of the education Duquesne gave him, and  wanted  to  show  his  children, Hunter and Addison, where he and his wife went to school.   Doak also said he notices a great-er amount of technology and a num-ber of advancements with buildings on campus since he was a student.  Hogan said the greatest change over  the  years  is  the  location  of 

the  football  field,  which  used  to be  in  South  Side.  It  has  been  on campus since 1997.   Joseph  DiMartile  and  his  wife Maureen,  class  of  1969,  decided to  come back  for  a  reunion of  the Kappa  Sigma  Phi  fraternity.  The fraternity is no longer on campus.   The couple has visited the school a  handful  of  times,  but  this  time, they  were  there  to  remember  the loss of their fraternity brother and friend Francis J. Skidmore.   Skidmore  was  killed  in  the  at-tacks  on  Sept.  11,  2001.  The DiMartiles were observing a dedi-cation  plaque  outside  of  the  law school in his memory.  Joseph noticed a few differences since his time on the Bluff.   “When  I  came  here  there  was nothing between Canevin Hall and St. Martin’s except for a few aban-doned houses, so it’s been a mirac-ulous transformation,” he said.   Maureen said all of the run down homes  have  been  replaced  with beautiful structures and great land-

scaping.  Additionally,  she  said  the law school was the library and there was  no  football  team.  The  couple went to their first Duquesne football game on Saturday afternoon.   Maureen  was  able  to  reunite with  many  of  her  Sigma  Lambda 

Phi sisters. The sorority  is no  lon-ger on campus.   “Seeing everyone this weekend is like we never left,” she said.  Maria Basanese,  one of DiMar-tile’s  sorority  sisters,  recalled  her time  at  Duquesne,  saying  “the 

people  and  everything  about  the school made it such a great experi-ence for me.”  Basanese also said the University is “almost unrecognizable” since then.  “The city and University have just been beautified,” Basanese said.

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Once upon a  time,  there was a girl in my high school who delivered a presentation on 

koala  bears.  It  doesn’t  seem  like  a hard topic to cover. She could have easily found excellent research and created  an  acceptable  15  minute presentation.  It  shocked  me when  she mentioned  the  sub-ject of koala bears draining hu-man blood. I didn’t believe this for  a  second  and  rightfully  so. She  failed  the  assignment miserably,  due  to  hav-ing  false  information  in her  presentation. Her  top source was  Wikipedia.  Professors  have  been telling me  for  as  long  as  I  can  re-member to never use the unreliable source. One of Wikipedia’s  found-ing  features  is  that  each  page  can be  edited  by  anyone  at  any  time. Wikipedia has been known to have flaws and  inaccuracies  throughout its millions of pages.   To  combat  this,  the  University of  California-San  Francisco  is  of-fering a  class  and academic  credit to  its medical  students  for  editing these pages. The New York Times  published an article discussing the new class entitled  “Editing Wikipedia  pages for Med School Credit.”  According to  the  article,  fourth-year medical students  from  the  university  will have  the  ability  to  earn  academic credit  in  the  classroom  for  edit-ing  these pages. Specifically,  these pages will be focusing on diseases, which  these medical  students  will 

more  than  likely  deal  with  when they leave the university and enter the hospital rooms.   This learning strategy is nontra-ditional  when  compared  to  text-book  learning. However,  this  idea will  most  definitely  be  a  fruitful endeavor to all parties involved.   A  health  science  associate clinical  professor  at  the  uni-versity who will also be teach-ing  the  course,  Dr.  Amin  Az-

zam  believes  the  editing is not only a helpful way to  earn  credits,  but  will help  his  students  learn. “Wikipedia editing  will force  students  to  think 

clearly and avoid  jargon,” he said in the NYT article.   Instead of these medical students copying down what their textbooks and  professors  eloquently  say  in class,  these  students  will  have  to go  about  this  assignment  and  of-fer  information  on  diseases  to  the public  without  medical  terminol-ogy. According to the University of California-San  Francisco  website, professors will keep track of the ed-its made to these articles to monitor the content added and changed.  The new teaching methods which forces students to strip away medi-cal  jargon,  will  not  only  give  the students  complete  knowledge  on certain subjects, it will also give the students the ability to tell their pa-tients about diseases without medi-cal terminology. I do not know how many times I have been to a doctor’s office and have said “I don’t get  it, 

just give me the medication.”   Editing  of Wikipedia  pages  will not  only  help  the  students  learn, but  will  give  the  audiences  a  new perspective  on  medical  subjects. After the medical students have re-vised  these pages,  the people who want to learn more can go to these pages with the knowledge that they have been edited by people familiar with the field.  Wikipedia  can  only  become  a more  reliable  source  for  the  pub-lic  with  these  students  revising.  In the  same NYT  article,  Dr.  Michael Turken, a resident in internal medi-cine in California, said tens of thou-sands of people were reading a spe-cific medical article in one month. If tens of thousands of people are read-ing one article, this editing endeavor will only make a readers time worth-while if reading Wikipedia articles.   The idea of earning credits for ed-iting Wikipedia pages is an amazing concept. It is a positive transition in the learning experience. It will help the students and readers garner ex-tra  knowledge  on  certain  subjects. Being  the first medical program  to instill  this  program,  it  would  be  a grand idea to see this concept flour-ish among other schools, even high school courses. Maybe the next girl who thinks a koala sucks blood out of  humans  will  have  the  proper knowledge  that  this  needs  edited and can earn bonus points for it.  

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Does  the  color  of  our  skin matter  when  we  apply  to colleges? Should it?

  These are questions the Supreme Court  seeks  to  answer.  The  case Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Af-firmative Action went in front of the Supreme Court Tuesday. The Court addresses  whether  a  state  violates the  Equal  Protection  Clause.  This clause  is  part  of  the  14th  Amend-ment  and  mandates  that  no  state shall  deny  any  person  within  its jurisdiction  the equal protection of the laws, by amending its constitu-tion to prohibit race- and sex-based discrimination or preferential treat-ment  in  public-university  admis-sion decisions.  This case is not arguing whether states  can  give  race-based  pref-erences  to  minority  applicants. It’s  about  whether  states  can  ban schools  from  using  Affirmative Action.  Michigan  passed  a  ballot initiative  called  Proposal  2, which aimed  to  stop  the  preferential treatment  of  minorities  in  state universities’ admissions processes.   There are two sides to this argu-ment. The first side argues that we have come far enough as a country that we can trust our universities to make  admissions  decisions  fairly and  without  bias.  They  argue  that universities  being  forced  to  admit minorities  inhibits  their  ability  to accept  the most qualified students. This  side  says  admissions  offices could  make  the  decision  without even considering race.  The CDAA argues that this is the only law that protects minorities in this process,  and  the  citizens with the  opposing  viewpoint  are  trying to take it away.   There  are  a  few  problems  we at The Duke  have with  the  idea  of granting states this power. First we know that even if almost every state did  this  perfectly,  there would  still be a small portion that would abuse this  power  to  reject  minorities based solely on their skin color. It is not  fair  to allow even a  little bit of racism because universities are hav-ing a tough time accepting so many minorities.  The  improved  atmosphere  is better for minorities’ college accep-tance.  However,  with  universities having  that  freedom,  there  could be  an  even  larger  bias  against  the inner  city  schools.  Often  colleges decline  students  because  they  at-tend  what  admission  offices  can perceive as worse schools. Not only does  this  primarily  affect  minori-ties, but it also impacts the people whose only chance at college is Af-firmative Action.  The  Supreme  Court  would  be best suited to rule  that Proposal 2 is  unconstitutional.  Racism  is  far from  dead  and  an  equal  opportu-nity is a pipe dream without Affir-mative Action.

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When  you  think  of  self-branding, think  of  Tom  Haverford  from NBC’s  hit  television  show  Parks

and Recreation.    In  one  episode,  Tom  and coworker Jerry are asked to help rebrand the parks  department.  Jerry  thinks  too  simply and suggests to change the font of the parks and recreation  logo. Tom goes a  little over-board  and  proposes  a  park  ranger  reality television show, new uniforms and new sig-nage.  Tom’s  dramatic  approach  is  certainly wild, but he has the right idea.    Tom’s  radical  approach  is  exactly  what works  in  the  world  of  branding  and  self-branding.  Making  yourself  known  in  any working  industry  is  important.  Branding yourself  as  special,  multi-talented  and  ir-replaceable will make you successful on the career path you desire.  Everyone has a unique attribute or spe-cial talent. Use this to your advantage. Be-

lieve it or not, education has become more accessible, and an undergraduate degree is tantamount to having a high school diplo-ma.    As  a  result,  competition  for  employ-ment  is  fierce  and  it  is  becoming  increas-ingly  important  for  job-hunters  to  find their  brand  and  sell  themselves.  Create your mantra, and advertise it.    Think  self-branding  is  conceited?    Think again. Branding  is necessary  for  job  securi-ty.  Welcome to the digital age where you’re building a public image on a social network.  Don’t have an online profile? Create one on-line and catch up with the times.  According to a New York Times article by Alina Tugend “many of us may not have the option of stay-ing  in  a  company,  unbranded.   We have  to create our own job security, and branding is a part of that.”    The same article references the managing partner of Millennial Branding and founder of the blog, Personal Branding, Dan Schaw-bel. According to Schawbel, self-branding is as easy as  four simple steps: “discover, cre-ate, communicate and maintain.”  Discover  Find your unique attributes and use them to your advantage.  Find your niche and mar-ket it.  Promote what you’re good at and get yourself noticed. If you are an International Relations  major,  joining  campus  organiza-tions  like  International  Student  Organiza-tion  (ISO)  is  a  step  in  the  right  direction. This way you can have the possibility of find-ing your niche and discovering how you will impact the world.

Create  Create  an  online  profile.    According  to “The First Step to Building your own Person-al  Brand,”  an  article  published  in  the New Yorker, “Personal branding is the subtext of all social networking.”   Manage your online presentation  and  be  consistent.    Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are all feasible options for creating your online persona.   Once you have captured your online per-sona, you must  join your personal and pro-fessional  lives  into  one  static  persona  that you  embody  everyday  with  consistency.    If you brand yourself as having a keen eye for personal  style  and  great  hair  and make-up then  don’t  go  to  your  local  coffee  shop  in sweats and a  t-shirt.    It’s all about present-ing  yourself well;  you never  know who  you might meet.Communicate  We’ve all heard it a million times, “It’s not what  you  know,  it’s  who  you  know.”    Net-working is unbelievably important and social networking  has  made  networking  simple.  The same NYT article also references, Veron-ica Fielding, president of Digital Brand Ex-pressions, “It’s about building a community . . . you want to find groups -- alumni, former employees of your last jobs, trade groups.”   For example, if you are an art student, at-tending gallery crawls is a great way to net-work and communicate with others. Meeting different artists will help you get a foot in the door. People will remember your brand and call upon you when they have a job they need to fill that meets your unique qualifications.  

Maintain  It’s inevitable that your future employer will google your name.   Control  is key and neces-sary when it comes to the Internet.  According to the same New Yorker article, “You are what you tweet.”   To manage your personal brand, you have  to  think  twice before you post any-thing. Your posts must line up with your brand. If you are an education major, you must make yourself look professional online and in public. Posting pictures of drinking with friends does not maintain a positive image and might cost you your dream teaching job.  Your actions and decisions  have  to  line  up with  your  personal brand.  This is what it takes to create a success-ful and convincing brand.  As aforementioned, it’s all about presentation.   Be professional in every  aspect  of  your  life.   With  social media each move you make is either documented by you or others and  it’s  traceable.   To sell your brand  you must maintain  consistency within all aspects of your life.  A résumé isn’t enough in today’s competi-tive  job-hunting environment.   You are who you  choose  to  be.  Take  control  of  your  life and your future. Land your dream job by pro-moting  yourself  through  self-branding  and advertising.  The  same  New Yorker  article references Tom Peters, a successful business guru and author of A Brand Called You. Take advice  from Peters,  “Remember my mantra: be distinct ... or extinct.”  

Let’s  face  it,  people  love  Halloween  because  you  can virtually  dress  up  as  anything  you want. However,  I loved it as a child because of the free candy. When I 

was younger, I would hit as many houses as I could, cover-ing two and a half neighborhoods. Then when I got home, I counted and sorted my candy. I hated Milky Way and Snick-ers, so those went to my dad. But the pile that I resented the most consisted of the nutritious pretzels, raisins and in the most extreme cases, apples.  Junk  food  and  nutrition  have  become  extremely  regu-lated in a nation of people who love sugary sweets. Accord-ing to a Huffington Post article by Julie Upton, the author of  “A Nutritionist’s Guide  to a Healthier Halloween,”  the average person in the nation consumes 25 pounds of can-dy per year. I cannot imagine myself eating 25 pounds of candy a year.   It really is no surprise that snack food and soda machines are scarcely found in school cafeterias anymore. During my last year  in middle  school, our  soda machine was  removed and snack machines seemed to go extinct.   The more I became aware of candy’s unhealthiness and the overall avoidance of sugar products, the more I wanted it.   Halloween  is a holiday: a deliciously  sweet, unhealthy, forbidden  candy  holiday.  The  regulations  to  which  kids’ cravings are  forced  to adhere during  the year  should not be subjected to these rules on Halloween.   When I see the numerous amounts of articles written be-fore Halloween giving tips to parents on how to make the holiday  healthier  for  trick-or-treaters, my  youthful  heart feels sad and awful for the children of the new generation.  There might be many ways to make the holiday healthier for children, but there are also many ways to avoid making the holiday a belly ache as well. 

  One  tip  that  I  found  really  insightful  in  Upton’s  article was her  suggestion  to hand out  tricks  instead of or as well as treats.   “I mix fun toy tricks with the healthier treats and let kids take both an edible and non-edible choice, and the option of two tricks for incentive,” Upton said.   Upton  began  this  practice  when  she  read  a  study  from Yale University called “Trick, treat, or toy: children are just as  likely  to choose toys as candy on Halloween.” The study found that children between 3 and 14 years old will choose a “comparatively sized toy” over candy.

  While at age 14, I may not have been excited over a plastic spider ring, I would have been ecstatic over receiving glow sticks. When trick or treating, I carried a flash light. It was heavy and most of the time I passed it off to my father. How-ever, glow sticks are available  in assorted colors, are  light enough to wear and are easily turned into lightsabers!   Being that the practice of giving candy is to make the chil-dren who are  trick-or-treating happy,  toys are a better al-ternative than raisins. Little toys will make children happier than any healthy treat would.  Another alternative to keep in mind is that some candy is healthier  than  others. Reader’s Digest  Editors  pointed  out 

the seven healthiest candies in the article “Healthy Hallow-een Candy Choices.”   These candy choices include 3 Musketeers Minis (63 calo-ries, 2 grams of fat, 11 grams sugar), York Peppermint Patty (165 calories, 3 grams of fat, 27 grams sugar), Peeps Pump-kins (16 calories, 0 fat, 3.5 grams sugar), Tootsie Roll (50 cal-ories, 1 grams fat, 10g sugar), Peanut Butter M&M packs (90 calories, 5 grams fat, 9 grams sugar), Jolly Ranchers (3 Jolly Rancher = 70 calories, 0 fat and 11 grams of sugar), and Blow Pops (60 calories, 0 fat, and 13 grams of sugar).  In  comparison,  a  Hershey’s milk  chocolate  bar  contains 210  calories,  13  grams  of  fat  and  24  grams  of  sugar.  Hal-loween’s issue should not be handing out healthier items as treats, but handing out treats that are not overly unhealthy.   A house can easily hand out two 3 Musketeers Minis to a trick-or-treater, and still be healthier than the Hershey’s milk chocolate bar.  A factor most don’t consider is any food can be unhealthy in large doses. So the same can be said if you reverse the fact: food won’t be as unhealthy for you in small quantities. In oth-er words, by limiting children to one or two pieces of candy a day, either in their lunches or after dinner, the candy won’t be as bad for children. Children consuming candy in modera-tion would not be harmful for them in any way shape or form.  So in a nation of sweet lovers, where health concerns are a top priority, staying healthy shouldn’t ruin the year’s holi-days, especially Halloween. Children can have many fun al-ternatives for the season and don’t have to endure eating rai-sins on Halloween.   There  are many ways  to  prevent  the  holiday  from being overly-unhealthy without changing “trick-or-treat” to “trick-or-fruit”. 

Halloween becomes healthy holiday

Branding yourself the best you can

krisTen kuron

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Kristen Kuron is a senior English and Digital Media Arts major and can be reached at kuronk@duq.edu.

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student columnist

Carrie Garrison is a sophomore Violin per-formance major and can be reached at garri-sonc@duq.edu.

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Running, for your colors Rolling Records stops in Pgh

TAylor Miles / The Duquesne Duke kATe Dillon / The Duquesne Duke

The Color Run, the traveling colorful 5k, was held Oct. 12 in South Park. The untimed race has two rules: for participants to wear white and to finish the race colored with paint, as paint is thrown on competitors at each kilometer mark.

Third Man Records’Rolling Record Store stopped in Pittsburgh Friday from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. in front of Mind Cure Records in Polish Hill. The rolling record stores fall tour stopped in nine cities, including Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and New York City.

Zombie Fest infects Lawrenceville

Moans and groans emulated from a once peaceful park in Lawrenceville last Saturday: voices of the undead.  Arsenal Park was the site of this year’s Pittsburgh 

Zombie Fest, an annual zombie enthusiast gathering. The event is in its eighth year and is held on World Zombie Day, the second Saturday in October, according to Mark Menold, event creator.  He  said  he  started  Zombie  Fest  “because  it’s  awesome. Something fun to do and to collect food for the food bank.”This  year’s  event, with an estimated 3000  to 3,500 attend-ees,  featured  a  brain  eating  contest  (brains  were  made  of sugar-free Jell-O),  an  “Ugly pageant”  (a beauty pageant  for best zombie King and Queen), live local band performances, zombie-themed vendors and a taping of the It’s Alive Show, Menold’s horror comedy show that airs on WBGN.  In addition to the zombie aesthetic, the event also collects canned  goods  for  the  Greater  Pittsburgh  Community  Food Bank. Since  it’s first event, a zombie walk held at  the Mon-roeville Mall  in 2006, Pittsburgh Zombie Fest has collected 14,000 pounds of food at the events, according to Menold.“It’s just an easy way [to collect],” Menold said. “When people come to a free event, they can bring food.”  Josh Ducar, 25 of Munhall and a student at the University of Pittsburgh., has been interested zombies since he saw Night of the Living Dead when he was 15. He came in his skate clothes, a tattered flannel and ripped jeans, looking like a standard zom-bie, his face adorned with fake blood and make-up.  “I went down to the party store, slapped on some make-up and had some fun,” Ducar said.Hannah Wood, a third year student in the baking and pastry program at the Art Institue of Pittsburgh, dressed a little dif-ferent, donning a white apron while carrying blood splattered cupcakes, a zombie baker.

ZAch BrenDZA

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PhoTos By AAron WArnick AnD kATie AuWAerTer

(Top right) “Moxie Amoureuse”” (Bottom right) Brittany Smith, left, of Pitsburgh and Tammy Pounds, right, of Presto, Pa, (Bottom middle) Jared Cavelerio, left, of Butler and Jennie Conley, right, of Ephrata, Pa. (Bottom left) Jeff Boarts of Apollo, Pa. (Top left) Larae Kearns, left, of Trafford, Pa. and Nancy Slater, right, of Plum, Pa.

see ZOMBIES — page 12

October 17, 2013Features

7THEDUQUESNEDUKE

A line of Duquesne students holding to-go boxes forms in front of an unattended Off Ramp cash register with not an employee in sight. One boy finds the courage 

to approach the small group of workers taking breaks on the other side of the room and asks, “Can anyone check us out?”

  Shonetta Ahywood looks up and sees the line at the other register, a smile forming across her face as she replies loudly, “Come on over here, you guys!”  With reading glasses sitting atop her red Duquesne Din-ing visor, Shonetta swipes ID after ID, asking students about their weekends or how their day was.  Shonetta’s laughter is infectious and rings above the loud chatter after she asks a girl if she studied over the weekend.  “She said she studied. Uh-huh,” Shonetta said. “What’s his name?”   “She’s  funny,” RayNisha Addison, another cashier at Off Ramp, says. “She makes the day go faster. I hear students say ‘I love her!’ as they walk away.”  Addison, who is 19, has been working at Off Ramp since August, but she doesn’t get to interact with Shonetta as much as she would like to during her shift. She admires the inter-actions between Shonetta and the students and wants to be friendlier in her own work ethic.  “I just have that kind of personality. I like to talk to every-one,” Shonetta says.  Her personality is what got her a job at Duquesne in the first place, according to Shonetta.  “I wooed them with my charm at the interview,” she saidShonetta  has  worked  at  Duquesne  for  six  years.  She  has worked in the Sean Hogan Dining Center as well as Options, but Off Ramp will always be her favorite.“It’s where I started and I wanted to stay there,” she says.   The 44-year-old is a staple of Duquesne Dining, but she is a self-described homebody. A mother of five, Shonetta has two grandchildren who are never far away. Originally from the Hill District, Shonetta now resides in Mt. Oliver and her children, the ones who aren’t at home with her, live right up the street.  “We are a very close family,” Shonetta smiles.   She  always  cooks  for her  family,  and Sunday dinners  at 

her house are mandatory. “If  they can’t come over, I bring the food to them.”  With her youngest daughter a senior in high school, Sho-netta  stays busy with volunteering and  fundraising  for  the senior class.  “I’m getting ready to rock their world. I got some plans for them,” she said.  When she isn’t volunteering or making her favorite barbe-cue ribs, Shonetta reads as much as she can, buying books from Amazon.  Shonetta takes her role at Off Ramp seriously, but she also tries  to bring a smile  to students’  faces, even when  they’re stressed out.   “I’m  just  getting  to  know  people  and  trying  to  brighten up their day, especially around finals time,” she said. “I try to cheer you up as best as I can but my job is to make sure you guys are eating good, at least getting some vegetables in you.”  Molly  Montgomery,  a  senior  sociology  major,  dined  on campus for her first two years at Duquesne and even though she lives off campus now, she still makes an effort to go to Off Ramp to see her favorite cashier.  “Shonetta  is  the  best.  She  always  takes  time  out  of  her busy schedule to ask how I’m doing to talk to me about life,” Montgomery said. “She has a big heart and an even bigger passion for food.”  Being available to students is a big deal to Shonetta, who always likes to offer any support that she can.   “I make sure that  if you guys got something you need to talk about and can’t get a hold of your parents or somebody, maybe somebody might consider coming to me and asking me some questions and I might try to steer them in the right direction,” she says, her tone going from light and playful to 

Serving up smiles: Duq Dining’s Shonetta

The Burgh’s best burgers:BRGR in East Liberty

BRGR  catches  the  eye  and the food captures the heart.Innovative  in  every  way, 

from the menu to  the seating,  the restaurant  takes  ideas  and  pres-ents them in new ways.   On  the  lower  level  of  the  East Liberty  location,  situated  at  5997 Penn  Circle  South,  there  are  nor-mal  tables as well  as  taller  tables. Some of the tables are against the giant couch where patrons can sit. There are upwards of 10 televisions in the restaurant which makes it a great atmosphere to watch a game, but  the staff keeps  the volume off of  the  TVs  and  the  music,  which included The Black Keys, City and Colour  and  others,  plays  softly making it an intimate setting, per-fect  for  a  romantic meal  or  just  a 

night out with friends.  The  upstairs  is  beautiful  and even  though  there  are  only  a  few tables it is the perfect setting for a nighttime meal. During the warm-er months the garage door shaped glass  windows  in  the  front  of  the restaurant are opened and  the air flows  in  and out  of  the first floor. The  art  and  furniture  are  really what  take  the  restaurant  over  the top  because  it’s  what  makes  the setting  unique  between  the  inter-esting  cowboys  on  the wall  to  the low hanging lights.  The atmosphere  is very  inviting and  the  host  welcomed  my  din-ing companion and I with a warm smile  and  quickly  seated  us.  We were  lucky  because  the  place was only  about  half  full  at  6  p.m.  on Monday. If  you go on the weekend might have to wait for over an hour because of BRGR’s popularity.   The waiter was quick to serve us and was always around when need-ed, but never intruded. I started off with a root beer from Natrona Bot-tling Company. I had never had the brand before and when I  took my first sip I realized that this was one of the better root beers available.   The  menu  is  simple,  page  one lists  alcoholic  and  non-alcoholic milkshakes,  page  two  names  the burgers and page  three advertises the sides and other entrée options. Even  though  the menu  is  easy  to 

read the food is anything but ordi-nary. I had a lot of choices for burg-ers, including the signature BRGR, which comes with pickled red on-ions,  arugula  and  bleu  cheese,  or the Fire  in  the Hole, which  called my  name  with  guacamole,  jalap-enos,  pepperjack  cheese,  chipotle mayo  and  sriracha,  but  no  good yinzer  could  pass  up  the  Double Yoi. This smartly prepared burger comes with pastrami, Swiss cheese, fried  egg,  coleslaw  and  thousand island dressing. I got a side of their homemade chips and crack dip,  a delicious meat and cheese dip. My friend  got  the  Santa  Fe  hippie,  a black bean and roasted corn falafel patty  with  tomato,  guacamole, pepperjack  cheese,  shredded  let-tuce  and  cilantro-lime  creme  fra-iche, with a side of BRGR fries.  When I took the first bite of my Double Yoi I was shocked. The fla-vors were so full and bright. Every component  of  the  burger  was  in harmony  with  one  another.  The patty was cooked to a perfect me-dium. At each table there are four sauces:  ketchup,  mustard,  a  cus-tom  whole  grain  Dijon  mustard and the BRGR sauce. I splashed a little  of  the  BRGR  sauce,  mayon-naise  fused  with  other  spices,  on my  burger  and  it  really  enhanced the flavors. The chips were cooked 

sAúl Berríos-ThoMAs

layout editor

see BURGER — page 11

MArnie schleicher

the duquesne duke

AAron WArnick / PhoTo eDiTor

Shonetta Ahywood is a mother, avid reader and has worked at Duquesne for six years.

see SERVE— page 11

  Last week it was three defensive touchdowns in the final  four min-utes  of  the  first  quarter  that  pro-pelled the Dukes back to .500 in a 27-14 victory that was never really close over West Liberty.   This week’s heroics  came much later in the contest.   Locked  in  a  tough  matchup against  defending  NEC  champion Wagner, the Dukes exploded for 24 points in the fourth quarter to open conference play with a resounding 34-7 victory at Rooney Field in the annual homecoming game.   After opening the season playing four games spread over the course of  six  weeks,  the  Red  and  Blue played games in consecutive weeks for the first time in the 2013 cam-paign in their NEC opener.   Coach  Jerry  Schmitt  said  the sporadic  schedule  made  it  diffi-cult for the team to find an identity with  bye  weeks  in  between  tough losses  to Dayton and Youngstown State in September.   However,  the  Dukes  may  have found a groove after back  to back home victories to start October.   “I  think  through  that whole  six week  [stint]  with  the  exhibition games and the off weeks, we didn’t know who we were,” Schmitt said. “We were trying to find our place, we play well for a little bit, we play great at Albany, and we didn’t for a 

little bit. We didn’t get a win for a little while. I think this kind of just verifies to them all  the hard work they’re  doing  and  that  we  are  a pretty good football team, and that we gotta keep moving forward and keep getting better.”  Redshirt  freshman  Dillon Buechel  found  sophomore  wide-out  Chris  King  on  a  slant  route across  the  middle  with  a  little over seven minutes remaining in the  first  quarter  to  give  the  Red and Blue  an  early  7-0  lead.  This marks the second time in as many weeks the two have connected on scoring patterns.   A  47-yard  boot  from Duquesne kicker Austin Crimmins and a 15-yard Wagner’s  touchdown  run  up the middle made it 10-7 at the half  A shouting match of sorts broke out as  teams herded back  to  their respective  locker  rooms,  indica-tive of the bad blood that remained from last year’s matchup in which the Seahawks’ victory earned them the NEC crown.   The  second  half  proved  to  be  a defensive and special teams battle. The  defensive  unit  did  their  job again  this  week,  holding  the  Se-ahawks  to  233  yards  on  the  day (141  rushing,  92  passing),  while punter Aaron Fleck pinned the op-ponent  inside  their  own  20-yard line 5 times through the course of the matchup.   The  advantage  the Dukes  built in the field position battle through the  third  quarter  translated  to 

points  early  in  the  fourth.  After a  three  and  out  inside  their  own red  zone,  Seahawks  punter  Matt Misley  launched  a  55-yard  punt from  his  own  12-yard  that  gave the  Dukes  the  ball  at  their  own 36.  The  offense  strung  together an 11-play, 64-yard drive  that  re-sulted  in  a  two-yard  touchdown run  courtesy  of  Ryan  Ho  behind a  healthy  dose  of  senior  running back Jason Douglas and Buechel’s steady  hand  under  center  that gave  the  Dukes  a  17-7  lead  with 13:59 remaining in the game.   Crimmins capped the next drive with  a  23-yard  field  goal  after Douglas  rushed  six  times  for  36 yards  that  ran  a  little  under  four minutes  off  the  clock. The Dukes’ second  tailback  said  they  simply won the battle in the trenches late in the game.  “We  were  just  pounding  it  and pounding  it  and  then  we  broke free,” Douglas  said.  “I  had  a  little space to work. That’s what we were banking  on  all  week,  and  we  just stuck  to  the  gameplan.  [Wagner] ended  up  wearing  down,  getting tired. We were in good shape.”  The  defense  continued  their stingy  second  half  effort,  forcing yet  another  three  and  out  on  the next drive. Wagner managed to log four first downs in the second half, three of which came on  their first drive of the third quarter.   With  6:38  remaining  in  the 

  The  celebration  in  the  Keller Fieldhouse could be heard from 50 yards away. Music blared. Players chanted  in  unison.  The  doors  to the Dukes’  locker room were near ready to burst open.   “You don’t want to go in there,” senior running back Jason Doug-las  said,  pointing  to  the  doors with a smile.   The Dukes’ 34-17 win over defend-ing NEC champs Wagner on Satur-day felt like a win for the ages. The stage was huge – the Red and Blue opened  conference  play  on  home-coming  day  against  the  same  team that broke their hearts last year on a Dominique Williams  touchdown  in the game’s final minutes.   But  the  Red  and  Blue  never faltered,  making  sure  this  year’s game,  329  days  later,  would  end differently.   “It’s  a  huge win  to  open up  the conference play, to do it on home-coming  day  in  front  of  our  home crowd and do  it  in  that  fashion  in the fourth quarter, it’s great for the kids,”  coach  Jerry  Schmitt  said. “I’m happy for them.”  A quick glance at the final score would  indicate  an  old-fashioned 

beatdown, and it was just that. To-tal domination.   But the domination was held to a single quarter. In the fourth quar-ter, the Dukes were clicking on all cylinders,  racking  up  24  points and  forcing Wagner’s  offense  into a  stand-still.  It  was  reminiscent of  last week’s first quarter against West  Liberty,  when  Duquesne scored 20 points in the final 4:09.   This  time,  it  was  all  thanks  to lockdown defense and outstanding special teams.   The defense  is  really  starting  to come together, and the days of al-lowing  59  points  to  Youngstown State and 24 points  to Albany ap-pear to be coming to an end. At the beginning  of  the  season,  Dorian Bell  and  Rich  Piekarski  were  the only  ones who  stepped  up  in  big-time  situations.  Now  the  defense as a unit is shutting down normal-ly-efficient offenses with contribu-tions from everyone.   Chris Johnson and Sam Martello refused  to  let  anyone  by,  leading the  team  with  eight  tackles  each. and Johnson’s interception late in the  fourth  quarter  killed  any mo-mentum the Seahawks had left.   On the special teams front, Devin Rahming was due  for  a huge punt 

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game,  junior  wide  receiver  Devin Rahming broke the game wide open when he fielded a 55-yard punt run-ning  backwards  over  his  shoulder, found an edge along the Duquesne sideline and returned it 62 yards to the  big  house  to  give  the  Dukes  a 27-7 lead and their first punt return touchdown since 1997.   His effort on the day earned him NEC  Special  Teams  Player  of  the Week honors, totaling 107 yards on six returns.   Schmitt said  the return came at just the right time in the game.   “Our  special  teams  guys  take great pride in their play. We em-phasize  it  all  the  time  how  im-portant  it  is,” he  said.  “The punt return  was  huge.  I’ve  been  talk-ing about it for the last five or six years  that  we’re  too  talented  of a  football  team  to not have a  re-turn, and it came at a great time. When  it  happened,  I  took  the phones  off,  and  I  went  and  cel-

ebrated.  We  work  really  hard  at it,  [and]  obviously  you  gotta  get some breaks.”   Senior  fullback  Ethan  Dorsey rumbled around the left side with 1:38  remaining  in  the  game  for a 40-yard  touchdown  to give  the Red and Blue a 34-7 lead, adding insult  to  injury  and  capping  the Dukes’ scoring efforts on the day.   Schmitt  said  his  team  would celebrate  a  vengeful  victory  over a  conference  rival  in  their  NEC opener and get back to  the grind very quickly, stressing the Dukes need  to  take  their  schedule  “one at a time.”    “There  [are]  no  easy  games  in this  conference  –  none,”  he  said. “It’s just gonna be who keeps get-ting better, who stays healthy, and who  grinds  it  out,  and  like  this game – who stays tough mentally.”  The  Red  and  Blue  will  travel across town this weekend to face Robert Morris  at  6:00  on  Satur-day night and try  to extend their winning streak to three. 

Colin Phillips (right) is a junior defenseman for the Duquesne men’s soccer team. The Dukes re-cently travelled to Philadelphia for a two game road trip. Here is Colin’s account of the weekend.

Days 1&2:

  As the professor rambled on, my foot couldn’t stop tapping. Anxious tapping; a byproduct of my excite-ment  for  the  start  of  conference play and the road trip to Philadel-phia. My eyes methodically moved from the professor to the clock and back … any minute now, I thought. As  the  professor wrapped  up, my bags were already packed and her final words  of  dismissal  sounded, to my ears, like a starting gun as I raced out of the room.  As  I  approached  the  travel  bus I  saw  my  teammates  walking  to-wards  the  bus  with  the  same  ex-cited  kick  in  their  steps.  After  a quick  stop  in  the  locker  room  for gear,  the  bus  was  loaded.  Unlike previous years, there were no dis-tinct  areas  of  the  bus  designated for certain classes – a testament to the new sense of unity  felt within the  team.  Pillows,  earphones  and textbooks came out of bags as ev-eryone made themselves comfort-able.  A  quick  head-count was  the last  formality  needed  before  the bus departed.  Having dozed off,  I awoke  later to  music  and  clapping.  Arnaud 

Cesarini  and  Kadeem  Panto-phlet  were  drumming  and  clap-ping  along  to  a  French  song  that I  couldn’t  quite make  out.  Before I  knew  it  I  was  drumming  along on  the  window,  providing  a  deep underlying  beat.  Martin “Baby-Jet”  Fiemawhle, Filip  Velasevic  and  Nick DiSomma  all  joined  in, creating  a  surprisingly coherent  union  of  beats. Josh Ellis tried his best to clap  along,  but  it  became quickly  apparent  that  his skill set is more geared to-wards the soccer field. The symphony of beats carried on for a few songs, and be-fore we knew it, we’ve ar-rived in Philadelphia.   Before  heading  to  the hotel  we  headed  to  Olive Garden.  A  lenient  dollar limit gave us plenty of op-tions  to  choose  from. Be-tween the unlimited salad and  bread,  as well  as  the main  dishes,  everyone left  the  restaurant  won-dering  why  they  ate  so much.  Stomachs  full,  the bus  took  us  to  the  hotel where we were  given  our rooms.    Once  the  rooms (and  roommates)  were handed  out,  we  decided to do one last thing before heading to bed: a quick jog and stretch as a team to loosen up the muscles that had become stiff from the long bus ride. 10 minutes did the trick, and everyone headed to bed.

  We  woke  for  8  a.m.  breakfast and  then hopped on  the bus. La-Salle University was  the  destina-tion,  despite  our  7  p.m.  kick-off time. The purpose  for  our morn-ing excursion was to get a feel for 

the surface of the playing field be-fore  having  to  play  on  it. We  ar-rived to what Coach Chase Brooks accurately  described  as  a  “bowl-ing alley”. LaSalle’s field was  just 

that:  long  and  skinny.  We  spent 30  minutes  testing  out  our  ball control  on  the  foreign  surface, just long enough to feel confident going  into  the  evening’s  game. On  the  way  back  from  the  field 

we  stopped  at  Panera  for lunch. With our  tanks re-filled,  we  made  our  way back  to  the  hotel  for  our final preparations.   Each  guy  prepares  dif-ferently.  Some  sleep, some  read,  some  listen to music,  some  relax  and some  socialize.  Regard-less,  each  of  us  spent  the afternoon  preparing  for the  game.  When  4:30 p.m.  came  around,  we gathered our gear and left for the field. After an hour of battling  through Phila-delphia traffic, we arrived at  the  field.  At  this  point it  was  pouring  rain,  so we rushed  into  the  locker room  to  change.  An  hour before kick-off we headed out to the field and began warming up. With the rain falling  heavily  down  on us,  we  did  not  waste  any time  getting  moving  to stay warm. After our usual warm-up routine, the time finally came: kick-off.  We  started  well  –  good ball movement,  good  defen-

sive organization and a few danger-ous  moments.  Failure  to  defend  a corner kick put us down 1-0 midway through the first half. However, we responded well, with Simon Gomez 

slotting  in  a  shot  later  in  the  first half to send us into halftime tied 1-1. The  second  half  started  similarly; we  appeared  to  have  the  better  of the  ball  possession  and  had  some good  moments.  Unfortunately,  we were caught on a counter-attack and LaSalle took the lead 2-1. With time running out, we threw numbers for-ward to get a goal back, and they put another goal past us to finish us off.  Exhausted,  disappointed  and upset,  we  headed  back  into  the locker room. Nothing much need-ed  to  be  said,  we  knew  that  we didn’t  get  the  job  done,  and  that our  focus  had  to  be  on  Sunday’s game.  Coaches  would  dissect  the game film and have film study the following  day  to  learn  from  the mistakes we made in the game. Af-ter cleaning up, we made our way back  to  the  hotel. With  our  post-game  meal  provided  on  the  bus, most of us headed straight  to bed upon arriving back at the hotel.

Days 3&4:

  9  a.m.  seemed  to  come  around quickly. Breakfast was first on the agenda,  followed  by  reboarding the bus. This time our destination was  downtown  Philadelphia  for some  sightseeing.  With  the  gov-ernment  shutdown,  there was  lit-tle sightseeing that could be done, and  so  the  majority  of  time  was spent  roaming  downtown  Phila-delphia.  Luckily  the  rain  decided to  hold  off,  which made  the  time that much more enjoyable. With 

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return performance. He was given six chances to take one to the house, and he did in spectacular fashion.   The game’s other three quarters were a different story. For the first 45 minutes, the Dukes turned to kicker Austin Crimmins to keep them in the game, and  he  did  just  that.  Forced  to  start  in  their  own 20-yard-line most drives, Wagner had trouble mov-ing the ball and gaining momentum.   The  Dukes  showed  discipline  in  avoiding  yellow flags. Wagner was hit with five penalties resulting in 59 yards, and two of those gave the Dukes key first downs.   To  stay away  from costly penalties, Schmitt  told his team to “play our game.”   “Walk  away,  because  they’ll  make  the  mistakes and get the penalties,” Schmitt said. “They’ve always been a chippy team – a little rivalry. We go after each other, play good games and I think it paid off for us, because they got some tough penalties.”  Given  the  circumstances,  sweet  revenge has never felt better. It may be another 329 days before the two teams meet again, but until then, the Dukes can forget the image of Dominique Williams and build off the vic-tory over the defending champs.   But they shouldn’t cherish it for too long, coach says.   “We’re going to enjoy this until tomorrow, watch this film and then get right on to Robert Morris.” 

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Junior special teams ace Devin Rahming reaches for the py-lon in the third quarter. Ryan Ho ran in for a touchdown shortly thereafter.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT10WEEKEND

EVENTSCulture Club: Curators of

Carnegie International5:30 p.m., Oct, 17

The event will be held at Carn-egie Museum of Art in Oakland.

Curators of the 2013 exhibit Daniel Baumann, Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski will hold

group discussions on their work with the International. For more information,

visit cmoa.org.

Hugh Laurie 6:30 p.m., Oct. 17

The actor, known for his role on House, will perform at

Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead. He will be backed by The Copper Bottom Band. Tickets start at $55. For more

information or tickets to this all ages show,

visit druskyentertainment.com.

DPC Film Series7 p.m., Oct. 17 and 18,

9 p.m. Oct. 19The film Despicable Me 2 will

be shown Thursday and Friday 104 College Hall. An encore

showing will be held Saturday in the Union NiteSpot. For

more information, email dpc@duq.edu or

call (412) 396-6619.

Drake7 p.m., Oct. 18

The artist will perform at Consol Energy Center. Also performing is Miguel. For more information or tickets to this all ages show, visit

consolenergycenter.com

Full Pint Tour12 p.m, Oct. 19

The tour will start at Carson Street Deli,located in the South Side.

Transportation will be provided to Full Pint Brewery, located in North Versailles. For more information,

visit pabrewtours.com.

Drunkin PunkinOct. 19

The second annual event will be held at Hough’s Taproom &

Brewpub in Greenfield. Three ses-sions will be held and will include 10 oz. samples of pumpkin beers, light snacks and a 5 oz. souvenir glass. For more information, visit

houghspgh.com.

Pandemic Birthday Bash9:30 p.m., Oct. 19

The event will be held at Brillobox in Garfield. The event will feature guest DJ Joro Boro and more.

For more information to this 21+ event, visit pandemicpgh.com.

A taste of new music, October 15

The Avett BrothersMagpie and the Dandelion

  For  a  band  that  has  established  itself  by writing numerous happy-go-lucky folk songs, the Avett Brothers Magpie and the Dandelion is probably one of  their most ambitious and emotional attempts at songwriting. Magpie and the Dandelion is stained with a  lot  of  heartbreak  and  pain,  specifically  in songs  like  “Good  to  You,”  a  song  dedicated to  bassist  Bob  Crawford’s  daughter  who  re-cently sturggled with a brain tumor.  Another track that is relatively depressing is the ballad “Vanity,” where the lyrics discuss the concept of love as being worthless or futile.  Besides  going  through  a  different  theme  in terms of  lyrics on Magpie and the Dandelion, the  instrumentation  on  this  album  is  about the same for the Avett Brothers.   Their classic stringed instruments  from guitars, banjos and pianos do not take absence at all and the vocal harmonies are as good as they’ve ever been. - SF

Pearl JamLightning Bolt

Lighting Bolt is quite at home in the rest of Pearl Jam’s expansive discography. The rockers of early 90’s fame are not necessar-ily  breaking  any new ground,  but  are  cer-tainly proving that they have what it takes to  produce  a  record  that  is  just  as  full  of rock and roll and as its predecessors.   Modern  production  lends  a  clarity  to the  album  that  helps  to  reinforce  and strengthen  their  latest  effort.  Eddie  Ved-der’s  iconic vocals are  focused and put  to good  use,  boasting  surprisingly  delicate falsetto and his usual but trademark gritty rock voice.   While the band sounds polished and clear, it is still the same old Pearl Jam. They deliver, though in that respect, they have many times before as well. Fans will hear more of the leg-endary same, with what sounds like an inex-plicable modern twist. - GP

The Head and The HeartLet’s Be Still

   Part folk, part indie-pop, The Head and the Heart’s new album houses moments that shout and moments that cry. The songs here are sweet and reverb laden, full of warm, lush guitar and drum tones. The band is absolutely confident in its songs and their thoughtful progression.   Tracks like “Josh McBride” materialize slowly over soft acoustic guitar picking, banjo, piano, vo-cal harmonies and drum parts that never intrude and only help to build the song up. Other songs are not so subtle and take advantage of  clear bass lines and driving rhythms, often stomped out by both the bass drum and the members themselves, it  seems;  the  auxiliary  percussion  and  clapping hands on “Shake” are both pleasant and fitting.   While Let’s Be Still is not immediately mem-orable, multiple listens are the only way to get to  the bottom of  the  thick  layering of  instru-mentation,  harmonies  and  vocal  trading  be-tween members. - GP

Fall Out BoyPax-Am Days

  As a means to release a special edition reis-sue of last year’s Save Rock and Roll, Fall Out Boy is including eight bonus tracks with it, aka Pax-Am Days.  These additional tracks, which could ulti-mately be described as an EP, display a side of the Chicago outlet that hasn’t been seen in a while, which is why it may receive nu-merous  thumbs  up  by  some  of  their more veteran fans.  The  entire  EP  is  punk  influenced.    Each track,  except  for  the  last  one,  (“Caffeine Cold”) does not surpass the two-minute mark and  contains  fast  guitar  riffs  and  thumping bass lines.   The lyrics, though not very com-plex, are constantly repeated and get stuck in your head, especially in songs like “Hot to the Touch, Cold on the Inside.”  The EP is made by Patrick Stump’s vocals, which  do  not  get  lost  in  the  instrumentals; it  actually  shines  brighter  than  anything  on these songs. - SF

CultsStatic

  After  receiving  high  marks  from  their  un-signed, self-titled LP in 2011, indie rock/pop duo Cults returns with their sophomore album Static.  The first  thing  that makes  a  huge difference between this album and their debut  is the pro-duction quality.   Being  signed under Columbia Records  for  this  11-track  outing  versus  a  self-released album gives the listener the opportunity to hear the instrument variation that Cults uses.  From  the  organs  on  tracks  like  the  opener  “I Know” to the use of banjos on “We’ve Got It,” the instruments alone makes the album worthwhile.  While the melodies and rhythms are strong in nearly every track, the vocals seem to take a backseat in the process.   Lead singer Mad-eline Follin’s  vocals have a very airy and at-mospheric tone that can sometimes disappear with  rock-heavy  tracks  like  “I  Can  Hardly Make You Mine” and “Keep Your Head Up.”  Follin’s  style  doesn’t  change  much  at  all through  the  album,  but  Static  is  still  a  nice improvement for the duo. - SF

We Are ScientistsBusiness Casual

    Upon  hearing  the  first  few  seconds  of Business Casual, you might expect to be dis-appointed. “Dumb Luck” however, is catchy, melodic  and  bouncy, with  stinging,  electric guitar tones buzzing through pleasant vocal harmonies.   The  short  EP,  only  five  songs,  keeps  your attention with plenty of  interesting and var-ied sounds like creative drum parts, excellent juxtapositions  between  acoustic  and  electric guitar tones, and keyboard melodies laid un-derneath  the  sometimes  fast and sometimes slow songs.   Even the song demo that We Are Scientists decided to include is good; its gritty approach and  demo  quality  production  are  beautiful after  hearing  the  bold  and  well  made  songs preceding it. The final song on the EP is an ex-cellent cover of the famous Berlin song “Take My Breath Away”, true to the original and fea-turing wonderful, ephemeral  slide guitar and slow, churning drums. - GP

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something more somber. “I’m not gonna steer them the wrong way cause I got too many kids myself.”  Shonetta  smiles,  her  serious demeanor pushed aside and the fun  tone fills her voice again as a group of students pass and say hello to her.  “I love my kids. I don’t always remember  everybody’s  name but  I never  forget  a  face.  I  give 

them my own nicknames.”  Students  like  Montgomery were  worried  that  many  Ara-mark employees wouldn’t be re-turning this year because of the change  to  Parkhurst.  Shonetta is glad that she was able to come back and help Parkhurst during the transition at Duquesne, and she  likes  the  changes  that  they have made so far.  “I’m  just  glad  that  they  did things  to  make  it  safer  for  you 

guys. A background check, drug tests  ...  Safety  first.  I  practice safety,” she says.  Back in Off Ramp, a girl men-tions that this is her first time in the dining hall and asks Shonet-ta  about  the  hoagies  and  their cost.  As  she’s  wiping  down  the nearby counter, Shonetta cracks a smile and lets out a chuckle, “I know they’re a bit up there, but I  say  treat  yourself,  don’t  cheat yourself, baby!”

SERVE — from page 7

well, but the amount of salt on them made them al-most inedible, which was a shame because the crack dip, a meat and cheese mixture, was really good and would have went well with an ordinary chip.  My vegetarian friend was pleased with his Hip-pie. Those patties are difficult to make exciting, but they did a good job of putting the right complimen-tary  pieces  around  it.  The  combination  of  guaca-mole and crème fraiche really made the sandwich stand out. Both sandwiches came on the same type of bun, which was one of the better buns either of us had ever had. His side of fries, however, were just ok.  The  fries  were  average  quality  and  they were helped a bit by the seasoning (parmesan and herbs) 

put on them, but we were left wishing for flavor.  I  capped off my meal with a handspun vanilla milkshake. The milkshake was delicious  through and  through.  The  consistency was  perfect  and  it wasn’t overwhelmingly sweet. For those interested in adult beverages,  they have a wide  selection of both wine and beer.  The meal was very affordable and worth every pen-ny. I paid about $25 for my meal and my friend paid about $13. The atmosphere and high quality ingredi-ents would leave you expecting to pay much more.  When planning your next meal, consider every-thing BRGR has to offer. It is a great place to get a high-end, modern take on an American staple. The burgers will be delightful; just don’t have the same expectations of the sides. 

BURGER — from page 7

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nonfiction  is  cycled  through  pe-riodically,  so  students  can  always have access to new releases.   “It’s a great way for an otherwise academic  library  to  provide  some fun reading,” Euliano said.  However,  Duquesne  students may be on their own when it comes to enjoying popular literature. Eu-liano was not aware of any school-sponsored  popular  book  club  or discussion group currently in exis-

tence on campus.   “I think we may have indepen-dent  groups  of  students  getting together  to  discuss  books,  but  I don’t know of any club sponsored by  the  library,”  Euliano  said.  “It might  be  a  good  idea,  though. Anything  that  would  bring more people  into  the  library  is  some-thing I would be in favor of.”  When  asked  if  he  would  be  in-terested  in  joining  a  book  club  at Duquesne,  Cornett  responded,  “I would definitely consider it. ”

READING — from page 2

Study examines pleasure reading

  The 21 year-old Saxonburg, PA native has been coming to Pittsburgh Zombie Fest for three years and has one simple reason for attending.  “I just like to come dress up,” she said.  One of the vendors that catered to the undead was Zombie In a Box, a $40  interactive  fake wound  that  comes with directions  and  supplies  to look like a zombie, created by John Matechen and his wife, Barabara.   The Matechens own Train4Real, a medical supply company specializing in realistic and interactive training aids, like pressure ulcers and wound enclosures.    “I thought ‘there has to be another use for these things,’” Matechen said, who was a zombie in George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.  Another vendor, Kevin Kreiss, owner of The Living Dead Museum and Giftshop in Evans City, Pa., set-up a zombie laser tag on Arsenal Park’s baseball field.   Players could participate for a $3 fee for zombies and $5 for shooters. The  objective was  for  the  shooter  to  eliminate  the  zombies  before  they reached a fake human body, set atop a folding table in the outfield.  Kreiss even rented professional laser tag equipment for the first go at zombie laser tag.  “Something I’ve tried to do for years,” Kreiss said.  Although its popularity is not what it once was, according to Menold, he still sees Pittsburgh Zombie Fest’s place in this zombie day and age.  “It probably peaked a couple years ago. Since then, a lot of other zombie themed events [have come about], so people are kind of spread out,” Me-nold said. “But this is still everyone’s favorite.”

ZOMBIES — from page 6

Gnawing zombies attack the Burgh

downtown seen and a Philly chees-esteak  in  my  stomach,  I  got  back on the bus. Once back at the hotel, we  did  a  jog/stretch  for  recovery; low-intensity soccer-related move-ments  with  dynamic  and  static stretching  followed  by  foam  roll-ing and resistance band stretching. Following  the  jog/stretch  we  had some downtime before heading out for dinner.  Saturday’s  dinner  was  provided by  California  Pizza  Kitchen.  This time, the food had already been or-dered  for us, and so we arrived  to a  beautiful  layout  of  pasta,  salad, pizza, bread and, of course, water. Forgetting how we  felt  after  stuff-ing  ourselves  at  Olive Garden,  we did  the  same  thing  at  CPK.  The leftover food was boxed up for us to bring back  to  the  rooms  for a  late night snack. After arriving back at the  hotel  there  was  one  thing  left to  do  for  the  day:  film  study. We were broken up  into our positions and given a time slot. The defend-ers and I met coaches down in the hotel  lobby  for our film session at 7 p.m. While a lot of the clips were of  positive  moments  in  the  game (like  I  mentioned,  the  game  was 

good  overall),  watching  the  film made it pretty clear where we had made  our mistakes. We  discussed the  adjustments we were  going  to make for Sunday and headed back to  the  rooms.  Following  the  de-fenders were the midfielders,  then the forwards. With a gameplan for Sunday,  we  headed  to  bed  with one  thing  on  our minds:  3  points against St. Joseph’s.  Once again, 9 a.m. seemed to roll around quickly. This time, kick-off was at 1 p.m., so we made our way to  the field  following breakfast. A shorter bus ride over meant more time  to  get  ready  and  focused  in the  locker  room.  Again,  each  guy went  through  his  own  personal routine  to  get  prepared.  An  hour before  kick-off  rolled  around  we headed out  to  the field. Warming up for the game proved to be sur-prisingly  difficult:  the  combina-tion  of  the wind,  playing  surface, and  ball  was  very  different  from what we were used to. As a result, it  took everyone extra  time  to get a feel for the environment that we were about to play in .  Eventually,  kickoff  came  about. Having lost the coin toss, we were defending the goal that faced right into  the  wind.  We  knew  that  we 

would  have  to  be  extra  cautious with our clearances and our defen-sive shape to account for the wind that  was  at  our  opponents  back. We  had  some  good moments,  but the half wasn’t very pretty. We held our  own  against  St.  Joseph’s  and their  wind  advantage,  and  made it  into  the  half  tied  0-0. We were feeling  confident  knowing  that we would have  the wind at  our backs for  the  second  half,  and  headed back  onto  the  field  with  an  extra burst of energy. With Friday’s loss still fresh in our memory, we domi-nated  the  second  half,  putting  3 goals  past  St.  Joseph’s  thanks  to Kadeem Pantophlet,  Chris  Alescio and  Martin  Fiemawhle.  The  final whistle sounded and we celebrated a well-deserved win.   With  spirits  much  higher  than Friday night, the bus ride back home was electric. The weekend didn’t go exactly  as  planned  as  Friday’s  dis-appointment wasn’t completely for-gotten. However, the win on Sunday made  the bus  ride back  that much more  enjoyable.  For  those  players who are new to the team this year, they now know what  conference  is all about. Now we must take this en-ergy and ride it through the rest of our conference games. 

TALES— from page 9

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