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Slur found in dorm

Faculty rejected proposed changes to Allegheny’s aca-demic calendar in a narrow vote of 51 to 43 at last Friday’s faculty meeting.

proposed academic planning days, including two advising days and a theme day in the fall semester and a senior celebra-tion day in the spring, said

Curriculum Committee member Nathan Ehrman, ’12. No classes would be held on those days to give students a chance to declare their majors together, learn more about departments or attend study-aboard and job information sessions held by ACCEL.

been eliminated and breaks would align with holidays.

“Fall Break would coincide with Columbus Day, which would be nice for a lot of fami-lies, because if you had young-er brothers or sisters, they’d be

Many faculty members felt that the academic planning days might impose an addi-tional burden to their academ-ic workload.

What most concerned fac-ulty, however, were the pro-posed changes made to the

Curriculum Committee elimi-

schedule, it pushed back the -

day, which means Latin honors and the walking list would be

Saturday commencement,” Eh--

sue to faculty.”

-

-nals back on the docket to pre-serve Senior Week and allow faculty time to deliberate on

Latin honors.However, Erhman cited a

lack of support from the Inter-

the reason why the proposed calendar ultimately failed.

-volved possible EL seminars in December and January, which caused faculty and academic

-diency of extending the term later into May.

“One of the biggest initial changes we wanted to work in was the possibility of having a winter EL term,” said Ehrman.

for professors to take students

to the Southern Hemisphere, because our current EL terms are in their wet season, so you can’t go.”

Many dissenting voters worried a later graduation date

in May would hamper students who planned to take an EL seminar and hold summer in-ternships.

Professor Shannan Mat-tiace, department head of In-ternational Studies, felt the proposed calendar pushed the school year too far into May without giving enough time for students to experience a full January term.

She also believed a later conclusion to the spring se-mester would interfere with summer projects of both stu-dents and faculty.

“I felt that going longer in May is not necessarily a good

By KATIE McHUGHStaff Writermchughk@allegheny.edu

Faculty votes down calendar changes

thing for students who want to take advantage of these op-portunities,” she said. “It’s not a good thing for faculty who do research away from Meadville in the summer. Going further into the summer has some

wasn’t convinced that the posi-tive things about the change would outweigh going further into May.”

Many faculty members also expressed concerns about in-creased expenses of later EL trips. Under the new calendar, some would be pushed into the busy tourist season, potentially raising costs. Weather was an issue as well. Monsoon season begins in India in June.

Meadville weather also

launch of a January EL term.“You have to have everyone

meet on campus and then go to the airport, and that’s a logisti-cal nightmare,” said Ehrman.

While dangerous weather raised concerns about traveling in the Northern Hemisphere, a longer winter term would per-mit faculty to take students to South America during the dry season.

Professor Scott Wissinger voted for the new calendar, cit-ing the positive aspects of the Academic Planning Days and a chance to travel to countries in the Southern Hemisphere.

“I supported the proposed changes because they ad-dressed several of the initia-tives that emerged from the Strategic Plan,” he said in an e-mail.

Since January is a dry sea-son for many places, new EL seminars to the tropics and

-tached a sign with a homopho-bic slur to a door in a residence hall late Wednesday night in an act directly linked to incidents last semester.

Director of Safety and Secu-

that the perpetrator or perpe-trators targeted the same stu-dent as they had in previous incidents.

Wednesday morning when a student reported the sign.

By the time Safety and Se-curity arrived at the scene, the sign was gone.

it’s never been retrieved and we don’t know what it said,” Schneider said. “We don’t have much to go on.”

Schneider said that the per-petrators were likely acquaint-ed with the victim, but that Security had no leads as of yet.

“It’s not at the criminal level as of yet because we don’t re-ally have any evidence,” said Schneider.

Dean of Students Joseph DiChristina sent out a campus-wide email at 6:43 p.m. alert-ing students of the incident

community.”When reached for a state-

-ment.

Scheider said that even if the sign had been recovered, such investigations are enor-

By DAN BAUEREditor-in-Chief of Webbauerd@allegheny.edu

that every student with access to the dormitory is a suspect.

“We had a similar incident last year in which we recovered the sign but we spent a whole year investigating that and we still found no closure,” said Schneider, referring to an iden-tical incident that occurred last March when a homophobic sign was placed on the same student’s door.

on Feb. 11, when a slur spray painted on the student’s door in Walker sparked an investi-gation by the college.

Allegheny did not release -

cident for nearly two weeks.-

cured in early March, when a homophobic slur on a piece of computer paper was taped on the same student’s door.

DiChristina sent out an email the same day informing the campus community of the incident and announcing an investigation, though no cul-

“March Against Hate,” a protest organized by several student groups that sparked national coverage.

-cer Lawrence Potter said that such actions, as well as developments this semes-ter, are signs of progress. “If you were to survey Alleghe-ny college a year ago, you would see that the campus has become more deliberate and ma-ture in our message that we do not tolerate this sort of indignity,” said Potter.

BREAKDOWN OF

ACADEMIC CALENDAR VOTE

YES

NO 51

43

Hillel, football team to join for marrow drive

A collaboration between Hillel, the football team, pre-health club and the home-coming committee will bring

marrow drive to Robertson complex during Saturday’s homecoming game.

During the drive, willing participants will perform a quick cheek swab which de-termines a person’s eligibility for donation. Once processed, the donor is put into a database where he or she could be called at any time.

“It’s going to be a table mid-way between the concession

stand and the ticket booth,” said Hillel President Kerry Born-stein, who came up with the idea for the event. “It shouldn’t take long, a couple minutes just to read over the form and swab your own cheek. And you’re in the database.”

donates bone marrow to cancer patients. By bringing the orga-nization to campus on home-coming weekend, Hillel hopes to promote deeper awareness of the world by helping those in need.

Hillel advisor Rachel Ding-man said deciding to host the drive during homecoming was essential to achieve the largest amount of involvement and to

By RACHEL GIESELContributing Writergieselr@allegheny.edu

unite the community during an event.

“We thought we’d see a re-ally great volume of students and even maybe some alumni,” Dingman said. “… In my time at Allegheny I’ve just seen that the homecoming games [were] one of the events that really brings the whole campus to-gether.”

Bornstein said she knew she wanted to bring this organiza-

the impact of the experience -

ceiving information about a bone marrow drive through her youth group in synagogue,

Third such incident in calendar year

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Student’s car stolen twice

For the second time in just over a month, Peter Pietran-drea, ’13, had his car stolen from the Phi Kappa Psi parking lot late last Friday night.

covered in Vernon Township and returned to its owner.Pietrandrea reported his 2005 Mazda 3 stolen at 2:50 a.m.

’14, saw it accelerating down East College Street with its

“I went to his room, knocked on his door and said ‘someone stole your car,’” Restelli said. “He just said, ‘Again? I just took it to McDonald’s an hour ago.’”

Pietrandrea’s car was stolen in the past month. He also re-ported it stolen on August 31. It was later recovered at the Meadville Medical Center.

suspects.

noticed his keys missing and the car locked on the Saturday

He assumed that the keys were locked in the car and had his father mail him the spare set.

When he woke up for work Wednesday morning, the car was gone.

Director of Safety and Secu-

believes the most likely suspect is an acquaintance or a friend playing tricks.

“History shows us that people who steal cars, if they leave the car there, they don’t take the keys with them unless they’re planning on using them again or the vehicle is kept,”

to believe that there is some fa-miliarity involved.”

Schneider said that most crimes committed on campus are student-on-student crimes.

“You rarely see non-college

said.

Pietrandrea’s car.

of his tennis rackets were sto-len from the backseat and the

He also found lip gloss in the backseat and a set of keys, which he turned in to police,

Both Pietrandrea and Restelli doubt Schneider’s as-sessment that the perpetrator is a student.

grass all over it, like someone was driving on dirt roads and

he said. “Allegheny students would not do that, I feel.”Restelli agreed.

“Judging by what happened

somewhere, it seems that it was a non-student,” Restelli said.

Assistant Chief of Meadville

there are no new developments on the case.

this point,” he said. “Obviously someone grabbed his keys, he failed to change anything, the ignition or the keys, so it would happen again.”

Pietrandrea said that chang-ing the locks would have cost him roughly $1,000. Instead,

he bought a manual steering wheel lock.

security is placing additional lighting in the Phi Kappa Psi parking lot.

Schneider said that despite warnings, students continue to leave valuables in their cars, or leave them unlocked.

He also said that campus

over the past few years.Since his arrival in June

2010, televisions, furniture, and computers have been stolen from various campus buildings, primarily the Cam-pus Center.

According to Schneider, two students were recently dis-covered carrying a couch from the Campus Center.

Although it was returned, another couch was reported stolen one week later.

He said that incidents such as these prompted the proposal for a Closed Circuit Television system.

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she shared the news of a local drive with her dad. He partici-pated in the drive and donated his cells ten years later.

they had called him and he was a match,” Bornstein said. “It was successful and then we met [his recipient…] I learned more about the organization through that and I later learned through my research that they do a lot of college campus drives.”

Head Football Coach Mark

Bornstein and Dingman, he was excited to feature the drive at the homecoming game. He said he feels it provides a way to promote the organization,

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south temperate locations could become a possibility.

While the current proposal may have seen its last days in the public light, both the fac-ulty and members of the Cur-riculum Committee remain optimistic about future plans for changes to the academic calendar.

“I appreciate the concerns raised by faculty who found the

later summer ELs and 10-wk summer internships) of the proposed changes to outweigh

an e-mail.

promise calendar that address-es those concerns and retains

college programming days) as possible.”

Despite their criticism of the proposed academic calen-dar’s perceived shortcomings,

members of the faculty ap-

riculum Committee.“We as a faculty honor the

work that they did. It takes a lot of work to propose the new calendar. I didn’t vote for it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t honor their work. I really do honor their work,” said Mattiace.

While the proposed aca-demic calendar undergoes further changes for a future re-introduction, the Curriculum Committee will continue to approve new courses, revisions to majors and minors, new majors and minors and evalu-ate the current structure of the freshmen and junior seminars.

“We always have big, over-arching projects,” said Eh-rman. “Now that we have the calendar on the backburner, we’re going to move towards academic organization.”

the drive and the team. Al-legheny is the only Division III school in the country with a game featured on Fox College Sports national television this week, making the team and the drive extremely visible to the public.

“I think it gives the group and the drive some positive ex-posure in the venue of a game,” Matlak said.

Matlak said he’s never held an event like this at a football game before but is enthusiastic about hosting something that gives back to the community.

“I think Allegheny has been a very community service-ori-ented campus,” he said. “And I think sometimes in athletics we get caught up in the con-

By CHELSEA FLEISCHMANNews Co-editorfleiscc@allegheny.edu

tests and the games. I know myself, I do. I think it’s a good

And maybe help somebody down the road.”

involved with community ser-vice in some way every year. By branching out and including this drive, Matlak said he’s hav-ing his players participate by either donating bone marrow

cover the $54 processing fee for the swab kits.

makes it possible for anyone to help out the cause, whether or not they’re comfortable with donating.

In addition to helping can-cer patients, the drive intends to raise awareness of bone mar-row donation within the Al-legheny community. Gabriella Tetelman, social action chair of Hillel, said she hopes students understand that they can make

“I hope that they can see that even though they are [young] that they can have a huge impact on one person’s life at such a young age,” Tetel-man said. “And even though they may never be called to do-nate bone marrow or be con-tacted in general, they are still taking that chance and putting themselves out there.”

pect of homecoming weekend that promotes school-spirit while helping out a cause to save lives. Dingman said she is eager to host the event.

“We’re taking something that’s so school-spirited, some-thing like homecoming, where everyone is just proud to be an Allegheny student and we’re adding that extra layer,” she said. “Not only are we proud to be part of the Allegheny com-munity, but we’re proud to be part of a larger community.”

Movement pushes for fair trade

A group of students began an individual campaign this year for Allegheny to become a

“It is an independent proj-ect, not run by GFC but by stu-dents,” said Alexis Nielson, ‘14, an Allegheny representative at a recent Fair Trade Universities seminar. “It’s not a club, but a movement.”

Students are now in the pro-cess of forming a committee and have plans for meetings,

ings to get the message out.Grounds for Change cur-

rently sells some fair trade

fair trade institution. Fair trade

and McKinley’s dining halls.

because those two products are not heavily grown in the Unit-ed States.

slightly from other fair trade

gram places a larger emphasis on better overall living condi-tions for workers as well as the environmental factors sur-

such as pesticides elimination,

assists workers with putting their children through school.

“Fair trade is paying atten-tion to the people on the other side of our consumer society - the producers - and making sure they are getting a fair wage to avoid exploitation,” Nielson

said. “Being pro-fair trade is about being a global-minded community, focusing on the social and economic aspects of the issue.”

Michael Zanie, general manager of Parkhurst Din-ing at Allegheny, said that the Parkhurst corporation sent its own employees to the cof-

oversaw the actual process and ensured that conditions were fair.

is already a set standard in our

cult thing to do,” Zanie said.One concern about fair

trade is price. However, when looking at the numbers, the

especially when thinking about

Colley, GFC board member and activist for the Allegheny fair trade movement.

cent, or 13 cents increase in cost,” Colley said.

Colley said this increase is a small price to pay in light of all of the positive aspects that come from purchasing fair trade.

“What hooked me onto fair trade was the social justice aspect of the entire process,” Nielson said. Fair trade works to get people out of poverty and improve their communi-ties.

“We want people to know this isn’t just a fad; we want to

ence, and we want to provide that option.”

By KELLY GALLAGHERContributing Writergallagk@allegheny.edu

NCAC Power Weekend tour-nament, the volleyball looks to move forward and capitalize on earlier success.

“We were hoping to get a couple of conference wins but we are still learning the game

and will be pushing to add

head coach Bridget Sheehan said.

the Gators over the weekend,

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What began as a 3-0 lead ended as a 38-3 loss for the football team this past week-end, with the defense surren-dering 444 yards to the nation-ally-ranked Wittenberg Tigers.

-tenberg to make big plays on

-lin Hartford stressed the im-portance of preventing those big plays in their next match-up.

people to do their own assign-ments and do their 1/11 on de-fense,” said Hartford.

“We know what we have to do, it’s a matter of executing it the way we can.”

big plays, highlighted by an 80-yard touchdown reception by Wittenberg wide receiver Josh

Gators with an overall record of 2-2 and 0-1 in conference play.

-

failed to complete drives. Coach Matlak believes that

this must change in order for the Gators to win consistently.

“We are a slow and me-

“We won’t get too many big plays, so when we get a chance

Quarterback Jordan Fowler echoed these sentiments.

“We did everything we pret-ty much wanted to do against Wittenberg,” said Fowler. “We just didn’t convert our chances to points, which is something we need to do this week.”

Fowler also cited mental -

sive problems. “If we can eliminate our

own mental errors and just play good, smart football then I believe we will get a win,” Fowler said.

some of these issues before battling Case Western at the homecoming game this week-

a 24-6 road victory against Denison.

Matlak stressed the impor-tance of focusing on the op-ponent, rather than the team itself.

Last season’s matchup showcased the Spartans’ fast-

“Last year they were very fast getting to the ball and snapping it with lots of time on the play clock and we struggled

Hartford. “If we can match their tempo and counter it ef-fectively and create our own pace we can be very successful on defense.”

broadcasted game will kick

be televised on Fox College Sports.

Gator defense struggles in loss Football looks to recover from 38-3 loss Saturday By DAN MARCUS Staff Writer marcusd@allegheny.edu

wittenberg weekend Football, volleyball fall to Tigers on weekend roadtrips

By PAT FRITZ Staff Writer fritzp@allegheny.edu

Volleyball drops four games at first NCAC Power Weekend

ALLEGHENY SPORTS INFORMATIONThe football team looks to come back strong at home after a week in which the defense surrendered 444 yards and the offense failed to capitalize on scoring opportunities.

ALLEGHENY SPORTS INFORMATIONSophomore Maddie Hudac and the women’s volleyball team hope to recover after losing all four matchups in

falling in straight sets in all four matches to Denison, De-Pauw, Wittenberg and Kenyon.

-tive with the nationally-ranked

16-25. Wittenberg proved strong in the next two sets, overpowering Allegheny on

their best showing of the week-end against host Kenyon in

however, would prove fruitless, as they fell in straight sets yet again.

“It was hard to lose to Ke-nyon,” senior Winnie Wong said. “We knew we could have beat them but we just weren’t clicking together.”

“I truly believe that Gator volleyball is going to bounce back,” said Wong. “We have worked hard in practice and our communication is increas-ing.”

Looking ahead, the squad will face conference foe Ohio Wesleyan and then battle Den-ison on Saturday.

back strong against Denison,” said sophomore Maddie Hu-dac.

Only at the halfway point

of their season, the Gators still have time to turn it around.

Coach Sheehan is certain of what her team needs to do to improve their play before their next Power Weekend at Wooster.

turn things around and work hard to get where they need to be as productive players on the court,” Sheehan said.

In the meantime, Sheehan continues to stress hard work and dedication.

“Our team biggest strength is that they want to do well and they are willing to work hard at the process that will get them there,” Sheehan said.

Wong believes that the op-portunity is not far ahead.

-cause we are coming back with two wins against OWU and Denison. We have the talent and the enthusiasm and we are building our team chemistry as we go.”

Ohio over homecoming week-end to play conference rivals Ohio Wesleyan University on

against Denison on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Women's Soccer

also traveled to Wittenberg this weekend, toppling the

defense pinned the opposing squad deep in their defensive third. Late in the second half, Jaymee Wallace booted in the

-

Kira Kliment, ’12.

“I was very relieved,” said -

legiate goal. “It’s been a long time coming.”

continue their success this weekend against conference rival Denison at noon.

Men's Soccer

Men’s soccer topped Wit-tenberg 3-0 this weekend, de-

to Baldwin-Wallace last week, the Gators bounced back with the help of sophomore John Lichina’s fourth shutout of the season.

“I had a pretty easy day,”

to the guys in front of me.”

David Del Greco, ’13, added to the scoring with his team-

when Del Greco scores.

-son at home Saturday at 5 p.m.

live on gatorstv.com.

Women's Tennis

dropped their second match of the season against Division I Robert Morris Tuesday at

Landau, ’12, earned the Gators their only point of the match, with every other singles match ending in a loss. With a record of 1-2, the squad will travel to Kalamazoo, Michigan to com-pete in the ITA Tournament on September 30.

Men's Tennis

far this season, the men fell to Division I Robert Morris with

night. Junior Mike Provenzano and freshman Alex Hurtuk captured one of three doubles matches for the Gators, while Patrick Cole, ’13, and Hurtuk

loss leaves the Gators at 2-1

on the season heading into the Oberlin Invitational this week-end.

Men's Golf

overall last weekend in a 13-

Division II opponents.

tournament that when we have

go to any event and compete,”

that.”

Senior Matthew Dona-th place with

sophomore All-American Oli-

behind him.

-tion Sunday at the Vulcan Invi-tational in California, Pennsyl-vania where they will continue to face tough competition.

“Most, if not all, of our tour-naments throughout the year are highly competitive where every stroke counts and there is a narrow margin between the

you play college golf - to test yourself and your game against the best.”

GATOR UPDATER

wittenberg woes Football has a 1-3 record against Wittenberg in

the past four seasons with their biggest lost coming in 2009 when they were defeated by a

margin of 42 points.

Volleyball has also struggled in recent years, with an overall record of 0-9 since the 2008 season

against the Tigers.

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Baldwin-Reynolds Art Exhibit

“In Our Own Backyard”

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Gl bal GatorBy LINDSAY CODISPOTContributing Writercodispl@allegheny.edu

Museum showcases art from Allegheny collection

Student discovers Australian culture with aboriginal elder

House Museum opened its doors to expose a collection of art pieces from the archives of Allegheny College, the Craw-ford County Historical Society, Titusville High School and the New York State Museum.

vania exhibit, which opened Sept. 16, is named “In Our Own Backyard.”

Each room in the museum features art from a particular artist.

featured more than 75 art pieces, hosted just shy of 100 people.

collection from local artists, vintage and contemporary alike.

Pieces from Allegheny’s collection included a Picasso original, a portrait of John Winthrop by William Lewis,

statues and water color paint-ings of local scenery.

by Austa Densmore Studerant, an 1876 graduate of Allegheny College.

pictures hanging around the room created the ambiance of a Victorian sitting room.

Likewise, the Reynolds’

bedroom was an isolated trib-ute to 20th century Meadville artist Alfonso Fugagli, who painted scenes of the area in watercolor.

of Clarence Un d e r w o o d resided in the Library Red Room.

His black-a n d - w h i t e images of people walk-ing, sitting and standing are consistent observances of human behav-ior.

Also fea-tured were the photos he took for the covers

day Evening Post.”

“ U n d e r -wood was a railroad worker around here who would sketch in his spare time,” said Beth Rekas, president of the Histori-cal Society.

“He was consistently bad-gered by his boss at the Atlan-tic and Great Western Rail-road because he wasn’t doing enough work, but sketching instead,” said Joshua Sherretts, director of the museum.

Works created by the

Pennsylvania Route 6 artisans accompany the exhibit each Sat-

urday. Some of their

pieces will be for sale.

an house is a manifest to the town’s history.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Judge Henry

By MEAGAN ROPPOContributing Writerroppom@allegheny.edu

Baldwin built the man-sion, where his law books and furniture

remain. When the mu-seum does not display lo-cal pieces, it is set up as an historic house.

“We do everything from exhibits on historical indus-tries, concerts, you name it,” said Sherretts.

“It’s a fairly wide mix.”Sherretts also commented

on the size of the exhibit and variety of art-work.

“We’re ex-cited to be

such a wide array of pieces for people to see with this exhibit,” he said.

“It’s a col-

lection to be seen in a much

larger city.”Admission is $5 and the

show will remain open until Oct. 8. For more information, visit www.baldwinreynolds.org or call (814) 333-9882.

“Two Dead Fowl” by George Hetzel was just one of the pieces featured in the Baldwin Reyn-

olds art show, “In Our Own Backyard,” that was created by a local artist.

Courtesy of Meagan Roppo

While studying abroad in Australia last Spring, I snor-keled the clear blue waters of the Great Barrier Reef, among

I hiked in an ancient rain-forest with dense, tangled veg-etation. I toured the famous Sydney Opera House and saw a Cuban dance show. I cuddled with a koala.

I loved exploring all the as-pects of Australia that make it unique, but I especially en-joyed learning about Austra-lian cultures.

During my stay, I took a class about the culture of Aus-tralia’s indigenous people, who are also known as aborigines.

aboriginal elder named Uncle Rusty.

In aboriginal culture, it is common to address anyone you are familiar with as “aunt” or “uncle.” I didn’t know exact-ly what to expect before meet-ing Uncle Rusty.

Although I had some back-ground knowledge about in-digenous people, there are still stereotypes that describe indig-enous people as “tribal.”

Aborigines are associated with boomerangs and living

push out of one’s mind. However, Uncle Rusty was a

normal man in his 60s, dressed

a straw hat. He lived in a house in

Townsville and was respected within the community for his activism concerning indig-enous issues.

I was struck by how much Uncle Rusty knew about indig-enous history and the land.

He told us old stories while we looked at rock art that was tens of thousands of years old.

about every tree and plant in the “bush”—or forest—where

sistant bark could be used for steaming food.

Another’s leaves create soap when crushed up and mixed with water.

Uncle Rusty said he never had to buy pain medicine be-cause he could make it from the cockle berry tree.

He emphasized that he maintains a respectful relation-ship with the environment, us-ing only what you need.

Another topic Uncle Rusty discussed was the current so-cial issues indigenous Aus-tralians face stemming from

From the early 1900s un-til as late as 1970, indigenous children were taken from their families to be raised on mis-sions in an attempt to “breed out” the aborigines.

Stolen Generation, now lack

hard to assimilate into society. Another issue was the poli-

cy of paying indigenous wages

into bank accounts controlled

ey from indigenous people. Because of the policy, there

are millions of Australian dol-lars that have still not been paid to the rightful person or their families.

not something Americans learn about in history classes.

However, it was shocking to me that many of the Austra-

is yet another issue: indigenous history needs to be taught in Australian schools.

While Uncle Rusty ac-knowledged the injustices indigenous Australians have

focus was sharing indigenous knowledge in order to move forward.

Uncle Rusty showed me that there are valuable lessons to learn from this 60,000-year-old culture, especially a way of living that seeks to minimize harm to the environment.

Poet brings new life to readings

hosted writer and poet Caro-

ment of this year’s Single Voice Reading Series.

Forché returned to Alleghe-

to share her newest pieces for

authors to share their writing with an audience as the author feels the piece should be heard.

Now an accomplished writ-er, Forché boasts four books of poetry:

Hour, and Gathering the Tribes. She received awards such as the Yale Series of Younger Po-ets Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Cast-agnola Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshi-ma Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her work.

Colonel” in her English class, Jennifer Springer commented that she was looking forward to hearing the piece read by the actual author.

“How someone else pres-ents the poem can change the meaning,” said Springer. “It is interesting to see how the au-thor presents it, so it is exciting

By RACHEL SLOANContributing Writersloanr@allegheny.edu

to hear Forché speak.”Taylor Sherman, ‘14, was

also impressed by the poet’s reading.

“Her poetry really brings

out things we don’t know about her,” said Sherman. “Her expe-rience really showed through her voice.”

As a professor at George-town University, Forché always

contemplate and write.

writing is doing something that is worth someone else’s time to read,” said Forché.

Forche, who has written four books of poetry, is also an English profes-sor at Georgetown University.

At the reading, Forché read from 10 poems, includ-

gel of History,” “Curfew,” “On Earth,” “Visitation,” “Ghost of Heaven,” “Museum of Stones,”

stayed for a question and an-swer session. One audience

tion of a poetry of witness, a phrase Forché used to describe her writing.

“A poetry of witness is not an identity,” Forché explained. “It is a way of approaching a work of a poet that has sub-

Another attendant asked

poetry.“Because life is so intense, I

always want to learn to grow,” said Forché.

der of the school year, authors such as Sara McCallum, Mat-thew Ferrence, Nick Lantz, Andrew Mulvania and Pam Houston visit campus as part of the Single Voice Reading series.

Uncle Rusty, the aboriginal elder Codispot met while abroad, tells stu-dents about Turtle Rock, this location is a sacred site in Australia.

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Baldwin-Reynolds displays pieces from local artists in Northwestern Pennsylvania

Where: 639 Terrace St.

When:Wednesday

to Sunday 12 to 8 p.m.

What:Rooms fea-

turing works from North-

western Pennsylvania

artists.

Featuring demonstra-

tions by Pennsylvania Route 6 Ar-tisans Satur-days 12 to 6

p.m.

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Coldly stylish, “Drive” is an

stomach for violence. Don’t let the pop synth

soundtrack and the stylish pink title fool you; this art-house production pulls no punches.

Ryan Gosling plays the un-named driver, a man who does Hollywood stunt driving by day and a s -

sists in getaways for armed heists by night.

lationship with his attractive neighbor Irene (Carey Mul-ligan) and her young son Be-necio while her husband Stan-dard (Oscar Isaac) is in jail.

handling anything until busi-ness gets personal.

When Standard is forced into carrying out a robbery to pay back money he owes, the

an attempt to keep Standard out of jail and the family back together.

a touching almost-romance

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Gosling steps into gear

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into a chillingly violent search for retribution.

uinely disturbing.

one person walked out during a particularly gruesome scene and did not return.

watch, but gives the movie a thrillingly visceral quality that keeps everyone in the audience on the edge of their seats grip-ping their armrests from the time the pawn shop heist be-gins un- t i l

the credits

start to roll. “Drive” both disturbs with

its violence but also wins hearts through the interactions between the driver, Irene and Benecio.

side in his scenes with these two. He spends time with Be-necio, playing games with him

in at night. His limited and sometimes

awkward dialogue with Irene is endearing, and their relation-ship feels deeply genuine.

the driver’s violence in the lat-

his love for Irene and Benecio. His desire to protect them

from the bloody machinations behind the heist gone wrong

them. Director Nicolas Refn’s

casting proves commendable

in “Drive.” Gosling and Mulligan cer-

tainly have chemistry, and Mulligan’s touching portrayal of Irene as a vulnerable young mother demonstrates her tal-ent in her own right.

Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman also perform compel-lingly in their roles as criminals – they’re cold-blooded and ter-rifying.

His performance as the

seems completely immersed in his role.

He somehow manages to give the driver uncommon depth, creating a character that is distant yet obviously compassionate, capable but human and attractive at all times – he’s basically coolness incarnate with his toothpick in his mouth, wearing his signa-ture leather driving gloves and scorpion emblazoned jacket.

ably chic, especially the camera shots of the city skyscrapers and lights at night.

refreshingly minimal for a thriller centered on a driver and they are believable.

cellent.

much the same way I have al-ways loved Francis Coppola’s

Scorcese’s “Goodfellas.”

to become a true classic.

Ryan Gosling plays the lead role in Nicolas Refn’s “Drive.” As the unnamed driver, Gosling portrays a character who assists in armed heists, yet reveals his soft side in scenes with his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan).

Actor steals screen as stunt driver who assists in crime getaways

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I found this recipe online last week while I was browsing the internet and realized I have never baked a dinner dish be-

One thing you must have is a baking dish. My mom gave me an old one over the sum-mer to use but it’s been sitting in a dresser drawer for months.

I didn’t want to have to walk down to the grocery store to get my ingredients for dinner, so instead, I went to Brooks.

You can get the majority of the main ingredients in our dining hall. Get a to-go con-

spinach, onions, tomatoes, chicken, cheese and any veg-etables you’d like, such as broc-coli or peppers. I had probably almost half of my to-go con-tainer full of pasta.

cream, but I used soy milk from my fridge and it turned out all right, so you could get skim milk from Brooks too.

I also had my own fresh garlic, dried oregano, parme-san cheese, tomatoes, olive oil and salt and pepper.

If you get the pasta from Brooks already cooked, you can skip the step of cooking your own pasta and trying to time everything correctly.

for a can of whole tomatoes crushed with your hands. I used fresh tomatoes, cutting

myself.Cut up the rest of your veg-

etables (onions, garlic, spinach, etc.) before heating anything to allow a smooth cooking pro-cess.

Heat oil on a large skillet over low-medium heat, then

Next, add your crushed to-matoes and some dried oreg-ano and cook for at least 10 minutes.

Pour in your milk and cook

son with salt and pepper and any other spices you’d like, such as more oregano or paprika.

Preheat the oven to 400 de-grees.

Next, add the rest of the vegetables or pre-cooked meat to the tomato sauce. In this case, I used spinach, broccoli and chicken.

Once cooked and wilted, in

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the pasta to the skillet. Toss it around and let the pasta reheat.

Very carefully, pour the mixture into a baking dish. Grate parmesan cheese, or

top.Bake about 20 minutes until

browned.While it’s cooling, make

some garlic bread. All you need is garlic powder and butter and bread.

utes on a greased baking sheet in the oven.

over meals.

Elaina saved a trip to the grocery store by getting most of her ingredients from Brooks Dining Hall. She suggests fi lling a to-go box with pasta, spin-ach, onions, tomatoes, chicken, cheese and vegetables.

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