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Abroad students shut out of Park Central

By Bobby PhilbrookTHE SANTA CLARA

Some students expecting to live in Park Central Apartments after returning from a quarter abroad were notified in November they would not have housing, causing most to rent from Domocilio, a more expensive option with pro-hibitive lease provisions.

“We all wanted to live together, but we were all going abroad,” said Katie Ryan, referring to six of her friends. “So we put in an application at Park Central in the beginning of winter quarter last year. They said we were No. 5 on the waiting list.”

For a variety of reasons, including a lack of on-campus housing, only approximately 400 juniors and seniors elect to live on campus their junior and

senior years, while rest move off campus. Most rental houses require one-year leases. To avoid the trouble of finding sub-leasers, many students turn to apartment complexes with more flexible rental arrangements.

“We sent out notices in Sep-tember to let those on the waiting list know their situation,” said Akee Farahmand, the property manager at Park Central. “What kind of availability they have, what are their options. Specifi-cally, we referred them to Domi-cilo.”

A two-bedroom apartment at Park Central currently leases for between $1850 to $2000 every month while a two-bedroom at Domicilo leases for $2295.

The last week of November,

Why so few female engineers?

By Hilary ToneCONTRIBUTING WRITER

In high school, Danielle Polk used to tell people she was thinking about majoring in theatre. Now, she is a senior computer engineer-ing major at Santa Clara.

“I was too embarrassed to tell people that I was actually inter-ested in computers,” Polk said. “I felt like I wasn’t good enough.”

Polk took night courses at a community college while still in high school, something she now says was based on her insecurities, and earned two technical certifica-tions. By the time she got to Santa Clara, she already had four years of

programming experience.“When I got here, I had to tell

myself ‘Okay, calm down, you’re on a level playing field now, half the people here have never had any experience,’ ” Polk said.

“I think I had a good advantage when I came here, and from there on, I got nothing but positive feed-

back.”In an industry where women are

represented by a mere 11 percent, according to the National Science Foundation, Polk’s story proves that she may not be the only female feeling discouraged about entering

Only a handful of women major in engineering each year

Displaced students turn to Domicilio instead

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See PARK, Page 5

Prowler spotted Friday with knife near Sobrato lot

By Rachel SchwartzTHE SANTA CLARA

A suspicious man carrying a knife was spotted by several students lurking near the Sobrato parking lot early Friday morning.

The man was described by Campus Safety as a white male in his early 20s, around 5 feet 10 inches, with a skinny build and long blonde hair. Students described him as wearing dark pants, a black hooded sweatshirt and a dark, knit beanie cap.

This is the third incident of prowling reported to Campus Safety in a week. A student walk-ing on Lafayette Street near Nobi-li Hall reported being followed on Tuesday by a man, who Campus Safety was unable to locate.

Sunday night, two men were spotted loitering near the Benson Memorial Center loading docks.

One man was apprehended and cited for prowling and being drunk in public and was described as “somewhat matching” the de-scription of the suspicious person reported earlier.

Three students saw the man who was loitering in the Sobrato parking lot just after 4 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 12 as they were returning to campus from Park Avenue.

One student reported to Cam-pus Safety that the man seemed to be carrying a knife, while the other two were unsure. By the time the students reported the

Friday incident third suspicious person spotted on campus during past week

See PROWLER, Page 5


Senate resolution to criticize Iraq plan

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats working with a well-known Republican war critic are develop-ing a resolution declaring that President Bush’s troop build up in Iraq “is not in the national interest,” said people familiar with the document. The resolution also would put the Senate on record as saying the U.S. commitment in Iraq “can only be sustained” with popular support among the American public and in Congress, according to officials who are knowledge-able about the draft.

Cancer deaths drop for 2nd straight year

ATLANTA — Cancer deaths in the United States have dropped for a second straight year, confirming that a corner has been turned in the war on cancer. After a decline of 369 deaths from 2002 to 2003, the decrease from 2003 to 2004 was 3,014 — or more than eight times greater, according to a review of death certificates by the American Cancer Society.

No-fly list checked for accuracy, cut

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is checking the accuracy of a watch list of suspected terrorists banned from traveling on airliners in the U.S. and will probably cut the list in half, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday. Kip Hawley told Congress that the more accurate list, combined with a new passenger screen-ing system, should take care of most incidents of people wrongly prevented from boarding a flight.

Suicide car bomb kills 17 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomb struck a mar-ket in the Shiite district of Sadr City and police said

17 people died Wednesday, a day after a blast target-ing university students killed 70 in what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence against Shiites. The latest explosion occurred at 3:55 p.m. near the outdoor Mereidi market, one of the neighborhood’s most popular commercial centers, and also injured 33 people, police said.

Storm leaves thousands powerless

McALESTER, Okla. — Thousands of people stuck it out in dark, unheated homes Wednesday and hundreds of others hunkered down in shelters wait-ing for restoration of electrical service knocked out by the snow and ice storm blamed for 56 deaths in nine states. Nearly 290,000 homes and businesses in several states were still without electricity Wednesday because of the ice, snow, and high wind that battered an area from Maine to Texas.

Military landfill becomes a money pit

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marine Corps is facing a multimillion-dollar bill to clean up a landfill that was so badly built it threatened water supplies. The Las Pulgas Landfill, located near the center of Camp Pendleton, was expanded in 1999 to hold decades’ worth of trash put out by the 45,000 sailors and Marines at the base. Marine officials closed the 17-acre site in 2003 after several problems were uncovered.

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of contami-nated leachate, the liquid that filters through garbage, seeped out of the dump, threatening water wells and aquifers located just a few miles from the dump.

Temporary fixes have already amounted to nearly $3 million, and it will now cost between $5.5 million to $29.4 million to repair the dump, according to a study obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune.

From wire reports. E-mail [email protected].

Associated Students sponsor alcohol forum

Associated Students is sponsor-ing a forum to discuss the newly implemented changes to the alco-hol policy. Representatives from several departments, including housing, will be on hand to answer students’ questions.

The forum will be held in Ben-son Parlors at 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 18.

Fireside Chats begins second quarter

The Fireside Chats, a weekly current events political discussion group, will meet Tuesdays through-out the quarter from 6 to 8 p.m. in Arts and Sciences room 232. The first meeting is Tuesday, Jan. 23.

The first discussion will center on the criminal justice system, examining topics of crime preven-tion.

Female San Francisco fire chief to speak

Joanne-Hayes White, chief of the San Francisco Fire Department and 1986 graduate from Santa Clara will speak in the Wiegand Center, Wednesday, Jan. 24.

Her talk is from noon to 1 p.m and is presented by the women and gender studies department.

From staff reports.E-mail [email protected].

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By Jeremy HerbTHE SANTA CLARA

Ron Hansen has built up an impressive resume: award-winning author, literary editor, professor.

But Hansen’s latest undertaking isn’t a typical literary affair — Han-

sen has become a deacon in the Catholic Church. He was ordained as a permanent deacon Saturday at the Mission Church in front of over 200 of his friends and family.

As a deacon, Hansen, 59, will preform similar duties as a priest, including baptisms, weddings and funerals. The only thing he can-not do is consecrate the Catholic Eucharist for distribution at Mass and hear confessions.

“It’s exciting and inspiring,” Hansen said. “You feel like a deer

in the headlights. This changes your life in such a dramatic way simply because it reorients you.”

Hansen is only the seventh man to be ordained as a deacon in the Diocese of San Jose. Deacons, who, unlike priests, can be married, were re-implemented in the Catho-lic Church under the second Vati-can Council in the 1960s. However, the Diocese of San Jose, which was established in 1981, did not start ordaining deacons until 2003.

To become a deacon, Hansen

had to go through a three-year pro-gram of spiritual education.

“It came kind of as a natural outgrowth,” Hansen said of his decision to become a deacon. “I’d done my master’s in spirituality here, and I was doing a number of different ministries here as lector, Eucharistic minister and spiritual director. (Being a deacon) would give me power to do more things like baptize and marry.”

Hansen has written eight books, and his ninth is on the way. He was a two-time Pen/Faulkner award finalist for novels “The Assassina-tion of Jesse James” and “Atticus.”

So how did such an accom-plished writer enter into the reli-gious life?

“There’s an old saying: Beware any application that requires new clothes,” Hansen said. “And I don’t have to have new clothes for this one. It just felt like a natural fit.”

“I can’t find a difference be-tween praying and imagining — I think they’re kind of uniquely in-tertwined. Certainly, when people talk about their muse, I think they’re really talking about inspira-tion from the Holy Spirit.”

Hansen was born on Dec. 8, 1947, in Omaha, Neb., and was raised by parents who had con-verted to Catholicism, something Hansen said caused them to be extra devout. Hansen’s vocation to religious life is not unique within his family. An older sister of his became a Dominican nun, while his younger brother was a Jesuit for nine years before leaving the priesthood.

Hansen attended a Jesuit high school and went to Creighton Uni-

versity in Omaha, also Jesuit. Han-sen served in the military following his graduation in 1970 and then earned his Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing at the University of Iowa in 1974.

Hansen moved to California to teach at Stanford University and then began to take religion classes, as well. He earned his Master of Arts in spirituality from Santa Clara and began a Master of Di-vinity degree at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hansen is married to Bo Caldwell, who is also a writer. Hansen said that while she is a devout Catholic, she thinks of his new job as “alien,” as she is much more introverted than Hansen.

As a deacon, Hansen will work in campus ministry, mainly preach-ing and assisting with Masses and performing weddings in the Mis-sion Church, said Jack Treacy, S.J., campus ministry director.

But while Hansen is now a cler-gyman in the Catholic Church, he doesn’t plan on proclaiming that in pages of his upcoming novels.

“My novels will not be written by ‘The Rev. Ronald Hansen,’ ” he said. “Being a deacon shouldn’t have any effect on the readers if I do the fiction properly.”

Rev. Tony Mancuso, director of formation for the Diocese of San Jose, said one of the most impor-tant roles of a deacon is to preach, and he expected Hansen would be more than up to the task.

“He certainly has all the words,” Mancuso said of the writer.

Contact Jeremy Herb at (408) 554-4546 or [email protected].

English professor Ron Hansen ordained as deacon

BY SHAWN HANNA—THE SANTA CLARA

As deacon, Hansen can now perform some of priests’ duties


By L. Gabi ReyesCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Recycling just became competi-tive.

Starting Jan. 28 students will compete against 124 universities in a ten-week recycling challenge dubbed “RecycleMania” to see which university can reduce the amount of waste it produces by the highest number.

“Peoples’ habits need to change,” said Lindsey Cromwell, sustainability coordinator for the Environmental Studies Institute. “Take a few extra steps to go to the recycling bin.”

Cromwell hopes to see an in-crease in recycling of at least 25 percent for the duration of the competition. The competition will stretch from January to April.

Last year Santa Clara recycled over 438 tons of material and in 2005 threw away 283 tons of waste.

The RecycleMania Project aims to significantly reduce the amount of waste at Santa Clara by educat-ing students about the importance of recycling.

“We hope to get as many stu-dents involved as we can. Not only is recycling important, it’s really easy,” James Hanold, co-president of the Grass Roots Environment Efforts Now Club said.

The Santa Clara program is a part of the National Recycling Coalition’s College and University Recycling Council.

From now until April 7, cam-puses will compete in different contests to determine which school can collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita or

obtain the highest recycling rate.Santa Clara is one of seven Cali-

fornia universities participating this year, competing against Stanford University, University of Califor-nia, Davis, Point Loma Nazarene University, who placed fourth last year, and 2006 champions Califor-nia State University, San Marcos.

Between January and April of 2006, the university discarded ap-proximately 280.83 tons of waste, nearly surpassing the total amount of waste for the previous year in

less than half the time, according to a report from Chris Young, re-cycling and landscape waste team leader.

“We’re trashing our environ-ment. We don’t get another one, we might as well keep it clean,” said Josh Fedder, a freshman inter-ested in the recycling competition. “People don’t pay enough attention to recycling and it’s really impor-tant.”

Young estimated students can minimize waste by 15 to 20 percent

if students would recycle beverage containers and an extra 20 to 25 percent if everyone recycled paper.

In 2005, the university recycled 85 tons of cardboard, 137 tons of paper, 25,100 pounds of tin, 1,000 pounds of aluminum, 12,600 pounds of plastic, 27,300 pounds of glass and 216 tons of green waste according to the “Sustain-ability at SCU” Web site.

Cromwell hoped that a competi-tion would inspire people to recycle more.

“There’s a personal pride in SCU that will unite the campus community together in the com-petitive spirit,” Cromwell said.

The RecycleMania project was created in 2001 by students at Ohio University and Miami University. Students decided to make an effort to reduce the astronomical amount of trash produced on campus by creating competition between the two campuses, hoping to spark interest in recycling.

Alec Cooley, collegiate pro-grams manager of the National Recycling Coalition, believes Recy-cleMania can help campuses better understand the importance of recy-cling by bringing the student body together for a common goal.

“Athletic competitors now have something in common with green save-the-earth recyclers,” Cooley said. Winners of the competition receive no physical prize, but are awarded bragging rights for a year.

Efforts to recycle and conserve have recently proved profitable for the university, which recently received a $109,000 rebate from Silicon Valley Power for equipping the campus bookstore, Shapell Lounge and the microelectronics lab in the engineering school with energy-saving heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

The HVAC and future rebates will be reinvested in more energy saving projects. Cromwell hopes this well be an incentive for stu-dents to start thinking energy-ef-ficiently by taking steps toward sustainability.

“The throw-away society we live in has facilitated the idea that once we get rid of waste it doesn’t mat-ter where it goes. We need to all do our part to not trash our planet,” Hanold said.

“Anyone can become involved. You don’t have to be an environ-mentalist to recycle.”

Contact L. Gabi Reyes at [email protected].

Vandalism

1/10: Graffiti was found written on the walls of the basement men’s room in Benson Memorial Center.

1/10: Graffiti was found written in several locations at Kids on Campus.

1/10: Graffiti was found written on an exterior wall of the Villa Apartments.

1/10: Graffiti was found written on an electrical box in Bellarmine Hall.

1/15: Graffiti was found written on an ex-terior wall of the Bellarmine Apartments.

Fraud1/10: Students were reported attempting

to sell counterfeit T-shirts to other students waiting in-line at the North ticket booth. CSS responded to question the students and after investigating, confiscated the T-shirts.

Theft

1/10: CSS and SCPD responded to Leavey Center to investigate a theft of cash and Ipods from the West offices.

Medical emergency

1/10: A female student requested medical assistance for her injury she received while skateboarding. SCU EMS responded to as-sist.

1/12: A staff member slipped and fell while walking on an icy sidewalk in the Mission Gardens, injuring her knee. She was transported to Cowell Health Center by Campus Safety.

1/16: A student ran into a rose bush while running across the lawn near the Cam-pus Safety office and was injured by a thorn.

SCU EMS responded to treat his wound.1/16: A Graham Hall 100 resident fell off

a skateboard and injured her finger. CSS and SCU EMS responded.

Informational report

1/10: CSS responded to Sobrato Hall to assist a RL staff member who was handling uncooperative non-affiliates who brought a case of beer into a resident’s room. They were questioned and admonished. The beer was confiscated and disposed of.

1/11: Two non-affiliate males, who were visiting a Sobrato Hall resident, were found sleeping in the first floor lounge area. The resident was notified of her responsibility to monitor the guests.

1/11: A car was reported vandalized while parked in the Bannan lot.

1/12: A suspicious person carrying a knife was reported loitering near the garage access to the Sobrato basement. CSS responded but was unable to locate the suspect.

1/14: A non-affiliate male was found prowling and being drunk in the Benson Center. CSS and SCPD responded and he was taken into custody.

1/15: The rear gate to Schott Stadium was found open at approximately 11:50 p.m. An open can with gasoline and empty beer cans were also found. The gasoline was removed from the location.

1/16: A suspicious male was reported fol-lowing a student who was walking on Lafay-ette Street near Nobili Hall. CSS responded to the area, but unable to locate the suspect.

1/16: A vehicle with several unpaid park-ing violations was booted in Bannan lot.

Drugs1/11: CSS responded to Graham 200 to

assist in investigating a smell of marijuana from two resident rooms. A room search revealed a small plastic bottle containing marijuana, an empty bottle with marijuana residue and several empty alcoholic beverage bottles. The marijauna container was confis-cated and destroyed.

1/13: CSS assisted housing staff in the investigation of a smell of marijuana in a McLaughlin Hall resident’s room. No mari-juana was found in the room.

1/13: A Campisi Hall resident was found in possession of marijuana and two boxes of alcoholic beverages in his room. The items were confiscated and disposed of.

1/16: Graham Hall 200 residents were found in possession of marijuana and empty alcoholic beverage containers in their room. The residents had left the room before CSS arrival. The marijuana was confiscated.

Alcohol

1/11: A student was reported ill due to alcohol consumption and locked herself in a Sobrato Hall bathroom. CSS and SCU EMS responded.

1/13: A Campisi Hall resident was reported ill due to excessive alcohol con-sumption. CSS, SCU EMS, SCFD, SCPD and paramedics responded. The resident was transported to O’Connor Hospital by paramedics.

1/13: A non-affiliate female who was vis-iting a Casa Italiana resident was reported ill due to excessive alcohol consumption. SCU EMS, CSS, SCFD, SCPD and paramedics responded.

1/13: A Casa Italiana Hall resident was

reportedly ill due to excessive alcohol con-sumption. CSS, SCU EMS, SCPD, SCFD and paramedics responded. The resident was transported to Valley Medical Center by paramedics.

1/13: Several students were reported drinking alcoholic beverages in a Campisi Hall resident’s room. CSS responded. The students were admonished and the alcoholic beverages were disposed of.

1/13: A student was found ill due to ex-cessive alcohol consumption while attending a basketball game at Leavey Center. CSS, SCU EMS responded. He was left in the care of his older brother.

1/14: A Swig Hall resident was reportedly ill due to excessive alcohol consumption. CSS, SCU EMS, SCPD, SCFD and para-medics responded.

Found property

1/11: A student’s wallet was found off campus and was turned in to the CSS office. The owner was notified.

1/11: A car door remote was found and turned in to the CSS office.

1/15: An abandoned bicycle was found unattended in the bushes by Dunne Hall. It was taken to property storage.

Lost property1/11: A cell phone was reported missing

from the Benson Center kitchen area.1/13: An Access card and a room key

were reported missing. The card was sus-pended per owner’s request.

From Campus Safety reports.E-mail [email protected].

Recycling challenge shoots for competitive spirit Ten-week nationwide competition aims to reduce campus waste

BY JOSS FEDDER FOR THE SANTA CLARA


encounter and Campus Safety responded, the man could not be located.

The late hour of the incident and the fact that the man may have been armed prompted Jeanne Rosenberger, vice provost for student life, to send out a university-wide e-mail following a request from Charlie Arolla, director of Campus Safety Ser-vices.

Because only one student reported seeing a knife and the other students did not confirm having seen a knife, Arolla chose to describe it only as a “shiny ob-ject” in the e-mail.

“The purpose of the e-mail was to notify the campus of the inci-dent and to serve as a reminder of how important it is to be able to contact us,” Arolla said.

There was a blue emergency phone nearby, but the students used a pay phone in the Safeway parking lot after unsuccessfully attempting to contact Campus

Safety by cell phone. The e-mail encouraged stu-

dents to program the Campus Safety phone number into their cell phones.

“It speeds up the process of no-tifying us when people have our number on hand,” Arolla said.

As a result of the e-mail, Arolla received a report from an-other student who believed that they had seen the same person outside of Casa Italiana on a dif-ferent date.

Santa Clara police was notified of the incident and increased pa-trols were requested for that area.

“In regards to any kind of suspicious activity, the beat of-ficer assigned to that location will make more patrol checks,” said Lt. Mike Sellers, a police spokesman.

If the increased police presence does not result in an arrest, it can help deter suspicious activity in the area, Sellers said.

Contact Rachel Schwartz at (408) 554-4546 or [email protected].

the male-dominated field of engi-neering.

“It’s a lot better now than it was in the ’70s,” said Katie Wilson, an electrical engineering professor. “But I’ve personally felt like I’ve always had to prove myself. It’s mostly men in the tech world.”

Wilson is one of four female professors in the electrical engi-neering department in the School of Engineering, which has ten professors total. Such a percentage looks good compared to her previ-ous position at Purdue University, where female electrical engineering professors counted for only four of 75 professors in the department.

While the School of Engineering at Santa Clara boasts a female fac-ulty percentage of three times the national average, and is now No. 4 in the country for such a statistic, it would seem logical that female students would also be higher in number.

Though women compose 25 percent of engineering students, Santa Clara is also a smaller school with only about 5,000 students. When translated into the num-ber of student engineers, this 25 percent means only three female computer engineers in the class of 2007, two female mechanical engineers in the class of 2008 and two female computer engineers in the class of 2009.

“I took four classes last spring,” said Nora Hendrickson, a junior mechanical engineer. “I was the only girl in three of them.”

Though female engineering stu-dents at Santa Clara don’t report any negative discrimination at the collegiate level, they recognize that younger girls in middle school and high school may be discouraged from taking the engineering route.

“I never knew that girls weren’t supposed to be good at math and science until later in life,” said

Robin Bell, a 2005 Santa Clara graduate who is currently studying mechanical engineering at Stan-ford University. “In high school, it felt like girls were either smart or popular. You couldn’t be both.”

Bell’s conclusions from her own experience are well-founded.

According to the National Com-mission on Mathematics and Sci-ence Technology, girls in sixth and seventh grade rate being popular and well-liked as more important than being perceived as competent or independent.

Polk, who is also the president of the Santa Clara chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, claims that young girls’ interest in math and science peaks at an early age and then declines. In fact, the percentage of girls who believe that anyone can do well in math if they try declines from 90 percent to 71 percent to 46 percent, from grades four, to eight, to 12, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

“The biggest problem is how these girls develop in middle school and high school,” Polk said. “They need famous, cool female role models to look up to, and who do they have right now? Martha Stewart and Madonna. They don’t have any faces they can put with engineering or science.”

It’s precisely this mentality that spurred the One Step Ahead pro-gram within SWE, an outreach program that brings local high school girls onto campus six times throughout the winter quarter to experience hands-on projects in the different engineering disciplines.

According to its creators, One Step Ahead is geared toward en-couraging girls in math and science and creating a support system for them.

“It gives these girls a safe haven to be smart, do fun projects, and share their passion with each oth-er,” said Hendrickson, SWE’s vice

president. “They get to say ‘I did all these things that college girls do in their engineering classes.’ ”

Karen Chapski, a sophomore computer engineer, participated in the program as a high school senior.

“I went to an all-girls high school, and when I told my coun-selor I wanted to pursue engineer-ing, she basically laughed and suggested I do something else,” Chapski said. “It was really cool to come to the campus and see what features Santa Clara had.”

Tim Healy, an electrical engi-neering professor, argued that while an outreach program is a great way to recruit female engineers, target-ing high schools might be too late to reach some students.

“I think middle school is a more important time to reach these

girls,” Healy said. For female engineering students,

a male majority can lead to better performance and some healthy competition. Especially at the col-legiate level, when sexist discour-agement no longer seems to be a problem, females take the oppor-tunity to prove their competence in the field.

“If anything, being a girl has made me work harder,” Bell said. “I want to prove that there’s no dif-ference, and if there is, to show I’m better than them.”

Hendrickson said, “Sometimes I feel like the guys in my classes are trying to prove themselves to me. They understand that I’m just as smart as they are.”

Though Santa Clara students ap-pear to be working to close the gen-der gap in engineering, the industry

has yet to accomplish such a feat. According to the National Science Foundation, women earn less than 25 percent of doctoral degrees in computer science and mathematics and less than 20 percent of doctoral degrees in engineering.

“Medicine and law used to be male-dominated, and now they’re almost 50/50,” professor Kate Wil-son said. “Engineering just hasn’t made that breakthrough yet, but I’m optimistic.”

Polk said, “I think the term ‘en-gineering’ has a nerdy or negative stigma that scares people away. Maybe we should change it to something more fitting like ‘cre-ative design’ and see how many more people we get.”

Contact Hilary Tone at [email protected].


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Female engineers try to draw more women

while still in London, Ryan learned Park Central had called the parents of one of her an-ticipated roommates, telling them there was no room, and the group would have to seek housing else-where.

“I never received a call,” said Ryan. “When I got back to the States, I had a message from them from November.”

When Ryan’s group turned in their application over a year ago, Park Central management “ver-bally assured us we had nothing to worry about,” said Ryan. “And when we found out we couldn’t live at Park Central, they referred us only to other Prometheus prop-erties.”

Prometheus, a privately held property management firm, manages both Park Central and Domicilio, along with 39 other apartment complexes in the Bay Area. Farahmand said, “Santa Clara is very familiar with this company.”

Students living on campus in Sobrato Hall are familiar with the name of the property’s owner. Al-though managed by Prometheus, Domicilio is owned by Sobrato Development Companies.

“We don’t market mainly to students, but the location is ide-al,” said Christie Brown, leasing agent for Domocilio, adding that, “we actually didn’t get as many students as we wanted” since the complex opened in July 2006. The 306-unit complex is currently 70 percent occupied.

Lauren Tavelli, a junior who studied abroad fall quarter, se-cured an apartment with her three roommates at Park Central by signing the lease in August, before they left for Europe.

“We turned in the initial appli-cation last November and put our-selves on the August waiting list,” said Tavelli. “Finding subleasers was a pain, but the January wait-ing list seemed like a toss-up.”

Tavelli and her three room-mates still had to pay rent for an empty apartment in August be-

fore the sub-leasers moved in. “We’re glad we signed then be-

cause they just raised rent prices,” said Tavelli. They pay $1600 a month for a two-bedroom. Far-ahmand said apartment prices at all Prometheus properties fluctu-ate according to demand.

Ryan eventually moved into a three-bedroom apartment at Domicilio with six of her friends where they pay $3425 for a month’s rent.

She does not mind the high price she pays to live next to the baseball field and across the street from the university.

“Actually, after the bad experi-ence we had with Park Central, I’m more than happy to live in Domicilo. The amenities are much greater,” said Ryan.

“We have access to a brand new apartment, a pool and a movie theater. It’s definitely cozy, but a lot of places off campus are. It works.”

Contact Bobby Philbrook at (408) 554-4546 or [email protected].

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By Maggie BeidelmanTHE SANTA CLARA

“Tonight, we will be discussing the black experience in America,” said sophomore Stephen Archer at the opening of MLK Night 2007, “Let Us March On,” held on Mon-day evening.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Center for Multicultural Learning and Igwe-buike sponsored this celebration in Mayer Theatre in which students performed interpretive dances, skits, songs, speeches and raps cen-tered around the theme of African American history.

“We will examine the different ways African-Americans have tri-umphed in the sphere (of discrimi-nation),” said Archer.

The performance opened with a dynamic African interpretive dance choreographed by Kendra Okposo.

The all-black cast beauti-fully portrayed through dance and speech the anguish of blacks, dis-criminated against in America for centuries.

The next scene featured a dia-logue entitled “Escaping Free” in which two slaves discussed the cruelties of slavery and the limited rights of blacks.

From beginning to end, the night’s scenes depicted the jour-ney of blacks from the times of slavery until now and how blacks in America have both struggled to gain equal rights and continue to be disallowed those rights.

Another dance featuring the styles of traditional African dance and contemporary hip-hop demon-strated a thanks to African ances-tors for the gift of tradition and

celebration of ritual. One particularly intense skit

erupted in a frenzy of arguments between a couple about the hard-ship of bringing new life into a difficult and unjust world.

“I ain’t bringin’ nobody into this world,” declared the wife, “(Because this world) don’t respect life.”

Another scene reenacted a 1991 rally at Santa Clara where students endorsed the increase of racial mi-norities on campus and requested that an ethnic studies program be started at the university.

“The year is 1991, and people are committing racist acts,” pro-claimed the rally organizer.

At the conclusion of the reen-acted rally, another speech told that Paul Locatelli, S.J., agreed to bring more minorities on campus in both the faculty and student population, and an ethnic studies program was introduced for the first time at the university in 1991.

This scene of the rally success-fully implemented in the audience the element of surprise that an ethnic studies program was consid-ered only 15 years ago; an enthusi-astic and firm applause succeeded the blackout of the scene.

The nearly full house responded with open laughter and delight at some other rather comical skits about blacks in America.

These skits were light-hearted renditions about black experience in America, as well as about being young, old, popular, unpopular and growing up.

Some of the scenes explained what it means to be black in pres-ent-day America.

“Being black is who you are; it’s not how you act,” said an actor.

But the ultimate message was that blacks have to deal with the same issues growing up that people of any other race or color do; it’s just that, quite often, they have to deal with racial prejudices, whether

pronounced or not, in addition to everything else.

The skits depicted real life in ways that people of any race can relate to.

“In the end, that’s all we’re looking for – just someone to be real,” said one actor, referring to the needs of people everywhere. “When will other people realize that it’s not the color of you skin that matters?” asked another actor.

The evening concluded with a tribute to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. “As a black man,” spoke senior Dale Johnson, “I cannot ignore that many of the victims’ faces, especially in New Orleans, looked like mine.”

Thus, a tribute in the form of song and dance was specially cre-ated to commemorate the victims and to continue to recall the di-saster that, as Johnson said, was a disaster because of both nature and the following public disregard.

The cast joined hands onstage for a final song, the Black National Anthem. Every member of the pre-dominantly charmed and enthusi-astic audience stood in recognition of the song, and those who knew it sang along.

“Let us march,” they sang. “Let us march on till victory is won.”

Contact Maggie Beidelman at (408)

551-1918 or [email protected].

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By Anna BaldastyCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film “Volver” is aptly named, for the famed Spanish director returns yet again with a cast full of color, warmth and wit.

In typical Almodóvar style, the plot of “Volver” is whacky and ab-surd, but not without the director’s playful recognition that the world he creates is both strange and beautiful, full of quirky characters, startling twists and, most impor-tantly, women who find strength and identity in each other.

The plot centers on a mother, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz), who must cover up the fact that her daughter has murdered her father in defense against his sexual ad-vances. Now, without the oppres-sive presence of a sex-obsessed, drunkard father figure, mother and daughter are free to grow together on their own terms.

However, a regained sense of wholeness can only be rendered when the broken relationship between Raimunda and her own mother has likewise been repaired. The healing involves a series of returns, both literal and abstract, that leave the audience wondering what kind of soap-operatic device Almodóvar will draw upon next.

“Volver” is expected to be the front-runner in the Best Foreign Film category when the 2007 Os-car nominations are announced. It emerges as the favorite because of its strong showing in most major European film awards of 2006, including a special Cannes Film Festival award in which its entire ensemble cast was chosen for Best Actress. “Volver” also won Best Screenplay.

Although Almodóvar is not yet a common household name among North American moviegoers, he has earned a devoted following among fans of international cin-ema ever since the 1988 success of his “Women on the Verge of a Ner-vous Breakdown,” Almodóvar’s first film nominated for an Oscar.

Since then, two of his more re-cent films, “All About My Mother” in 2000 and “Talk to Her” in 2003, have likewise stolen Oscar golds. Unlike many European direc-tors whose work shows only in the small art house circuit in the United States, Almodóvar’s films have met both critical and financial success, in part due to their undeni-able accessibility.

Moreover, Almodóvar’s films are applauded by both the feminist and gay and lesbian communities, for Almodóvar himself is an inter-nationally known, self-confident gay man whose work is praised for its complex intuition into women’s lives. And yet what makes Almodóvar’s work so appealing is that he handles such heavy issues with grace and humor. His films feel compassionate, not didactic.

“Volver” star Cruz’s wide-spread acclaim among American moviegoers may assist Almodóvar in crossing over in America to mainstream recognition. Still, Al-modóvar does not rely solely on the star power and sex appeal of his protagonist.

What drives the film is the origi-nal way he reinvents love, creativ-ity and compassion as genuinely superior and transformative values. Women are indeed victimized, but they are far from helpless.

Women in the film form impen-etrable bonds that span generations — from grandmother, to mother, and daughter — and dismantle traditional notions of masculinity. And by doing so with such good-natured self-awareness, Almodóvar returns in “Volver” with remark-able creative force.

GRADE: A-

Contact Anna Baldasty at

[email protected].

By Shereen MasoudCONTRIBUTING WRITER

What’s black and shiny and covered in lawsuit? Apple’s new iPhone.

On Tuesday, Jan. 9, Apple unveiled this tech-nological wonder with the goal of selling 10 million in 2008, a lofty aspiration, considering the fast-paced and dog-eat-dog cell phone market of today.

It is a risky undertaking, but in many eyes, a worthwhile one.

What makes this phone such a delicacy in a world of fast food phones?

While most of us are used to cell phones equipped with cam-eras and video recorders, even perhaps music players, the iPhone takes it to the next level.

It’s a phone, a camera, a text messenger, an atlas, a video iPod, a computer, an answering ma-chine and even a weather report all in one.

To top it off, it also has a touch-screen, Visual Voicemail and al-lows conference calls when one person just isn’t enough.

Such a grand phone, however, does come with a grand price:

$499 for 4 GB storage and $599 for 8 GB storage, and it can only be bought with a two-year con-tract from Cingular.

That is not the only exclusiv-ity issue surrounding the iPhone, however.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is suing Apple for a trademark infringe-ment, having launched an iPhone of its own just last month.

Reportedly, Apple has been trying to elicit permission from Cisco to use this contested name for several years and was expected to sign an agreement, but has yet to do so.

The extra publicity doesn’t seem to be hurting, though.

In a research note published Friday, Jonathan Hoopes, an ana-

lyst with San Francisco’s ThinkEquity Partners, wrote, “as this trademark infringement case esca-lates, we are taking the stance that ‘any publicity is good publicity.’”

In addition to the iPhone, Apple also boasts the newest development in TV: Apple TV, that is.

On the Web site, Apple proposes, “say you’ve just downloaded ‘Cars’ from iTunes. Instead of huddling around your computer to watch, you pop some popcorn while your computer wirelessly syncs your new flick to Apple TV. Then you pull up a seat, put up your feet

and pick up the included Apple Remote to play your movie on TV. Give yourself a hand: You’ve just changed the way you watch digital media.”

At $299, Apple TV and its 802.11 wireless capacity can hook your iTunes library to any Mac or PC in the house.

And in the spirit of efficiency, whenever you download some-thing new on iTunes, it is auto-matically updated on Apple TV.

With the ever-growing techno-logical scene, the days of string-and-cup phones seem long gone, and one is left wondering, what will they think of next?

Contact Shereen Masoud at

[email protected].

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By Kristina Chiapella THE SANTA CLARA

On Jan. 9, members of Santa Clarans for Social Justice gath-ered in Campus Ministry for their first meeting of winter quarter. During the meeting, members interested in improving the Santa Clara community generated some exciting ideas for future action.

“It was good to see a lot of the same faces,” said Beth Tellman, the student leader of SC4SJ. “We had lot of exciting ideas about what people want to work on.”

Member Anna Wheatley described her fellow SC4SJ members as “very dedicated, compassionate and proactive indi-viduals,” adding that she is always

impressed by the creativity, enthu-siasm and awareness brought to their meetings.

From devoting countless hours working with the Fair Trade Coalition to spending their nights huddling in their version of a refugee tent, the SC4SJ has learned that hard work really does pay off.

“Probably one of the most re-cent exciting moments was when we were mentioned in a Jan. 16th editorial in the ‘New York Times’ for our efforts in raising awareness of the genocide in Sudan through the set up of the refugee tent on campus,” said Wheatley.

Santa Clara recently transi-tioned to a new coffee provider, Barefoot Coffee Roasters, making campus coffee 100% Fair Trade. While Working with the Fair Trade Coalition, SC4SJ held talks with fair trade coffee farmers, passed out backpack pins and sold fair trade chocolate as a way to educate the Santa Clara campus community about the benefits

of fair trade. The group hopes to expand the fair trade policy to ad-ditional campus items.

As part of their mission to ad-vocate awareness and action on behalf of social justice issues, one of the group’s plans is to create a magazine called “OneWorld,” which will take shape over the course of this quarter and hope-fully come out this May. The pub-lication will involve student con-tributions in the form of various articles on social justice topics.

SC4SJ is considering continu-ing their focus on Darfur. This would involve asking the univer-sity not to invest in company stock that’s supporting the government of Sudan, which, Tellman said, “directly or indirectly promotes an economy that is causing geno-cide.”

More involved students results in more issues brought to the table and the ability to pursue a more diverse agenda, so the group is al-ways on the lookout for new and energetic members.

“Oftentimes it is easy to get discouraged when working in the area of social justice just because the scope is so large and you are trying to reach a lot of people to affect change,” said Wheatley. “It would be unrealistic to think that one group like SC4SJ could make everyone care and act on every issue.”

However, Wheatley confided, “I like to believe that everyone is essentially good and, given the opportunity, will act upon that goodness.”

Weekly meetings are held Tuesday at 7:30 in the Campus Ministry conference room.

Contact Kristina Chiapella at

[email protected] or (408) 551-

1918.


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By Sarah CliseCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Unless you’re a musician yourself, you probably don’t think twice about the work that goes into making your favorite tunes. The art of making beats and using computer programs and a variety of equipment to pro-duce musical rhythms is more challenging than most would believe.

Here at Santa Clara, three students, Dave Harding, Carlo Pappano and Andrew Will-ingham, have hopes of breaking into the burgeoning beats industry, each with his own unique sound and vision.

◗ Dave HardingA sophomore from Portland, Maine, Dave

started listening to hip-hop by accident. His dad gave him a cassette tape of Warren G’s “Regulators” that he’d found in a parking lot. “After that, I was hooked,” said Harding.

He’s built a home studio and has recorded with many artists from Maine. Describing the process he goes through to make his beats, Harding admits it’s very complicated.

“I load drum loops into my drum pad and start playing a rhythm using my hands. Then I record my drums in fruity loops so I have a 16-bar loop that plays over and over,” said Harding. “Then I come up with either the melody or the baseline as I listen to the drum pattern. Once the loop is done, I separate each track and make variations.”

Harding established his own record label, DNR Records, in 2006 and aspires to score a film using only hip-hop tracks. He also hopes to have a performance of his work at the

Bronco in the coming quarter.To listen to Harding’s music, visit

www.myspace.com/dnrrecords.◗ Carlo PappanoCarlo defines his sound as “slick.” From

Newport Beach, California, he cites J Dilla, Ayatollah, Timbaland, Kanye West and Traxamillion as some of his biggest influ-ences and is hopeful of achieving the same fame that his idols enjoy.

However, he points out that being a white artist in a predominantly black industry is a challenge.

“I want to network and sell beats to the point where I can support myself. It’s every producer’s dream to be able to wake up whenever you want, have a glass of OJ and make beats for days. My real goals are lofty,” said Pappano. “At the very least, I’d like to be in one music video, especially one on a

major network. It’d be a great in for going up to a girl.”

Infusing anything from Armenian folk music and belly dancing into more tradi-tional hip-hop, he’s currently working with Bay Area artists including Moonshyne and DLabrie.

To hear Pappano’s music, visit www.myspace.com/carlopizzoprod.

◗ Andrew WillinghamWhile he hails from Seattle, Wash., An-

drew Willingham’s beats are as far from grunge as you can get. His primary influ-ence is Dame Grease, DMX’s producer, who Willingham admires for his decision to stay sample free in his production.

He prides himself on making his own beats, explaining that “not relying on sam-ples to make beats gives me much more free-dom than producers whose tracks are sample heavy. My beats are unique.”

Willingham started making songs using MIDI on his computer or on Super Ninten-do’s Mario Paint when he was only in the second grade.

He’s been making music ever since and has produced two full-length records with the group Department of the Treasury. He is currently producing a third album.

While Willingham is extremely passionate about making music, he echoes Pappano’s sentiments about breaking into the industry.

“Some people expect hip-hop to be black rappers, drugs, sex and violence, but there is so much more to the genre than that,” said Willingham. “I’d love to see people be more willing to listen to my music and give it a chance, instead of writing it off as a pale imitation of someone else’s music.”

To hear Willingham’s music, visit www.myspace.com/thedepartmentofthetreasuryrap.

Contact Sarah Clise at [email protected].

Big goals always present to guide these musicians Three budding beat

artists try to make their

way in music industry


By David WonpuCONTRIBUTING WRITER

We all know about the astronomical suc-cess of the “Family Guy” DVD box sets, which motivated the network that originally cancelled the Seth MacFarlane-created series (Fox) to offer the residents of Quahog, R.I., a second chance.

There were also the considerable sales of

“Firefly,” the Joss Whedon sci-fi/western (also cancelled by Fox) which found new life as a Universal-backed motion picture called “Serenity” (even if its total box office take didn’t even cover the film’s modest $40 mil-lion production budget).

While most cancelled shows don’t get a second chance on television or the big screen, their eventual release on DVD offers viewers the chance to check out what they missed the first time around.

Here are some of the very best of the very cancelled, emancipated of commercials and chocked full of commentaries no one will ever listen to:

◗ Wonderfalls Canadian indie film standout Caroline

Davernas starred in this 2004 comedy about an MTV generation underachiever who graduated from Cornell and now works at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye Tyler (Dhaver-nas) frequents the bar where her best friend is a waitress, lives in a trailer and is generally content with an achievement-free existence (despite being the de facto redheaded step-child in her family).

Her entire life changes, however, when she discovers that manufactured representations of animals (like wax figures and those of the stuffed variety) can speak to her. As much as she tries to ignore them, she is all but forced to listen and repeatedly commit that most dreaded act of any self-respecting slacker: the good deed.

Ever the reluctant hero, Jaye saves rela-tionships, reputations and even lives through the course of the 13 produced episodes on the DVDs.

The good news is that the writers knew the series was being cancelled and were able to conclude the initial story arc; the bad news is that we will never find out who exactly was talking to Jaye (or if she was actually suffer-ing from a mental illness).

Either way, the acting in this series was absolutely superb, particularly from Tracie Thoms (“Rent,” “Cold Case”) as Jaye’s best friend and the venerable William Sadler (“The Shawshank Redemption,” “Roswell”) as her caring but aloof father.

◗ Mission Hill Originally dubbed “The Downtowners,”

this 1999 WB cartoon has found new life on Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim,” and for good reason.

The 13 produced episodes (only six of which were aired before cancellation) nearly ooze with biting satire and sardonic wit.

The protagonist is Andy French (voiced by Wallace Langham), an aspiring cartoonist/slacker-alcoholic who lives in a “funky” neighborhood and is forced by his parents to take in his hopelessly nerdy little brother Kevin.

Not only do the clashes between the two yield hilarious results, but “Mission Hill” also, sometimes mercilessly, skewers youth

culture in a way that is still (and perhaps even more) relevant today.

The animation style employed by the se-ries is also worth noting, with its vibrant-yet-imperfect neons and characters that, despite being drawn as caricatures, somehow seem indefinably more real because of that.

◗ Greg the BunnyWhat began on the cable access show as

“Junktape” and later as a series of intersti-tial movie-spoofs on the Independent Film Channel culminated with this 2002 Fox sitcom which disappeared quickly from the airwaves.

Although the show was obviously flawed and maybe even directionless, at times, it also exhibited the kind of creativity sorely lack-ing in a genre overrun with cop, doctor and lawyer shows.

The series is set in an alternate universe where puppets are not only alive, but an op-pressed minority.

The titular character and his best friend, a human named Jimmy (played by Seth Green), work on the set of “Sweetknuckle Junction,” a failing children’s show run by Jimmy’s father (Eugene Levy, in a rare sight-ing outside of the “American Pie” series). Greg is the star of the show; Jimmy, a per-sonal assistant.

Although of different species, the two share a common bond of video games, women and marijuana-laced brownies.

The show is fantastic at sending up the children’s entertainment industry, and jabs at shows like “Sesame Street” abound.

The puppets are the stars of the show, especially Warren Demontague, a washed-up monkey puppet who was once a world-renowned Shakespearean actor, and Count Blah, who harbors a particular grudge against another certain Count.

Yes, gentle viewer, you do indeed live in a television world where shows like the above three are cancelled to make room for yet an-other season of “Smallville.”

Did Tom Welling apply for his AARP card yet?

Contact David Wonpu at [email protected].

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A fantastical movie epic in imagery and eternal in message, “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a film one cannot afford to miss.

Director Guillermo del Toro, typically involved with the gothic horror genre, experiments with gothic fairytale in “Pan’s Labyrinth.”

A maze of events entwine the life of Ofelia, a curious Spanish girl in the midst of wartime in mid-20th century Spain, with a fairytale both unique and famil-iar to its global audience.

Ofelia, the unwelcome step-daughter of a Spanish military captain, struggles to uphold vir-tue in a world parched by injury and destruction. She earnestly carries out the tasks given by a dubiously benign faun in hopes

of discovering a better life which del Toro suggests is only existent in fairytales.

A strong stomach is essential to handle many of the graphic scenes without wincing in dis-gust at the cruelty of some dis-turbingly real characters.

The violence is not entirely unnecessary, however, as it aug-ments the film’s message of the raw heartlessness life can some-times bequeath on its deprived victims.

Captured in the director’s na-tive language of Spanish (with subtitles), this true piece of art will leave you speechless with the simple beauty portrayed in fantasy that persists in spite of a harsh reality and ultimately becomes the reality itself.

The cinematography is inge-nious: A skilled use of lighting and dreamlike imagery foster

an enchanting atmosphere, jux-taposing the romantic woodsy setting to the callous presenta-tion of war.

Not a moment of this film lacks in significance. The char-acters are so real that one feels directly fixed in their pains and triumphs.

This science-fiction/fantasy experience will leave you spellbound, wanting more and contemplating del Toro’s beau-tiful message. Upon conclusion of my viewing of the film, an unbroken silence and nearly tan-gible universal feeling of delight ensued.

By far the most unique film I’ve seen yet, this masterpiece will leave you exploring the great questions of life and comparing Ofelia’s genuine conviction and will to your own.

Grade: A-

Thursday, 1/18Ethics at NoonThis week’s topic is “The Ethics of Immigration: The Debate Contin-ues.” 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Wiegand Room, Arts and Sciences Building. Lunch is provided.

Diversity DiscussionAn open discussion about how di-versity should be addressed in the new core curriculum will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wiegand Room, Arts and Sciences Build-ing.

Career FairThe Career Center will host its Winter Career Fair from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Benson.

Power of PortraitureA Retrospective of Sixth Street Photography Workshop opens at the de Saisset Museum with a reception and preceding panel discussion about The Power of Portraiture. 4 p.m. de Saisset Mu-seum.

Stalking TalkListen to expert Michelle Garcia from the National Center for Vic-tims of Crime’s Stalking Resource Center talk about what stalking looks like on college campuses nationwide and how students at Santa Clara are affected by stalk-ing. 5:45 p.m. Casa Commons.

Orientation LeaderThe first of four orientation leader information sessions for students interested in applying will take place at 6 p.m. in Kennedy Com-mons.

Alcohol PolicyWhat do you think about the new alcohol policy? Have your ques-tions answered with University fac-ulty at the student senate meeting. 7 p.m. Benson Parlors.

OneWorld Magazine“OneWorld” magazine is looking for writers, editors, photographers and anyone who is enthused about international humanitarian issues to help create “OneWorld,” a so-cial justice magazine. Learn more at 8 p.m. in Campus Ministry.

Band Night

Late-night SCU presents an APB Band Night in the Bronco. 9 p.m.

Friday, 1/19Fear FactorThe Activities Programming Board presents a Santa Clara version of Fear Factor in the Bronco. 7 p.m.

Deja VuThe film “Deja Vu” (Denzel Washington) will be shown in Daly Science 207 at 8 p.m. and again at 11p.m.

Pablo FranciscoComedian Pablo Francisco will perform Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. at the Punch Line Comedy Club in Sacramento. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.

The LovemakersThe bands The Lovemakers, Chow Nasty, Persephone’s Bees, Ali Wong, Paul Nathan and DJ Ro-manowski will perform at 9 p.m. at the Independent in San Francisco. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.

Saturday, 1/20de Anza SymposiumThis event will describe Captain Juan Bautista de Anza’s 1776 expe-dition in which he lead 300 people over 1,200 miles to settle in Alta California and why the journey was so important for San Jose, San Francisco, Santa Clara and all of California. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Benson Center, California Mission Room. Cost: Free.

Running with ScissorsThe film “Running with Scissors” will show in Daly Science room 207 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.

Band NightLate-night SCU presents 880 South, a reggae/hip-hop Band Night in the Bronco. 10 p.m.

Tower of PowerThe band Tower of Power will perform at 9 p.m. at the Fill-more in San Francisco. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.

San Jose Sharks

The San Jose Sharks hockey team will play the St. Louis Blues at 7:30 p.m. at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.

Sunday, 1/21Chamber MusicA performance of chamber music will take place at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Music and Dance Facility.

Monday, 1/22Internship WorkshopThis workshop covers why one should consider an internship, how to make the most of an internship, finding and internship, resume writing and interviews. 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Benson Center, Willi-man Room. Cost: free to business school students and alumni.

Tuesday, 1/23Interview WorkshopBrush up on your interviewing skills by learning about types of interviews and interviewing tech-niques. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Kenna Hall. Cost: free to business school students and alumni.

Psychology LectureThis week’s topic about moral psychology is “Emotion and Mo-tivation, Obligation and Virtue: A Four-Part Lecture Series in Moral Psychology.” The presenter is Robert Audi, a distinguished visiting moral phi-losopher and professor of the Uni-versity of Notre Dame. 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Bannan Engineering Building, Room 325.

Arts & Sciences Join Arts and Sciences alumni for dinner and an evening of ex-ploration about the career paths in art/graphic design, event plan-ning, health and medicine, human resources and more. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. California Mission Room.

Wednesday, 1/24Music at NoonThe Mark Taylor Flamenco Trio will perform from noon to 1 p.m.

in the Music and Dance Facility.

Fire Chief TalkChief Joanne Hayes-White of the San Francisco Fire Department and Santa Clara class of 1986 will give a talk on leading the San Fran-cisco Fire Department and serving the community. Refreshments provided. Noon to 1 p.m. Arts and Sciences Building, The Wiegand Center.

Engineering SeminarSteve Morris, president of MLB Company, will discuss stabil-ity control challenges of small fixed-wing, VTOL and Flap-ping-Wing UAVs for mechani-cal engineering students. 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sullivan Engineering Center, Bannan Engineering. Cost: Free.

Artist WalkthroughsArtists walkthroughs with discus-

sion of “Faith Placed: The Intersec-tion of Spirituality and Location in Contemporary Photography” will take place at 6 p.m. in the de Sais-set Museum. Featuring artists Curt Fukuda and Lissa Jones, Kate and Geir Jodahl, and Laurie Long and David Pace. Cost: Free.

New ReleasesAlbum of the Week:The Shins: “Wincing the Night Away”Available Jan. 23

DVD of the Week:The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Unrated Edition)

Weather Forecast

Saturday 61°/37°, Sunday 62°/38°

To list an event, e-mail calendar@thesanta

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Opinion8 / Opinion THE SANTA CLARA Thursday, January 18, 2007

An unfulfilled dream at Santa Clara

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt of a coun-try that promoted equality

and brotherhood, where rac-ism was not tolerated and all people were created equal. He had dreams for the future that are still recognized today as fun-damental to our national cause. His speech was a major step in the right direction in the fight for racial equality in the United States.

But King’s dream has not yet been achieved. Even at Santa Clara, subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism remain present on campus.

Last year, racist graffiti was found in both the bathrooms of Benson Memorial Center and Swig Residence Hall.

In mid-Novem-ber of this year, a campus-wide e-mail pointed to three suspects in a series of on-campus thefts. All three suspects were labeled as African-American and described as 19 to 20 years old and 5’10” to 6’0” tall; 20 to 22 years old and 5’7”; and 19 to 20 years old and 6’1,” respectively. The de-scription also included phrases like “baggy pants,” “puffy jacket” and “short black hair with waves.”

The e-mail concluded with a list of theft prevention tips, including one that stated: “If you think the person is ‘suspi-cious’ or doesn’t belong in your residence hall or office corridor — for whatever reason — they probably are!”

While we don’t doubt the descriptions of the thieves were accurate, we do, however, be-lieve that this description could just as easily apply to plenty of black students at Santa Clara who are successful students and campus leaders and have every right to be in a residence hall without being considered “suspicious.”

Santa Clara claims to have rich diversity and promotes this through written rules, such as an anti-discrimination policy. But these attempts to foster acceptance remain futile if the

student body and greater Santa Clara community doesn’t em-brace them.

Every time we have an in-cident such as those described above, our community becomes one that is less welcoming, less accepting and less attractive to prospective students of color.

Take one look at our demo-graphics, and you will see that Santa Clara isn’t the diverse community we want it to be. Although 36 percent of Santa Clara students are students of color, this promotion is some-what misleading in the break-down of campus diversity: The freshman class of 2009 includes only 2.6 percent black students.

In the Santa Clara faculty and administration, representation of ethnic minorities also remains far too low. How can we expect to see a large minor-ity population in our student body when it’s not reflected in our faculty?

On Mon-day, Igwebuike sponsored an MLK Night that included skits,

traditional African dances and speeches to commemorate King and the movement he inspired. This type of event is the edu-cation we need to further our awareness and acceptance.

However, as the year contin-ues, and the events of Monday night become further away in people’s minds, our challenge will be to remember that King’s words are not some obscure part of American history, only meant to be acknowledged once a year. They are a daily reminder to all of us, of how we should live and how our society should work.

Here at Santa Clara, we may not be able to put an end to all of the racial discrimination in this country. But we can do our part. We can create an environ-ment that is free of racial slurs and hurtful stereotypes, and where ethnic minorities are represented in the classrooms, residence halls and administra-tive buildings.

Let’s all keep dreaming.

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Iraq withdrawal not an optionThere seems to be a growing

national consensus that the war in Iraq is, if not wrong

in principle, poorly planned and severely mismanaged.

America’s errors have created a situation in which there is no easy right answer. One option, withdrawing U.S. troops, would almost certainly leave Iraq to suffer an all-out civil war. Such a conflict would likely engender ethnic violence and other atroci-ties. The other extreme option is to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. This would subject American soldiers and families to more time apart and cause tragic losses for a possibly futile cause.

In an address to the nation early last week, President Bush announced a plan for the second path. His proposed troop surge sparked intense op-position in Congress and was met, at best, with luke-warm support from Iraqis. But at the same time, Iraqi leaders de-nounced the Iraq Study Group’s call for a gradual withdrawal from Iraq — a plan the Bush administration soundly rejected. The administration is clearly in a catch-22, but the dilemma is of its own making.

Amidst the debate, the admin-istration and the American people seem to miss a crucial point: By invading Iraq and toppling the state apparatus, the United States took on an obligation to the Iraqi people. The violence that rages now is not our fault, but it is our responsibility. And while it is vitally important to consider the interests of the United States and

our troops’ well-being, it would be irresponsible and wrong to devalue the well-being of Iraqi civilians.

But politicians do this all the time when they argue that this is the “Iraqis’ war.” While Iraqis are indeed fighting, they would not be doing so without the United States’ invasion and further actions (or inactions). So if the United States is not a cause of the ongoing violence, it has at least made it possible, if not likely. Disregarding this fact is disingenuous.

For the purposes of our nation-

al discussion, we must remember that an Iraqi life is worth the same as an American life; there is no principled difference between us. The United States government has taken on a similar obligation to both American citizens and Iraqis.

By ignoring this principle, both sides in the debate make mistakes. Advocates for withdrawal operate under the fiction that, without U.S. forces, Iraqi police and mili-tary resources can win the peace. But this defies common sense as well as experience. It is unreason-able to believe that Iraqi forces — which have been unable to stop the violence in concert with U.S. forces — would be able to handle the situation on their own. And

such consequences would surely signal a victory for Al Qaeda.

But President Bush’s hollow assurance that his new plan for Iraq will work, in his own words, “because it has to,” is similarly unconvincing. Even if his plan is successful, its cost — broken promises to military personnel, sustained combat tours and hor-rific casualties — makes one ques-tion whether it’s worth it. Presi-dent Bush’s refrain that success in Iraq is critical to America’s safety is sincere and likely has a ring of truth to it; however, the success he speaks of is far in the distance and

speculative at best. But even if suc-

cess in Iraq has no direct link to U.S. welfare, there is more to consider. Iraqi civilians live with what amounts to a civil war. Their own government has become re-

duced to merely one side in the war and is struggling to maintain order. So who is looking out for their interests? It has to be the United States and the remaining coalition allies.

So when President Bush assures us that we are fighting terrorists in Iraq so that we don’t have to fight them on our soil, he is only telling us half the story. Indeed, imag-ine an Iraqi civilian’s reaction to that statement. Remembering the importance of Iraqi civilians changes the debate and is criti-cal to the United States retaining some sort of credibility. It is also a moral imperative.

Roey Rahmil is a senior political

science and philosophy double major.

Editorials express the institutional opinion of The Santa Clara. They are determined and written

by the editorial board, which is composed of Ryan Groshong, Jeremy Herb, Jessica Silliman and

Liz Weeker. Editorials are written by one or more members of the board.




Not long ago, I was observ-ing the sky as I often do. I saw what looked to be a

bird or a plane and quickly realized that it was, in fact, Superman. He was, no doubt, rushing off to save some damsel in distress or foil a bank robbery — such is his chosen career as a superhero. However, I have a bone to pick with this so-called “man of steel.” I researched our airborne wonder and found out that he is not a citizen of the United States, or even a citizen of this planet! I, of course, like many of you readers, was outraged to hear the news. How could we as a country let an illegal alien, like Superman, cavort around our precious, unprotected airspace? I see this lapse in judgment as an egregious mistake on the part of the American people and vow not to rest until the problem has been corrected.

Now, I admit that I was once taken in by Superman’s charms, his witty banter and his superhero mystique. But no longer will I let myself get suckered into his clever disguise. He has been playing us like a fiddle, and I won’t stand for it anymore. The man is an im-migrant, a stranger in this country who has been taking jobs away from hard-working firefighters, police officers and other safety of-ficials for too long.

I would like to formally recom-mend to the Immigration and Naturalization Service that we deport Superman. He is a threat to our national security and our economy. The man can shoot laser beams from his eyes; and if that isn’t a weapon of mass destruction, then I don’t know what is. There’s no telling how much damage he could cause. I know what you’re all thinking: Who is going to fight crime in Superman’s absence? Well, we a have a far-reaching band of law enforcement officers who can do the job. Plus, we still have Batman. My only concern is how to get Superman out of this country and off of this planet. He’s bulletproof, so our firearms are useless against him. I did, however, find out that he draws his superpowers from Earth’s sun, and I intend to use this knowledge against him.

My plan is simple: We must begin to construct a massive wall around Earth that will completely block out the sun. Once Superman sees that he isn’t wanted, he will most likely leave. Upon his depar-ture, we can reinforce the walls with kryptonite, Superman’s only known weakness, to make sure he doesn’t come back. I’d rather live in total darkness than have an illegal immigrant protect this proud na-tion of ours.

On a personal note, I’d like to say that Superman has no place in our society. I no longer believe that he stands for truth, justice and the American way. For if he truly did, he would have gotten a green card a long time ago.

Marcos Moreno is a senior English

major.

Superman is not an American

Iraq war more than a ‘conflict’On Jan. 10, President Bush

addressed the nation in a speech outlining the

United States’ new strategy to end violence in Iraq. In the first few lines of the speech, the president framed the conflict in Iraq as part of a larger conflict, deemed the “global war on terror.” Although he includes the conflict in Iraq as part of the war on terror, he never calls the Iraqi conflict a war. Instead, the president continues to label this conflict, which has claimed the lives of over 3,000 American troops and 50,000 Iraqis since March 2003, “sectarian vio-lence” or an “insurgency.”

As body counts continue to rise and the conflict rages on with no end in sight, the president’s refusal to admit that Iraq is in a state of civil war becomes more and more absurd.

But what makes a conflict a war? The modern conception of what constitutes a state of war has changed substantially over the last decade. Wars are no longer fought by uniformed soldiers on clearly demarcated battlefields between opposing states. With the rise of terrorism and guerilla warfare,

wars are fought by intelligence agencies and terrorist organiza-tions on city streets.

After Sept. 11, President Bush introduced the nation to a new concept: the “global war on ter-ror,” which he mentioned last Wednesday. He argued that this war would be unlike any other war the United States had ever seen. It would be fought in the shadows against soldiers without uniforms that use terror as their primary weapon. Vic-tory in this war could take many years and would not end with a clear sur-render by one side.

Some have questioned whether the war on terror is actually a war. I think it can be fairly character-ized as a war, even though it is not a state with soldiers in uniform, because the United States is in-

volved in violent conflict with an organized enemy.

However, if the global war on terror is a war, how can the con-flict in Iraq not be considered a war? Gunfire and explosions are everyday occurrences in Baghdad,

with Iraqis dy-ing in scores on a daily ba-sis. Although the country is not divided along clear lines, power-ful Shi’ite and Sunni militias are making life miserable for the Iraqi security forces and American troops. The death tolls are staggering, and the violence

shows no sign of letting up.President Bush’s motives to

avoid using the term civil war to label the Iraqi conflict are clear. Bush has already stated that the situation in Iraq is dire. But admit-ting that an all-out civil war has

broken out essentially amounts to a concession that the United States has completely failed in Iraq. Even though the body counts are on the news every day, the situ-ation in Iraq seems less dire when it is called “sectarian violence,” rather than a war.

Unfortunately, the most com-forting labels are often not the most realistic. We should not turn a blind eye to the reality of the situation in Iraq and let our government’s language and rheto-ric shape the way we understand current events.

Iraq is in the middle of a civil war, and I hope that the new strat-egy the president plans to imple-ment will stop it from escalating and will curb the violence. How-ever, I also hope that the president will stop misleading the American people by falsely characterizing a civil war in Iraq as an insurgency because the deaths of 3,000 Amer-ican soldiers and 50,000 Iraqis in less than three years are clearly the result of more than “sectarian violence.”

Chris Cavagnaro is a senior political

science major.

How hard is it to start a conversation?Imagine this scenario: I walk

back from class alone and move toward the elevator in

the dorm. Upon reaching it, I no-tice two people are already waiting there, and the elevator button has been pushed. Now what do I do? All three of us watch the elevator move floors while secretly hoping for it to quicken so the awkward-ness can end. The elevator arrives, and we step in politely. Ironically though, I wait for each person to get in individually; that way I don’t have to move around them. I want to just stick to my space.

I stare at the door closing in an effort to avoid eye contact, but then the person to my left pushes the button for his floor, at which point I think, “Great, I forgot to press my floor.” Another awkward situation is imminent. I squeeze around the guy and practically force him into the wall in an effort to push the button for my floor. At least I didn’t have to ask. As the door shuts, the girl on my right asks the guy, “Can you hit floor four, please?” Oh! She’s brave.

The elevator has started go-ing up, and we all do absolutely nothing. One stares at the floor, I hum a tune to myself and the girl chuckles about a sign in the elevator. All of us are tracing the floors’ patterns to avoid looking at anything near each other. None of us want to be the loser who says something to which nobody responds, so we keep watching the floors change.

The guy steps off to his floor without a look back. The door closes, and we head up again. Now, it’s at the girl’s floor. She walks out the door, but then she does something completely pre-posterous. She says goodbye! Am I supposed to say goodbye back? While I flounder for words, the door closes.

What motivates situations like this? Elevator odd-talk is the epitome of social awkwardness. There are two reasons why we can’t string words together to avoid the abyss of uncomfortable silence.

The first reason is more attuned to something prevalent in English papers, dealing with themes and such. When people come back to their dorm, they’re trying to get away from the stresses and obligations of life. Let’s say school represents one universe and the dorm represents another. The elevator ride is the wormhole be-tween those two universes. It’s like a river that people cross and need to have it steady to make it all the way. People may not talk because

they are absorbed in thoughts dur-ing the elevator ride. But this argu-ment is only persuasive if elevator rides taken are toward the apart-ment at the end of the day, which isn’t always the case.

It’s more likely that the reason people have trouble in the elevator is a result of something that affects us everyday — something I like to call the “conversation crunch.” It’s difficult to start conversations.

Imagine how much harder it is now in the elevator. It’s not simply two seconds that you can pass by someone without a problem. But, at the same time, it’s not long enough to figure out how to strike up a conversation. At best, you’ll be able to name off some quick current events, such as the

recent e-mail sent by President Paul Locatelli, S.J., that called for limiting alcohol abuse, or the happenings of last Friday, when three students were sent to the hospital for alcohol-related ill-nesses. Remember, it only takes two of you to have a conversation. The others will gradually join in, so mention something that is com-mon between the two of you. We need something to get everyone in the elevator out of this grey area of social exposure.

And if you really struggle in this elevator limbo, just mention this article, and I’m sure you’ll spark something.

Preet Anand is an undeclared

freshman.

BY BRIAN WATSON—THE SANTA CLARA




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Will David Beckham be the

American soccer savior?

Sure he consulted public-relations-nightmare Tom Cruise on his decision to move to Los Angeles and pursue a soccer career in the U.S, but David Beckham still stands an estimated $250 million richer after signing his five-year Galaxy con-tract. More importantly, he may have kicked open the door to a new type of Ameri-can soccer — a popular one.

Some speculate that Beck-ham isn’t enough to rouse American soccer interest. His recent slump with Real Madrid has people suggest-ing that he won’t do much in the way of raising the play-ing quality in the U.S.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, a successful coach in the English Premier League, says America would need an influx of European play-ers in order to significantly boost American soccer.

But Dutch player Edgar Davids could become the next European soccer celeb-rity to follow Beckham and may not be the last. Just a day after Beckham signed with Galaxy, the Dutch midfielder announced he is talking with FC Dallas. And with the lucrative contracts being offered to these two, who’s to say more players won’t follow?

Beckham and Davids may not be the best players in the Premier League, but for the MLS they are bringing in a new level of talent and, in Beckham’s case, star power.

The Galaxy has already sold 5,000 season tickets since Beckham’s move.

It will probably take more than Beckham alone to lift U.S. soccer, but he may be just what the MLS needs to curb the bleeding of talented American players to Europe. Now that the U.S. soccer salary cap has exploded, American teams can appar-ently afford to draw in high-profile players. The face of American “football” may never be the same again.

I think the better question might be, who cares?

Soccer is enormously popular in this country, so much so that nearly every little kid nowadays plays soc-cer at one level or another. Yet attendance in the MLS leaves much to be desired, and the same can be said for MLS telecasts.

The proposed solution? David Beckham, or “Becks,” as he’s commonly referred to.

Sure, the star power might lure the occasional extra fan to a game or two, but the fact remains that soccer isn’t su-preme in the United States.

The fact is that Beckham hasn’t played up to the stan-dards that he created for himself with sterling play earlier in his career.

Yes, he has his own name in a movie (that ironically in-cludes Santa Clara,) but his skills have definitely dimin-ished from four, five, even six years ago.

Beckham is 31. In soc-cer, that means that the wheels are starting to come off, at least for the average player, which at this point is definitely the category that Becks falls into.

I’ll admit that his contract might draw other premier players looking for big bucks, but does anybody else find it strange that Beckham elected to play for the team that hap-pens to make its home in Los Angeles?

At this point, it’s tough to say whether Beckham is more interested in winning an MLS Cup or if he wants to start making movies.

This type of move worked once, when Pele played for the New York Cosmos in the late 1970’s. But Beckham isn’t anywhere near Pele’s caliber. This acquisition is nothing more than a lame attempt at drawing more at-tention to the MLS.

However, it won’t be good enough to sway the public.

Well, at least they tried.

Men’s basketball Women’s basketball Women’s soccer (final)

Jan. 18 Women’s basketball San Diego 7 p.m. Leavey Center

Jan. 20 Men’s basketball San Diego 4 p.m. San Diego

Jan. 20 Women’s basketball San Francisco 7 p.m. Leavey Center

Jan. 20 Men’s tennis U.C. Santa Cruz 9:30 a.m. Santa Clara

Jan. 20 Men’s tennis U.C. Davis 12:30 p.m. Santa Clara

Jan. 22 Men’s basketball San Francisco 7 p.m. San Francisco

Jan. 25 Women’s basketball Pepperdine 7 p.m. Malibu




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play, Igwe has competed with the U.S. national team on numerous occasions. At the ripe age of 16, Igwe left his high school in San Jose to join the U.S. U-17 nation-al team’s year-round residency program in Bradenton, Fla.

Igwe was also a member of the U-20 team, where he participated in various matches throughout 2006 and 2007. He played sig-nificant minutes in the United States’ second place finish at the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland in August 2006.

While Igwe concentrated on his commitment to the Broncos during the fall, he returned his fo-cus to international competition upon season’s end. Currently, Igwe is traveling with the U-20 team in Panama and was not available for comment.

Of the 52 players taken in this year’s draft, only five are teenag-ers — Igwe being one.

“One of the things that sets Amaechi apart from your typical player is that he is left-sided, left-footed, and in any sport, that is a very marketable trait,” said Rast.

Fortunately for Igwe, who aspires to play soccer overseas,

he has landed in one of the more celebrated franchises in recent MLS history. The New England Revolution has finished among the top three teams in the MLS in three of the last four years.

In addition, the Revolution’s head coach, Steve Nicol, has a reputation for developing young talent. Nicol has assisted in the development of U.S. national team players Clint Dempsey, Pat Noonan, Michael Parkhurst and Taylor Twellman.

“I think it’s going to be a very maturing environment for him. It’s going to be a type of environ-ment that will season him and harden him, and if he wants to be a pro, this will be a good, hard look at what it’s like,” said Rast.

Igwe has a long future in pro-fessional soccer ahead of him, both nationally and internation-ally.

“I think he had a very success-ful year here, and in the end, it was a good year for him to learn how to be a good part of a pro-gram and enjoy the game,” said Rast. “And now, he’ll do it for a living.”

Contact Joe Doss-Antoun at (408) 551-1918 or [email protected]

Only five teens in draft

BY TAYLOR ALEXANDER—THE SANTA CLARA

left to play. But that’s as close as the Broncos would get, as the game ended with the Bulldogs shooting a perfect 100 percent from the line in the second half.

“We were getting good looks,” said Pariseau. “We just couldn’t knock them down.”

The Broncos took 29 three-point shots in all, twice as many as the Bulldogs who seemed to be hitting everything in the second half. Part of that was because of Gonzaga’s 1-2-2 zone, but part of it was poor offensive execution.

“We shot too many threes to-night,” said head coach Dick Dav-ey. “I think the game plan was to get the ball inside a little bit more, but we weren’t really effective.”

The Bulldogs shot 49.1 percent from the field on the same number of shots as a Bronco squad, who only shot 40.4 percent.

“It boils down to making shots,” said head coach Davey. “We didn’t do it and they did.”

The loss was Santa Clara’s 13th straight to the Bulldogs, including playoffs and regular season con-tests.

Despite the losing streak, Davey

said it was still only a single confer-ence game.

“It’s one of 14,” said Davey, re-ferring to the number of conference games. “Let’s hope that in a month when we play them at their place, it’s closer.”

The Broncos will travel to Spo-kane on Feb. 12 for the nationally televised rematch.

Before that game, the will con-tinue conference play at San Diego on Saturday and at San Francisco on Monday.

Contact Chris Furnari at (408) 551-1918 or [email protected]

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By Chris Furnari

THE SANTA CLARA

Senior basketball player Danny Pariseau is quite possibly the most nonchalant, laid back man on the entire campus, but you wouldn’t know it from his game.

The 5’10, 160-pound guard, a transfer from Eastern Washington University, is most commonly recognized for his aggressive, up-tempo style of play on the court. Of course, few see Pariseau sitting in front of his computer reviewing game film and strumming a few chords on the acoustic guitar.

Pariseau arrived on campus last year but was forced to sit out a year due to NCAA regulations. A native of Spokane, Wash., Pari-seau played at Shadle Park High School until he eventually decided to continue his basketball career at Eastern Washington. While he experienced some success at EWU, Pariseau was looking for more after a coaching change brought a different style of play than he had become accustomed to with the previous coach.

“I decided to leave because it felt like we were playing not to lose,” said Pariseau. “We weren’t playing to win, and I didn’t want to finish my career like that.”

Pariseau began his search for a new university with help from former Gonzaga basketball coach Dan Fitzgerald.

“I was looking at a few division two schools, but after playing with some of their guys, I realized it just wasn’t the same,” said Pariseau.

Pariseau knew that he still

wanted to play at the division one level and consulted Fitzgerald for advice.

“Fitz told me the only guy he could really vouch for was Coach Davey,” said Pariseau.

That was all the advice Pariseau needed. He packed his bags and headed for a visit at the Mission Campus.

“I came down here to play with some of the guys, and I remember playing with Scotty,” said Pariseau, referring to Scott Dougherty. “We had played together before, and I just knew this was the place.”

Pariseau made his decision to at-tend Santa Clara, despite reaching the NCAA tournament with East-ern Washington his sophomore year. Pariseau, however, wanted more out of himself and more out of his coach.

“I don’t like playing strictly a half-court game,” said Pariseau. “I like being able to switch it up.”

Pariseau hoped that Davey would not only be a good fit for his style of play; he also still wanted to improve.

“I wanted a coach that was old school and taught some more of the fundamentals,” said Pariseau. “I wanted to use my red-shirt year to get better.”

Pariseau also credits Brody Ang-ley as one of the main reasons why he came here, knowing he would be able to practice against him ev-ery day and improve.

Nobody, not even Pariseau, could foresee the impact he would make in his final year of collegiate basketball. He is averaging just under 10 points per game and of-

fers another offensive threat at the guard position next to Angley. His biggest boon, however, does not show up in the stat column.

Pariseau has brought a new dimension to the team that has helped give the Broncos an edge in tough match-ups. While some would argue that Pariseau is the purest shooter on the team, he believes his biggest asset lies in his intensity.

“There is not much else a skinny little guy can do other than being insanely competitive,” said Pari-seau.

Competitive is an understate-ment. Pariseau plays every minute of every game like it’s the NCAA championship, with little regard for his body. Regardless of the night, Pariseau is making it happen, even when he’s not making all of his shots or on top of his game.

“I thought about my role last year when I wasn’t playing,” said Pariseau. “I said that regardless of what happened, I was going to go out there and play as hard as I could every night.”

Through the first 18 games of the season, Pariseau has done just that, and has since earned not only a starting role, but a comparison to Santa Clara’s most famous alum-nus, Steve Nash.

If you asked Pariseau, he would politely disagree.

“It’s B.S.,” said Pariseau. “That guy is insanely good. Nash is such a threat, he’s so hard to guard, and I don’t think that’s me.”

That doesn’t stop Pariseau from trying to emulate some of Nash’s moves.

“I see some things, and I think, ‘Oh, that’s a good pass,’ or, ‘I like that move, I think I’ll try that,’ ” said Pariseau.

Comparisons aside, Danny Pariseau is creating a legacy of his own. He is quickly becoming a fan favorite and opposing teams’ worst nightmare. It’s a shame the Bron-

cos didn’t have the self-described skinny little kid for another year or two.

“I love Santa Clara,” said Pari-seau. “I wish I would have come here from the beginning.”

Contact Chris Furnari at (408) 551-1918 or [email protected].

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By Chris Furnari

THE SANTA CLARA

Tickets available to the public were sold out a month before the contest and 850 student tickets were sold out in only two hours. Another 22 tickets released just 6 hours before tip off were gone in less than 15 minutes. And as all 4,500 fans filled the Leavey Center to capacity, the Broncos appeared ready to score an upset.

Despite being the most antici-pated basketball game of the year, for Bronco fans at least, Santa Clara dropped its second confer-ence game 77-69 to out-of-town rival Gonzaga.

The Zags entered the contest with an overall record of 11-6, including notable wins over once top-ranked North Carolina, Texas and Washington. The Broncos entered the contest with an 11-5 overall record and boasted quality wins of their own against Hawaii, Stanford and Utah State.

The first half played exactly as expected. Both teams traded bas-kets and hard fouls. The Broncos got started behind the back court of Danny Pariseau and Brody Angley , who scored the Broncos’ first three baskets. The Bulldogs answered with six points of their own, until a Sean Denison dunk showed the visitors from Spokane that this wasn’t going to be yet an-

other walk-over victory.Halfway through the first half,

Bronco fans roared when Pari-seau launched a three-point shot from well behind the arc that just about blew the roof off the Leavey Center.

“I was thinking, ‘I know I have this range and the defender has his hands down, so I’m going to knock this one down’,” said Pariseau.

The teams exchanged baskets the rest of the half, but not without physical play. The referees called a tight game, and both squads were in the double bonus early.

“It was a very physical game,” said Pariseau, “Their big guys are really good but I think our guys held their own.”

It was all Gonzaga to open the second half of play. Behind big man Josh Heytvelt , who didn’t start despite being the second lead-ing scorer, the Bulldogs opened up a 49-43 lead in the first three minutes of play. The Broncos however, who were down 9 at one point, came roaring back to pull within two points of the Bulldogs with 12 minutes left to play.

The Zags again pulled away from the Bronco squad that had gone cold from the three-point line. Gonzaga switched to a zone to begin the half, a defensive ma-neuver that slowed the Bronco offense down, and forced more outside shots.

The Broncos attempted one last comeback and pulled within three after Scott Dougherty nailed a three-point shot with 37 seconds

The final: Gonzaga 77, Santa Clara 69.

May I humbly sug-gest that Saturday night’s loss to the behemoth of the West Coast Conference meant absolutely noth-ing? May I also suggest that if the Broncos had pulled out the victory that it would have meant some-thing, sure, but that in the grand scheme of things would only seem like a speck on the radar?

Ending Gonzaga’s 26-game win streak would have been an uplifting confidence booster. While we’re at it, let’s imagine that the win caused such a stir among the men’s basket-ball team that they went out and finished 12-2 in WCC play, a mark that, in my estimates, would be good enough to win the conference championship.

This optimistic vision means that the team would finish with a 22-7 mark, the best ever during Dick Davey’s tenure as head coach and a mark that would bring home a conference championship.

But these are lofty expectations, considering that Davey-led teams have only reached the 20-win pla-teau three previous times. Suffice it to say, a conference championship may not be in the cards.

However, I’d like to suggest that despite the loss to Gonzaga and despite the probable 8-6, 9-5, or even 10-4 finish, all is not lost.

You see, at the end of every conference schedule comes the conference tournament. And that wouldn’t normally matter, except for the small, little detail that the last team standing gains an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament.

Win two or three games at the end of your season, and nothing prior to that matters. Even if the Broncos don’t win another confer-ence game, they can still turn their season into instant success with an NCAA tournament appearance. Oh, the beauty of that automatic bid.

Unfortunately for Bronco fans, Santa Clara’s best wins out of conference came against Stan-ford, Hawaii and Utah State. Not exactly the quality wins that the tournament committee is looking for when they are selecting at-large bids.

Sure, beating Gonzaga would have been nice, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re really just another conference opponent. Instead, the Broncos should play their schedule in an attempt to earn the best WCC tournament seed possible, which ultimately could lead to an NCAA tourna-ment berth.

And if the Broncos don’t reach the NCAA tournament?

Well, there’s always next year.

Contact Mike Kaufmann at (408) 551-1918 or [email protected].

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Bulldogs continue winning tradition

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Santa Clara loses to Gonzaga 77-69 in front of sellout crowd

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This game matters because:

San Diego is currently unbeaten in conference play. If the Broncos want to repeat as West Coast Conference cham-pions, now would be an ideal time to give the Toreros their first loss.

Early conference wins will also give the team confidence for the stretch run and ultimately the conference tournament.

Note: Game of the week is chosen by The Santa Clara sports staff.

Igwe drafted 12th in MLS SuperDraft By Joe Doss-Antoun

THE SANTA CLARA

Though leaving college at the age of 18 might not have been the easiest decision to make, freshman midfielder Amaechi Igwe can now sleep at night knowing he made the right choice.

Less than a month after signing with the MLS, Igwe was drafted 12th overall by the New England Revolution in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft.

He also became the fourth Santa Clara player to be drafted in the first round in the last four years. Previous play-ers taken in the first round out of Santa Clara include Ryan Cochrane and Steve Cronin , who were both drafted by the San Jose Earthquakes in 2004,

and Mehdi Ballouchy , who was drafted second overall by Real Salt Lake in 2006.

“We’ve had a number of first round draft picks that have come out of our pro-gram, and he’s the next in line of that,” said men’s head coach Cameron Rast. “So in terms of soccer, talent wise, I think he is right up there with all of them that have gotten picked that high.”

Rast, who coached Igwe during his only year at Santa Clara, certainly thought high-ly of his skills. As a freshman, Igwe started 20 of 23 matches en route to the Broncos’ NCAA quarterfinal run. In to-tal, Igwe scored five goals and assisted three others, finishing third on the team in scoring.

“Amaechi learned how to

play against some older play-ers,” said Rast. “We played a very demanding schedule, so hopefully that toughened him up a little bit in terms of the quality of competition that he faced.”

Igwe’s soccer talent comes as no surprise given his fam-ily background. His father is a former Nigerian national team player, and his older brother and sister are soccer stars in their own right. His brother, Kelechi, a 2006 Santa Clara graduate, was an important part of the 2003 team that advanced to the College Cup. And his sister Chioma is a starting junior midfielder for the Bronco women’s team.

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