FLAs Say Goodbye to Holy Cross Page 10 Cantor Art Gallery Ex- hibits “Fruits of Chance & Ne- cessity” Page 9 Pulse of Events: The College of the Holy Cross Page 5 Bridget Bowman Staff Writer 300 students crowded into Kimball Quad last Saturday to rock out to their fellow Crusaders in this year’s Bat- tle of the Bands. Sarkozy, a band comprised entirely of seniors, won this year’s competition and will be opening the annual Spring Concert this Monday. Sarkozy also won Battle of the Bands in 2011, which they admit was a surprise since they were only sopho- mores at the time. After some members went abroad last year, the group was re- united for this year’s com- petition and proved to be the band that could excite the crowd once again. “It could have gone either way, and hearing that it was Sarkozy was one of the most joyous moments of this year,” said lead singer Peter McStravick, ’13. McStravick, along with fellow band mates Andy Biedlingmaier, Mike Sulli- van, Chris Theobalt, Sam Moll and Joe Plantamura, pumped up the crowd with high-energy songs including “What I Like About You,” “The Anthem,” and “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” Sarkozy won in the third round against Foggy Bot- toms, the defending cham- pions from last year’s Battle of the Bands. The third round was determined by a “very close” fan vote ac- cording to Tom Sica ’13. Sica and Brittany Haracz are co-chairs of Campus Activ- ity Board’s 10-Spot Com- mittee, which hosts the event each spring. Plantamura attributed Sarkozy’s victory to “a lot of serious practice, and a lot of debate over picking the right songs—not just good songs, but good Battle of the Bands songs. We prac- ticed them really well and I think we played really well together.” Sarkozy practiced a few times a week for hours at a time throughout the semes- ter. In the week leading up to the competition they Sarkozy Seniors Emerge Victorious at Battle of the Bands Elizabeth O’Brien Co-News Editor This past week was full of events relating to Relay for Life. One of the most memorable was students shaving their heads to garner sup- port and funding for the Relay for Life event which took place Friday, April 26 in the fieldhouse. Before Friday’s event two students shaved their heads in the hoval, and then during Relay for Life a few stu- dents shaved their heads in front of an enthusiastic crowd cheering the students on. The latter event was called Shave the Brave. On Thursday, April 25, Chris Tota, a senior at Holy Cross and the HRA of Wheeler Hall, and Paul Misci, a senior and SGA Co-President, shaved their head at the hoval in support of Relay for Life. From 3-5 p.m. stu- dents could come to the hoval and see Tota and Misci get their heads shaved and participate in lawn games such as ladder ball, cornhole, can jam, and football. The purpose of the shaving of heads on the hoval was a way to spread the word The all senior band Sarkozy won the 2013 Battle of the Bands and will open the Spring Concert on Monday, May 6th for Walk the Moon and Mac Miller. Sarokzy members are Pete McStravick, Andy Biedlingmaier, Mike Sullivan, Chris Theobalt, Sam Moll and Joe Plantamura. Vanessa Moscatello, 15, cut over 8.5 inches of her hair off at the Relay for Life event last Friday. Holy Cross Students Shave for the Brave Deirdre Koenen Chief News Editor It may seem that only last week we arrived on the hill for the start of this academic year, but last week when a campus-wide email announced Travis LaCouter as the vale- dictorian speaker for the graduating class of 2013, it really hit home that their proud date is only a few weeks away. The Valedictorian selection is a rigorous process designed to find the best candidate for the job. The top twenty-five students in the graduating class are invited to apply for the role. If they choose to pursue this application, each of them must write a short speech and provide a complete list of his or her involvement on campus. Each candidate must then deliver this speech to a panel con- sisting of two senior students, the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Class Dean, and a professor chosen by the Commencement Chair. The Commencement Chair, Lau- ren Spurr, ’13, explains that they look for “a variety of qualities in the candidate. First, achievement in ac- ademic scholarship is considered, but all of the applicants have outstanding aca- demic records. In the presentation of the speeches, we consider the quality of the piece as well as the student’s presentation ability. We also consider their in- volvement on campus, athletics, and in service opportunities. The com- mittee seeks to make sure that the selected candidate is representa- tive of the Class of 2013 and has worked to make the College Mis- sion part of their every- day life.” After this presenta- tion, the panel chooses three final- ists who move on to meet with Dean Austin, who makes the ulti- mate decision on the winner. A short time after his meeting with Travis LaCouter Named Valedictorian for Class of 2013 See SHAVE, page 3 Courtesy of Elizabeth O’Brien See LACOUTER, page 2 Courtesy of Bridget Bowman See BANDS, page 4 “I’m blessed with great friends who have always been there for me and with amazingly supportive pro- fessors who have invested their time and energy in developing me as a person. To them all I’m re- ally grateful.” -Travis LaCouter, ‘13 Courtesy of Colleen Paddock Volume LXXXV, Number 17 May 3, 2013 Worcester, Massachusetts www.facebook.com/thehccrusader www.twitter.com/thehccrusader [email protected]www.thehccrusader.com Inside The Crusader Opinions..................5 The Eggplant ..........10 Features..................9 Sports.....................13
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FLAs SayGoodbye toHoly Cross
Page 10
Cantor ArtGallery Ex-
hibits “Fruits ofChance & Ne-
cessity”
Page 9
Pulse ofEvents: The
College of theHoly Cross
Page 5
Bridget BowmanStaff Writer
300 students crowded intoKimball Quad last Saturdayto rock out to their fellowCrusaders in this year’s Bat-tle of the Bands. Sarkozy, aband comprised entirely ofseniors, won this year’scompetition and will beopening the annual SpringConcert this Monday.
Sarkozy also won Battle
of the Bands in 2011, whichthey admit was a surprisesince they were only sopho-mores at the time. Aftersome members went abroadlast year, the group was re-united for this year’s com-petition and proved to bethe band that could excitethe crowd once again.
“It could have gone eitherway, and hearing that it wasSarkozy was one of themost joyous moments of
this year,” said lead singerPeter McStravick, ’13.
McStravick, along withfellow band mates AndyBiedlingmaier, Mike Sulli-van, Chris Theobalt, SamMoll and Joe Plantamura,pumped up the crowd withhigh-energy songs including“What I Like About You,”“The Anthem,” and “PourSome Sugar on Me.”
Sarkozy won in the thirdround against Foggy Bot-
toms, the defending cham-pions from last year’s Battleof the Bands. The thirdround was determined by a“very close” fan vote ac-cording to Tom Sica ’13.Sica and Brittany Haracz areco-chairs of Campus Activ-ity Board’s 10-Spot Com-mittee, which hosts theevent each spring.
Plantamura attributedSarkozy’s victory to “a lotof serious practice, and a lot
of debate over picking theright songs—not just goodsongs, but good Battle ofthe Bands songs. We prac-ticed them really well and Ithink we played really welltogether.”
Sarkozy practiced a fewtimes a week for hours at atime throughout the semes-ter. In the week leading upto the competition they
Sarkozy Seniors Emerge Victorious atBattle of the Bands
Elizabeth O’BrienCo-News Editor
This past week was full of eventsrelating to Relay for Life. One ofthe most memorable was studentsshaving their heads to garner sup-port and funding for the Relay forLife event which took place Friday,
April 26 in the fieldhouse. BeforeFriday’s event two students shavedtheir heads in the hoval, and thenduring Relay for Life a few stu-dents shaved their heads in frontof an enthusiastic crowd cheeringthe students on. The latter eventwas called Shave the Brave.
On Thursday, April 25, ChrisTota, a senior at HolyCross and the HRA ofWheeler Hall, and PaulMisci, a senior and SGACo-President, shavedtheir head at the hovalin support of Relay forLife. From 3-5 p.m. stu-dents could come to thehoval and see Tota andMisci get their headsshaved and participatein lawn games such asladder ball, cornhole,can jam, and football.
The purpose of theshaving of heads on thehoval was a way tospread the word
The all senior band Sarkozy won the 2013 Battle of the Bands and will open the Spring Concert on Monday, May 6th for Walk the Moon andMac Miller. Sarokzy members are Pete McStravick, Andy Biedlingmaier, Mike Sullivan, Chris Theobalt, Sam Moll and Joe Plantamura.
Vanessa Moscatello, 15, cut over 8.5 inches of herhair off at the Relay for Life event last Friday.
Holy Cross StudentsShave for the Brave
Deirdre KoenenChief News Editor
It may seem that only last weekwe arrived on the hill for the start ofthis academic year, but last weekwhen a campus-wideemail announced TravisLaCouter as the vale-dictorian speaker forthe graduating class of2013, it really hit homethat their proud date isonly a few weeks away.
The Valedictorianselection is a rigorousprocess designed tofind the best candidatefor the job. The toptwenty-five students inthe graduating class areinvited to apply for therole. If they choose topursue this application,each of them mustwrite a short speechand provide a completelist of his or her involvement oncampus. Each candidate must thendeliver this speech to a panel con-sisting of two senior students, theVice President for Student Affairs,the Class Dean, and a professorchosen by the Commencement
Chair. The Commencement Chair, Lau-
ren Spurr, ’13, explains that theylook for “a variety of qualities in thecandidate. First, achievement in ac-ademic scholarship is considered,
but all of the applicantshave outstanding aca-demic records. In thepresentation of thespeeches, we considerthe quality of the pieceas well as the student’spresentation ability. Wealso consider their in-volvement on campus,athletics, and in serviceopportunities.The com-mittee seeks to makesure that the selectedcandidate is representa-tive of the Class of2013 and has worked tomake the College Mis-sion part of their every-day life.”
After this presenta-tion, the panel chooses three final-ists who move on to meet withDean Austin, who makes the ulti-mate decision on the winner. Ashort time after his meeting with
Travis LaCouter Named Valedictorian for Class of 2013
See SHAVE, page 3Courtesy of Elizabeth O’Brien See LACOUTER, page 2
Courtesy of Bridget Bowman
See BANDS, page 4
“I’m blessed withgreat friends whohave always beenthere for me andwith amazinglysupportive pro-
fessors who haveinvested their
time and energyin developing meas a person. Tothem all I’m re-ally grateful.”-Travis LaCouter, ‘13
Courtesy of Colleen Paddock
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2 NEWS The Crusader May 3, 2013
Jess BailotNews Co-editor
On Monday, April 22, the Stu-dent Government Association(SGA) held its annual LeadershipBanquet. All the nominees, RAs,OLs, RSO Co-Chairs, members ofthe Student Government Associa-tion, Faculty, and Staff dressed intheir best cocktail attire for thisevent in the Hogan Ballroom. 5:30p.m. to 6:30 p.m. was the reception,and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. wasthe dinner.
The event was planned by SGACo-Directors of ProgrammingMakayla Humphrey, ‘15 and RossDavis, ‘14. “It was a lot of work,we have been planning this eventsince January,” commentedHumphrey. A lot of detailed plan-
ning went into the event, includinginvitations and the signature pengiveaways handed out at the dinner.Humphrey and Davies also had tomeet with a lot of senior and gen-eral awards committees in order todecide who would be the recipientsof awards. This year is the mostnominations the school ever had,one-hundred ninety-five fortwenty-two awards.
The hosts of the evening wereKevin Piro ’13 and Payton Shubrick’15. Faculty and Staff attended tohelp present awards to the students.Out of the 195 nominations, thesestudents were honored with thecoveted awards:Admirable leadership Traitss:
Kevin Malloy and Rob Doyle
Silent Leader Award: Lauren Dy
and Aaron Jackson
Remarkable Vision Award: Pay-ton Shubrick and Anthony Russo
Rising Star Award: Patrick Mal-oney and Cecelia Plaeh
Reverend Francis J. Hart, S.J.Intramural Participant of theYear: Annemarie Wiesen
Outstanding Service to theWorcester Community: MichaelaJohnson
Greatest Contribution to theHoly Cross Community Rela-tions: Jeff Repucci
Joseph J. Reilly Award: JeffreyGodowski and Antonio Willis-Berry
Bishop Fenwick Award:Christopher Tota
Overall, all found it to be a veryspecial night. “I think it went verysmoothly. It was nice for the lead-ers to come together to recognizethe work of their peers.” ReflectedHumphrey. Congratulations to allnominees and those who wonawards!
SGA Leadership Banquet Honors Deserving Students
Dean Austin, Travis received the email ti-tled“Valedictorian Selection Results,” anddescribes his reaction, “I didn’t open itright away because I was too freaked out –but after a couple minutes I did and I wasthrilled to learn the good news.”
“It was a very tough decision,” DeanAustin reflects on the choice. “Any of thefinalists would clearly have done a greatjob. Unfortunately, we only have onespeaker each year!”
From Concord, New Hampshire, Travisis a member of the College Honors Pro-gram who is double majoring in PoliticalScience and Catholic Studies. “Being a partof the College Honors Program has beena real pleasure,” he says, “especially gettingto know some of the other members andgetting to take the special interdisciplinaryseminars that are offered.”
Travis participated in the D.C. semesterprogram during his junior year, an experi-ence he considers one of the highlights ofhis time at Holy Cross. “Going to D.C. myjunior year had been a long-time goal ofmine,” he says, “and it has really changedthe course of my life. And winning theVannicelli prize and presenting my D.C.thesis was easily one of the more reward-ing aspects of my four years here at HolyCross.”
“I’ve been lucky to have a lot of greatopportunities here,” he says of his timehere at Holy Cross. “I think the strictly un-dergraduate nature of the College is key.Not enough people realize how lucky weare to not have to compete with grad stu-
dents for professors’ time and attention.The teachers here really want to work with
undergrads, which is great.”The summer following graduation,
Travis will return to D.C. for the HertogProgram in Political Studies, a program inpolitical philosophy and American politicsfor undergraduates and recent graduates.After this he will begin applying to re-search-based or think-tank jobs in theWashington area. A couple more yearsdown the road he plans to pursue a Ph.D.in political science.
Reflecting on his four years on MountSt. James, Travis says, “I’m blessed withgreat friends who have always been therefor me and with amazingly supportive pro-fessors who have invested their time andenergy in developing me as a person. Tothem all I’m really grateful.”
“The committee was overwhelmed bythe academic achievements and involve-ment contributions made by all the candi-dates who submitted speeches this year,”says Lauren Spurr. “They all broughtsomething unique to the table, and anyone of them would have made a greatValedictorian. I am proud to be part of agraduating class that is comprised of somany passionate and talented individu-als. Narrowing down the pool was not aneasy task, but I am eager and excited tohear Travis’s address during Commence-ment.”
Travis will address his fellow class mem-bers on May 24th at Commencement, butfor now he has a few words of wisdom forstudents of every year at Holy Cross:“Don’t be discouraged by setbacks. Noth-ing ever goes quite according to plan, soyou have to learn to adjust to changing re-alities.”
“The committee wasoverwhelmed by the aca-demic achievements and
involvement contribu-tions made by all the can-
didates who submittedspeeches this year. Theyall brought something
unique to the table, andany one of them wouldhave made a great Vale-dictorian. I am proud tobe part of a graduating
class that is comprised ofso many passionate and
talentedindividuals. Narrowing
down the pool was not aneasy task, but I am eager
and excited to hearTravis’s address during
Commencement.”- Lauren Spurr, ‘13
From LACOUTER, page 1
Friday, April 26Lehy Hall: Officers reported that the east exte-rior door would not secure due to being superglued
Friday, April 26Off-campus: Officers checked out original site ofthe mock wedding and reported that no one wasthere
Sunday, April 28Carlin Hall: Students reported a bird in thefourth floor bathroom
Sunday, April 28Off-campus: Female student called to report thatshe had a van in Rhode Island with a flat tire
Sunday, April 28Mulledy Hall: Officers responded to studentsbeing stuck in an elevator
Sunday, April 28Loyola Hall: Staff called to report a broken bottleoutside of Health Services
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3 NEWS The Crusader May 3, 2013
Victoria FritzNews Co-Editor
This past weekend, Saturday,April 27, SHAPE, a club on cam-pus focused on advocating for stu-dent health awareness, sponsoredthe third annual MS Fun Run onthe Hill. The event was originallychampioned by former Holy Crossstudent Ashley Caceres, previouslythe treasurer of SHAPE. Her in-tent was to awareness about MSand raise funds for the National MSSociety.
“She wanted to get the messageout that MS affects not just olderpeople, but also college students,”says Katherine Grant, ’13, currentco-chair of SHAPE. As thefounder of the event, Ashley alsohad a personal investment in theissue; she herself was a student liv-ing with MS; she designed the eventto include activity, because forthose with MS physical activity is acomponent to keeping symptomsat bay.
Today, the intent of the Fun Runremains the same. SHAPE contin-ues to raise money for the NationalMS Society and bring together acommunity of students committedto help find a cure for the disease.In order to participate, studentswere asked to donate a small fee, inaddition to a bake sale for thosewho did not participate in therun/walk.
Registering for the event was in-tended to promote education onthe issue; the run was used as an ed-ucational platform, with SHAPEmembers stationed along the run-ning path holding signs with MSfacts and figures. These facts wereintended to show that MS reallydoes affect our age group, and ex-pose those new to the illness tosome background information onthe disease.
Allen Wu, a graduate from theClass of 2012, came back to DJ theevent. He also served as the DJ forthe event last year. He played a va-riety of upbeat songs, comple-
menting the bright andsunny atmosphere, andgetting runners in themood to participate.All runners were givenfree water bottles andpizza at the end of therace. A prize for thefirst place male and fe-male participants wasawarded, in addition tothree raffle prizes. Allregistered runners re-ceived a raffle ticketand were eligible towin. The prizes in-cluded $25 gift cards toPanera, Starbucks, andTarget.
“The event was ahuge success,” ac-cording to Grant.SHAPE topped thenumber of regis-tered runners andparticipants from the past twoyears. $535.76 was raised for theNational MS Society, with dona-
tions continuing to be made. In all,the MS Fun Run was a success.Look out for it next year if you did-
n’t participate!
Third Annual MS Fun Run a Success
A crowd of enthusiastic Holy Cross students participated in the MS Fun Run aroundcampus last Saturday.
about Relay for Life. Chris Totathought shaving his head was an ef-fective way to make others realizethe importance of Relay for Life.
“Shaving my head was a great op-portunity to reach out to the com-munity for support of theAmerican Cancer Society and Relayfor Life,” said Tota. “It is an eventthat really grabs people’s attentionwhen they see [a student] walkingaround bald on campus.”
The event at the hoval also baredan emotional impact. Paul Misci wasmotivated to raise money to helppatients because he has seen manyfamily members suffer from cancer.
“The point was to stand in soli-darity with those who have or havehad cancer and have gone throughthe pain of losing their hair,” saidMisci. “My father and countlessmembers of my family are sur-vivors of cancer, and unfortunatelyall of my grandparents have losttheir lives to cancer.”
Likewise, family and friends havegalvanized students to become ded-icated to Relay for Life. Membersof the Holy Cross community havebeen affected in some way by can-cer.
“At the end of last summer, mydad was diagnosed with aggressivesoft tissue cancer and went throughseven weeks of radiation, so he wasmy inspiration for shaving myhead,” said Tota. “Glad to say he’sbeen cancer free for almost 4months now.”
Students may shave their headsfor personal reasons, but being ableto motivate others to do the sameseems to be at the heart of Relay forLife’s mission.
“I am shaving my head becauseI want to, but if my decision causesmore people to be brave and shavetheir head then I’ve done more thanI set out to do.”
The main Shave the Brave eventoccurred during the Relay for Lifeevent at 8pm. Students volunteeredto get up on stage and shave theirheads to raise money for cancer re-search. Right before the students
got their heads shaved the crowdcould spontaneously donate moneyand ask to shave a student’s head.
Many emotions run throughone’s head when he or she is sittingon a stage and hearing the buzzingof the razor. Anthoney Yakely, afreshman at Holy Cross who shavedhis head, was a little nervous at first,but doing it for cancer researchmade the process more exciting.
“It was nerve-racking havingeveryone watch me shave my head,but I had a good time doing it be-cause I was able to help out a verygood cause,” said Yakely.
Many students felt a sense ofcomradery at Shave the Brave.Brendan Connallon, a freshman atHoly Cross who attended Relay forLife, felt everyone came togetherwatching fellow peers shave theirheads.
“I really respected the studentswho shaved their heads because it isdefinitely a sacrifice that not manystudents are willing to do,” saidConnallon. “But everyone came to-gether to support each other for animportant cause.”
Shave the Brave was a very ener-getic and lively event. However, theother, more serious parts of theevent, were very powerful for stu-dents too.
“The luminaria ceremony wasan important event,” said Yakely.“Seeing so many people walk asilent lap in solidarity with thosewho were affected by cancer defi-nitely resonated with me and re-minded me why we were doing therelay, which is to help those whoneed our support.”
Courtesy of Katheirne Grant
From SHAVE, page 1
4 NEWS The Crusader May 3, 2013
Emma CroninStaff Writer
This past Tuesday, Holy Cross alum JimO’Connor, ’58, visited campus to give theThomas More Lecture on Faith, Work, andCivic Life. This lecture, presented in RehmLibrary, honors a graduate of Holy Crosswho exemplifies the College’s dedication tothe integration of faith and learning. O’Con-nor, who earned an Economics degree fromHoly Cross and went on to obtain a Mastersin Business from Harvard University and alaw degree from Georgetown University,shared his keys to happiness and success withstudents and faculty of the College.
Mr. O’Connor currently serves as direc-tor on numerous corporate and philan-thropic boards, including: CorningIncorporated, Smurfit-Stone Container Cor-poration, United Airlines, the Field Museumof Natural History, Chicago Urban League,Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, theAdler Planetarium, the Chicago Symphony,the Lyric Opera, the Museum of Science andIndustry, and Northwestern University.O’Connor detailed how his Jesuit founda-tion, both at St. Ignatius College Prep inChicago and at Holy Cross, inspired him tomake a difference through these variousfoundations. In regards to Holy Cross, he ex-tensively praised the faculty and ideals of theCollege, describing it as “an environmentthat causes students to reflect on what is im-portant in life.”
Although O’Connor remarked that othertalks he’s heard at Harvard or Georgetownoften focus on global issues or the flaws ofcapitalism, he chose to focus his talk on thetraits necessary to solve world issues, insteadof the issues themselves. First, O’Connorstressed the importance of a positive atti-tude, saying, “Without attitude, you’re dead.”He related this to his second valuable char-acteristic: good judgment. O’Connor ex-plained that in his experience, the capacity toread people and relate to others is essentialto success.
Furthermore, he highlighted the need forinner direction and a sense of goals, declar-ing that as students we must be “propelledby our own self-worth.” Next, O’Connorproclaimed the need for enthusiasm for one’swork, coupled with a results oriented mind-
set. Without these, he explained, it will benearly impossible to accomplish a goal.Overall, O’Connor encouraged students tokeep a strong sense of perspective, and giveothers credit where credit is due. “In thischanging world,” he explained, “you’ll neverget to the big things if you don’t hone the lit-tle skills necessary to get there.”
After detailing his opinion of the char-acteristics necessary for success, O’Connorshared his personal reasons for founding theBig Shoulders Fund. A Chicago nonprofitorganization, Big Shoulders supports innercity Catholic schools, with over half of thestudents attending the schools coming fromfamilies who live at or below poverty level.O’Connor referenced a quote by Chileanwriter Gabriela Mistral while discussing BigShoulders. He recited Mistral’s quote: “Manythings we need can wait. The child cannot.Now is the time his bones are formed, hismind developed. To him we cannot say to-morrow, his name is today.”
O’Connor emphasized the significanceof this quote in correspondence with themission of Big Shoulders. With an unbear-ably high number of Chicago children drop-ping out of school or failing to advance tocollege, Big Shoulders functions as a saviorfor the small, dedicated Catholic schools thatneed assistance the most. Although BigShoulders cannot singlehandedly revamp theChicago education system or eliminateChicago poverty completely, the organizationhas improved education significantly in re-cent years. In fact, 90% of high school grad-uates with a Big Shoulders Fund renewablescholarship enroll in college of the followingyear.
Overall, Jim O’Connor offered a genuine,thoughtful, and inspiring lecture to studentsand faculty this past Tuesday. Through hisvarious business ventures and social work, itis clear that Jim O’Connor exemplifies the Je-suit model of “Men and Women for Others”and serves as an example to all Holy Crossstudents.
Emma PcolinskiStaff Writer
The fourth annual PastaOlympics took place lastThursday, April 25th. Or-ganized by the LIBERAItalian Club, as well as theItalian Department, Italianprofessors, FLAs, students(and their hungry friends)filled the Loyola Ballroom tosample ten different kindsof pasta, cooked by class-mates. The winner, AJ Zefa-rina and his team, tookhome a generous gift cardfor his mastery of pestopenne. Though the compe-tition was stiff, and thejudges took their job seri-ously by going back for sec-onds, you know, just tomake sure voting for thatteam was really the rightchoice, many welcomed it asa study break, as well as abreak from Kimball cuisine.Each judge contributed twodollars to eat plates full offresh-made pasta.
Though many came toeat, many too were excitedto have the opportunity tocook after months of dormlife. The teams, usually com-prised of two or three peo-ple, were given an expenselimit for the ingredients, butotherwise, were given free
reign of their culinary cre-ativity. Pasta fresca, pesto,
amatriciana, and many oth-ers were featured, usuallyold family recipes.
Jeff Godowski, ’13, saidof his experience at theOlympics, “The pastaOlympics was a great expe-
rience to cook for that largeof a crowd. I was definitelynot expecting such a num-ber of people to show up asjudges, or even that manyteams to compete. Therewas definitely competition,but I personally love gettingthe chance to cook a realItalian meal for friends.Making Bucatini all’amatri-ciana really brings me backto my time studying abroadin Rome, since it is a quin-tessential Roman pasta, andgetting to cook with one ofmy friends made it an evenbetter experience.”
The Pasta Olympics,though widely attended bystudents of the language, isnot limited to the Italian de-partment. Next year, aroundthis time, when your diningdollars are low and the walkto Kimball is just too far,grab a few friends and headto the Pasta Olympics. Noexercise required, but domake sure you leave roomfor seconds. A special thank you to allwho helped out this year, es-pecially our lovely FLAs,Diana and Silvia, the LIB-ERA Italian Club, and thedepartment.
Si Mangia Bene!Pasta Olympics Brings a Touch of Italian
to Campus
“I personally lovegetting the
chance to cook areal Italian mealfor friends. Mak-ing Bucatini al-
l’amatricianareally brings meback to my timestudying abroadin Rome, since itis a quintessen-
tial Roman pasta,and getting to
cook with one ofmy friends madeit an even better
experience.”-Jeff Godowski,
‘14
Holy Cross Alumnus O’Connor Gives Thomas
More Lecture on Faith, Work,and Civic Life
practiced every day, which paid offsince preparedness was one of thefive judging criteria.
The judges also rated the bandson material, interface with the au-dience, quality of performance, andpresentation. The first two roundswere judged by four Holy Crossseniors: Antonio Willis-Berry, KateTremarche, Mary McClay and AlexKrawsowski.
Willis-Berry, Tremarche, and Mc-Clay are all co-chairs of acapellagroups on campus, while Kra-sowski is Co-Chair and ProgramDirector of WCHC, the campusradio station.
Krasowksi said that judging thebands this year was very difficult.“All of the bands were really good,”she said. “They were better than Iexpected, with good song choicesand some different instrumentsthat were very refreshing.”
Krasowski was surprised to see asaxophone in bands like FoggyBottoms and After School Affair, acello in Collectivity, and a banjo inPeyote Ugly.
Peyote Ugly’s banjo player JackCondon, ’13, said, “Everyone inBattle of the Bands is looking to doa good performance but also some-thing different from other bands,and incorporating a non-traditionalinstrument is one way to do that.”
Condon was a member of the
competition’s other all-senior band.His band mate, lead singer and gui-tarist Brian Gorzkowski, ’13, said,“It was poignant realizing that thiswas probably our last time per-forming all together as a band forour college careers. But I couldn’thave asked for a better day and at-mosphere.”
The crowd in Kimball Quadclearly enjoyed all of the bands thatperformed on the sunny Saturdayafternoon. “It’s one thing to get upin the morning and do all the back-ground work,” said event coordina-tor Brittany Haracz. “However, it’sanother thing to look out at 1:30p.m. and see so many people hav-ing a good time.”
Many students packed in front ofthe stage as
Sarkozy performed, singing anddancing along with the band. “Ourformula is crowd-pleasing andhard-hitting songs,” said Sarkozyguitarist Chris Theobalt.
Theobalt and other Sarkozymembers actually participated inseparate bands during the competi-tion in their first year at Holy Cross.It was only after living on the samehall in Clark their sophomore yearthat they decided to join forces, cul-minating in their Battle of theBands victory that year.
Guitarist Mike Sullivan pointedout that this year’s competition wasdifferent from 2011. “Anotherthing that helped us out this yearwas that our fans got really interac-tive,” he said.
On Saturday, Sarkozy fans were
seen in outrageous outfits shootingconfetti in the air and tossing redballoons in the crowd during “99Red Balloons.” Sullivan added,“I’m just glad we put on a goodshow and that our fans werehappy.”
The band is now workingtowards their performance at Mon-day night’s Spring Concert and saidthey are looking forward to per-forming in the Hart Center for asecond time.
Sarkozy’s Drummer AndyBiedlingmaier said, “With theSpring Concert, there’s nothing onthe line except playing a really goodshow. You don’t have to worryabout competing; it’s just aboutshowcasing what we can do.”
Sarkozy enjoyed a very enthusaistic audience and an especially impressive groupof fans during their performances on Saturday.
Courtesy of Justin Magsarili
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Opinions The Pulse of Events“The Pulse of Events:” A page dedicated to the debates of our times. This week’s topic: College of the Holy Cross
David PerrettaChief Opinions Editor
I apologize for the first personnarrative that much of this articleseems to be occupied with. Pleaseremember that I am utilizing mystory to make a more universalpoint. With that in mind, dearreader, please - join me!
The day that Father Markey calledand told me that I had been ac-cepted to Holy Cross as an early de-cision applicant, I remember havingtwo reactions: joy, and anxiety. Myprimary response to the news wasto jump up and down excitedlywhile calling family and friends toshare my happiness with them.Then came the onset of feeling thatI had wandered into the unknown;what would come of this? Whatwould Holy Cross mean for myjourney through life? There I was,feeling as if I stood atop a worldthat had never been chartered. Im-agery aside, I'm sure many of youfelt the same way I did.
If seemingly contradictory emo-tions were not enough to throw methrough a mental loop, the advice
that I kept receiving certainly did.There were the academics that Ilooked up to (and still do) that allgave me some iteration of this mes-sage regarding college: Take thetime to study what you love, and tofind yourself. It's a valid point;much of high school was pre-scribed for me (and is for manyothers), with relatively little wiggle-room for course selection. Thiswas finally a time for me to figureout what I wanted to study (I wasdrawn to English, as my friendswere drawn to Biology, History,Economics, etc.).
The other bit of advice I receiveddirectly contradicted this, andtended to come from the business-men that I had encountered: Takethe time and cultivate a marketableskill - use Holy Cross as a spring-board to a career. After all, an un-dergraduate degree is an investmentof sorts. You pay money to an in-stitution for an education in thehopes that, at some point down theroad, you will not only recoup yourinitial capital, but will also earnmore money than you otherwisewould have.
Obviously, both views are impor-tant to students. You can't be suc-cessful in the world if you don'tlearn what you're good at and arepassionate about. Likewise, it is un-reasonable to pay the ludicrous sumwe call tuition without expecting itto pay dividends down the road.The question is this: How can westrike a balance between the two?
Flash forward to orientation: I,like everybody else who attendedGateways, was required to sit downwith an advisor and discuss courseoptions for the coming fall. It wasgreat - for the first time I felt (rela-tively) free to control my studies,and I picked my classes with greatexcitement and anticipation for thesemester. However, nobody sat medown to discuss the practicality ofwhat I was taking. And I mean thatin the positive, not the negative thatyou typically hear. Maybe it was justmy experience or recollection, butnobody sat me down and told methat the skills I would learn inCRAW: Poetry and Intro to Philos-ophy would translate well into Fi-nance and Journalism (I haveworked in both fields). And that, I
think, is a shame. A liberal arts de-gree is a truly wonderful thing inthat you can bring it (almost) any-where. The skills emphasizedacross disciplines are generally ap-plicable to real-world professions.
At the same time, I had to dis-cover “practical” courses like ac-counting on my own with nosuggestions (or cautions, to becompletely fair) from those aroundme. This has been puzzling to meas of late, especially with intern-ships across multiple fields undermy belt: Why doesn't everybodylearn how to read a balance sheet inan increasingly service-driven econ-omy? Likewise - why do I still runinto people who don't know what aderivative is, how governmentworks, and who Ernest Hemingwaywas?
There, I think, is the balance be-tween discovering yourself andlearning a required skill set. Theschool does a tremendous job ofencouraging you to explore aca-demic interests that you neverwould have dreamt of, but does itrequire you to learn basic factsabout the world we live in? You
probably will, but at the sametime...you might not. After all,there are no universally requiredclasses. Maybe the distribution re-quirements need to be revisited inregards to some academic disci-plines - maybe there are bookseverybody should be required toread, scientific functions that allneed to understand, and historiesthat need to be studied. Findingyourself is important (and shouldnever be discouraged), but practi-cality has its place as well.
I love the intellectual freedom thisschool has given me. I just questionthe fact that there are no specific,required courses for graduation - nolist of classes that all students musttake. I find it hard to believe thatnothing is important enough to re-quire familiarizing every Crusaderwith it. The administration shoulddevise a list of classes offering in-valuable skills and see that it is re-quired learning for the entirestudent body.
Striking the (Delicate) Balance
Garrett BychStaff Writer
Enrollment. Speak that one word to anyHoly Cross student and watch his or her fa-cial expression quickly change. Some viewenrollment with excitement, the opportu-nity to select new, enticing classes for thefollowing semester. Others have been atHoly Cross long enough to immediatelyfrown and shake their heads in frustration.Regardless of any given student’s particularreaction, no one can deny that enrollment isat least interesting.
It’s enrollment morning at Holy Cross.You set 6 alarms beginning at 6:30 a.m.; youcleared all bursar holds, yet you are stillpreparing for the worst. It is time to enrollfor the Fall Semester of your senior year.Will this finally be the time that you go 4for 4? It has to happen at some point right?If you are a science major, you are probablytelling yourself that you won’t get Bio-Chem no matter what you do, so you mightas well prepare those elective classes just incase. If you’re a humanities major, you’rebanking on getting into that seminar thatwill help you graduate and will also lookgood on a resume.
You make a cup of coffee in a Keurig thatis not allowed on campus and you openSTAR on your computer. Your roommateis still sleeping and since you’re not com-
peting for the same classes, you decide towake him up. After chugging your coffeeand yelling “C’MON” at your computer,you prepare for the final few moments be-fore you click a random button and awaityour fate. Two more cups of coffee and itis 6:58. You are mentally walking throughyour backup options at this point. “MaybeI’ll get these three but not that religioncourse so I have a backup music class thatwill let me sleep in on Friday’s since Salty isalways a priority.”
Somewhere around 6:59 and 32 secondsyou realize that whatever happens, happens,and you stop caring, for 28 seconds at least.You check the 4 boxes of your preferredclasses and stare at the time on the topright-hand corner of your MacBook. 3, 2, 1and it’s 7 A.M. You click enroll, and whenyour classes pop back up, you click finishenrolling. At this point you are yelling re-gardless of what classes you may or maynot have gotten. Some words are more ap-propriate than others.
In the end, enrollment is over, and youare technically ready for the next semester.Enrollment is not perfect, and often timesit angers students immensely. Even if youwere extremely unlucky with enrollment, atleast you can take solace in the fact that it’sone heck of an adrenaline ride. Thanks forthat Holy Cross.
Too MuchAdrenaline for
7 A.M.Jeremy GarneauOpinions Co-Editor
Climbing up the four flights of stairs toWheeler 4, I always maintained hope that myfuture living situation would not entail amarathon-like trek.
Staring at my cramped, narrow, and disor-derly dorm, I clung to the hope that somedayI will be rid of this nightmare. Smelling thewaves of mysterious and unidentified odors, Ipicture a day when my room would smell morelike a dorm rather than a combination of gymlocker and week’s old ramen noodles.
Differences in cleanliness between me andmy roommate struck a clear divide in our jam-packed room, which made Harry Potter’s cup-board under the stairs seem spacious.
In the midst of living in one of the rings ofhell, I smiled knowing that the housing selec-tion process would save me. The odds wereever in my favor. Or so I thought.
My future roommate has been living in aclaustrophobic forced triple in Wheeler, wheremy problems have been only half as bad as his.With his unfortunate living situation of beingin a forced triple, we figured our housing se-lection time to choose a dorm for next yearwould be relatively early.
Optimistically opening our STAR accounts,we found out that we got a late enrollmenttime. If that wasn’t bad enough, we discoveredthat most people who were blocking or whocurrently had decent living conditions got
housing selection times much earlier than us.OK, so we probably won’t be living in Lehy orHealy. I can live with that.
However, we learned that Mulledy will mostconsist of 50% sophomores next year. Livingin a freshman dorm would probably be theicing on the cake to this amazing selectionprocess.
Holy Cross needs to fix this housing selectionprocess because the reasoning for giving pref-erences to certain dorms makes no sense tome. How can a group of blocked dorms getpriority over a simple 2 person dorm?
It also says that GPA factors into the earlinessof your selection time, yet that remains to beseen with some students’ grades. In the end,my future roommate and I will jump into thisselection process with our game faces on.
We will work with what we got for our selec-tion time and fight tooth and nail for some-thing decent. Our year of hoping, praying, andbeing frustrated will hopefully be worth it inthe end.
Housing Selection:“May the Odds BeEver in Your Favor”
6 OPINIONS The Crusader May 3, 2013
Sarah FreeStaff Writer
Learning to love others the way thatwe would like to be loved is no simpletask. The Golden Rule was instilled anddrilled into most of us at a young age:treat others the way you would like tobe treated. As we grow however, we seemore of the world. We see past theendlessly hopeful notion that humansare only capable of good—some of usdiscover this later than others in life,some of us sooner. When we live andexperience, we learn. We discover themultiple dimensions of the human per-sonality and of interpersonal interac-tion, and apply these observations toour own interactions.
Sometimes negativity seeps into theknowledge we acquire, and we utilize italong with the positive. We feel jealousyand react with coldness just as we feelhappiness and react with warmness. Weknow how certain words make us feeland we utilize that which has been usedagainst us simply because we know it iseffective. Sometimes it seems easier tohurt others the way we have been hurtthan to remember how to love othersthe way we would like to be loved.Maybe it is the essential, yet intangiblenature of love that makes it easier to re-member and be consciously capable of
hurt. Conflict is just that—interruptionof the natural flow of life and concur-rently the natural flow of love. Inter-ruptions are easier to remember thanthe “everyday.”
The apparent ease of being negativeis not an excuse to be so. It is fargreater—albeit far more challenging—to love when we have been hurt. It ismore challenging to remember to loveothers in the way that we know easesand fulfills our own spirit.
We find it easier to express negativityfor two reasons. The first is that it con-nects us to those around us. Sufferingto any degree is the common threadbetween all humans, and connectionand acceptance are two things thehuman soul craves. If negative senti-ments about the weather, another per-son, or our surroundings are probablyshared with someone around us, we arelikely to express them. The second rea-son is that negativity does not make usas vulnerable as being loving does.There is nothing to be taken away fromus when we are negative because we arenot investing ourselves. Being nega-tive—whether in speech, action, or lackof speech or action—places the spot-light on the object of our disdain andaway from ourselves, our emotions, andour thoughts.
Free Thinking:Why it is Easy to Be
Negative, and Why WeShould Change
Eric ButtsOpinions Co-Editor
If you grew up in post 9/11America, you are probably famil-iar with the word, “bomb.” Incontext, “Suicide bomb,” “ter-rorist bombing,” “Roadsidebomb,” and other phrases havegotten us to the point where weare really numb to these kinds ofevents. Some might disagree, butI believe that most people do notreally stop and think when thenews anchor casually reports thata roadside bomb went off inAfghanistan.
This makes it kind of oddwhen you hear about bombs oc-curring in your backyard. It is al-most as if you think that bombsare things that happen in far-away lands, but never here. Al-though we had a terrible tragedyon 9/11, our country has been
relatively safe from terrorismever since. I would not be sur-prised if many people had devel-oped a sense of security in thattime period.
I grew up in a town just southof Boston and went to highschool in a neighborhood ofGreater Boston. While I am for-tunate to be able to say that noone I know was directly harmedthrough the attacks, I can alsohonestly say that I might notlook at downtown Boston thesame way. I have driven downBoylston Street hundreds oftimes in my lifetime and doChristmas shopping at the Pru-dential Center every year (“TheShops at Prudential Center” arelocated right next to where thebombs went off), so I am veryfamiliar with the area. Howcould I have ever known that itmight be the site of a bombing?
A teacher from my high schoolserves as an official at the BostonMarathon every year. It was a lit-tle unbelievable when I saw himon television assisting people toget out of the bomb area. If thebombing itself was not going tomake this event hit home for me,seeing people I know on televi-sion in the middle of a bomb sitedefinitely did.
The moral of this story is thatthe next time I hear about aroadside bomb in Afghanistan,Somalia, or Iraq, my thoughtswill probably linger a little longerthan before on the event. Bombsdo not only happen in otherplaces, they do not only happenin movies, and they do not onlyhappen in nightmares. They canhappen anyplace, even in yourbackyard.
Hitting Home Hard
Patrick HoranStaff Writer
In 1992, political scientist Fran-cis Fukuyama, borrowing ideasfrom the historicist philosopher,G.W.F. Hegel, published his fa-mous The End of History andthe Last Man, in which he arguedthat the spread of liberal democ-racy and free market capitalismwould inevitably bring about theend of humanity’s sociologicaand political evolution.Fukuyama, witnessing the tri-umph of free markets over so-cialism, wrote this book in therecent aftermath of the ColdWar. His thesis of an inexorablemarch towards peace and har-mony was put into serious ques-tion after the 9/11 attacks assyndicated journalist George Willnoted that history had “returnedfrom vacation.” The horrificevents on April 15th at theBoston Marathon reassert Will’sgrim statement.
America’s principles of libertyand equality along with other at-tributes, including its fortuitousgeography and abundance ofnatural resources, have made it aprosperous land, unperturbed byrampant civil strife. Obviously,this is not to say that the U.S. iscompletely free of violence orany grave social ill, but manyAmericans can go to sleep at
night and feel safe. The eventsin Boston, particularly for theHoly Cross community that isless than an hour-long driveaway, have made us think twiceabout the blessings we too fre-quently take for granted.
As Americans come togetherin mourning and in unity, somewill say that it is morally wrongto care about the deaths inBoston, while giving such littleattention to violence that is com-monplace in the darker places ofthe world (e.g., the Middle East,countries throughout Africa,etc.). This is a patently absurdview. It is human nature to caremore for what is close to home.Although we should learn aboutwhat goes on in other parts ofthe world and care about the ter-rible things done in these coun-tries, people cannot be faultedfor feeling more sympathy forthose close to them. Otherwise,we would be in a constant stateof misery as we would despairfor every crime committedagainst one’s fellow human be-ings.
As this article is being written,there is still relatively little infor-mation regarding the suspects,Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsar-naev, behind the bombings andtheir motives. Therefore, thiswriter will not comment on whatspecific steps should be taken
now. So what can we do? Socialscientists will attempt to under-stand these men’s motivations.They will think of the psycho-logical, anthropological, and eveneconomic origins of such ideas.Using such intellectual ap-proaches to understand the Tsar-naevs’ wickedness and to preventsimilar behavior in the future is anoble endeavor. However, weshould be aware of the limits ofsocial science. Certain dimen-sions of evil may be explained byexperts in these fields, but wewould be naïve to think that ad-vances in these disciplines willlead to the eradication of suchevil. We would be making thesame mistake made byFukuyama that if only we couldtweak society so that we haveperfectly optimal conditions, wewould end human suffering.
The terrible events in Bostonshow that evil is just as alive as ithas been throughout history.While the fight against evil is onethat will be hard-fought, themost important thing to remem-ber is that good will always bethere to combat it.
Evil and theBoston
Marathon
Lauren McDonoughOpinions Co-Editor
I’m not a high-stress person by na-ture. Exams, papers, presentation, pub-lic speaking – none of them tend to getmy pulse racing. My senior housing ap-pointment experience, however, may bethe most stressed I’ve ever been.
The system is based on a lottery inwhich everyone gets a randomly as-signed number that is averaged withthat of their roommates to determinewhat time they get to choose theirhousing for senior year. Most risingseniors who are planning on living oncampus want an apartment – either inWilliams Hall or Figge Hall. As is oftenthe case with desirable housing, thereare more seniors who want apartmentsthan there are apartments to be had.This leaves a significant number of sen-iors in the dust, often returning to theirjunior year housing with communalbathrooms and no kitchen.
With my housing number, I managedto just squeeze by, snagging the secondto last apartment available for womenin Figge. Needless to say, it was astressful few hours listening to peoplebrag about their city view apartments inWilliams on every imaginable form ofsocial media. (Note to rising juniors –stay off of Twitter at this time nextyear.) Now, I’m well aware that cross-ing my fingers for a new apartment atmy expensive liberal arts college is atrivial sort of stress, but it was stress
nonetheless. It also felt like stress thatshould have been avoided with a bettersort of system, since I’ve been vocalabout the experiences I’ve had withhousing in the past.
Here’s where the real problem lies,however. The people with housing ap-pointments after me, who had nochance of getting an apartment but stillshowed up to their appointment to dis-cuss their options, really got the shortend of the stick. According to the fineprint on their housing contracts, byshowing up to their housing appoint-ment they committed to paying for oncampus housing for the 2013-2014school year. This means that even ifthey’d had the requisite meetings anddiscussions to live off campus if theywere unable to live in apartment, it wasall negated by simply showing up to thehousing appointment. The process en-traps students who didn’t think to readthe fine print on a housing contract thatthey’ve signed for the last four years. Itworks to the advantage of the college,because they are guaranteed to fill alltheir housing slots (on top of theforced triples in some freshman build-ings). To me, this seems not onlyflawed, but manipulative. Frankly, it’sunkind to manipulate anyone in thisway, let alone the rising seniors at theCollege.
Underclassmen of Holy Cross, you’vebeen warned. Beware of the HousingSelection Process.
Housing Headache
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The RovingReporter
What are you looking forward tomost spring weekend?
“Ebumpin’” –James Marino, ‘14
“Pig roast!!!” -Bianca Llaneza, ‘14
“I’m looking for-ward to spendingthe entire day out-side in the sun!” –Jaclyn Vignati, ‘14
“I can't wait to see the littlefarm animals on campus
again!” -Stephanie Ortiz, ‘14
“I love that it’s warm outand everyone is outside
having fun and we get onelast chance to be carefree
before finals!” –Jeanne Kiernan, ‘14
“The Far EastMovement Concert!” –Anthony Spagnoletti, ‘14
Compiled by Victoria Aramini, 14
Tyler SciontiSports Co-Editor
We have come a long way fromthe days of Rockefeller and Stan-dard Oil. Way back in the day, be-fore anti-trust law, monopolies weretechnically allowed if you could fi-nagle your way into owning one.After the government got wise towhat was going on a series of anti-trust laws were passed which prettymuch prevents any kind of mo-nopoly from being formed. Thereis still one great monopoly leftthough, one that the governmentwill not, and cannot, topple: MajorLeague Baseball.
I’ve written a great deal aboutsports and economics, that’s partlybecause I started out as a sports
writer, and also because profes-sional sports present an extremelyinteresting focus for economicstudy. There is just so much to lookat and examine and so much dataavailable to the public, but before Ikeep boring you with my enthusi-asm let’s get to the topic at hand,how the MLB is one of the lastgreat monopolies.
Monopolies are a type of firm(there are four) operating in a mar-ket in which they are the only firmoffering a unique product in an en-vironment with high barriers toentry. Let’s take a look at one firmin particular, the Boston Red Sox.It’s amazing to me that the govern-ment does little to regulate theMLB, here you have a firm that cancharge whatever it wants and do
whatever it wants simply because itcan.
If you grow up in Massachusettsyou have very little choice when itcomes to your favorite team. Sureyou can be a Baltimore Orioles fanbut let’s face it, if you like the O’syou aren’t going to many games be-cause who is going to pay for aplane ticket just to watch a baseballgame? The Sox on the other handare right in Boston, you prettymuch have to root for them or notcare about baseball. Thus the Soxare a unique product with whichthere are zero substitutes.
Next are barriers to entry, withthe way the MLB has advancedthere is little chance of many moreteams being added, and if one is tobe added it will be a minor league
team that gets promoted. No highschool baseball coach can just starta team, he needs money, land, play-ers, approval by the MLB, grants tobuild a ballpark… The list goes onand on. The barrier to entry intothe MLB is extremely high, so highthat there really is no chance ofever making it as a team owner un-less you buy an existing team.
So now that it is established thatthe MLB is a monopoly, what doesthat mean? Well a perfectly com-petitive firm charges the price thatis designated by the market equilib-rium, which means the lowest pricethat they can charge without losingmoney. A monopoly charges theprice that is designated where theirmarginal revenue is equal to theirmarginal cost. That means that the
Red Sox sell as many tickets as theycan as long as the revenue from thatticket is more than the cost of thatticket. They then use that specifiedquantity and find the price on themarket demand curve. This ends upto be much higher than the marketequilibrium price but because thereis only one Red Sox team and noway to duplicate them, they can dowhatever they want.
So what you get is $90 ticketsalong with $8.00 beers and rathertasteless $5.00 hotdogs simply be-cause the Red Sox can do whateverthey want. That’s it for the semes-ter here at Common Cents, have agreat summer, stay safe, and comeback in the fall with questions forme to answer!
MLB: Monopolistic Baseball
Elizabeth HolmquistStaff Writer
I came across an article onThought Catalogue the other daycalled, “The Things You KeepWhen Someone Leaves.” It wasmostly a girl protesting too muchthat she, in fact, was not bitterabout her breakup, and focusedmainly on the things leftover in hercloset from this old boyfriend, suchas mixed tapes and sweaters.Around the same time, someonewho I considered my best friendfrom high school had just created aTwitter account. And, as I waslooking through the people she fol-lowed, I noticed that one of thefirst people she thought to followwas one a girl who was especiallymean to me in high school. This girlwas someone who, at the time, Iperceived to be the girl who hadstolen my best friend from me. Thecombination of the article and theaccount made me wonder aboutfriendships, and in essence, whatthey leave behind.
Friendships are one of the mostvaluable things one can acquire in
life. I should clarify and say thatgood friendships are the most valu-able. We make friendships everyday,all the time. We become acquaintedwith the woman who sells us coffeeevery morning, the girl who sitsnext to us in the class with theweird professor, we even confide inour significant others who becomeso close to us for the duration ofthe relationship. But, finding a bestfriend is really a treasure. When wefind someone who understands uson our best and our worst days,knows everything about us, knowswhat we’re about to say before weeven say it, well that’s somethingworth more than all the gold in theworld.
There is something so special, socomplex and so delicate about thatkind of relationship that we can’thelp but want to keep it all for our-selves. So, naturally, the troublestarts when someone else wants apiece of this treasure for himself. Itis always extremely problematicwhen someone else wants to be-come best friends with your bestfriend. This is the person to whomyou tell your deepest, darkest se-
crets. You have shared good andbad times. You have been throughso much together. How can it everbe the same with someone else?Why should you have to share?Then comes the haunting questionfor which you cannot seem to findany answer: Why does she need thisother person when she already hasme? There never seems to be anyanswer to completely satisfy you,and the only thing left to do is feelthe cold pangs of jealousy and in-security—something you neverthought you would feel in your re-lationship before. To you, the un-spoken seal of trust has beenbreached, and your friendship con-taminated by this other entity. Thisinterloper.
It was two years later, and there Isat at my computer screen, staringat Twitter, racking my brain for ananswer that after all this time, I stillcouldn’t seem to find. All the pettyfeelings I had felt as a teenagerseemed to come rushing back at aflash of pixels on a screen. Howcould my friend like someone whobothered me so much and howcould she take my place? In that
moment I knew I was being selfish,but I didn’t care. I wished that if Ijust restarted my computer, I coulddelete this unwelcomed girl frommy screen, my life, my memory, andthe hard drive of my friend’s life. Ithought to myself about how muchbetter I am in every way than thisother girl, and once again I felt my-self transforming into another ver-sion of myself. I became thisconfused girl I once was in highschool, feeling all alone and be-trayed—wondering just who thisother girl was and why she neededmy friend.
So I considered the possibilitythat maybe this other girl wasn’t allthat bad, however, I quickly dis-missed this as something laughableand insanely untrue. Then, Ithought that perhaps she is goodfor my friend. Again, I tossed thisidea aside, seeing no benefit to sucha friendship. What could it be?What could it possibly be? Butthen, I contemplated my ownfriendships and realized somethingthat I had been missing all along.Something so clear and bright, I feltsilly to have overlooked it for so
long. I realized: no two friendshipsare alike. All those questions I hadasked myself for so long, lost sleepover, could not understand—therewas nothing to understand. Ourfriendships were so different.
This other girl, no matter howawful I thought she was, never de-valued my friendship for one sec-ond. Why? The answer is invariablybecause best friendship is recipro-cal. The things you experience andovercome are things that are donetogether and make the bond offriendship stronger. The love of abest friend is the same kind of un-breakable love you have for a sister.You fight, you make up, you laugh,you cry--but you do all these thingstogether. The love you feel for abest friend is something that will al-ways pull you back together andcreate a stronger fusion that will beharder to break next time things gobad. It will always be there, even intimes when you can’t feel it or seeit. When you’re best friends, you’resisters of the mind, heart, and soul.
See FRIENDSHIP, pg. 8
What Best Friends Leave Behind
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Continued from FRIENDSHIP, pg. 7
As I realized this, I realized that no onehad stolen my friend. This girl’s friend-ship wasn’t any better than mine, justsomething completely different. I re-membered that only two people who re-ally love and care for one another couldrekindle a friendship that seemed to bedead for a year and a half. Then again,best friendship really never dies, does it?Maybe this, best friendship, is the love wewere all meant to find—it seems to belove in its best and truest form. As forthe article I read, well, I think that whatis “left behind” from best friends is loveand care. Though, it is always with us, soI don’t think it ever really gets left any-where. So, unlike a sweater from aboyfriend, you can never return it. Maybeit’s just the mark of friendship is thething that gets left behind, since it’sbranded on your heart forever.
Edward CareyStaff Writer
Every day, we hear story afterstory about how dysfunctionalgovernment is and how muchCongress is a mess. To be honest,many of these criticisms are basedin truth. Being a "Washington in-sider" involved in governmentcomes with the connotation ofbeing dirty and dishonest. Again,somewhat justified. However, ourgovernment, for and by the peo-ple, is in place to serve us. As arecent participant in the College'sWashington Semester Programand an intern with the Senate
Committee on Health, Education,Labor, and Pensions, I saw howpublic service in government canbe admirable work as a way to giveback.
Walking into the Capitol build-ing every day to do the work ofthe people and my fellow citizenswas a true honor. Knowing that Iwas doing the work of the peoplewas a responsibility I took seri-ously. Yes, I was an unpaid interndoing a good amount of gruntwork, but it allowed me to see theunique nature of our country andgovernment. Even just deliveringpapers to the Senate floor, it wasan honor to be on "official Senate
business." Being granted thesegreat responsibilities and oppor-tunities to serve the country, con-trasted with my temporary,unpaid intern position, was atouching sign of our truly demo-cratic society.
Although it was exciting to meetsome of the most powerful peo-ple in the world in the Senate,what I enjoyed most was the feel-ing of serving and helping my fel-low Americans. I would haveregular phone conversations withpeople on topics such as helpingthem find health insurance, un-derstanding a recent news devel-opment, or figuring out what the
new health care law means forthem. Using my knowledge, edu-cation, and experience to help myequals, I truly felt I was living theCollege's mission of being a manfor others, living out the demo-cratic ideal our country wasfounded upon. This helped mesee beyond dirty politics and in-stead embrace this amazing op-portunity to serve my fellowcitizen.
Politics justifiably gets a bad rap.But let's not let that reputation getin the way of you seeing what thegovernment what it is truly herefor and serving in this dignifiedmission.
Sworn to Serve
Yvon GachetteStaff Writer
The social clock is ticking, and inapproximately a month, I will begraduating. This is my last article asan undergraduate, so it was difficultto decide which message I wantedto leave behind. What did I learnover these past few years? Did Ienjoy my time here? Did I make allthe right decisions? Did I make theright mistakes (believe it or not,there is such a thing as a “right mis-take”)? How have I changed? Whatcontributed to my success here ei-ther academically or socially? As aphilosophy major, did I find themeaning of life? Did I find my an-swer?
I personally have not explored myfaith (or lack thereof) on this cam-pus, but I know for certain that thecollege has a strong Catholic iden-
tity. Even if you do not necessarilybelong to the Catholic tradition,there are many other outlets andsupport for other religious folks onthis campus. Although I do notidentify myself as one of the reli-gious ones (in the traditional sense– after all, what is religion?), and Ihave prioritized philosophy over re-ligion this whole time, I can ironi-cally say that one of the mainanswers I have found in philosophytoday is at the center of Christianityitself. Forgiveness, I would assume,is the highest virtue in Christianity,and it is for me is the origin ofmany wonders. I think that as acampus which often prides itself onits religious identity, we do not prac-tice that virtue enough.
I have chosen to practice thevirtue of forgiveness because phi-losophy has taught me that, in sodoing, my understanding will be a
lot clearer – free from the con-straints of anger, resentment, offrustration. For me, saying “I for-give you” has become synonymousto “I understand you” because youare a human being, you breathe andfeel the way I feel, and we are allvulnerable to temptations. It is inmy conviction that forgiving meansrecognizing that, although we are allassumedly free, we are still some-times at the mercy of our lowest an-imalistic instincts. Forgiveness ismy way of acknowledging that youare not to be held fully and com-pletely accountable for all that youdo; you live in a world of persons,and perhaps that those who camebefore you, those who are aroundyou, or even I, am sometimes partlyresponsible for your actions.
It is through forgiveness that Ihave obtained some understandingwhich will guide me into the “real
world.” I now understand moredeeply why one must keep an openheart and an open mind, rather thanoperate under the assumption thateveryone is out to place one on theguillotine. It is now clearer than everto me that you are not your race,you gender, your mental/physicalstate, your religion, or your sexualorientation. I understand that labels,namely negatives one, are divisive innature, and we are often too quickto throw them at each other. I havebecome more aware of the factthat, although hate is existent, cer-tain actions do not necessarily comefrom a source of hate, rather up-bringing, ignorance, or even culture.I now stand under the belief thateven hate is worth understanding,and that its very presence in ourworld has a value of it owns-- re-minding us of the grandeur of love.
Ultimately, as long as you remain
respectful and considerate of yourneighbors, I think that you are freeto live your life; only you can forfeitthat power and let others dictatesaid precious life. Liberate yourselffrom the judgment of others. Benot sorry you are what they callblack, white, pink, blue, gay,straight, bisexual, vegan, fruitarian,physics major, sociology major, phi-losophy major, baseball player, foot-ball player, etc…basically, bewhatever you want, do whateveryou want, not owing any explana-tion to anyone, be forgiving, be un-derstanding, follow your bliss, andhappiness will follow. Also, re-member to laugh – really loudly andobnoxiously sometimes.
Final Article
Ahmad Nabi HassanzoyStaff Writer
When crises such the BostonMarathon bombings happen,Americans try to heal each other,which I think is a great thing to do.The nation comes together withoutany doubts. The Republicans sendtheir thoughts to the Democrats inNew England. People such asBoston Mayor, Thomas Meninostarted the One Fund to help the vic-tims. These are all good actions andthey show the love and generosityof many people in this nation.However, in times like these, I thinkAmericans forget to ask themselveswhy they really come together andagainst whom do they stand againstas a nation? And is doing so help-ing their cause?
When the news of the suspectshit the media that they were Mus-lims, Americans pour in their criti-cism and started to talk aboutsurveilling the entire Muslim com-munity. However, I think Americahas had worse events in recenttimes (I am not claiming that thisone in Boston was not the worst).For example, the Colorado shoot-ing took the lives of more thanthree Americans and brought fearamong many good American citi-zens. The shooting of children in
Connecticut is another event. Theshooting of the Sikhs in their tem-ple is another example of violentacts. However, some how theseevents and these actions die out inAmerican media. In fact, PresidentObama was not even able to passthe bill in support of more gunlaws. But when a Muslim doessomething then the entire Muslimcommunity in America has to suf-fer (probably) for years now.
In a letter by Holy Cross alumni,Michael Rogers S.J writes, “DearDzhokhar, you failed. Did you everthink that you would make it out?The US captured Bin Laden, andSaddam.. there was no chance youwould escape. This is not the meas-ure of your success, though.”
The letter has a good message toit. However, did the Americans be-came blind folded and forget thatBin Laden was apparently Amer-ica’s man when he was fightingagainst the Russians alongside themujahedeen in Afghanistan? Evenfurther, when the Iraq-Iran warbroke out, the American govern-ment poured billions of dollars inaid to Saddam Hussein. And inyour money in hand, he brutallycrushed the Iranians. In this man-ner, the Muslims are actually theones who suffered the most. I amnot here to make a judgment or ar-
gument about your government’sactions. However, I would like tosay that Americans do hold a hesi-tant when it comes to dealing withMuslims if they are in America oroutside America. Doing so can onlyseparate you, Americans from us,Muslims. When you, Americansclaim that Christianity teaches toforgive. As Muslims we understandthat and we respect that. At least, Iwould say that the educated Mus-lims do respect to a very high levelthis claim or another peacefulclaims of Christianity. Forgiveness,I think is one of the greatest lessonsthat many religions teaches us. Also,great leaders teach us how to for-give. In the movie Gandhi, a Pak-istani man comes up to him andsays that the Pakistanis have killedhis only dearest son. In reply,Gandhi says to him to go and finda Pakistani orphan and raise as if hewould have raised his son. Here,Gandhi leaves us all with a great ex-ample of forgiveness.
However, it is when we, as Mus-lims in America see your real bias inyour media and in some of yourcountrymen’s words that we can-not come to understand what yourreal motives are when it comes todealing with us. In fact, we alsosometimes do not understand thelessons of forgiveness that Christi-
anity teaches many Americans inthis country. What kind of forgive-ness is this when your governmentis talking of placing all of the Mus-lims in this nation under surveil-lance and as a nation you are notspeaking against the actions of yourgovernment that we know by nowthat not all Muslims are bad people.
It is evident that the Muslims aspeople have suffered the mostwhen it comes to the actions of theU.S. government’s policies. TheMuslims in America have con-stantly be looked upon. As Muslimswe come to America with a hopefor better life just as many of yourparents and grandparents did whenthey first came to this nation. Ma-jority of us do not come to this na-tion to learn how to dislike you asChristians or to do any harm to youor any other religious group. In thismanner, as Americans you need tounderstand that as a nation youshould not fear the Muslims. Theyare not against you or your ways atleast inside America. We have a say-ing in our part of the world that ifyou are not a thief, you have noth-ing to worry from a king. It is whenyou become a thief that you needto start to worry about your actions.I think it is time that the Americanmedia puts an end to its bias againstthe Muslims in America. I think it
is time that Americans think aboutits own actions and learn fromthem then questioning Muslims aspeople. And if Americans reallycome to do so, I have no doubtsthat Muslims would show a greaterrespect to Christians in this nationand in around the world too. I thinkby questioning all Muslims, thiswould not help the American causeof spreading the peace around theworld. This cannot bring also Chris-tians and Muslims together. I thinkChristians and Muslims need tofind a middle ground where theycan exist in peace without ques-tioning each other ways of living ortheir beliefs are or what their deityteaches them. I think this couldonly be possible if as people in thisnation, including Christians, take abigger lead in spreading their realhand of friend to the Muslim worldas well. Your nations and you asChristians have been in the light ofknowledge more in the recentdecades than the Islamic world. Inthis manner, you have not onlymore to offer to the world aroundyou, but you also have sort of anobligation to spread your knowl-edge and light across the globe in apeaceful manner as well.
Muslims Feeling Alienated After Boston Bombings
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Features Cantor Art Gallery Celebrates Seniors’ Work
The Fruits of Chance & NecessityCharlotte ErrityFeatures Co-Editor
The current exhibit in the College’sart gallery, the Cantor Art Gallery is acollection of pieces from senior stu-dents who participated in the SeniorConcentration Seminar. The exhibi-tion is entitled“The Fruits ofChance & Neces-sity” and will beon view until May24th. The piecespresented are acolorful displayof these seniors’hard workthroughout thesemester.
Eleven studentsfrom the SeniorConcentrat ionSeminar’s worksare on display inthe show. Eachperson has his orher own theme.“Student artistsparticipating inthe exhibition‘The Fruits ofChance & Necessity,’ include JackButler, Dioni Cruz, Vivian Daly,Janelle DiMartino, Danielle Dimond,Chelesea Jenkins, Julia Keough, AnnieLe, Kerry Simon, Alexander Vera, andKatherine Wallace. Visual arts facultymembers Susan Schmidt, professor,and David Gyscek, assistant profes-sor, guided students throughout theacademic year in developing their artpractice and creating a concise bodyof artwork reflecting the individual'sviewpoint and distinct aestheticvoice,” says a report from the HolyCross website. There are numerousdifferent mediums representedthroughout the show. Each studentbrings his or her artistry to the show.
“The Senior Concentration Seminarprovides students with the opportu-
nity to explore issues of artistic pro-fessionalism with the encouragementto take risks in developing their ideas.Participants are challenged to experi-ence both the revelations and failuresof the creative process. Critiques, re-quired readings, writing and sketch-book assignments provide a rigorous
foundation for self-reflection and de-velopment,” reports the Holy CrossCantor Art Gallery webpage.
Jack Butler, ’13, is showing a collec-tion of his photography. He com-ments on his process of creation:“The work that I showed at the Can-tor Galley is a series of analog photoscalled A Study of Forces. When cre-ating this work, I'm using 1940s tech-nology, but looking to current digitalphotography for final product. I useda series of multiple exposure tech-niques along with masking to put im-ages of architecture into my ownbody. The inspiration for this projectconnects back to Italian sculpture andarchitecture relationships as well ascontemporary tattooing. The Cantorallowed for me to show my work in a
professional setting. With the help ofRoger, Tim and David Gyscek, I be-lieve that I was able to put together apolished series of photographs thatare accessible and appealing to my au-dience.”
Vivian Daly, ’13, describes theprocess of her own piece, “I've always
been interestedin the face as asubject for art-work. I findlooking at theface interesting,and also the fin-ished productthat comes fromit. There is alsoan interesting re-lationship andsometimes aconnection be-tween the viewerand a drawn face.‘Faces’ exploresthis interest. It'san instillationcomposed of afew hundreddrawings onglassine in oil barwith an acrylic
wash. Throughout the tenure of theshow I'll be adding even more draw-ings each week.”
This collection of soon-to-be grad-uates is impressive. The students ab-solutely have taken risks in carryingout each of their artistic visions. Theshow uses various media, including,but not limited to, paintings, drawings,stop-motion video, glass, and three-dimensional pieces.
“The Fruits of Chance & Neces-sity” is a fabulous addition to the Can-tor Art Gallery. The show is on viewdaily, except Sunday; the show willalso remain open through com-mencement ceremonies.
Courtesy of Vivian Daly
Vivian Daly ‘13 showcases her installation in “The Fruits of Chance & Necessity”
Crusader of the Week:
Cait l in MacNei l ’13
Alannah HeffernanChief Features Editor
Name: Caitlin MacNeil
Year: 2013
Hometown: Tewksbury, Mas-sachusetts
Major: English
Favorite song: “AmericanHoney” by Lady Antebellum
Motto for life: Have faith, ex-pect miracles
Roommates: No one elsewants to live in Mulledy as asenior…
Campus activities: Head Res-ident Assistant of Mulledy,Holy Cross DanceMarathon, & Weekend Work-shop on Reflection and Jour-naling
Favorite spot on campus:Cool Beans
Favorite class taken at HC:James Joyce with ProfessorReynolds
Favorite Kimball meal: Tacosalad
Best dorm to live in: Mulledy...3 years strong
Guilty Pleasure: Quoting linesfrom the movie, Pitch Perfect
One word you would use todescribe yourself: Sleepy
Three words your friendswould use to describe you:Compassionate, Dedicated,and Gullible
Favorite pastime: Vacationingin Kennebunk, Maine
Pet peeve: People knocking ondoors to get let in
Favorite TV shows: NewGirl, Friends, and Glee
Best movie: Field ofDreams
Favorite Book: The GreatGatsby
Role Model: My parents
Favorite place travelled to:Monterey, California
Childhood aspiration: Bethe bat girl for the Red Sox
Favorite holiday: Christ-mas
Worst Summer Job:Cashier at a Rite Aid pharmacy
Do you have an HC bucketlist, if so what’s number one?#1 is to graduate (Almostthere!)
Favorite off-campus Worces-ter restaurant: Mezcal
Do you prefer……Kimball brunch or Kimballdessert? Kimball brunch…The Crusader or Fools on theHill? Fools on Thursdays, Cru-sader on Fridays…Science Café or Crossroads?Science Café
Where could you be found……on a Tuesday at 11 a.m.?Catholic Education class withJeff & Tota…On a Friday at 1 a.m.? Study-ing in the Mulledy staff office…On a Saturday at 9 pm? AtWooberry!…On a Sunday at 6 pm..? Kim-ball dinner with friends
Best piece of advice youhave ever received:“Be safe & make good choices”–Thanks, Mom
Fondest Holy Cross mem-ory: Raising $35,200 for Pedi-atric Aids at Holy CrossDance Marathon 2013
What would you rather bedoing right now: Wasting timeon Pinterest & Instagram
Charlotte ErrityFeatures Co-Editor
A new restaurant in the Shrewsbury-Worcester area has popped up inWhite City Plaza, hailing fromBoston, called, simply, b. good. Thenewest addition to this Boston-basedchain serves burgers, salads, smooth-ies, and sandwiches.Under a slogan inspiring farm-fresh
ingredients and factory-processedfood—“Food made by people, notfactories—b. good lives up to itspromise. When you enter the restau-rant, the first thing you notice are thered walls and the photos of farmsfrom around Massachusetts. Youorder at a counter, where two em-ployees greet you kindly, and sit down
and wait as they freshly prepare yourfood; when it’s ready, they will imme-diately call your name to pick it up.
b. good comes at a time when I feelmany Holy Cross students need ahealthy option off campus. Yes, youcan be healthy at Panera Bread or getbrown rice at Chipotle, but those areconglomerate chains, in which theirfood is not grown in the Massachu-setts area. It’s inspiring to see chainslike b. good enterprising agriculture.And, no doubt, it really delivers. I’veordered salads every time I’m there,and since I find Kimball’s grilledchicken particularly lackluster, I reallyenjoy a wonderful grilled chicken Cae-sar salad. The salad itself was freshand tasty; it was served in a trendy sil-ver salad bowl. Additionally, I chose
accompany my salad with one of theirsmoothies, either mango or straw-berry banana (both are delicious), andwas no disappointed. My friends andI also split a side of crisp vegetables,which were delicious broccolini andmushrooms and fresh cheese. For thefirst time in a while, I was reallypleased with an off-campus decision.While b. good is close to the nearest
Chipotle, no doubt a Holy Cross fa-vorite off-campus eatery, try this placeout instead. I promise you won’t bedisappointed: the menu offers a vari-ety of foods far from salads (theirburgers sound and looked especiallydelicious). I’m so glad we have ahealthy, new off campus dining loca-tion, perfect for both lunch or dinner.
b. good: The Boston Chain Comesto the Worcester Area
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Au revoir, Adiós, and Arrivederci: Saying Goodbye to Our FLAs
We will miss you all so much next year!Emma Pcolinski
Staff Writer
Anais Miege vil l e - Fr enchWhat is your favorite Holy
Cross memory?My favorite HC memory? Whoa,tough one. My whole experiencehere has just been amazing. I re-member some incredible momentswith my roommate when I just feltI had found a sister. I remembersome epic parties. I remember theamazing feeling to see my studentsspeaking a beautiful French whenthey could barely say “bonjour” oneyear ago...
What was your funniest orstrangest moment in practicum?You have to know that mypracticum are always weird becauseI am weird. But there is one lessonabout the pronunciation of the "r"in French and it was hilarious. It's asound that is a really complicatedfor an American student and wehad so much fun trying to all say itproperly. Now they make fun ofme when I say a word with a lot of“r”s.
What is your favorite Americanexpression or word?I’m more used to Spanish expres-sions because I'm surrounded bySpanish FLAs, but if I had tochoose one word I'd say "fool" justbecause being part of The FoolsOn The Hill made my experiencehere so complete. I was so lucky toget to know all these amazing"fools."
What are you planning to doafter you leave The Hill?After leaving HC, I plan to enter ahuge depression moment! I can'tbelieve I'm leaving, and it's the lastthing I want to do. Back home I stillhave two more years before I grad-uate. So back to school! Yay!
What is the thing you are mostlooking forward to doing or see-ing back home?
Clearly, I'm looking forward to eatreal bread! A warm baguette...yummy. No kidding, the only thingthat can make me feel better is thatI'm going to see my friends and myfamily that I missed very much.Can't wait to go take a coffee in myfavorite Parisian café... (I knowcliché!)
Before you leave, what wouldyou like say to Holy Cross stu-dents?Before leaving I would say so manythings to the whole HC community.They became my family. I got toknow amazing people. People I'llnever forget. People that changedmy way of thinking and the way Iwant to live my life. It was clearly alife-changing experience. My stu-dents were obviously the best! Icouldn't have asked for more dedi-cated, funnier or intelligent ones.They made my job easy and fun.Every single student or facultymember is inspiring. I'm leavingthis place sad but so grateful tohave met all these inspiring, amaz-ing and really good people. You allmake me see the world differently.It was an honor to meet you, to liveamongst you and to be part of yourworld.
Andr ea Pas in Gonzalez -Span ish
What is your favorite HolyCross memory?It's been such an amazing year thatit's very difficult to choose only onememory. When I look back I canthink of lots of special moments:meeting the other FLAs at the verybeginning of the year, teaching myfirst practicum and meeting my stu-dents, travelling to new places,hanging out—I mean working—atthe FLA office, attending HolyCross events, and basically justevery little moment of living, study-ing and working at Holy Cross.
What was your funniest orstrangest moment in practicum?
When you are teaching a foreignlanguage there are lots of fun mo-ments, like when your students justmake up new words mixing Span-ish and English. I have lots ofthese: "dinero" (dinner), "data"(date), “mailo” (mail), etc. I laugh alot during practicum.
What is your favorite Americanexpression or word?I love blendings because we don'thave them in Spanish. Some of myfavorites are: darty, brunch, shopa-holic, Brangelina...I don't know Ijust find them funny.
What are you planning to doafter you leave The Hill?I have no idea! I will try to find ajob in Spain, it won't be as cool asbeing a FLA, but hopefully I willfind something related to teaching.
What is the thing you are mostlooking forward to doing or see-ing back home?I can't wait to go to the beach. Afterthis winter here in Worcester, I'mready for some sunbathing andswimming at the beach. I think Ihad enough snow for the rest ofmy life. Of course I am also look-ing forward to seeing my family andfriends, to eat Spanish tapas, and togo to my hometown's soccer teamgames again.
Where was your favorite placeto visit while here?I loved visiting New York andWashington D.C. Both are amazingcities with lots of things to do andto see. I’m also excited about myupcoming trip to the West Coast!
Before you leave, what wouldyou like say to Holy Cross stu-dents?Well, I really want to say THANKYOU! Thank you all for such anamazing year and enriching experi-ence. Thank you for being so wel-coming and friendly, thank you formaking practicum so fun to teach(even at 8.00 am!), thank you foryour hard work and, most impor-
tantly, thank you for everything Ihave learned with and from you.You have definitely made a differ-ence in my life. I wish you all thebest of luck in your future, and ifyou ever come to Spain, you know,“mi casa es tu casa.”
Silvia Mi lazzo - Ita l ianWhat is your favorite Holy
Cross memory?The people of 5 City View, myhouse and home here in HolyCross, my roommates trying tospeak Italian and me trying to speakChinese, all the brunches we had,the dinners at Lucky's cafe (if youhaven't gone there yet, do it!) all thegood sushi, all those Celtics games,the American jokes I love, peopleholding doors creating that awk-ward moment in which you feel theneed to hurry up because they arewaiting for you, the neighbor shov-eling my snowy yard so that I canget inside my house, my favoritestudents that became great friendsand great ambassadors of this sofascinating and complicated coun-try, the first time I had a SamAdams, going to Boston on thevery school bus I had always seenin the movies, and finally, this gen-eral feeling of living in an episodeof my favorite American TVshows.
What was your funniest orstrangest moment in practicum?Many people know this story al-ready but it is worth to tell it. Oneof the first days of practicum I toldone of my students "dai" that inItalian means "come on" but it ispronounced as the English verb"die." It was a hard moment be-cause I didn't know how to explainhim that I just wanted to encouragehim, not to curse him!
What is your favorite Americanexpression or word?Wow, that is a tough one. I loveEnglish language because it gives alot of chances for creativity. I really
like the words “facetious,” “self-conscious” and the expressions “atthe end of the day” and “I have tosay”(I say it all the time!). Finally, Icouldn’t live without all the “that'swhat she said” jokes, they are arecipe for disaster!
What are you planning to doafter you leave The Hill?I will go back to my country to fin-ish my master and then I’m plan-ning on moving to Spain or Brazilfor a while. I just want to keep trav-elling!
What is the thing you are mostlooking forward to doing or see-ing back home?I really want to go for a walk in thecity, have a glass of wine with myfriends in a nice piazza and have along chat with my mama.
Where was your favorite placeto visit while here?I know it is a cliché but I have to sayNew York and also Chicago.
Before you leave, what wouldyou like say to Holy Cross stu-dents?It has been a pleasure knowing youguys. I really admire you for all yourhard work and determination. If Ican give you a piece of advice, trynot to get too stressed out, focusless on the future and don't repressyour emotions too much. I knowit's hard to feel like you are beingjudged all the time but ultimatelyyou are going to have to face your-self, not other people, so don't betoo hard on yourself and stop tex-ting so much! You have a bright fu-ture waiting for you, I'm positive.
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Alannah HeffernanChief Features Editor
Dear Alannah,I have three ten page papers for
two English classes and one religionclass... And then I have a final proj-ect due on Monday. I want to par-ticipate in Spring Weekend but Idon’t know how I will get it all done.I know Spring Weekend is a HolyCross tradition but I don’t think Ican participate. The Easy St. Fair iswhen I should be in the library! All Iwant to do is pet a pig at the pettingzoo and spend the last weekend with
my friends before we all part waysfor the summer. How will I be ableto get it all done?
Sincerely,
Overworked and Underplayed
Dear Overworked and Under-played,
Time management is the key tosuccess at Holy Cross. I cannot be-lieve I am telling you this so late inthe year. Without time management,you will fail out…maybe that’s dra-
matic. If your work isn’t done bynow it looks like you cannot partici-pate. If you are half way done withmost of your work, make a scheduleand stick to it. Plan out every minuteand find a balance between yourwork and your social life. Worsecomes to worst, there’s always nextyear (unless you are a senior thenparty on!).
Have a great summer!
-A
Ask Alannah
Katie DeGennaroFeatures Co-Editor
In lieu of the upcoming weekendactivities, I thought it only necessaryto go over proper Spring Weekendget-ups. While Spring Weekend doesseem to encourage the student bodyto dress neurotic, this year I thinkthose of you in faux pas question,should all make an effort to dressboth practically and tastefully. Thatbeing said, I am aware of the sev-enty degree sunshine expected forthe weekend, so in an effort to min-imize my glaring stares, I have begunto prepare my eyes for unsightlycropped-tops and crotchy jortswhich I am sure will appear. How-
ever, just because you can, doesn’tmean you should. Translation: thisweekend step outside the neon lycraleggings, man-tanks, and revealingbustier tops, and slip into somethingmore user friendly. Spring Weekendis the last hurrah of the Holy Crossseason and therefore, your lasttagged pictures on Facebook beforethe summer. So this weekend, as youstand lonely in front of your closetdoor, ask yourself this,W.W.K.W...For after a years worthof fashion friendly advice, W.W.K.Wshould most certainly suffice!Keep it simple. Who knows where
you will end up, or for how long youwill be out and about. Wear com-fortable shoes, loose tops, and min-
imalist accessories. The motto ofthe weekend is to look like youaren’t trying, like a day trip to thebeach. Less will always be more.Furthermore, in regards to yourfaces, sunscreen is most definitelynecessary. Lobster red should andshall remain an O.P.I nail polishcolor, not a tint to your forehead.So, keep your phone in a case, keepyour Ray Bans within reach, andmake sure your container is alwaysclosed ;).
Happy Spring Weekend,
W.W.K.WYour Fashion Fairy Godmother,Katie E. DeGennaro
W.W.K.W (What Would Katie Wear)...This Weekend?
Overheard onThe Hill...
“Did you hear who is living in Figge next year? It isdefinately the cooler of the senior apartments!”
***“Battle of the Bands got the best of her. She was
passed on with shoes on by 9:30...”
12 NEWS The Crusader May 3, 2013
The Eg g plant
Art VandelayEgg-ressive Contributor
Early Sunday the College releasedan official course of action on howthey plan to make housing evenworse on Mount Saint James.“We’re very excited about this ven-ture,” commented college presidentFr. Phillip Boroughs, “We hope thatby 2015 Holy Cross will be virtuallyunlivable.” The plan is among themost ambitious in the college’s re-cent history, where every class gradeand likely every student will be af-fected. “We were worried that wehadn’t done enough after this yearwhere we basically didn’t approveanyone to live off campus, tripled
up a higher percentage of freshmenand hopefully sophomores, and hadJuniors in Healy, and Seniors in Car-lin and Alumni,” commented Di-rector of Student Conduct PaulIrish, “its really going to be a landmark year for us in terms of ruininghousing. I mean when we thoughtof making the already too small sixman rooms in Carlin and Alumnieight man rooms we thought we hitour peak, but we think that we canmake it even worse by 2015.
The ambitious plan includes manychanges to almost every asset ofhousing at Holy Cross. Phase Oneincludes every freshman living withfour people to a room, putting twodesks in each hallway. “We realizedthat you can probably fit anotherbed in those rooms, and we’re
gonna go for it,” said director ofCommunity Relations MatthewKennis, “Hopefully it doesn’t workout. We still plan on telling every-one on tours that a small minorityof students have to live in forcedtriples and quads, but its gonna beclose to one hundred percent.”Phase two included pushing theeight man suites in Carlin to twelveman, because we couldn’t think of areason not to. Phase three involvedthe opening of tents for the re-maining non-tripled and quadedfreshmen on the lacrosse field. \
“We’ve looked into it and foundout it is indeed legal to put kids intents like this in Massachusetts. Weconsidered putting the tents in theKimball quad but it was determinedthat doing so would be entirely too
convenient for the students,” saidIrish. It was also said that studentsliving in the tents would still becharged full room and board by thecollege. The fourth and most am-bitious phase of the project in-volved the elimination of offcampus living and the public burn-ing of the remaining houses onCaro Street the first weekend ofschool. “We were going to do theburning over the summer when thestudents weren’t here, but wewanted to see the tears flowing onCollege Street,” said Irish, “It was acostly venture to buy those remain-ing houses, money that could havegone to our underfunded athleticprograms, but we thought it wouldbe better serviced here.”
The one worry college officialshad with this plan was the worrythat they wouldn’t be able to makehousing any worse for the 2015-2016 year but they came to the con-clusion, “We still have a few tricksup our sleeves.” When asked aboutwhy these changes would be made,Paul Irish commented, “We just re-ally do not care. There is not a sin-gle thing we care less about oncampus than the housing situation.”This news coincided with the an-nouncement that the college wouldno longer be releasing its retentionrate, but would still tell tours that it’s“pretty high.”
Holy Cross Releases New Plans to Skew Housing EvenMore in the Coming Year: “We Really Could Not Care
Less,” stated the College
Robbie KeiligEgg-Headed Contributor
SCIENCE CAFE: A junior bear-ing the moniker Jordan Trane wasallegedly struck with disbelief thispast Tuesday, having suddenlycome to the realization that he hasbeen inadvertently recycling the en-tirety of his refuse for severalweeks. The self-proclaimed oppo-nent of "trees and other dumbcrap that grows" maintains that hiseuphoric moment was "hard tocomprehend," finding the realityof the situation to be "a shame,truly a shame."
The revelation occurred approx-imately at noon, after Trane care-lessly tossed his utterly stupid andinconceivably wasteful water bottleinto a recycling receptacle whichoffered the message "paper only,please." Quoted as having said"Psh, paper only my left buttocks,who cares where I recklessly tossmy stuff," Trane apparently madeevery attempt to dispose of hisrubbish via his usual method. Atthis time, all sources indicate that
Trane's mind was infinitely re-moved from the possibility that thebyproduct of his consumerism wasin actuality being trucked to a stateof the art facility to undergo clean-ing and sorting so that it could belater repurposed into a variety ofhousehold goods.
Trane was purportedly broughtdown to Earth by a nearby friend,who pointed out that Holy Crosshad switched to single-stream recy-cling several weeks prior. Key wit-nesses maintain that, upon hearingthis news, Trane went pale for sev-eral minutes and did not speak.Others maintain that Trane simplylaughed and walked away, pretend-ing he had not heard the newswhich represented the absolute an-tithesis to his campaign of wantonenvironmental apathy. Then again,all of the witnesses and charactersin these articles are completely fab-ricated so it is hard to tell what ac-tually happened.
"Wow, are there really that manyhippie tree-huggers here?" Tranewas heard remarking to himselfshortly after the incident, thus pro-viding infallible evidence to all of
those within earshot that he was in-deed the bloviating ignoramus andnarrow-minded prick that many as-sumed he was.
"You mean to tell me, I've beendiligently throwing my cardboard,paper, beer cans, water bottles, andold homework away, purposefullyplacing them in the wrong recy-cling containers, and I've actuallybeen aiding in the prevention oflandfill growth and ecosystem pol-lution? Freaking unbelievable."
As of press time, a strange Trane-lookalike, clad in a "reduce, reuse,recylce" t-shirt, was observed sift-ing through organic cow manurewith a broad smile as he plantedseveral sapplings in his home backyard.
Zach LanningChief Eggplant Editor
When Shawn Spencer recieved hishousing time of midnight on the lastday of Housing Selection, the sametime he had received in the previoustwo housing lotteries, one could haveguessed that he would be most justi-fiably bummed. Due to unbelievablycramped conditions on campus nextyear this time would surely doomShawn and his three roommates to anon-apartment and, as rising seniors,this situation would seem a little lessthan ideal. “I don’t even want toknow where Shawn ended up,”quoth Gus, a friend of Shawns, “ Ihad to straight up murder five girlsin order to get an apartment inWilliams...and my appointment timewas at 2 in the afternoon!”
Shawn attended the Housing Lot-tery at his appointed time and tookwhatever was left for him, whichturned out to be the room right nextto the RA in Mulledy Basement, atraditionally Freshman dorm. Shawnwas, however, not as upset as othersmay have been if put in a similar sit-uation: “Yea I’m actually stoked forthis,” admitted Shawn, “I remember
when I lived in Mulledy my Fresh-man year and it was a blast! It was alittle diffrent back then because weonly had three people in a room andnow we’ll have four, but even thoughthat means less room to, like, movearound and stuff, it also means lessspace between me and my bros! We’lltotally have a bonding sesh likeeverynight when we have to share abed.”
Shawn went on to describe someof the other positive aspects of liv-ing on Easy Street as a senior: “Imean, I don’t really cook anyway soI wouldn’t need a kitchen, and havinga personal bathroom is such a waste.I like to be able to talk to the otherten dudes in the hall bathroom whileI’m taking care of my business, youknow? Also, I’m close to Hogan andthere’s, like, a water fountain andstuff in the hallway which is right-eous.”
He was also very excited to bondwith some of the younger membersof the school and to share his expe-rience with those who will be livingaround him: “Freshman bros defi-nitely throw the best parties so I’mgonna be all up in that.”
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Sports The Crusader May 3, 2013 13
Sports Holy Cross, Boston, and Beyond
Elizabeth FullertonSports Co-Editor
A select group of the Holy CrossWomen’s Track and Field teamcompeted in Providence, Rhode Is-land at the Brown Springtime Invi-tational on Sunday, April 29. Forthose that were competing, it wasthe last chance to make an impres-sion before the Patriot LeagueChampionships. This is the time ofthe year, as the season nears theend and the weather gets warmer,when athletes are in peak conditionto compete at their best. As ex-pected, the beautiful April day in-cluded many career and season bestperformances for members of theHoly Cross team.
In the sprints, Madeline Dodge,‘15 led the way with a career besttime of 12.87 seconds in the 100
meter dash, which was quickenough for second place. Eventhough Payton Shubrick ’15 usuallyruns the 400 meter run, she did afine job in both the 100 and 200meter dash, running personal besttimes of 13.42 seconds and 26.42seconds in the respective events. Inthe 100 meter hurdles, AlexandraParise ’15 placed fourth, adding an-other career best performance tothe list of Crusaders, with a time of16.46 seconds.
There were also several notableperformances in the field events,too. The Crusaders placed 3-4-5 inthe hammer throw. Christy Man-ning, ’14 placed third in the ham-mer throw with a career bestdistance of 46.91 meters, and closebehind was Kelcey Germain, ’13with a distance of 45.91 meters.Elizabeth Provost, ’16 placed fifthin the event with a throw of 40.27
meters, which is a season-besthrow for her. In the long jump, MaryGrace Brogioli, ’15 jumped a
distance of 5.12 meters, just aheadof teammate Marissa Romano, ’15,who jumped 5.09 meters. The Cru-saders placed 4-5-6 in the triplejump. This time, Romano jumpedfurther than her teammate Brogi-oli. Romano placed fourth with adistance of 10.89 meters. Brogiolijumped just shy of Romano’s mark,with a distance of 10.85 meters.Liann Devereux also jumped well,with a distance of 10.48 meters.Mackenzie Arndt, ’15 performedwell in the pole vault, placing sec-ond with a height of 3.65 meters.Michelle McGahan, ’15 set her owncareer best mark in the same eventwith a height of 3.5 meters, goodenough for fourth place.
In the long sprints, Fiorella John-son, ’15 ran 1:01.10 in the 400meter run. Even though some ofthe middle distance crew did notcompete, there were still impressive
performances from several mem-bers of the squad in the competi-tive 800 meter run. CarolineCarley, ’16 led the way for the Cru-saders, running a season best2:16.85 and placing fifth. CatherineGildea, ‘16, who has run the 1500meter run frequently during theseason, ran a strong 2:19.03 in the800, placing seventh. TeammatesAbigail Mitchell ’15 and SarahMeinelt were close behind Gildea,running 2:19.31 and 2:20.23 re-spectively. The Brown Springtime Invitationalwas a non-scoring meet, but if itwere a scoring meet the Crusaderswould have done well, despite noteveryone on the team competing.The Crusaders compete next intheir most important meet of theseason, the Patriot League Cham-pionships, on May 3 and 4, whichwill be hosted by Lehigh.
Christopher Kalpin and Jacob Kripp
Sports Editors Emereti
We’re back! (Sort of...)The good people of Mount Saint James have
been in distress with the absence of sexy sportswriters Jacob Kripp and Chris Kalpin. For the pastthree months, we’ve been harder to find then KatieMcKenna. We’d like to keep it that way but beforewe leave these hallowed grounds next month atgraduation we figured we’d bestow you with onelast piece of literary genius.
First, let’s dispel all the rumors surrounding ourabsences. No, we did not finally rush with the Crips.We’re shockingly not thug enough as evidenced bythe fact that we had to look up how to spell C-r-i-p-s to make that lame joke. No, we have not beentrapped in the Kimball-Fenwick tunnel the wholetime. And no, we did not enter into a civil union to-gether. The honest truth is that our absence is dueto the basketball team sucking. We love Holy Crossbasketball but the lack of success finally hit criticalmass back in January. There are simply so manyways to spin another loss as a sign that the seasonis about to turn around. We’ve literally done every-thing possible over the past three years since that’sreally how far back the sucking goes under ourtenure. But like most of our writing, this article isnot actually about the basketball team.
For the past three months, we have been pursu-ing the Holy Grail for sports writers at The Crusader:an interview with Bill Simmons, ‘92. For thosesquids out there who are not familiar with Mr. Sim-mons… Google him. We’re not wasting our pre-cious word count explaining his entire background.He is basically the Godfather of sports blogs whorecently sold his soul to ESPN for a ton of money.But heck, as Fifty said, “If they hate then let’emhate and watch the money pile up.” Our respect forMr. Simmons’ extends beyond his talent and goesall the way back to his beginnings here as a sportseditor for The Crusader, just like us.
And for the past three months we have beenunder the impression that we actually captured thisHoly Grail. In our attempt to not have to discussthe woes of the basketball season, we emailed Mr.Simmons back in January hoping to interview himabout Holy Cross as he occasionally tweets abouthis disappoint with the program. While this had a
lower expected success rate than a post Salty Dog2:00 A.M. text to the opposite sex, we held on to astrain of hope. And our efforts we rewarded, whenhe responded confirming his interest in doing apiece with us. (Note: The first sign that Mr. Sim-mons was not to be trusted was when he emailed usfrom an AOL address. Like what? – And for thosewho want to out-nerd us, we know that his originalblog was for Digital City on AOL. That still does-n’t begin to explain having an AOL email in 2013.)
Despite this initial skepticism, we put together alist of the most bizarre and inappropriate questionsthat two college kids could ask a sports mediamogul. We left no awkward stone unturned as weasked him about everything from who was on his100 Days Ball list to who is the hottest Holy Crossalum (For the record, it’s totally Jon Favreau.) Andthen we waited….and waited…and waited. Weweren’t sure what the precedent was on how long togive someone of his stature to respond. (Onceagain, the AOL email address should have been theomen that he would take a while.) To make a longstory short, we ended up exchanging about a dozenemails in total with our follow-up emails rangingfrom addressing him in Spanish to sending him ourown Youtube clip to try to get him to elicit a re-sponse. And like the hottest girl at a party, Simmonskept dodging us. We finally thought we scored(double pun intended), when Simmons agreed tomeet the press deadline for the last edition of theyear (April 28th).
Well, April 28 has come and gone with no re-sponse. Hence, we sit here angrily writing this col-umn full of hate as we procrastinate from doingour last Holy Cross assignments. Simmons was abigger tease than dating a girl who believes in ab-stinence. Not sure there is a more immature way todeal with this, hence this is exactly what we’redoing. So we’d like to end our careers as officiallygoing on record as saying that we hate Bill Sim-mons. (Although, we will still follow him on Twit-ter and read all his columns.) And we’re out!
P.S. Yeah, we totally stole Simmons’ title fromhis old column. Plagiarism? #YOLO
P.P.S. We’d totally do this to all our ex-girlfriendstoo but it would probably seem pretty creepy andjust result in us crying ourselves to sleep…again.
Ramblings
Women’s Track and Field Displays Numerous Career andSeason Best Performances at the Brown
Springtime Invitational
John MortonStaff Writer
Entering the last day of the NHLseason, the Bruins had the chance toclinch the Northeast Division bybeating the rival Ottawa Senators.
Becoming the second seed wouldbe beneficial to the Bruins becausethey would have crucial home ice ad-vantage for at least two rounds in theNHL playoffs. Unfortunately forBruins fans, the Bruins could not pullout the victory and fell to the Sena-tors 4 to 2.
That leaves the Bruins as the 4thseed entering the playoffs. The Bru-ins will face off against the TorontoMaple Leafs as the playoffs startTuesday, April 30th.
This season the Bruins have won 3out of 4 games against the MapleLeafs. Ex-Bruin Phil Kessel leads theMaple Leafs with 52 points in 48games.
Although the Maple Leafs havebeen a surprise this season with goalieJames Reimer finally living up to hispotential, the Bruins are the betterteam on paper.
As long as they play a completegame, the Bruins should win a 7 gameseries against the Leafs, especiallywith crucial home ice advantage.
Even though the Bruins are a bet-ter team than the Leafs and shouldwin at least one playoff round, thepotential future matchups for theBruins are problematic.
The teams they could play in theensuing rounds, such as the Canadi-ans and Penguins, are difficult oppo-nents with depth and goodgoaltending.
Against both, the Bruins have 1 winand 6 losses.
In addition, the Bruins’ own flawscould dampen fans’ hope for anotherCup run. The Bruins had trouble get-
ting the puck out of their own zoneas the season went along and alwaysstruggle on the power play. What ismost alarming of how the Bruinshave played this season is how theyplay in the third period.
The Bruins have lost nine gamesthis year after leading entering intothe third period. In order to advancefar into the playoffs, the Bruins willneed to play consistent, 60-minutehockey.
Even though the Bruins have con-sistency issues that they will need toaddress, there is still hope for Bruinsfans.
If the Bruins can show the poiseand all-around effort that they exhib-ited at the beginning of the year, theycan play with any team in the league.Perhaps what will be most essentialfor the Bruins’ success is how TuukkaRask has developed.
The last time he entered the play-offs as a starter he gave up a 3-0 serieslead to Philadelphia. However, thisyear he is near the top of the leaguewith a 1.97 goals against average.
The Bruins’ reliance on defense be-gins with Rask, and if he is at the topof his game the Bruins will remaincompetitive with the high-poweredoffenses that Pittsburgh and Montrealhave.
Although it will be difficult, theBruins do have the toughness, re-siliency, and depth to go far. What willdetermine how far they go is playingup to their potential for a full 60 min-utes.
Bruins Prepare for Playoff
Courtesy of Goholycross.comMadeline Dodge, ‘15 led theCrusaders with an impresiveperformance in the 100 meterat the Brown Springtime Invi-
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This year marks the monumental 100thedition of Le Tour de France. 110 yearsafter the inaugural race in 1903, 198 riderswill start in Corsica on June 29th withhopes of achieving glory for themselvesand their teammates before finishing on theChamps-Elysees on July 21st. This year’sTour will feature eight flat stages, fourmedium mountain stages, six mountainstages, two individual time trials, a teamtime trial, and two rest days. It will be anincredibly challeng-ing course that in-cludes two ascentsof the legendaryl’Alpe d’Huez. Dueto this course lay-out, several riderscan be consideredstrong contendersto win the overalltitle.
Chris Froome ofGreat Britain is cer-tainly the early fa-vorite to take homethe coveted yellowjersey. He has ex-ceptional talent allaround as he canclimb and time trialas well as anyone inthe peloton. He is coming off of a break-out year in 2012 that saw him finish secondat the Tour to his teammate and compatriotBradley Wiggins in addition to taking fourthat the Vuelta a España and third in the TimeTrial at the Olympic Games. He has alsodemonstrated good early season form withvictories at the Tour of Oman, theCritérium International, and the Tour deRomandie. Additionally, the team aroundhim, British based Team Sky, is one of thestrongest with top quality riders likeAustralian Richie Porte and BradleyWiggins who can support him in anysituation. While Wiggins won theTour last year, he has expressed thathe will ride in support of Froomethis summer, but he is certainly acontender himself if Froome fadesearly.
A few other riders that will chal-lenge for the top step of the podiuminclude Alberto Contador of Spain,Vincenzo Nibali of Italy, CadelEvans of Australia, and AndySchleck of Luxembourg. Nibali maybe the most likely challenger toFroome. He placed third in 2012 andrecently defeated Froome by a nar-row margin in Tirreno-Adriatico. Hehas also won the Giro del Trentino thisspring. After winning the Tour in 2007 and2009, Contador faced a doping suspensionthat has prevented him from contendingover the past few seasons. It will be inter-esting to see whether or not he can be achallenger without the use of performanceenhancing drugs. Cadel Evans won theTour in 2011. Age will certainly hurtchances of victory, as he is now 36 yearsold. While he cannot be counted out, it ismore than likely that he will ride for his 24year old American teammate Tejay vanGarderen, who finished fifth in last year’sTour and won the white jersey of the BestYoung Rider Classification.
Finally, Andy Schleck, winner of the 2010edition and runner up in 2009 and 2011,must be considered a contender. While hehas been plagued with injuries over the pastfew seasons, he has demonstrated in thepast that he will be ready to ride in July
when it counts.The overall classification is not the only
goal for the riders. The green jersey of thepoints classification, a system based on con-sistency for sprinters, will also be hotly con-tested. Mark Cavendish of Great Britain,who has won 23 stages since 2008 and isclosing in on the record for most stageswon in a career, will undoubtedly be ridingfor this jersey which he has surprisingly wononly once (2011). He will face stiff com-petition from 2012 green jersey winnerPeter Sagan of Slovakia and former team-mate André Greipel of Germany. Thepolka dot jersey for the King of the Moun-
tains classification is difficultto predict. Samuel Sánchez ofSpain and Thomas Voecklerof France are the past twowinners of this classificationand are likely to shoot for itagain this year. The final indi-vidual classification is for thewhite jersey of the best youngrider under the age of 26.This classification can providean interesting view of the fu-ture. Tejay van Garderen ofthe United States became thethird American ever to winthis classification last year fol-lowing in the footsteps of thelegendary Greg LeMond(1984) and Andy Hampsten(1986). He is eligible again this
year and will ride for the jersey as a conso-lation prize if the overall classification is outof reach. Another young American, An-drew Talansky, is relatively unknown buthas certainly shown that he is capable ofperforming at the highest level with excel-lent performances at the 2012 Vuelta a Es-paña and the 2013 edition of theprestigious Paris-Nice. The FrenchmanThibaut Pinot is the final young rider thatcould likely capture the white jersey. While
these threelesser knownclassificationsare certainly anachievement, norider will seekthem out if itdoes not benefitthe goals of theteam as a whole.Those teamswithout any onerider who cancompete for theoverall classifi-cation may seekvictory in theteam classifica-tion. The most
balanced team will earn victory here andwill likely be American based team Garmin-Sharp, Team SKY of Great Britain, or Ra-dioshack-Leopard of Luxembourg. Manyother riders will simply set their sights onvictory in any of the 21 stages. All in all,the 100th edition of the Tour de France willbe a very exciting race that will test eachrider’s courage and will during his threeweek trek throughout France.
2013 Tour de France Preview
Courtesy of Wikipedia.orgThe look of a champion? Chris
Froome is an early favorite to takethe yellow jersey of the Tour.
Courtesy of Wikipedia.orgWill Wiggins succeed should
Froome falter?
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Elizabeth FullertonSports Co-Editor
In the aftermath of the tragicBoston Marathon bombings,Bostonians have shown their truecolors as courageous and strongpeople, bringing out the very bestin this wonderful city. It’s no sur-prise that the Boston Celtics, aftertrailing in the first round of theNBA playoffs to the Knicks 3-0 inthe best of seven series, didn’t sur-render in game four on Sunday,April 28.
After the game, Paul Pierce, theCaptain and “The Truth” told re-porters “I already called my friendsin New York [Saturday] tellingthem I’d be there for dinner.” Con-fident? Psychic? Regardless, Piercewas right that the C’s would playGame 5 in New York, and he ledthe way for the Celtics with 29points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, and 1block. The New York Knicks fanscan’t take their brooms out now.The Boston Celtics avoided beingswept by the Knicks by winning inovertime 97-90. This was an emo-tional win at The Garden, for thismarked the first Celtics victory inBoston since the tragic BostonMarathon bombings, in which
three people were killed in the ex-plosions and more than 280 wereinjured. After not scoring over 80points in each of the first threegames, the Celtics offense finallycame alive on Sunday afternoon, inwhich they scored 97 points. If theCeltics lost game four, they wouldhave packed their bags and con-fronted a long summer knowingthey didn’t win a single gameagainst the Knicks. With just onemore win, the Knicks can advanceto the second round, a feat thefranchise has not achieved since2000, when they made it to theEastern Conference Finals.
After the first quarter, Celticsfans knew not to get too excited,even though Boston led the Knicks22-17. In the four games of this se-ries so far, the Celtics have led threeout of the four first quarters. In thefirst three games, the Celtics playedstrong in the first two quarters onlyto take the foot off the gas in thelast half. It almost seemed like his-tory was going to repeat itself ingame four, as Carmelo Anthonyhelped the Knicks snap a Celtics 20point lead in the third quarters, asthree of Boston’s players, KevinGarnett, Brandon Bass, and JeffGreen found themselves in foul
trouble. Even though Brandon Bass
fouled out of the game for theCeltics, his defense was phenome-nal. He accepted the difficult chal-lenge of covering Carmelo, and didso excellently. Despite Carmelo’s 32points, he shot a mediocre 10 for35 in field goal attempts, andmissed all seven of his shots fromdowntown. After the game, DocRivers, head coach of the Celtics,told reporters “Bass was the star ofthe game” for his defensive effortguarding Carmelo.
Although Boston’s Jason Terry(Jet) has struggled throughout mostof the first round series, he scored18 points in the win, 9 of whichcame in the overtime sequence. Ina sense, Terry came through whenthe Celtics desperately needed himtoo. Garnett also contributed 13points and 17 rebounds, and JeffGreen added a 26 point game ef-fort.
The Celtics remain optimistic de-spite their slim odds to advance tothe second round. Even before theseries started, the odds were not inBoston’s favor, who was playing asthe seventh seed against theKnicks, the second seed. No NBAteam has come back to win a best
of seven game series in the playoffsafter losing the first three games.Out of 103 situations in the NBA’shistory of the playoffs, only threeteams have forced a game seven,yet they all did not advance to thenext round. While it’s a long shotfor the Celtics, it should be notedthat another Boston sports teamdid what most thought was the im-possible. The Boston Red Sox,after losing the first three games totheir rival, the New York Yankees,won the next four games in the2004 American League Champi-onships. That same year, the RedSox went on to win the World Se-ries. Am I saying this will happenagain? Probably not. While any-thing’s possible, the Celtics barelybeat the Knicks on a day in whichAnthony had an off day shooting.Also, Sixth Man Player of the YearJ.R. Smith had to sit out the gamefor the Knicks due to his one gamesuspension by the NBA for anelbow he threw at Jason Terry ingame three of the series.
The Celtics may be holding onby a thread right now, but I admiretheir resiliency. They easily couldhave waved the white flag in gamefour, but they played with the in-tent to extend the series. This
Celtics team is relentless, playingwithout All-Star Rajon Rondo, whotore his ACL, a season ending in-jury, halfway through the season.Impressive rookie Jared Sullingeralso had to miss the rest of the sea-son after he had back surgery. It’salso not clear whether All-StarKevin Garnett will retire after thisseason, and possibly Paul Pierce,too. Regardless, Garnett and therest of the Celtics won’t go downwithout a fight, and their win onSunday proved just that. TheCeltics have a long way to go, andwill need to win another game tobring the series back to Boston.
Tune in to the Celtics-Knicksgame on Wednesday May 1, whichwill be played at New York’s Madi-son Square Garden.
Celtics Avoid Being Swept by the Knicks inOvertime Win at The Garden
Tyler SciontiSports Co-Editor
As of Sunday the Sox sit atop the ALEast with the best record in baseball at18-7. I made many predictions about theRed Sox back in the winter and all I cansay is that I have had to throw prettymuch all of them out the window; theSox have exceeded every expectation forthem going into this season which meansit’s time for a new round of predictionsfrom my crystal ball. I’m always hesitantto predict what will happen, I always dis-like it when I hear someone say “Yep, Iknew this would happen,” because inbaseball anything can happen, it really isimpossible to be right when all is said anddone. That said, here are my top five forthe summer.
#1: The Red Sox will cool off: At 18-7the Sox are playing at a .720 clip, if youprojected that over 162 games then theywould end the season with a 117-45record—that just is not going to happen,no matter how good they are. They havegotten very lucky with stellar perform-ances from their starting pitchers and afew key players, once those stats comeback to earth so will the Sox’ winningpercentage, but it’s nice to watch andenjoy the show while it lasts. Still, givenhow the Sox have been playing so farthere are many bright spots that givehope that not only can they finish with awinning record, but they can possibly fin-ish with more than 90 wins for the firsttime in two years.
#2: Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz willcombine for 35+ wins: I think this oneis a no-brainer; the two are a combined9-0 and have struck out 67 batters over69.1 innings while giving up only 13 runs.While those stats won’t last forever, giventhe hot start both pitchers are on and nosigns of letting up any time soon I thinkit would be a conservative estimate to saythat each pitcher would get at least 15wins, and not out of the question to ex-pect them to end up with 17-20 winsapiece by October. While Lester andBuchholz are bound to come back toearth, their success has been a drivingforce in the Sox’ record of late.
#3: Ortiz will post big numbers: DavidOrtiz has hit above .500 in his return andwhile he will not end the season with thetitle as the next Ted Williams, there is noreason why he can’t end the year withsome big numbers. Big Papi has beenkeeping himself in better shape over thepast few seasons and it has shown in hisability to put together good at bats anddrive the ball the other way. Longrenowned as a pull-hitter, Ortiz has beenreinventing himself with a new approachto use the Green Monster to his advan-tage. I’d peg him for a .300+ average onthe year with 25-30 homers.
#4: Jacoby Ellsbury will have a goodyear and be traded: Now this is a bit outthere, but here is my reasoning. Ellsburyis represented by Scott Boras, so youknow that come free agency this winterhe will be looking for the biggest deal
possible. Should he have a poor year Ithink there is a chance the Sox will keephim around simply because he is afford-able and a decent player. Let’s say he re-sumes his 2011 form and mashes 25homers alongside a .325 average by thetrade deadline, chances are he will lookfor a fat contract, which the Sox reallycan’t afford. So why let him walk for freewhen they can trade him to get an extraarm in the bullpen?
#5: The Sox will make the playoffs:Maybe I’m jumping the gun here, butthere are a great deal of signs that pointto the Sox ending 2013 on a high note.For all the grief Cherington received inthe offseason his plan to reinvent the Soxclubhouse has largely worked. There areno divas who complain about playingtime or Sunday games, instead there are25 hardworking guys out there who wantto win and are willing to do it together.With the additional wild car spot and theoverall weakness in the AL East rightnow I think the Sox are in a good posi-tion this season given their head start.
It has been a fun year so far for Sox fansand the good times seem to never end. Iwish you the best this summer; have fun,stay safe, and catch a Sox game or two.I’ll see you in the fall when we start upagain and hopefully will be preparing towatch Red Sox baseball in October.
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16 SPORTS The Crusader May 3, 2013
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Interview with Mike:
What does the team expect fromits non-league opponents? We’re real excited about the oppor-tunity to play some new out ofleague opponents this season.We’re actually playing a twelvegame schedule, opposed to aneleven game schedule like yearspasts. We hope to get competitivechallenges out of each of thesecontests and hopefully come awaywith W’s. We’ll also be playingMonmouth out of league this sea-son, which is a new game for us aswell. Each of these opponents isstrong in their own right so we’relooking forward to the challenge.
With graduation in May, the2012 squad will lose a number oftalented seniors, including Ger-ald Mistretta, Tom Mannix, andSean Whited. Who do see step-ping up next season?Although we hate to see guys likethat go, we have a strong seniorclass who is definitely up for thechallenge. We’re strong across theboard at Wide Receiver with seniorstarters Kyle Toulouse, Jon Smith,Mike Fess, and Nate Stanley all re-turning. We also have a handful ofyoung wide receivers who will con-tribute a great deal this season aswell. Tommy was definitely a bigleader and impact player on de-fense last season, but our defenseis all around solid with numerous
contributors in both the upper andlower classes. Seniors Gary Acquahand Mike Tucker will definitelylook to fill leadership roles, whileour younger guys start to con-tribute more on the field. We alsohave a great freshman class comingin this season that we’re really look-ing forward to, hopefully thoseguys can come in and competeright away, which would give theteam a real nice jolt of energyheaded into the season.
What can you tell me about theincoming class?Our incoming recruiting class isvery strong this year. We addressedneeds on both sides of the ball andexpect our incoming Freshman tomake an impact with Holy Cross in2013. The staff and players put alot of effort into the process thisyear and we expect this to pay offwith a class that’s both effective onthe field and fits well with the char-acter and chemistry of our team.
The Patriot League decision toallow its member schools toaward scholarships will take ef-fect this coming season. Do youhave any thoughts about the po-tential implications of this forthe program’s future?Overall, I think its great for theleague and the schools involved.There is always a new excitementaround a program, which makesthe decision to provide scholar-
ships in football. I think its goodfor the school, the athletes, thealumni, and the students alike to beexcited about Holy Cross footballagain. I think it’s an incredible op-portunity not just for Holy Crossfootball, but for Holy Cross athlet-ics as a whole. By adding up to fif-teen scholarship players startingwith the 2013 class, Holy Cross andthe entire Patriot League will beable to compete on the highestlevel in the FCS and seek possibleopportunities to compete with FBSschools down the line. The hope isthat by recruiting at the highestlevel in attracting the best student-athletes possible, the Patriot Leaguecan maintain or hopefully elevateits status as a strong and competi-tive FCS League. In my eyes its awin for all involved, the players,school, and league as a whole allstand to elevate their potential asboth students and athletes at thecollege level. It will also be excitingto hopefully rekindle some old ri-valries from the glory days of HolyCross football.
Do you have any funny stories toshare with the readers of TheCrusader?Depends what kind of stories, Ithink it would be best to keep thesocial life stories between myselfand the holy ghost. But footballwise, we always have a lot of fun,funny traditions that go on at prac-tice and during meetings. Most of
the time coach Gilmore likes to runa tight ship but sometimes whenwe get a few minutes to kick backwe get to have some laughs to-gether. Most of the time this usu-ally ends up being dance offs, orstory telling contests, or one timewe had a rap battle which was hi-larious as you can imagine.
The team lost a lot of closegames last season to some reallygood teams. Asides from stayinghealthy, what can the team do tobuild off of last season?Yeah, I mean, we lost a ton of closegames which came right down tothe wire, this was really disappoint-ing and disheartening because wereally felt like we were headed inthe right direction but just couldn’tget the W’s in the win column.There were at least five or sixgames where we had more than agood chance at winning and justdidn’t come away with it because ofa handful of plays, which couldhave easily gone our way. On thesame token, I don’t want to soundlike I’m making excuses. We needto get better in specific areas tomake sure those handful of plays infact go our way this season. Its un-fortunate we couldn’t come awaywith the wins last year, but 2012 isin the past, and the best we can dois learn from those experiences andapply them to our efforts in 2013.Hopefully in doing so we cancome away with those close wins
next season against tough oppo-nents.
What are the goals of the teamfor the upcoming season?Like every season our goal is to wineach game every single week. Weput a lot of time and effort intopreparing for the season and weplan on winning every game weprepare for. Our goals are always towin the Patriot League and com-pete for a National Championshipin the FCS playoffs. Hopefully wecan achieve these goals collectivelyand all improve on our mistakesfrom last season to produce a moreexciting and well-deserved out-come this season. It would be greatfor this senior class to leave HolyCross with a championship ringand I know everyone involved withthe team is dedicated to that task.
Do you have any final thoughts?Lastly, I’d just like to ask all ofSader Nation to remember to sup-port the program this upcomingfall. I know it means a lot to theguys that you come out and sup-port them. It’s important to have astrong fan base and your guys sup-port really does keep them pro-gram going and energized. It wouldbe great to see more faces fromcampus out there at Fitton fieldevery Saturday. I speak for every-one associated with the program insaying it means a lot to us and wereally do appreciate it.
Interview with Dom:
What can you tell me about yourtime at WCHC? I’ve been apart of WCHC Sportsfor 2 years now. During my timewith this campus organization, Ihave moved up from a rotatingcolor commentator, to the Directorof Hockey Broadcast, to now beingnamed Director of WCHC Sports.It’s been a fun ride. The way I see it,as a broadcaster, you have families,alumni, and even scouts listening into our broadcasts. I have tried tomake it as professional as possible,trying to bring WCHC Sports up topar with some of the bigger collegestations. The relationships with thecoaches and players of the teamshas been great, constantly gettingto know them better as every gamegoes by.
What do you hope to accom-plish as the new Director ofSports Programming at WCHC?In this new regime, I plan to take
some of the new additions Ibrought to WCHC Sports this pastyear and keep making strides withthem. After establishing the socialmedia side of the club (Facebookand Twitter), we want to continueto grow that side of WCHC Sports.After getting close to 200 followerson Twitter in the first 6 months ofit being up and running, we areshooting for over 300 by the startof football season. With gettingthe alumni that follow us game andscore updates from all the gameswe cover, as well as conference up-dates, player interviews, and break-ing news, we want to continue togive more live action news to thepeople that can’t listen to us forcertain games. We are establishinga WCHC Sports Blog to give stu-dents who aren’t 100% comfort-able behind the mic the chance tostay involved with the teams, play-ers and coaches by writing short ar-ticles and player interviews. Awell-rounded Sports Communica-tion experience is what I’m hoping
to give back to everyone involved.Professionalism is what I’m at-tempting to install.
Do you have any funny storiesfrom the booth?On a road trip down to UConnwith the Men’s Hockey team, theequipment had been acting up. Ididn’t think much of it at the time,but by the end of the 1st period,the system had died. Thinking onmy feet, I called into the radio sta-tion and did the final 2 periods ofbroadcasting from my phone afterbeing connected to the phone lineback at the radio station. Younever know what’s going to happenin this field of work. How many games do you typi-cally broadcast in a semester?We try to do all the home games ifpossible, as well as an average of 3-5 away games depending on travelaccommodations. Over the courseof football, basketball (men’s andwomen’s), and men’s hockey, plusany conference championship
game, we get to log in a goodamount of broadcasts spread outbetween 3-4 broadcasters per sport(give or take).
What’s the best Holy Crossgame you’ve ever been in thebooth for?HC Men’s Hockey played No. 15ranked Yale at the New EnglandSports Center in Marlboro, MA justbefore the New Year. Senior Bran-don Nunn was just coming back in-jury and Holy Cross was on thecusp of breaking into the Top 20 inthe nation. Going into the 3rd pe-riod, the teams were tied 2-2. Bran-don Nunn scored his 2nd goal ofthe game to get the game-winnerwith 6 minutes left as Holy Crosswent on to upset Yale 3-2, movingthem into the Top 20 for only the3rd time in school history.
What can students do to getmore involved with the WCHCsports?Contact us about wanting to do
certain sports that interest the stu-dents. Also, wait for the info ses-sion in the fall and constantly checkemails for updates and news re-garding the broadcasts and trainingsessions.
What are your goals for the up-coming year?We are trying to get sponsors forWCHC Sports (unlikely as of rightnow, but still pushing hard for it),as well as going on more road tripswith the teams and expanding outsocial media outreach. The maingoal is just to establish WCHCSports as a prominent, professionalcollege broadcast station and at-tempting to “keep up with theJones’ ” as we grow bigger.
A View From the Field and the Booth: Catching up with Mike Barry and Dom DiPersiaThis past week, I was able to catch up with Mike Barry, ‘14 and Dom DiPersia, ‘14, two individuals who know their way around Holy Cross Athletics. While Mike looks forward to the up-coming football season, serving as an intern on the coaching staff, Dom will look forward to covering the action on the gridiron as the new Director of Sports Programing at WCHC, witha staff including our own Zach Lanning, Patrick Kurr, and Eric Sherman. In two exclusive interviews, Mike and Dom weigh in about the upcoming athletic season and discuss the expecta-
