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Construction workers injured during fall

In the spring of 2010, SGA partnered with Public Safety and developed a shuttle for students who wanted to travel late at night with-out driving their cars. While this transporta-tion became highly val-ued by many students throughout Albright, it was also becoming increasingly abused against its purpose.

Kat Biehl, SGA Presi-dent, explained that the shuttle, “became a taxi service that stu-dents used to take to off campus parties. This became a huge li-ability for the school and for public safety.”

From the beginning, the shuttle was supposed to be true to its name, a shuttle. The problem was that students were calling the shuttle driver and asking to be picked up off campus and taken to other off campus lo-cations, Biehl explained.

When the announce-ment came over interim that the shuttle service would begin implement-ing pick-up times for dif-ferent locations around campus many students reacted in anger. SGA of-fered a drop-box for stu-dents to write their feel-ings about the revised shuttle service. Some students were very bel-ligerent and wrote that they had begun driv-ing drunk because they could no longer call for the shuttle at night while they were drinking.

Since the start of the shuttle, the origi-nal idea to provide was a service to pick up students and take them around campus.

Former SGA Presi-dent Simon Foster was

Albright shuttleservice provides late-night trans-portation for students

READING, Pa. - Two construction workers were seriously injured after falling more than 20 feet off the roof of the Boll-man Center March 17, according to an email ob-tained by The Albrightian and media reports.

Albright Director of Public Safety Tom McDaniel reported via email that both workers fell from the wood-

en bracing above the scaf-folding to the floor. Both workers were concious fol-lowing the incident, as one worker sustained an arm in-jury and other a leg injury.

In an update on the workers’ conditions, the site foreman said both em-ployees were doing “okay.” One of the workers’ family members also was work-ing on the scene at the time of the accident and accompanied the injured

As students return from spring break, they will have to adjust to a new change in the housing application process. Paper applications will no longer be used. Instead, students will sign up on the hous-ing section of the Albright website. The idea for this change was suggested and put into action by Director of Housing and Residential Learning Amanda Hanin-cik. New software to pro-duce this change was pur-chased in January 2010.

“I felt the previous process was time consum-ing, inefficient, and too much work for the hous-ing staff and students,” Hanincik commented.

With an inside view of the process, Hanincik saw the dire need for an update. “My boss, Dean of Students Gina-Lyn Crance, was instrumental throwing her support behind it, and also IT Services also was instrumental in helping us get the system up and running,” Hanincik added.

Housing applications will open online for stu-dent beginning on Mon-day, March 28, to Tues-day, April 26. Hanincik believes the transition will be a smooth one.

“In the beginning [there will be] a lot of questions, but if students pay attention to the hous-ing directions that are in all of their mail boxes, and if students have gone to the question and an-swer session in Walton Hall (held on March 22) then the process should be easy,” said Hanincik.

This new direction for the housing process is a progressive change, and moving the hous-ing application online will be a successful transition for the Al-

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worker to the hospital.A key undisclosed fact

in the accident is whether the workers were wear-ing the designated har-nesses at the time of the fall. None of the injuries was life-threatening, and the scaffolding floor may have saved the workers from a more extensive fall.

Reading Fire and EMS, as well as the Reading Po-lice Department, quickly responded to the scene and

rescued the two workers from the roof. The Read-ing Eagle and Channel 69 WFMZ-TV were present for the removal of the men from the scaffolding and place-ment into ambulances.

The foreman passed on a note from the injured workers, who appreci-ated the thoughts and concerns of Albright com-munity members who ex-pressed their well wishes.

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Firefighters work to rescue the two injured construction workers.

State Department films lecture on street gangs

READING, Pa. – One Albright class session was more packed than usual Tuesday morning.

Alan Botto of The De-partment of State, Office of Broadcast Support, trav-eled to Albright Tuesday to film a lecture titled “Sub-cultural Violence: The Dark Side of Gangs,” offered by Albright chair and professor of sociology, Carla Abodalo.

Botto was filming a two-part documentary with Megavision 21 in El Salvador. The documentary, The Dark Side of Gangs, will include Abodalo’s academic and so-ciological perspective on the roots of gangs, how gangs have transitioned in the 21st

century and the types of gangs that exist today. Abo-dalo specifically discussed Mara Salvatrucha 13 Gang

(MS-13), one of the mostviolen and dangerous

gangs in the United States

with ties to El Salvador.“MS-13 started out

as a bunch of kids who liked metal music in Los

Angeles,” said Abodalo, a criminologist. “The His-panic immigrants were

discriminated against by the established African-American base in the area.”

According to the 2009 National Gang Threat As-sessment, the MS-13 gang is active in 42 states and six countries. It has 50,000 active global members - 10,000 in the U.S. alone. Graffiti from MS-13 has even been found in Alaska.

Furthermore, according to report, the 18th Street gang, which is compa-rable to MS-13, has 20,000 members in 44 cities.

Abodalo remarked that organized crime be-came famous during the Prohibition era, and it existed prior to the Ital-

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Professor Carla Abodalo speaks to her audience.

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bright College Housing Office.“I think students will enjoy how flex-

ible and convenient this is for them. This system is so advanced that if stu-dents want to live in Mohn, North or Woods Apartments, no longer will they be scored on a point system because this system is so advanced it only scores stu-dents on the two most important things - number of credits earned and GPA.”

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ian mafia when Al Capone became one of the most powerful gang leaders in history.

“A new subculture emerged in the 1980s, where violent crime combined with a profit motive for a scary combination - drug trafficking is big business,” said Abo-dalo, later adding that gangs are the pri-mary distributors of illicit drugs in America.

Abodalo remarked that gang lead-ers considered their violence their business. Violence is used to send a message. “But rarely were innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.”

The City of Reading contains 13 ac-tive gangs. Abodalo stated that the higher ups in mafia have taken their wares to the wealthier city suburbs.

Reading is a “convenient stop” for gangs in New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., just minutes from Vir-ginia, which presently contains a large con-tingency of MS-13 members. Reading does have a presence of MS-13 in the city. But most gangs are local bands, Abodalo said.

Albright hosted former Italian mafia leader Michael Franzese, who has turned his life around through a religious conver-sion. Franzese is among the slim minor-ity of organized crime capo regime to leave to the gang and live to tell about it.

“The only way out of a gang is in a cemetery,” said Abodalo, echoing a slo-gan held by many gangs: “Live for God, live for your mother and die for the gang.”

Albright College public rela-tions contributed to this report.

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quoted in an interview last year say-ing that the shuttle, “is a means for students not to use their cars so they don’t have to, or if students don’t have it. The bus is not a ‘drunk bus,’ it is supposed to be a shuttle service for students to use late at night to go from the dorms to the Woods, or from campus to WaWa.”

While the change came to many students as a surprise, students like Biehl say that they still use the shuttle to go to many places off campus and on.

Biehl stated that, “every Thurs-day I use the shuttle to go from the Woods to the Goose. It’s very convenient, you just have to plan your night accordingly.”

Other students who don’t live on campus still feel that the change hin-ders them from using the shuttle. Old-er students who gave input into the SGA drop-box said that because they lived off campus it was about the same distance to walk to off campus bars or WaWa than to the closest stop at Court, where they would have to wait.

The previous shuttle/taxi ser-vice that served students at Albright, while well-received, was liability to Albright, and portrayed an image that Albright’s Public Safety was transporting students from party to party. While the service is different than what students are used to, it is still a free form of transportation.

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READING, Pa. - Albright Col-lege President Dr. Lex McMil-lan offered a detailed expla-nation on his “Blue Ocean” strategy, a driving force behind the school’s five-year strategic plan.

This strategic plan projects a vision of the Albright for the Class of 2020. In an interview with The Albrightian on March 21, McMil-lan explained the process and outlined his own personal vision.

“This is not my own idea, so I’m not going to take credit for it,” said McMillan. “But I certainly do like it.”

According to McMillan, the goals mapped out in the last set of stra-tegic planning have already been met, evidenced in the rising enroll-ment in both Albright’s traditional undergraduate program and accel-erated degree programs over the past five years. McMillan aimed to include more voices, particular-ly those of the faculty and staff.

McMillan admitted his inaugural plan was used as an opportunity to gauge his cabinet, but is using the second plan as a “listening pro-cess.” Under the new strategic plan, the president has tasked employees “from the top, down,” choosing members of senior management and faculty to lead the plan that will guide Albright over the next five years. Vice presidents and McMil-lan are absent from the committee.

The “Blue Ocean” concept is based on the understanding that all people, groups, companies and colleges are in a big blue ocean. Similar academic institutions follow each other and compete for a piece of the red ocean. The red ocean represents uncontested space (that is consistent with the mission) that would help redefine the market.

Albright started a venture in the “red ocean” in its Ac-celerated Degree Program. Originally a program with a small number of adult stu-dents looking to complete their degrees, the program now includes 550 adults - 25% of the total student population at Albright. Oth-er colleges have followed with similar programs and the market for degree com-pletion programs has be-come fiercely competitive.

While the ADP/DCP programs are a major ac-complishment for Albright, McMillan also is a fan of a “cohort learning model” that would map the program to place 10-15 students in the same classes from the beginning to the end of the Albright experience. McMil-lan hopes to test this model as a way of “enhancing the sense of membership of a worthwhile organization frin convocation to commence-ment” and noted the model would offer a “better [way] of connecting students and knowing that group very well four years later.”

“Liberal arts [educa-

tion] is durable,” McMillan said.The strategic planning commit-

tee will conclude their research over the summer. McMillan indicated that expectations should be tempered, as the strategic planning commit-tee will be implementing changes as the college continues to operate.

“Don’t expect any earth-shat-tering items.”

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READING, Pa. – Janice Luck, co-director of athletics, named Jeremy Wright as the new head women’s volley-ball coach at Albright College. Wright replaces interim head coach Michael Marks, who led the Lady Lions in 2010.

With this announcement, Wright became the 10th head coach in the program’s history. He will be in charge of all facets of Albright vol-leyball, including player recruit-ment, in-season practice sched-ules and player development.

“We are excited to have Jeremy join our staff; his enthusiasm and pas-sion for the sport is a perfect match for Albright,” said Luck. “He comes from a strong volleyball background that will help our program continue to grow.”

Wright spent the last two sea-sons as assistant coach at Haverford College in Haverford, Pa. During his

time with the Fords, he helped the program to a combined 49-16 re-cord, back-to-back Centennial Con-ference regular season titles, a Cen-tennial Conference tournament title and a trip to the 2009 NCAA Division III women’s volleyball tournament.

Wright earned a bachelor’s de-gree in mathematics from Susque-hanna University in 2008. He is pursuing his master’s in math-ematics from Villanova University.

Wright was a four-year member of the men’s volleyball club team, serv-ing as team captain for three of them, Wright helped with all facets of the club program, including scheduling team practices, matches and tournaments. He also served as an assistant on the women’s squad during his senior year.

Wright resides in Newtown, Pa., and is a secondary math teach-er at Germantown High School.

By ALBRIGHT ATHLETICSThe Albrightian

Jeremy Wright joins Albright Athletics’ team as new volleyball coach

Sports

Every year, the NCAA Tourna-ment provides plenty of suspense, madness and great competition. It is named “March Madness” for that very reason. Millions across the coun-try enter bracket picks, attempting to be the ones to call the upsets or pick the ever-exclusive Final Four.

The 2011 tournament has pro-vided a similar storyline, but also included surprises. At the end of a grueling two weeks of basketball and 64 heart-pounding games, only four teams remain. With regards to the online bracket pools, only two people out of the over 5 million ESPN.com entrants predicted these four to arrive in the Final Four.

Kentucky, Butler, Virginia Com-monwealth and Connecticut remain alive for the national title. They have passed through some of the toughest opponents in the coun-try to reach this point. For the av-erage basketball fan, two of the schools are no a surprise in the Fi-nal Four. Kentucky and UConn are perennial powerhouses with top recruits, great coaches and test-ed in rigorous major conferences.

However, the other two teams surprise even the experts this year. Butler, from the Horizon League, and VCU, from the Colonial Ath-letic Association, are two mid-majors not expected to make a sound in the Big Dance let alone storm through regionals to Houston.

What is even more unlikely

about this year’s Final Four is that there are no number one or num-ber two seeds. Connecticut is a number three seed, Kentucky a number four, Butler a num-ber eight and VCU a number 11.

This year marks the first time that no number one or number two seeds have made it this far, since seeding began in 1979. Additionally, the four teams combined for a Final Four record-high 37 losses this year and a winning percentage of just .755, the second lowest since 1985.

What may even be more unprec-edented about these four teams is that in the first year of tournament expansion to 68 teams, four of the most unlikely made it to college bas-ketball’s Holy Grail in Houston, TX.

Matchup #1: Virginia Common-wealth Rams v. Butler Bulldogs

This contest might be the most intriguing of the tournament so far. VCU is almost a carbon-copy of 2006 Cinderella George Mason, a fel-low CAA foe and number 11 seed. What may separate the Rams from the Patriots is how they got here.

Not many fans expected VCU to qualify for this year’s tournament. They did not win the CAA and were much less prestigious than Old Do-minion or George Mason with a 23-11 mark and 11-6 in conference.

When they were selected to play Southern California in one of the inaugural First Four games in Dayton, a common reaction among fans was that they didn’t be-

long. How did the Rams respond?They blew away the Trojans,

then powerhouses Georgetown and Purdue - number four and number three seeds, respectively. They fol-lowed up with a gut-wrenching 72-71 OT win over Florida State in the Sweet 16 and a dominant win over number 1 Kansas. The Rams defied the odds with brilliant coaching from 34-year-old Coach Shaka Smart and terrific three-point shooting (43.8% from downtown in the tournament).

Led by senior point-guard Joey Rodriguez and former North Caro-lina Mr. Basketball, senior forward Jamie Skeen, the Rams up-tem-po quick shot attack has stunned experts around the country.

Guards Brandon Rozzell and Bradford Burgess have been lights out from beyond the arc and have punished their opponents with open looks all tournament long. The Rams have a different style than that of the 2006 Mason team, but after most counted them out, they are two wins away from owning the entire tournament. They have al-ready won five, what’s another two to take home the title to Richmond?

On the other hand, Butler is back in the Final Four for the second straight year. However, no one other than themselves believed they would be back. Brad Stevens has again en-gineered a winner from the Horizon to shock opponents all March long.

The tournament began with a buzzer-beater, put back by senior center Matt Howard to get past

Old Dominion. Then, in a contro-versial win, Howard sank the game winning free-throw to knock off top-seeded Pittsburgh 71-70. This victory followed by a win over Wis-consin that was much more one-sid-ed than the 71-64 score indicates.

Finally, the Bulldogs took out Bil-ly Donovan’s Florida Gators 74-71 in overtime to cut down the nets and return to the Final Four. This Butler team is similar to last year’s. Late game heroics, great fundamental guard play from senior Shelvin Mack and big rebounds from Howard.

Butler has not just won games, they have decimated their oppo-nents late with clutch, smart plays to outsmart the other team. Brad Ste-vens is the man orchestrating these and one year after coming up just short against Duke, the Bulldogs are ready for another chance at a title.

Butler and VCU are the two teams that no one thought would be here now. They both have two young coaches, great shooting and big-men inside who can dominate the paint. The lead of the game will go back and forth with zone defenses matching each other.

This comes down to the guards late and either team could pull-it out. However, the shooting of VCU trumps it all. They just keep knocking down shots and will be the first CAA team ever in the National title game.

Prediction: VCU 78, Butler 76

By SEAN SNYDERThe Albrightian

Cinderella VCU, upstart Butler join Kentucky and UConn in Houston2011 Final Four preview

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Arguably the most significant color barrier to be broken in profes-sional sports was that of baseball. In 1947, Jackie Robinson started a game for the Brooklyn Dodgers which integrated Major League Baseball.

America’s pastime finally be-came integrated as more of the best athletes were able to com-pete in baseball at the highest level.

In some regards, it happened too little too late. Satchel Paige, arguably one of the greatest pitch-ers ever, pitched for just a handful of seasons in the Big Leagues after several stellar Negro League years.

Additionally, Buck O’Neil, a fine Negro League first basemen, had no chance to showcase himself in the na-tional spotlight because he was past his prime by the late 1940s. O’Neil started and finished his career with the Kansas City Monarchs. Fortu-nately, O’Neil was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006.

In the time since integration, Afri-can-Americans have had quite an im-pact on baseball. The top two all-time Home Run Leaders are black: Barry Bonds (762) and Hank Aaron (755).

Only two white players are even in the top 10 list: Babe Ruth (714) and Mark McGwire (583). Hank Aaron leads MLB all-time in Runs Batted In (RBI’s) with 2,297. Babe Ruth is second with 2,213.

Baseball enthusiasts would have a difficult time arguing against the “Say Hey Kid,” Willie Mays, as the best center fielder ever in the game. With his spectacular athletic abil-ity to make acrobatic catches, as well as, his lightning-quick bat, Mays was a staple for the Giants.

Some African-Americans paved the way for the revolutionary art of preci-sion pitching. Paige threw one of best curve balls and experimented throwing the ball all over the plate. Bob Gibson was an intimidator on the mound for several seasons and won two World Se-ries titles with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Aaron, Mays and Willie McCovey were terrific fielders. Joe Morgan, outside of Pete Rose, could very well be the best second basemen ever.

In the younger generation, very few players could patrol center quite like Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey Jr. was the proto-typical, rare five-tool player. He could run all the over the place, throw a seed to the plate from center, hit for both extraordinary power and average, and catch anything that stayed in the park and then some. Before knee injuries sidelined him in 2001 Griffey seemed to be the heir-apparent to Hank Aaron, after leaving the Mariners for the Reds.

Instead, Barry Bonds ended up tear-ing up the record books and overtaking Aaron in due time as the all-time Home Run leader. Early in his career, Bonds was unreal as a player, as he could steal 40 bags and hit 40 homers like nobody’s

business. Bonds also hit well over .300 and drove in over 100 on an annual basis. When Bonds launched home run number 756 off of Washington National lefty Mike Bacsik on Aug. 8, 2007, an African-American player assumed the role of baseball’s Home Run King and be-came another symbol of African-Amer-icans impact on America’s pastime.

Although many of today’s base-

ball stars are of Dominican descent, those who hail directly from Ameri-ca have a special place in the game. The African-American players all continue the legend of Jackie Rob-inson, Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson and Joe Morgan. They reflect the deter-mination, hard work and diligence to succeed and exceed expectations.

By SEAN SNYDERThe Albrightian

Sixty-four years later, Jackie’s sacrifice still paves the wayThe third commentary of a four-part series

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EntertainmentMarch 31, 2011

By ELIZABETH REBERThe Albrightian

Lady Gaga’s YouTube hits edgier than ever

Music videos have always had a way of pushing limits; their ris-qué content shocks and draws in droves of viewers and elevate the musicians’ status and popularity. However, if every year artists try to shock more than the year be-fore, music videos become less of a format for creative expres-sion and more of a cheap way to get the most YouTube hits.

Take Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” for example. With over 120 mil-lion views, the bizarre video seems entertaining, only for the almost hilarious, if not outlandish scenes. In the video, Gaga appears to play the lover of Alejandro, com-

manding a troupe of well choreo-graphed, bowl cut-sporting men. Interspersed among Gaga’s signa-ture dance scenes are not-so subtle references to her penchant for gen-der crossing with men in high heels and fishnet stockings. The video also portrays Gaga swallowing a ro-sary and wearing several of her fa-mously ridiculous outfits and wigs. In a seemingly unrelated sequence, Lady Gaga tried to connect the video in her usual avant-garde way, but it just seems comical to watch.

Another music video to con-sider is Rihanna’s “S&M”. Here, Rihanna acts as a media obsession as reporters with ball gags write about her, ties some of these re-porters up in duct tape and even

walks celebrity blogger Perez Hilton on a leash in this sadism and masochism inspired attire.

In Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie”, the music video shocks audiencesdue to the plausi-ble and detailed domestic violence portrayed. Actors Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox play an abusive cou-ple who break mirrors, throw each other against walls, smash walls, drink, make up, then do it all over again (except with an added finale where they burn their house down).

Artists like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Eminem achieved fame in part because of their distinctive and inim-itable personalities, which showed through their music and subsequent music videos. Their music videos

can speak to an even larger audi-ence than their fan base if they in-clude some extreme, exceptionally bizarre, lewd or violent element to them. The artist profits from this by not only targeting more viewers and consumers of their product. They set a precedent that viewers hope to see met in future music videos. If this music video went this far, may-be the next one will go even farther.

Edgy music videos act as self-promotional tools artists use in their constant effort to surpass their competition and acquire more fans. Ultimately, the viewer’s de-mand for these outrageous and ab-surd music videos will keep artists producing them in the future, living by the maxim the edgier, the better.

Red Riding Hood takes childhood classic to the big screen

It seems that the makers of Twi-light have difficulties in branching beyond their usual plot. Red Rid-ing Hood features a love triangle, a werewolf and several scenes of low-budget special effects and acting tal-ent. Twilight actor Taylor Lautner was even considered for a main role.

Set in a medieval European village plagued by a vicious wolf - though pre-cisely when or where can be greatly disputed, as the film is also rife with historical inaccuracies - the film's only similarity to the fairy tale is its inclu-sion of a young woman with a red cape, a wolf and a victimized grandmother.

When Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is unwillingly betrothed to the wealthy and well-connected Henry (Max Irons), she decides to flee the village with her true love, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), a childhood friend and poor carpenter. However, before the couple can make their getaway, the wolf strikes and kills Valerie’s sister, breaching its usual boundaries in the act. The wolf’s dis-regard for the villagers’ sacrifices and their unspoken boundaries drives the vil-lage priest to summon a more powerful man of the cloth to hunt the creature. Simultaneously, the men of the village decide to hunt the wolf in its own terri-

tory, unleashing a string of events that bind Valerie to the cursed village and prevent her from leaving with Peter.

The visiting priest warns the vil-lagers that the wolf they seek is not a normal wolf, but rather a werewolf who lives among the villagers in its human form. The claim strikes fear through-out the people as the wolf continues to kill and hunt. The villagers become in-creasingly wary of one another, plausi-bly shifting blame from one to another.

In spite of poor acting and the bla-tant historical inaccuracies, the film-makers did a remarkable job of hiding the identity of the werewolf and keep-ing the audience guessing who the mur-derer is until the end of the film. Add-ing to the question of the werewolf's human identity is the predatory and animalistic first-person camera view used throughout the film, which fre-quently pans to various suspects whose perspective the audience is seeing.

Overall, if viewers can overlook the forced and cliched acting - a fre-quent reminder of the actors’ inability to fully immerse the audience in the film - as well as the poor special ef-fects, Red Riding Hood is entertaining in regards to the mystery surround-ing the werewolf’s identity and the final resolution of various plot holes and loose ends throughout the film.

By ELIZABETH GORDONThe Albrightian

On March 26, Albright students got a taste of Broadway when they went to see one of two Tony Award-winning Broadway shows: “Jersey Boys” or “Billy Elliot”. “Jersey Boys” is about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ rise to fame. It also fo-cuses on the relationships among the group and on the lead singer, Frankie Valli. “Billy Elliot” features the cast from the movie that was re-leased in 2000 and features music by Elton John, set in Northern England during and after the 1984 miners’ strike. This play follows a young boy, who with the help of a dance teach-er, discovers his love of dancing.

The Broadway trip, which is Al-bright College Activities Council’s most popular trip, has been in ex-istence since Albright College Ac-

tivities Council started, according to council member Claude Louis.

“It became an Albright tradition a long time ago when [Albright Col-lege Activities Council] first started, when Sally Stetler was our advi-sor,” said Louis. “We started doing a Broadway show every semester and we would have the annual sleepover. That is one of the events that we know we can’t get rid of because students will absolutely hate us so we are going to do it every se-mester as long as AC2 is running.”

These shows are chosen usually by popularity but Bradley Smith, di-rector of Student Activities and AC2 advisor, has the final say. However, members are allowed to give sugges-tions for shows they think students will enjoy and that they themselves will enjoy. These shows were picked last semester when students went to

see “The Lion King” and “Mary Pop-pins.” In the past, students have seen “Spamalot,” “Phantom of the Op-era,” “Rock of Ages,” and “Chicago.”

Louis also explained that these shows are acting as an opening for something bigger: “We are saving it as a prelude to a really, really big show next semester when we are go-ing to get ‘Wicked.’ We might just get two showings of it because we know ‘Wicked’ is going to be really packed. We might get two buses of ‘Wicked.’”

For this trip, students left Albright College at 8 a.m. for the two hour trip to New York City. Students were given maps that showed them how to get back to the meeting location, Bryant Park. Students left New York at around 8 p.m. and arrived back at Albright at around 10:30 p.m. Stu-dents had time to roam the city until 2 p.m., then attended either “Billy

Elliot,” which was held in the Impe-rial Theater or “Jersey Boys,” which was held in the August Theater.

Senior Allison Fies was a huge fan of “Billy Elliot.”

“I thought it was really good, it was a little bit sad at times but it was also really funny. I thought it was a good mix of that,” Fies said.

The Broadway trip is one that students will remember even after they graduate. Broadway and New York City are both experiences: the acting, singing, honking of cars and scenery, are all part of the experi-ence. A show on Broadway is not like a typical school play, it’s different, exciting and new. It is a type of ex-perience that one cannot get from going to an Experience Event, one which will stick with students forever.

Albrightians frequent Broadway in popular AC2 tripBy JORDAN BONTE

The Albrightian

Matchup #2: Kentucky Wild-cats v. Connecticut Huskies

Kentucky versus UConn is a clas-sic clash of two college basketball powerhouses. It’s a great match-up of stellar guards, powerful men and big name coaches. The infa-mous names are all over this game.

Kemba Walker, the do-it-all super-star of the Huskies, who scored over 25 ppg in the season and carried them on to beat Arizona and San Diego St.

Brandon Knight, Diandre Lig-gins and Terrence Jones, the fresh-men phenoms who lead the Wild-cats and will be NBA lottery picks.

John Calipari and Jim Calhoun are two of the winning coaches in Division I. That being said, this game is about the two teams run from obscurity to the Final Four.

The Huskies looked dead in the water when the Big East tournament began three weeks ago in New York. They lost four out of their last six games and started as the number 11 seed in the conference tournament.

However, led by Walker, center Alex Oriakhi and freshmen guard Jeremy Lamb, Huskies have won nine straight and stamped themselves to join fellow leg-ends including Ray Allen, Richard Ham-

ilton, Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon.Meanwhile, John Calipari is back

in the Final Four again with a simi-lar formula: freshman standouts who can jump out of the gym and shoot the lights out on the floor.

Derrick Rose led Memphis to the national title game in 2007 and almost won it all. Though he came up short of the Final Four last year, Calipari used a mix of terrific freshmen and hard-working veterans to get it done up un-til a loss to West Virginia in the Elite 8.

Knight is no John Wall, but with Jones in the middle and his perimeter shot, Kentucky can score in a hurry. The key for the Wildcats, as is for any great young team, is to take care of the ball and not be in too much of a hur-ry. Kentucky’s young stars outmatched North Carolina’s young guns and did ex-ceptional down the stretch to win Sun-day’s Elite 8 game. Now, can they with-stand Kemba Walker and his onslaught?

This game looks to be high-scoring and fast-paced. It will be a fun one, but UCo-nn’s experience will ultimately prevail. Jim Calhoun is as professional a college basketball coach as they come and he will engineer another win for his Huskies.Prediction: UConn 85, Kentucky 80

Prediction for National Championship game: UConn 77, VCU 69

Final four previewContinued from Page 3

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March 31, 2011Features

Albright freshman Devon Houston turned his hobby of glassblowing into his own business when he got the idea to make custom handmade jewelry.

Houston first got into glassblow-ing when his mother learned of a glass-blowing non-profit organization called Glass Roots, located in Newark, N.J. She thought that it would be a great idea for her son, so he gave it a shot and stuck with it for the next seven years.

Once Houston gained more experi-ence in his craft, he completed a busi-

ness program at Glass Roots, which gave him the opportunity to work as an in-tern, teaching others how to blow glass. When Houston came to Albright College, one of the many things he brought with him was his passion for glassblowing.

“I wanted to continue here because I didn’t want to lose my skills, plus I was mak-ing money selling my work in junior and se-nior year of high school so I figured I might as well continue my work,” Houston said.

Houston’s passion, however, is one that involves much time and devotion, as well as practice. Even with years of experience in hand-crafting, a piece

of jewelry such as a bracelet takes around two and a half hours on aver-age. For Houston, the quality of his work is perhaps its most defining element.

“All of my work is hand-made, every bead, I put the de-signs on it myself, nothing is just bought from a store and no two products are the same. Every-thing is good quality,” he states.

Those interested in Houston’s work can contact him through his Facebook page, “true artist pro-duction.” His catalog includes items such as bracelets, rings

For Albright freshman glassblowing hobby becomes businessBy NICHOLAS HOMA

The Albrightian

The Law of Conservation of Matter is one of the most basic rules of chemis-try. It states that matter - the neutrons and protons and electrons that form ev-erything we see and know and touch in this world - have always been and will always be. From the time of creation, when the first single-celled organisms wriggled in the primordial soup, to the time when dinosaurs crashed through the brush, raising roars to the sky, to the world of today, the skyscrapers and taxis and geosynchronous satellites, there has never been more or less mat-ter than there is now. When an organ-ism dies, its matter does not die with it. It rises from the decaying confines of its former structure and swirls into the wind to become the night sky, the stars, the silvery moonlight. It becomes

the sparkling drops of dew on emerald blades of grass, the swirling sorbet col-ors of a sunset, the tiny snowflakes that kiss the cheeks and dust the eyelashes of laughing little girls in winter. I like to sit sometimes and wonder...what am I made of? What secrets of ancient na-tions, what tales of struggle and surviv-al, what ecstasy of victory and woe of defeat pump through the chambers of my heart and spidery capillaries of my veins? I look at my hand and imagine...it is a hand of no particular remark - a broad, square palm with short, stubby fingers that naturally tend to bend rath-er farther than normal, ragged nails and wrinkly knuckles - and yet...the matter that forms that hand...perhaps it was the bluish ice of a glacier dur-ing the Ice Age, the wind that whipped that hair of an immigrant girl bound for America and bigger dreams. Perhaps it was the leathery wing of a pterodactyl, sounding furious shrieks, the terror of the Jurassic skies. Perhaps it was the head of an ancient spear, flung by our ancestors as they struggled for food and survival and dominance so many years

ago. Perhaps it was a stone of Atlantis, claimed forever by the sea, or Rome, toppled by its own indulgence. Perhaps it was the bone of a tiny rainbow fish who once flitted through technicolor coral and turquoise sea, or a tear on the face of a grieving widow, robbed by war of love and happiness. Perhaps it was even the final drop of ruby, life-giving blood that dripped from the heart of a slain hero. And who says its form must be contained to this world? Perhaps it was a piece of the icy rings of Saturn, the blazing tail of a comet, a ruddy peak of Mars, or a star that once twin-kled over an infant Earth, snuffed out by the breath of time but alive in me.

From the time of our childhood, we are smiled at by adults who blandly tell us that we can be anything we want to be. They say it not because they believe it, but to inspire us, to make us think bigger, strive harder - and yet I think they never realize how very right they are. We can be anything - because we already are everything. In every drop of human and animal blood, in every quiv-ering leaf of every plant, in every silky,

pastel flower petal is the entire history of time. It is both wonderful and terri-fying to think about. The skin and hair and blood we find so unremarkable...in another life, another time could have been the cannon smoke of the Civil War, the guillotine blade of the French Revo-lution, the first lick of flame conjured by our ancestors, or the first creature to slither out of the primordial soup.

When my time to die is near, I will not grieve. I will accept my fate calm-ly, and when my body is gone, I will rejoice to join the symphony of time contained in every living, breathing body. My heart will sing at the thought of joining the matter of the dinosaurs, the cavemen, the uncountable men and women long since dead - each with his own story, and each a part of the remarkable pageant of time in which we are not players, but mere specks of dust existing in a temporary world until we are freed of our bodies and al-lowed to join the history of time - to be one with a delicate flower, a soar-ing bird, a mighty redwood tree, and every star and planet of the galaxy.

Law of Conservation of Matter: matter can neither be created or destroyed, only changed

Editor’s Note: Originally written on February 6, 2006, this piece is an es-say published at the request of Marie Lia, Juliette’s mother, to honor the one-year anniversary of her passing.

By JULIETTE LIA ‘12Albright

By KAYLEIGH COGGINSThe Albrightian

While walking through the heart of Albright’s campus, it is hard not to notice the newly remodeled Merner-Pfeiffer Hall of Science. There is a lot of new and upgraded equipment in the lab rooms. Despite some distrac-tions for the time being, the building is continuing progression since its recon-struction began in the spring of 2008.

The exterior of the building has shown visible progress with the fin-ished amphitheatre surrounding the pond as well as the green house.

The interior of the science center is almost complete. At the moment, there is still ongoing construction but students were able to attend lab in the new building at the beginning of the fall semester. However, lectures are held in the Rockland Building and the Computer Center while construction is continuing in that part of the building.

Sarah Liesau, a junior, is a chem-istry major at Albright. She attended Albright before the remodeling of the science center. When asked about how students, were coping with the recon-struction, Liesau said that the con-struction workers are very polite and they make sure not to be working too close to an area when class in session.

Liesau remembers the science build-ing before it was redone; “The old building wasn’t bad, it was just out-

dated and filled with old equipment.”Since Liesau is a teaching assistant for

organic chemistry and does lab prep for general analytical chemistry this semester, the new labs and equipment are very use-ful. This semester she is taking inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry and en-joys working with the new lab equipment.

Lara Zerkowski, lab instructor for biology courses, has been teaching at Albright for 10 years. Zerkowski is hap-py with the new science building, even though there are some minor distractions.

“The fans in science hall are still extremely loud and I have a very hard time trying to yell over them. The is-sue is currently being worked on, and we have a terrifically dedicated per-son to facilitate our concerns with the construction crew,” states Zerkowski.

On the other hand, Zerkowski ex-plains how much easier and produc-tive the new additions have made working conditions, especially the labs and the space they provide. The amount of lab space is a major benefit.

“I now have ample room to store all necessary materials in one room, ver-sus the old way, where prep materials were scattered in rooms throughout the building, and lab setups took far lon-ger to accomplish,” Zerkowski states.

In addition, Zerkowski said that the amount of space now provided al-lows for more teaching space to set up the various new equipment and sync it

with the new audio visual equipment.Zerkowski explains that the new

audio visual system is a projector that is mounted from the ceiling. It is con-nected to a hub where she can project from a DVD player, laptop, scanner and compound light microscope. Also, there is brand new lab equipment as well as equipment that was upgraded in ad-dition to the new audio visual system.

There are brand new microscopes and each student in lab can have their own. The microscopes are Leica binocular com-pound light microscopes, which are more advanced than the previous microscopes.

There is also a glassware dishwash-er. This addition allows the high volume of glass instruments used in lab ex-periments like beakers, flasks, pipettes and petri dishes to be cleaned faster, more efficiently and with less water.

There are new fume hoods now located in the labs. Fume hoods are ventilation devices that decrease the amount of hazardous chemicals vapors and fumes being exposed from experi-ments. In the old building, one would have to travel from the basement to the third floor to use hoods. “This al-lows me to stay in one place and have all the necessary materials at hand in a safe and secure manner,” stated Zerkowski.

Also, Liesau recently used the new fume hoods in her lab courses. She now likes using the fume hoods for experi-ments because more people can now

do their experiment simultaneously.Liesau’s favorite new lab equipment

for general analytical chemistry class is the PASCO unit, a multi-measure sensor that can detect temperature, pH, absolute gas pressure and voltage. “These instru-ments are very useful because of the wide range of ability of technology it can use.”

The EPA-chemical storage area, the specimen storage shelves and the new benches, Zerkowski’s fa-vorite addition, were all upgrades.

“Now our chemicals, both hazard-ous and non, have a new home. Chemi-cal preparations are best performed when all materials are at hand. Be-fore, we would have to take our equip-ment up to the third floor, perform the experiment, and then bring every-thing back down again,” said Zerkows-ki about the chemical storage area.

The new shelving units for speci-men storage allow for more organiza-tion. “We have shelving units through-out the entire lab, where all specimens are stored and now even displayed for students to view at any time,” said Zerkowski. Whereas before, the speci-men were stored in a small cabinet and it was difficult to take items out.

Since the lab portion of the Sci-ence Center is nearly complete, the other half of the project involving lec-ture rooms and offices will be com-pleted throughout the current semester.

and pendants, among others. Houston as-pires to keep his business mentality intact and graduate from Albright with intent to pursue a career in international business.

Science center renovations nearing completion

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Student LifeMarch 31, 2011

At Camp Boggy Creek, located in Eustis, Fl., Albright’s alternative spring breakers became volunteer activity and family “pals” - operating an activity area or acting as a host for a family - from March 16-20. The event took place during Kids on Ventilator-Assisted Care (KOVAC) weekend. Disabled children and their families participate as campers during KOVAC weekend free of charge. This ex-perience serves as a vacation, that for many, is their only one during the year.

Co-founded by Academy award win-ning actor Paul Newman, Camp Boggy Creek (CBC) is a year-round camp for children with life threatening illnesses. This camp was founded for children and their families to enjoy camp and forget about what illnesses brought them there.

“The kids were not treated as kids with disabilities, but simply [as] kids. Their illnesses came second dur-ing their time spent at Boggy Creek,” said Albright sophomore Lindsay Hen-dricks. “The atmosphere at Boggy was the ideal environment for those kids to play, shine, and shake their bushy tails.”

Camp Boggy has many generous do-nations such as the theater from Uni-versal Studios and the swimming pool built by Sea World. The camp uses New-man’s Own food products, provided free of charge. Every child leaves with a homemade afghan from camp inter-woven with memories to last a lifetime.

After arriving through the gates of Camp Boggy, Albright sophomore Ju-lia Miller noticed “the atmosphere was so welcoming and pleasant, [which] gave a sense of how camp was going to be—enthusiastic and accepting.”

When the campers arrived, the pals greeted each family outside of their cab-ins, helped them move in, and spent some time getting to know the families. Even returning volunteers were excited to see what camp would bring this time around.

Many bonds were formed between vol-unteer pals from Colorado State Univer-sity, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, NOVA Southeastern, Flori-

da State University and Albright College.“My favorite activity was all the

crazy dancing and singing and how everyone got involved,” said Al-ice Kleinert, an Albright sophomore. Kleinert added, “We were one giant family and formed connections with everyone there in only one week. For a week, nothing else mattered.”

Meal times built upon traditional food consumption and socialization. On each table, the campers would

find a big purple wooden spoon. When Dorcas Tomasek, CBC camp director, said the magic words, “Who’s hun-gry?!” into the microphone, hoppin’ music was turned on and a camper from each table would hop to the beat of the music towards the food line.

“Shake Your Bushy Tail” was one of the campers’ favorite songs. When looking around the dining hall, ev-eryone had a smile on their face and laughed as they sang and moved along, progressively getting faster. Everyone flailed their arms while wrinkling their noses, sticking their heads between their toes and shaking their bushy tails.

“Their peers judge them automati-cally, but you can be whoever you want to

be at CBC and don’t have to worry about how people perceive you,” Miller said.

Not only did music play during meal-times, but campers also participated in swimming, archery, woodshop, arts and crafts, boating and fishing, sports and recreation, miniature golf, Discov-ery Zone and other activities. Family and activity pals accompanied campers to help out where necessary with the children and facilitate all sorts of activi-ties. Adaptive devices allowed children

to use equipment they would other-wise be unable to, outside the camp.

Each night, there was a special ac-tivity, including icebreakers, a welcome campfire, carnival with games and face painting, theatre performance, and special musicians the last day. Dur-ing the talent show in the theater, pals were asked to participate in families’ skits. Songs such as Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” were performed, some jammed out to “The Suite Life on Deck” theme song, “That’s what Friends are for” by Dionne Warwick, “Cupid Shuffle,” the “Mysterious Mimers” and others.

Other events included a model shoot with costumes in the theater, “Pirate Bingo” in honor of High Seas weekend,

the “Gator Grand Prix” race with home-made wooden cars in the gym and a dance the last night in the dining hall.

Down by the docks, Albright junior Cynthia Lydon assisted campers with boating and fishing, as an activity pal for the week. She expected camp to be the same as last year, but each experience, she concluded, ended up being different.

“The legend about the lake is that if campers catch, kiss and release the fish, the fish will then tell all of their friends that the people at the dock were nice. That way, more fish would come back when campers would fish,” said Lydon.

Many campers received wet, slob-bery kisses from the fish. Advisor Mike Miller also assisted at the dock and had a great time making people kiss the fish after he pried it loose from the hook.

Lydon explained the legend about Sourpuss, the biggest fish in the lake, and about what happens when camp-ers catch a fish. “Sourpuss is rumored to be the biggest fish in the lake. When they drained the lake a long time ago, in one pocket of water was Sour-puss. [To everyone] he changes in size and shape. The idea is to catch him.”

“I loved it [Camp Boggy Creek], I wish I could always be there. It is a magi-cal place for kids and even volunteers. It was a very good experience,” said Lydon. “Hanging out with the kids and seeing their faces light up when they caught, kissed and released the fish was great.”

“We want camp to be a place where kids can do things they didn’t think they could in an environment where they feel safe, respected and loved,” said Kimmy Lamborn, CBC as-sistant director. “We want them to feel normal and not alone in what they’re going through and experiencing.”

With a smile, Staff Recruitment Co-ordinator Paige Ryland explained how she got involved with CBC. “Let me tell you a story,” she smiled and said, “I first came as a camp counselor in 2004. A lot of people have asked me when I interview them what makes me come

Everybody say, “Oh, yeah!”

One part of Albright’s annual Al-ternative Spring Break group made its first international journey to Costa Rica.Two adults chaperones and 11 students spent their week away from classes immersed in envi-ronmental consciousness. In particu-lar, working to help proliferate the sea turtle population added an ele-ment of hard work and devotion to the otherwise relaxing atmosphere.

The path to Costa Rica involved nearly 12 consecutive hours of trav-eling. Eight hours of changing flights culminated with less than four hours by car. The Costa Rica Sanc-tuary hosted the ASB entourage.

Within the borders of this sanc-tuary, animals are rehabilitated and the released back into the wild. Spi-der monkeys, howler monkeys, owls, several species of birds and sloths were all present in this lineup. Stu-dents learned more about these ani-

mals by being able to actively partic-ipate in the rehabilitation process.

The group learned how to mea-sure, record and categorize the important characteristics of a sea turtle. They were given a presenta-tion on the sea turtle and how their numbers are dwindling near extinc-tion—for instance, only one turtle out of 1,000 eggs will reach sexual maturity. Also demonstrated was the proper way to take the eggs from the nesting turtle with out inter-rupting the process; the students’ final project was to release a turtle in captivity back into the ocean.

Alternative spring breakers were also given a canopy tour of the jungle. Students were attached to a zip line that went through the mountain over the rain for-est, and each member would zip down to the next platform. The view and rush of adrenaline made this worth the money for the trip!

The rest of the trip consisted of digging out a hatchery, sift-

ing the sand for the hatchery and cleaning the beaches so nesting turtles could have a clear nesting area. The nights were broken up into shifts, during which students would walk along the beach for miles looking for nesting turtles.

While only one group experienced an actual nesting turtle, all were able to see the number one preda-tor— poachers. They would hide in the brush on the beach toting ma-chetes. In violation of environmen-tal protection laws, they then kill nesting turtles and steal their eggs. One man was arrested for trying to pull a turtle out of the water before it even swam ashore. The last couple of nights, students patrolled with the police. It was comforting to see the community try to get involved in the fight for the sea turtles.

The last day was spent in Puerto Limon, known for its banana pro-duction. A couple of students went kayaking down the river—in croco-dile infested waters—after one

guide, Frederico, jumped into the water to show that it was indeed safe. Afterward, the group headed back to the sanctuary and to San Jose, for one last over night be-fore the flight home the next day.

As I left Costa Rica, I looked back on everything from the peo-ple we met to the animals we saw. Our guides; Jorge, Giovanni, Ken-nith, Frederico, Claudio and Van-essa, were nothing short of amaz-ing. They gave us a taste of what Costa Rica is like, while in return, we showed them a little of the U.S. Hopefully, the Costa Rica Sanctu-ary can keep saving the sea tur-tles. The sanctuary is constantly looking for volunteers and dona-tions necessary to help them keep obliging themselves to their cause.

If you are interested in volunteer-ing Costa Rica, visit http://www.costaricasanctuary.org and if you are interested in Alternative Spring Break 2012 stay tuned for details of anorganizational meeting on April 18.

By CAMERON SLADEThe Albrightian

Albright Alternative Spring Break travels to Costa Rica

By ANNA BERZINSThe Albrightian

College students from across the country pose for a picture.

Camp BoggyContinued on Page 8

Albright ASB returns to Camp Boggy Creek

Photo courtesy of Anna Berzins

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Student Life

People around the world deal with self confidence issues, mainly in regard to their weight. To remove this self-crit-icism, many end up dieting by chang-ing their lifestyles. (The hardest part is sticking to a diet to reach their goals).

To help Albright students reach these goals, the Schumo Center at Albright College started a weight loss challenge called “Losing is for Winners.” Gym leaders and personal trainers include Alison Camlin, direc-tor of the Schumo Center, and Kyle Crabbs, a student personal trainer and senior at Penn State Berks. Both Camlin and Crabbs are present to help participants in this challenge

to reach their own personal goals. Whether these goals are five pounds or 20 pounds, these trainers are there with them step by step to keep their spirits high and stay motivated. They are there for when each par-ticipant feels they cannot keep going.

Schumo Center desk worker Gina Sarno, a senior at Albright College, is happy to see people work toward their goal. “Working in the gym I see the participants working hard, and see the happiness on their faces when they can see that they are reaching their goals.”

“Losing is for Winners” started March 2 and goes until April 27. This challenge is open to any student at Al-bright College, as well as the commu-nity. The challenge is also broken up into teams of students, staff, faculty,

and community so no one is alone. The participants are encouraged to lose two pounds a week during the eight-week challenge. Participants that lose at least five pounds will win a free T-shirt. Others will win a Peg’s Café gift card and healthy goodie bags. In this program, the Schumo Center, staff, and participants hope to promote healthy choices, and to prove that a healthy lifestyle and self change is possible.

Albright junior Hermy Chacon was ecstatic when she went through the weight lose challenge the previous year.

“The best part of the whole chal-lenge was not going through alone,” said Chacon. “I had my friends to keep me going and to stay motivated. The challenge made me more aware of a healthy life style that I still carry today.”

Losing weight is hard work, which requires dedication, but the results are rewarding. The Schumo Center holds many different types of exer-cise classes, equipment, trainers, and with Peg’s Café, allows healthy eat-ing habits to become easier. When in the gym, the feeling of being different never appears. Everyone is there for a goal; it is just a matter of motivation.

The Schumo Center is not stop-ping at “Losing is for Winners.” Many other programs will be happening in the Schumo Center including “Slash and Dash” and the bench press com-petition on April 14. These programs are also open to Albright College stu-dents and are encouraged to sign up.

Good luck to the participants of the weight loss challenge and keep going!

By STACEY NORMANThe Albrightian

Schumo’s “Winning by Losing” campaign promotes healthy living

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Many students at Albright College have used the on-campus computer center during their educational career. Open all day and into a good portion of the night, the computer center is primar-ily a place for students to use Internet-enabled computers and programs that they may not have on personal comput-ers. Recently, however, the computer center has undergone a major change

in operations, as well as the IT center which was previously housed upstairs.

Starting in the summer of 2010, those in charge of the computer center started an effort to make the IT center more easily accessible to both students and faculty. This started with moving the “help desk,” a group of people who an-swer technology-based problems, from an office upstairs to the main lobby on the first floor of the building. This new help desk is mostly student-run, mak-

ing it easier to always have one to two students at the desk at any given time.

Kevin Yusko, a student at Albright who was also hired by the computer center during summer break, is a con-sultant for the computer labs. Before the help desk was put in place, stu-dents were hired to act as supervi-sors for the computer labs downstairs.

“They had started moving every-thing downstairs a little while after I was hired, and I had worked at the desk

throughout the whole process,” Yusko stated. “Working at the help desk is in-teresting because it helps me prepare for what I want to do outside of col-lege. I want to help fix computers and troubleshoot technological problems.”

The staff at the help desk tries to fix anything from a forgotten password to a laptop’s inability to connect to the wireless network. While there are a few things the

Albright’s IT department increases accessibility, expands hoursBy JAMES PUGLISI

The Albrightian

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Student LifeMarch 31, 2011

READING, Pa. -- “Sex leads to pregnan-cy as much as sugar leads to tooth decay.”

Just like that, the room lit up with a round of chuckles and another audience was appeased by national author, poet and feminist Marge Piercy March 23.

Piercy spoke in front of a packed Klein Lecture Hall audience as more than 100 students, faculty, staff and community members attended the ex-perience event sponsored by WXAC 91.3 FM, Albright’s radio station.

Displaying a cunning ability to piece words together in uncanny fashion and hold the audience on every spo-ken word, Piercy focused much of her speech around her own life struggles, and how they were incorporated into her passion for the feminist movement.

Noting how “feminism concerns many issues,” Piercy incorporated parts of her written works into the presen-tation which highlighted many social injustices and troubling culture trends that Piercy empathizes with Genera-tion Y as they enter the workforce.

“The strongest message out there is that necessary jobs are the least desir-able ... the world says that if you own less objects you feel less value, and therefore must feel less,” she said.

“The world changes not to your heart’s desire unless you do something to make it so.”

Piercy’s speech was political-ly-charged and offered a seeth-ing defense for women’s rights in choosing to give birth to a child.

“Having a baby is a great experi-ence ... except when it’s forced upon you” said Piercy. “It was once illegal for an unmarried woman to buy a contra-ceptive in many states. Many people that died of botched abortions were listed as dying of other conditions.”

Trying to reach out to a broad-er audience, Piercy offered a gen-eral anecdote to those that dis-agreed with her perspective.

“Whether or not you believe in abortion, women will still live their lives ... legality is more about whether or not mothers survive their choice.

“Who doesn’t own their bodies?”Sporting the spunk and passion of a

woman 20 years younger than her ac-tual age of 75 years, Piercy does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon.

The New York Times’ bestselling au-thor also touched upon the image crisis among women across the world, partic-ularly how the weight-loss industry has morphed into an annual multi-billion dollar industry, even more so than por-

nography. The Michigan and Northwest-ern University graduate reflected on her life, noting many trends that bother her. In particular, the fact that women marry for economic reasons concerns Piercy.

“My mom had three marriages and was disappointed each time,” said Piercy.

“People are doing things just to not receive disapproval from church people. People are not defined by their rela-tives or where they lived. I didn’t come from money, and it [concerns] me that the wages of ordinary people have been going down and the gap between the rich and the poor has been increasing.”

Those demands clearly tug at the heartstrings of more groups than strictly feminsts.

“Feminism is not narrow and it grows daily more relevant. Feminists want peace, dignity as friends and are not responsible for holding up the sky,” said Piercy. “Jobs are going elsewhere and 90 percent of new jobs are male, which is dominated by the construction industry which has shut out females.

One of the nation’s leading poets and a national best-selling novelist, Piercy even drew 12 students from West Chester University, more than 45 min-utes from the college. One member of the party sought Piercy’s advice on how to guide younger siblings who are fac-

ing more pressure than ever before from the media, and its representation of public figures such as pop artist Rihanna.

“Present her an image of you,” said the comical Piercy.

“She hasn’t changed since I first started following her decades ago,” said Dr. Mary Jane Androne, an Albright English professor of more than 30 years.

At the end of her presentation, Piercy answered questions from audi-ence members and signed autographs of her books. Janet King, an English teacher of 26 years at Reading High School and wife of Albright religious studies professor Dr. William King, is an outspoken Piercy fan. She enjoyed the opportunity of a lifetime to speak with one of the most-liked poets in her class-room. King’s experience with Piercy’s work has been an integral part of cur-riculum for the duration of her career.

“My students like her work and I’ve taught her poetry for a long time,” said King. “[Her style] captures the kids.”

One of Piercy hopes for the au-dience that was almost exclusive-ly younger than her was simple.

“I yearn for a tolerant society.”Continuing a career that has

spanned more than 50 years, Piercy continues to capture the people of a global society one heart at a time.

By TYLER PARMERThe Albrightian

Nationally acclaimed author, poet speaks at Albright

Not so famous Last WordsQuotes heard around campus

“Go over there and Moodle those people.”

“I’m going to do that

theater thing where

they hide behind

the curtain.”“Did you write one off yet?”

“Ah, seduced inthe other direction.”

“Does anybody

have a history

with wood?”

“In the end I am more flexible than Moodle is, and I will prevail.”

back [each year]. This place is full of love and kindness that people don’t see on a regular basis, or at all. Love that you can experience at camp is ad-dicting and keeps you coming back.”

While talking with pals and the staff, Miller added, “I really enjoyed getting to know the families, learning something new every day because every camper brought something different to the ta-ble. While it can be frustrating at times, it is rewarding at the end of the day.”

“I started volunteering in 1997 and never left,” said Tomasek. “This is a place where you find authentic people who are real and genuine and express love. People wish this is what the real world would be [like], this is as real as it gets.”

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desk is not authorized to do, mostly prob-lems involving actual hardware issues, they do whatever they can or find someone – ei-ther on campus or off – who can, instead.

While there has been a lot put in place to help students figure out computer prob-lems, what happens if a teacher’s monitor dies in the middle of an important lecture? Cue the STAT phone. The STAT phone is a cell phone kept on and at the help desk at all times in case a teacher has a problem in the middle of a class. A teacher can call the STAT phone any time of day and one of the members of the help desk quickly responds to the situation and resolves it.

One of the major changes made to Albright during the current semester, the transition of course selection services,

from IQ Web to another similar service, Self Service, was made slightly easier due to the efforts of the staff working at the help desk. Few students knew how the new service worked. Many were locked out of their own accounts due to the service’s strict (and slightly unpopular)feature that locks a student out if he or she inputs an incorrect password more than three times. While the problem still arises from time to time, the bulk of the students who locked themselves out ap-peared on a Sunday during the first week of class, a day that the help desk would have normally been closed had it still been situated upstairs. Students can now call in for help if they find themselves locked out of Self Service seven days a week.

While the new help desk is comfort-ably situated for now, what big changes

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can we expect for the future? Accord-ing to Yusko, the department may be looking to hire a dedicated leader for the help desk itself. “Right now Jason Hoerr, the supervisor for the IT depart-ment, also overlooks what goes on at the help desk, but it’s not something he re-ally has the time for with everything else going on. So he’s looking for someone to work down here with us as well as act as a sort of administrator for the help desk.”

With the IT department’s new help desk in a more easily accessible area and available every day of the week, Albright students and staff are rarely left in the dark now when it comes to technological problems. The help desk is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Fridays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sundays 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Piercy offers inspiration for women, reflects on her journey