ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Athletes of the Week will be an-nounced every other week in the Charger Bulletin and on the Char-gers website.

STARS SHINE WITH STYLE

A look into the style and fashion of those who attended the 81st Academy Awards.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Volume 87, Issue 19

USGA APPLICATIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

USGA applications for next year are now available, and are due back by Mar. 4. Positions available for USGA President, Treasurer, and Senators!

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The student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938

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INDEXArts & Entertainment

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Bulletin BoardPage 15

Community & AdvicePage 9

EditorialsPage 6

Police Log/ Fun & Games

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National/World NewsPage 3

New Haven NewsPage 4

SportsPage 10

DON’T BE ONE IN FOUR

The One in Four event, presented by the Victimology Club, the Mul-ticultural Office, and SCOPE, was a success last Wednesday.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW BEARDSLEY

By DAVID GERMAINASSOCIATED PRESS

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AN AP/MARK J TERRILL PHOTODirector Danny Boyle, facing camera,right, hugs Freida Pinto as they celebrate after the film Slumdog Millionaire won best motion picture of the year.

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Slumdog Rules Oscars with Eight Prizes

LOS ANGELES—Slum-dog Millionaire took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Os-cars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory sto-ry paralleled the film's un-likely rise to Hollywood's summit.

The other top winners: Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama The Reader; Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of Milk; Heath Ledger, supporting actor for The Dark Knight; and Penelope Cruz, supporting actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

A story of hope amid squalor in Mumbai, India, Slumdog Millionaire came in with 10 nominations, its eight wins including

adapted screenplay, cin-ematography, editing and both music Oscars (score and song).

"Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of those of you who didn't, thank you very much. You dwarf even this guy," Boyle said, holding up his direct-ing Oscar.

The filmmakers accept-ed the best-picture trophy surrounded by both the adult professional actors who appeared among the cast of relative unknowns and some of the children Boyle cast from the slums of Mumbai.

The film follows the tra-vails and triumphs of Ja-mal, an orphan who artful-ly dodges a criminal gang that mutilates children to make them more pitiable beggars. Jamal witnesses his mother's violent death,

endures police torture and struggles with betrayal by his brother, while single-mindedly hoping to reunite with the lost love of his

childhood.Fate rewards Jamal,

whose story unfolds

Goalie Kicks Back with Recovery

WEST HAVEN—When goalie James Hilaire stepped onto the soccer field at Merrimack Col-lege one day in September, the thought never crossed his mind that he would be leaving the game in a heli-copter.

The senior Criminal Jus-tice major from Haiti suf-fered a critical head injury on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 when a Merrimack player accidentally broke his jaw. The player’s knee slammed into Hilaire’s jaw as they both raced toward the ball. The impact caused

a vein to pop in Hilaire’s brain, putting him into

an eight-day coma. Five months later, Hilaire is still

struggling to put together the pieces.

“Everything’s coming back little by little,” he said, “I remember the game though. I remember the first half but not the second half.”

Memory loss seems triv-ial when compared to the list of side effects doctors expected Hilaire to experi-ence-if he even survived in the first place. “Two doc-tors at the first hospital said ‘no way he’s going to make it,’” Hilaire said. Coming out of his coma and getting back on his feet, Hilaire’s recovery has been nothing short of a miracle.

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While I have yet to try them, I’m impressed by Jazzman’s new menu of sandwiches and salads. It’s good to get some change every once and awhile so that we aren’t left eating the same things over and over. I’ll be sure to try some of the new selections, as should you! Scrumdiddlyumptious!

Keeping on the topic of food, The Hazell Nut Café is open again! It seemed to disappear off the radar for quite awhile but like Backstreet, it’s back—alright! Okay, that was corny. But while I haven’t visited yet (bad me!), I’ve heard ru-mor that they can now swipe your card, mak-ing i t much more conve-nient for stu-dents to pay!

Hey seniors! 86 days until g r a d u a t i o n ! Ready or not, here it comes!

I wanted to make sure I thought about it for awhile and I’ve reached this conclusion: “Soundview Hall” is a horrid, horrid name for the new building. It’s ugly to say as it is consonant full and I doubt there is any view of the Sound from that building. The name touts its “panoramic views from many of the apartments.” What panoramic views are there? Downtown Gun-Wavin’ West Haven? “I can see 7/11 from my house!” Big whoop. The name of the building should’ve been something a lot more cohe-sive with other buildings on cam-

pus, not some random name that exaggerates the

actual view from the apartments.

Ugh, we got spoiled with having last Monday off and now t h i s w e e k seems even longer. I t ’s only Wednes-day and it’s dragging by.

Positives NegativesA weekly recap of the positives & negatives at UNH

By Dan Osipovitch

Thursday, February 26 Inside Interrogation: Why Innocent

People Confess? Alumni Lounge, 4pm – 5pm

Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Dodds Theatre, 7pm – 9pm

Trip To The Movies CT Post Cinema Deluxe, 7pm

Twisted Thursday Echlin Dining Hall, 9:30pm – 11:00pm

MLK Fundraiser Bartels, 11am-4pm

Friday, February 27 Dinner And A Movie

Alumni Lounge, 6:30pm – 11:00pm Men's Volleyball vs. Rivier College

Charger Gymnasium, 7pm – 9pm Step Competition

Dodds Theatre, 7pm – 9pm Step Competition After Partys

German Club, 9pm Cosmic Bowling

East Haven Circle Lanes, 9:30pm

Saturday, February 28 NBC Studio Tour/NYC Day Trip

NBC Studios in NYC, 9am – 6pm

Sunday, March 1 MOVIE: Cadillac Records

Alumni Lounge, 7pm – 11pm

Monday, March 2 Study Abroad Predeparture Seminar

Kaplan 107, 3pm

Tuesday, March 3

BREAK! The Urban Funk Spectacular Dodds Theater, 7:00am – 9:30am

Women's Basketball vs. Southern New Hampshire University Charger Gymnasium, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Beanhouse Bartels, 9pm

Wednesday, February 25 ¡Sobremesa!

Jazzman's in Bartels Hall, 1pm – 2pm Apollo Night

Dodd's Auditorium, 7pm – 9pm Pool League

New Hall Game Room, 7pm – 9pm MOVIE: Quantum of Solace

K 107, 9:30pm MLK Fundraiser

Bartels, 3pm-6pm

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NEWs BrIEFsBy Associated Press Writers

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By MELANIE ROVINSKYSTAFF WRITER

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Zack’s Wacky StacKYour place to find the oddest stories in mainstream news.

By Zack RosenWoman sues San-

ta, claiming he fell on top of her

CHICAGO –Call it the case of the over-served Santa. An-toinette Basso filed a lawsuit Thursday against a man dressed in a Santa suit who she said stumbled and fell on top of her, knock-ing her face-first into the sidewalk outside a Chicago restaurant.

Basso claims in the Cook County Circuit Court lawsuit that she suffered "pain ... dis-ability and disfigure-ment." She's asking for damages in excess of $50,000.

Basso alleges that the Santa, Daniel Aul-wes, appeared intoxi-cated at the time of the Dec. 7 incident. She's accusing Aulwes of negligence and negli-gent battery.

A telephone listing for Aulwes had a re-corded message that said the call cannot go through.

$50,000!? She’s a ho-ho-ho for money.

Nebraska woman, 86, gets $1,000 phone sex bill

BELLEVUE, Neb. –The family of an 86-year-old woman who was billed for over $1,000 in phone sex calls suspects identify theft. Arlene Hald recently re-ceived a credit card bill addressed to her husband, Sylves-ter, who died nearly 20 years ago. Hald said they never had a credit card, yet an ac-count in his name was charged.

Hald's daughter, Peggy Rytych, be-lieves her father was

the victim of ID theft. She called the billing company, Preferred Platinum Plan, which agreed to remove the charges.

Rytych says they thought that was the end of it — until an-other bill arrived for over $70. The Cali-fornia-based compa-ny agreed to remove the latest charges and never bill Hald again.

Little does the fam-ily know that these are real charges made by the 86-year-old. Ha!

Michigan police taser nude man out-side church

BAY CITY, Mich. –Going to church brought no peace to a man Tasered by police as he stood in the nude in 27-degree weather. A funeral Mass was being held inside St.

Mary of the Assump-tion Catholic Church when police received 911 calls about a na-ked man Friday morn-ing. Sgt. Gordon Cam-eron said the man told officers he was having problems with his par-ents and wanted to go to church.

Cameron told The Bay City Times that the man cursed and verbally abused police before Officer Troy Sierras immobilized him with a Taser, an electronic device that fires barbs causing temporary paralysis.

The man was draped in a blanket and taken to Bay Re-gional Medical Center for treatment.

Cameron said the man, whose name was withheld, likely wouldn't be charged with any crime.

Army charity hoards millionsFORT BLISS, Texas –As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associ-ated Press investigation shows.

Between 2003 and 2007 — as many mili-tary families dealt with long war deployments and increased numbers of home foreclosures — Army Emergency Relief grew into a $345 mil-lion behemoth. During those years, the charity packed away $117 million into its own reserves while spending just $64 million on direct aid, according to an AP analysis of its tax records.

Tax-exempt and legally separate from the military, AER projects a facade of independence but really operates under close Army control. The massive nonprofit — funded predomi-nantly by troops — allows superiors to squeeze soldiers for contributions; forces struggling soldiers to repay loans — sometimes delaying transfers and promotions; and too often violates its own rules by rewarding donors, such as giv-ing free passes from physical training, the AP found.

Instead of giving money away, though, the Army charity lent out 91 percent of its emer-gency aid during the period 2003-2007. For accounting purposes, the loans, dispensed in-terest-free, are counted as expenses only when they are not paid back.

During that same five-year period, the smaller Navy and Air Force charities both put far more of their own resources into aid than reserves. The Air Force charity kept $24 mil-lion in reserves while dispensing $56 million in total aid, which includes grants, scholarships and loans not repaid. The Navy charity put $32 million into reserves and gave out $49 million in total aid.Blast in Cairo tourist area kills French wom-anCAIRO –Egyptian police say a bomb blast in a crowded Cairo tourist bazaar killed a French woman and wounded 17 others, mostly for-eigners.

The bomb tore through the crowded Khan el-Khalili bazaar, popular with tourists, next to the historic Hussein mosque.

The official, who spoke on condition of ano-nymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said a second bomb was discov-ered and safely detonated.Conn. bill creates criminal docket for veter-ansHARTFORD –The majority leader of the Con-necticut Senate says the state should create a separate court docket to handle military war veterans who’ve committed crimes.

Sen. Martin Looney, a New Haven Demo-crat, has introduced a bill this session creating a separate criminal docket for veterans.

Republican Sena-tor Judd Gregg turned down his nomination for Commerce Secre-tary on Thursday, Feb. 12, when he openly declared his opposi-tion to the Obama ad-ministration’s plans to use sampling to carry out the 2010 census.

The 2010 census is

Census Causes Political Turmoilthe first census in 30 years to be conducted under a Democratic administration. When President Obama nominated Gregg as Commerce Secretary, he received negative feedback from his fel-low party members. Democrats protest-ed Obama’s choice, claiming that Gregg would oppose their plans for conducting the census.

Officials have al-ways struggled to obtain an accurate headcount of every-one living in the U.S. In fact, approximately eight million people were not counted in the 1990 census. How-ever, the importance of the person oversee-ing the census goes far beyond the desire for a precise headcount. Democrats and Re-publicans are battling

for power, and one easy way to get ahead is by slightly manipu-lating the methods used for the 2010 cen-sus.

According to Time Magazine, “Republi-cans would prefer to err on the side of un-dercounting and Dem-ocrats would prefer to err on the side of over-counting.”

B U F F A L O — A crashed commercial airplane with no ap-parent broken parts and no ‘mayday’ call in the final minutes before the crash left investigators stumped as to how this all hap-pened.

On Thursday, Feb. 12 at about 10:25 p.m., the first com-mercial plane crash in

Pilot to Blame for Plane Crash?two and a half years left 50 people dead, 49 in the plane and one in the house that was demolished in the accident in Buffalo, N.Y. However, in the time that has passed since the last crash, not much has changed. Distraught families still demand answers as to what exactly caused the crash.

Investigators have been going through parts since the crash occurred last week and

still have not come up with any concrete answers. However, investigators have found that the auto-pilot system was left on through the first part of the flight, de-spite warnings from both the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Continental Airlines to not use the system during icy conditions. The pilot reported a large build-up of ice on the windshield and

wings of the plane, even though the de-icing system on the plane was turned on and pilots landing shortly after the Buf-falo crash reported only mild icing.

The auto-pilot sys-tem was disengaged after the pilot re-ceived a warning that the plane could stall. Investigators also state that the pilot’s actions after noticing

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James Hilaire visits his teammates on “Senior Day” last semester.PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW BEARDSLEY

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW BEARDSLEY

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WEST HAVEN—Almost 300 men and women attended the One in Four event on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 which was presented by the Vic-timology Club, the Multicultural Office, and SCOPE.

One in Four is a national not-for-prof-it organization that has local chapters in many schools around the country. Its name reflects the statistic that one in four wom-

Don’t Be One in Fouren will be the victim of a sexual assault. Both presentations included a video, a definition of sexual assault, and a brain-storming session on how to prevent and help victims.

Many small ways to prevent a sexual as-sault are being a third wheel in a bad situa-tion, distracting the victim from her at-tacker, getting a friend to help, and refusing to leave a room. Only 2-4% of sexual as-saults are reported to the police and four out of five times the

victim knows their at-tacker. Both men and women are subjected to sexual assault and both can commit this heinous act. In 2007, over 176,000 sexual assaults were report-ed. That means there were 20 victims ev-ery hour but the actual number is higher due to the underreported nature of the crime. The presenters stayed and answered ques-tions afterwards and there was also a crisis counselor available to those who needed to talk.

Hilaire Thankful for Miracle

WEST HAVEN—The University of New Haven wrestling team hosted the Yale Bull-dogs on Thursday, Feb. 19. The Charger grapplers came away

Wrestling Stands Up Against Yale

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with a great victory with a 34-10 win over the Bulldogs.

The team was led by 174-pound fresh-men Jake Edelman and 149-pound Chris Hanifin who both came away with tech falls over their oppo-nents. It was a great

duel to set up New Ha-ven for the Northeast-ern Conference tour-nament this coming weekend in Albany, N.Y. The team ended the season with a 3-2 record and is bringing 10 men to the confer-ence tournament.

JOIN THE CHARGER BULLETIN!E-mail chargerbulletin@newhaven.edu to learn how you can get involved.

Hilaire doesn’t hesitate to deny that he shouldn’t be alive right now. Most peo-ple that suffered the same injury also died from it. “To have that

recovery is just amaz-ing,” he said, “I al-most lost my life.”

After his coma, Hi-laire remained at the Boston Medical Cen-ter for three weeks. While he was there, he received nothing but support from his friends, family, team-mates, and school-mates.

“I still haven’t fin-ished all the e-mails and cards that people sent me,” he said, “I’m really thankful and may God bless everyone that’s been

praying for me.”The largest group

affected by Hilaire’s injury was undoubt-edly his teammates. With eight games com-pleted and eight left in the season, the UNH

men’s soccer team struggled to play con-fidently. “The injury hit them big. [It] was hurting them while they were playing…they played scared,” Hilaire said. After a heart-wrenching sea-son, the team was in for a surprise when Hilaire and his family made an appearance at

the Senior Day game at Kayo Field.

“My teammates are incredible,” he said, “I love them all.”

With Hilaire at-tending physical

therapy sessions three times a week and tak-ing great strides with his condition, the question of every-one’s mind is when will he be back on the field?

“After therapy, I would say a year or so,” he said grinning. The 25-year-old can’t wait to step back onto the field on his own terms. “I want to get back on the field,” he said, “I don’t want people to say ‘he’s not playing because he was injured.’”

Hilaire plans on

returning to UNH in the fall to finish his degree, which gives him one more season where he wants to be most: the soccer field.

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UsGA President’s Corner

USGA Elections

Louis Eswood IIIUSGA President

USGA Meetings are at 1:45 every Monday in the Alumni Lounge. All are welcome!

By KRISTA BUSHMARVIN K. PETERSON LIBRARY

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USGA applications for next year have been out for about a week now! I would like to share some im-portant dates with you related to elections so that you can make an informed decision when it comes time to vote!

-Candidate/Cam-paign Team Meeting: Monday, Mar. 9 at 10:00pm-Program-ming Space

-Meet the Candi-

dates Night: Tuesday, Mar. 10 at 4:00pm-Programming Space

-Campaigning Be-gins: Monday, Mar. 23

-Debate #1: Thurs-day, Mar. 26 at 6:00pm-Programming Space

-Debate #2: Mon-day, Mar. 30 at 8:00pm-Programming Space

-Elections: Mon-day, April 6-Wednes-day, April 8

Also, keep an eye out in the Charger Bulletin for profiles and platforms of all of the candidates. The power to choose is

Political Parties Clash Over 2010 Census

Simply put, Re-publican policy is bet-ter suited in a slightly smaller population, whereas Democratic policy would benefit from a slightly larger population. Repub-licans in the House claim that the current administration plans to conduct the census in such a way as to

“taint the results and open doors to mas-sive waste of taxpayer funds.”

Aside from deter-mining representation in Congress, the U.S. census helps to de-termine money flow to a particular city or state. Democrats want more federal dollars reaching poor com-munities, thus stress-

ing the importance of sampling to reach a more accurate number of individuals. Repub-licans, on the other hand, believe that sampling is unconsti-tutional because the Constitution calls for “an actual enumera-tion” of people living in the U.S.

the warning could also have lead to the crash. Steve Chealander, a member of the NTSB and an investigator on the scene, says it is not odd that there was no mayday call.

“At that point, from a pilot's per-spective, they had their hands full. They weren't thinking about

Pilot Could be at Fault for Commercial Crash

keying a microphone and saying mayday to anybody out there. They were trying to save their lives and the lives of everybody on that airplane," said Chealander.

As investigators try to keep their scene from being tampered with as they remove the remains out of the suburban com-

munity as quickly as possible, much is still left unknown about the plane crash. While family and friends hold memorial ser-vices and grieve over their loved ones, they wait anxiously, as many Americans do, for more answers to this mystery.

WEST HAVEN—Are you a PC or a Mac person? Now you have your choice of using either at the Pe-terson Library, where we have recently add-ed six new iMac com-puters. Located on the library’s main en-try level these iMacs are sleek, with large screens, providing a nice addition to the In-formation Commons, bringing to total 100 computers available in the library for stu-dent use.

iMac featuresThis is a sophisti-

cated machine with the entire computer built into the screen. The iMac has built-in stereo speakers, three USB ports, a mini-DVI port, an Ethernet port, headphone port and FireWire port. Microsoft Office 2008 is loaded on each iMac and is compat-ible across platforms, from iMac to PC and back again. You may access Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

You may save your work by burning to disc or saving on your

iMacs in the Libraryflash drive. When you log on to an iMac (log-in is the same username and pass-word as logging into your UNH e-mail) a folder is created im-mediately for you with the following op-tions: desktop, docu-ments, downloads, li-brary, movies, music, pictures, public and sites. You may access iTunes, GarageBand, iChat, iPhoto, and iM-ovie.

Differences be-tween the Mac and the PC

If you’re only fa-miliar with working with PCs you should be aware that there are some differences with using an iMac.

•Looking for the shutdown/reboot but-ton? It’s on the back side of the screen.

•Same goes for the UBS port and plug-in for headphones—they’re also on the back of the screen.

•Want to right-click? Where you can right click on a PC mouse you need to press the mouse on the iMac while press-ing the “ctrl” key.

•Want to open an application? It’s on the upper right hand

side, and you have to select the spotlight symbol to open the search box.

•The volume con-trol is on the upper right hand side of the window too.

•More differences in navigating with a Mac include the menu bar/close/maximize/minimize buttons be-ing on the upper left side.

•The browser that the Mac uses is called Safari, and it’s rela-tively similar to In-ternet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

•Are you accus-tomed to closing a PC window in order to close a program? It’s different with a Mac. Even if you close the window, the program is still open. You need to choose file and then select quit with the Mac.

•When you’re ready to log off, click on the apple icon on the upper left hand side of the screen and then select logout.

Next time you’re in the library, stop by and have a look at these new iMacs. You’ll be glad you did.

WEST HAVEN—The University of New Ha-ven has been selected for the 2009 Presi-dent’s Higher Educa-tion Community Ser-vice Honor Roll. More than 500 colleges and universities received this honor throughout the nation, yet UNH is one of only nine institutions to have received this award in the state of Connecti-

UNH Selected For Honor Roll

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cut. Service learning has become increas-ingly popular among college students and UNH continues to maintain its commit-ment to community service.

The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, launched in 2006, recognizes colleges and univer-sities nationwide that support innovative and effective com-munity service and service-learning pro-

grams. The Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Com-munity Service, and is sponsored by the President’s Council on Service and Civ-ic Participation, the USA Freedom Corps, and the U.S. Depart-ments of Education and Housing and Ur-ban Development.

The university of-fers more than 80 un-dergraduate degrees and more than 25 graduate degrees.

ASH WEDNESDAY OBSERVANCETo mark the beginning of Lent the campus ministry office

has scheduled a brief prayer service that will be followed by the distribution of ashes.

The prayer service will begin at 12:15 P.M. on Wednes-day, February 25, 2009 in Bartels Hall, Rooms A&B and

should last approximately 15 minutes.All are welcome.

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Zack RosenAssistant Editor

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Charger Bulletin staff!

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Can I Crash At Your Place Tonight?Let’s say my name

was George Baldwin, and I was a 19-year-old irresponsible, masculinity-proving teenager. Let’s contin-ue this story, and as-sume that I went to see my good friends, the Pfeifer sisters, at their home. And of course being this irrespon-sible teenager, I had a bit to drink while I was there. Afterwards, I got into the car with my intoxicated friend William Klairmont. Since we were mo-rons and drove while under the influence, we got into a crash and, as a result, I was paralyzed. Of course, even though I was an idiot and got into the car with Klairmont, if

my family were to sue somebody it would be William’s family, cor-

rect?Wrong. This fee-

bleminded ignoramus (ha!) actually sued the mother of the two sis-ters, Lauralee Pfeifer, $2.5 million in dam-ages.

Okay, so the mother must have known that

the boys were driving home drunk, right? That would be a good reason to sue her.

God dammit, wrong again!

According to an article released in the Chicago Tribune, “unlike other lawsuits alleging that adults played a role in teen-age drinking parties, Pfeifer did not buy the alcohol for the teens or know they were drink-ing in her home.”

According to Pfe-ifer’s lawyer, Michael Borders, Pfeifer did not admit any wrong-doing in the settle-ment.

Instead, it has been argued that Pfe-ifer should have better monitored the teens

and suspected they were drinking – espe-cially considering the daughters had been caught drinking in the past.

“Ridiculous” is re-ally the only word that I have for this. I sincerely hope that the judge in this case decides to throw it out due to the circumstanc-es. Sure, if the mother TOLD the guys to drive home knowing they had been drink-ing it would be a dif-ferent story. But judg-ing from what I’m reading, it seems that she didn’t know. they had been drinking. And not in a “I didn’t know because I’m a useless and neglectful parent” kind of way.

If that were the case, once again, that would give Baldwin’s family the right to sue Pfe-ifer. But in no way is it evident that Pfeifer was acting as an irre-sponsible adult.

What would truly be nice is if Baldwin, who is certainly old enough to understand that this series of events was his fault, grew up and realized that he should take responsibility for his actions.

In the words of famed psychologist Robert Ellis: “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecol-

ogy, or the president. You realize that you control your own des-tiny.”

Unfortunately, this lawsuit is going to mess up Baldwin’s acknowledgement of what is wrong.

The fact of the mat-ter is that you really need to take respon-sibility for your own actions. If you’re one of those tough guys who thinks they can have 4 drinks then go driving, then play Crash Bandicoot on your freakin’ Xbox. You’re not as much of a man as you think, so stop trying to prove you can drive while intoxicated. Grow up, and have a designated f%*&ing driver.

It has been a whirl-wind of a month since Jan. 20, 2009 when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the nation’s first African-American President of the United States.

It is undisputed between both the left and the right side of the aisle that President Obama has inherited one of the worst na-tional crises since the Great Depression. The bar has been set almost impossibly high when not just the American economy is in collapse but the global economy as well. The sub-prime mortgage crisis and stock market failure has only deepened the catastrophe that we are in currently. The sudden job loss that has crippled the coun-try, together with the bailouts of the banks and auto-industry has brought the nation’s moral down incredi-bly. The problem with the economy currently

Obama Still on Trackis that people are sav-ing, not spending. The public is wary of the economy and so logically they save rather than what will help save the econo-my, spend.

President Obama’s is also embarking on a brand new surge in Afghanistan, (also known as the forgot-ten war) of 50,000 troops starting a new war which will cost just as much as the current one. The na-tion is in for an ex-tremely tumultuous period of time. But that is just it; it is a period of time.

Within only one month President Obama has made sev-eral incredibly vital decisions that will start the process to getting our nation to a stable point again.

In one month President Obama has approved the impera-tive bailouts for the nation’s banks as well as the auto-industry.

If he had let either of those institutions fail we would face job losses and economic anarchy like never seen before.

Another crucial step President Obama has made to right the economy is the stimu-lus package. President Obama has created and passed a crucial, much needed stimulus package. The stimulus package will be made up of 60% spending and 40% tax cuts.

The bottom line is that in his first month President Obama has taken the necessary steps to creating sta-bility within our na-tion. Fixing the econ-omy, diplomacy in Iraq and finding and destroying Al-Qaeda will happen. Change isn’t here yet, but the Obama administration is on track to make it happen.

-Kyle Quinn-Que-sada, Staff Writer

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AN AP/MATT SAYLES PHOTOBritish actress Kate Winslet holds the Oscar for best actress for her work in The Reader during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009.

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through flashbacks as he recalls how he came to know the an-swers that made him a champion on India's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

As he took the stage to accept his prize for playing slain gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk, Penn gleefully told the crowd: "You commie, homo-loving sons of guns."

He followed with condemnation of an-ti-gay protesters who demonstrated near the Oscar site and com-ments about Califor-nia's recent vote to ban gay marriage.

"For those who saw the signs of ha-tred as our cars drove in tonight, I think it's a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect on their great shame and their shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that support," Penn said. "We've got to have equal rights for ev-eryone."

For his demented reinvention of Bat-man villain the Joker, Ledger became only the second actor ever to win posthumously, his triumph coming exactly 13 months af-ter his death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

His Oscar for the Warner Bros. block-buster was accepted by Ledger's parents and sister on behalf of the actor's 3-year-old daughter, Matilda.

"I have to say this is ever so humbling, just being amongst

Movies, Actors Honored at 81st Oscar Awardssuch wonderful peo-ple in such a wonder-ful industry," said his father, Kim Ledger. "We'd like to thank the academy for recogniz-ing our son's amazing work, Warner Bros., and Christopher Nolan in particular for allow-ing Heath the creative license to develop and explore this crazy Joker character."

Since his death, the 28-year-old Ledger has gained a mythic aura akin to James Dean, another rising star who died well be-fore his time.

The Joker was his final completed role, a casting choice that ini-tially drew scorn from fans who thought Led-ger would not be up to the task given Jack Nicholson's gleefully campy rendition of the character in 1989's Batman.

In the months be-fore Ledger's death, buzz on his wickedly chaotic performance swelled as marketing for the movie cen-tered on the Joker and the perverted clown makeup he hid be-hind.

Ledger's death fanned a frenzy of an-ticipation for The Dark Knight, which had a record $158.4 million opening weekend last summer.

The previous post-humous Oscar recipi-ent was Peter Finch, who won best actor for 1976's Network two months after his death.

Cruz triumphed as a woman in a steamy three-way affair with her ex-husband and an American woman in Woody Allen's ro-

mance."Has anybody ever

fainted here? Because I might be the first one," Cruz said, who went on with warm thanks to Allen. "Thank you, Woody, for trusting me with this beautiful character. Thank you for having written all these years some of the greatest characters for women."

"OK, that faint-ing thing, Penelope," Winslet joked later as she accepted her best-actress prize for The Reader, in which she plays a former con-centration camp guard in an affair with a teen. "I'd be lying if I haven't made a version of this speech before. I think I was probably eight years old and star-ing into the bathroom mirror, and this would be a shampoo bottle. But it's not a shampoo bottle now."

It was Winslet's first win after five pre-vious losses.

Slumdog writer Si-mon Beaufoy, who adapted the script from Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A, said there are places he never could imagine being.

"For me, it's the moon, the South Pole, the Miss World podi-um, and here," Beau-foy said.

The epic love sto-ry The Curious Case of Benjamin But-ton, which led with 13 nominations, had three wins, for visual effects, art direction and makeup.

The Dark Knight had a second win, for sound editing.

Milk writer Dustin Lance Black offered an impassioned trib-

ute to Milk."If Harvey had not

been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and

by five past winners of the same awards, among them last year's actress winners, Marion Cotillard and Tilda Swinton, plus

hosts Jon Stewart or Chris Rock, the pro-ducers went with actor and song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman, who has been host of

B r o a d w a y ' s Tony Awards.

I n s t e a d of the usual standup rou-tine, Jackman did an engag-ing musical number to open the show, saluting nomi-nated films with a clever tribute.

J a c k m a n later did a medley staged by his Aus-tralia director Baz Luhrmann with such p e r f o r m e r s as Beyonce Knowles and High School Musical stars Vanessa Hud-gens and Zac

lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonder-ful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours," Black said.

Man on Wire, James Marsh's examination of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit's daz-zling stroll between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, was chosen as best documentary.

The acting catego-ries were presented

Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Kevin Kline, Sophia Loren, Antho-ny Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine and Robert De Niro.

It was a much dif-ferent style for the Oscars as each past recipient offered per-sonal tributes to one of the nominees, with-out clips of the nomi-nated performances. Awards usually are done in chit-chat style between a couple of celebrity presenters.

After last year's Oscars delivered their worst TV ratings ever, producers this time aimed to liven up the show with some sur-prises and new ways of presenting awards. Rather than hiring a comedian such as past

Efron.Slumdog Million-

aire went into the evening after a run of prizes from earlier film honors.

The film nearly got lost in the shuffle as Warner Bros. folded its art-house banner, Warner Independent, which had been slated to distribute Slumdog Millionaire. It was res-cued from the direct-to-video scrap heap when Fox Searchlight stepped in to release the film.

Slumdog composer A.R. Rahman, a dual Oscar winner for the score and song, said the movie was about "optimism and the power of hope."

Community & AdviceThe Charger Bulletin | February 25, 2009Page 9

Advice CornerQ: I’ve had a girlfriend for three years back at home. I’m a sopho-

more now, and there is this really cute girl that I’ve gotten close with since the beginning of my freshman year. Now I think I’m falling for her and losing touch with my girlfriend; what do I do?

A: Maybe you should talk to your girlfriend and tell her you feel like you are losing touch. Maybe you guys can work on your relationship together, and see each other more!

A: You should break up with your girlfriend from home. There are lots of hotties here that you can pursue. No one marries their high school sweetheart anymore anyway!

sportsThe Charger Bulletin | February 25, 2009Page 10

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A CHARGER ATHLETICS PHOTODowning was named the NE-10 Track & Field Freshman of the Year. Above he’s receiving his award from NE-10 Commissioner Julie Ruppert.

Tues. Feb. 24, 5:30pmWomen’s Basketball @ Merrimack

Tues. Feb. 24, 7:30pmMen’s Basketball @ Merrimack

Tues. Feb. 24, 7:00pmMen’s Volleyball @ Baruch

Fri. Feb. 27, 7:00pmMen’s Volleyball vs. Rivier

Sun. Mar. 1, 7:00pmWomen’s Basketball @ NE-10 Tourney

Sun. Mar. 1, 1:00pmMen’s Volleyball @ Sacred Heart

Wed. Mar. 4, 7:00pmMen’s Volleyball vs. Sacred Heart

Gagne, Downing Shine at Championships

NEW HAVEN –Soph-omore Shannon Gagne and freshman Kevin Downing both swept the 55- and 200-meter dashes at the North-east-10 Indoor Track and Field Champion-ships that were held Saturday afternoon at Southern Connecti-cut State University. Gagne made herself a three-event cham-pion as she also cap-tured the long jump title, while Downing was named the Men's Freshman of the Year.

Downing was named the NE-10 Track & Field Fresh-man of the Year. To the right he's receiv-ing his award from NE-10 Commissioner Julie Ruppert.

As a team, the women totaled 57 points for a fourth place finish while the men finished with 40 points for sixth place.

After being seeded first for the 55-me-

ter dash in a time of 7.27, Gagne ran past the field and three-time defending Northeast-10 Cham-pion Symone Wong of

Southern Connecticut State to win the event in a season-best time of 7.24.

In the 200-meter dash, Gagne cruised to the victory in a time of 25.88, more than

half of a second faster than her closest com-petition. Entering the meet, she had the 10th fastest time in NCAA Division II (25.01)

that she posted earlier this season at the Yale Giegengack Invite.

Gagne also set a season-best in the long jump, where her mark of 5.50 meters (18-0.50) provision-

ally qualifies her for the national meet. She has already provision-ally qualified in both the 60- and 200-meter dashes.

Downing entered the 55-meter dash seeded fourth, behind first-seeded teammate Tyrone Sawyer. That did not faze the fresh-man as he captured his first of two champion-

ship titles in a season-best 6.39 seconds, the third fastest time NE-10 Champion-ship history. Sawyer finished third (6.42) and also placed sixth in the 200-meter dash (22.90).

Entering the 200-meter dash, Downing had the 17th fastest time in NCAA Division II (21.96), and he nearly bettered

that mark as he fin-ished in 21.99. That time is the second fast-est in NE-10 Champi-onship history behind the 21.91 mark posted by Hafiz Greigre of Bryant University in 2007.

Downing narrow-ly missed three first place finishes as he also finished third in the 400-meter dash (51.21).

WEST HAVEN –Men’s indoor track and field student-athlete Kevin Down-ing and women’s in-door track and field student-athlete Shan-non Gagne have been named the Charger Bulletin Athletes of the Week, for the week ending February 22, 2009.

The Chargers men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams competed at the 2009 Northeast-10 Confer-ence Championship at

Southern Connecticut this past Saturday.

After being seeded first for the 55-me-ter dash in a time of 7.27, Gagne ran past the field and three-time defending Northeast-10 Cham-pion Symone Wong of Southern Connecticut State to win the event in a season-best time of 7.24. In the 200-meter dash, Gagne cruised to the victory in a time of 25.88, more than half of a second faster than her closest com-

A CHARGER ATHLETICS PHOTOThe Charger Bulletin’s male Athlete of the Week, Kevin Downing.

A CHARGER ATHLETICS PHOTOThe Charger Bulletin’s female Ath-lete of the Week, Shannon Gagne.

petition. Entering the meet, she had the 10th

fastest time in NCAA Division II (25.01) that she posted ear-lier this season at the

Yale Giegengack In-vite. Gagne also set a season-best in the long jump, where her mark of 5.50 meters (18-0.50) provision-ally qualified her for the national meet. She has already provision-ally qualified in both the 60- and 200-meter dashes.

Downing entered the 55-meter dash seeded fourth, behind first-seeded teammate Tyrone Sawyer. That did not faze the fresh-man as he captured his

first of two champion-ship titles in a season-

best 6.39 seconds, the third fastest time NE-10 Champion-ship history. Entering

the 200-meter dash, Downing had the 17th fastest time in NCAA Division II (21.96), and he nearly bettered that mark as he fin-ished in 21.99. That time is the second fast-est in NE-10 Champi-onship history behind the 21.91 mark posted by Hafiz Greigre of Bryant University in 2007. Downing nar-rowly missed three first place finishes as he also finished third in the 400-meter dash (51.21).

A&E ContinuedThe Charger Bulletin | February 25, 2009Page 11

Anne Hathaway, nominated for an Oscar for her work in Rachel Getting Married, arrives for the 81st Academy Awards.

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Celina’s Salacious Celebrity GossipThe latest in celebrity news and gossip

By Celina Natola

Stars Shine with Style on Oscar Red CarpetBy SAMANTHA CRITCHELLASSOCIATED PRESS

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LOS ANGELES—The big guns—Ange-lina Jolie, Kate Win-slet and Sean Penn among them—went with black at Sunday's Academy Awards, but light colors and asymmetrical gowns topped the broader fashion trends.

Jolie and Brad Pitt looked very much the part of the red car-pet's golden couple at the Kodak Theatre in classic, almost ret-ro, styles. She wore a black sweetheart-neck strapless gown by Elie Saab, acces-sorized with green drop earrings, and he wore a classic bow tie.

Penn, in Giorgio Armani, also perfect-ly matched his wife, Robin Wright Penn. Vanessa Hudgens, in a black Marchesa gown with black and white tulle flowers on the bodice and dangling platinum, diamond and vintage coral ear-rings by Cathy Water-man, and Zac Efron, in Dolce & Gabanna, were the next-genera-tion supercouple.

Winslet also went with dark and sophis-ticated in a gray satin and black tulle dress by Atelier Yves Saint Laurent by Stefano

Pilati. She looked "flawless," said styl-ist Mary Alice Ste-phenson. "Everything is right!"

But Jolie, Ste-phenson added, was disappointing. "An-gelina Jolie is always beautiful but boring and ho-hum in that black dress. It is just too drab, dour and depressing for the Oscars. I really hoped she would step it up and have some fun with color and take a chance with wearing something unexpect-ed."

Leading the charge of light colors was

Mickey Rourke in his Jean Paul Gaultier suit without a tie.

Anne Hathaway sparkled in a strapless champagne-colored Armani Prive gown covered in crystals and circular pailettes with a jeweled dragon brooch on the back. Evan Rachel Wood was in a strapless ivory-tone number by Saab, and Jessica Biel was in a sleek Pra-da strapless column gown in shiny white satin with a bow detail on the front.

Penelope Cruz wore a white 1950s Balmain gown, with a

strapless neckline and hand-embroidery with gold treads, she got from top vintage cura-tor Rita Watnick's Lily et Cie. Miley Cyrus' beaded Zuhair Mu-rad dress was mostly white but had tiers of midnight-blue beaded petals.

"She looked old Hollywood," observed Suze Yalof Schwartz, executive fashion edi-tor at large for Glam-our magazine. "It looked like something from the '40s — and it was on the youngest person there."

"I couldn't believe how much white there was," added design-er Pamella Roland. "Most times we're told that actresses want color ... but I also was amazed how glamor-ous everyone was."

Alberta Ferretti put Meryl Streep in a light gray empire-waisted gown for one of Streep's most styl-ish turns at the Oscars — which she so often frequents.

Marisa Tomei's one-shoulder, dove-gray gown by Versace was covered with dra-matic fan pleats.

Taraji P. Henson made her big style statement with an oversized 19th-cen-tury diamond flower necklace by Fred Leighton, paired with a cream-colored strap-

less dress with uneven tiers of fabric and a train by Roberto Cav-alli.

"Taraji Henson knocked it out of the park," said Lisa Rinna, fashion com-mentator for TV Guide Network. "She and all the other nom-inees really looked like nominees."

Rinna noted, how-ever, that from her perch she saw fewer stars than she had ex-pected. It was a tactic to keep some stars off the red carpet so they'd be a surprise during the ceremony. Jennifer Aniston and Tina Fey were among those kept under wraps until the tele-cast.

Amy Adams stood out thanks to her chunky Leighton necklace — a col-ored gemstone and diamond bib from the 1950s — comple-menting a crimson bustier dress with black spider web-pip-ing by Carolina Her-rera.

"Even though we're in a recession, I've never seen as many luxurious fab-rics on the red carpet, and the jewelry — the bling — is bigger than ever," Schwartz said.

Heidi Klum de-signed the ruby red-dress charm on one of her funky brace-

lets that fit the vibe of her fashion-forward asymmetrical Roland Mouret gown with a high slit that showed off her model figure. The charm aims to raise awareness about heart disease.

Fashion star Sarah Jessica Parker wore a light green strapless gown by Dior Cou-ture with gold waves decorating the bodice, and Natalie Portman had flashes of gold beading on her orchid strapless gown by Ro-darte.

Beyonce's body-hugging black gown was also jazzed up with gold floral em-broidery, and Queen Latifah's navy one-shoulder gown by Georges Chakra was dotted with crystals.

In full-on gold lame was Viola Davis in a Reem Acra gown with a plunging V-neck. Melissa Leo wore a copper-colored chif-fon gown with ruch-ing and beading by Badgley Mischka.

Freida Pinto pro-vided a pop of elec-tricity in a beaded blue John Galliano gown with one bejew-eled lace sleeve.

Her pint-sized Slumdog Millionaire co-stars wore cus-tom-made outfits by Brooks Brothers.

Kate finally takes home a statuette

After five much-deserved nomina-tions, Kate Winslet has finally won an Oscar after five nomi-nations! I was over-joyed when he name was announced as the

winner on Sunday and I must admit I am still ecstatic.

Kate Winslet is one of the most under-the-radar actresses in Hol-lywood right now in my opinion. She has been fantastic ever since her first film

role, Heavenly Crea-tures, for which she won three awards. At the mere age of 17.

Since then, she has appeared in numerous award-winning film roles and has never compromised her in-terest in quirky char-

acters. She brought the neurotic Clementine to life in Eternal Sun-shine of the Spotless Mind. Of course, her biggest role was Rose in the blockbuster Ti-tanic. However, fame never got to her head and she has remained

one of the most down-to-earth actresses to-day.

She came out of the woodwork late in 2008, suddenly ap-pearing in two of the most critically-ac-claimed movies of the year: The Reader and

Revolutionary Road. She swept the awards season with a string of nominations, but her eventual Oscar win was definitely the ic-ing on the cake. Good work Kate! My love for you is officially set in stone!

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