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115th Year No. 63 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012 First Issue Free
INDEX | NEWS 2 | COMMENTARY 5 | ARTS & LIFE 7 | COMICS &GAMES 9 SPORTS 10
ROXANNE [email protected]
The holidays are a time for joy and compassion, and Shepherd’s Common Ground, a non-denomina-tional Christian group, is helping children in poverty to have a good Christmas with Operation Christmas Child.Operation Christmas Child, a yearly initiative by Samaritan’s Purse, gives out boxes and asks partici-
sized containers with toys or school supplies for poor children. The entire na-tional Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian organization, sent out over 130 million boxes across the globe last year. Common Ground student organizer Kimberly Clegg said this is their second year participating in the operation as a group, al-though most members of Common Ground have done similar initiatives through their respective churches and schools. Their goal last year was to have as much participa-tion as possible from their group, which was about 10 people.Clegg said, “We set a much higher goal [this year]. Our goal was to reach the entire campus.”Their goal seems to have been met. A total of 521 boxes given away so far, ac-cording to Clegg. 381 boxes were given out last week at the corner of Knutti. Common Ground student organizer Chris Korcsma-ros said only about 20 were given out last year.
SAMANTHA [email protected]
Shepherd limited adjunct faculty course loads from 12 to nine credits per se-mester, as many mem-bers of the adjunct faculty had been teaching similar course loads to full-time professors, which is not permitted.Full-time faculty require a 12-hour course load. Ad-juncts have also been de-prived of their stipend pay
nine credit hour cut.Many adjunct faculty mem-bers have to teach at vari-ous institutions in order to
-cially. This may involve teaching at two or three dif-ferent universities.Vice president for advance-ment Diane Melby noted that with fewer overloads, faculty members have more time for students.
Melby said, “The impact for students is actually that as faculty do less overload, they actually have more time for their students. The primary part of the faculty load is teaching, but in their contracts, faculty also have obligations for advise-ment, service, and their own scholarships.”The HLC’s policy states that the adjunct faculty is doing more than a regular full-time job and giving teachers less time spent on student advising and schol-arships, explained Melby.Sophomore art major Yas-meen Alkordi believes ad-juncts deserve much more than they are receiving here at Shepherd.Alkordi said, “I have known of faculty teaching as many as 15 different courses at four universities at the same time because they’re barely making it. They
and people need to be more
Cutting their hours with-out a logical reason goes against employee rights.”Full-time faculty get ex-tra pay when they teach an overload without losing
-ries are a median of what teachers earn nationwide.Adjuncts, however, do not receive stipend for their of-
it for free. Some adjuncts are retired, but the position is a main job for others.Dr. Betty Ellzey, chair of the English and modern languages department, said the changes are clearly unfair as adjunct professors teach nearly 90 percent of English classes.Many adjuncts struggle to cope with a decrease in pay. The English department includes 25 adjuncts and 13 full-time faculty members. Every student at Shepherd is required to take at least
two English courses. Much effort, therefore, must be put out by the adjuncts that teach English. Ellzey said, “I think it’s un-fair. What I would like to see is full-time instructor, non-tenure track positions so that the faculty and stu-dents are treated fairly. If we had one year, non-ten-ure track positions, we’d be getting a stronger commit-ment and expect more from them. Adjuncts play a very big role here at Shepherd.” For Dr. Momodou Darbou, chair of the sociology de-partment, the course load change has no positive outcome. More adjuncts are being hired for his de-partment because of the course load cutbacks. He believes full-time faculty
areas should be allowed to teach overloads as opposed to just getting an adjunct.
ROSE [email protected]
Imagine checking your bank account and being $1.3 million short. Shep-herd University is experi-
-ary loss due to a shortfall
in enrollment. President Suzanne Shipley addressed the faculty sen-
on Oct. 15.The budget and revenue gap resulted from differ-ences between enrollment projections and the way enrollment actually turned
out. Shipley said the uni-versity budget is based on historic projections and that those projections are usually more successful. Shipley said, “In the six years that I’ve been here, I think we have done a pretty good job of project-ing, and when we were a
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little off, we just absorbed it and adjusted and made do. But this is a bigger gap than usual. This is 1.3 million.”The enrollment in revenue projections for each year is
trends in enrollment, con-
aid, and economic states, among others. Tuition and fee increases are factored in with projected enrollment, with pricing based on govern-mental guidelines and bud-
get committee recommen-dations. The main reasons for the enrollment to revenue shortfall occurred pre-dominantly due to the elimination of summer PELL grants, Satisfactory Academic Progress, and a mishap in the admissions
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Veterans line up on Rams Field before the game on Saturday for Military Appreciation Day. Photograph by Ryan Franklin
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No Shave November
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IT’s Internet Outage
Recovery Plan Page 3
50 Shades of Freedom
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Darbou said, “In my de-partment, this has been a huge problem. You end up actually having adjuncts to teach courses because we are so shorthanded. Since adjuncts are limited hours, it forces us to hire more of them. In some cases, we get just anybody, which
education.”Dr. Anders Henriksson, chair of the history de-partment, said Shepherd is lucky to have such well-
-ing as adjuncts. Henriksson said, “We are so fortunate that there is a substantial pool of quali-
There’s been an over pro-duction of Ph.D.s. It’s a market relationship. I think that the motives that lie behind this were good as they were trying to re-duce the overloads.”Henriksson feels bad for the adjuncts because they try to make a living and have been put in a very stressful situation.The changes have caused a huge problem for ad-junct professor Pamela Ed-wards. Edwards will only be teaching three courses next semester.Edwards went to Dr. Jim Lewin, senator of the Eng-lish and modern languages department, and asked him to ask the faculty sen-ate that the stipend be re-instated for anyone teach-ing nine hours.Melby stated the senate is pulling together a group of people to see what can be done institutionally to im-
Melby said, “I’m going to be leading that commit-tee. It’s going to be having
next few weeks. A few long-term adjuncts will be on the committee so that they can feed into what will make the situation more tenable.”The accreditation institu-
tion argues that the course load and adjunct hour cuts will improve educational instruction. Adjuncts, how-ever, will be almost forced to seek additional employ-ment elsewhere due to their low salaries. Edwards is displeased with the way this change was carried out and stated it was only a few weeks be-fore the semester started that adjunct faculty learn this information.Edwards said, “I had a sit-uation at Shepherd where I was able to focus on my students and make enough money to support myself. They’re wrong about that, because it decreases the adjunct faculty’s time be-cause they have to look for other work. This will divide the attention, time, and loyalties between dif-ferent institutions. That doesn’t improve teaching, and it’s not a better situa-tion.” Dr. Scott Beard, dean of graduate studies and con-tinuing education, said the policy is there to protect the faculty so that they are getting time for profession-al development.Beard said, “Our faculty is very student-centered, which is great, but we do need to be abiding by our
situation for faculty and adjuncts because it hits them in the pocket book.”Edwards stated that she is disappointed that the ad-ministration would treat adjuncts this way.Edwards said, “If I didn’t
-nancially, I would be in big trouble. That’s a huge
only have a few weeks to try to do something about it. I thought it moved un-usually and unnecessar-ily rapidly. It was rather harsh and not appreciative of how hard adjuncts work for this institution.”
Fewer students than pro-jected attended summer
aid was not available.The Satisfactory Academ-ic Progress also affected budget cuts because fewer students returned to Shep-herd than were expected. Students placed on SAP have a low GPA, a low per-centage of completion, and/or maximum time frame perimeters. Last spring, over 500 Shepherd stu-dents were placed on SAP. Of those students, only 244 returned, and 313 did not. It was projected that those numbers would be re-versed.“I believe that the economy is having an impact on how many students can enroll
aid,” said Shipley. “If aid is reduced, students may not be able to afford to enroll. Or if they do not make good grades, parental or other outside support may less-en.”Shipley stated that the other factor was a letter that was accidently sent electronically rather than mailed in print. She said that this counteracted their recruitment strategy of making the experience feel “personal” to potential incoming students.
Shipley said, “We had a sophisticated recruitment strategy that we thought was launched and it wasn’t. The strategy was not im-plemented in the way we wanted and thus resulted
was unavailable for com-ment at the time of print.Shipley says students will not feel a direct effect of the shortfall. “There should not be an im-pact on students other than sharing the discomfort of faculty and staff as they have fewer resources to try to do the things faculty and staff need to do to keep cur-rent in their disciplines,” she said.In order to counterbalance
new faculty members was placed on hold and fac-ulty salaries were frozen despite last year’s efforts to increase them. Shipley said that holding off on fac-ulty searches has placed $500,00 back into the bud-
unused initiative money.The shortfall cannot be cov-
reserves because reserve money goes into a reserve fund and is held for large projects that increase the
institution’s chances of in-creasing revenues or ac-complishments. Fiscal year 2013’s unused initiative money will also come from $103,000 from faculty promotion and clas-
-justments, $61,000 from the release of a disabilities position, $48,000 from the addition of one more IT po-sition, and $360,000 in op-erations and maintenance. By subtracting the unused
year 2013 from this year’s shortfall, the budget will need to be reduced by an estimated $963,000. These reductions will reduce an estimated $397,000 from travel expenses such as faculty conferences, $116,000 from vacancy sav-ings, $100,000 from tele-phone operations, $77,000 from computer operations, $167,000 from contractual operations, and $106,000 from supplies.Dr. Diane Melby, vice presi-dent of academic affairs, said, “We will try to better project estimated revenue, project what might be in play for next year, and in-crease salaries on a year to year basis only.”
Korscmaros is “excited to see the campus getting involved in what is an ex-cellent way to assist the less fortunate around the world.”Common Ground will be handing out more boxes on campus on November 9, as well as begin to accept the boxes already handed out. The last day that Common Ground will accept boxes on campus is November 12. Participants may then drop off boxes to the Covenant Baptist Church in Shep-herdstown before Novem-ber 15.Clegg suggests for college students living cheap to
buy in bulk with a friend and split what you buy from Walmart or the Dollar Store to give a variety of toys and school supplies. Filling each box, including $7 for ship-ping, should cost no more than $20, said Clegg.
then select if it is for either a boy or girl and the age range. The boxes of toys and school supplies will be taken from the Covenant Church to a processing fa-cility, where they will be inspected, wrapped, and
who would not normally have a good Christmas.Sophomore English major
Diana Everhart originally picked up a box for the Eng-lish honor society Sigma
-lay of the storm got in the way. She still plans to “put lots of fun things in the box” she picked up, however. Common Ground is open to all of campus. Korcsmaros said their goal is to “pro-vide an atmosphere where students can investigate, begin, or deepen a rela-tionship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ.” To learn more about Com-mon Ground or Operation Christmas Child, contact student organizers Chris Korcsmaros or Kimberly Clegg.
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OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
Alexander Cira and Chris Korcsmaros volunteer their time for Operation Christmas Child. On Friday November 2, students had the chance to grab their own box to help a needy child celebrate the joy of Christmas. Photograph by Ryan Franklin
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NEWS
NICK PAPPAS
Hidden inside White Hall
books on international law and reminiscent pictures of one man’s past: a traveler throughout Europe as a child and now a lifetime ex-plorer, having visited coun-tries in six continents. His travels and experiences
and have shaped him into the man he is today.Dr. Aart Holtslag, Shep-herd’s new assistant pro-fessor of political science, teaches classes related to his expertise in interna-tional law, organizations, and human rights. He earned his law degree at the University of Stras-bourg in France, his mas-ter’s degree at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and his doc-torate at Florida Interna-tional University in Miami, Fla.Holtslag was born and raised with his sister, In-eke, in the town of Emmen in the Netherlands. His mother, Hennie, was also born in the Netherlands,
but his father, Gerrit, was from Indonesia. His par-ents were both educated and provided him with a pleasant childhood.Outside of work, Holtslag enjoys reading, writing, and listening to music, especially a great guitar player. He also swims three times a week and plays an occasional game of soccer. He is an avid cook, willing to try any recipe, but his favorite dish is the Indone-sian “rijsttafel,” a buffet of Sumatran side dishes.Holtslag and his wife, Heather, are expecting a baby.Holtslag became interested
his parents were prisoners during World War II. His father was in Indonesia, and his mother was in Eu-rope.Holtslag, however, was not always focused on his edu-cation. It took him eight years to complete his sec-ondary education instead of the normal six years in the Netherlands.Holtslag said, “I was not a good student, not at all. I was too much into sports. I was a swimmer. I prac-ticed six hours a day. I was
on a representative team, and so you get too involved. You have too much the idea of ‘Okay, swimming is the life,’ but that’s not the im-portant stuff, of course.”He wants students to know the value of hard work and tells his students not to give up.Holtslag previously worked with refugee organizations and human rights orga-nizations, conducting re-search, writing reports, translating and doing oth-er jobs related to activism and law. He recalled an instance from the 1990s about a human rights abuse in-vestigation in Surinam for Amnesty International. He attempted to contact the president of Surinam, who was suspected to be involved in the issue, but was always told that the president was unavailable. However, during one at-tempt, the president him-self answered the phone call.Holtslag said, “I asked him questions and he called me every horrible word in the book. I don’t think many people have been cursed out by a president.”
SAMANTHA [email protected]
Students and faculty grew frustrated with the cam-pus Internet after several issues this semester while IT services works to im-prove Shepherd’s network.Shepherd has experienced two massive events these past few weeks, a power outage followed by an In-ternet outage. These situ-ations, however, are out of IT’s control. IT depends on Frontier, an internet service provider used by many schools throughout the Eastern Panhandle.Senior psychology major Nicole Roehm said the In-ternet outage during mid-terms was beyond frus-trating.Roehm said, “It was com-pletely ridiculous. Almost all of my assignments and study guides are on Sakai, and not being able to access my e-mail was the worst. I couldn’t even study half of what I need-ed to for my midterm all because Shepherd’s Inter-net was down.” Associate professor of com-puter information sciences Osman Guzide said the recent outages were more than a minor pain. He had
no source of connecting with his students.Guzide has students sub-mit their assignments on Sakai. He said he had two options: either have stu-dents submit their home-work without using tech-nology or delay the due date.“It was horrible,” Guzide said. “Losing e-mail con-nection is even worse for communicating with stu-dents. Even if this happens for a short amount of time, teaching is affected. If this happens during midterms, many things can be de-layed or teaching methods should be changed.”Joseph Dagg, the new di-rector of IT services, said the IT team is diligently working to improve its
-ate a solid infrastructure. He seems to be optimistic and willing to take on the
Dagg said, “One thing about IT is that it’s one of those expectancies that it’s up all the time. We realize that there are frustrations within the student and faculty bodies.”Dr. Jason McKahan, assis-tant professor of commu-nications and new media, believes these situations are nothing new and an
Dr. Aart Holtslag Photography by Nick Pappas
He was also a teaching as-sistant and full-time aca-demic advisor at Florida In-ternational University and a professor of international relations at the University of Massachusetts.Shepherd attracted Holtslag because of its small size and its status as well as its edu-cational values. He has not experienced anything nega-tive so far, except the occa-sional Internet troubles. He loves the relationships that are built here between col-leagues.
-ished writing a book on the relationship between non-governmental organizations and the proliferation of small weapons. He is begin-ning research on indigenous populations. He would like to write and publish the sto-ry of his parents. Wade Davis, an undeclared
freshman, said, “He does not try to direct us to-
-ogy or mindset, which from what I heard about a lot of schools is not al-ways the case. He’d be cool to converse with in a less academic setting.”
needed position in Shep-herd’s political science program.Dr. Stephanie Slocum-Schaffer, department chair of political science said, “The areas of his ex-pertise were exactly what we were looking for. It may be hard to imagine, but the number of politi-cal scientists with exper-tise in these areas is ac-tually quite limited. Dr. Holtslag is a thoughtful, friendly, knowledgeable, accessible and helpful colleague and teacher.”
overall part of the chances students and faculty take on a daily basis.McKahan said, “I don’t think that IT has anything
about these situations. Un-foreseen equipment failure or outages due to storms are just part of the risk we take in making ourselves depen-dent on the internet and digital technologies.” IT is in the process of im-proving the Internet connec-tion. Details will emerge as changes begin to happen. To begin their improvements,
recovery plan, including ad-ditional battery back-ups and air conditioners.Many are not aware there are two sets of wireless on campus. Registration wire-less is Shepherd maintained and managed. SU wireless
is managed by Frontier. Dagg and the IT team have been working with Frontier to improve the service.Dagg said, “We are working closer with our venders and our providers. We have now reduced turnaround times
we’re dealing with now are infrastructure, which no one will see.”IT services are currently evaluating the new Win-dows 8 operating system. They have not created a strategy yet, so they are not quick to jump on any spe-
they have tested the sys-tems in the environment. They are also prepared to
handle a new campus.Dagg plans to help to im-prove the communication between students and IT services as a result of the various comments made by students and faculty. He welcomes any stu-dents and faculty to come visit him with questions anytime. Dagg said, “One thing I would like to see us im-prove upon is how to com-municate to the student
-ure out the right thing to
to blend and make sure that the student body knows what’s going on.”
Photography by Don Zumbach
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COMMENTARY
NATHAN YESSLER [email protected]
We’re all familiar with smoking, and we’re all too well aware of the results.
As wel-informed as this generation is about the bad results of smoking, lots of people still smoke. They know it’s bad for them. Many, if not most, want to quit, but somehow
they keep on. It’s a hard habit to break, I know, but with all that we know about smoking and its long-term effects, you’d think that more people would not smoke than do.
Even with all that is al-ready known, Shepherd feels it good to spread even more awareness on the topic. The Shep-herd Tobacco Education Program will seek to further the knowledge on the harmful effects of tobacco, through a $4,000 grant, for the fourth year in a row. There have been mixed opinions on whether this will do anything at all. I do not think it will do much. Maybe a few people, a handful, will be more compelled, but most smokers know the dangers better than
funny that so many people around Shep-herd who insist on eat-ing organic and being healthy are smokers. It defeats the purpose of
being healthy with every-thing else if you’re going to destroy your lungs. That’s for another piece, though. The point is the only way
to truly prevent tobacco use is to outright ban it, which is controversial be-cause this goes into lim-iting personal freedoms. I’m not saying that a ban should be instated, only that such an act would be the only way to be ef-fective. It wouldn’t stop smoking, only smoking on campus, so even then, results would be limited. All this said, I do actually hope for the best – that peo-ple will start to act on their knowledge and be prudent with their bodies. Howev-er, as people consistently show, this is not the case, and such words are seem-ingly wasted on those who choose not to do anything. If we want something done about tobacco and smok-ing, we need to actually do something, not just inform an already informed peo-ple. We already have that. We need to train people to do, not just to know. Well, those are my thoughts on all this. What are yours?
ZACH [email protected]
With the 2012 presiden-tial election cycle at its
the conduct of each of the candidates’ political campaigns can be drawn. What is perhaps the most important of these is the conveying of political ads. These are used as tool by each party to gain sup-port by way of media ap-peal. In most instances,
way to convey their mes-sages to the American people, hoping to gain their vote, whether it is a political or personal attack. In almost every case, the ads are used to criticize the opposition in order to make that candi-date seem less favorable. Many could argue that the ads that are put out serve
little purpose in terms of voting, that a couple minutes of advertising will not change a voter’s preference one way or the other. A rebuttal to this notion is to ask, if the ads did not matter, then why would the candidates in-vest so much money into political advertising? Billions of dollars in rev-enue for such an action should speak for itself. It is hard to imagine that the ads wouldn’t have much of an impact. If candidates felt that people don’t re-ally take notice to the ads, then so much revenue would not be invested. Po-litical ads are a very use-ful mechanism in terms of generating revenue. Another criticism could be that in many cases, it is hard to tell whether these ads have any real merit
to them, despite the fact that many newspaper ar-ticles and data are cited to back up the claims. How-ever, taken at face value, they are important to those who may not be in-formed on the issues that the candidates stand for. Freshman history major Brady Von Meyer believes that these ads do serve an important purpose. “Political ads can be very effective, especially to those who don’t know much about what ei-ther candidate is talk-ing about,” he says. “The main problem more re-cently is that both par-ties have become way too negative, which does not help the voter at all.’Political ads also serve as a money generator for campaigns, as alluded to earlier. This election
in particular has turned out to be one of the larg-est fund generators of all
-ing billions of dollars. In today’s world, money is an important factor in getting votes. With-out it, it can be very dif-
The ads also serve the im-portant function of cater-
most notable of these is the independent voters. People who can’t make up their minds about who to vote for may rely on politi-cal ads for their informa-tion, and some might not even make up their minds until election day. As an ex-ample, advertising would prove especially critical for independent voters in swing states like Florida and Ohio, where histori-cally the vote getting has been highly contested.
All the negative cam-paigning that had been rampant by both Obama and Romney toward each other serves a purpose with respect to indepen-dent voters. The indepen-dent votes in these states would vote for either candidate depending on how strong the message had been in a particular ad. A voter’s mind could be changed depending on the message that the candidate sends, keep-ing in mind that it is weighed against the mes-sage of the opposition. Political ads are a very important tool of the democratic process, es-pecially today. However, candidates should be wary of the messages they send and convey a mes-sage that speaks well to every American citizen.
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ALEX SEVERSON MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] The bestseller “Fifty Shades of Grey” presents a pathway for women to ex-press sexual desires that have been restrained by a patriarchal system, while celebrating liberation from censorship in art. To call “Fifty Shades of Grey” a piece of garbage is to ignore the risk the writer, Erika Leonard, took to create a bestsell-ing novel. Fifty years ago Henry Miller wrote one of the greatest novels of 20th century literature, “Tropic of Cancer.” While
no person would suggest that “Fifty Shades of Grey” lives up to the standards of its predecessor’s erot-ic work, to suggest that Leonard does not have the same amount of artistic integrity is selling her and any other writer that has pushed the boundaries of exploitative artistry short. Leonard succeeds in creat-ing one of the most unique novels of 2011 based on her determination to cre-ate something shocking and new, and she should be applauded for put-ting herself out there as a writer and as a woman. Referring to literary his-tory once again, The Mar-
quis de Sade has been em-braced as a great man who introduced an entirely new form of literature and sexu-al pleasure when he wrote “Justine.” The de Sade in-vented sadism and a form
rape and punishment on women, and yet he has still been considered one of the major inspirations for gothic literature. The nov-
read because of its graphic nature, but it pushed the limit to what literature could be and without a doubt has had a major im-pact on Leonard’s work. Leonard piggybacks off of
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tial writers in history by putting a positive spin on BDSM. Throughout “Jus-tine” a woman is repeat-edly raped without any sort of redemption, while Leonard’s main character embraces the sadistic and masochistic behavior. If anything, the novel also allows BDSM to be ac-cepted in by mainstream culture. The novel creates a safe avenue for this ta-boo subject to be intro-duced, even if it is all not factually correct since it is
Despite what some people would like to think, “Fifty Shades of Grey” creates an avenue for women to
express repressed sexual feelings in a world that has been male driven for thousands of years. “Fifty Shades of Grey” clears a pathway for gender and sexual equality for men and women by putting them both on the same plain. “Fifty Shades of Grey” won’t win a Pulitzer Prize, nor should it, but it has every right to be on the bestseller list. Exploit-ative content based on nu-dity, language, or violence should have a place in the mainstream world;; better it be on center stage than for it to be swept under the carpet to shock people later.
CHELSEA [email protected]“Fifty Shades of Grey” has been around for quite some time now, but it is just starting to leave its misog-ynist chains on our culture. Although it has been adored by millions of read-ers everywhere, “Fifty Shades of Grey” is little more than garbage. Set-ting aside the fact that the novel was created as
-light” novels about teen-agers with low-self es-teem, this novel has little to offer any reader. “Fifty Shades” is extremely poor-ly written and should have stayed in the smut section
where it belongs instead of being dragged out into the best-selling realm. First, the novel is offensive in the sense that sex is no longer a private institu-tion. The novel’s success has spotlighted the ideas of masochism and bond-age in such a way that it has taken the intimacy out of the sexual experi-ence and turned into a more mainstream one. While many novels have had the ability to make positive changes within society, this change is not one of them. There should always be some type of modesty when it comes to sexual matters,
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age novels should think twice about the implica-tions. Otherwise, women will be the ones to suffer. Take the recent debate in New York, for instance. A few weeks ago, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and attorney Wendy Long were asked during the lightning round if they had ever read the novel. Although both women said no to the question, even the female moderator an-nounced that she had not read it, and the male mod-erator chuckled and stated that he had no comment. However, the question re-
mains, out of all the nov-els one could think of, why this particular one? This novel presents nothing of intellect and does absolute-ly nothing for a woman. Imagine if during the presi-dential debates, Mitt Rom-ney or President Obama had been asked that ques-tion. It just wouldn’t be possible because men would not be asked about “Fifty Shades of Grey” dur-ing a debate. Men have too many real issues to discuss. This novel should not be a product of society and does not deserve a spot on the best-seller list, even if entertainment. There are too many other valuable
novels, ones with an ac-tual purpose and message. Instead of playing a role in unraveling the years of progress made by women to declare equal ground against men, why couldn’t “Fifty Shades of Grey” have been a novel writ-ten well or not about hei-nous sexual acts inspired by pathetic teenagers? It just doesn’t deserve the respect to be called-a best seller, nor should have it been a question asked to two political women during a debate. Smut will always just be smut, nothing more, and we’ve already taken too much of a beating as it is.
WENDY [email protected]
Adjusting to college life is a big transition from high school. Most of us are away from home, meet-ing new roommates, and getting settled in classes. Instead of just going to one building, our classes are spread out in differ-ent locations. It takes some taking used to.Being in college is both ex-citing and nerve-wracking for newcomers. It is excit-
on our own, the thing we have been waiting for for eighteen years. However,
it is like going into middle school, leaving our elemen-tary school friends and learning the ways of a big-ger school, only that feel-ing is multiplied by ten. We are in a new place, try-ing to make new friends.A fellow freshman, who requested to remain anonymous, says that be-ing in college was hard at
the weeks went by. Mate-rial is taught at a much broader range than high school and we have to put forth more effort to pass the class. The student also states that living at
school is a big difference from living at home be-cause it requires doing everything independently. The student is still getting used to the changes, but it seems to be getting better.I wholeheartedly agree with my peer’s state-ments. It is hard to get used to college life. We no longer depend on our par-ents;; we are responsible for our actions now;; and, above all, we are liable for our lives. We cannot blame our parents for our faults. We are on our own. The class loads are very different in college from
what they were in high school. Before, we had the same classes every day and homework in just about every class due the next day. College home-work is both easier and harder in different ways. It is easier for me because instead of cramming four different classes’ work in one night, I now have two days before certain classes. On the other hand, it is also harder than high school because there are bigger loads of work. Even with an extra day,
all the work in time. The classes are harder and require much more time.The biggest change for me was getting a room-
mate. The closest thing I’ve had to a roommate besides my sister when I was younger was my cat. I kept wondering if my roommate and I would get along. If I did not like her, I could not just hop in my car and drive home. I would still have to tough it out and deal with it. As I said before, college is a big transition, but it is a wonderful one. We are
have to rely on ourselves for buying necessities, doing our school work, and managing our time
-ing away from home for
while it does get easier.
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“I’m dropping down to a half-time student, but just kind of relax and enjoy the good times when you have them. That’s what I do. I play pool whenever I don’t have class.” - Justin Jennings, senior psychology major
“Probably not sleep through any classes like I did this semester. I like to multitask when I study, instead of focusing on one thing.” - Adam Oester, freshman com-munications major
“Study. That’s all I can do. I’m usually in the library or the academic center.” - Dwon Bess, freshman com-puter science major
“I’m just going to have fun and stay positive and talk to the girls, obviously. All you need is two things in college: you need to have fun, and you need to talk to girls if you’re a guy because if you have fun, it will keep you motivated to keep your grades up. If your grades are up and girls see that, they’re going to like you even more.” - Carlos Amaya, freshman business administration major
“Study, actually pay attention in class, try not to be so busy, hang out with friends, and listen to music.” - Amanda LeHew, junior elementary education major
“There should not be an impact on stu-dents other than sharing the discom-fort of faculty as they have fewer resources to try to do the things faculty and staff need to do to keep current in their dis-ciplines,” said Presi-dent Shipley regard-ing the $1.3 million
affect on students. How does a profes-sor not being able to stay current on their
affect the students? With travel expenses being cut for profes-sors, not only will the
professors suffer by not staying current, but also the students will not be current on their knowledge of
Not only is the university limit-ing their methods of staying current and up to date, they are also freez-ing faculty salaries. That will only make for an angry staff and professors leav-ing the univer-sity. Sounds like a simple problem to solve: teachers leave, just hire new ones. Not so fast!Another method that
Shepherd is look-ing to save money is by holding off on the search for new faculty members. According to the university, doing so will save $500,000. In other words, Shepherd will be taking measures that will likely make professors unhappy and could even drive them to leave the university. However, Shepherd will not be able to replace those professors since they are putting that on hold to save money. That sounds like a worst-case scenario.
But, there is another way Shepherd could cut back on costs and save money.When colleges across the country go on the recruiting trail for prospective students, they send letter after letter, package af-ter package, email after-…there it is! President Shipley said that one of the things that lead to the shortfall is that an electronic letter (email) was acci-dentally sent out in-stead of a hard copy letter, which went against their re-cruiting philosophy
of being personal. But, what’s wrong with the email? Is Shepherd not mak-ing a big push to “go green”? (hel-lo…it is called a GREEN BOOK). So while Shepherd is cutting back on their teacher salaries and resources, they are spending thousands of dollars mailing out letter after letter and package after pack-age when a simple email could the job. Also, someone has to be paid to send out all those let-ters. The cost of the paper, the cost of
stamps, and the cost of shipping could all be saved with a simple mass-email and the press of a “Send To All” button. For most students, a letter other than their acceptance let-ter did not make or break their decision to come to Shepherd. Thousands of pieces of paper are sent out to recruits every year. Shepherd should re-think their “sophis-ticated” recruitment strategy so they can keep the quality edu-cation they advertise.
NICK [email protected]
Justin Jennings
Dwon Bess Adam Oester
Amanda LeHew Carlos Amaya
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ALEX [email protected] are two types of men in this world;; there are men who grow manly bushels of facial hair and there are young lads who have wet dreams about the beard they wish they could have. This isn’t an insult to those who do not have facial hair but rather a statement based on fact. Basically, if your Dad doesn’t have a beard, you have two Moms. Those who envy men, that have beards which con-
-nel and pancakes topped
the Canadian wilderness (known for its barbarically superior beards), should embrace No Shave No-vember as their chance to gain notoriety and respect from those around them. Originally No Shave No-vember was based on bring-ing awareness of men’s is-sues such as prostate cancer
and depression by “chang-ing the face of men’s health.” Though, it is still encouraged that every person tries to donate or help some cause that af-fects men’s health this month, it can be enough to simply grow respect-able facial hair for the purpose of growing it and therefore achieve the abil-ity to morph into a man. If each man at Shepherd University would grow facial hair, the amount of depression on cam-pus would fall by at least 50 percent. People don’t make facts, beards do. You see, having facial hair gives a man a sort of
indescribable, and if ev-ery man on campus felt the warm rug of a beard on their face, the world would be a better place. Look at the lives of those with great facial hair and you’ll see that they are
BECOME A MAN
obviously superior to men without: the suaveness of Sean Connery’s beard, the piercing gaze of Danny Tre-jo’s mustache, or the com-manding style of General Ambrose Everett Burnside’s sideburns. If all of these men had met, their facial hairs would have created a massive black hole, given the amount of overwhelm-ing gravity and ruggedness that each man’s musk emits. This November, do yourself a favor and grow some fa-cial hair this November. If you thought “Fight Club” was a manly bonding ex-perience, you will prob-ably die from the amount of male comradery that goes on between gentlemen who grow facial hair together. Celebrate facial hair and manliness this November. Send in pictures of your fa-cial hair to The Picket at [email protected], on facebook.com/thepicket, or on twitter at SUPicket.
Teddy Roosevelt was once shot before a speech. He was able to give the speech with a bullet in his rib cage as a result of his
manly mustache.
General Brunside has become more well known for this sideburns than his performance in battle. In the spirit of
manlienss, that’s OK.
They say that Danny Trejo’s mustache once punched a man in the face because he didn’t have
facial hair.
of The Communist Manifest was called A Girl’s Sleepover.
BRITTANY [email protected] hosted the 10th anniversary of the American Con-servation Film Festival from Nov. 1 to Nov. 4. Founded in 2003 by a group of volunteers who “shared both a devotion
-ment to conservation,” the ACFF strives to provide audience members with
that are meant to both feature “independent, his-toric, publicly funded and
offer a fundamental edu-cation that “complements
-ports those interested in
“Film is a powerful me-dium for breaking through the information overload of modern life, helping us connect with the natural world around us in ways we otherwise wouldn’t,” states ACFF on their Web site. “With our emphasis on the intersection between people and the environment, ACFF provides a venue to explore these issues and bring them back to our own lives,
-makers and other experts.”
The American Conservation Film Festival featured 65
were from independent -
grounds and demonstrated a wide variety of interests.
“Farmageddon,” a movie dedicated to telling the tales of “small, family farms” that are being targeted by “agents of misguided gov-ernment bureaucracies” in an effort to forcibly stop-ping the selling and growth of “safe, healthy foods,” and “Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle,” which dis-cusses the 2001 proposal of
placing “130, 400 foot tall wind turbines in the middle of Nantucket Sound,” a body of water surrounded by three islands: Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and Cape Cod. The American Conservation Film Festival also featured a meet and greet with the
workshops, and debate is-sues. Audience members
to win the Audience Choice Awards. An opening night gathering, sponsored by Fal-lon Insurance and Younis Or-thodontics, was held at the Blue Moon Café on Thurs-day to kick off the festival. Shepherd University stu-
dents this year were able to view all featured blocks at all Shepherd venues (Byrd Center for Legis-lative Studies, Reynolds Hall and the Frank Cen-ter) for free during Shep-herd Student Rush. Five minutes before the afore-mentioned venues were to open, the ACFF opened its doors to Shepherd stu-dents who claimed any available empty seats. For a complete list of
-tion on the American Conservation Film Fes-tival, visit the ACFF at their Web site, www.conservationf i lm.org.
If midterms didn’t screw up your life, then the
will send emails to professors during Nyquil-induced hallucinations begging for both exten-sions and for mercy. This seasonal bad boy will throw a college kid behind the work load and lead to more anxiety. The best way to combat
1. . For those of us who do not wear tin foil hats (or who are not allergic to eggs
way to stay healthy. The shot might give a low-grade fever afterwards but it doesn’t last long. Students can get a shot at the Rite-Aid in Maddox Square (across from McDonalds) or from the Health Center. The shots at Rite-Aid cost less than $30 and might be covered by insurance. Shots from the Health Center cost $20.
2. It goes without saying but you need to wash your hands. Soap is pretty much everywhere so there is no reason that you shouldn’t al-ready be doing this. Carrying around a small bottle of hand sanitizer might make you look like you have OCD, but it will help keep the germs off of you. Sanitizing wipes are also good to keep around because your roommate is probably disgusting and you should wipe things down.
3. Fruits and veggies give students all sorts of sexy vitamins. Getting a multi-vitamin is good but it’s better to get the real thing. Produce can be expensive but there are ways to get around it. Oranges are cheaper in the winter and easy to keep around a dorm room (just don’t fall into the
-self with Vitamin C will make you sick-proof. Your colon will hate you for it). Frozen foods cost less than the produce aisle and can be just as good.
4. Telling students not to get stressed out is almost insulting. This is the point in the semester where stress is pretty constant. What students can do is plan for stress busters. Take an hour, half-hour, however much time you can spare and do something that has nothing to do with school or work. Hang out with your friends (they miss you), play video games, watch a movie, play fetch with your cat, whatever. Giv-ing yourself time to be happy will not only take a load off of your immune system, but it helps retain sanity too.
5. This is another one that is against collegiate nature, but a lack of sleep will trash your body and mind, mak-ing you vulnerable to getting sick. Sleep in shamelessly on the week-ends to get caught up. Take time for glorious naps. Put the homework
-ish it in the morning” and go pass out.
HEATHER [email protected]
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DONALD [email protected]’ve had mixed feelings toward the Assassin’s Creed series since the series started in 2007.
series were really good games, but the previous 2 games, Brotherhood and Revelations, felt like cash-in titles that didn’t really advance much. With the release of Assassin’s Creed 3, the series takes steps to advance the series and fells like a proper sequel.Like the other games, the story is split between two timelines. One story takes place during the American Revolution era. Connor, our half-Native American, half-British hero, joins the Assassins to help get America’s freedom and to get revenge against the men responsible for his mother’s death. The 2nd story takes place in present time where Desmond Miles tries to save the world from an apocalyptic event. Like the other games, the present day story takes a backseat to the older era story. Connor’s story domi-nates Desmond’s, but Des-mond does get a bit more of a spotlight compared to the previous games. I’ve never been a fan of the present era stuff from the other games because of the multiple layers and taking so long to get to a point. Connor’s story felt bit more focused compared to Altair and Ezio’s stories from the previous games. Even though it felt really long (which I’ll get into in a minute), the story felt epic and I was entertained.The gameplay gets a much-needed upgrade. The 3rd installment continues the tradition of open world
gameplay and the world of early America looks amazing thanks to the new graphics engine. New additions like snow help change up the gameplay. With the game taking place during the American Revolution, the battles of the Revolution are simu-lated. There are times where hundreds of Ameri-can and British troops are on screen at once
It’s quite the spectacle.Since the gameplay up-grade in Assassin’s Creed 2, the gameplay got minor updates with each sequel. This game adds minor, but awesome tweaks like add-
and able to take human shields to protect play-
Other add ons like hunt-ing and ship battles help keep the gameplay from being overly repetitive. While I did enjoy Assas-sin’s Creed 3, there are problems. The story takes a good 3 to 4 hours to re-ally kick into second gear. There is a lot of stuff for the game to introduce, but it takes a long time to get going. The side missions aren’t really anything to talk about (who the hell wants to herd pigs?) And, while not a deal breaker by any means, the con-trols took some getting used to. I felt like they add too much to some of the buttons and I ended up doing something during combat I didn’t want to. Nitpicks aside, Assas-sin’s Creed 3 is near the top of my list of best of 2012. While I think As-sassin’s Creed 2 is still the better game, it’s still a great addition to the se-ries and more than made
JOHNNA [email protected] attend a massive con-cert with over 100 qual-ity musicians performing music by Shubert and Faure, you would have to travel to at least Bal-timore or Washington, D.C., right? Wrong. You can hear excellent con-certs by an outstanding group of local musicians without even leaving the Shepherd campus.Masterworks Chorale, an enormous choir composed of students and communi-ty members accompanied by a full orchestra, will be singing the Faure Requi-em and Schubert’s Mass in G on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Frank Arts Center.Masterworks Chorale is a large choral ensemble composed of 130 stu-dent and local commu-nity members. The choir performs two large-scale musical productions ev-ery year. Vocal and instru-mental music majors as well as non-music majors compose the student pop-ulation of the choir, while many Shepherd professors and employees as well as local area music teach-ers and Shepherd alumni students participate as community members. Masterworks Chorale is the only vocal ensemble at Shepherd in which non-Shepherd students are able to participate.This year, the choir will perform Gabriel Faure’s
Requiem, a 35-minute piece in seven movements orga-nized as a Catholic requiem mass, and Franz Schubert’s Mass No. 2, also known as the Mass in G, a large-scale con-densed version of a Catholic mass complete with orches-tral accompaniment for both pieces. In addition to the two “masterworks,” the choir will also perform “The Ground” by Oja Gjeilo, an excerpt from Gjeilo’s “Sunrise Mass” featuring a string quartet.“It is wonderful to have the dedication and inspiration of 130 singers, close to 30 orchestra members, a very supportive faculty and ad-ministration, and an audi-ence that loves great clas-sical music,” said Dr. Erik Jones, musical director of the Masterworks Chorale.Jones is responsible for choosing the program con-tent for performances each semester, organizing and con-ducting choir rehearsals and conducting the actual perfor-mances. He serves as director of choral activities at Shep-herd and also conducts the university Chamber Singers, Women’s Camerata and Vo-cal Jazz Octet. However, for
Chorale will have a guest conductor, Stephen Czar-kowski, for the performances.Czarkowski is an adjunct cello professor at Shepherd University. He is the princi-pal cellist in the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra and also conducts the Apollo Cham-ber Orchestra and Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra. He serves as the assistant
conductor of the Opera Camerata of Washington, D.C., as well as acting as orchestra personal manag-er and the principal cellist.The Masterworks concert also features Shepherd un-dergraduate students in prominent roles. “All of the soloists are Shepherd stu-dents,” added Jones. Sopra-no Brenna Ross, tenor Paul Cabell and baritone An-drew Seaman will perform as soloists in the Schubert Mass in G, while soprano Charlotte Morice, mezzo soprano Madeline Zayas and baritone Ross Tamac-cio will perform as soloists in the Faure Requiem. In addition to student vocal-ists, many Shepherd stu-dents also perform in the orchestra alongside profes-sional instrumentalists.“[This is] the only place in the panhandle where one can hear great choral/orchestral masterpieces like this,” said Jones.General admission is $22 for Shepherd faculty, staff, students and se-niors for advance tickets and $27 for tickets at the door. Tickets are $15 for students under 18. For more ticket information, please call 304-876-5765 or visit www.sufom.org.The Masterworks Chorale will also perform this con-cert at St. James Catholic Church in Charles Town on Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. Admission is free for the concert at St. James;; however, donations are strongly suggested.
Shepherd students really got into character at the haunted house in Turner Hall on Halloween. Photograph by Ryan Franklin
A creepy clown awaits at the haunted house in Turner Hall on Halloween. Photograph by Ryan Franklin
Turner Hall residents really got into character during the haunted house they hosted on Shep-or-Treat. Photograph by Ryan Franklin
Trick-or-treaters stick their hands in buckets of goo in Gardiner Hall during Shep-or-Treat on Halloween. Photograph by Ryan Franklin
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REMINDERAcademic
Advisement Ends Nov. 9
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Shepherd Claims Share
Of Final Wviac Title
MATTHEW [email protected]
By dropping the Glenville State Pioneers this past Saturday, the Shepherd University Rams football team claimed at least a
title. Should the Rams go on to defeat Fairmont at home
next Saturday, they will win -
right. When asked about how it felt to win at least a share of
-ship, junior tight end Ryan Potts said, “Awesome! Very good experience. It’ll be nice to say you’ve won at least part of the last one.”
Glenville took the lead early on during the contest when Demetrius Quarles picked off a pass from senior quar-terback Bobby Cooper and returned it 59 yards for a touchdown. Glenville place-kicker Colston Bayless add-ed the point after. The Pioneers held the lead until the Rams tied up the contest with 3:43 left in the
sophomore receiver William MacKenzie from 20 yards out to bring the game within a point, and redshirt fresh-man Ryan Earls added the point after touchdown.Allen Cross gave the Rams the lead with 7:48 left in the second quarter. His two-yard plunge capped off a 6-play, 63-yard drive which saw the Rams chew 2:34 off the clock. Once again, Earls added the point after. Two minutes and four sec-onds later, the Pioneers an-swered. Justin Feagin found Robert Jiles for a 63-yard touchdown pass to cap a 4-play, 79-yard drive. Bay-less added the point after to tie up the contest.
With ten minutes left in the third quarter, Bayless gave Glenville the lead when he
It was the only scoring play of the third quarter. Allen
-ing play of the fourth quar-ter when he plunged 3 yards with 8:51 left in the game. Earls saw his point after at-tempt blocked. Glenville retook the lead with 1:59 remaining when Feagin and Jiles hooked up for their second touchdown on the day, this time from 36 yards out. As if the Rams were returning the favor, Bayless saw his point after blocked.Just seconds later, Cross gave the Rams the lead for good when he took the ball into the end zone from 3 yards out. It capped a 3-play, 67-yard drive that took all of 0:16 off the clock. Earls add-ed the point after. Then, with 46 seconds left in the game, senior Domi-nic Tolson returned an in-terception 45 yards to put the game out of reach. Earls added the point after to take
The win gives the Rams a legitimate shot of making the Division II playoffs.When asked if he was ex-cited about the prospect of making the playoffs, junior punter Troy Mc-Neill said, “Absolutlely, especially due to the in-
and general adversity we have faced. It’s great to win football games.” Junior defensive end Howard Jones had noth-ing short of a dominant
a sack, and a forced fum-ble. Dominic Tolson had ten tackles to go along with his interception re-turn for a touchdown. It was a solid all-around game for the Rams.Next week, the Rams host the Fairmont State Fight-ing Falcons. With an over-all conference champion-ship on the line, the Rams are looking to wrap up
-pionship for themselves. Kickoff is at noon at Ram Stadium.
Shepherd football players celebrate after scoring their second touchdown of the game against Glenville
Photo by Ryan Franklin
Keon Robinson leaps in front of the football to block Glenville from scoring an extra point at the game on Saturday. Photo by B.J. McCardle
SEAN O’[email protected]
On Oct. 28, the white hot Shepherd Rams (7-7-3, 5-3-2 WVIAC) faced the Charles-ton Golden Eagles (7-8-3,
round of the WVIAC play-offs. They lost, 2-1. The Rams came into the game riding after winning four straight along with three shutouts in a row. Coincidentally,
allowed since they beat Charleston on Oct. 17, 2-1. Charleston took the reins
-se Surbaugh scored on an assist from junior forward Brittany Loveland at 7:12.rrSophomore defender Dan-ielle Roos received a red card in the 43rd minute as Shepherd headed into the half down 1-0. They played a man down the entire sec-ond half. Times got tougher for the Rams when the Golden Ea-gles’ insurance goal came off an own goal by Shepherd at 48:10. A cross kick was blocked by a Shepherd de-fender into her own net. Junior defender Kelsey Ea-gan attempted to spark a comeback late in the sec-ond half when she scored on a free kick at 62:25. This time, though, there was no late game magic. Charleston held on to upset Shepherd. Charleston held the advan-
tage in shots, 17-12, as well as corner kicks, 3-2. Junior goalkeeper Eliza-
for the Rams, while Golden Eagles freshman Courtney Budd grabbed one save. Later that same day, ju-nior forward Morgan Ga-briel received WVIAC player of the week honors, leading the Rams to a 2-0 record for the previous week with her three goals.Charleston improved to 8-8-3 and advanced to
Alderson-Broaddus Bat-tlers. They won 2-1 and went on to face West Vir-ginia Wesleyan on Nov. 4 for the WVIAC title. At the time of this article, the game had yet to be played.
-son 7-8-3. This is the third time in seven seasons the Rams have made the WVIAC tournament, and each time they lost in the
seasons were both to the Golden Eagles. They should keep their chins up because they made the playoffs with a very young team that sported only seven upper-classmen—six juniors and one senior. The future re-mains bright for the Rams and coach Jonathon Thay-il. They hope to get even better next season.
JOEY [email protected]
After posting three straight wins to close out the regular season and an
round of the 2012 WVIAC men’s soccer tournament, the Rams were ultimately shut down in the semi-
-ment on Saturday, Nov. 3 with a 3-0 loss to #4 Uni-versity of Charleston. With three games remain-ing in the team’s regular season, the chances at a postseason berth were be-ginning to appear unlike-ly. Instead, the Rams dom-inated their opponents and achieved victory in all three of those matches to secure a 5th seed place-ment in the WVIAC men’s soccer tournament. Due to the affects from Hurricane
the WVIAC tournament was postponed from Tues-day, Oct. 30 until Thurs-day, Nov. 1. Shepherd traveled to Wheeling, W.Va., on Nov. 1 to take on the fourth seed-ed Wheeling Jesuit Uni-versity Cardinals. When these two teams met in the regular season, the Cardinals claimed the 3-1 win over Shepherd. How-
-nal say by attaining a 2-0 upset win over Wheeling Jesuit to move on to the
Despite this game’s being postponed two days, it end-ed up having no negative ef-fect on how the Rams played during the match. During
teams mostly played near
However, at the 38:06 mark,
Doyle scored an unassisted goal to give Shepherd a 1-0
vigorously tried to respond with a goal of their own, but
off all of their attacks.Coming out of the halftime break, Wheeling Jesuit con-trolled the pace of play and continued their attempts to tie the match. Nevertheless, at the 60th minute, senior forward Shane Lowery created a one-on-one breakaway and took a shot of goal after charging through the Car-dinal defense. Lowery’s shot bounced off the crossbar. However, freshman forward Bryce Fugitt was in perfect position to put in the re-bound and give the Rams a 2-0 lead and, ultimately, the win. Wheeling Jesuit had a 14-8 advantage in shots and 5-3 edge in corner kicks in the match. Nonetheless, Shepherd left with the vic-tory.Because of the win in the
Jesuit, the Rams moved on
to face the number one seed-ed University of Charleston Golden Eagles in Charles-ton, W.Va., on Nov. 3. The Golden Eagles posted an early goal in the 12th minute to take a 1-0 lead. Charleston’s Ceth Locklear placed the ball perfectly in front of the net for his team-mate Alexander Gallard to
the net. The Rams vigorous-
the strong Charleston de-fense and keep the shot count running. After the break, the Golden Eagles kept the ball mov-ing and in their possession. They posted two goals in the second half to secure the vic-
3-0 and ending the season for the Rams. Shepherd completes the season with a 9-9-1 overall record while Charleston be-comes 13-1-1 and advanced to the 2012 WVIAC Men’s Soccer Tournament Cham-pionship Game.
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ZACH [email protected]
At this point in the season, the volleyball team has
means necessary to turn the season around and earn a bid into the post season. Within the last week, they have found a way to do just that. They are cur-rently riding a three game winning streak amid a week that was shortened due to the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. The Rams aimed to continue their recent success with victories against WVIAC rivals West Virginia Wes-leyan and Glenville State.Last week, the Rams end-ed their weekly slate of games with a 3-0 match
victory over West Liberty University. Since then, that game has been proven to be a key in the Rams’ suc-cess on the court this week. Senior Kasey Mercier’s postgame comments have proven to resonate with her teammates, shown by the results of this week’s match-ups.With the events surround-ing the devastation of Hurri-cane Sandy, which hit a ma-jority of the northern east coast of the United States, the Rams’ match-up against Wilmington in Delaware was canceled. The team was then scheduled to face con-ference foe West Virginia Wesleyan on Friday, Nov. 2.Having success, the Rams knocked off the Bobcats in a 3-1 decision (20-25, 25-29, 25-12, and 25-20). Kasey
Mercier led the Rams with 18 kills to go along with a .400 attack percentage as well as nine digs. Junior Melani Lewis recorded 14 kills to add to Mercier’s team-leading 18. Other Rams who boosted the stat sheet for the vic-tory were seniors Lauren Gardner and Sara Mi-chael, along with junior Meg Kenny. Gardner pro-vided 14 digs with three aces, while Michael pro-vided 46 assists and 12 digs. Kenny had eight
This match improved the Rams’ record, putting them at 8-16 on the year overall and 4-7 in confer-
ence play. They looked to carry this momentum into their match-up against Glenville State at noon on Sat, Nov. 3. The team didn’t let up go-ing into the game with the Pioneers. Playing with de-termination, the Rams shut out their WVIAC rival in the match, 3-0 (25-9, 25-21, and 25-21). Kenny led the Rams with seven kills, while Mercier and sophomore Ka-tie Motheral had six kills apiece. In addition to her six kills,
-tributed to the effort with 20 assists, making for a total of 66 in the last two matches.
This was a much-needed win for the Rams, who improved to 9-16 overall on the season and a 5-7 record in conference play. The team has two regular season home match-ups remaining against Davis and Elkins on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., and Alderson-Broad-dus on Nov. 10 at 1 p.m. If they are to have a chance at making the WVIAC Conference tournament, which begins on Nov. 15, it will have to come with vic-tories in these two games. Given the results of these recent wins, it looks like they are intent on doing just that.
left: Valerie Bour sends the volleyball over the net in the game against West Liberty. Photos by B.J. McCardle
Melani Lewis and Meg Kenny defend the home court in the game against West Liberty. Photo by B.J. McCardle
ZACH [email protected]
With what looks to be a promising season ahead of them, the Shepherd men’s basketball team added some valuable experience to their staff over the sum-mer with the acquisition of assistant coach Eric Gabriel. I sat down with Gabriel in a one on one interview to gain some insight into his coaching background, and also his outlook for the upcoming season.Born in Athens, OH, Ga-briel received his high school education at Alex-ander High School. While at Alexander, he was very active in a variety of sports, most notably foot-ball and basketball.From eighth grade through high school, these two sports were the pri-mary ones at which he ex-celled. Growing up, he had always had an interest in
sports, engaging in soccer, basketball, football, base-
His father, who has been coaching for 26 years, was
-sire to play and succeed in such sports. His love for the game of basketball, howev-er, continued through to his college career, where he was a point guard at West Lib-erty University from 2000-2004, earning team captain honors in his senior season.Speaking about his passions for coaching, he cited the long-time coaching career of his father as a big inspira-tion, as well as seeing kids grow through the teaching of sports. “I found that there
about teaching kids and see-ing them improve from hard work,” he said.“Being able to help them ap-ply the fundamentals of bas-ketball to everyday life was something I enjoyed as well. Being able to make decisions
basketball, is a value that I have tried to instill in young players,” he added.Coming to Shepherd, Ga-briel saw a great deal of promise with the basketball program. After his previous coaching stints at Fort Lo-ramie High School in Ohio and at Methodist Univer-sity and Mt. Olive College in North Carolina, he was given the opportunity to join coach Justin Namolik’s staff at Shepherd.When asked about why he chose Shepherd as his desti-nation, he said, “Playing at West Liberty, I had a famil-iarity with the WVIAC. I felt that Coach Namolik had re-ally built a foundation that I liked, and the way he does things in the program. Com-ing from relatively small schools, the idea of com-ing to a bigger state school was very intriguing to me. I thought that socially, aca-demically, and athletically, Shepherd had a lot to offer.”
His outlook for the upcom-ing season is very optimis-tic: “We hope to play fast. With West Liberty setting the standard for excellence in Division II in areas such
way to stop them.”The team has seven return-ing seniors that hope to aid in what is shaping up to be a breakthrough season for the Rams in 2012. Sights are set on winning the conference, a feat that hasn’t been accom-plished since 1992.“Since Coach Namolik has been here, the team has
improved every year,” Gabriel said. “We hope to capitalize on the experi-ence we’ve got, and have a breakthrough season. With players like Chad Moore, a preseason All-American, and many oth-ers returning, this is the year.”The experience and back-ground of coach Gabriel is a welcome addition to the men’s basketball team, one that will help in their push for a WVIAC confer-ence title.
Eric Gabriel joined the team over the off-season. Photo by B.J. McCardle
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