The weekly student newspaper at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York Volume LXXX Issue 30 April 17, 2012 The Chronicle Arts & Opinion Sports News & Features www.StRoseChronicle.com IDENTIY and The Women’s Initiative promote the Drag Show and Equal Pay Day, respectively. Find out more about this week’s events on page C9 Baseball: Golden Knights split double header with Southern Conn 9-6 and 15-2 Saturday. For the full story see page D12 Albany neighborhoods made of Lego blacks and trees made of human parts are recent exhibitions in the gallery of a local theater. See page A4 In Brief: 21-year-old Albany resident stabbed near intersection of Quail and Western. See page A2 Something Sour, Somethign Sweet: A Retrospect on Thirty Years of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. See page B7 Staff writer discusses upcoming Stanley Cup and has some predictions regarding the outcome. See page D11 MTV MADE Casting Opportunity By LAUREN HALLIGAN Features Editor MTV’s hit show MADE has chosen The College of Saint Rose in their search for young adults seeking to change their lives. The three-time Emmy-award- winning series features students striving to achieve a personal goal or dream, giving them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be whatever they want to be. “MADE is about making dreams come true,” is how the New Look for Gardens at “The Point” Story on page A4 IAN BENJAMIN Fewer tulips and the inclusion of more decorative stones are part of the cost-saving measures being undertaken by the city. SIOBHAN GERVASIO Contributing Writer show is described on MTV.com, and for students with big dreams in mind, the show can do just that. Producers are seeking “college students who want an opportunity to change the rest of their life." The show aims to "create oppor- tunities for these students to find their path" through privileged networking, intense training, and even celebrity coaches. One student Emily Zeh, a ju- nior in the childhood education/ special education major is seiz- ing the opportunity to achieve her personal goal of writing and illus- trating a children's book. An idea she brainstormed last year when she began working with children with disabilities, Continued on page A2 “I took it as an opportunity to further what I want in life.” Courtney Carr By IAN BENJAMIN Executive Editor A Saint Rose staff member died suddenly while cleaning Alumni Hall on Tuesday, April 10. Jeannette Juanita O’Hare, a 26-year-old custodian at Saint Rose and mother of three, was found several hours after her death. The O’Hare family notified the College at 9 p.m. that O’Hare had not returned home that night. A search was initiated by Saint Rose security and O’Hare’s body was found at approximately 9:30 Death of Saint Rose Staff Member Continued on page A3 O’HARE
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The weekly student newspaper at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York Volume LXXX Issue 30April 17, 2012
The Chronicle
Arts & Opinion SportsNews & Features
www.StRoseChronicle.com
IDENTIY and The Women’s Initiative promote the Drag Show and Equal Pay Day, respectively. Find out more about this week’s events on page C9
Baseball: Golden Knights split double header with Southern Conn 9-6 and 15-2 Saturday. For the full story see page D12
Albany neighborhoods made of Lego blacks and trees made of human parts are recent exhibitions in the gallery of a local theater. See page A4
In Brief: 21-year-old Albany resident stabbed near intersection of Quail and Western. See page A2
Something Sour, Somethign Sweet: A Retrospect on Thirty Years of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. See page B7
Staff writer discusses upcoming Stanley Cup and has some predictions regarding the outcome. See page D11
MTV MADE Casting OpportunityBy LAUREN HALLIGANFeatures Editor
MTV’s hit show MADE has chosen The College of Saint Rose in their search for young adults seeking to change their lives.
The three-time Emmy-award-winning series features students striving to achieve a personal goal or dream, giving them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be whatever they want to be.
“MADE is about making dreams come true,” is how the
New Look for Gardens at “The Point” Story on page A4
IAN BENJAMINFewer tulips and the inclusion of more decorative stones are part of the cost-saving measures being undertaken by the city.
SIOBHAN GERVASIOContributing Writer
show is described on MTV.com, and for students with big dreams in mind, the show can do just that.
Producers are seeking “college students who want an opportunity to change the rest of their life." The show aims to "create oppor-
tunities for these students to fi nd their path" through privileged networking, intense training, and even celebrity coaches.
One student Emily Zeh, a ju-nior in the childhood education/special education major is seiz-ing the opportunity to achieve her personal goal of writing and illus-trating a children's book.
An idea she brainstormed last year when she began working with children with disabilities,
Continued on page A2
“I took it as an opportunity to further what I want in life.”
Courtney Carr
By IAN BENJAMINExecutive Editor
A Saint Rose staff member died suddenly while cleaning Alumni Hall on Tuesday, April 10.
Jeannette Juanita O’Hare, a 26-year-old custodian at Saint Rose and mother of three, was found several hours after her death.
The O’Hare family notifi ed the College at 9 p.m. that O’Hare had not returned home that night.
A search was initiated by Saint Rose security and O’Hare’s body was found at approximately 9:30
Death of Saint Rose Staff Member
Continued on page A3
O’HARE
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could become reality with the help of MTV.
Zeh hopes to “concentrate spe-cifically on addressing the special qualities about children with dis-abilities” in her book.
Although she hopes to be made into an author/illustrator, Zeh is a girl with a cause. She truly wants to publish this book for social change.
“I believe that now more than ever it is important to recognize and respect the differences in everyone!” said Zeh, adding, “I am very excited to hopefully get the chance to advocate for chil-
dren with disabilities through my book.”
Communications major Court-ney Carr, also has writing goals in mind. Carr wants to be made into a column journalist.
“I took it as an opportunity to further what I want in life,”said Carr. She further stated, “I’ve al-ways wanted to be a column jour-nalist.”
A fan of the reality show, Carr admitted, “I always fantasized about being on the show.”
Ambitious dreamers of Saint Rose, or aspiring reality televi-sion stars, are encouraged to au-dition. Producers of the show will be on campus from 2-5 p.m. on
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MTV Casting (cont.)Tuesday, April 17 and Wednes-day, April 18 from 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. The second date was added due to the heavy influx of stu-dents signing up for the oppor-tunity. All casting will be held in the Carondelet Symposium (third floor of the Lally School of Education). This opportunity is open to current students enrolled at The College of Saint Rose be-tween ages 18-26.
To sign up for a casting time slot, students must visit the Office of Student Affairs (located in the Events and Athletics Center) by Monday, April 16 at 5 p.m., and pick up a casting packet. Slots are estimated to be ten minutes.
By ZACHARY OLSAVICKYNews Editor
The Chronicle, the student newspaper at The College of Saint Rose, recently received no-tification of having been awarded several merits by the New York Press Association (NYPA) and by the American Scholastic Press Association.
Zachary Williams, a freshman contributing writer to the arts section, won an award from the New York Press Association for his work during his tenure writ-ing the restaurant review column “High-Octane People Fuel.” Ian Benjamin, the editor of the stu-
Student Newspaper Wins Awardsdent newspaper, won an award for his news article entitled “Stu-dent Dies After Hit-and-Run Saturday” which was published in the November 29, 2011, issue of The Chronicle. The article re-counted the circumstances of the death of communications student Etemowei Oki.
From the American Scholastic Press Association, The Chronicle won a first place award for over-all quality from the American Scholastic Press Association. In addition, Kelly Pfeister, the head photographer for the student newspaper, was given an award for outstanding overall photog-raphy.
By ZACHARY OLSAVICKYNews Editor
Police continue to investigate the stabbing of a 21-year-old Al-bany resident at the intersection of Quail Street and Western Av-enue early Saturday morning.
According to Albany Police spokesperson Steven Smith, of-ficers responded to a report of a fight in the area at around 12:30 a.m. Eyewitnesses allege that two men were involved in a fight
Police Continue to Investigate Stabbing
in the area of Quail Street and Western Avenue when a third person became involved and cut the victim. 21-year-old Richard Villanueva sustained lacerations to his face and a puncture wound to his back. Firefighters treated Villanueva at the scene before he was transported to Albany Medi-cal Center, where he was further treated and eventually released.
No arrests have been made and police continue to investigate the stabbing.
By ZACHARY OLSAVICKYNews Editor
The Saint Rose branch of Stu-dents Against Destructive Deci-sions is hosting a week of ac-tivities as part of their Awareness Week.
Events began Monday, April 16 with “Sleeping and Daydream-ing” at the Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary, which focused on the importance of sleep in the lives of college students. At the event, students partook in yoga and pil-
SADD Hosts Awareness Weeklow-making. Tuesday night sees a trivia challenge in the Standish conference rooms at 8:00 p.m., where questions will cover facts and statistics about drinking and destructive decisions. The trivia night will feature a prize of $25 gift cards for the winning team. S.A.D.D. will also host a table at the Earth Day fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., where students are invited to make bracelets out of hemp. A tree of life and mock crash will also be held as part of the week’s activities.
In Brief
By SUNSHINE OSELLAManaging Editor
Every year, on Mother’s Day weekend, people from Albany and beyond flock to Washington Park for one reason: the Annual Albany Tulip Festival. This tradi-tional event is centered on when over 100,000 tulips blossom into a plethora of vibrant colors. Long time traditional events, tons of food, all kinds of live music, and a new environmentally friendly event are all part of this year’s Tulip Festival. The Tulip Festi-val will coincide with Saint Rose Commencement, which will be held at 10 a.m. on May 12 at the Times Union Center.
The Tulip Festival will be kicked off on Monday, May 7 at 1 p.m. with a tulip tour. Individuals can learn about the planting of the tulips for the Tulip Festival in this guided tour with City Gardener Jessica Morgan. The tour begins at the Moses Statue and there is a $5 Fee. Reservations are request-ed and can be made by calling the Albany Visitor’s Center at (518) 434-0405.
On Saturday and Sunday, May 12 and 13, the festival in Wash-ington Park will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. As is customary, the festival will include food vendors such as Adirondack Kettle corn, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, and
Chumley’s BBQ and Catering Co. In addition, the crowd can expect a craft show featuring jew-elry, pottery, candy, wood work, stained glass, and more. There will also be bands of all genres as well as assorted entertainment of non-musical varieties. Entry is free of charge.
Last year, the headlining band was indie rockers the Cold Water Kids. For the 2012 Tulip Festival
the headlining bands, which will perform on Sunday, May 13 at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., are the High-er Ground: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder and the Mr. Dynamite: The Explosive James Brown Show. Other bands include the alternative Late Shift, dance-rock quartet Walk the Moon, witty ballad and rock group Fountains of Wayne, and indie pop artist John Brodeur.
Other popular tulip festival events include the traditional street scrubbing on Friday, May
11 at 12 p.m. This is a Dutch tradition that will take place on Lodge and State streets. The Tu-lip Queen Coronation will take place on Saturday, May 12, at 12 p.m. There will be Zumba with instructor Carla Schlist on Sun-day, May 13, at 12:30 p.m.
The 64th Annual Tulip Festival will mark the addition of the first ever Solar City’s Green Market. This is a gourmet farmer's market and a green expo that will high-light energy-efficient resources, recycling tips and more. This event is presented by Solar City, Honest Weight Food Co-Op, and Seventh Generation.
As part of this year’s environ-mental initiative, bike racks will be available at the Willett Street and Madison Avenue entrance to Washington Park. CDTA is also offering a shuttle service Satur-day, May 12 and Sunday, May 13 from 12 – 10 p.m. to Washington Park from two Park and Ride lot locations. The locations are the OGS parking garage (at Madison Avenue and Eagle Street) and the Elk Street Parking Lot (at Elk and Hawk streets).
For more information about the Tulip Festival, including a complete list of events, times, and locations, visit http://www.albanyevents.org/events/event_detail.cfm?ID=2.
64th Tulip Festival to be Held in May
The annual Tulip Queen Coronation will take place on Saturday, May 12
at 12 p.m.
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p.m. on the third floor of Alumni Hall in a custodial closet, accord-ing to a statement sent by the College. Security Officer Chris-topher Stiles found the body, said Steven Stella, director of security. Emergency services were imme-diately called and O’Hare was pronounced dead at the scene. She died of natural causes.
O’Hare was known as a kind and reserved person on campus. “She was always nice to me. I tried to be nice to her,” said Eva Lis, the housekeeper for Carey Hall and 968 Madison Ave.
O’Hare was a custodian at Saint Rose for five and a half years. She worked first-shift and was primarily responsible for the cleaning of floors three and four in Alumni Hall.
Dennis Willard, the custodian for floors one and two of Alum-ni Hall, was acquainted with O’Hare. “We both just moved into the building about a month
or two ago.” In the process of settling into the new building Willard and O’Hare had a minor dispute. It was soon resolved and “there were no hard feelings.” O’Hare later brought up the ex-perience at a staff meeting con-cerned with hearsay among staff members. According to Willard she promoted working together and communication.
“‘Just resolve the things, work together. Come in, do your eight hours, go back home. Dennis and I, we had our problems, but we resolved them. It’s just commu-nication.’”
O’Hare was the mother of three young children: nine-year-old Louis, six-year-old Kiarah, and a 10-month old named Mala-chi. The youngest was born the summer of last year.
According to Willard O’Hare occasionally enrolled in Saint Rose classes.
“We all just feel shocked,” said Myles Clendenin, resident assis-tant for Alumni Hall floors three
and four. Residents in Alumni met with Alan Martell, assistant director of the office of counsel-ing and psychological services, to discuss feelings and concerns about O’Hare’s death.
Funeral services for O’Hare are scheduled for Tuesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Wilborn Tem-ple, 121 Jay Street. Calling hours will precede the service and will begin at 9 a.m. at the church. These times have been updated from those sent by the College last week. O’Hare will be interred at Memory Gardens, Colonie.
Donations to help allay the family’s financial hardship are being accepted by the College for the family. Contribution can be made through the Human Re-sources Department at The Col-lege of Saint Rose.
“She never held any grudges. She just wanted to put in her eight hours and head home,” said Wil-lard.
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Staff Member Death (cont.) Calendar of Events
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Tuesday,April 172 p.m. - 5 p.m. MADE Casting Call Lally Symposium4:30 p.m. SA Meeting Lally Carondelet Symposium3:30 p.m. Baseball vs Lemoyne Plumeri7 p.m. The Asteroid Awards St. Joseph Hall7 p.m. Out At Work Lally Symposium7 p.m. Knight Skills Moran Hall7:30 p.m. Empire Baroque Group Concert Massry8 p.m. Yoga For Students Hubbard Sanctuary8 p.m. SADD Trivia Challenge Standish Dining Rooms8:30 p.m. Environmental Club Meeting Lima Basement
Wednesday, April 181:05 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Campus Conversations Hubbard Sanctuary3 p.m. Documentary “Tapped” Touhey Forum, Lally4:30 p.m. Chronicle Meeting CCIM Rm 1215 p.m. Evening Mass Hubbard Sanctuary7 p.m. Positivity Workshop Standish Dining Room B8 p.m. Drag Show St. Joseph Hall
Thursday,April 1911 a.m. - 4 p.m. The Sights and Sounds of Green! Main Lounge2:35 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Campus Conversations Hubbard Sanctuary7 p.m. Performance of “Naked” Campus Theatre
Friday, April 2011 a.m. - 4 p.m. Earth Day Celebration Campus Green12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Turning Tables Touhey Forum, Lally7 p.n. Performance of “Naked” Campus Theatre7:30 p.m. Saint Rose Jazz Ensemble/Empire State Youth Jazz Ensemble Concert Massry
Saturday, April 211 p.m. Get Fit Saint Rose Meet on Campus Green2 p.m. Performance of “Naked” Campus Theatre7 p.m. Performance of “Naked” Campus Theatre
Sunday, April 222 p.m. Performance of “Naked” Campus Theatre3 p.m. Clarinet Choir and Saxophone Ensemble Concert Massry5 p.m. Flute Ensemble Concert Massry
Monday, April 23 6 p.m. English Club Meeting Library7 p.m. Knight Skills Moran Hall8 p.m. Outside the [BOX] ALB 211
In Brief (cont.)More Arrests for Underage Drinking
By IAN BENJAMINExecutive Editor
Albany police broke up a large house party in the Pine Hills neighborhood and arrested the 21-year-old host Sunday morn-ing according to Steven Smith, spokesperson for the Albany Po-lice Department.
The party was held at 519 Ham-ilton Street. According to Smith,
shortly before 2 a.m. a fight broke out in the backyard of the apart-ment and authorities were called. Upon the officers arrival around 40 people gathered in the back yard began to run, including the host.
Soon thereafter, officers inter-viewed two girls who were seen leaving the premises drinking li-quor. It was found that both were underage.
Resident Marc Spenziero, a student at the University at Alba-ny and member of Tau Kappa Ep-silon, was identified as the host of the party. He was later contacted by phone and arrested “without incident,” according to Smith.
Spenziero was charged with two counts of Unlawfully Deal-ing with a Child in the first degree and arraigned Monday morning in Albany City Criminal Court.
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SIOBHAN GERVASIOContributing Writer
The fl ower beds at The Point in the Pine Hills are getting a makeover and Albany city gar-dener, Jessica Morgan, couldn’t be happier about it. This year, the gardens at the intersection of Madison and Western avenues will provide Morgan with an op-portunity to showcase her vision for the Pine Hills while creating future savings for city taxpayers.
“I’ve wanted to do this since last year,” said Morgan, an almost nine-year veteran of the Depart-ment of General Services. She was appointed to her position in October 2011, replacing the re-tired Judy Stacey. Morgan is a natural fi t for the job since she spent the majority of her tenure as Stacey’s apprentice.
The general services gardening crew plants annually more than 200,000 summer and fall fl ow-ers among 483 fl ower beds in the city, including in the Pine Hills.
This year, the crew has been busy planting perennials at the popular intersection at Allen Street, including foxgloves, yuc-cas and pampas grasses as well as thistle and allium--two plants that are not often part of a municipal garden, Morgan said. “I wanted to add more of a personal touch.”
Using perennials is a depar-ture from past practices when annuals were more prevalent. This change is part of an overall strategy to fi nd creative ways to
New Look for Gardens at “The Point” keep the space interesting while managing within the confi nes of the city’s budget. The general ser-vices budget does not show cuts for its 2012 park maintenance services, remaining relatively un-changed at approximately $3 mil-lion. This, however, doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room to contend with the rising costs of fl owers and supplies, making it necessary to do more with less.
Pine Hills residents might no-
tice the difference in the fl owers that they won’t see this year, most notably, tulips--a staple of most Albany city gardens. Although Morgan said “we’ll still have tulips,” there will be 30 percent fewer of them, thanks, in part, to the expensive price tag.
“Tulips have gone up almost nine cents a bulb this year,” said Morgan, who attributes the price hike to shipping costs – the bulbs come directly from Holland.
Customers are choosing other fl owering plants because of the
price, said Rich Miller, manager of Troy’s Landscaping Supply. “It has defi nitely reduced the us-age of tulips,” said Miller, who often steers his customers toward perennials like grasses and day-lilies which are known as a more rugged fl ower.
Miller considers daylilies as the biggest substitute for tulips. “They are similar but cheaper and will fl ower in late August through October or November.” This is an important distinction from tulips which only bloom in spring.
“Perennials are great to plant because you only have to plant them once,” said Denise Rich, manager of the Clifton Park loca-tion of Hewitt’s Garden Centers, Inc., a Capital Region company that sells garden-related products and services. Rich, who has been at the store for over 30 years, said that the one-off nature of planting perennials can benefi t custom-ers who are looking to trim costs since they won’t have to plant the same fl owers each year.
Morgan is hoping that this will benefi t city taxpayers, too. “Ulti-mately it will be a huge savings compared to past years,” said Morgan who in addition to using perennials, will also be re-using resources from other sites in the city, like the large stones now featured in the Pine Hills fl ower beds. The stones--originally part of a discarded city street barrier-- will add texture, Morgan said. Instead of letting the city dispose of the large structure, Morgan decided to use it for landscaping purposes. “It’s really nice and I thought it would create a great visual effect--something else for the eye to see.”
For Morgan, fi nding new ways to keep Albany’s city gardens
IAN BENJAMIN
The fl owerbeds at the Point compose the traffi c median at the merger of Washington and Madison avenues.
The general services gardening crew plants
annually more than 200,000 summer and fall fl owers among
483 fl ower beds in the city, including in the
Pine Hills.
beautiful is a dream come true. “I absolutely love my job,” said Morgan. A native of Connecticut, Morgan always wanted to live in the Capital Region. “I remember when I was 12, driving over the bridge with my grandparents and looking at the Capitol building in the background and thinking to myself, ‘I’m going to live there
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someday.’”She’s now a resident of the
Pine Hills – something that un-doubtedly gives her extra incen-tive to make sure that the fl owers beds are well-represented. “It’s in my neighborhood so it’s my baby; I want to make sure it looks great.”
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The fl owerbeds looking northeast on N. Allen Street.
April 17, 2012 Volume 80 Issue 30 The ChronicleNews A5Artists Collaborate with Madison Theater to Beautify Pine Hills
By EMILY ZEHContributing Writer
Two-dimensional bird prints, Albany neighborhoods built from Lego blocks, and trees composed of body parts are just some of the many artistic pieces that can be found in the storefront windows adjacent to the Madison Theater. Installations from local artists have turned an otherwise empty window space into an evolving showcase.
“It’s a great use of the space because the art adds a very posi-tive feel to the neighborhood,” said Jay Pregent, who owns the theater. The two spacious win-dows have served as exhibition spaces for local artists for the last four years.
“The window on the right side, closest to the Theater is usually designated for two-dimensional works and the window on the left is usually designated for three-di-mensional,” said Lorenz Worden, art coordinator for the Beautify Upper Madison Project. By hav-ing two different types of art dis-played there is a variety of unique mediums and styles shown.
Worden finds artists who are in-terested in displaying work in the space and then advertises around the Pine Hills neighborhood. Worden does his best to coordi-nate the theater window displays with any other local art shows in and around the neighborhood. Artists can either contact Worden about getting their art displayed or he may also contact them if he thinks their art would do well on display.
“It is helpful to find artists who have shows going on in the neigh-
borhood, and use the windows as a way of advertising for them, while still making the streets of the Pine Hills appealing for the locals,” Worden said.
Pregent said that there are no costs involved in displaying the art, however, the theater gets a 10 percent cut from any art that is sold while on display in the win-dows. This is the only financial arrangement involved with the art displays, everything else is com-pletely free of charge.
One of the most recent artists to have had her art exhibited in the windows next to the CVS was Ruby Silvious. “I was contacted by Lorenz Worden who was fa-miliar with my work, and was asked if I would be interested in having my work displayed in one of the windows at the Madison Theater,” she said. This was Sil-vious’ first display in the theater windows.
“It was a great opportunity to be able to exhibit in the Pine Hills neighborhood. Even though I’ve been doing art for most of my life, I still consider myself an am-ateur print maker so I welcome any chance to increase visibility of my art, and to support the arts community,” said Silvious.
She set up the display in the
window herself, where it stayed for about six weeks. She included a variety of different pieces she produced mainly at her in-home studio in Coxsackie. She also makes mono-prints, which are done on the press at the Ragged Edge Studio in Cohoes, where she rents space.
“As a multimedia artist, I do all kinds of art including watercolor, charcoal, pastel. In addition, I am a paper artist, working predomi-nantly with traditional origami folds. Four years ago, I took a printmaking class offered at the Troy Arts Center, now called Arts Center of the Capital Region. I absolutely loved it and I haven’t stopped since,” Silvious said. “My recent printmaking pieces are mono-prints using stencils or photo transfers of birds. I would love to exhibit the bird series next spring.”
Each artist that is chosen to have his or her art displayed in the windows of the Madison The-ater is able to leave their art up for six weeks. The installation in each window is changed on a schedule opposite that of the oth-er window so that neither display is changed the same week, Wor-den said.
There was a recent change in the two-dimensional display. It now features artist Jacqueline Smith who uses water color and other styles of painting for her work. This installation will be on display until April 29, 2012. Prevously, the three-dimensional display showcased a sculpture of a paper-mache tree composed of body parts. This was the work of Matthew Ramsey, who designed the sculpture especially for the theater window.
A new art installation in the three-dimensional window fea-tures a Lego display designed and constructed by artist Bill Leue. The Lego model depicts a row of the first five of 17 Italianate brick houses on Elm Street known as the Martin-Luther Row. These houses are the longest uniform row of houses in Albany, making for a very striking display.
COURTESY OF EMILY ZEH COURTESY OF EMILY ZEH
COURTESY OF EMILY ZEH
COURTESY OF EMILY ZEHRuby Silvious’ print-work “Bird.”
Matthew Ramsey’s body parts tree.
Jacqueline Smith’s paintings.Lego model display of Elm St. houses.
“It’s a great use of the space because the art adds a very positive feel to the
neighborhood.” Jay Pregent
Volume 80 Issue 30The Chronicle April 17, 2012ArtsB6Kickin’ It With KJ: Music Round Up For March and April
By KEVIN JACOBStaff Writer
Within the last few weeks there have been various albums, mix-tapes, and scattered singles that I’ve thought were pretty good, but I haven’t really been able to write about them all—until now. So let’s get into the album section first.
AlbumsOdd Future—OF Tape Vol. 2: As you may know by now,
I’m pretty biased when it comes to Odd Future stuff because I’m quite fond of them. But not to much surprise, Odd Future has done it again. All members are present for the album including, Earl Sweatshirt who is officially back in the states and is recording new music as you read. The al-bum was pretty consistent. There were a few weak tracks such as
really good and make this tape worth it in my eyes.
Rating: 8/10
BadBadNotGood—BBNG2:BadBadNotGood is a trio of
three white kids from Toronto who were tired of old traditional jazz music and decided to their own. They have some of their own doings but they cover songs ranging from Kanye West to James Blake, and there is even a cover of the Gucci Mane song “Lemonade.”
This tape, which is the third free project by them, can be found on on their own website (I consider this an album because it’s high-quality).
What I like most about it is that it’s just a group of kids doing what they love and just jamming out. I’m really digging it.
Rating: 9/10
Big K.R.I.T.—4Eva N A Day: I’ve previously talked about
this project a while back and how I was really anticipating it. Now, I’m not going to say that it was a bad tape/album/piece of work, but I do think that the King Re-membered In Time could have done a little bit better this time around. Don’t get me wrong, he’s got some great tracks such as “Boobie Miles,” “Sky Club,” as well as one song that I’ve had on repeat since it came out (and in my eyes is the best song on this whole thing) is the “4 Eva N a Day Theme,” which uses a real nice use of a chopped up soul sample that makes it a real feel good song.
But some songs, I thought, re-ally watered the tape down, such as “Temptation,” “Insomnia,” and “Yesterday,” which is a good song, but I just felt like it was out of place on this tape. Overall, K.R.I.T. still has me impressed mainly with his production skills on this one. His debut “Live from the Underground” is supposed to be out in June so I’m highly an-
ticipating it. Did I also mention this project was free? Win!
Rating: 7/10
MixtapesCasey Veggies—Customized Greatly
Vol.3: Casey Veggies, who recently
just toured with Mac Miller, is back with his newest volume of his Customized Greatly se-ries. After listening to the tape a couple of times, I’m really on the fence with it. To start off, Casey isn’t very lyrical. He has moments of brilliance, but I feel like he has a way to go. Plus, he doesn’t ride beats well, meaning he can rap but off beat which can be tough to listen to, at times.
Tracks I liked include “Toe Tag,” “Garden,” “PNCINTLOF-WGKTA,” and “Euphoria III.” The one thing this tape does have is some pretty great produc-tion, which isn’t surprising since Casey has a good ear for beats. Some tracks I didn’t particularly enjoy included “Verified,” “Swag Worth A Mil,” and “You Got It/Fantasy.” On the latter, he uses auto-tune which…take that for what you will. In the end, Casey has a way to go, but I believe he can get there.
Rating: 6/10
Mac Miller—Macadelic: Now, I’m not a huge fan of
Mac Miller. I think he’s okay and makes some music to chill out or party with. He’s not the most lyrical, but the kid tries to put to-gether something more personal and deeper than anything he’s released so far. He does just that with Macadelic.
Tracks such as “Ignorant,” “Loud,” “Angels,” and “Aliens and Robots” are definitely good if you’re a fan of Mac. To me, those songs are probably some of the
best songs he’s put out.The best track on here though,
has to be “America.” With a cra-zy beat and good rhymes from Miller, Casey Veggies, and new up-and-comer Joey Bada$$ from Brooklyn (who especially im-pressed) all kill this track. Some songs that I didn’t really like had to be “The Mourning After,” “Desperado,” and “Clarity.” They just didn’t cut it for me. Overall, I thought that the project was okay. Only a couple of good ones, though.
Rating 6.5/10
Singles
“Mercy”—Kanye West:Kanye West, along with Big
Sean, Pusha-T, and 2 Chainz have a new one off the new G.O.O.D. Music album, finally, and boy it’s a banger. With some crazy
dancehall yelling samples mixed with some down south influences, this song is a heat rock. Most of the rappers spit good verses but I feel that the best verse goes to 2 Chainz. He spits lines about con-diment colored whips, getting a co-sign by Yeezy, and saying his money is taller than Jordan. I’m loving it.
Rating: 9/10
“The Recipe”— Kendrick Lamar ft.
Dr. Dre: Kendrick’s first single has offi-
cially dropped, and it features the good doctor on it along with him. I think that, as a single, the track is solid. It’s definitely for radio, but I wouldn’t say that Lamar has sold out, at least not yet anyway. It’s got a very laid back Cali beat with a Twin Sister sample to go along with it. Not very lyrical, but perfect cruising music.
Rating: 7/10
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“Ya Know,” “B----es,” and “For-est Green,” mainly because it’s been out for almost over a year, and there is a lacking presence of member Mike G on the tape (he literally has one new verse). But, songs such as “Lean,” “P,” “Hcapd,” “Sam Is Dead,” and my personal favorite, “Oldie,” are
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April 17, 2012 Volume 80 Issue 30 The ChronicleArts B7Something Sour, Something Sweet:
A Retrospect on 30 Years of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
By RACHEL BOLTONStaff Writer
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On June 4, The Wrath of Khan will turn 30 years old. It’s hard to believe that it has been around for as long as it has. Now, most non-science fic-tion fans will wonder why on earth I’m talking about this, think-ing that one Star Trek film is a lot like another. But even after all these years, The Wrath of Khan still stands out, and is worth dis-cussing today.
The film is the much better sequel to 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Its predecessor tried to be a slow and thought provoking science fiction film, along the same vein as 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Motion Picture failed miserably; it was dull, ridiculous, and far too long. (Even I can’t stand to sit through it, and I actually like Star Trek!)
Thankfully, The Wrath of Khan took the film series in a new di-rection. It amped up the action and toned down the needless philosophy of the first film. It had tense battles and well writ-ten character development. The sequel is a fast paced drama about the tragedy of revenge and it’s (obviously) in space!
The film (in a nutshell for all you non-fans) shows an aged Captain Kirk after he has been promoted to Admiral and works a desk job on Earth. Thankfully for the audience, he gets to return to his old ship, the Enterprise, for a simple cruise with a trainee crew. But alas, things can never be that easy in the Star Trek universe. A
long forgotten enemy returns and he wants only one thing: revenge on Kirk.
Genetic Superman Khan Noonien Soong is back, and unfortunately for Kirk and his friends, he has stolen a warship and has his hands on the Genesis Device. A torpedo, the device
can create life on dead plan-ets, or it can cause apocalyp-tic levels of de-struction if it is launched into a living world. Of course, Captain Kirk can solve a problem like this easily, with the help of the logi-cal Mr. Spock and the loveable
curmudgeon Dr. McCoy, right?Wrong! What makes the The
Wrath of Khan the best Star Trek movie is its willingness to let Kirk make mistakes, big mistakes. An invincible hero is not compel-ling. Kirk, and by extension his friends, do not make it through this movie unscathed. The plot is a brutal deconstruc-tion of all the things that make James T. Kirk who he is. He’s an unrepentant wom-anizer with a girl at every port? How about a son he didn’t know about, who is resentful towards his father? Does Kirk always do his enemies justice?
Not this time. His accidental negligence toward Khan comes back to haunt him. Kirk can bend the rules of his command and get away with it, with only a body count of a few nameless “Red Shirts.” Definitely not in this movie. Kirk ignores a simple regulation with disastrous results. But most of all, his hubris causes
the death of his best friend.Yes, ladies and gentlemen
Spock dies. Don’t worry, though. He comes back in the next movie. This is Star Trek, remember. Do you really think they are going to kill off the most popular charac-ter in the whole franchise? How-ever, that doesn’t change the fact that Spock’s heroic sacrifice and his final scene with Kirk are real tearjerkers. The killing off of a major character can be disastrous if it’s done poorly; in here the loss of Spock is the cherry on top of the emotion punch that is The Wrath of Khan.
But it’s more than just end-less drama. The character inter-action deepens the ties between the protagonists, making their eventual suffering sadder. On a happier note, Ricardo Montalban is perfectly hammy as Khan. His performance made him the most memorable villain in the fran-chise and his presence produces the most infamous shout out of William Shatner’s Kirk.
The Wrath of Khan was origi-nally intended to conclude the Star Trek universe, but it did not. Instead, the film renewed interest
in the franchise and there has been some new Star Trek show/film to look forward to since. The style of The Wrath of Khan has been copied or paid homage to in other Star Trek mov-ies: sometimes well,
as in the 2009 movie Star Trek, or badly in Star Trek Nemesis. The Wrath of Khan has aged as well as it can. It does look dated, but the effects are never cheesy.
It’s a good movie for Star Trek fans to show their friends if they want to ‘convert’ them, and I rec-ommend it as one of my all-time favorite science-fiction films. So reader, live long and prosper, and check out this movie.
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Volume 80 Issue 30The Chronicle April 17, 2012OpinionC8A Look Back at St. Rose
These are the lyrics to the Saint Rose Alma Mater. They were printed in the yearbook which was entitled
The Rose Leaves.
Girl in Dorm: “She doesn’t care enough to care.”
Guy in Dining Hall: “You’re the Robin to my Batman.”Guy 2: “I can never get my own glory.”Guy 1: “You’re the Wonder Woman to my Superman.”Guy 2: “That’s just awkward.”
Girl in Dining Hall: “He could probably pick me up with his pinkie and throw me.”
Girl in Dining Hall: “He looks like Wolverine.”
Girl in Dining Hall: “His abs have abs.”
Girl in Dorm: “How do you dance to this song?’Girl 2: “I imagine a lot of popping and locking.”
Girl in Dining Hall: “My cousin had a baby. He looked like a troll. They sent me a Christmas card and I was like, ‘Whoa!’”
Girl in Dining Hall: “I’m trying to grow my hair out long like Pocahontas.”
Girl in Library About Real Quidditch Teams: “If that’s what goes on at Harvard, I’m really glad I’m not smart enough to go there.”
Girl in Library: “I want to kick this kid in the face.”Girl 2: “Don’t wear pointy boots!”
Girl in Dorm: “I don’t blow my nose in class because a kid in my third grade class would blow his nose by my desk. It’s been a pet peeve of mine since third grade.”
Girl in Main Lounge: “I feel like Moses.”
Girl in Dining Hall: “I don’t like the idea of my friends having guns. I can get annoying sometimes.”
April 17, 2012 Volume 80 Issue 30 The Chronicle C9OpinionYou Think We’re Making This Up? A Look at the National Pay Gap
The View from Venus
By HEATHER THIBDEAUWomen’s Initiative
As the year draws to a close, and many seniors such as myself are exploring the many job pros-pects – or rather, the prospects of potentially fi nding a job – there is a factor many do not refl ect on. Okay, yes, new graduates rarely think about investing in 401K’s and retirement programs when student loans loom over our heads. However, there is another very critical factor few people, women especially, consider: the very real pay gap between men and women.
Last year, when the Women’s Initiative held the annual Equal Pay Bake Sale, there was a fi re-storm of controversy over our event and its intentions. As a re-sult, we thought it best to address any potential concerns here and now. Conveniently, this issue of The Chronicle comes out at the same time as our bake sale – Tuesday, April 17 near Camelot.
Equal Pay Day began in 1996 when it was discovered that among the median wage of na-tional full-time workers, women earned 73.8 cents for every man’s dollar. Today, a somber sixteen years later, Caucasian women earn only 77 cents for every dol-lar a man earns in the same line of work, every single day. If you think that is depressing and unfair, women of color earn 61 cents and Hispanic women earn 52 cents to every Caucasian man’s dollar. In a typical 40 year career then, women lose roughly $434,000.
Moreover, a female college graduate, despite her education, earns on average 70 cents to ev-ery dollar her male coworker earns. But why does such a thing exist? Today, very few women are still able to attain high-rank-ing positions to become doctors, lawyers, computer analysts, sci-entists, technologists, CEO’s, and Senators. Women still choose to go in the traditionally accepted occupations offered to them be-
cause that is where society ex-pects them to go: to be teachers, secretaries, and nurses. (Let it be known I am in no way degrading the importance of those positions; I am going into teaching myself.) However, due to the glass ceil-ing, job hiring discrimination and economic plights, many women are forced into those jobs because they see no other option. For in-stance, if a single mother had to choose between taking out loans for law school or accept the open secretarial job to support her chil-dren, which is more tempting?
To bring this a little closer to our realm, according to www.nationalpartnership.org, in New York State women are generally paid 83 cents for every man’s dollar. That means that on aver-age $8,658 a year is lost due to gender discrimination, and that $8,658 could pay for an addition-al eight months of rent, four more months of mortgage payments, or over a year’s worth of groceries. Wouldn’t that in itself go a long way in reducing poverty and in-creasing our quality of life? Presi-dent Obama agrees, as he issued a statement last year on Equal Pay Day addressing the need to eliminate the pay gap and urging Congress to support the Paycheck Fairness Act (which, failed).
Thus, if you see Women’s Initiative tabling with plenty of scrumptious baked goods and wonder why men are charged $1 while women are charged 75 cents, it is to highlight this issue. This bake sale is not a new con-cept; millions of people across the nation will be doing the exact same thing: using the irony of a bake sale to emphasize gender inequality. There is a reason to our apparent madness, and we encourage everyone to politely share their thoughts and opinions while we are tabling. We will po-litely respond back, because that is the essence of a democracy: challenging and informing the public of the true status quo to initiate change.
Pride Week EventsPens of Pride
By ANA KNOBLOCKIdentity
The time has come for Saint Rose’s annual Pride Week Event hosted by Identity! This week is a celebration for all those in the LGBTQIAP community, as well as our allies. Pride Week is cho-sen for this week because it is the closest week towards the end of the semester. It is also right before Pride Month in June, but students are not on campus at that time.
On Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Carondelet Symposium in Lally, we will be showing and discuss-ing the documentary called “Out at Work.” The documentary fol-lows individuals who are trying to fi nd work that gives them job safety and benefi ts for gay and lesbian workers. There will be a
panel discussion after the view-ing to discuss your own views and opinions.
On Wednesday is The Drag Show! This year’s theme is Mardi Gras and is hosted by Isis Vermouth! Two year champions, Adrianna Gaeta and Ann Leg-horn-McCracken, are going for their third win in a row for their senior performance! It starts at 8 p.m. in St. Joe’s. We will be giv-ing out prizes and having a raffl e, admissions is free! Sign up’s be-fore the show are welcome!
We will be selling tickets on the quad on Thursday for the HIV/AIDS dinner, where we will be raising money for the Damian Center. Tickets are $5. The fund-raiser will be on April 26th at 5:30 p.m. in Standish A and B. Seating is limited so come get your ticket now. Enjoy good times with food
and friends! On the last day of Pride week,
it is Breaking the Silence. Join us in silence to protest the actual silence of LGBTQ people due to harassment, bias and abuse in schools! The Day of Silence has been going on since 1996. We will be gathering at The Egg at 4 p.m., with free food and spoken word poetry by Daniella Watson!
We welcome all to these events and hope you have a good time. We will be selling T-shirts for $3 up until the Drag Show. After that, they will be $5. If anyone wants to sign up to participate in the Drag Show and volunteer to help with Breaking the Silence, email us at [email protected]. All of these different activi-ties are opportunities to safely ex-press yourself and have fun.
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By JOSHUA NATOLIStaff Writer
If you have not noticed al-ready, the Boston Celtics are good again. Before the All-Star break, the Celtics were a mere 15-17, riding a five-game losing streak. It seemed like the team’s final championship hopes were now destroyed. Rajon Rondo’s trade rumors circulated by oppos-ing teams did not help the cause.
The Celtics won three straight games, and then moved on to dominate the New York Knicks. Rondo dispelled all of those same trade rumors when he dropped the most incredible triple double this season with 18 points, 20 as-sists, and 17 rebounds.
The Celtics were being criti-cized for their age, which caused
those critics to forget one thing: team chemistry. The Celtics have had the same core group, minus Kendrick Perkins, since 2008. Even though they have aged, they also have experience, more than most other teams in the league.
Since the All-Star break, the Celtics have had twice as many wins as losses. They have moved up in the Eastern Confer-ence playoff hunt to the number three seed. They also put a beat down on the Miami Heat that had both LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
Something has definitely start-ed a fire beneath the Celtics. It seems out of nowhere that they have started playing as if it was 2008 again.
This can be attributed to four things:
1. Kevin Garnett has grown tired of his newfound status as “old.” We all know Kevin Gar-nett is starting to get up there in age. We also know that he is one of the most competitive players in the game. After the lockout ended, it left no time for Garnett to really get into shape. Garnett had a really slow start to the season. He was getting dunked on, and trash talked; basically humiliated. Garnett realized that this is not the real him. Garnett rebounded from this in February by averaging nearly 18 points a game and nine rebounds a game. Garnett has kept up with his re-formed play and has returned to a leadership role.
2. Avery Bradley started out as a defensive specialist when he finally got time on the Celtics. His perimeter defensive game is on par with that of Andre Iguo-dala and Iman Shumpert. If he added a three point shot to his game, he could solidify his role on this team for years to come, and that is exactly what he did. Once Bradley started draining threes, Doc Rivers started play-ing him a lot more, even moving him to the starting rotation over Ray Allen. Yes, Ray Allen. Brad-ley’s defense has led to the Celt-ics forcing turnovers, and getting fast-break points.
3. Who is Greg Stiemsma? Let’s start in college. Stiemsma never averaged more than twelve minutes a game in any of his four seasons at Wisconsin. He went undrafted and bounced around the league, similar to Jeremy Lin, for four years. The Celtics gave him a chance when both Jer-maine O’Neal and Chris Wilcox went down with injuries. With Stiemsma in his new role, he has certainly delivered. He is averag-ing 19 minutes and two blocks since the All-Star break, he has been making fifteen-foot jump shots, and gained the affection of the Celtics fans.
4. The Celtics obviously would not be anywhere right now with-out Doc Rivers. Rivers can be a serious contender for Coach of
the Year again the way he has brought the Celtics back from the dead. Rivers is one of those NBA coaches that actually abides by his job title. He does not sit there and let star players do the work. He has strategically been substituting players on and off the court, run-ning plays, and most importantly, trusting his players. Perhaps Riv-ers has finally figured out the value of a locked-in playing rota-tion. Rivers has also been limited to playing eight guys a night. He is used to throwing out close to the whole team on a given night.
Jolly Green Giants Playing Like It’s 2008
Now with a smaller rotation, the Celtics have become much more familiar with each other.
The Celtics know who they are. They have been together for such a long time that they have a bond with each other that can only be matched by Stockton and Malone. They know exactly where each other will be on ev-ery play. The Eastern Confer-ence is going to be in for quite a big shock come playoff time. And that shock will be white and green.
Kevin Garnett has been a leader for the Celtics this season.
Doc Rivers is looking to get his second title with the Celtics.
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ed team, who will need Lundquist to be at his best to make a deep run in the playoffs.
Bold Prediction: The Nashville Predators will make it to the Stan-ley Cup Finals. While yes, they are the four seed in the Western Conference, who thinks of the Nashville Predators as a team who can make it to the Stanley
Cup Finals? Even though they did not have a player ranked in the top 60 in points in the regular sea-son, and even though they only have one player over 20 goals, there is just something about this team that intrigues me. Maybe it is because I like the underdog, country music, and that they
By MICHAEL SMITHStaff Writer
Bobby Petrino is no longer the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, after he was fired on Wednesday by the school’s athletic director, Jeff Long.
On April 1st, the Arkansas State Police were notified of a single motor vehicle crash in-volving a motorcycle. That mo-torcycle was driven by Bobby Petrino. While fans and adminis-trators at Arkansas were probably very upset when they heard the news, it is hard to consider that an offense is worthy of firing some-body, especially a high-profile guy like Petrino.
However, as the Arkansas State Police did their investigation of the incident, they realized that they were not given the whole truth. Petrino had a passenger at the time of the accident, the re-cently hired Jessica Dorrell. Dor-rell had worked previously for the Razorback Foundation as an assistant director, and she is also a former volleyball player at the school. She was hired by Petrino to be the football program’s stu-dent-athlete development coor-dinator on March 28th, just four days before the accident.
Long had requested that Petri-no fast track the interviewing process to fill the position. As Petrino tried to oblige to Long’s request, he landed on three final-ists, Dorrell, Arkansas recruit-ing assistant Tiffany Fields, and Benjamin Wilkerson. Wilkerson is a former offensive lineman, an All-American, and a member of the 2003 National Championship team at LSU. He also played in the NFL, including for the Fal-cons, during Petrino’s 13-game run as the head coach in Atlanta. Not to mention, Wilkerson had some pretty impressive referenc-es that included the likes of LSU
head coach Les Miles, Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Florida head coach Will Muschamp, FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher, and Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley.
One would think that a former football player with those refer-ences would be the favorite for a position in the football program, however, the position went to Dorrell.
Dorrell, who is engaged, and Petrino, who is married, were having an affair. It is not known how long their relationship last-ed, but it is known that Petrino gave Dorrell $20,000 out of his own pocket.
It has already been widely known that Petrino is not all that hung up on morals. In July of 2006, Petrino signed a 10-year contract to be the head coach at Louisville, and after one season he was gone, leaving to coach the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons signed Petrino to a five-year deal, but he would only coach the first 13 games of the 16 game sched-ule in his first season, before leav-ing to coach Arkansas.
Nobody disputes that Petrino is a great coach; the Razorbacks were 5-7 the year before he took over. In his last season, the 2011 campaign, he led the team to an 11-2 record. He has just never worried about other people, only himself, but people will let a coach get away with that when he wins. However, when that coach commits adultery with another employee of the school, and in doing so cheats on his wife and his four kids, the public does not appreciate stories like that.
Arkansas did what they had to do. Although Petrino made this team interesting to watch, even the rabid fans of the SEC have to understand that what Petrino did was wrong and he put the school in a bad position, a position where they only had one choice.
Bobby Petrino Out at Arkansas By SAM MAXWELL
Staff Writer
The race for Lord Stanley’s Cup is finally underway across the NHL. With the NFL draft coming up in a couple of weeks, the MLB season getting under-way, and the NBA regular sea-son coming to a close, the Stan-ley Cup playoffs may get lost in the shuffle. Here are a couple of things to watch between now, and when the Stanley Cup is won in early June.
Most Intriguing First Round Matchup: By far this has to be the four vs. five matchup in the Eastern Conference between the Pittsburgh Penguins, and the Philadelphia Flyers. These bitter rivals meet for just the sixth time in the playoffs, with the Flyers winning three out of the previ-ous five times. If the teams April 1st meeting is any indication, this “Battle For the Keystone State” will be one of the more memo-rable playoff matchups in recent history. In their April 1st meet-ing, with about two minutes left in the game, the teams got into a full line brawl, causing a coach from each team to be ejected. If the teams became this heated in a regular season game, imagine what they will do in the playoffs.
Most Important Player: In my opinion, the most important play-er in this year’s playoffs is Henrik Lundquist, the goaltender for the New York Rangers. I say this be-cause the New York Rangers are the number one seed in the East-ern Conference, and do not have a potent offense when you compare them to the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers, and Boston Bruins. Oh, by the way, the Rang-ers will have to beat one of those teams to reach the Stanley Cup Finals. Just like a starting pitcher in baseball, or a quarterback in football, a team can ride a hot goalie to the finals. On the other hand, if a goalie suddenly loses his “mojo,” it usually means a quick out for his team. The Rang-ers are a scrappy, defensive mind-
Stanley Cup Playoffs Underwayhave a “yellow-out” at all playoff home games. Although it is prob-ably because Carrie Underwood (my celebrity crush) is married to Mike Fisher (a center on the Predators), and they show her at least once per broadcast. But in all seriousness, the Predators play as a team and their goalie, Pekka Rinne, is more than capable of catching fire.
Stanley Cup Finals Prediction: The New York Rangers will bring the Cup back to “The Big Apple” for the first time since 1994. Yes, this is a very biased pick because the Rangers are my favorite team. But, this team does everything it needs to do to win, and more importantly, win in the playoffs. They forecheck, they crash the net, they block shots, they play defense, and they score oppor-tunistic goals. However, when it comes down to it, they have Marion Gaborik and Brad Rich-ards who can take it coast to coast at any given moment. The biggest challenge for the Rangers will be getting out of the Eastern Confer-ence.
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Athletic Events for the WeekTuesday: Softball (Double-Header) vs. *Le Moyne at 3:00 pm
Baseball vs. *Le Moyne at 3:30 pm
Saturday: Men’s Track and Field Springfield Invitational at 11:00 am
Women’s Track and Field Springfield Invitational at 11:00 am
All shuttles to Plumeri Sports Complex leave 45 minutes before the start of event. All shuttles are in front of the Events and Athletics Center.
*Saint Rose currently leads Le Moyne in the Upstate Challenge 7.5 to 2.5
Barone pitched seven innings and had seven strikeouts in game 1.
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Senior Nikko Wahl recorded two walks and scored twice in game 1.
By JACKSON WANGSports Editor
The Saint Rose baseball team hosted Southern Connecticut on Saturday in a double-header matchup. The Golden Knights lost the first game 9-6, but won the second game 15-2. After let-ting the first game get away in the top of the ninth to the Owls, the Golden Knights made sure there was no repeat of that in the sec-ond game.
In the first game, Saint Rose lost 9-6 with a late rally by the Owls. Southern Connecticut got on the scoreboard first with a
three run rally in the second in-ning.
The Golden Knights answered back in the third inning with a RBI single by junior A.J. Capone that scored senior Nikko Wahl to make the score 3-1. Then, in the fifth inning, junior Kyle Char-ron hit a triple into right field to score Capone to bring the Golden Knights within one.
Southern Connecticut in-creased their lead in the sixth in-ning with a two run rally to make the score 5-2.
But the Golden Knights wouldn’t go away. Saint Rose made a rally of their own in the
bottom of the sixth inning to take their first lead of the game.
Sophomore Brian Maynard started the rally with a single to left field that brought home soph-omore Jevonte Osterhout and moved senior Daniel Marshall to third. Then Marshall scored on a wild pitch to bring the Golden Knights within one again. Ca-pone added two more RBI’s to his stats by hitting a single to left field that brought in Wahl and Maynard to make the score 6-5 in favor of Saint Rose
Southern Connecticut wouldn’t go away quietly. The Owls put together a rally in the ninth that scored four runs to give Southern Connecticut the 9-6 lead going into the bottom of the ninth. That would prove to be the final score as the Golden Knights drop the first game to the Owls.
In the second game, Saint Rose was off and running right out of the gate.
The Golden Knights struck first in the first inning with a five run rally. Southern Con-necticut walked in the Golden Knights’ first run with the bases loaded. Then Osterhout hit a base clearing triple to centerfield that brought in three runs to make the
score 4-0. The Golden Knights would add one more run in the in-ning to make the score 5-0.
In the second inning, Saint Rose added four more runs with one run walked in and base clear-ing double hit by Maynard to make the score 9-0. The Golden Knights would tack on three more runs in the forth inning. Southern Connecticut would finally get on the board in the fifth inning to make the score 12-1.
Saint Rose would tally up an-other run in the fifth and two more in the seventh. Southern
Connecticut would punch an-other run through in the ninth, but the deficit would prove to be too much for the Owls to handle. The Golden Knights would go on and win the second game 15-2.
Strong pitching by freshman Bryan Carr through six innings held the Owls to one run and two hit with six strikeouts.
The Golden Knights will host Upstate Challenge rival Le Moyne on Tuesday at 3:30. The Saint Rose currently leads Le Moyne 7.5 to 2.5 in the Upstate Challenge.
