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Students and Faculty Reflect on Gingrich’s 2009 Visit

By Nate LynchNews Editor

As a self-described historian, Newt Gingrich has always been the sort of person that does research be-fore coming to an important con-clusion. Some of that research may have been done previously during his visit to Colgate in 2009.

“[Newt] was making strategic decisions about seeing different parts of the country…there were a couple of local Republican con-nections he was visiting like Dennis Vacco, the former Attorney General of New York. He was clearly testing the waters for a presidential run,” Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization Robert Kraynak said, who helped bring Gingrich to Colgate.

Gingrich came to Colgate on March 26, 2009 as part of an event sponsored by the Center for Freedom and Western Civiliza-tion and the College Republicans. His lecture, entitled “President Obama and the Future of Ameri-can Freedom,” set him in direct opposition with President Obama and his policies: a stance that he has maintained in his many months on the campaign trail.

“I think we’re at a very big crossroads between a govern-

ment-dominated country and a country where the center of power and opportunity lies with the people. And I think the Obama administration and its left wing allies in Congress have moved very aggressively to cre-ate a big government model with higher taxes, more bureaucracy, more power and control to the politicians,” Gingrich said as he summarized his speech.

“In retrospect, it seems like a campaign speech, but at the time it really didn’t,” recent graduate Max Weiss ’11 said. “I can also say that in 2012 he is very similar to 2009.”

Gingrich drew upon the tradi-tional Republican positions that he fought for as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, as well as a less orthodox, Tea Party-style approach.

“Newt was angry not just with the government and peo-ple who bought homes they couldn’t afford, but also Wall Street. He didn’t like that AIG executives were able to take bonuses,” Weiss said. “We’ve seen this narrative reemerge in his criticisms of Romney with Bain [Capital].”

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ON THE ROAD TO CANDIDACY: Former Speaker of the House and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich gave a lecture in the Colgate Memorial Chapel in 2009.

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The Game’s Afoot Holds Most

Successful Event YetBy Matthew Knowles

Maroon-News Staff

Last Friday evening, students mobbed the Hall of Presidents (HOP) during The Game’s Afoot’s most recent event, “The Game,” an event in which stu-dents came together to play games. In partnership with Late Gate, “The Game” drew an un-precedented crowd due to its wide variety of entertainment options including a Nerf War, Super Smash Brothers, Pokémon tournaments and various other video and board games. Over 150 students attended the festiv-ities, making it the club’s largest event in club history.

Planning for “The Game”

began well before the New Year, dating to the tail end of the fall semester. After the Sony PlaySta-tion College Tour sponsored by The Game’s Afoot in November, the club was approached by Late Gate to hold a large event in the spring semester.

“I can’t tell you exactly how much money they gave us, but I can tell you that it was over three times our club’s annual budget,” sophomore and The Game’s Afoot officer Ian Dwyre said.

The assistance from Late Gate allowed The Game’s Afoot to launch a highly effective advertis-ing campaign which began im-mediately when students returned from break.

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Guest Speaker Reminds Students of MLK’s Message

SMASHING THE COMPETITION: Colgate’s gaming club The Game’s Afoot launched “The Game” this past weekend in the HOP, where participants played Nerf Wars, Super Smash Bros. and other video and board games.

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By Amanda GoldenMaroon-News Staff

Last Thursday in Love Audito-rium, Colgate welcomed William S. Tod Professor of Religion and Afri-can American Studies at Princeton University Eddie S. Glaude Jr. as the Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Key-note Address speaker. Glaude is the chair of the Center for African Amer-ican Studies at Princeton Univer-sity, as well as a senior fellow at The Jamestown Project at Harvard Uni-versity, which is a “think tank of new leaders who reach across boundaries and generations to make democracy real” according to the organization’s website. He has also written several award-winning books.

Professor Glaude’s lecture was cen-tered on “the power of young folk.” Glaude explained how he believes young people in America no longer have the message that Martin Luther King Jr. preached ingrained in their actions. The event brought out a large group of students and faculty, filling

the auditorium almost to capacity. Glaude shared his ideas on how

passive the new generation has been and how he believes that because of our own self-interests and distrac-tions, such as material possessions, we no longer possess much of Dr. King’s influence and message.

“We must orient ourselves to the greatness of our past,” Glaude said. “We, right now, Americans of all colors, must discover our mission.”

Professor Glaude addressed his feelings on young people in America, stressing that they need to not only come together as a collective, but also to use their skills in a positive way moving forward.

“Young people must take their ability to multitask, their technol-ogy, their swag, etc., to create the movement of now,” he said. “Today is our day to make history and to transform the world.”

Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs and the Director of African, Latin, Asian & Native American (ALANA) Cultural Center and In-

ternational Services Thomas A. Cruz-Soto was instrumental in bringing Professor Glaude to campus.

“I’ve been working on getting him here for two years now,” Cruz-Soto said. “We’re really lucky to have him.”

MLK week has served as a kind of kickoff for Black History Month in the past at Colgate.

“Every year, the Cultural Center takes charge of the events,” Cruz-Soto said. “I believe that this year’s MLK week has been one of the best years so far at Colgate.”

In an effort to make the fes-tivities more integrated into life on campus, Cruz-Soto and others involved in organizing the MLK week events also reached out to

other departments, including Women’s Studies, and other key faculty members.

“They’ve been fantastic and have brought their students and research into MLK week,” Cruz-Soto said.

He also explained what those who helped put on the festivities surrounding MLK hoped to accomplish.

“The goal has been to expose students to diversity, gender, reli-gion and race diversity. It’s mainly to expose students to all walks of life, acceptance over tolerance,” Cruz-Soto said.

Cruz-Soto expressed his con-cerns with Colgate’s openness to diversity dialogues.

“Race is always an issue,” he said. “Colgate students are so bright, but as far as complete tolerance, I don’t know if we’re there yet. I think this can be a great breeding ground to expose ignorance so people can talk, so they aren’t stigmatized for a certain belief.”

Contact Amanda Golden at agolden@colgate.edu.

HONORING KING: As part of the MLK Celebration Week, Col-gate welcomed guest lecturer Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr., who gave a speech last Thursday in Love Auditorium.

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by matthew knowlesMaroon-News Staff

If one were to run a Google search on the phrase “Patrick Riley Colgate,” at least three re-sults would display that phrase. Of course, Associate Professor of French and the Chair of Ro-mance Languages and Litera-tures Patrick Riley would down-play that reputation, but there is a reason why he is so well liked by his students.

Early in his academic career, Professor Riley knew that he wanted foreign language to be an important part of his life.

“I discovered in high school that I was good in foreign lan-guages…and I decided when I was about 16 that that’s what I wanted to do for a career,” Professor Riley said in a previous interview. “That set me up for majoring in French and German in college and it went from there.”

Professor Riley does a lot more than teach and speak Romance languages, though. He also focus-es on novels written in Romance languages. This semester, he is teaching two seminar courses on 18th century literature, one on the epistolary novel and the other on Libertine fiction.

“Libertine fiction is…rough-ly speaking…liberating one’s self to practice free choice in the area of seduction,” Professor Riley said, laughing. “And the literature thereof.”

However, despite his varied lit-erary interests, Professor Riley’s true passion lies in the realm of French autobiography. In 2004, he pub-lished the book Character and Con-version in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre, which chronicles several centuries of biographies written by famous Frenchmen. Of these historical figures, though, Riley is particularly interested in Rousseau.

“Rousseau is my main research guy,” Professor Riley said, chuckling.

In fact, his work on Rous-seau is what inspired him to un-dertake his most recent research

project. Though still in its early stages, Professor Riley is do-ing research on authors’ shame and how it contributed to their writing process.

“That’s exactly the sort of thing you don’t talk about in a book, right? When shameful things hap-pen in people’s past, the thing you want to do least is talk about it,” Professor Riley said. “And yet, it seems if you start to examine au-tobiographies, there tends to be some sort of a horrible, shameful incident that either triggers the writing of the biography…or to justify or explain it.”

Professor Riley discusses how this aspect of shame can show up unexpectedly in many famous authors’ work, includ-ing that of Darwin. Ultimately, he looks to show how, when-ever these authors come upon their individual shame in their writings, it is never handled with grace, and in fact proves

to be a very awkward note in their otherwise eloquent work.

Finally, one cannot discuss Professor Riley’s teaching at Col-gate without discussing his love for teaching the Core classes, spe-cifically Core 152: Challenges of Modernity. Unlike many profes-sors, he does not see the class as a burden, but as a privilege.

“It probably sounds hereti-cal to say that I enjoy teaching that course more than any other course. The authors and books read in that course are so amaz-ingly rich…you can teach them over and over again and never exhaust them.”

Professor Riley loves lan-guages and literature, but is not bound by them. Instead, he will teach anything that he finds to be thought provoking, as evidenced by the wide variety of classes that he instructs.

Contact Matthew Knowles at mknowles@colgate.edu.

Office Hours: PatrickRiley

THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE PROFESSOR: In addition to foreign languages, Professor Riley also enjoys teaching the Challeng-es of Modernity class.

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Foreign Language Professor Begins Study on Authors’

Shame and its Influence on the Writing Process

Continued from A-1The funding for the event was not only spent on publicity. The Hall of Presidents was transformed into a Hall of Nerf, as black and strobe lights created an exciting atmosphere for the competitors.

Club-branded t-shirts were handed out to early attendees as a door prize, and The Royal India Grill and Oliveri’s Pizzeria provided over 15 trays of Indian food and 12 pizzas, respectively.

However, arguably the biggest at-traction for the night was the Super Smash Brothers Brawl tournament.

“I like the way we’re having tournaments,” first-year officer Michelle Cohen said. “We usually don’t do that as part of the nor-mal Game’s Afoot…but I like that we’re having them because, you know, people are competitive!”

Over 36 people competed in the Super Smash Brothers tourna-ment, and prizes were awarded to the top four finishers. A Pokémon tournament was also held after-ward, with prizes being awarded to the top three.

The significance of The Game’s turnout was lost on no one, as ev-eryone, both officers and attend-ees, expressed their surprise over the attendance.

“I think it’s really a good turn-out,” junior Katie Avery said. “It’s a lot of fun… I was looking forward to it all week.”

Even co-President Adam Ash-well was very excited about the turnout and the group’s prospects for the future.

“It’s amazing,” Ashwell said. “We had taken into account that it could be this much, but it’s far more than we have ever had before at an event…it’s just great.”

The Game’s Afoot crew sees ‘The Game’ not only as a re-sounding success, but an indica-tion of a newfound partnership with Late Gate.

“This event really cemented our relationship with Late Gate,” Dwyre said. “It cements us as one of the principle institutions on campus.”

Contact Matthew Knowlesat mknowles@colgate.edu.

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THE BLOTTERCOLGATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS SAFETY REPORT

Monday, 1/23

12:19 a.m.: A resident of 84 Broad Street (Delta Delta Delta Sorority) reported her laptop missing from her unlocked room. The laptop was later found.4:31 p.m.: A student reported his cell phone as lost, last seen in Lathrop Hall. 9:44 p.m.: A fire alarm at 92 Broad Street (Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity) was caused by mari-juana smoke. Case referred for disciplinary process.11:44 p.m.: Campus Safety offi-cers on routine patrol near ALA-NA (African, Latin, Asian & Na-tive American) Cultural Center observed an underage intoxicated student urinating in public. Case referred for disciplinary process.

Tuesday, 1/24

1:11 a.m.: Hamilton Police re-ported an underage intoxicated student on Broad Street who was transported to Community

Memorial Hospital by SOMAC ambulance. Case referred for disciplinary process.1:22 a.m.: Campus Safety ob-served an underage intoxicated student on East Broad Street. The student was transported to Community Memorial Hospital by SOMAC ambulance. Case referred for disciplinary process.9:27 a.m.: A student reported being in-jured on Monday, 1/23/12 while run-ning and slipping on ice on the quad. Campus Safety provided transport to the Student Health Center.1:40 p.m.: A student reported to Campus Safety that cash had been taken from his unsecured locker at Lineberry Natatorium.4:43 p.m.: A student reported that her unsecured bicycle was missing from the bike rack near Memorial Chapel.

Wednesday, 1/25

3:03 p.m.: A student reported that cash and a watch were tak-en from his unsecured locker at

Lineberry Natatorium.

Thursday, 1/26

No case activity reported.

Friday, 1/27

1:02 a.m.: A fire alarm at 88 Broad Street (Beta Theta Pi Fra-ternity) was caused by marijua-na smoke. Case was referred for disciplinary process.1:07 a.m.: A resident of 88 Broad Street was found to have covered a smoke detector in violation of uni-versity regulations. Case referred for disciplinary process.1:39 p.m.: A student was ar-rested on 1/21/12, at 5:03 p.m., in the Town of Oxford, NY, by the New York State Police for driving while ability impaired by drugs (DWAI) and unlawful possession of marijuana. A pas-senger, also a Colgate student, was arrested for unlawful posses-sion of marijuana. Case referred

for disciplinary process.1:39 p.m.: A student was arrested on 1/22/12, at 12:25 a.m., in the Town of Sherburne, NY, by the New York State Police for driving while ability impaired (DWAI). Case referred for disciplinary process.1:40 p.m.: A student reported his vehicle damaged while parked in the first-year lot.4:18 p.m.: Campus Safety observed a vehicle had driven on Academy Field causing damage.7:03 p.m.: A resident of 92 Broad Street (Phi Kappa Tau Fra-ternity) was found in possession of a candle in violation of univer-sity regulations. Case referred for disciplinary process.

Saturday, 1/28

12:55 a.m.: Campus Safety as-sisted the Hamilton Police Depart-ment with an underage intoxicated student who was in the possession of an open container and of a ficti-tious driver’s license. Case referred

for disciplinary process.4:50 a.m.: A resident of Parker Apartments reported an unknown male in her apartment.11:11 a.m.: An ill staff member at Frank Dining Hall was trans-ported to Community Memorial Hospital by SOMAC ambulance.4:32 p.m.: Campus Safety on rou-tine patrol observed damage to the lawn at 88 Broad Street (Beta Theta Pi Fraternity).

Sunday, 1/29

1:03 a.m.: Campus Safety as-sisted Community Memorial Hospital with an underage in-toxicated student. Case referred for disciplinary process.5:34 a.m.: A student reported being injured on 1/28/12 at 92 Broad Street (Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity) while playing catch with a football.5:39 p.m.: A student reported her cell phone taken from Cobb House on 1/27/12.

by cassidy holahanMaroon-News Staff

Colgate University’s interest in switching to natural gas as a secondary source of heating is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Last month, the Village of Hamilton began to make strides toward bringing natu-ral gas pipelines and energy to Colgate and to the surrounding Hamilton community.

Colgate’s Climate Action Plan, published last fall, cited natural gas as an alternative to burning the fuel oil (Colgate uses number six) in the heating plant. The Climate Action Plan suggests this change by 2014, hinging on its future availability in Hamilton.

The Climate Action Plan document states, “It appears likely that Colgate will have access to natural gas in the

near future via an ongoing Vil-lage of Hamilton initiative to bring natural gas to the area.”

The plan suggested the change because, when burnt, natural gas releases fewer greenhouse gases than other fossil fuels. A switch to natural gas, therefore, would greatly reduce Colgate’s carbon foot-print and help the Univer-sity become carbon neutral by 2019, which Colgate has outlined in the recent Climate Action Plan.

The switch to natural gas suggested by the Climate Ac-tion Plan has been met with some opposition and hesita-tion, however, because of the negative environmental impact of its extraction.

On January 10, the Hamil-ton Village Board of Trustees began to discuss the establish-ment of a natural gas utility. The board voted to begin an

environmental assessment that is required by the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act before a new utility can be established.

The natural gas utility would construct a connecting pipeline into Hamilton, New York from one of two major pipelines within a ten-mile radius. The natural gas utility would also handle suppliers, gas customers and operation of the pipeline.

Margaret Miller, the Mayor of Hamilton, was quoted in The Madison County New York News on January 18, 2012 as saying that the natural gas utility is feasible, in part, because of interest expressed by Colgate University (as well as the two other large energy-con-suming institutions in Hamilton, Hamilton Central School and Community Memorial Hospital).

Although abundant in New York, natural gas is also a con-

troversial energy source. Natu-ral gas is, for the most part, extracted from shale using hy-draulic fracturing, or fracking, in which companies fracture rock layers with pressurized hydraulic fluids in order to extract petroleum and natural gas products.

However, many people op-pose hydraulic fracturing be-cause of the associated envi-ronmental and health hazards, especially when concerning water contamination.

The board agreed to host a public hearing on Febru-ary 14 at the Hamilton Vil-lage Courthouse to discuss the controversial fuel source. The utility will not be established unless the Hamilton commu-nity votes for the legislation in a referendum that will be held sometime this spring.

Contact Cassidy Holahan at cholahan@colgate.edu.

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His tone was acerbic at times, touching on controversial topics in question-and-answer discussions such as abortion, gay marriage and questions of religion. Some students came away from the lec-ture feeling “shocked” as reported in the April 2, 2009 issue of The Colgate Maroon-News.

“Some people certainly walked out shaking their heads. He always speaks in a provoca-tive style. He thrives on con-frontation – people come to hear him because they know he’s confrontational,” Kraynak said. “The thing that was most striking to me when I met him was how much he resembled a professor as opposed to a politi-cian. It was like you walked into a seminar.”

Kraynak did find one noticeable difference between Newt Gingrich in 2009 and his presidential campaign.

“I think he’s aware of the fact that he needs to be a more disci-plined person on the campaign trail,” Kraynak said. “It’s a study in contrast between the careful Romney and [Gingrich’s] more dynamic style.”

Contact Nate Lynchat nlynch@colgate.edu.

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Gingrich’s 2009

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By Sara SteinfeldCommentary Editor

As I’m sure many seniors already know, this job market is impossible to break into. It gets even harder when you’re trying to make it into an industry that is supposedly dying. Anyone trying to make it in the book or magazine publishing world has a very slim chance of entrance, and an even slimmer chance if one doesn’t have any sort of connection or “in” with the industry; someone like me. However, I very recently had an interview for my first internship with a local magazine in my hometown. Not to rub it in, but I’m extremely proud of myself, especially since I grew up in a house full of lawyers. Until fairly recently, when I made it very clear that law school is a path that I will never, EVER go down, I was expected to do what was practical rather than what I wanted to do after college. After all, law school is always there, but that Associate Editor position probably won’t be. And honestly, that just sucks.

Let’s pretend for a second that the job market isn’t what it currently is. Even then, people were, in general, ignoring what it was that they actually wanted to do because it wouldn’t rake in a lot of cash or it wasn’t what other people thought that they should be doing. It’s incredibly discouraging when your parents consistently try to persuade you to get a degree in something that you couldn’t care less about just because it might make your life easier in the long run. Sure, your parents want you to have an easier and more successful life, but a big part of their eagerness to get you to apply to grad school is so that they feel a sense of pride, maybe even gain bragging rights. After all, there’s always that parent at the block party ranting and raving about his kid Jimmy and how great he’s doing at Harvard Medical School. How much do you hate that parent? Honestly, he kind of sucks. What if Jimmy didn’t want to go to med school? What if he wanted to go to art school instead? Do you even care, obnoxious-parent-whose-audience-is-getting-bored? Probably not. But the good news is if the person whose ear you’ve been yammering into all afternoon starts dying of boredom, your son is learning how to save his life!

But I’m getting a little off topic here. What I’m trying to get at is the fact that, even though jobs are few and far between, you shouldn’t have to settle or even resort to doing the job that someone in your family has lined up for you. I understand that this is rather unrealistic at the moment, and maybe it’s easier for me to have this opinion because I still have two and a half years of college left, but why shouldn’t you do what you want to do? We go to Colgate because we wanted to go here, and maybe that wasn’t the best fiscal decision for some, but we did it anyway because, in the end, we all know that we’re going to get more out of our experience here because we are enjoying every minute of it. Well, maybe not necessarily the minutes spent in Club Case writing a research paper on rocks, but hopefully you’re not spending a majority of your time on that kind of work.

There’s something to be said about being good at what you do and wholeheartedly pursuing what you want, even if it doesn’t necessarily seem feasible. Even though getting the job you’ve always wanted seems unlikely right now, why not at least try your hardest to get as close as you can? The worst thing that can happen is you fail, but only for now. You have the rest of your life ahead of you, and remember, when one door closes, there’s always a window open somewhere.

Contact Sara Steinfeld at srsteinfeld@colgate.edu.

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What’s Left Being RightBy Alan He

Class of 2012

One Term OnlyA Tale of Two Candidates

This Week’s Topic: Republican Presidential Candidates

By Ryan MartinClass of 2014

For whatever reasons, many commentators have bemoaned the current slate of Republican pres-idential candidates. The media has incessantly fed into our fear that the Republican candidates are inadequate against Barack Obama. At some level, the angst is understandable.

As Newt Gingrich would like to remind us, the presumptive frontrunner is the guy who lost to the guy who lost to President Obama. To make matters worse, while the Republicans battle it out, President Obama’s poll numbers have slowly increased.

I’m here to tell Republicans that whichever candidate emerges out of the primary will be much better equipped to defeat the current president.

A long, drawn-out primary always has the potential to limit the ability to organize for a general election, but there are plenty of benefits associated with a good fight.

Just ask Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. What’s more, we have a good, seasoned field of can-didates: a former House Speaker, a twelve-term Congressman, the third ranking Republican in the Senate and a governor with significant business and legislative achievements.

This year, the only imperative is to beat the current president in the general election. Every single Republican voter understands that this is the only significant litmus test. Newt Gingrich didn’t beat Mitt Romney in South Carolina because he was more conservative; Gingrich won because he convinced the voters of South Carolina that he could win a general election.

If Republican primary voters only wanted ideological consistency, they would have chosen Rick Santorum or Ron Paul. They didn’t. In many respects, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have the opposite problem. Romney has proven that he can govern and manage effectively and Gingrich has shown throughout his long career that he can win historic elections.

But Romney couldn’t beat Ted Kennedy in 1994 or John McCain in 2008, while Gingrich’s erratic term as Speaker of the House went badly enough to turn the entire Republican estab-lishment against him. In order to win the primary, one of the two men will have to settle these important questions. With the economy still down and a looming crisis in Europe, there is absolutely no reason to doubt that Republicans have a fighting chance of taking the Senate and Presidency from the billion-dollar Obama machine. The eventual Republican candidate will need to project Obama-esque confidence and embrace the dark arts of demagoguery that Bill Clinton employed so successfully against George H.W. Bush. The 1992 Presidential Clinton Playbook is a potential blueprint for Republicans in 2012.

The 1992 Clinton campaign convinced American voters not to reelect a moderate Repub-lican president with significant foreign and domestic achievements. Think Desert Storm, the reunification of Germany, the fall of the Soviet Union, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 1990 Clean Air Act and the 1990 Budget Enforcement Act.

The Clinton team portrayed Bush as an out of touch, untrustworthy WASP and minimized the President’s achievements. The “New Democrats” successfully preyed on Republican sus-picions that Bush wasn’t a Reagan conservative. Why was the President untrustworthy, you might ask? Because an intransigent Democratic Congress forced him to break his promise not to raise taxes in the midst of a potential financial crisis and preparations for the Persian Gulf War. Then candidate Clinton successfully savaged Bush for raising taxes while trumpeting his own tax cutting credentials, only to raise taxes in 1992 after taking office.

If you wonder why bipartisanship is dead, look no further than 1992. Today, many liberals are convinced that President Obama didn’t fulfill his campaign promises or potential, in spite of his many liberal accomplishments. The Republican candidates need to capitalize on this belief. It’s been said that Obama saw a kindred spirit in H.W. Bush. Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom and very recently hosted him at the White House.

It’s time for Republicans to make sure Obama joins George H.W. Bush in the pantheon of one term Presidents.

Contact Alan He at ahe@colgate.edu.

Remember a few months back when nationwide polls were conducted and Herman Cain was gaining ground as a possible “frontrunner” for the Republican nomination? Most of America knew these numbers would not hold, and when Cain’s adulterous his-tory was discovered, the man quickly vanished from the national spotlight. What Cain’s involvement in the primary phase of this election began to show the American public was that the GOP has absolutely no idea who can lead them in a general election against Presi-dent Obama. Even as the battle between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich heats up, it is becoming evident that the Republican Party has been unable to find a viable candidate because it was picking from the wrong group of politicians from the very start.

Let’s begin with Newt Gingrich. This is a man who, eons ago, was thought to be the next star of the GOP, thanks to his role in the Congressional power shift in 1994. But after spending a few years as Speaker of the House, Republicans suffered terrible midterm election defeats, and party leadership forced him to resign. To say that Gingrich’s few years leading the Republican Party were a success would be a complete overstatement. During this period, he was marred by countless ethics charges, a near shutdown of the federal government and an effort to remove President Clinton from office in the wake of the Lewinski scandal that was deeply unpopular among voters, all of which led to his forced resignation. Gingrich had been virtually irrelevant in the political world for the past twelve years due to his abrasive, hot-headed nature and because he was viewed as a political liability, not to mention that Gingrich carried on multiple adulterous affairs during parts of his three marriages. There are so many clear-cut questions regarding his fundamental character that it is truly baffling how he polled so well with evangelical Christians and even won in South Carolina.

Mitt Romney, who will ultimately be the Republican nominee, faces his own set of problems in his pursuit of the Presidency. The voting base of the Republican Party be-lieves him to be a “phony” conservative, someone who has compromised on “conservative values” and done anything necessary to gain political office. He has received a ton of flak for his role with Bain Capital, and independent middle and working-class voters cannot be satisfied with the fact that he is paying a 15 percent annual tax rate on the millions of dollars he makes in capital gains, while they pay 25 to 35 percent in income taxes on hard-earned money. He has long been criticized as a “flip flopper,” and this will cer-tainly become more evident when he is forced back toward a more moderate stance after winning the nomination.

Personal deficiencies of these Republican candidates aside, the major miscalculation the GOP has made in the years leading up to this election was the absurd amount of political capital they handed over to fringe groups (à la the Tea Party). What Republican strategists will realize in hindsight is that there is a major disconnect between the aver-age American voter and the radical fringe that is now running their party. There is no doubt that when Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination, he will immediately be forced back toward the middle of the political spectrum if he is to have any hope of even competing with President Obama.

It will become apparent as the general election approaches that President Obama em-bodies the rational, moderate and optimistic voice the country needs during what is still a very trying economic period in its history. People will recognize that the GOP has become nothing more than a party of, by and for the wealthy…and the Tea Party. The “glue” holding this base together is so much weaker than Republicans would like voters to believe, and there is no way that it will hold long enough to carry Mitt Romney to the White House.

Contact Ryan Martin at rmartin@colgate.edu.

The Colgate Maroon-News February 2, 2012B-3 Commentary

Alumni ColumnCapturing Colgate’s Brand

By Terry EglerVice President of the Alumni Council

Class of 1977

I have the privilege of serving on the Colgate Alumni Council and recently attended the Council’s mid-winter meetings in Hamilton at which, in addition to helping to host Real World, the Council devoted substantial time and thought to President Herbst’s Strategic Planning Pro-posal for Colgate. Colgate’s next strategic plan is a weighty and important initiative that will shape Colgate’s future. We applaud President Herbst for welcoming the voice of alumni, among the other key constituencies of Colgate (including students – yes, you too have a voice, so be sure to let it be heard).

Before grappling with Colgate’s critical needs for the future, the Council thought it was important to identify what is right about Colgate. What makes Colgate special, unique and successful?

What is Colgate’s brand? While this may seem like a simple task, it is surprisingly difficult to articulate our brand in succinct terms – even for Colgate liberal arts graduates who know and love our college and have been taught to think critically and to marshal our words in a compelling fashion.

The problem is that there are so many facets that make Colgate...well, Colgate, that no single statement captures the Colgate brand effectively. Here’s what we know: Col-gate is about engagement of our students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and the community – intellectual, social, athletic, civic and global engagement. It’s about being taught and inspired by members of the faculty who also have us over for dinner.

It’s about being small but mighty, fielding Division 1 ath-letic teams, having our debate team advance to the World Universities Debate Championships and producing leaders in the world of finance, media, marketing and law (to name just a few). It’s about having the “oldest college weekly in America.” It’s about our student athletes who put us at the top of the NCAA Graduation Rate.

It’s about the beauty of our campus and the surround-ing countryside and yes, the isolation of our residential college community. It’s about our increasing diversity and expansive study abroad program. It’s about the strength of our Core curriculum. It’s about alumni who reach across generations to provide financial support, mentoring and job opportunities. It’s about snow, snow and more snow (not for the faint of heart). It’s about engendering an

entrepreneurial spirit. It’s about the lessons in self-gover-nance and philanthropy, fostering community across classes and the fun provided by Greek life. It’s about having our lucky number be 13 and those 13 men with 13 dollars and 13 prayers who started it all. It’s about our enduring tra-dition of the torchlight ceremony (also not for the faint of heart).

It’s about Gary Ross’s handwritten notes to candidates for admission and the ice cream sandwiches, too. It’s about increasing and achieving our capital campaign goal during an economic crisis when other colleges are lowering theirs. It’s about having a complete stranger embrace (and almost accost) us when we are wearing a Colgate t-shirt, hat or any other Colgate garb, just to say that “his sister’s husband’s best friend’s daughter” went to Colgate. It’s about the love and passion that Colgate students and alumni (and their families) have for our college and for one another.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. All of those things comprise the essence of Colgate, or the spir-it that is Colgate; something that is difficult to capture in a brand, but powerful and important to preserve. Can we improve Colgate? Absolutely. Are there drivers for change that we must pay attention to in order to keep Colgate competitive and successful? Yes. Changing demographics, globalization and the increasing pressure to make the case for Colgate’s value proposition against the cost of a Colgate education and, in the context of a difficult economic cli-mate and job market, require us to step up our game. The world is changing around us, and Colgate must be proac-tive in anticipating and meeting those changes in order to continue to excel. But I believe that the answer to the fun-damental question of what we want Colgate to be is that we want Colgate to be Colgate, only stronger.

BRANDING A UNIVERSITY: Thinking about all the things that make Colgate special makes describing Colgate in one way challenging.

Return of the ExpatsBy Coco Vonnegut

Class of 2013

One brisk morning at the Stop and Shop in Narragansett, RI, I found myself in the frozen foods section feeling completely overwhelmed. Jean-clad mothers pushed shopping carts filled to the brim with Doritos. Oversized frozen pizzas were covered in every type of meat known to man. It was sensory overload. That morning, I stepped off a plane from India and into what felt like a whole new world. Snooki and Mitt Romney smiled at me from magazine stands, the newest rapper screamed from our car radio and my phone blew up with four months of texts and voice mails.

I’d been warned about reverse culture shock, a pattern of emotional ups and downs that one ex-periences upon returning from abroad. Admittedly, I hadn’t thought much of it. But returning from India made me feel more out of my element than arriving in India had. For the first time, I was notic-ing pieces of American culture through a critical lens. I was unnerved by the price of orange juice at the grocery store, the trashy TV shows and the large open expanses of grass between each home on the Rhode Island shore. After studying abroad, you get used to things there, and adjusting to things here is difficult.“The worst,” my Colgate friend who had also gone abroad told me over break, “is when people ask you, ‘How was the UK?’ as if you could boil the experience down.” You want to tell people everything and confining it to a simple ‘amazing,’ ‘crazy’ or ‘interesting,’ just isn’t enough.

One of the best ways to reenter America is to talk about your experiences abroad not in one-word adjectives but over coffee, and in detail. As sophomores, juniors and seniors alike return to Hamilton, NY after semesters abroad, Colgate has a whole community of people to relate to when it comes to reentry shock, as over half the student body comes and goes from around the world.

Jodi Hammer, a Peace Corps Rep, recommends networking post-return, stating “It’s building your alliance, your web of people who know about you and might be able to connect you with people who know what you're about." Jeremy Geller, the Director of Student International Affairs at University of Illinois, recommends finding people who share your newfound interests. Luckily enough, Colgate has everything from German Club to South Asian Cultural Club to help returned students stay connected with the place they’ve left behind. Most importantly, share your experiences with people who haven’t gone abroad yet. The wise words and advice of older students really centered my ideas about studying abroad. Students who have already studied off campus know the value in getting away from Colgate and coming back more informed. As for me, I think that the return to Colgate this semester for us former expats will be like a breath of fresh air. Reentry comes with the profound ability to look at culture with a critical eye. I know that spending a semester away will make me more alert not only to the things I appreciate about Colgate, but also to the changes that I hope our campus will see. Returning to Colgate renews my humility – I feel incredibly lucky to receive the education we receive here and to be surrounded by people who share my passion for learning.

We live in a world that gets smaller every day. As the junior class welcomes students back and says goodbye to others for the coming semester, Colgate can become a forum for the exchange of ideas, for the breaking down of boundaries and for exacting positive change. Seeing the world is an immense privilege, and taking the lessons we learn and applying them makes it worthwhile. There are problems at Colgate (and for the record, there are problems everywhere), whether they are within the Greek system, issues of racial inequality, bigotry or the hook-up culture. Hopefully stepping off campus will make us more alert when we step back on, and more willing to speak up when we want change.

Contact Coco Vonnegut at dvonnegut@colgate.edu.

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February 2, 2012 Arts & Features C-1

By Claire AzizMaroon-News Staff

The Konosioni Senior Honor Society is one of the most impres-sive student organizations at Colgate University. In overview, Kono-sioni is composed of 26 seniors – 13 male and 13 female (because this is Colgate, after all), who are peer-selected by the current Kono-sioni members after applying in the spring of their junior years. They are then inducted that same semester and embark on their mission of “preserving Colgate’s many traditions and bettering the Hamil-ton community through service,” as the Student Life section of the Colgate website so aptly states. These students meet once a week throughout their two semesters in the organization to achieve their mission. This carefully selected group generates a unique theme for the society for their term, which influences the service and initiative of the group for that time.

The service this organization does truly is amazing. The Konosioni Hon-or Society does many things in the spirit of “preserving Colgate’s many traditions and bettering the Ham-ilton community,” but the group’s main focus during the Spring semes-ter is allocating the Konosioni Grants to charities that are compatible with the current theme of the Konosioni Senior Honor Society. The process of allocating grants to charities starts with the Spring Charity Auction, at which Konosioni auctions off items to members of the Colgate and Ham-ilton communities to raise money ultimately given to various charities. The next step for Konosioni is choos-ing charities relevant to their theme

of choice and inviting them to apply for grant money. Finally, Konosioni chooses the best of the charity applications and al-locates money to each according to the amount of money raised at the Charity Auction.

The Class of 2012 Konosioni Society allocated grants to chari-ties relevant to their chosen theme of Nutrition and Wellness. They passed their final grant decisions on December 6, 2011. Because of a successful Charity Auction in the spring of 2011, the society had $25,340 to dole out to organizations including the Mary Rose Center (a free health clinic), Emma’s House (a shelter for women in crisis) and Utica Safe Schools Healthy Partnership, Inc. (involved with the Community Health and Wellness Fair). As it is now the spring of 2012, a new group of extraordinary students will soon assume the positions held for just a short while longer by 26 se-niors. The current members of the Konosioni Senior Honor Soci-ety are Terica Adams, Sarah Branz, Giovanna Brunetto, Kathryn

David, Devin Desir, Kelly Dwyer, Brett Ekberg, Sonya Falcone, Kevin Gordon, Charles Hartwick, Christine Heffernan, Jane Huang, Erin Leon, Casey Macaulay, Samantha Myers, Ryan Nelson, Makenna Osborn, Ca-den Polk, Ruchira Rajan, Bharadwaj Obula Reddy, Alex Restrepo, Ellie Schmidt, Fatima Sowe, Peter Stein, Lindsay Strand and Mitchell Wax-man. Soon to hand off their seats in this society, these seniors will graduate shortly with the accomplishment of having been a member of such a pres-tigious and honorable organization, and what they have achieved this year is truly admirable.

Contact Claire Aziz atcaziz@colgate.edu.

Erin Nash, senior and Syracuse native, has been a vital part of the Residential Life staff throughout her time at Colgate. The psychology major is currently serving as the Apartment Manager of University Courts, in which she oversees both juniors and seniors at Colgate.

Nash began her involvement with Resi-dential Life when she became a Residential Advisor in her sophomore year. She was the RA for Andrews Hall, and in her junior year progressed to become the RA in Shepardson.

She describes the purpose of the Resi-dential Life staff as creating “a healthy living space for my residents through one-on-one interactions, hall programming and peer ad-vising.” Yet, her role is flexible. As an RA for first-years, Nash primarily dealt with room-mate conflicts and personal issues. Working with upperclassmen, she says her primary responsibilities include “ensuring the main-tenance of all University Court buildings ... and supporting residents in their academic and extracurricular pursuits.”

For Nash, working as an RA “is some-times challenging, [but] assisting and developing close relationships with more than 200 students has been extremely rewarding. I cannot express how thank-ful I am to have had the most wonderful residents over the past three years.”

As for her peers in Residential Life, Nash says she has “become closely con-nected with the other members of the Residential Life staff; it is both exciting and inspiring to work with students who share the same goal of wanting to help students to experience positive living situations.”

Nash is also involved on campus as a member of the Benton Scholars program, and served last year as the Policy Coordina-tor for Student Life on the SGA Executive Board. She also participated in the Upstate Institute Summer Field School Program and the Dominican Republic alternative break trip sponsored by COVE.

During her time at Colgate, Nash says the university “has prompted and inspired me to engage with the world as a global citi-zen – I have learned to become more aware and critical of ideas and events going on in the world. More importantly, Colgate has helped me to discover my passions, as well as the drive to pursue those passions.”

Post-graduation, Nash plans to work for a few years in the field of organization-al development and then attend graduate school to obtain a Master’s degree or Ph.D in Organizational Psychology.

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KITCH121:SuperbowlSnack-FestBy Emily Suskin

Maroon-News Staff

TZATZIKI(Greekyogurtdip)

For this dip, I use hothouse cucumbers – the long, skinny cucumbers that are wrapped in plastic in the produce department. Their skin is much thinner and less waxy than reg-ular cucumbers, so you do not have to peel them and they are virtually seedless. Plus, I think they taste better. However, you can cer-tainly use regular cucumbers for this recipe, but you will most likely need two and will definitely need to peel them and spend a little more time seeding them.

When I made this for a dinner, we started off by having it with pita chips, but quickly discovered that it was good with just about everything else on the table, including but not limited to: couscous, roasted potatoes, salad and chicken. The next day we used it on sandwiches and the list continues from there.

This dip comes together very quickly, but I suggest you make it the day before. The dip is even better after the ingredients have had a day to get to know each other.

1 hothouse cucumber2 (7-oz) containers of plain Greek yogurt

(I use Fage 0%) 1/8 to 1/4 cup of sour cream (I use low-

fat)2 tbsp of freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 tbsp of white wine vinegar 1 tbsp of minced fresh dill 1--1 1/2 teaspoons of minced garlic 2 tsp of kosher salt 1/2 tsp of freshly ground black pepper

1. Cut the cucumber in half lengthwise and run a spoon through the center to seed it. Using a box grater, grate the cucumber. Squeeze the grated cucumber between your hands to get rid of the water it contains. This might seem tedious, but the more time you take to squeeze out the cucumber, the less watery and more flavorful your dip will be.

2. Put the yogurt, some of the sour cream (about 1/8 of a cup) and the cucumber into a medium bowl. Add in the lemon juice, white wine vinegar, dill, garlic, salt and pepper. Stir until combined.

3. I recommend starting with less sour cream and less garlic until you taste it. Es-pecially when it comes to the garlic (which is raw and potentially overpowering).

BEER-BATTEREDONIONRINGS

The batter on these onion rings is light and delicious. Just be careful with the hot oil while cooking (it can splatter) and after cook-ing, leave it on the stove until it has cooled completely. Hot oil and water really do NOT mix!

Vegetable oil, for frying1 egg white1 cup of beer (if you are old enough, of

course)1 cup of all-purpose flour3/4 tsp of kosher salt, plus extra for

sprinkling2 large onions

1. Pour oil in a medium pot until it is roughly two inches deep. Heat the oil on medium heat.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk the egg

white until frothy (white bubbles appear). Stir in the beer, flour and salt. Mix until there are no lumps (or almost none) and set the bowl aside.

3. Slice the onions about 1/3 inch thick. Separate the slices into rings and put them into the bowl of batter. Let the excess batter drip off before putting them into the oil.

4. Set up a baking sheet lined with paper towel, close enough to the stove so that you can easily transfer the onion rings once they are done.

5. Try one onion ring to test if the oil is hot enough. It should take about one to two minutes to get golden brown. If it takes much less time than this, your oil is too hot.

6. Continue to cook the rest of the on-ion rings in small batches, using a slotted spoon to get them out of the oil. Once they are done, put them onto the baking sheet and salt them before adding another batch to the oil. It will look like most of the salt is falling to the tray, but more sticks than you realize. You do not want to over-salt them. Serve immediately.

Contact Emily Suskin atesuskin@colgate.edu.

KONOSIONI KINDNESS: The Konosioni Honor Society distributed grants to local charitable groups targeting nutrition and wellness.

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By Betsy BloomMaroon-News Staff

Unfortunately, it’s not very often that I get the chance to see one of my professors performing in a musical cabaret. However, my big break came last Saturday when I was lucky enough to see Visiting Assistant Profes-sor of English and Theater Anne Beggs’s per-formance in “A Little Sondheim…A Little Weill…A Musical Theater Cabaret.”

The show’s name was deceiving: in my opinion, it really could have been called “A Little Bit of Everything.” Beggs, who was accompanied by the incredibly talented Dianne McDowell on piano, performed a total of 10 songs from various compos-ers. She began with the aptly named “Wel-come to My Party,” an attention-grabbing number from Michael John LaChuisa’s musical The Wild Party. The song set the tone for the night: big energy and impres-sive range. Beggs has a voice that can tran-sition from all-out belting to beautifully soft and haunting. And she did. Stopping only to take off her shoes (and put them back on), let down her hair (literally and figuratively) or to sip some water, Beggs threw herself into the changing styles and attitudes of each successive number with vigor and confidence.

Her voice took on a masculine tilt

for the swingy number “All I Need is the Girl” from the musical Gypsy. After that, she transitioned to the higher pitch require-ments of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “The Bilbao Song,” from their musical One Touch of Venus. Next came Ogden Nash and Kurt Weill’s “I’m a Stranger Here Myself.” The snappy, soulful tune really gave Beggs a chance to showcase her impressive range and operatic influences. During her rendition

of Stephen Sondheim’s “The Girls of Sum-mer,” Beggs channeled the jazzy tones of a nightclub singer before moving effortlessly into the sensual and expressive “Speak Low” (also from One Touch of Venus). Beggs’s voice took on a much softer and sweeter quality for her performance of “Frank Mills,” a bal-lad from the 1960’s musical Hair. (She also played guitar during the number, though she offered the disclaimer that she was “the

world’s worst guitar player.”) Then, as if switching musical styles wasn’t complicated enough, she switched lan-guages for Belgian singer/songwriter Jacque Brel’s haunting, “Ne Me Quitte Pas.” Beggs penultimate number was a heartwarming rendition of “Try to Remember” from Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s The Fantasticks. For the finale (and my favorite number), Beggs performed a brassy and powerful rendition of the Chicago favorite, “All that Jazz.” The audience willingly par-ticipated in the song, a sign they were truly enjoying themselves.

So, though this may have been the first time I was able to see a per-formance by a professor, the experi-ence has made me hopeful it won’t be the last!

Contact Betsy Bloom atebloom@colgate.edu.

By Hadley RahrigMaroon-News Staff

POETRY READINGS BYBRUCE SMITH

On Thursday, February 2, the English department presents Poetry Readings from Bruce Smith, the author of six books of po-ems, The Common Wages, Silver and Infor-mation, Mercy Seat, The Other Lover, Songs for Two Voices and Devotions. His written works have received extensive honors such as Publisher’s Weekly’s Book of the Year. Sev-eral of Smith’s books have become final-ists for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Don’t miss this occasion to hear brilliant poetry from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Persson Hall Auditorium.

ANN HAMILTONAND SUSAN STEWART

Friday, February 3, Brehmer Theatre will be hosting a presentation from contempo-rary artist Ann Hamilton and Avalon Foun-dation University Professor of Humanities Susan Stewart. Ann Hamilton, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Visiting Artist-in-Residence in Art and Art History, received her MFA from Yale University in sculpture, but she is also known for her internationally-recognized photography and video work. Her large-scale multimedia pieces are acclaimed for their poetic depic-tion of the sites captured on film. The op-portunity to hear from Ann Hamilton and poet-critic Susan Stewart will begin at 4:30 p.m. The event will be followed by a catered reception.

35MM SERIES: AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

On Friday, February 3, another film from the 35mm series will be offered in Golden Auditorium of Little Hall for student cin-ema entertainment. This French 1956 drama film, starring Brigitte Bardot, proved highly controversial to American viewers of the 50s, yet provided Bardot her launch to fame. The plot, set in Mediterranean France, depicts the story of an 18-year-old orphan named Juliette and the dynamics surrounding her and the different love in-terests within her life. Due to its provoca-tive nature, this film succeeded in spurring the French New Wave. Screening of And God Created Woman will run from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

MUSICAL CABARET “FLASHBACK” Jenni Larcher, Mason McDowell and Carl Pickett join together at Hamilton’s Palace Theatre to create a musical flash-back, as these musicians revive favorite songs from the 40s, 50s and 60s for one night of cabaret entertainment. This event will take place Saturday, February 4 and the show will run from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. with tickets sold for $10 each at the door. Those who attend can look forward to the authentic cabaret experience, with cabaret-style seating, electric piano from Mason McDowell and stand-up bass played by Carl Pickett. A collection of classic favorites such as “Blue Moon” and “Georgia On My Mind” will be featured.

Contact Hadley Rahrig athrahrig@colgate.edu.

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By Srikar GullapalliMaroon-News Staff

Following the theme of Margaretta’s article from last week, here are my thoughts on a few movies I saw over winter break and why you should watch them (or not).

Let me begin with Sherlock Holmes 2 – A Game of Shadows. What it is is a fun movie full of action, a palpable chemistry between Law and Downey Jr. and a well-essayed Dr. Moriarty played by Jared Harris. What it is not is a Sherlock Holmes movie. This movie is full of action played out in slow-motion – every single time (we get it, Guy Ritchie, you know how to do grungy shots) – and a painful overdose of the technique used in that one fight scene in the first movie; you know, where we see him plan out his attack before he actually attacks. Stephen Fry is more a caricatured Mycroft Holmes than anything else; indeed evidence of how this movie treats the rest of the Sherlock Holmes body of literature. And the hu-mor is slightly off, too. Watch it on a Sunday morning when you’re still groggy from the night before and you need to wake yourself up.

Next stop, The Iron Lady. It’s not a movie about British politics and foreign policy during the Thatcher era. It is a movie completely cen-tered on the Iron Lady herself, played to a tee by Meryl Streep, and her personal insecurities and imperfections as we chart her growth from a grocer’s daughter to the most powerful woman in Europe to the forgot-ten old lady haunted by the demons of her past. The direction is fine, though the screenplay is more than a little patchy. But Meryl Streep is perfect and certainly dispelled all my doubts that anyone could ever por-tray this iron-willed, enigmatic person accurately. She carries the movie on her shoulders, crying and wailing, away from a somewhat confused mishmash of history to a somewhat coherent character study of a female warrior. Watch it for her, and try to live with everything else.

Now, The Adventures of Tintin. Except for some parts of the ending that were underwhelming and perhaps a tad unnecessary, I loved it. For a lifelong fan of Tintin, there are a thousand little references cleverly pep-pered in throughout the movie that absolutely delight. Props to Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright for that and for their fun screenplay based on The Secret of the Unicorn. The computer animation is flawless and would’ve made Herge proud. The 3D actually works! Steven Spielberg, directing an animated movie for the first time, does a good job bring-ing in a very Indiana Jones flavor. John Williams absolutely deserves his Oscar nomination for the score, which is perfect. The voice actors are decent, with Andy Serkis and Jamie Bell particularly standing out. And Snowy is perfect – absolutely perfect. Watch it. No qualifiers.

Finally, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. An extremely complicated, layered story of espionage and paranoia in the MI-6 during the Cold War. Don’t miss a thing and don’t take bathroom breaks.

Don’t expect a neat resolution of every issue and a complete un-derstanding of the situation by the conclusion. But if you want something of a glimpse into the real spy world, not a long-haired charming maverick climbing the Burj Khalifa, watch this movie. The performances are all-around awesome, especially Gary Old-man, who, with a perfectly restrained performance, shows us the contradictions and complications in the motivations and the ex-plications of a life spent serving queen and country in MI-6. Al-fredson’s direction is pitch-perfect, and the screenplay works re-ally well in hindsight, although confusing to everyone during. The atmosphere of the movie takes you back to an era of fear, distrust and chaos, while still maintaining relevance to the present. Watch it if you are willing to give it your all for two hours – nothing less. And watch out for Gary Oldman at the Oscars.

Contact Srikar Gullapalli at sgullapalli@colgate.edu.

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By Josh GlickMaroon-News Staff

With the success of Disney’s live-action adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Hollywood studios have begun to pour money into remakes of classic fairytales. Directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, the frequent collaborators managed to create a bil-lion dollar blockbuster and birthed a new trend in Hollywood to remake classic fairytales. Disney is now planning on making a live-action version of Sleeping Beauty entitled Maleficent, which will star Angelina Jolie as the evil title character. Warner Bros. is releasing Jack the Giant Killer next March, which will be helmed by former X-Men and The Usual Suspects director Bryan Singer. Also coming soon is Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which is being distrib-uted by Paramount next January. The film stars Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia) as Gretel and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) as Hansel, who, 15 years after their classic tale, are now bounty hunt-ers who search and kill witches around the world. The fairytale fad has also made its way to television, where the shows Once Upon a Time on ABC and Grimm on NBC have both had very successful freshman seasons.

Whether this trend is here to stay depends heavily on the suc-cess of two Snow White film adaptations titled Mirror, Mirror by Relativity and Snow White and the Huntsman, which is being released by Universal. Since both projects were announced over two years ago, Rela-tivity and Universal have been battling each other over release dates and advertising campaigns. Rel-ativity’s adaptation, Mirror, Mirror, was originally planned for a summer release date while Univer-sal’s Snow White and the Huntsman had originally planned on a fall release. However, as both studios wanted to release their adaptation first, Mirror, Mirror has jumped all the way up to March 30 and will be going up against the Channing Ta-tum and Jonah Hill comedy 21 Jump Street. The next week will be followed by what Lionsgate is banking on to be their next big blockbuster: The

Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence. While the summer is usually known as the best time for blockbusters to be released, Relativity is hoping that some of the magic from Alice in Won-derland’s March release date will carry over to their new fairytale film. Snow White and the Hun-stman is now being released on June 1, which sandwiches the film in between two potential huge summer blockbusters – the return of Will Smith in Men in Black 3 and Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction in Prometheus.

While both adaptations are big budget blockbusters that are re-imaginations of the classic fairytale, their style could not be more different. The trailer for Mirror, Mirror portrays the film as whimsical, comedic, bright, cheerful and much more kid-friendly than its competitor. The film’s director Tarsem Singh (Immortals) is known for his beautiful sets and colorful films. Essentially, Mirror, Mirror looks like what you would expect from a children’s fairytale film. Conversely, the trailer for Snow

White and the Huntsman has drawn comparisons to Lord of the Rings or the HBO smash hit Game of Thrones, as it seems like a dark and chilling action/ fantasy adventure. The film’s di-rector, Rupert Sanders, is mak-ing his feature film debut. His previous work includes a major-ity of the hit video game Halo’s commercials and numerous Nike basketball commercials. The film is attempting to take the classic fairytale and turn it into a modern epic.

While both films boast excellent casts, the two are very different. Front and center of both films is the Evil Queen, who is played by an Oscar winner in both. In Mirror, Mir-ror, Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) plays the character as an evil yet still humorous and humane person. Throughout the trailer Rob-erts is cracking jokes and speaking about love. Her gowns are colorful and beautiful. Charlize Theron (Monster, Hancock) plays the evil Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman and shows no sign of humanity or humor in the trailer, just pure evil. Universal is hoping that Theron’s villainous stare and

extreme beauty will create a classic villain who is evil to the core. While Roberts’s character is lightheartedly wick-ed, Theron’s queen will be as dark and malicious as they come. Playing the title character Snow White in Mirror, Mirror is Lilly Collins (The Blind Side) and in Snow White and the Huntsman is Kristen Stewart (Twilight). Collins’s princess seems much more graceful and beautiful than Stewart’s character. Lastly, the central male figure of Snow White and the Huntsman will be Chris Hemsworth (Thor) playing the Huntsman while Armie Hammer (The Social Network) will be playing Prince Charming in Mirror, Mir-ror. Hemsworth character seems to be much more violent, aggressive and tough than Hammer’s, who in the trailer is shown to be more of a humorous pretty boy than warrior. Clearly, the films will be very different, but which film will do better at the box office? While the Hollywood Stock Ex-change predicts Mirror, Mirror to open with an impressive $60 million dollar weekend in March, the site predicts that Snow White and the Hunstman will open with a box-office weekend of over $110 million and be one of the potential biggest films of the year. How both films do will ultimately hinge on their reviews, but for now, Universal’s adaptation has the heavy lead.

Contact Josh Glick at jglick@colgate.edu.

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Did Someone Say Muffin Burger?By Matt Levitsky

Class of 2013

I spent Saturday evening bobbing my head to two rappers in dis-course. That’s right, rap battles, as they are often called, have some-how worked their way up from Brooklyn and into the Hamilton neighborhood – this time into Utica Street Café.

I was fortunate enough, or unfortunate depending on how you handle confrontation, to see these two lyricists sway from a battle of words to a battle of fists. Okay, maybe not fists, but there was some pushing and shoving. The exchanges became so intense that, for a brief moment, The Fresh Mandeezy (senior Matthew Iandoli) and Muffin Burger (junior Tim Phelps) broke into a small tiff.

“I’ve never seen a fight like there was just now,” Muffin Burger’s partner, Puff Pastry (junior Chris Johnson), told me. “I think it shows you how seri-ously a lot of these rappers take their music. I mean, in the beginning it was for fun. It was sort of a joke. But when you start making your own beats and experimenting more and more with writing lyrics, you say to yourself: this can be something kind of cool.”

Puff Pastry is right. More and more kids of our generation are turning to the world of music production. In the last two years, DJ software and hardware companies like Traktor, Beringer and Ableton have seen their sales crack the roof open.

Of the three MCs I interviewed, only Muffin Burger could play an instrument – the guitar. “You don’t really need to know how to play an instru-ment to make beats and rap over them,” Phelps said. “I’ve ac-tually never even used my guitar to make a beat for one of my songs... there’s defi-nitely more of an em-phasis on the perfor-mance side of things. 0 could do what we’re doing musically, but to stand up in front of people and have flow

and have your words resonate is harder than you think.”Puff Pastry and Muffin Burger began writing rap songs just a year ago.

Now juniors, they continue to produce music and are slowly transition-ing into creating all of their “positive rhythms” from scratch using Ableton software.

As Muffin Burger fished his computer out of his backpack to show me how the program works, I couldn’t help but notice that these kids looked nothing like “rappers.” Puff Pastry, tall and lanky, wore cargo pants and dirty running sneakers. He adorned his neck with a plastic chain he says he bought at Price Chopper. The pendant was not what I expected: a large Euro sign. He also wore a flat-brimmed Phillies hat.

Muffin Burger wore an unzipped puffy North Face jacket which, with each sudden movement, would briefly unveil Biggie Smalls’ frown. A Newport cigarette was lodged behind his ear. But he, too, wore cargo pants, and on his feet were thin flip-flops.

The Fresh Mandeezy, who started rapping in high school, wore plain black shades with a loose-fitting purple flannel.

“We definitely dress with a sense of humor,” Iandoli said with a grin. “Part of this is a complete joke. Look at what we’re wearing ... I knew I could never become a professional rapper; I mean, obviously. But I always liked listening to hip-hop and rapped for the fun of it anyways. It’s weird, I know. It’s like stand up comedy fused with rapping. Think of Weird Al. It’s like that, except a bit more serious.”

It makes sense. If this was all just comedy, I wouldn’t have seen such heat between Muffin Burger and The Fresh Mandeezy.

Most of the battling is playful. “I got stars in my heart,” The Fresh Mandeezy said for example, “and they sharp like sharks and mark my art, like pointed darts ... you eat fruit tarts for lunch and get stuck inside golf carts, cryin’ out for tea carts that don’t come ’cause of ya loud farts.” An “ohhh” echoes from the crowd.

This place never fails to impress me. Sometimes, especially on those dreary work-filled Sundays, as I trudge up through the thick snow to Case Library, I can’t help but think that life tends to repeat itself here. Each week is another. Classes, work, nights out, again and again. People start to look like machines, hardwired to walk down the Persson steps at 1:15 p.m. exactly, just as you’re walking up them. And when all seems finally coordinated, when you think the dust has finally fallen, you discover pockets of eccentricity as if hidden and meant to be found.

Who knew that a small group of students was meeting to unleash a sea of street rhetoric unto one another in strange garb? I walked out of the café that evening feeling very much awake and pledged that I would destroy my “blinders” and live in my periphery.

Contact Matt Levitsky at mlevitsky@colgate.edu.Provided by Matt Levitsky

Fashion SpotlightMaggie Roelants ‘14

By Rachel Eisen Maroon-News Staff

Maggie is a mathematical economics major from Connecticut.

What are you wearing?Ugg boots, H&M Skirt and my mom’s scarf.

What are some of your favorite brands or stores?

H&M, J.Crew and I like shopping at consignment stores.

How would you describe your style?Basic and warm colors, I guess.

What are some of your favorite bands?Radiohead and Sia.

Contact Rachel Eisen atreisen@colgat.edu.

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The Colgate Maroon-NewsC-4 Arts & features February 2, 2012

By Eric ReimundMaroon-News Staff

1. “Chinatown” by DestroyerMy most listened to song of Christmas break stinks of the highest order of hipsterdom,

yet still retains enough creativity, surprises and vision to satisfy. In mood and particularly in its lyrical coda, it is film-noir translated into music.

2. “Please Let Me Wonder” by The Beach BoysBrian Wilson writes a perfect representation of the auteurist musical control and com-

mitment to the youth of his time a full year before his ambition is realized on the legendary Pet Sounds.

3. “Tales of Brave Ulysses” by CreamCome for Clapton’s epic wah-wah solo, stay for all the references to the Odyssey. I know

you can’t get enough of those, Colgate. You’re welcome.

4. “Atrocity Exhibition” by Joy DivisionPost-punk 101. Carried by barbaric drums and Ian Curtis’s doom-and-gloom lyrics and

delivery, it’s pretty messed up, but also strangely listenable.

5. “Obstacle 1” by InterpolPost-punk 102, I suppose. Paul Banks does his best Ian Curtis impression, cranks up the

theatrics and has the sound mastered.

6. “Disco Infiltrator” by LCD SoundsystemJames Murphy and Co. sample Kraftwerk and crank up the bass.

7. “Bros” by Panda BearIn one of the few 10-plus minute songs that I enjoy (“Achilles’ Last Stand” is the only

other I can immediately recall), Animal Collective member Panda Bear samples his way into a modern masterpiece.

8. “Blame Game” by Kanye WestWith a five minute cerebral R&B prog-rap concoction glued to a twisted two minute

monologue by collaborator Chris Rock, this song is a pretty pure distillation of Kanye’s Twisted Fantasy.

9. “Hot For Teacher” by Van HalenI know, Pete. Talk about random. But with the long awaited return of original frontman David

Lee Roth, it’s going to be hard for Van Halen faithfuls like myself to process the album dispas-sionately. MCMLXXXIV was a long time ago. I have tickets for a show in Philly this summer and I couldn’t be more excited.

10. “Brian Eno” by MGMTOff their divisive sophomore effort, MGMT strikes an artful balance between silly and

sincere in this tribute to the lifelong innovator and music industry force.

11. “Are You Experienced” by Jimi HendrixJimi asks the big question in his self-described “psychedelic symphony.” So, ladies and

gentleman of Colgate...are you?

12. “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” by The ByrdsThe Gram Parsons controlled post-psychedelic The Byrds made one of the few country

albums that I truly enjoy, Sweetheart of the Rodeo. This is their fantastic Bob Dylan cover.

13. “The Weight” by The BandI toured the Martin Guitar Factory in Nazareth, PA the week before I came back to

Colgate, so this song seemed a fitting choice.Contact Eric Reimund at ereimund@colgate.edu.

13 Beatsof the WeekBy Mike Knerr

Maroon-News Staff

Many people might have forgotten about Snow Patrol since 2006’s Eyes Open, with its attendant hit single “Chasing Cars.” Its bland-ness and lack of emotional resonance was par-tially corrected three years later on A Hundred Million Suns, but the undeniably more creative album met with little fanfare and seemed con-tent to ride on the commercial success of Eyes Open and the critical success of Final Straw.

Thus, when lead guitarist Nathan Con-nolly warned that Snow Patrol’s new album Fallen Empires would explore new territory and be potentially polarizing, it seemed that a little controversy and innovation might be exactly what they needed to reenergize themselves. As it turns out, the “new direc-tion” isn’t nearly as radical as expected (the word “techno” had been thrown around), but it certainly has been polarizing. I feel the gamble was well worth it, as the band finds itself exploring emotions and taking risks it hasn’t taken in eight years, amounting to their strongest effort since Final Straw.

The basic Snow Patrol elements are all there – Gary Lightbody’s brooding yet tender vocals, slow ballads, dramatic anthems and energetic rockers – but they are filtered through a greater emphasis on electronic and symphonic accom-paniment. The result is that Snow Patrol finds a greater range of expression on Fallen Empires, preserving the characteristic intimacy of “Run” and “Chasing Cars” with “Lifening,” while building “Fallen Empires,” “The Garden Rules” and “The Symphony” into anthemic choruses at the conclusion of the songs, with deceptively simple yet eminently shoutable lyrics like “we are the light, we are the light” and “if this is all you ever ask for/then this is all you’ll get.”

If the album has a weakness, it might be that it slightly overuses the anthem trope, but this is quickly forgotten when listening to the symphonic swell of “In the End,” or admiring guest singer Lissie’s soulful backup vocals in

“The Weight of Love.” Interspersed as coun-terweights to these and uptempo rockers like “Called Out in the Dark” are “Lifening” and “Those Distant Bells.” “Lifening” has a sincere simplicity, deflecting claims of sentimentality with an unpretentious assertion of all the small things that make life meaningful for Lightbody. “Those Distant Bells” seems to be in suspended animation with its insistently repeated guitar figure, adding a reflective yet insistent quality that echoes the inertia of the song’s subject as well as the distant call of the bells.

The album also features two short tracks, “Berlin” with its carefree vocalizations, and the odd concluding track “Broken Bottles Form a Star (Prelude),” which is as misplaced as the title indicates it would be, forming a bizarre end to an otherwise satisfying album. Snow Patrol narrowly avoids another misstep with “In the End” by flirting with a Cold-play vibe, but the quiet energy in the verses and catchy chorus end up sounding more like what Coldplay’s most recent album should have been rather than seeming derivative.

The album is laden with a mixture of truly insightful and creative lyrics and lyrics which sound silly on paper but inspiring in context. There’s something fantastically nostalgic about the opening to “The Symphony,” as Lightbody sings “Wooden floors whisper/And they creak under your sockless feet./A secret door, a door undiscovered/You knock so gently in case you’re heard.” Equally admirable is the way Snow Pa-trol moves from the hope-in-brokenness of “This Isn’t Everything You Are” to the innocent childhood romance of “The Garden Rules.”

All told, the album is able to explore an emotional and thematic range somewhat lacking of late for the band, with more ac-cessibility and commercial appeal for casual fans as well. The question for its legacy will be whether critics and fans can accept the band’s new trajectory, or whether “Chasing Cars” is as far as they’re willing to go.

Contact Mike Knerr atmknerr@colgate.edu.

By Carly Reed and Greer StichnothMaroon-News Staff

After an unusually warm and practically snow-free Fall semester, we have arrived back at Colgate to find the standard foot of white snow that covers campus during the long winter sea-son. Naturally, snow can present some difficulties for the Colgate fashionista: flats and leather boots must go back in the closet as we dedicate the next few months to Sorels and Bean Boots. On the brighter side, one of the best parts of the winter season is the opportunity to don a variety of fun winter accessories that both keep us warm and spice up our outfits. We’d like to offer our humble opinions on some of today’s trendiest winter accessories: scarves, snoods, fingerless gloves, earmuffs and hats.

The Scarf: Scarves are great to add both visual interest and functionality to an outfit. Scarves come in a wide array of colors and patterns that you can choose from to high-light your best features. Recently, designers have even been putting additional details on scarves, such as pockets. You know, just in case you need a place to put some gum. And, of course, they will keep your neck warm during our frigid Colgate winters.

The Snood: If you’re willing to take things up a notch, let’s get it poppin’ with the snood, also known as the infinity scarf or the circle scarf. A snood is essentially the cooler, hotter older sister of a scarf. His-torically, snoods have been worn on the head to keep hair in place, but nowadays they are usually worn around the neck as a circular scarf. However, you must be care-ful about your particular choice of snood (size and fabric are important factors to keep in mind). In some cases, you may end

up looking like you are wearing a weird piece of cloth around your neck, in which case you should probably rethink the snood immediately.

Fingerless Gloves: If you’re thinking about sporting a pair of fingerless gloves this winter season, we would like to kindly advise you against them. For starters, nothing about the fingerless glove is practical. I don’t know if everyone knows this, but fingers are one of the least well-circulated parts of our bodies; in our sub-freezing temperatures, they will get cold. Nobody wants cold fingers. While impracticality can’t always be avoided at Colgate (sometimes a girl just needs to wear a skirt in the winter), the fingerless glove is simply not worth it.

The Earmuff: We’re not going to lie: earmuffs are a bold move, but we are definitely willing to embrace it if you think you can pull it off. The major caveat is that you need to be confident with the rest of your look and your general fashion sense, as things can and will go terribly awry if you are not.

The Hat: In terms of accessorizing options, hats can be a bit questionable. Obviously they are great when the temperature gets so low that you face the risk of having your ears fall off your body, but there are some very real downsides to hat-wearing that we think everyone should consider. First, hat-hair is never chic. Second, you are presumably going to be taking your hat off upon reaching your destination, and there is just no way to ensure that you will still have it when it is time to venture back out into the cold (this issue mainly applies to night-time hat-wearing). Better options include a warm hood attached to your coat, or even a snood that can be worn on your head outdoors and around your neck indoors.

Contact Carly Reed and Greer Stichnoth at creed@colgate.edu and gstichnoth@colgate.edu.

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February 2, 2012 D-1National Sports

By Ben GlassmanMaroon-News Staff

The NHL All-Star Game has come and gone, and consequently so has the league’s unofficial midway point. With around 35 games remain-ing for each team, the All-Star Break does not officially mark the beginning of the season’s sec-ond half, but for all intents and purposes, teams often look at the break as a distinguishing point. As is the case with any NHL season, there have been twists and turns, surprises and disappoint-ments and boring regularity (thank you, Detroit and Vancouver). Taking the performances of 16 teams currently in a playoff spot into con-sideration, we give you the Maroon-News NHL Midseason Report Card.

1. Boston Bruins – A+ Since starting the season just 3-7, the B’s have

skyrocketed to second in the East and third over-all. Though the Rangers are ahead in the stand-ings by two points, the Bruins appear to be the stronger team at this point, having amassed an astounding plus-69 goal differential thanks in large part to the play of goaltenders Tim Thomas and Tuuka Rask.

2. St. Louis Blues – A+Embarrassingly enough, I did not even have

the Blues as a top-eight Western Conference team at the start of the season (though I probably wasn’t the only one.) The Blues have shocked the hockey world this season, racking up 65 points in just 49 games. If Brian Elliot continues to mind the net the way he has, new coach Ken Hitchcock and his Blues could make their first Stanley Cup Final in more than three long decades.

3. Detroit Red Wings – AThe Wings have ridden the play of goalie Jim-

my Howard and star center Pavel Datsyuk to a 33-16-1 record, which is at the top of the league. After overcoming a slow start, Coach Mike Bab-cock has orchestrated what appears to be yet another successful regular season in Detroit.

4. New York Rangers - AThe Rangers have been the most surprising

team in the East, led by Marion Gaborik and Ryan Callahan up front and Michael Del Zotto and Dan Girardi in the back. Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist has been stellar for the Blueshirts, and

thanks to Coach John Tortorella, there hasn’t been a hiccup for the Madison Square Garden residents this season.

5. Philadelphia Flyers – AThe risky offseason moves by GM Paul Hol-

mgren to get rid of star forwards Jeff Carter and Mike Richards look to be benefitting the Broad Street Bullies, as the Peter Laviolette-led club has steadily made its way to 63 points in 48 games thus far.

6. Chicago Blackhawks – A-The Hawks have looked great this year, and

while they lost some talented grinders such as Troy Brouwer and Ben Eager since their last cup run two years ago, stars Jonathan Toews, Marian Hos-sa and Patrick Kane have dominated the West.

7. Vancouver Canucks – A- Like the Bruins, the Canucks started the sea-

son with a bit of a Stanley Cup hangover. Thanks to twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin, however, the Canucks are chugging along, looking like the dominators of the West that we’ve become accustomed to watching.

8. Pittsburgh Penguins – A- The Pens have just 60 points so far – fewer

than Nashville and equal to San Jose and Ottawa

– but the fact that they have succeeded to that extent without the services of Sydney Crosby gives them the edge in my opinion. Evgeni Mal-kin has been absolutely tearing it up, and leads the league with 58 points despite missing seven games due to injury. If Crosby comes back this season, they’ll be the team to beat.

9. Nashville Predators – A- Thanks to the solid goaltending of Pekka

Rinn and the defense of Shea Weber and Ryan Suter, the Predators are on pace for 100 points for just the fourth time in franchise history. Barry Trotz’s troops are arguably the hottest team in the league, having won nine of their last 10.

10. Ottawa Senators – B+/A-Ottawa is another very surprising team

thanks to defenseman Erik Karlsson bursting onto the scene. Karlsson looks like the favorite to win the Norris Trophy, and with good reason – his defenseman-leading 47 points have propelled the Senators from being a 74-point team last year to a possible 100-point team this year.

11. San Jose Sharks – B+The boys from the Bay sit third in the West,

atop the Pacific division, but overall they are be-hind a total of eight teams in terms of points.

Though the 100-plus point seasons of Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau appear to be a thing of San Jose’s past, Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture have stepped up in a big way in the offensive zone.

12. New Jersey Devils – BThe Devils were one of the hottest teams in

the second half of last season, and they’ve contin-ued their consistent play into 2012. In a tough Atlantic division, New Jersey has managed to stay in the hunt, scratching out 57 points in 49 games.

13. Toronto Maple Leafs – B Toronto fans finally have something to get

excited about, and that is the resurgence of for-ward Joffrey Lupul, whose 52 points are good for sixth in the league. Due to injury, however, Lu-pul has played under 30 games in each of his past three seasons. For the Leafs to continue winning, Lupul will need to stay healthy.

14. Minnesota Wild – B New acquisitions Dany Heatley and Devin

Setoguchi have been unbelievably disappoint-ing, but somehow the Wild have managed to win games. Early in the season, they looked like a team capable of a cup run, but as of late, first-year coach Mike Yeo and his team appear to be sliding out of contention.

15. Los Angeles Kings – B- The most disappointing team in the West

has got to be the Kings, whose embarrassment of offensive riches has been underperforming to say the least. Anze Kopitar is the only King amongst the top-50 point scorers, and is really the only reason Los Angeles has had any offen-sive success. Still, goaltender Jonathan Quick’s 1.93 GAA and league-leading six shutouts have kept L.A. in playoff contention.

16. Washington Capitals – C+If the Kings are the biggest disappointment

out West, the Caps are the biggest disappoint-ment in the entire league. After four-straight years of dominating the East, Washington started off the season terribly, resulting in coach Bruce Boudreau’s departure. They are now 9-7-1 under new coach Dale Hunter and look to be improving thanks to Alex Ovechkin’s return to form.

Contact Ben Glassman atbglassman@colgate.edu.

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RANGERS ROLLING: Led by Marion Gaborik and goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, the New York Rangers top the substantial list of surprising teams in the 2011-12 NHL season.

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Lessons From the Australian OpenBy Matthew Heineman

Maroon-News Staff

Professional tennis is enjoying a resur-gence in popularity. Players are elevating their games and rivalries reminiscent of Borg-McEnroe and Evert-Navratilova are re-energizing fans all over the world. This was evident at last week’s Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the 2012 season. Both the men and women in this tourna-ment exhibited power, strength, speed, ath-leticism and durability, making it an excit-ing debut for the 2012 season. Let’s look at some notable storylines from the 2012 Australian Open.

The Dominance of Novak Djokovic: Novak Djokovic completed 2011 as the number one ranked men’s player in the world. After years of trying, he finally over-took both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal by winning last year’s Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. His perfor-mance in Australia last week solidified his position as the top player on the men’s ten-nis circuit. Djokovic appears to be in excel-lent physical condition, perhaps the best of

his career to date. His stamina and mental toughness, for which he has been criticized in previous years, is vastly improved. This was best seen in the final match against Rafael Nadal, a five set thriller in which Djokovic outlasted Nadal eventually winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5. The match lasted a record 5 hours, 53 minutes, challenging the mental and physical abilities of both players. Dur-ing the match, both men displayed periods of excellence and, not to detract from Nadal’s prowess, Djokovic simply outlasted him. Al-though Rafa is well-known for his ability to physically wear down an opponent, Djokovic beat him at his own game. By winning his fifth major title and third in a row, it is safe to say that Novak Djokovic has proven himself to be a dominant force in the tennis world.

Murray-Lendl Pairing is Working: Af-ter watching his play in the open, it’s clear that Andy Murray has elevated his game to that of an elite player. It seems that the coaching move to tennis great Ivan Lendl has done wonders for his game. Known for a bad temper and normally cautious game-plan, Murray appeared different during this tournament. He was far more aggressive with

his shot selection and his personality seemed cool, calm and collected. With Lendl’s help he has made the appropriate changes to his game, such as standing closer to the base-line and using his forehand much more ag-gressively. Nowhere was this more evident than during his epic semifinal match against Djokovic. It was another tough match for Murray that saw him lose to the eventual champion in five sets (3-6, 6-3, 7-6, 1-6, 5-7). However, in a match in which no-body expected Murray to win, he really gave Djokovic a tough time and played extremely well. He still has to win a Grand Slam in or-der to be regarded as a tennis great and likely will have to go through one of tennis’s “Big Three” (Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer) to do so, but he made major strides in the Aus-tralian Open and should gain a confidence boost moving forward into the other major tournaments of the year.

The Changing of the Guard in Women’s Tennis: On the women’s side, things were a lit-tle more open. It’s evident that a new, younger generation of women is challenging the domi-nance of the older, more established players. Following the blowout victory of Victoria

Azarenka over Maria Sharapova in the final (6-3, 6-0), women’s tennis has now had a dif-ferent grand slam champion five times in a row. There has been an injection of youth with the emergence of younger players such as Aza-renka, Caroline Wozniaki, Petra Kvitova, Ana Ivanovic, and Agnieszka Radwanska. Not for many years has women’s tennis had so many young, athletic players hungry for victory. One thing missing from this Australian Open was the usual dominant play of the Williams sis-ters. Obviously, Venus didn’t play in the tour-nament and is still recovering from her battle with Sjorgen’s Syndrome (a rare autoimmune disease) and her sister Serena, also coming back from injury, played poorly, which culminated in a fourth round exit. Both are looking to get healthy and quickly return to playing the domi-nant tennis to which they are accustomed. The Williams sisters, combined with a healthy and revitalized Maria Sharapova and the always-consistent Kim Clijsters, will look to regain their place at the top of the tennis world. The upcoming season for women’s tennis looks to be heading in a promising direction.

Contact Matthew Heineman atmheineman@colgate.edu.

The Colgate Maroon-News February 2, 2012 D-2 Sports

By Pete Koehler Maroon-News Staff

Back in 2008, I made the incredibly dumb decision to go to my friend’s Super Bowl party. This kid was the kind of clown who watched the Super Bowl more for the commercials than anything else – not exactly the kind of person you’d want to watch one of the big-gest games in NFL history with. But it was worse than that. Little did I know I was go-ing to be the lone Pats fan in a room of about fifty Giants fans. See, the New York Capital District is a weird melting pot for professional sports fans. Its central location makes it such that Giants, Jets and Bills fans are represented relatively evenly. But on this night I had unex-pectedly found myself left to my own devices square in enemy territory.

As much as I’ve tried to black out all mem-ories of that game, I still don’t think I’ll ever forget the Tyree catch. I very well may have uttered a dozen obscenities after Eli eluded lineman after lineman only to drop to my knees once Tyree came down with it and the room erupted into absolute madness. And the second Tyree came down with that ball, it was over. Shortly, my phone would be ringing off the hook with “friends” calling me to con-gratulate me on an 18-1 season, something I’d be congratulated on about 100 times over the next week. Those were dark times.

As painful as it was, I recently went back into that footage of Super Bowl XLII to try to see what really happened that fateful night. Eli Manning was named the game’s MVP, but he really didn’t play a game to remem-ber, other than that final drive. His stat line was 19/34 for 255 yards, 2 TDs and 1 INT, which don’t qualify as big numbers by any stretch of the imagination. The real star of that game was the Giants’ defensive line that managed to rack up five sacks on Tom Brady and limit the Pats to 45 yards on the ground.

Their ability to consistently get pressure on Brady prevented the Pats from ever getting the big plays down the field (their longest pass play was only 19 yards) that had been essential to their 18 prior wins. The Giants’ ability to turn that game into an ugly, grind-it-out game, took away the Patriots’ major strength and when the Pats needed their de-fense to make a stand, they didn’t get it done. It was as simple as that.

Though four years have passed, the two teams have surprisingly similar identities. This year’s Pats still thrive off an explosive pass offense and the Giants mask a very mediocre secondary with their ability to rush the front four. So why is it going to be any different this time around?

Undoubtedly, the key matchup remains the Patriots offensive line against the Giants front four. The only remnants of the 2008 team are the Patriots left side of LT Matt Light and LG Logan Mankins. That 2008 O-line was one of – if not the – best in the game, and this year’s line is only a slight step below that, bolstered by the additions of reliable veteran RG Brian Waters and standout rookie RT Nate Solder. The Pats are at their best when they don’t need to add extra protection up front and can spread out the defense with their tight ends and wideouts.

Similarly, the Giants succeed only when they can generate pressure. Quarterbacks who have been given time have had no trouble picking them apart. A prime example of this came back in Week 12, when the Saints put up 49 points on the G-men and Drew Brees threw for 363 yards and 4 TDs. How many sacks did the Giants have in that game? Zero. If the Patriots can win the battle in the trench-es, they have far too many targets for the Giants to cover.

Unlike Tim Tebow, Tom Brady knows how to hit an open receiver in stride. Un-fortunately for the Giants, the Patriots have so many targets to cover that if Tom

Brady gets time, there is almost always someone open.

Everyone knows what the Patriots can do on offense, but one of the most overlooked things about the Patriots of late has been the relatively steady play of their defense, that quietly hasn’t allowed 30 points since Week 5. Though they haven’t been shutting anyone down (aside from Tebow), they don’t need to for the Patriots to win. Much of the criti-cism the Pats defense has taken has been fair, but it’s been overlooked now that they’re fully healthy and impact players like Pat Chung, Brandon Spikes and Jerod Mayo have all made contributions on their return. With Vince Wil-fork playing out of his mind, they’ve done a nice job creating pressure the last two weeks, putting up a sack more per game than the Gi-ants in this postseason. If the Pats don’t need to blitz heavily to generate pressure on Eli, he

might make some mistakes. He has shown that he doesn’t care too much about coverage. How-ever, it can’t be overlooked that Eli has been playing on a high level over the last five weeks and Nicks and Cruz have become one of the most formidable duos in football. The edge is still very much in favor of the Giants’ offense, but certainly not as much as the Patriots offense gets the nod over the Giants D.

In 2008, this was David v. Goliath, but that is far from the case anymore, and it’s almost certainly going to be a close, physi-cal game decided up front. However, if there’s one thing Pats fans like myself can take solace in, it’s that David Tyree will be hundreds, if not thousands of miles from the field come Sunday. Thank freaking God.

Contact Pete Koehler at pkoehler@colgate.edu.

Breaking Down the Rematch

GIANT LEAP: Ex-New York Giants wideout David Tyree, seen here in 2008, may not be playing again this Sunday, but Patriots fans have not forgotten the pain of 18-1.

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK: With the Knicks having such a horrible start, is it officially time to hit the panic button in New York?

By Ben Glassman Maroon-News Staff

After a much-anticipated trade last season sent New York starters Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari and Wilson Chandler to Denver in exchange for point guard Chauncey Billups and perennial All-Star Carmelo Anthony, Coach Mike D’Antoni and the Knicks appeared to

be set for a title run. 20 games into this season, however, the Knickerbockers look like anything but title contenders, having lost nine of their last 10 and earning a disappointing 7-13 overall re-cord. In fact, since the trade, the Nuggets have wowed the basketball world by going 30-14, while the Knicks have gone just 20-26. So with Amar’e Stoudemire and ‘Melo failing to con-nect on the court, is it time for them to hit the panic button?

The Knicks seem to be sliding exponentially downward and have a right to panic. The off-season addition of Tyson Chandler, who was

supposed to be the rock upon which the high-flying ‘Melo-Stoudemire duo would stand, has not been working out, and between the three of them, an exorbitant amount of money looks to be headed down the drain. And yet there is some hope for the guys from Manhattan. Point guard Baron Davis, who was signed in December to fill in for the departed Billups, is set to make his debut any day now after a herniated disk forced him onto the sidelines. The addition of Davis could be the change the Knicks have been look-ing for this winter. By adding the two-time All-Star, the Knicks, who are 25th in the league in assists per game, hope to see better ball distribu-tion between Anthony and Stoudemire, both of whom are used to being solo scoring threats.

Knicks fans have seen some rough days through the past decade, and after thinking they’d seen the end of those days with the acqui-sitions of ‘Melo, Chandler and Anthony, they’ve only been disappointed further. Should the addi-tion of Davis work out, however, the Knicks will be a well-rounded team, with four stars leading the way for a young bench core including Iman Shumpert and Landry Fields. For now, how-ever, the hope of New York – and there still is hope – appears to rest on the shoulders of Davis and D’Antoni.

By Zander Frost Maroon-News Staff

Yes. The Knicks may be getting Baron Davis back from injury soon, but he is not going to singlehandedly fix this offense, and he’s certainly not fixing the defense. At best

Baron Davis could elevate the Knicks to a .500 ball club, which still constitutes panic-mode for most New York Knicks fans. I believe the only real way to unpress that panic button is a Carmelo for Deron Williams deal.

By Pete Koehler Maroon-News Staff

Sorry, Knicks fans. If you aren’t going to hit the panic button, I’ll hit it for you. Bring-ing Tyson Chandler was supposed to give you a true All-Star center that could take some of the rebounding load off Amar’e and shore up your inside presence. Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked and there are no signs that things are getting better.

Since Chandler inhabits the low post on of-fensive possessions, the space he takes up forces Amar’e to work more from the outside and utilize his mid-range game. This has clogged up their offense, which was already pretty darn clogged considering Carmelo and Amare are no-torious ball-stoppers, guys who need the ball to thrive and have a habit of stopping ball move-ment. For a Mike D’Antoni offense to succeed, you need a point guard that is mainly a distribu-tor, and an effective one at that (see Steve Nash). Though you have to admire Iman Shumpert’s aggression on the offensive end, he is not a pass-first guy and is ill-fit to be running the show. If Baron can get healthy and stay away from the 320 McDonalds in New York City, he might be the solution at point guard, but that is a major question mark. Things are bleak in New York and for good reason.

MSG MISCUES: New York Knicks stars Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire have done little to lead their team toward the playoffs after big preseason expectations.

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The Colgate Maroon-NewsD-3February 2, 2011 Colgate Sports

By Katie RydellMaroon-News Staff

Team morale is at its peak this week af-ter a huge win for the Raiders against Holy Cross. Following a loss on the road against Lafayette (66-58), the women pulled to-gether as a team and fought the Crusad-ers with high-caliber play en route to a 74-69 win.

Being back at home with support from the Colgate community gave the team the extra encouragement they needed to put the past losses behind them and focus on the game.

“The atmosphere of the team, both the coaching staff and players com-bined, is absolutely fantastic,” senior guard Kelly Korkowski said. “There is this constant excitement and feeling of ‘family’ that we haven’t had in the past. It is irreplaceable.”

Senior center Tricia Oakes has been showing her amazing skills on the court in the last few games, but her efforts in the Holy Cross game ended up being the deciding factor. She recorded her second consecutive double-double, putting up 25 points and 17 rebounds.

Another key player in the game was junior guard Jhazmine Lynch who proved her importance to the team yet again with 18 points.

“This was a big win for us. The team has been working extremely hard and has been improving this whole season,” soph-omore Kathryn Taylor said. “The Holy Cross game just showed how we can play when we play great team basketball with a lot of energy.”

The game started slowly, with the Raid-ers only shooting 22 percent. The Crusaders dominated most of the first half, but Colgate

was able to close the gap, cutting the deficit to three by halftime. First-year guard Missy Repoli contributed 16 points in the game,

a career-high.The second half was exciting for the

Raiders. With only two minutes left in regulation, the game was tied at 65 by way of two free throws from Lynch.

Nine points later, the women had won their first game against Holy Cross, ending a 10-game losing streak against the Crusad-ers. The last time the Raiders defeated Holy Cross in women’s basketball was in 2006.

“It has been tough going through so many close games, but we know that we are so close to being the great team we can be and we know that Coach Hays and the rest of the staff can get us there,” Taylor said. “We are looking forward to continuing to prove ourselves in the upcoming games.”

The women are on the road again for their next game, travelling to Washington, D.C. to tip off against American Universi-ty. With a loss haunting them (56-43) only weeks ago in their last game against the Ea-gles, the ladies are choosing to take an opti-mistic outlook and believe in themselves as players and as a team. They are determined to make their recent win the first of many.

“The Patriot League is a very unusual league,” Korkowski said. “It all depends on who shows up that night, because every team is so similar. We truly believe we can be that team.”

With Oakes’s outstanding recent per-formance and the team’s visible cohesion in general, the Raiders should feel confident this upcoming Saturday, February 4 when they play American University at 2 p.m. in the nation’s capital.

Contact Katie Rydell atkrydell@colgate.edu.

Women’s Basketball Tops Holy Cross on the RoadTopples the Team 74-69 to Break Losing Streak

BALL’S IN OUR COURT: Sophomore forward Kathryn Taylor sets up a play from the top of the key just before Colgate’s final score of the game.

Lyla Currim

Continued from back page.Colgate held Cornell to a single shot on net and played a smart road game, dump-

ing the puck whenever a skater hit the red line. The Raiders played as a team and each skater and player, from Mihalik to the six defensemen to the 12 forwards, had a role in coming away with the victory. Colgate was forced to kill two questionable penalties in the last five minutes of the game, and did so with poise, stopping a Big Red power play that has been strong throughout the years, especially at home.

“We knew the crowd was going to be in it and try to shake us, but everyone did a good job of blocking it out and taking care of business on the ice,” Sinz said. “After the second period, we knew that we would have to win an ugly game by making smart plays with the puck, not turning it over and putting it deep in Cornell’s zone.”

The following evening, it was the Raiders’ turn to play host to Cornell and at-tempt to defeat them at home for the first time since 2007. The first period did not begin the way Colgate was hoping, as the Big Red dominated play throughout the first few minutes. Cornell got on the board first at 7:32, but the Raiders quickly drew even when Smith scored his NCAA-leading 25th goal of the campaign at 10:37. The Big Red retook the lead at 16:17, but Colgate had started to impose its will on its opponent once again.

The second stanza saw the Raiders take over puck possession and dominate Cor-nell, but the Big Red’s goaltender frustrated Colgate and its forwards every chance he had. Cornell added to its lead late in the period, scoring its first power play goal of the weekend at 15:55, which gave them a two-goal lead entering the last 20 minutes.

Traditionally, the Big Red has been one of the best teams in the country at protect-ing third period leads, thus the task that the Raiders had at hand was huge. Colgate entered the final frame with a determination to end a streak of frustrations against Cornell at Starr Rink. Wilson sparked the comeback with his seventh tally of the year at 4:39. A little over a minute later, Smith scored his NCAA-leading sixth shorthanded goal of the year and the Raiders’ 10th, which also leads the country, to knot the game at three, assisted by Wagner and junior tri-captain Thomas Larkin. Several minutes later, at 14:54, Colgate broke its streak of three games without a power play goal, when junior forward Robbie Bourdon tallied the game-winner off assists from Wagner and first-year defenseman Spiro Goulakos. With 43 seconds left in the contest, junior tri-captain Thomas Larkin scored his first goal of the year, an empty-netter to seal the sweep for ’Gate.

“The comeback was a great group effort starting in goal,” Sinz said. “We played a smart game and took advantage of a few key turnovers. Joe Wilson’s effort to score our

second goal was tremendous and really gave us a spark. The team did a great job on the penalty kill and we capitalized on a big power play as well.”

With the two wins, the now No. 20 Raiders improved to 14-9-3 on the season and 8-5-1 in ECAC Hockey play. This upcoming weekend, Colgate will travel to the Capi-tal District to take on No. 11/12 Union, who currently sits at the top of the league standings, on Friday and Rensselaer on Saturday.

“The ECAC standings are really tight, and from here on out we’ll have to continue to win one shift at a time,” Sinz said. “When we take care of the puck in our zone, limit turnovers and work it below their goal line, we’re tough to beat and we are looking forward to doing just that starting this Friday night.”

Both contests are slated for 7 p.m. puck drops. Contact Jaime Heilbron at

jheilbron@colgate.edu.

Men’s Hockey Triumphs in Duo of Big Red Defeats

D-4 Sports February 2, 2011The Colgate Maroon-News

By Jordan PlautSports Editor

As the season wears on for the Colgate men’s basketball team, one fact has become over-bearingly unavoidable – this group of Raiders simply has a tough time winning.

’Gate’s steady, downward trend was as evident as ever this past week as the Raiders dropped two games in league play. They fell to Lafayette last Wednesday by a final of 82–76 at Cotterell Court, following that with a 16-point loss at the hands of Holy Cross, 76–60 on Saturday.

In its first matchup against the Leopards this season, Colgate (6–14, 1–5) actually performed to a high standard as its 55.4 shooting percentage conveys. Senior forward Sterling Melville led the Raiders with a game-high 19 points, going 8-of-10 from the floor, but even a personal run of nine-straight points during a 16–8 run in the first half was not enough. Junior forward Brandon James added 15 points on six shots, including a perfect 3-for-3 from downtown and senior cen-ter Nick Pascale threw in another 12 to pace the offensive attack.

’Gate had a few opportunities to put La-fayette (9–12, 4–2) away early in the game, going up 42–34 with just 1:28 left in the first half, but the Leopards clawed back ev-ery time. They closed the second quarter with back-to-back threes to cut the lead to just two at the break.

As has happened many times this season, the Raiders came out flat in the second half and allowed Lafayette to take control of the game. Even though Colgate was hitting shots fairly consistently, it could do little to slow down the effective offense of the Leopards. Down 72–63 with just over three minutes left to play, James hit a couple threes to spark a comeback.

With the score lingering at 77–73 with 50 seconds to go, it appeared as though the Raid-ers might have had a shot of pulling out a hard-fought win. However, it was not meant to be as Lafayette nailed five free throws down the stretch to seal its fourth league victory.

The Raiders had a plus-12 turnover dif-

ferential, a significant improvement, but they could not stop the Leopards’ timely shooting.

In their next contest, the Raiders headed to the Hart Center in Worcester, Mass. to battle the Holy Cross Crusaders. Unlike their preced-ing effort, the Raiders were never able to get off the ground and drudged along until the final buzzer mercifully sounded.

Junior guard Mitch Rolls and senior guard Mike Venezia provided the few high-lights for Colgate, pouring in 14 and 13 points, respectively.

Holy Cross (9–12, 3–4) opened the game with an 11–5 run in the first four minutes of play and extended its lead to 19–7 with 13:34 left in the game. Colgate made a few buckets to trim the lead to 10 with 10:36 left, before the Crusaders closed the half with a 20–13 run to take a 41–24 lead into the half.

Holy Cross came out strong in the second half but the Raiders responded with a 15–4 run, including back-to-back three pointers from Rolls to make it 47–39 with 16:28 left. Colgate then continued its attack with an 11–6 run over the next seven minutes to trim the lead all the way down to 53–50. Unfortunately, that was as close as the game would get as the Crusaders were able to put together a 23–10 run to claim victory.

Guard Devin Brown finished with a game-high 27 points to lead Holy Cross, while Phil Beans scored 16.

Holy Cross shot 46.4 percent from the floor, including 8-of-20 from beyond the arc, while Colgate shot just 37.3 percent overall and 8-of-22 from downtown. Unlike their re-cent contests, ’Gate could not find its stroke consistently. The Crusaders also won the battle on the boards 43–29, but Colgate again had a great turnover differential at plus-11 for the second straight game.

If you don’t turn the ball over, good things are likely to happen. Those things just don’t seem to be headed in a favorable direction for Colgate men’s basketball.

Contact Jordan Plaut at jplaut@colgate.edu.

Men’s Basketball Drops Two Games on WeekendToppled by Lafayette, 82-76; Holy Cross 76-60

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By Emma BargeSports Editor

The Colgate men’s tennis team kicked off its season with a pair of losses in Rhode Island against Bryant and Brown. Colgate stayed tight on Bryant’s heels, fi-nally losing in a 4-3 decision on Satur-day, but faltered more quickly under the Bears’ raquets with a 7-0 loss on the books on Sunday.

Colgate’s leading singles players, sophomore Luke Gensburg and classmate Bobby Berkowitz, both took wins off the Bulldogs on Saturday. Gensburg took down his Bryant opponent with a quick 6-0 shut out in the first set and 6-4 win in the second. Berkowitz played three sets to secure his win. He defeated Bry-ant’s Zachary Morris 6-2 in the first set and 7-5 in the final set after dropping the second set 3-6.

Junior Alec Goldstein was a third Raider to take home a victory, coming up in the fourth spot on the singles lad-der. He won two sets 6-3 and 6-4. Un-fortunately, he was the last Colgate play-er to post a win, as the remaining three

doubles teams and three singles players were unable to defeat their Bryant opponents.

The men traveled south in hopes of turning the weekend around before re-turning home to Hamilton, but they were met with a fierce Brown opposition that stopped them in their tracks. Colgate dropped all seven matches to the Bears.

First-year Alan Pleat, for his part, played the most competitive match of the day as he pushed Brown’s Timmy Klanke to a third-set tie-breaker after falling 6-0 in the first set and taking the second 6-3. Despite a hard-fought set, he finally fell in a 10-8 decision.

The team is determined not to let their weak opening weekend set the tone for the rest of the season. With nine out of ten players on the roster returning, the men hope to find a new rhythm in 2012.

Colgate hits the road again this up-coming weekend as it travels to meet opponents Duquesne in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Robert Morris in Moon Township, Pa. the following day. Matches begin at 4 p.m. against Duquesne and 2 p.m. against Robert Morris.

Contact Emma Barge atebarge@colgate.edu.

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KEEP ON KEEPING ON: Mitch Rolls, junior guard for the Raiders, cuts across the court but is unable to lead Colgate to victory.

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The Colgate Maroon-News Sports D-5February 2, 2012

SPORTS HIGHLIGHTSConference Standings

Sports Spotlights

* denotes Patriot League or ECAC Hockey opponent

Raider ActionFriday: Women’s Track at Giegengack Invite Men’s Track at Yale 7:00 p.m. Women’s Hockey vs. Union* 7:00 p.m. Men’s Hockey at Union* Saturday: 10:00 a.m. Women’s Tennis at Duquesne 1:00 p.m. Men’s Lacrosse vs. Cornell (Scrimmage) 2:00 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. American* 2:00 p.m. Women’s Basketball at American* 4:00 p.m. Men’s Tennis at Duquesne 4:00 p.m. Women’s Ice Hockey vs Rensselaer* 7:00 p.m. Men’s Hockey at Rensselaer*

Raider ResultsMen’s Hockey: Colgate 2, Cornell 1*, Colgate 5, Cornell 3*Women’s Ice Hockey: Clarkson 4*, Colgate 1; St. Lawrence 6*, Colgate 0Men’s Basketball: Lafayette 82*, Colgate 76; Holy Cross 76*, Colgate 60Women’s Basketball: Colgate 74, Holy Cross 69*Men’s Tennis: Bryant 4, Colgate 3; Brown 7, Colgate 0

Joe Wilson ’15

Sport: Men’s HockeyHometown: North Syracuse, NYWhy Joe? He scored the game-winning goal in Colgate’s 2-1 victory against Cornell on the road, and the following night scored a break-away goal to spark the Raiders’ four-goal third period rally to beat the Big Red 5-3. 1. Friday was the first time you had taken part in the Colgate-Cornell rivalry. Did you have any pre-game jitters?The whole week of practice before the games and also the talk around campus gave me a sense of how big the rivalry was between Colgate and Cornell. I’ve never been to a Colgate-Cornell game, so I had no idea of the comradery and the craziness. I could barely sleep Thursday night because of the anticipation before the game and playing at such a historic rink with a great fan base. The jitters went away after the drop of the puck, but before that I couldn’t help but be a little nervous.2. How did it feel to tally the game-winner in your first game against Cornell?Taking two points from Cornell at their rink was a huge turning point in our season. Getting a 2-0 lead was also very crucial as well. Our team defense in the third period couldn’t have been better. It never occurred to me that it would end up being the game-winning goal because I was too excited that we won. Every player on the ice contributed so much to the win that a score sheet will never be able to tell. There are small plays that nobody really notices like chipping a puck out of the zone or lifting a players stick in front of the net to stop a player from scoring that leads to a win.3. You scored a break-away goal early in the third period to jumpstart the Raider comeback. Was the move you put on the goalie a go-to move of yours on a breakaway or were you just looking for any way to get the puck in the back of the net?Actually I’ve been doing the little five-hole breakaway move since I can remember. The funny thing is that I played on the same team as Cornell’s goalie, Andy Iles, so he always had me skating down and trying that move in practice and sometimes it would work but most of the time he would save it. I think that the whole play happened so fast that Iles didn’t have much time to think in his head, “It’s Joey, five hole guaranteed,” and the puck happened to find its way in the net.4. Given that this is your first year, what has it been like to play with someone like Austin Smith?Coming into this year as a freshman, I had a mindset of just working as hard as I could every day in practice and games and I had no idea of who I would be playing with. I could tell from day one that Austin Smith was the real deal. He’s got a special sense of where to go to get open and when you give him the puck in the slot, it’s going in. Also playing with Chris Wagner has been great as well. Chris is lightning fast and has an incredible hockey sense as well as great ice vision. I’m a lucky guy to be playing with two big-time players.5. The sweep of Cornell broke a six-game winless streak for the team, and couldn’t have come at a better time given that you guys are playing Union who leads the ECAC. Are you guys hoping to carry this momentum into the latter half of the ECAC season?I feel like we got back to our identity this weekend and I think as a team we got away from it the previous couple of weekends. We are a team who can beat teams with our speed and skill, and then we can shut teams down with our extremely talented defensemen and goalies. Every league game has a playoff atmosphere to it and I feel like this weekend will be no different. Union has been a great team all year and RPI has been hot lately so we have to stick to our game plan for both nights. Momentum is huge as well and I feel like the recent wins have given us a confidence in ourselves that was lacking over the past weekends. That confidence is so key right now while moving into the end of the season and postseason play.

Interview by Steve Urban

Men’s Hockey

Team League OverallUnion 9-3-3 15-6-6Cornell 8-3-3 11-6-4Colgate 8-5-1 14-9-3Harvard 5-4-7 6-6-9 Clarkson 6-5-3 12-11-5 Quinnipiac 5-5-4 13-8-5 Dartmouth 6-6-2 9-9-3Yale 6-7-1 9-10-2 Brown 5-7-2 8-10-3Princeton 5-8-2 7-10-5St. Lawrence 4-9-1 8-15-3 Rensselaer 4-9-1 7-18-1

Women’s Hockey

Team League OverallCornell 14-2-0 19-3-0Harvard 11-4-1 14-7-1Dartmouth 10-4-2 14-6-2Clarkson 10-4-2 16-7-5Quinnipiac 10-4-2 15-10-2 St. Lawrence 9-5-2 15-8-4 Princeton 7-7-2 9-10-4Brown 4-8-4 7-9-7Rensselaer 5-9-2 8-16-4 Colgate 3-12-1 8-18-1Union 2-12-2 4-20-4Yale 1-15-0 1-22-0

Men’s Basketball

Team League OverallBucknell 7-0 17-6Lehigh 5-2 17-6 American 5-2 14-8Lafayette 4-3 9-13Army 3-4 10-12 Holy Cross 3-4 9-12Colgate 1-6 6-15 Navy 0-7 3-18

Women’s Basketball

Team League OverallAmerican 7-0 15-6Lehigh 5-2 12-9Holy Cross 4-3 13-9 Navy 4-3 11-10 Army 4-3 10-12Lafayette 2-5 8-14 Colgate 2-5 5-17Bucknell 0-7 2-20

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Men’s Hockey Triumphs in Duo of Big Red DefeatsLyla Currim

By Jaime HeilbronCopy Editor

When all is said and done, last weekend may very well prove to be a turning point for the Colgate men’s hockey team. After going 0-5-1 throughout the first three weeks of January, the Raiders have regained the confidence that they carried throughout the first half of the season. On Friday, Colgate defeated Cornell in Ithaca for the first time since 2004 by a score of 2-1 and repeated the same feat the following evening at Starr Rink with a 5-3 win over its travel partner in front of an over-capacity crowd of 2,414, the biggest seen at Starr in over a decade.

The Raiders’ top line consisting of senior forward

Austin Smith, sophomore forward Chris Wagner and first-year forward Joe Wilson was once again a determining factor in the team’s success as each player collected several points over the weekend and the trio accounted for five of Colgate’s seven goals throughout the weekend.

“The sweep against Cornell is a confidence booster, especially after dropping a few games as of late,” junior defenseman Nathan Sinz said. “But we have to move forward from last weekend and start focusing on Friday night.”

On Friday evening, the Raiders stepped into Lynah Rink determined to end their seven-game winless skid and did so by making a statement in the first period. At the 4:03 mark and while kill-ing a penalty, Colgate drew first blood. Wagner

scored his second short-handed goal of the sea-son, after setting up a nice two-on-one situation with Smith, who got the primary assist. Junior defenseman Jeremy Price received the second-ary assist after having fed the puck to Wagner in the neutral zone, thus starting the play. That was the Raiders’ ninth short-handed goal of the year. Throughout the rest of the stanza Colgate com-pletely dominated play, something that was not reflected in the scoreboard as Cornell’s Andy Iles robbed the Raiders on several occasions. Towards the end of the period, Wilson added to Colgate’s lead at the 17:16 mark, with helpers going to ju-nior forward Kurtis Bartliff and senior forward Nick Prockow.

In the second stanza it was the Big Red’s turn

to control play and for the Raiders’ Eric Mihalik to stand on his head and make several inspiring saves to preserve Colgate’s lead. After several min-utes of incessant pressure and a relentless fore-check, Cornell cut the Raiders’ lead to one tally at 13:50. The ensuing minutes proved to be the most crucial ones of the contest, as the Big Red usually feeds off the raucous crowd after a goal and once they score at home, another one usu-ally follows. Colgate, however, clamped down defensively and was able to preserve the 2-1 lead heading into the final 20 minutes.

The third frame of the contest was arguably the Raiders’ strongest defensive effort of the season and of the past several years.

Continued on D-3