The Chronicle for May 1, 2012

The weekly student newspaper at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York Volume LXXX Issue 32May 1, 2012

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Competitor Jon Nauert chronicles experiences of the Saint Rose team at the annual Regional Programming Competition. Page C15

NHL Playoffs: “With most of the remaining teams relying heavily on goaltending look for offense to make the difference.” See page D16

In Brief: A rape was committed near the intersection Myrtle Avenue and Quail Street last week.See page A3 for the full crime blotterCollege and elementary students collaborate on service learning projects. For more info.see page A10

Punk bands Daytrader and Afi cionado will be headlining a May 1 show in Jack’s Place. For more info see page B12

Track and Field: The Golden Knights competed in the 118th Penn Relay Carnival Thursday and Friday. For results see page D19

By LAUREN HALLIGAN Features Editorand CHRIS SURPRENANTArts Editor

It was an ideal day for the Col-lege of Saint Rose’s annual Rose Rock, a campus-wide day of mu-sic and entertainment available to anyone who happened to be passing by on April 28. Outside in the fresh air, groups of students

dotted the campus green ready to enjoy the musical talents of some of the college’s popular student bands, as well as the much antici-pated headliner Streetlight Mani-festo.

With a clear blue sky, a shining sun, and a bit of a chill in the air, Saint Rose students were reward-ed for all their hard work this year with a day-long music festi-val involving what every college student loves most: free stuff.

Along with

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By ZACHARY OLSAVICKYNews Editor

At fi rst, Andrew Sober wasn’t feeling good about what laid in store for the evening. “We went outside for the fi rst half-hour and there were maybe 100 people, and it was the saddest thing—I was just like, all of the hard work that we put on and there’s barely anybody here.”

It wasn’t the fi rst time this school year that Sober, the Vice President of the College of Saint Rose chapter of Colleges Against Cancer, felt sadness over the school’s Relay for Life. When a

change in oversight left the event up in air,

the prospect

of a spring without Relay hit home with him. Last spring, Sober’s father passed away from esopha-geal cancer just two weeks be-fore the school’s Relay. Although he’d attended events before in the role of a resident assistant for the school, he never thought of himself as “involved” with the event. When he went after his fa-ther’s passing, he described it as a “huge support system,” adding, “I was just so thankful for all the faculty and staff, and all of the students here were really helpful and they just kind of were like a second family to me.”

But the thought of losing that

After Uncertain Future, Relay

Makes a Comebackthe eclectic group of entertainers, those on the quad this past Sat-urday were treated to a bouncy house, photo booth, fried dough, ice cream, and a barbeque. All of this was made free to the students courtesy of the college.

The only aspect of the day that cost any money was the sale of the annual Rose Rock tee shirt, costing an affordable $3. The brightly colored shirts came in a variety of colors and sold quickly as the day progressed. Capturing the anticipation of the headlin-

ing act, the front of the

Streetlight Manifesto Lights Up Rose Rock

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KELLY PFEISTERSeveral enterprising (and trusting) individuals had the gumption to engage in crowdsurfi ng in front of the stage Saturday during Rose Rock.

Volume 80 Issue 32The Chronicle May 1, 2012NewsA2In Brief

Commencement Information


With graduation quickly ap-proaching, the staff at The Chron-icle would like to take a moment to remind graduates about infor-mation surrounding commence-ment.

• Graduation will be held at the Times Union Center on Sat-urday, May 12. The ceremony is scheduled to be held from 10 a.m. until 12:45 p.m., but graduating students are required to be at the arena by 8:45 a.m. These stu-dents will be given tickets upon entry that will tell them where to go.

• Tickets for the ceremony can be obtained through the Events scheduling and Administrative Office by students starting on Monday, May 7 at Mandelbaum Hall, 441 Western Avenue. Stu-dents are required to bring both their student ID card and a receipt

for their cap and gown in order to get tickets, and students will be limited to ten tickets each. The office will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Friday.

• Caps and gowns can be picked up from the bookstore be-tween May 7 and May 11. Book-store hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday.

• Attendees have a variety of transportation options. For those interested in driving to the cer-emony, parking at the Times Union Center costs $4 and garag-es open at 7 a.m. Shuttles will be available from the campus by reservation only. Email [email protected] by Wednes-day, May 2nd if you need trans-portation via shuttle. The shuttle will depart campus at around 8:30 a.m., and depart the Times Union Center at around 1 p.m.

By IAN BENJAMINExecutive Editor

The trial date for Alfred Zwack, Jr., the man indicted by grand jury for allegedly causing the death of Saint Rose graduate student and Latham native Ete-mowei Oki, has yet to be set.

Judge Thomas Breslin sent de-fense attorney Joseph McCoy a letter on March 22 stating that the trial date would be set in the near future, according to court docu-

mentation. However, the trial date has not yet been set, said a representative from the office of Judge Breslin.

Zwack hit Oki in a fatal col-lision the morning of Nov. 26, 2011 at the intersection of Elk and Quail streets. He is on trial for eight separate counts, three of which are felonies and include second degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an ac-cident.

No Trial Date for Zwack


The current president of the college, R. Mark Sullivan, will be addressing the graduating class at the upcoming commencement ceremony to be held May 12 in the Times Union Center.

Sullivan, who has held the presidency for 16 years, will be stepping down on July 1, 2012. Sullivan and his wife, Kathleen, will be both receiving honor-

President to Address Graduatesary degrees from the college. In a memo sent to the campus body April 10 Daniel Nolan, Chair of the Board of Trustees, stated, in regards to the choice of Sullivan, “The College of Saint Rose has been blessed with an exceptional president who is a leader, a vi-sionary, a community builder, a stalwart defender of our mission and values, and a fundraiser ex-traordinaire.”

According to Debra Liberatore LeBlanc, assistant to the presi-

dent, “the Board of Trustees keeps an extensive list of potential com-mencement speakers. Each year, they review the list, add and de-lete names [...] and decide who they would like to honor with an honorary degree and invite to be commencement speaker.” Sulli-van was chosen by the Board of Trustees in an unanimous vote.

Approximately 800 undergrad-uate, graduate degrees and certifi-cates will be conferred at the May 12 ceremony.


The 2012 Graduate Show, an exhibition of thesis projects by students enrolled in the gradu-ate art education program, will be open with a gallery reception from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 6 in the Esther Massry Gal-lery in the Massry Center for the Arts.

Graduate Art Show to Open in MassryThe exhibit includes draw-

ings, paintings, photography, and sculpture from Kathryn Adams (Delmar), Joseph R. Allard, Jr. (Nassau), Sarah Hubel (Saratoga Springs), Drew Testa (Danbury, CT), and Jonathan Villegas (El-lenville). All of the students are candidates for master of science or masters of arts in education degrees. The work in this show-ing are the students’ final degree

requirements.The show will be on display

until Sunday, May 11. Gallery hours are Monday through Thurs-day 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information visit www.strose.edu/gallery or con-tact gallery director Jeanne Fla-nagan at 518-485-3902 or [email protected].

Ruby Preferred Neighborhood Eatery


The results of an on-line poll held on The Chronicle website in-dicate that the campus

strongly prefers Ruby Asian Bistro as their “first choice for off-campus munching.” Also high in the running were Bros Tacos, Madi-son’s Pizza, and I <3 New York Pizza.


With the start of spring comes the Albany Tulip Festival, and with the festival comes the crown-ing of the Tulip Queen. The 2012 festival sees a strong tie to the College of Saint Rose, as student Nicole Dama is one of five final-ists for the role of Tulip Queen.

Dama was nominated for Tu-lip Queen by her friend, Ann Leghorn-McCracken. Although Dama said she was not interested in applying at first because of her busy schedule, she changed her mind after talking with McCrack-en about the nomination during a car ride from their homes to Saint Rose. The ability to volunteer in the community while having

fun doing it was what convinced Dama to apply for the position of Tulip Queen.

The selection process for the Tulip Queen begins with letters of recommendation for nomi-nees. After the selection com-mittee reviews the letters, can-didates are interviewed during the months of March and April. Semi-finalists are then invites to

the Tulip Tea, where finalists are interviewed and observed to see how they communicate with each other. Following a final interview, where nominees are given ten minutes to answer one prepared question and one unprepared question, finalists are chosen to serve on the Tulip Court. After observing nominees on the Court at different events, the selection

committee chooses a Tulip Queen at the Tulip Coronation.

This year’s Tulip Coronation will be on Saturday, May 12 be-ginning at noon. Although Dama will miss her graduation ceremo-ny for the event, she described the festival as a “good reason” for doing so.

Student a Finalist for Tulip Queen

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Crime Blotter for April 16 – 22

Burglary: “A person is guilty of bur-glary if he enters a building or occu-pied structure, or separately secured or occupied section thereof, with purpose to commit a crime therein.” (Penal Code: Title LXII, Chap. 365:1)

RapeOccurred near the intersection of

Myrtle Ave. and Quail St.

ShopliftingIncident occured at the Mobil Station

at the intersection of Western Ave. and W. Lawrence St.

Note: This crime blotter is compiled using the City of Albany Police Department’s crime map. This map shows the incidents that happened in the past week, Monday through Sunday, within the boundaries of the Pine Hills Neighborhood limits as

established by the Pine Hills Neigh-borhood Association. The map can be found at:

http://www.albanyny.org/Govern-ment/Departments/Police/cmapping/maps.aspx

Theft from BuildingsBuilding located on Quail St.

between State St. and Western Ave.Building located on Ontario between

State St. and Western Ave.Building located on Hamilton Street

between Hudson and Quail streets.Business located near the

neighborhood Price Chopper.

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Aggravated AssaultAlong State St. between Ontario and

Quail St.

Motor Vehicle LarcenyAlong Elberon Pl. between Quail and

S. Lake Ave. Along Western Ave. between Partridge

and Ontario streets.

Weekly Safety TipNever allow residence access to strangers: If you do not personally know the individual, do not allow that person into your residence. Call Security immediately and report these

persons. Never confront an intruder, remain in a locked room and await assistance. The weekly safety tips provided by Professor Rosemary Sheridan's Fall 2011 COM372 Campaigning class in

collaboration with The College of Saint Rose Security Department.

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Tuesday, May13:30 p.m. Baseball vs Assumption Plumeri4:30 p.m. SA Meeting Lally Carondelet Symposium7 p.m. Knight Skills Moran Hall7 p.m. SEB Meeting St. Joseph Hall7 p.m. Adventure Club Lima Basement7:30 p.m. Masterworks Chorale Concert Massry8 p.m. SADD Meeting Main Lounge 8:30 p.m. Environmental Club Meeting Lima Basement

Wednesday, May 24:30 p.m. Chronicle Meeting CCIM Rm 1217 p.m. Rose Rock Committee Meeting Lima Basement7 p.m. BASIC Meeting Hubbard Sanctuary8 p.m. DANCE-A-THON! St. Joseph Hall8 p.m. Playback: Music Industry Recording Ensembles Jack’s Place in the CCIM9 p.m. Philosophy Club Meeting Hubbard Sanctuary

Thursday, May 36 p.m. MAPS Meeting ALB 1107:15 p.m. MEISA Meeting CCIM Projection Room7:30 p.m. Identity Meeting Lima Basement8 p.m. String Chamber Music Concert Massry

Friday, May 4FINALS BEGIN

Saturday, May 58 p.m. Wind Ensemble Concert Massry

Monday, May 78 p.m. Study Break Breakfast Dining Hall

Volume 80 Issue 32The Chronicle May 1, 2012NewsA4The relay opened with a cer-

emony at the stage along the east-ern end of the quad. About 150 people arrived for the ceremony, which featured student Cynthia Crudale giving a speech about how cancer has affected her life. “I consider my story to be one of the main things that I identify myself by—at least in my head,” said Crudale. “Cynthia, who nev-er got to meet her grandfather. Cynthia, who still gets angry and frustrated at the fact that cancer took her mother’s life. I always considered those things to be part of who I was, basically that I was built around those circum-

stances.”She spoke of how she realized

that she was “hiding” those cir-cumstances from people, whether it be having her father speak for her at a fundraiser or giving, “for my mother,” as the only details about her cause. Her voice began to waver and crack as she reached the most powerful portion of her speech, where she plainly stated how her grandfather and mother were lost to cancer.

Crudale later described her de-cision to speak at the event as an “impulse” decision. She worked on the ceremony’s subcommit-tee and decided to speak out af-ter they couldn’t find someone to give an opening speech.

“I was like, ‘Okay, well, they can’t find anybody, so I might as well say something,’ and it

“We all see each other (and) talk to each other every day about Relay stuff,” said Gargan.

“It does help, too, that we’re all friends with each other,” add-ed Schwenk.

One of the keys to success for Colleges Against Cancer at Saint Rose was community turnout. “We went from having a commit-tee of 15-20 people to almost 60 people,” said Schwenk, “so we had a phenomenal turnout when we asked for volunteers—many people came out for that.”

“What I feel happened was a lot of students just didn’t know that there was help needed, you

know, they just thought Resi-dence Life had it all under con-trol and they didn’t know how much help we really needed,” said Gargan. “We didn’t know some people would actually step up and be committee chairs and all of that, so it’s opened our eyes to how much people really care about the event.” Gargan was also quick to praise Jessica Giles, the American Cancer Society’s staff partner to the group, who was on campus “multiple times a week” and a daily contact for the group.

“Because Saint Rose was forming their committee at that point in time, they lost out on some of that Relay planning, but it didn’t seem to phase them at all,” said Giles. “They did really well.”

that students had to organize a chapter of Colleges Against Can-cer and gain recognition from the Student Association, giving them a budget and the ability to move forward with planning.

Although planning began in the autumn, Colleges Against Cancer didn’t begin meeting un-til January. Gargan described the group’s start as feeling “thrown together,” and Sober said that although individuals within the group have specific roles, it isn’t

very hierarchal.“We’ve been splitting up work

evenly, and we’ve all just been working so well together, “ said Sober. “Even the titles that we have, they’re just kind of there for purposes of Student Associa-tion.”

Besides the main group itself, which meets for an hour once a week, Colleges Against Cancer has eight subcommittees that also meet weekly. Amongst So-ber, group president Lindsay Reynolds, Gargan, and Relay for Life committee co-chair Sta-cey Schwenk, each took charge of two subcommittees. The four are willing to help each other in a pinch. “Say, one of us is really busy, has class or whatever,” said Sober, “we will go to the other one’s subcommittee meetings.”

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KELLY PFEISTERLuminaria were displayed during the ceremony.

support system gave him real concern. “I wanted there to be a support system for everybody else—the same support system that I got—so I knew that we had to kind of start it from the ground up again.”

Sober’s effort, along with those of many other students in the Saint Rose community, saved the event not only for the school year, but also for the night. For an event where overcoming adversi-ty was celebrated, the Relay itself overcame some difficult circum-stances.

Although Relay for Life has a long-standing tradition at Saint Rose, it was formerly organized under unusual circumstances. Most colleges organize Relays for Life under student-run clubs known as Colleges Against Can-cer, who are affiliated with the American Cancer Society to promote the Relay and other ACS programs. While Relays at Saint Rose originally began as a student-run event, the Office of Residence Life had organized the event in recent years. But over the summer, as reported by Scott Lawson in The Chronicle, the event was dropped after a survey distributed to staff showed a lack of interest.

“You would only get about five volunteers on the committee that weren’t RAs, because we have a staff of fifty RAs that technical-ly did it with (Residence Life),” said Kathleen Gargan. “It’s actu-ally odd that our office put that on—great that they did that—but we were the only college that worked like that.” Gargan served as co-chair of the committees that organized this year’s Relay, and she served on the committee that organized it the previous year.

The decision to drop the Relay at the start of the school year pre-sented a real challenge for those interested. Gargan mentioned that planning for the Relay usually be-gins at that time, and the change pushed back the start of planning until late in the fall semester. Complicating the situation was

worked out really well.”Crudale added that she con-

siders Relay for Life a place where people can, “know that there are other people who are going through what they’re go-ing through, and there are people who will understand what they’re feeling.” At the end of her speech, she described the event as “uplift-ing,” adding that it instills cour-age and helps to create a support system. She hopes that others with stories like hers feel com-pelled to share them.

“Be confident in yourself, know that you can do the things that you want to set your mind to. If it’s something you feel really strongly about, then it’s worth hearing. Put a lot of thought into it, put your time and energy into it, and it’ll work itself out in the end.”

Crudale also felt embold-ened by the fight against cancer: “There’s a war to be won, and I won’t give up until I see victory.”

Following Crudale’s speech, the relay itself commenced with a survivors lap, where individuals who have overcome an encounter with cancer lead attendees in the first lap of the relay. Participants marched along the sidewalk en-compassing the quad while a few attendees erected tents in the green. Following performances from some school musicians, the Relay began its luminaria cere-mony. Candle-shaped lights were dropped inside translucent paper bags bearing the names of indi-viduals affected by cancer, which were placed to spell out the word “hope” on the ground of the quad. The ceremony was marked by speeches from students Samantha Brewer and Katie Mayer, both of whom are cancer survivors.

For Brewer, her cancer diag-nosis was very unusual. She was diagnosed at age 14 with stage four Wilm’s tumor, a cancer of the kidney which is typical of children around the age of six. Brewer lost a kidney during treat-ments, but has been cancer free for six years since March.

“I’m in a class right now, (called) ‘Coming of Age,’ and I definitely realized that that was


May 1, 2012 Volume 80 Issue 32 The ChronicleNews A5Ewart in a fall Chronicle story, described herself as “enthralled” at the start of the night. “I love seeing the community together, I love seeing people fighting for one cause and remembering peo-ple.”

For all involved, what moti-vated them to put so much effort into making Relay for Life hap-pen was an opportunity to con-tinue the support system it pro-vides students. Reynolds took the event as an opportunity to honor Karene Faul, the art department chair who lost a battle with can-cer earlier this semester. Gargan said she was motivated by the way Relay serves as a “healing event” for friends lost to cancer, and Schwenk looked at it as a way to show her support to oth-ers. Towards the end of his set, Albano said that he performed in support of his mother, who spent a few years fighting a battle with breast cancer.

Crudale said that the support system created by the Saint Rose community was her favorite as-pect of Relay. “It’s a beautiful thing, and Relay is what really shows that on this campus.”

Brewer said that although she thinks most people are aware of how cancer can affect young peo-ple, she wishes more were aware. “If people just gave back a little bit more, they may see.”

When the event wrapped up at around 3:45 a.m., organizers announced a total of $24,000 raised to date from Relay for life to the crowd of 45 or so people that stayed until the end. What set Saint Rose apart from other schools was the support shown from other school organizations, said Giles.

“I’ve been really impressed by the clubs outside of Relay for Life and Colleges Against Cancer that have really stepped up and kind of fundraised with us or donated portions of their funding.”

“I can’t even explain it—it’s just a feeling of gratitude and I’m just so happy that our school came together despite all of the weather, and despite all of the changes that we’ve had to make,” said Sober. “It’s just—it’s phe-nomenal.”

er plans, but when mother nature decided to surprise us with freez-ing weather tonight, it became a safety concern.” Temperatures were hovering in the upper 30s for most of the evening, with oc-casional winds adding a bite to the temperature, but the forecast called for a freeze warning in the Albany area beginning at 11 p.m.

“We were told by the (Ameri-can Cancer Society)—they have their risk management team—that since there was a freeze warning for eleven o’clock (at night), we either had to shut down the event at eleven or we had to move it inside somehow,” said Sober. After some last minute scrambling, the committee that organizes the school’s Relay was able to secure St. Joseph audito-rium for late-night events. “It was already too late for us to get the gym,” said Sober, “so luckily, this worked out.”

Gargan praised the commit-tee’s ability to move quickly un-der the circumstances. “Having our committee certainly helped out about that and the school was very helpful,” she said. “All of our offices—they really tried to accommodate our needs to-day and everybody really came together and it worked out per-fectly.”

“We have to make decisions

KELLY PFEISTERStudent Yelfrie de Leon sets up the stage after Relay moved indoors.

my coming of age story,” said Brewer. She expressed gratitude at how fundraising at Relay for Life benefits young people with cancer, and it helps people to be aware of cancer research.

Mayer was diagnosed with a brain stem tumor at age 12. Doc-tors gave Mayer a six month-to-two year window of life unless she had surgery, and told her that she would likely lose men-tal capabilities and the ability to walk after surgery. She attributed “youthful ignorance” to over-coming fear of the tumor, add-ing: “cancer may be able to break down our bodies, but it can never break down our spirits.”

Mayer also called upon people to utilize the support system of the Relay. “I just ask of you one thing: that if there is a point in your life where you feel defeated or upset, remember how much support and love you have.”

For the next hour and a half, the relay carried on normally at the campus green. But at 11 p.m., the relay took an unconventional turn by relocating the event in-doors.

“This is a first for us,” said Giles. “We generally try to decide in advance about what we’re go-ing to be doing in terms of weath-

Continued from page A4 and we have to make them quickly,” said Giles, “but I think the committee did a wonderful job adjusting to it and it looks like a great event from what I saw.”

About 100 people remained with the relay as it moved in-doors, packed tightly on the floor of the auditorium. The luminaria bags bordered the stage, with makeshift cardboard letters spell-ing out “hope” in front of the stage. Because of the space con-straints, a relay itself could not be conducted, so the draw of the evening became the musical per-formances. “The performances (after eleven) were all acoustic anyways, so it was a nice setting for it,” said Gargan.

The final act of Relay for Life was Kyle Albano, a sound record-ing major at Saint Rose. Albano took the stage at around 3 a.m. and played songs off an upcom-ing album for roughly half an hour. He played the set and took in Relay as part of an hour-and-a-half break from recording, which began at midnight and didn’t end until 8:00 the next morning.

“If my music will bring people together, then maybe… If I have a miniature following, or whoev-er follows me, maybe they’re go-ing to come out and support the cause as well.” Albano said that

although he prefers to play out-doors, he was glad the organizers moved Relay indoors because of the cold weather.

“I think it’s actually a better thing, that it ended up inside,” said Sober. “We’re keeping more people now that we would if it was still outside—people would be cold and tired, and it’s just a 100-yard walk to your room, so it’s really easy to say, ‘Oh, I’m re-ally tired, I’m just going to bed.’ Here, we’ve got a lot of energy going on, we can keep the DJ going because it’s inside and it’s just—it’s really cool that we can keep this moving and I think—honestly, I think it’s kind of like a hidden blessing that we were pushed inside.”

Giles had high praise for the committee’s actions in moving Relay into the auditorium. “I think the committee did a won-derful job adjusting to it and it looks like a great event from what I saw.”

Organizers were appreciative of the response given by the peo-ple at Saint Rose. “Community members have been really great,” said Reynolds. “I mean, I need to thank them—they’ve been abso-lutely superb with taking their in-dividual roles and talking on a lot on top of their busy schedules and just trying really hard to just give their individual efforts.”

Gargan expressed surprise at how many people came out to help with organizing the event. “We didn’t know some people would actually step up and be committee chairs and all of that,” she said, “so it’s opened our eyes to how much people really care about the event.”

After his initial worries about the event’s turnout, Sober felt moved by the number of people who attended Relay. “After half an hour, we had a ton of people show up, and it was like the big-gest relief and it was just the most amazing feeling. To actually be a part of running it—because like I said, I’ve been to them before, but actually having a hand in it—‘I set up this event, I helped or-ganize this,’ it’s just an amazing feeling, just to be a part of it.”

Reynolds, who was quoted as being “livid” by writer Asia

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When Streetlight Manifesto took the stage, the sea of people waiting against the wooden bar-rier were blasted with an enthu-siastic brass section which set the level of energy for the entire set. The crowd’s movement indicated a good time being had by a domi-nantly college-kid crowd, who in their last few weeks of the semes-ter were deserving of the joyous festival.

Skanking, an energetic dance style particular to ska music, did occur throughout the crowd, along with the traditional jump-ing, screaming, and crowd surf-ing. At one point in the hour-long, set front man Tomas Kalnoky threw a water bottle into the crowd, which hit a female crowd surfer, to whom he apologized re-peatedly on stage.

Emily Zeh, a first-time time Rose Rock attendant said, “It was

kind of crazy,” in regards to the crowd-surf-ing, noise, and tree climbing, but agreed that “overall it was a really good time.”

A large per-centage of those in the audience

knew the most popular of the tunes the septet were perform-ing, such as “Everything Went Numb.” Energy may have winded down a bit during the improvisa-tion sections, although crucial to Streetlight’s performance, things picked up again for the finale and the crowd collectively seized the moment to go wild.

Meagan Corbett, director of social activities for the Student Association, has spent countless hours over the past 13 months planning this annual festival in its entirety. Although she had been running around coordinat-

shirts read, “It’s Not Over Til The Streetlight Goes Out.”

Sophomore Amanda Steves, attending Rose Rock for the first time said, “It’s a beautiful day to sit outside and relax, and listen to music with your friends. Now that’s the Saint Rose difference.”

With perfect weather for the outdoor event overhead, music industry student and guitarist Cody Okonski, of opening band Uncle Joel’s Comb, said, “We are also summer lovers and our mu-sic pairs up greatly with the out-door kind of weather.”

Thrilled with the experience of opening and being able to chat with the members of Streetlight Manifesto afterward, Okonski said he has seen the band three times before, Rose Rock being his fourth. Okon-ski continued, “We’re super influenced by them.”

The Niskayu-na-based band has been togeth-er for three years playing ska/pop punk tunes all over the area, “Essentially gig-ging is our practice at this point,” Okonski said.

Gearing up the crowd for the final performance of the night, bands such as Drew and the Grand Spectacular, as well as the popular band The Meishlunday, and rapper Eric Sosa performed a variety of original songs and several crowd-pleasing covers. In a tribute to Levon Helm, drum-mer and lead singer of The Band, The Meishlunday covered their popular tune “The Weight,” get-ting everyone in the spirit of what was to come.

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After a string broke on his guitar, Tomas Kalnoky of Streetlight Manifesto switched guitars. KELLY PFEISTER

Cody Okonski looks surprised during Uncle Joel’s Comb’s set on Saturday.

Saint Rose students were rewarded for all their hard work this year with a day-long

music festival.

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ing the event all day, “That’s the part I enjoy,” Corbett said during Streetlight Manifesto’s set. “I like seeing other people happy and enjoying themselves.”

Meeting the members of Streetlight Manifesto, Corbett said “was awesome.” “They’re super nice, super laid back, showed up on time. They’re re-ally nice people.”

Corbett estimated that crowd to be composed of either half or more than half Saint Rose stu-dents. Visitors from outside the college were clearly in atten-dance, including some parents with young children to the open-campus outdoor event.

Aside from one incident in-volving a young man in a yellow shirt climbing a tree on the quad, Corbett said that the concert “went really smoothly.” The inci-dent initiated the intervention of Streetlight Manifesto. Realizing that the man was creating a dis-turbance, Kalnoky told the man that if he did not come down, the band would stop playing. Once on the ground, the young man was escorted away from the con-cert by Albany police, and hand-cuffed on the side of the quad.

According to Corbett this per-son was a University at Albany student and he was not arrested, but simply asked to go home.

“This is so … surreal,” said Kalnoky in the midst of the in-cident. Once the student was re-moved, however, the set resumed as normal.

The concert ended about ten minutes past Streetlight’s sched-uled departure with a quick “Goodnight!” from Kalnoky, but the crowds of people enjoying the set did not mind. Although house music squelched any opportunity for an encore, the crowd of stu-dents and others slowly began to

disperse from the quad. “It was a good band; a lot of

energy,” said sophomore Antho-ny Giordano, a music education major and euphonium player just after the concert. Referring to last year’s indoor event, a repercus-sion of Kegs and Eggs, “It was a great improvement from last year. It’s outside,” said Giordano.

Chelsea Zarriello, another first timer and transfer student, said “It’s a nice event that gets people together.”

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Volume 80 Issue 32The Chronicle May 1, 2012NewsA8Small Business Owner Anton Pasquilland The Hudson River Coffee House

By RUSUDAN PANOZISHVILI Contributing Writer

If not for a 24-year-old café owner in Albany, it would cost all small business owners in the city of Albany 10 times more a year to have live music in their venues. The Common Council recently adopted a new resolu-tion regarding live entertainment that mandated a new higher fee to host live entertainment in an es-tablishment. However, soon after proposing the law, the Council had to reduce annual fees as a re-sult of one small business owner: Anton Pasquill. Due to his early attendance at the Common Coun-cil meeting that first proposed the resolution, Pasquill was one of the first to detect and struggle with the flaws in the new legisla-tion.

“The bill was actually written for the night clubs, so nobody paid attention to the smaller plac-es, and that we also had to pay the same amount,” said Pasquill, the owner of the Hudson River Coffee House. It took several weeks for him to get the support of his small business colleagues and get the Common Council to

change the decision. Now he and other venue owners will pay $50 instead of $500 a year.

This is not the first time Pas-quill has influenced the Common Council decisions. While work-ing 80 hours a week for his newly opened café, Pasquill also finds time to attend meetings at the Common Council, because he is interested in the law changes in the city. Pasquill sometimes also gives consultations to the repre-sentatives of the Council or small business owners in regards to zoning legislation and small busi-ness.

Law is just a hobby for him so far. He learned the 400 pages of the zoning legislation quite thor-oughly while looking for a suit-able location for the coffee house he was interested in opening. That coffeehouse, locatedat 227 Quail St., is now a reality that is known for good coffee, breakfast food, bagel, sandwiches, friendly service, and free live music once a week.

Through the front window of 227 Quail Street, one can see an eclectic decor: a chess board lies open on a small table, a 50-year-old Russian samovar (a metal container used to heat and boil

water, traditionally for tea) shines on a brick shelf, and a metal face built of bicycle remains hangs on the wall alongside a stopped clock that always shows 5:40. On the counter, Edgar Allan Poe sto-ries lie with tens of other books, while an old organ and slot ma-chines look at each other from opposite corners; all underneath an open ceiling showing white industrial tubing.

Heading inside, one can smell brewing coffee and hear the grumble of espresso machines. These are the sights, sounds, and environs that welcome prospec-tive patrons to Pasquill’s cre-ation: The Hudson River Coffee House.

“I like having my customers, I like the generally friendly at-mosphere here, I like that there is a lot of work to do all the time,” Pasquill said when thinking of what he enjoys most of all about his business.

Though he has put a lot of effort in it, Pasquill does not think that his own business changed him a lot. “I feel a little bit older, but that’s because I am older…” he said, smiling. “Sometimes I feel a little bit more stressed. I have no idea how I have changed. I do not really think of that much.”

Not thinking much beyond his business is among his habits. Pasquill uses most of his time for staying focused on the custom-ers, observing them, and remem-bering their orders. He is at the café from 10 a.m until midnight almost every day.

Getting to that point and starting the Café was not easy. Pasquill knew that his savings and loans from his mother and grandma would not be enough for building or painting the new cof-fee house. But he had an idea to own one. So he decided to open it by himself. While not having a lot of money, he found creative ways around problems. For ex-ample, instead of buying a cash register or an expensive computer program, he found a free one, re-

Anton Pasquill, owner of The Hudson River Coffee House, in his establishment at 227 Quail Street.

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Fresh coffee beans waiting to be ground.

programmed it and saved $1,000. Working hard is not new for

Pasquill, who already had worked at more than five small restau-rants and coffee shops, manag-ing several cafés and around 100 people, when he started his coffee house.

With a suit and a tie on, he was 17 when he entered the Subway restaurant in Scotia and applied for the manager’s job. They took him, though they never knew he was under 18. “They thought I was 19, 20. They never really asked. I had a suit, I looked pro-fessional and I had experience as an assistant manager, so it looked like a reasonable thing to do,” Pasquill said.

At Doane Stuart High School in Albany, to earn for paying the school and saving for college, he worked around 17 hours a day. While taking the online courses for his last year at the high school, instead of attending them, he would go to work at 6 a.m in the morning to McDonalds, which was the “easier job,” then, after noon, he would rush to a pizza

place, where he would stay until 11 p.m. He would find time to do classes somewhere in the middle of the day, even not having rest for weekends. On the weekends he sometimes washed dishes for extra money for the Italian restau-rant San Souci or trained in figure skating in the County Recreation Center in Schenectady. “That is life, sometimes you have to work,” he said.

Pasquill always has jokes for the new visitors of his café, often wears an ensemble of different, colorful ties matched with also colorful shirts from day to day. He sometimes jumps on the coun-ter and grabs the huge red cups that way. When he pours coffee, he usually smiles and addresses almost all the regulars by their names.

While one customer gives an order, Pasquill is quick enough to ask him about his day, jokes with the guys playing chess to his right, then goes back to the first customer with his favorite coffee


May 1, 2012 Volume 80 Issue 32 The ChronicleNews A9and begins to make a sandwich for the newcomer.

Observing and learning visi-tors is a ritual, for Pasquill and his friend Phillip Hughes, who is the manager of the coffee house. The friendly environment at-tracts customers after the coffee, Hughes said.

Phillip Hughes has known Pas-quill for the last five years. He has been the manager since the open-ing of the café. “I thought it was a crazy idea,” Hughes recalls about when Pasquill first told him about opening a café together. But Pas-quill’s specific plans and actions soon made him sure that he was going to make it.

“He was a visionary, he solved what kind of things he wanted to make. ‘I want blocks, I want tiles here and here,’ he would say. I want you to paint that stuff,” Hughes recalled, saying that Pas-quill is usually an active, leading one, and he is more a passive fol-lower. That’s how they are good friends and co-workers, which they never confuse with each other.

“Definitely he is a very good boss to work for, reasonable,

understanding. He is also not afraid of discussions about how we should do different things, Hughes said, adding that he ap-preciates his friend’s ability to socialize and talk with people, “which I think is the key aspect when running the business…he is very intelligent and very good in thinking ahead.”

One of the most frequent cus-tomers of the coffee house said Anton Pasquill is, “an extraordi-narily business minded and very financially sensible guy.” Chad Furman, a regular, had a lot of time to get to know Pasquill clos-er; he spends about 15 hours a week in this café, drinking coffee, reading, playing games or having fun with people he meets there.

“First a friend of mine brought me here, saying that a cool guy had a new café. I loved the soy chocolate with double espresso here,” said Furman, adding that after coffee, it was “good people” that kept him coming in the café. He also liked the opportunity of socializing, meeting with new people, playing games with them. But Anton Pasquill soon became more than only a café owner for him.

“I was unemployed for a while

Patrons enjoying the comfortable atmosphere at Pasquill’s coffeeshop. RUSUDAN PANOZISHVILI

and Anton helped me to find a job and gave me a reference…He has a big compassion and trust for the people who he meets until they give him the reason not to,” Fur-man said.

Before starting his business, Pasquill graduated with an Eco-nomics degree at the University of Albany. Pasquill recalled that he originally entered for the busi-ness faculty. Then he switched to economics because business was “too easy” and he would get tired of indeed learning nothing, when he was interested in “global poli-tics and analyzing.”

Now Pasquil said he might go on to study the law, though he would never become a lawyer “I just enjoy the law,” Pasquill said. Generally, he hardly speaks about

his future plans, saying his main concern is today and looking after his business.

Pasquill’s hard work and con-centration on business got results for him and his business quickly. Since opening the Café, Pas-quill has won the “Best Busi-ness Owner” award in Albany in 2011. The Coffee shop also won “Best Café.” The recent prize for Pasquill’s work was the award for the “Best Open Mic” place in 2012, according to the inquires of the Metroland.

After opening the café, he worked more than 100 hours a week and had not a single day off for an entire six months. He just had one employee and no benefits for himself. So he would not leave for holidays until last

Pasquill running his Quail Street.coffeeshop. RUSUDAN PANOZISHVILI

summer, and that was only for six days.

Pasquill loves traveling and he said it helped him to run the café successfully: “I have a lot of experience in traveling and an ex-perience of communicating with people helped me a lot. I am able to relate to the different cultural groups,” he said.

“If I can afford it—because even at the vacations, I have to pay extra employees—I want to bike 700 miles from Caracas down across the coast,” Pasquill said, and until he allows himself and is able to afford that trip, he enjoys drinking tea in a tent, which he has arranged in his tiny kitchen in his apartment.


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Volume 80 Issue 32The Chronicle May 1, 2012NewsA10Collegiate, Elementary Students Collaborate

in Service Learning ProjectsBy MARLEE WOODContributing Writer

A number of Saint Rose faculty members and their students wel-comed 24 second grade students from New Scotland Elementary School onto The College of Saint Rose campus on Monday, April 23rd. The second grade students have been taking part in a collab-orative service learning arts proj-ect with their regular education teacher Mrs. Beth Indovina, spe-cial education teacher Mrs. Erin Reeve, and students from Saint Rose. They visited the college to perform poems they had written, and take a tour of the Saint Rose campus to explore ways in which Saint Rose students are using art and writing to relate to their com-munity.

“This experience was fabu-lous. The kids really enjoyed themselves and all want to come to Saint Rose,” said Reeve. “It was a nice combination to our service learning project because it gives the kids a chance to see how college is also a home away from home.”

In the morning, the second grade students gathered in the curriculum library to hear Maris-sa Gitto, the director of the Patri-cia Standish Curriculum Library,

PATRICK SEARERThe second grade class in front of The College of Saint Rose sign.

PATRICK SEARERNewton’s ENG 114 class listening to the second grade class read their “Seeds for Change” poems.

read “Let's Go Home: The Won-derful Things about a House” by Cynthia Rylant. After the read-ing, the second grade students listened to shared experiences by Saint Rose students Justin Wilkes and Kelsey Moran about Saint Rose becoming their home away from home.

The second grade students then headed to the gym for a quick parachute game with Communi-cation Science Disorders gradu-ate student Elizabeth Hansel. During one game, each student was able to go under the tent and pretend that he or she was a shark. This activity was a class favorite, and the students decided that they were going to stay here.

After a much needed lunch break in the dining hall, the sec-ond grade students walked to Massry Center for the Arts. While at Massry, they were led by Art Education student Tracy Everleth on a tour of the sculptures in the lobby. They were then exposed to the abstract artwork of Everleth herself and the realist artwork of Art Education student Salma Sinha.

While waiting to hear perfor-mances in Picotte Recital Hall by Saint Rose Assistant Professor of Piano Dr. Young Kim and her students Anja Barnes and Daniel

Milici, the second grade students listened to poetry readings by Graduate Poetry Workshop stu-dent Amy DiPrita and Professor of English Marcie Newton.

After the performances were over and the poems were read, students boarded the bus and left for New Scotland Elementary to reflect on their busy day of activi-ties at Saint Rose.

“I loved this project. It was amazing,” said Ursula Wolfe, a second grade student from New Scotland Elementary. “I learned all about the community around me, and it was a lot of fun.”

For the past two months, these 24 students at New Scotland El-ementary have been participating in a poetry and conceptual art res-idency with Saint Rose Professor of English Marcie Newton and Professor of Art Education Dr. G.E. Washington to help further this year’s service learning proj-ect, My Community is Bigger than Me.

“We thought that it would be a good opportunity for our kids,” said Indovina. “We’re always willing to partner up, so it was not hard to say yes.”

Each year, Indovina and Reeve

take their second grade students on a trip to visit the Albany City Mission and Ronald McDonald House for service learning out-side their classroom. However, this spring the students at New Scotland Elementary were able to further these experiences with students and faculty from Saint Rose, who attended these com-munity visits with the second grade students.

“We’ve always done service learning and feel it’s very im-portant,” said Reeve. “Unless we share the surrounding community with our students, it seems so far away.”

Before visiting the Albany City Mission on February 28th, the second grade students gath-ered together 20 boxes of do-nated items they had collected for the clothing store at the mis-sion. They also spent the morning working with Indovina, Reeve, Washington, Newton, and three of Newton’s students to make 100 bagged lunches for those who come to the mission looking for something to eat.

While at the Albany City Mis-sion, the second grade students were given a tour of the establish-

ment and educated on the reasons why people come to homeless shelters. After the tour, the stu-dents were able to each lunch with the staff and volunteers. The entire second grade class helped to clean the cafeteria when every-one was finished.

Just a week later on March 1st, the second grade students vis-ited the Ronald McDonald House with their teachers Indovina and Reeve, student teacher Shannon Stack, Newton and three of her ENG 114 students. Before leav-ing for this trip, the students were read a story called “The Lemon-ade Club” by Patricia Polacco, which is about a young girl who has cancer. The students were then told the purpose for The Ronald McDonald House and discussed the reasons why chil-dren may stay there.

At the Ronald McDonald House, students were given a tour of the building and learned how the organization was formed. Be-fore leaving, the second grade students gave the staff cookies they had decorated for Valen-tine’s Day for the children that


May 1, 2012 Volume 80 Issue 32 The ChronicleNews A11come to the house.

Throughout the month of March, the second grade stu-dents worked with Newton at New Scotland Elementary to cre-ate poems that explored creative ways to communicate their feel-ings about their experiences at the Albany City Mission and Ronald McDonald House. They learned how writing poetry can be a pow-erful tool for change.

“One purpose of this residency was to help all students engaged in this service learning project to appreciate the value of writing as a gift, as a tool, and as an essen-tial life skill,” said Newton.

On one of these days, March 27th, the second grade students created “Seeds for Change” po-ems and learned about the literary device personification, which was the word of the day. The students planted seeds and watered them to help them grow. They were then asked to help their seeds de-scribe a perfect world in which they would hope to grow. Each response was put into a poem, “In My Seed’s Perfect World.”

On Newton’s final visit, the students dressed up in costume and gave some great performanc-es of their Seeds for Change po-ems. Newton, a.k.a Miss Marcie, even got into character herself and impersonated country music artist Reba McEntire. She read a poem that the class had writ-ten together. A few favorite lines from the poem are: In my seed’s perfect world / it will spread love all over the world / and it will grow a big seed castle / for all the seeds in the world.

“The second grade students’ hearts are bursting with love” said Newton, showcasing another word of the day during the resi-dency, metaphor.

Indovina and Reeve were proud of their students for grasp-ing the literary devices so quickly and for having the confidence to read their work aloud. They were particularly impressed by the en-couragement the students offered their peers.

“A sense of community can grow in many wonderful ways,” said Newton.


PATRICK SEARER

Newton reading an original poem by the second grade class.

After the poetry residency was finished, the students began working with Washington and five graduate students who are involved in his Arts Integration program at Saint Rose.

Washington teamed up with New Scotland Elementary School Art teacher Ms. Debbie Cronin to help the second grade students create a house out of shoe boxes. The students had their own rooms in the house called, My Room of Emotions. In these rooms, the students painted their walls with colors that reminded them of their experiences at the Albany City Mission and Ronald McDonald House. They decorated the walls with words that described their feelings, and will fill their rooms with objects that remind them of a special person in their lives. Once these rooms are finished, Washington and Cronin are plan-ning to construct a mural at the school titled, My Community is Bigger than Me.

“This project has been a great way to show how service learning can become an even bigger thing than imagined and sometimes an even bigger thing than that,” said Washington.

This service learning project has not only been a unique expe-rience for the second grade class but for Education students at Saint Rose, as well. It has been a great opportunity for them to see the ways in which they can ex-pand their curriculum while get-ting the chance to meet teachers and have first-hand experience in the classroom.

“This was such an amazing opportunity for me to be able to teach such a great group of kids and to gain a greater love for and passion to teach,” said Patrick Searer, an education major taking Newton’s ENG 114: Introduction to Literary Genres and Traditions class.

Many other Saint Rose stu-dents have been touched by their involvement with this service learning project and have been encouraged to pursue their pas-sion for teaching after working with the second grade students.

The teachers at New Scot-land Elementary are extremely pleased with the outcome of this

project, and believe that their stu-dents have been able to obtain a vast amount of knowledge from participating in these service learning residencies.

“Through this project, children have learned that even at seven years old, they can still do some-thing to help others that may be less fortunate than them,” said Indovina.

However, none of this would have been possible without the help of Dr. Aviva Bower, Educa-tional Psychology Professor and Fran Hollon, Coordinator of the Service Learning and Teacher Education Program. Fran Hol-lon is supportive of Dr. Bower’s mission to build a relationship be-tween Saint Rose and New Scot-land Elementary through service learning.

Last Spring, Bower took her educational psychology students into a first grade classroom at New Scotland Elementary to cre-ate a backyard science project. Bower wanted to further this ex-perience this spring semester but was not teaching an undergradu-ate course. She contacted Newton and Washington in the hopes that they would be able to work with Indovina and Reeve. Newton and Washington, who have both been involved in and supportive of ser-vice learning, were enthusiastic about participating in a service learning project with the teachers.

“The second grade teachers who are hosting these professors are very active and very engaged educators who always involve their students in service learning, so this was an easy and obvious fit,” said Bower.

Bower also credits the numer-ous faculty who participated in the visit to the Saint Rose cam-pus including Marisa Gitto, Di-rector of the Patricia Standish Curriculum Library; Ann Neil-son, Physical Education; Sister Carmella Pfohl, Dominica Greco of Campus Dining; Scot Oberge-fell, Facilities & Program Direc-tor, Athletics; Dr. Barbara Ungar, English Department; Dr. Young Kim, Music Department; Kesha Robinson, Assistant to the Dean of the School of Education; and Dr. Margaret Kirwin, Dean of the School of Education.

Kirwin appreciates the value that service learning brings to all students. “Service learning is a pedagogy that connects ser-vice to learning standards at any educational level,” said Kirwin. “It is the connection to learning standards that distinguishes ser-vice learning from community service.”

To make this service learn-ing experience possible, Bower, whose daughter is in the second grade class at New Scotland Ele-mentary, wrote and was approved for two Service Learning and Teacher Education mini-grants, totaling $1750. These SLATE grants were obtained through the Saint Rose School of Educa-tion and the Corporation for Na-tional and Community Service. The grants are funded through a collaborative partnership be-tween The College of Saint Rose, The Sage Colleges, Schenectady County Community College, Union Graduate College, and the Capital Region BOCES that aim to enhance teacher preparation

programs by incorporating ser-vice learning.

Unfortunately, after this year, funding for any type of service learning has been cut by the fed-eral government as a result of the economic crisis. Teachers from New Scotland Elementary and faculty from Saint Rose, who are extremely impressed with the outcome of this project, feel it is important to continue these pro-grams and are hopeful that they can find other ways to fund money for service learning opportunities like this. Washington said they plan to look for other sources of funding so that they can expand these programs within the school and help to teach other teachers about service learning.

“We are confident that we can promote service learning to other teachers and help them to experi-ence an opportunity like the one we had with New Scotland El-ementary students this semester,” Washington said.

Volume 80 Issue 32The Chronicle May 1, 2012ArtsB12

By RACHEL BOLTONStaff Writer More fan fiction has been writ-

ten about this man and his friend than any other. I am referring to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detec-tive Sherlock Holmes and his partner and biographer, Doctor John Watson.

There have been numerous adaptations of the duo, some fol-low the original stories directly and others create new mysteries for Holmes and Watson to solve. Director Guy Richie has recently made two Sherlock Holmes mov-ies, and the BBC has a modern adaption of the series called Sher-lock.

The obvious difference in the two adaptions is the time setting. Guy Richie’s kept the story in Victo-rian Era, as in the original stories. But in the BBC’s show, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have been transported to the present day. It’s entertaining to see Holmes solve a case with an iPhone. It is surprising to note how certain things have remained the same. In Sherlock, Watson is still a returning army doctor who was injured in the war in Afghan-istan.

How the two Sherlocks are portrayed is interesting to note. The BBC’s Sherlock is played by Benedict Cumberbatch; and in Guy Richie’s film, Holmes is played by Robert Downey Jr. Both interpretations have Holmes’ deduction abilities and his lack of social skills. It is how those two characteristics are done is what makes the characters dif-ferent. BBC’s Holmes is extreme-ly analytical and has no clue how to interact with people.

Before his character develop-ment, he comes across as cruel and arrogant. Downey’s Holmes

does have some social skills, he acts more like that annoying know it all, rather than cold and calculating. Downey’s Holmes’ slightly better social skills show that his Holmes has a sex life. The sexuality of Sherlock Holmes has been up for debate for years, but in the 2009 film, Downey’s Holmes has had an affair with Irene Adler and he is fairly affectionate with her. It is a sharp contrast to the blatant asexuality of Cumber-batch Holmes. In the show, Wat-son is surprised to discover that Holmes never had a relationship of any sort. The Holmes here is a virgin, and numerous characters poke fun at that fact.

Finally, the biggest difference that the two interpretations have

is how and if the stories take ideas and themes from the original Doyle sto-ries. In Guy Rich-ie’s films, the plots of both are original. The second film of that series borrows

the villain from the original sto-ries and acknowledges the con-clusion of the story he appears in. In Sherlock, the episodes follow the original stories more careful-ly, although they are not taken di-rectly from them. They transplant the plots to the modern day and the writers add their own twists to them, creating a nice unpredict-ability to the show.

Both adaptions are worth checking out. But I will admit to having a favorite. The BBC’s Sherlock may not what you tra-ditionally think of as the Great Detective, but ultimately it does a better job with the writing and the characters than Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes. It’s more sus-penseful and you get more emo-tionally invested with the charac-ters.

Please, do read the original stories. You’ll appreciate the new interpretations even more.

Something Sour, Something Sweet:

Sherlock Holmes vs. Sherlock

Daytrader and Aficionado to Share Stage at Jack's Place

By LAUREN HALLIGANFeatures Editor

Long Island rock band Day-trader will be headlining a show on May 1 at 7 p.m. at Jack's Place located in CCIM. Local special guests include Aficionado, Cast-ing Curses, Pentimento, and Drug Church. Tickets are $3 and will be available at the door.

Daytrader, of Rise Records, will be releasing their debut full-length album “Twelve Years” on May 8. The group will surely be sharing some of these new tunes, such as “If You Need It,” which can be previewed on their web-site, Facebook.com/daytraderny.

Supporting act Aficionado is an Albany-based band who has gained plenty of local attention over their near-decade of exis-tence. The seven-piece group also features members of the Saint Rose community including front man Nicholas Warchol and Chris Tenerowicz. Amongst this septet is also flutist and female vocalist Laura Carrozza.

The eclectic group has been signed for nearly two years to No Sleep Records, a West-coast based independent record label. No Sleep also houses The Won-der Years, Balance and Compo-sure, as well as openers on the Jack's Place bill, Drug Church.

As two bands that love playing together, when Daytrader knew they were coming to Albany, they contacted Aficionado to see if they would be around.

“We only play one or two lo-cal shows per year because most of the time we're touring,” said Warchol. The band was happy to accept the show.

Singer for the band, Warchol said, “We'll be playing mostly songs off of our 2011 self-titled release [on May 1], with the ad-dition of a couple new songs that are going to be on a 7" that we're … releasing at the end of the

summer.” In the past year the group has

released two records, toured on the road almost full time, includ-ing Europe, and had the oppor-tunity to play with some of their favorite musicians.

“We've gotten a lot of cool op-portunities lately, and we really appreciate all of them,” said War-chol. We've been working at this for a long time...and we're finally catching a few breaks here and there.”

Three of the members being former Saint Rose students, of the music and communications pro-grams, Warchol said he recalls, “Throwing some insane shows in the Commuter Lounge.”

“Jack's Place is great though,” said Warchol. “It's awesome that the school put some money into building a proper venue for bands to play.”

Student couple Michael De-Marco and Talia Cass said they will definitely be in attendance at Jack’s Place on May 1. Both having seen the band before, Cass said, “I love that they're dif-ferent from a lot of local bands I've seen.” DeMarco agreed that the band is energetic and worth watching.

The show is being hosted by Til The End Presents promotion company run by senior and music industry major Travis Sprague.

Sprague said that he booked Daytrader, “Because [he] was told they were some of the nicest guys and … really liked their mu-sic.” Sprague added that he chose Aficionado as local support be-cause since being signed in they have been “blowing up.”

“The turn out should be awe-some, and I'm excited for a night of punk,” said Sprague.

Punk Musicians Make a Stop At Saint Rose

The stories take ideas and themes from the original

Doyle stories.

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Hosts John Macdonald and Ann Leghorn had funny skits as they posted tweets on Twitter live during the show. They asked audience members to tweet to them and make the show interactive.

REGINA IANNIZZOTTO

REGINA IANNIZZOTTOThe Other Guys, a new Saint Rose all-male a cappella group, began two months ago. They performed the song “We Are Young” by Fun.

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SUNY Albany’s all male a cappella group The Earth Tones performed three songs and dedicated the last one, “The Zoot Suit Riot” to GND’s, Allison Bruso.

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The Girls Next Door in a group photo taken on the steps of Saint Joseph Hall

The Girls Next Door performing.

Now Trending:#GNDThe Girls Next Door held “Now Trending,” their “spring

concert and musical celebration” on Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Saint Joseph Hall auditorium. Guest groups included the all-male group The Earth Tones and the all-female group Serendipity, both from the University at Albany. In addition, the recently formed Other Guys, an all-male Saint rose troupe, performed. The concert was followed by a free dessert reception.

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By VINCENT GABRIELLEStaff Writer

When the odors wafting over the quad are simultaneously sweet with the smell of flower-ing trees and earthy with ma-nure, you know that spring has sprung at Saint Rose. The soft, fleshy petals of the magnolias will slowly fall to earth while the Dutch-fetishized tulips poke their Technicolor, flamboyant heads up from below. Birds will ser-enade one another for sex. It's a lovely time of year. I've enjoyed the Albany spring ever since I fist experienced it freshman year. It's funny that just as life begins to re-awaken around us, college life winds down for the idyll of sum-mer.

This spring is different. Instead of sun-infused giddiness, I can-not help but feel dread. I am sure some of you have seen the vertigo inducing posters advertising the movie Man on a Ledge featuring (what else) a man on a very pre-carious ledge. I feel like that man on that ledge. I am a senior; I am graduating this May. I am gradu-ating and I have no idea what is going to happen to me, the people graduating with me or the people I will leave behind. It is a terrible feeling, ominous as a sword dan-gling by a thread overhead. I feel like a high diver about to jump into a pool that may or may not be filled with water. I do not know if the rest of my fellow seniors feel this way, but I do not think I am alone in my trepidation.

To those of you who have just arrived at Saint Rose, I am happy for you. For all of its flaws, Saint

Girl in Dining Hall: “He’s the bluntest tool in the tool shed.”

Girl in Dorm: “I’m going to put it in their head like Inception.”

Girl in Dorm: “Remember when Pink’s hair was actually pink? Those were the good years.”

Guy in St. Joe’s: “Together we’re caramel. We make a Twix!”

Girl on Quad: “The Runford Killer says not to litter!”

Guy in Dining Hall (Baseball Player): “If I were to ever throw a ball 100 mph, my arm would snap in half or it would completely come out of its socket.”

Girl in Dining Hall: “I love when I can see. It’s the greatest feeling.”

Girl at Semi-formal: “Do they know turning off Gym Class Heroes is a cardnial sin?”

Guy in Dining Hall: “I’m a guy. Cut me some slack. I have that handicap going for me.”

Girl in Dorm: “They look the same when you’re not looking at them.”

Girl 1 in EAC: ““Where’s the Lally cafe?”Girl 2: “I think it’s in Lally.”

Girl Dressed in Cloak on Quad: “With all of the weidos that go to this school, is this really the strangest thing you’ve seen?’

Girl in Main Lounge: “I wish I had a personal chef that could be paid in smiles.”

Girl in EAC: “I am not a steak!”

Rose has been reasonably good to me. I have found friends, grown, changed, partaken in opportuni-ties that I would not have had oth-erwise. I hope the same is true, if not better, for you.

There is something I would like you to consider, though. For all of the positives that Saint Rose, or any college, can offer, there is also no shortage of costs. Time, energy, effort and inescap-able student loans are often part and parcel to this experience. So because the cost is potentially high, because the money that you spend here can potentially cripple you, because the degree you earn may not help you find employ-ment, because four or five years of additional education is a huge commitment, I would ask for your own sake that you seriously consider why you are here and why you have chosen your major.

A couple weeks back, myself and others addressed this ques-tion among others during the Student Ethics forum. If you did not see it, I urge you to watch the video available on the Saint Rose website. Go ahead, I'll wait.

What should be clear from the discussion is that there is no one answer to the "why go to col-lege?" question. Your motives could be mercenary, college de-gree nets a job. Your motives could be experimental, college as a petri dish in which to grow your interests. Your motives could be academic, college as a mental boot-camp or crucible to train and refine your mind. You could be like me; you could love something so much that it hurts, that you cannot see yourself do-ing anything else and college is a gateway between you and it. Of course this is not a comprehen-sive list; your reasons for being here could be a combination of these or something else entirely.

These reasons can be of equal merit provided you understand why you have answered that way and are aware of the risks in each of them. You could not get a job,

leave uneducated, be burnt by your passion or discover that you really did not need to come here. Like everything else I have list-ed, it could be different for you, but you still owe it to yourself to think about this.

If your answer to the questions are unsatisfactory, or ambigu-ous or just bad, say your answer is: "I'm here because my par-ents forced me to be here,” “My parents picked my major," or something else like that, I would strongly caution you against sticking with both the major and with college in general. If you do not care for your major or do not care about college, you should re-evaluate what you are doing. Find a better reason to be here. Find something to care about. Be hon-est with yourself about the risks. If you find that you do not want college drop out before you have crossed the Rubicon, before there is no turning back. If you do not, you are gambling with your fu-ture in a game with the highest of stakes. If I am going to place a bet on myself, if I am to wager my future happiness and prosperity, I am going to do it in a game that I understand and have made my peace with.

While I cannot tell you why to be here or what to care about or what to major in, I can say to not think about those things is a gross disservice to yourself. Think about it before you come to the ledge of graduation because when you come to the ledge, you had better be okay with jumping.

I feel like a high diver about to jump

into a pool that may or may not be filled with water.

I would ask for your own sake

that you seriously consider why you are here and why you have chosen

your major.

The Fear of Jumping Into the Graduation Pool

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The Violence Against Straight White Nonimmigrant Women Act

The View from Venus

By ABBY FINKELMANWomen’s Initiative

If you are trying to come up with the least objectionable name ever for a bill, the Violence Against Women Act seems like a pretty good choice. Let’s be clear here: it is a bill to combat vio-lence against women. As far as I can think, the only less objection-able name would be the Curing Cancer Act. Who could possibly be against combating violence against women? In 2012? Well, it turns out, 32 senators and an as-yet-unknown number of repre-sentatives.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was first passed in the Senate in 1994, 61-38, with all but one nay vote coming from the Republican minority. They would become the majority two months later, and promptly tried to cut funding from the Act. The reauthorizations in 2000 and 2005 were similarly split.

VAWA protects women. It of-fers them the ability to use legal tools to fight back against abuse. It helps fund rape crisis centers and women’s shelters. It provides training and resources to commu-nities. It also established the Of-fice on Violence Against Women, a part of the Justice Department. I will be honest, I’m not quite clear on how anyone opposes that. But people did then and they do now.

But this time around, I know why those 32 senators voted against it. They voted against it because this reauthorization included new provisions. Pro-visions expanding VAWA to cover Native Americans, undocu-mented immigrants, and LGBT people. Yep. They voted against the bill because they didn’t want more women to be covered. Born Native American? Here illegally? Gay? You don’t deserve to be protected against violence, sorry.

I hasten to add that, obviously, some Republicans did vote for the

bill. One, Senator Crapo of Ida-ho, even co-drafted it. But what makes me sad is this: several of the ones who voted for it made it clear that they were voting for it because they believed it to be im-portant enough to overlook what Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchi-son called its “flaws.” It was not that they felt that if my girlfriend beats me up I should be protected against her. It was just that they decided to deal with that as a trad-eoff for the rest of the bill.

Actually, the senators who voted for the VAWA reauthoriza-tion were not risking much; those “flaws” will likely be removed in the House bill. So, no fretting, Senator Hutchison, it will con-tinue to be okay for my girlfriend to beat me up. (Just to clarify: my girlfriend does not beat me up. But if she did, 32 senators would be down with that.) And here is where it gets uncomfortable for this columnist: all 32 of those senators are Republicans.

I doubt that anyone who’s read my columns or, uh, spoken to me for more than 30 seconds can’t guess my political leanings. Still, I am really not out to trash the Re-publican Party. (I am even almost hoping some Democrats vote against it in the House, just to make me feel less partisan.) And while I think the positions regard-ing that the Party has endorsed of late are abhorrent (see e.g. repro-ductive rights), I understand that those positions are at least based on morals. This is just disgusting. It is disgusting that anyone (in-cluding, originally, some Demo-crats) would vote against a bill designed to protect women, and even more disgusting that they would vote against it because it would protect women whose eth-nicity, sexual orientation, or im-migration status they don’t like. Good thing for them that none of those senators are Native Ameri-can, gay, or immigrants.

Or women.

By JON NAUERTContributing Writer

For the third consecutive year, Saint Rose sent a team of com-puter programmers to the Con-sortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges—Northeastern Re-gion (CCSCNE). What happens at such an event, you may ask? Well, in addition to the many pan-el discussions and presentations about cutting edge developments in computer education by admin-istrators, teachers, and students alike, CCSCNE is also home to a highly competitive programming competition!

Colleges from across the re-gion send teams of three Java and C++ coders to take battle, not with swords and maces, but with code blocks, textbooks, and all the critical thinking they can muster. As an example, take a look at a problem from last year’s competition:

“A polite number is a natural number that can be expressed as the sum of consecutive natural numbers. Write a program that will accept one or more natural numbers and determine for each of them if it is polite and if it is, print the length of the longest se-quence that sums to that number.”

As always, the three program-mers representing Saint Rose were chosen through a local contest held by Professors Dee Gudmundsen and John Avitabile. The three team members this year were Tiera Powers (communica-tions, junior), Peter Bailie (com-puter science, senior), and Jon Nauert (mathematics, senior— that’s me!).

Rather than summarize the events afterward, why don’t we take a first-person look at the event? Join me!

Thursday, April 269:25 am – My first class of the

day… Wait, this is not the impor-tant stuff. Let’s skip ahead.

4:30 pm – Time to leave! This

year, CCSCNE is being held at Quinnipiac University in Ham-den, CT. I have my laptop, my Java textbook, plenty of printed notes, clothes, spare clothes, and spare-spare clothes. I have charged my fake iPod knockoff, and look forward to being ser-enaded by the sounds of soothing artists like Jonathan Coulton and They Might Be Giants as I jour-ney… TO OUR DESTINY.

7:30 pm – I have arrived at the Holiday Inn in North Haven, CT! The 143-mile journey, powered by Sour Patch Kids and Chicken McNuggets, passed by in a quick three hours. The hotel lobby is filled with other programming teams (well, the lobby is full of nerdy-looking college-aged peo-ple, so I jump to the most likely conclusion). I forgot to bring my music player’s charger with me so the ride back will be rather si-lent. It’s always something.

10:30 pm – After a delicious dinner (paid for by Saint Rose – thanks in advance, Dean Thomp-son!), we are settled into our ho-tel rooms for the night. The mood is one of nervous anticipation… There will be thirty teams tomor-row, or in other words, there will be twenty-nine teams for Saint Rose to demolish. I can only dream of the rewards that Dr. MacDonald will bestow upon us if we manage to defeat Siena. I will never have to work a day in my life!

Friday, April 27 5:45 am – zzz…huh? Five

more minutes, Mommy… zzzzz…

7:15 am – We are checking out of the hotel now. Registration for the competition begins at 7:45, where we receive more free food (!) and have our initial meeting before the contest commences at 9:00 sharp. You are lucky, reader, because you do not have to wait to see how it all turns out. I still have another two hours to wait!

11:00 am – It is hour two of

the three-hour competition. The judges have just shut down the scoreboard, but not before we noticed that at this point, we are in first place! We have completed three out of six problems more quickly than any other team has. Hopefully we can keep this pace up…

12:00 pm – The contest is over. In the remaining hour, we were unfortunately unable to com-plete any of the remaining three problems. We do not feel so bad, though, because we know that we were very close to complet-ing two more problems. Now we eat a lunch of catered sandwiches and listen to speakers and ven-dors while we eagerly await the dinner banquet – and the results of the contest.

8:30 pm – After an afternoon of listening to talks, watching poster presentations (including Peter’s work with the Microsoft Kinect), and relaxing, the results are in! Of all the teams that an-swered three questions, Saint Rose was the fastest by far. Un-fortunately, three teams correctly solved four problems, one team managed five, and the juggernaut Siena team completed all six! We may not have taken home a prize, but considering the fun we had and the mental challenge we overcame, we know that we are winners.

Tiera, Peter, and I could not have gotten nearly as far as we did without the support and instruc-tion of the Saint Rose Computer Science teachers – we express our gratitude to Professors Ian Mac-Donald, Dee Gudmundsen, John Avitabile, and all the rest of the Saint Rose faculty! Next year’s CCSCNE will be held at, if you can believe it, Siena College. Next year we will be bringing our very best to the defending cham-pions. Will you be among us?

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An apt description for the first round of the NHL playoffs would be the term “upheaval.” Two Stanley Cup favorites, the Van-couver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins, were trounced in the first round, and dirty hits from players like Raffi Torres cast a dark cloud over the games. But with a new round comes a clean slate, and new opportunity for the eight remaining teams. With most of the remaining teams relying heavily on goaltending, look for offense to make the difference in most of the series.

#2 St. Louis Blues vs. #8 Los Angeles Kings

After upsetting the Presidents Trophy-winning Canucks in commanding fashion, the Kings turn to St. Louis, who finished tied with the Rangers for second in points during the NHL regu-lar season. Offense remains their Achilles heel, as they sit sixth amongst remaining playoff teams in goals per game after finishing the season second-to-last in that

department. But their strength is in their own end, as Vezina Tro-phy candidate Jonathan Quick has the highest save percentage of all remaining goaltenders.

For as well as Los Angeles has

played defensively, however, St. Louis has been slightly better. Not only did they finish with the fewest goals allowed per game, one spot ahead of St. Louis, but they have allowed an average of around six fewer shots per game than Los Angeles. The Blues also best the Kings on offense, as they have a higher average of goals scored per game and a substan-tially better scoring percentage on the power play.

With a goaltender as good as

Jonathan Quick, it is well within the realm of possibility that Los Angeles pulls the upset here. Still, the difference in offensive output should be enough for St. Louis to advance to the Western Conference Finals.

#3 Phoenix Coyotes vs. #4 Nashville Predators

Although Phoenix was given the higher seed over their first-round opponents from Chicago, the Blackhawks finished the regu-lar season with four more points. But with an upstart offense, the Coyotes ousted the Blackhawks in six games. But Phoenix’s big-gest success this season has been in net, with offseason pickup Mike Smith turning into one of the league’s best goaltenders; he continued his strong play into the first round with a .947 save per-centage and a 1.91 goals against average.

In terms of defense, Nashville mirrors Phoenix strongly. Both squads rely heavily on their goal-tenders, with Pekka Rinne mak-ing 73 starts for the Predators, highest in the NHL. Their five-on-five play is key to their suc-cess, as they rank second amongst remaining playoff teams with a 1.86 even strength goals ration.

Phoenix-Nashville looks to be the tightest, and possibly the best, of the Conference semifi-nal matchups. Although Rinne presents a far greater challenge to the Phoenix offense than Corey Crawford did for Chicago in the first round, look for the Coyotes’ superior goal output and special teams play to send them to their first Conference Finals appear-ance in franchise history.

#1 New York Rangers vs. #7 Washington Capitals

On a goal in overtime of Game 7, Joel Ward sent the defending champion Bruins packing, and Washington to another series up the I-95 corridor. Alex Ovechkin, for all that is made about his ice time, ranks third amongst for-wards on the team with 19 min-utes and 39 seconds per game, and leads the team in scoring with five points. But even he is out

shadowed by the play of rookie netminder Braden Holtby who, after just seven regular-season games, carried the team with a .940 save percentage.

Much like the Capitals, the Rangers were carried to the sec-ond round by their goaltending. But instead of a rookie, New York is backstopped by Vezina candi-date Henrik Lundqvist, whose .930 regular season save per-centage tied for first in the NHL among goalies with over 60 starts. But on offense, the Rangers need a spark, as their two goals per game scoring average ranks last amongst remaining teams.

In many regards, the Rangers match similarly to the Capitals; both are defense-oriented teams with quality netminders. It’s al-ways difficult to rely on rookie netminding, but Washington’s su-perior offense makes them slight favorites in what should be a lengthy series.

#5 Philadelphia Flyers vs. #6 New Jersey Devils

Philadelphia enters the second round gangbusters on offense, as they not only lead remaining teams in goals for per game by a wide margin, but Flyers forward Claude Giroux leads the playoff scoring race in both goals and assists. However, the team has struggled mightily on defense,

The Chase Continues for Lord Stanley’s Cup

with starting goaltender Ilya Bry-zgalov’s .871 save percentage ranking worst among remaining playoff netminders by a wide margin. Their real sign of weak-ness, however, comes on even strength play, as the Flyers rank lowest among remaining playoff teams in terms with a .80 5-on-5 goal differential.

The Devils, on the other hand, are second amongst remaining playoff teams with a 2.17 5-on-5 scoring ratio. Their offense is in the middle of the pack, with 2.57 goals for per game, but their de-fense is second to only the Flyers in terms of the most goals surren-dered per game. Martin Brodeur hasn’t been outstanding amongst playoff goaltenders, but his .922 save percentage and 2.06 goals against average are far superior to that of the Flyers’ Bryzgalov.

The Flyers’ key to success is on special teams, as their power play scoring percentage is tops amongst all playoff teams. But New Jersey has half as many penalty minutes per game as Pittsburgh, the Flyers’ first-round opponent did, and Philadelphia’s 52.2% power play percentage is an anomaly. Unless the Dev-ils have a mental collapse, look for the Devils to dominate five-on-five play and send the Flyers packing.Quick has the highest save percentage of all remaining goaltenders.

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Alex Ovechkin currently leads the team in scoring with five points.

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With most of the remaining teams

relying heavily on goaltending, look for offense to make the

difference.

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By JOSHUA NATOLIStaff Writer

The New York Yankees had a rough start to the new Major League Baseball season getting swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in their first series. Ever since then they have been hot, winning ten of their last 15 games. The last two loses had come against a powerful Texas Rangers team who have caused quite a stir in New York. The cause for concern is not in the Texas Rangers, but in how troubling the Yankee’s pitch-ing situation has become.

Phil Hughes was absolutely rocked in his last start. Hughes was expected to make a full bounce back after an awful 2011 season and a few great spring training starts. Velocity on Hughes fastball has been consistent and up to-par. Hughes’ locational is-sues have been his biggest prob-lem, even causing catcher Russell Martin to compare his struggles to former Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett. Anytime a current Yan-kees pitcher is being compared to

Burnett should raise an immedi-ate red flag.

Hiroki Kuroda has not been the pitcher the Yankees thought they acquired in the offseason. In the number two spot in the rotation, Kuroda has accumulated only one victory. Two of his loses were the products of bad outings in which Kuroda was banged up by the

Rays and the Minnesota Twins. In his third loss Kuroda actually pitched very well, only giving up two runs, but the Yankee offense could not figure out Yu Darvish. Freddy Garcia has also been lack-luster, getting rocked by the Red Sox before the Yankees erased a nine-run deficit.

The Yankees pitching woes

only grew when they found out that newly acquired Michael Pineda needs shoulder surgery and will be out for the rest of the season. Pineda’s velocity has been way down and he has gained 20 pounds since last season.

With three starters struggling, the Yankees have only CC Sa-bathia and Ivan Nova to put their trust in. Even Sabathia has had his struggles, unable to keep op-posing team’s runs under four.

The Yankees are now hoping for Andy Pettitte to finish up his starts at the minor league level to make his way back into the Yan-kee rotation. Pettitte may not be the savior the Yankees hope for however. Pettitte is planning on coming back after being retired for a year and is currently 39 years old. Even though Pettitte had a great season in his last year, there is no guarantee he will still be that good when he returns. Pettitte’s comeback will either make or break the Yankees. It is clear now that they need someone to either move Hughes or Garcia down to the bullpen. If Pettitte can be as effective as he was in 2010 then I would say the Yan-kees will be in terrific shape for the rest of the season.

I will give this rotation a two year maximum before it com-pletely reinvents itself. Sabathia will stay in the number one slot, anchoring the rotation with a vet-eran presence. The number two slot will obviously belong to Ivan Nova. Nova is becoming nothing short of fantastic. His velocity has gone up and the control on his breaking balls has been outstand-ing. At only 25 years old, Nova will be the core of the Yankee ro-tation for years to come. Pineda will bounce back from shoulder surgery to peak-form. The proce-dure Pineda is undergoing is noto-rious for restoring pitcher’s vital-ity. I have no doubts that Pineda’s struggles have been a product of his shoulder problems. When he comes back, expect Pineda to be throwing video game numbers.

The Yankees also have three pitching prospects ready to make a Major League start. David

Yankees in Trouble?

Phelps has been working well out of the Yankees bullpen after mak-ing the jump from Triple-A ball. Phelps is advertised as a starter, but is building knowledge of the game in the low-threat environ-ment of the bullpen. Danny Banu-elos and Dellin Betances are two of the Yankees’ biggest prospects. Both pitchers have shown domi-nance in minor league play and could form a very dynamic duo in the majors.

I know there are still over 100

games left to be played, but no team wants to experience pitches woes at any point during the sea-son. The Yankees need to make sure that they can produce more runs to back up their pitchers. If the Yankees are not able to bring in five or more runs a game then I am afraid they will struggle to find first place in a tough Ameri-can League East. But anything can happen, it is baseball after all.

Andy Pettitte’s comeback will either make or break the Yankees.

Michael Pineda will be out for season after needing shoulder surgery.

CC Sabathia is going to play a key role in the Yankee’s season.

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Hiroki Kuroda has not been the

pitcher the Yankees thought they

acquired.

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By SAM MAXWELLStaff Writer

Being a fan of a professional sports team seems to be a fairly simple concept. You pick a team that you can give your allegiance to, and support them through the good times and the bad. Howev-er, there is much more to it than that. In my opinion, every fan should abide by these “Rules of Fandom.”

There is nothing more I hate than Joe from Indiana who likes the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Yankees, Detroit Red Wings, and Dallas Cowboys. C’mon guy. If you abide by these rules, you will never be considered a “front-runner,” and people like me will not lose respect for you.

Here are my rules of fandom:1) Like one team, and only

one team for each sport: I hate people that say they have two fa-vorite teams- it is just not right. What happens if they play each other? Do you just root for a good game? Or do you root for one team over the other? Pick a team, and stick with them.

2) Your favorite team must be within a four hours drive of where you call home: Bill from Oregon being a Miami Heat fan is just not right. It makes you seem like a bandwagon fan, and there is nothing more I hate than a band-wagon fan. Also, if you do not have a professional team within four hours of you, you must like the team that is located the clos-est. However, there are some ex-

ceptions to this rule: a. Moving Clause: If you live

in Denver, and like the Broncos, but then you move to Indiana, you can still be a Broncos fan. I applaud people who stick with one team for their entire life- that is true love. This moving clause will be brought up again when talking about changing favorite teams.

b. Grandfather/ Father clause: You are allowed to like the favorite team of your grand-father or father, UNLESS, they broke the four-hour rule when they picked a favorite team. For example, if your dad lived in San Francisco and became a 49ers fan, but then moved to New York and kept his allegiance, you can become a 49ers fan because he kept his allegiance. However, if he lived in San Francisco and be-came a Dallas Cowboys fan, you may not become a Cowboys fan.

c. Family Member Clause: If your cousin is the catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, you can like the Reds regardless of where you live. If your cousin then gets trad-

ed, you can like the team he gets traded to. However, once your cousin retires, the four-hour rule comes into effect.

d. Expansion Team Clause: At any point that an expansion team comes into a league, you may switch, and become a fan of the expansion team. I did this with the Houston Texans and believe me, you will suffer. But being able to say you were a fan from the beginning is cool in a sports-nerdy way.

3) One Change in Each Sport Is Allowed in Your Lifetime: This has to be announced to your friends before the season begins, and the four-hour rule must apply. So, if you live in Seattle, sorry- you are stuck with the Seahawks and Mariners. However, there are exceptions to this rule as well.

a. Moving Clause: If you live in San Francisco, and move to New York, you may switch your favorite teams to New York teams. However, you must wait one full season before switching teams. As always, the four-hour rule applies. If you then move three years later, you may switch again.

b. Championship Clause: The team you switch to may not have won the championship in the pri-or two seasons. So, if you are a Jets fan, and want to switch to the Giants, you have to wait until the beginning of the 2013 season to do so.

c. Family Member Clause: As mentioned above, if you have a family member playing in a

professional league, you may like whatever team they are on, and switch teams as often as they get traded.

4) It Is Acceptable To Have a “Playoff Team”: If you like any team in Cleveland, you may pick a “playoff team” once the playoffs begin because lets face it, your teams aren’t making the playoffs. However, you may not buy any merchandise from your “playoff team,” nor brag if they win the championship. Also, once the playoffs end, so does your al-legiance to that team.

5) Buying Merchandise From Other Teams: You may only pur-chase a hat or t-shirt from other teams, and only because you think they look cool. NO JER-SEYS ALLOWED. There is one exception to this rule.

a. Hometown Clause: You may purchase a jersey of any player who makes it to a profes-sional league, and grew up within 30 minutes of where you grew up. For example, Jimmer Fredette grew up about 20 minutes from my hometown. Therefore, I fol-lowed him more closely than any other player. Under the home-town clause, I may purchase his jersey because he grew up within a half hour of where I grew up.

6) You Must Like the College

You Went To: I don’t think many people like other colleges, but I have to put it in here. However, there are exceptions.

a. D-1 Clause: If you do not attend a division one school (like Saint Rose), you may like whom-ever you want. The four-hour rule need not apply here.

b. Family Member Clause: As always, if your brother plays football at the University of Flor-ida, you may like the University of Florida.

7) New York/ Boston Rule: You may not, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, like a team from New York and Boston, even if they are in different sports. For example, if you are a Yankees fan, you may not like the Bruins, Celtics, or Patriots. That is just wrong.

9) No Canadian Teams Un-less You Have Lived in Canada: Do I need to explain? USA!

10) Soccer Need Not Apply: The best leagues are in Europe. Go crazy.

After reading these rules, you may realize that you have bro-ken all of these. That is okay; it is never too late to become an acceptable fan. However, the bot-tom line is you may like whomev-er you want. I may just not have respect for you. Happy watching.

Rules of Fandom

Yankee fans walking through the Great Hall at Yankee Stadium.

Green Bay Packers fans tailgating before a home football game at Lambeau Field.WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

There is nothing more I hate than Joe from

Indiana who likes the Los Angeles Lakers, New

York Yankees, Detroit Red Wings, and Dallas

Cowboys.

May 1, 2012 Volume 80 Issue 32 The Chronicle D19Sports

Upcoming Athletic EventsTuesday: Baseball (Double-Header) vs. Assumption at 3:30 p.m.

Friday: Men’s Track and Field at NE-10 Championships

Women’s Track and Field at NE-10 Championships

Saturday: Men’s Track and Field at NE-10 Championships

Women’s Track and Field at NE-10 Championships

Baseball (Double-Header) at AIC at 12:00 p.m.

All shuttles to Plumeri Sports Complex leave 45 minutes before the start of event. All shuttles

are in front of the Events and Athletic Center.

By JACKSON WANGSports Editor

The Saint Rose track and field team competed at the 118th Penn Relay Carnival at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus this past Thursday and Friday. Eleven Golden Knights athletes represented Saint Rose at the world’s oldest and largest relay carnival.

“Penn Relays is such a huge event and the logistics do not al-low for our usual warm-up plan but most of the team had been before and knew what to expect,” said Andrew Rickert, assistant coach of men’s and women’s track and field. “We wanted to represent Saint Rose well and bring back a heat win which yields a plaque but you never know how fast the heat you will be in is.”

The women’s team was up first competing on Thursday. In the 4x400 meter race, freshman Bi-anca Jordan, sophomores Bridget Buckley and Jessica Razy, and junior Dana Welch completed the event with a time of 4:03.43. They finished fourth in their heat and 72nd overall among some of the nation’s top college programs at all levels.

“Dana Welch ran a fantastic 2nd carry on the 4x400 team, especially considering the 1500 meter is her primary event,” said Rickert. “She’s having a great season and looks to do big things these next two meets.”

Still, the relay team was still able to set a new school record by shattering the old standard by 2.5 seconds. Razy held the anchor position and clocked in a blazing 57.80 seconds to get the new re-cord.

“They had yet to run that relay yet this season and so I was proud of the effort they displayed,” said Rickert.

In the 4x100 meter race, sopho-more Soroya Hudson joined with Buckley, Razy, and Jordan to complete the event in 51.16 sec-onds. That time was good enough for fourth in their heat and 77th overall in the event. The time was also the second fastest in school history and half a second from setting a new school standard.

Hudson also recorded a leap of 11.16 meters in the triple jump to place 18th on Friday.

On the men’s side, they kicked off their events on Friday.

In the 4x100 meter race, se-niors Ryan Saunders and Jona-than Reyes, and freshmen Chris Miller and Kyle Thompson fin-ished the event in fourth in their heat and 72nd out of 88 team overall. The team clocked in at 43.88 seconds which was the sec-ond fastest in school history.

In the 4x200 meter race, junior Umar Hasan joined Saunders, Reyes and Miller to complete the race in 1:29.68 to wind-up 35th out of 50 teams in the field.

The men’s team concluded their day in the 4x400 meter race. Hasan, Saunders, and sopho-mores Howard DaCosta and Rol-ly Lloyd crossed the finish line with a time of 3:27.36 finishing 55th.

“We had to re-arrange our line-up for the 4x400 last minute but

ran well considering,” said Rick-ert. “It made me proud to hear our name announced over that loud-speaker. I’m mean we’re talk-ing 30-40,000 people and ‘Saint Rose’ is ringing in their ear!”

In the same day, Hasan finished the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 56.49 seconds. He placed sixth in his heat and 47th overall in the event.

Next up for the Golden Knights will be the NE-10 championship meet on May 4 and 5 in New Ha-ven, Ct.

“This meet gives us some ‘big meet’ experience going into NE-10’s” said Rickert.

The Golden Knights will have a tough battle ahead of them fac-ing some of the top teams in the nation such as AIC, UMass-Low-ell, and Southern Connecticut at the NE-10 championships.

“The women have a great shot at improving on our record

42 points from last spring,” said Rickert. “The men have got their work cut out for them, as their previous best is 97.”

Some athletes on the women’s side to keep an eye out for at the NE-10 championships are Jessica Razy in the sprints, Soroya Hud-son in the triple jump, Patty Mas-sa in the 3000 meter steeplechase, and Megan Fuchs in the Javelin.

For the men’s side, watch out for Ryan Sanders seeking his first sprint title, Umar Hasan in the huddles, Samson Dikeman in the 3000m steeplechase.

The Golden Knights track and field team is currently function-ing as a team without their head coach Bob Dorn, who took a leave of absence due to health is-sues.

“We will be thinking of him no doubt and working hard to make him proud of our collective team finish,” said Rickert.

Golden Knights Compete at 118th Penn Relay Carnival

The 4x100 meter relay team, Jordan, Razy, Buckley, and Hudson.

Track and field team at the Penn Relay. ANDREW RICKERT

ANDREW RICKERT

Volume 80 Issue 32The Chronicle May 1, 2012ArtsB20

Students dancing during Drew and the Grand Spectacular’s set.

Lead singer of Streetlight Manifesto Tomas Kalnoky.

The quad at Saint Rose was filled with students enjoying Rose Rock.

Kevin Carey riles up the crowd during Drew and the Grand Spectacular.

KELLY PFEISTER

KELLY PFEISTER

KELLY PFEISTER

KELLY PFEISTER

Rose Rock 2012

“It’s a beautiful day to sit outside

and relax, and listen to music

with your friends.”Amanda Steves

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