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THURSDAY,
OCT. 17, 2013
FLYER NEWS
VOL. 61 NO. 8
NEWS
Safety concerns behind recent
D2D sophomore ban, pg. 3.
A&E
Speaker Laina Dawes to address race, gender and individualism in metal music, pg.
9.
OPINIONS
Three cheers to good health,
pg. 12.
@FlyerNews
SPORTS
Keller shares transition to
America, pg. 15.
A-10 CLASHES PUSH DAYTON INTO SCORING SLUMP
UD junior forward Greg Enstone (2) is hit in the face while pursuing a ball during a game against Fordham University, Sunday, Oct. 13, at Baujan Field. Dayton tied Fordham and George Washington
University for an 0-0-2 start to A-10 play after going 10-0-0 in non-conference play. See a gallery of the weekend action at FlyerNews.com. ETHAN KLOSTERMAN/PHOTO EDITOR
SAFETY CONCERNS BEHIND RECENT D2D SOPHOMORE BAN
sarah devine
Asst. News Editor
Changes to the attendance policy
for Dayton 2 Dayton were spurred
by the University of Dayton’s desire to improve safety on the trip,
according to a university official.
Sophomores will not be eligible
to attend this year’s trip, as detailed in a Flyer News report published Oct. 2.
Chris Schramm, associate vice
president for student development
and dean of students, said the university’s “first priority is student
safety” and stated underage alcohol consumption was a concern for
the university.
“We are aware the majority of
our sophomore students are under the age of 21,” Schramm said.
“Underage drinking is a national
epidemic. The University of Dayton
isn’t immune to this. It’s an issue
that needs to be addressed. We are
absolutely aware it took place and
takes place there [in Daytona]. We
feel like it is the best way we can
help make sure students have a responsible and fun time.”
In addition to underage alcohol
consumption, Schramm said the
university wanted to make crowd
size more manageable and to “centralize” the trip.
“Historically, the sophomores
have been placed in hotels like the
Mayan which are far away from the
first hotel,” she said. “Our most
vulnerable students are our youngest students. They’re the farthest
away from the focal point of where
the activities are happening.”
The topic of improving safety
has been an ongoing concern for
the university and D2D leadership,
Schramm, who attended last year’s
trip, said. She explained univer-
sity officials, members of Student
Government Association and D2D
leadership, past and present, held
meetings on-campus and in Daytona Beach, FL regarding the issue. The executive vice president
of Breakaway Tours, the company
which facilitates the trip, was also
involved.
See D2D on p. 3
2
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CAMPUS
Library screens ‘The
Pursuit of Equality’
Zeta Tau Alpha Hosts
17th annual Freefahl
“The Pursuit of Equality,” a documentary
by Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw, will
be shown Thursday, Oct. 17, at 11:30
a.m. and again at 7 p.m. in the Roesch
Library. The film follows San Francisco
Mayor Gavin Newsom as he issues marriage licenses to same gender couple.
Feel free to bring your lunch or dinner
to enjoy during the film.
Zeta Tau Alpha will host its annual philanthropy event, FREEFAHL, Saturday,
Oct. 19, from 4 to 9:30 p.m. at the ArtStreet Ampitheatre. The event benefits
Breast Cancer Education and Awareness
and includes music, food and other performances. Tickets are $10 per person.
Artstreet presents
thursday night live
A reception will be held Tuesday, Oct.
22, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on the 2nd floor
of Roesch Library. Fr. Thomas Thompson will highlight the library’s 70 years.
Wine and appetizers will be served and
guests will be able to view photos, artwork and memorabilia from the Marian
Library. For more information, contact
the library at (937) 229-4214.
This week’s Thursday Night Live will
feature live music from Nolan McNulty,
Bretton’s Jay and Libby Gill. The event
will take place Thursday, Oct. 17, at 8
p.m. at the ArtStreet Cafe. For more
information, contact ArtStreet at (937)
229- 5101.
Friday Film features
‘Philadelphia’
This week’s film, “Philadelphia,” will be
screened Friday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. in
ArtStreet Studio B. Tom Hanks stars in
this 1993 drama which became the first
big-budget Hollywood film to address
the social, medical and political issues
of AIDS. Dr. Richard Chenoweth will host
the event.
Marian Library
Celebrates 70 years
Become a playwright
at this week’s
Wednesday workshop
This week’s workshop, held Wednesday,
Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. in ArtStreet Studio D,
chronicles the process for creating original theater through The New Colony’s
creative process. Led by Evan Linder, a
founding member of this theater group
from Chicago, the event will teach students how to incorporate style, tone and
developmental technique to make a
play your own. The event is appropriate
for actors, writers and directors.
Three sets of senior triplets pose for a photo in the Kennedy Union Torch Lounge. Front row from left:
Paige Pontarelli, Jared Dvorsky, Courtney Dvorsky, Katelyn Dvorsky, Alan Avila-John, Lucas Avila-John, Back
row: Jack Pontarelli, Matt Pontarelli, Nico Avila-John CHRIS SANTUCCI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
LOCAL
Ohio student loan
default rate among
highest in nation
Ohio’s student loan default rate over
a three-year period is one of the 10
highest in the country. This means a
total of 29,500 Ohioans defaulted
on loans they were supposed to start
paying back in 2010. The rate has
increased in the past three years from
13.2 to 16.2 percent.
Man threatens
hospital staff
Costco comes to
centerville
A man from a suburb near Cincinnati
faces charges after he threatened hospital staff at Bethesda North Hospital,
where he was a patient, with several
guns. The incident occurred Tuesday
morning. Police said the patient had
three guns and ammunition for them.
He also had bear attack deterrent, nail
clippers and scissors.
Costco, a major wholesale retailer,
has submitted a site plan approval to
Centerville, located right outside of
Dayton, for a location in the Cornerstone
retail center off of Feedwire Road. This
would be the first Dayton location
for Costco, who is hopes to build a
140,000-square-foot center to open in
the fall of 2014.
Information from bizjournals.com
Information from nbcnews.com
Information from local12.com
NATION & WORLD
New app offers info
during government
shutdown
difficulty |hard
A new app, Real Time Congress, allows the public to follow and learn
more about what Congress is doing
during the government shutdown. It
was created by Sunlight Foundation, a
non-profit, non-partisan group with the
goal of making it easier for the public to
connect with lawmakers and hold them
accountable.
Fey, Poehler to host
2014 golden globes
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will return to
host the 2014 Golden Globes in January, NBC announced Tuesday. Fey and
Poehler hosted last year’s awards show,
which was the highest-rated Golden
Globes in six years.
Information from today.com
TEEN SUSPENDED FOR
BEING DESIGNATED
DRIVER
A Massachusetts honor student and
volleyball captain was suspended for
five games and demoted after coming
to a party to drive a drunken friend
home. Erin Cox, 17, was sober when
police arrived to break-up the party.
North Andover High School accused
Cox of violating its alcohol policy. Cox’s
parents have hired an attorney to fight
the suspension.
Information from whiotv.com
Information from nydailynews.com
Man survives 19 days
eating squirrels
Gene Penaflor, lost for 19 days in
Northern California’s Mendocino
National Forest, stayed alive by going
into “survival mode” and living off the
land. The 72-year-old got lost during a
deer hunting trip and survived by eating squirrels that he shot in the head,
as well as frogs, lizards and a two-foot
brown snake that he killed with a rock
and toasted to avoid getting salmonella.
Meth-like drug
found in bodybuilding supplement
A popular body-building supplement,
Craze, contains a stimulant similar to
methamphetamine, said Consumer
Reports. The supplement has an
unlisted ingredient, N, alpha-DEPEA,
which has never been studied
in humans. Based on dosage
recommendations, 35 milligrams of
the stimulant could be consumed by
users.
Information from latimes.com
SOURCE: WebSudoku.com
woman imprisoned
for Newton Scam
A woman recently claiming to be a grieving family member from the Sandy Hook
Elementary School shooting recently received an eight-month prison sentence
after setting up a charity fund defrauding
donors. Noule Alba, a 37-year-old New
York resident, claimed she was collecting
a funeral fund for one of the 20 children
killed in the attacks.
Information from cnn.com
Information from foxnews.com
NEWS
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D2D
(cont. from p. 1)
Schramm said D2D leadership
fought for sophomores to continue to
attend the trip.
“I don’t think they were surprised
by the decision,” she said. “This wasn’t
something that was sprung on them
at the last minute. This was a really
thought about decision. The leadership
absolutely had their time to prepare
their argument and discussion points.
This wasn’t something that happened
overnight.”
Schramm said the D2D leadership
has and continues to do a “great” job
making the trip fun and responsible.
She said there were incidents involving alcohol during last year’s trip, but
it was not a reason behind the policy
change.
“The university consistently works
proactively to make this trip safe, not
reactively,” she said.
Schramm said she was unable to
detail if there were any alcohol-related
incidents involving hospital transports
or police intervention.
“The Daytona Police Department
doesn’t report to us,” she said. “Hospitals wouldn’t tell us that information
either.”
She said D2D leadership is still determining who will qualify as a sophomore, but she said she guessed it would
be based on credit hours.
“I can understand that, knowing
what they know about the trip,” Schramm said. “But knowing what I know
about the trip standing at the pool deck
since 2007, I can only hope the students
understand we make the decisions in
the best interest of our students.”
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FE reopens The Jury Box, offers opening week specials
ALLYSON MITCHELL
Staff Writer
For students who love food or
like trying new places, The Jury
Box in the University of Dayton’s
Law School in Keller Hall opened
Oct. 17, according to its website.
“The Jury Box is kind of like
ArtStreet Café,” said Maggie Condon, a senior marketing major and
student manager for The Jury Box.
“It serves all three meals and a lot
of snacks. It’s all student-run. It
has a quiet, mature atmosphere reflected throughout the law school.”
The Jury Box has several types
of food and snacks, like pita bread
sandwiches, panini, salads and
wraps, Condon said. The Jury Box
is student-run, with four senior
students as managers and 10 to 15
underclassmen as workers, Condon said.
“The Jury Box is like the Blend
or the Galley. Flyer Enterprises
works out of the student business
school and helps students find
jobs. At first, the Jury Box was for
law school students and staff, but
it is open to all majors,” said Codon, also director of marketing for
the Jury Box.
The Jury Box was open for several years before it closed at the
end of last school year, Condon
said. Flyer Enterprises was at odds
with UD Dining Services over who
should oversee and supply The
Jury Box, she added.
The Jury Box didn’t open at the
beginning of the school year due
to funding and timing issues, Condon said.
“We completely renovated The
Jury Box. Everything is new. And
we still have to take care of some
things, like the contractors, the
health inspector’s visit, and training new workers. We figured it was
better timing to complete these
things over fall break,” Condon
said.
“I’m helping to spread the word
about The Jury Box through advertising. We’re using flyers, social media and working with students to make new graphics to
promote the Jury Box. We’re also
using discounts and promotions to
increase awareness,” Condon said.
The main goal of The Jury Box
employees is to let everyone know
they’re open and ready for business, Condon added.
Opening week will bring a variety of specials, according to a post
on the Jury Box’s Facebook page.
Offers include: $5 sandwiches
and wraps with chips or a drink
on Monday, $4 sandwiches and $3
wraps on Tuesday, free soft drink
with a purchase of a salad is offered on Wednesday, $3 pizzas on
Thursday, and free coffee with
purchase of a breakfast sandwich
or wrap on Friday.
“That’s exciting that The Jury
Box is opening soon,” said Becca
Browning, a freshman chemical
engineering major.“My sister told
me about it. She just graduated
this past year and was telling me
all about UD and how good the food
was there. I’ll have to check it out
soon.”
The Jury Box, open Oct. 17, is located in the University of Dayton Law School in Keller Hall.
COURTESY OF MAGGIE CONDON
Condon said this is exactly the
type of response The Jury Box
needs.
“A lot of students may have
known about us or that we’re here,
but not that we’re almost ready to
open, or that we were even coming
back. We’re just trying to spread
the word,” Condon explained.
The Jury Box will be open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. and the deli counter
will be open 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
according to their website.
For more information, visit its
Facebook page or Twitter at @
The_JuryBox.
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Government shutdown continues, affects UD community
jim vogel
Staff Writer
After almost two weeks of government shutdown, the effects of
the gridlock in Washington, D.C.
are being felt nearly 500 miles
away on the University of Dayton
campus.
Katy Ridel, a 2013 graduate, is
currently working in Washington,
D.C. as a post-graduate intern in
journalism. After recently moving
back to the city, Ridel said the atmosphere is tense.
“Everyone is pretty much frustrated with everyone. No one is really pointing the finger at any one
in particular,” Ridel said.
Ridel said she has been in the
city for just over a month with CQ
Roll Call, a newspaper for congress
staffers and the general public. CQ
Roll Call is known as the newspaper for Capitol Hill, according its
their website. With a focus on legislation, the government shutdown
has stopped most of the reporting
in its tracks, Ridel said.
“Currently I am working on a
bill analysis of House Resolution
HR 3223,” she said. “It is a retroactive pay act for furloughed workers. The house passed it and know
I have to cover the senate as they
vote on it.”
Ridel said the question in D.C.
is “Are you an essential worker?”
She explained people who have
been furloughed or asked not to
come into the office during the
shutdown are questioning their
importance or need as employees.
The debate over who is essential
and who is not is currently being
waged on the senate floor as bills
like HR 3223 are being passed, she
said.
“D.C. is kind of like its own
bubble. Everything is government,
everything is politics. Being surrounded by this, everyone is disgusted and frustrated. It’s getting
harder and harder in terms of how
it is going to function.,” Ridel said.
UD part-time faculty member
Todd Bagby in the criminal justice
program said he has also seen the
effects of the shutdown firsthand.
“I work in the Dayton Federal
Building as a Resident Agent in
the US Secret Service,” Bagby said.
“I have been termed accepted service, so I am still working. I must
report to work and am paid but I
am not able to take annual time or
sick leave. We have employees who
are furloughed, who do not need to
work.”
He said support personnel and
administrative work is not being
The University of Dayton community continues to feel the effects of the government’s now two-week shutdown. COURTESY OF VICTORIA PICKERING
completed which is making the job
more difficult and timely.
The affected workers are expected to receive their back pay
through a continuing resolution,
Bagby said.
UD students like sophomore
pre-med major Meredith Taylor
have also been touched by the shutdown. The shutdown has closed all
national parks, affecting her plans
to run the Towpath Marathon in
Cuyahoga Valley National Park in
Northeast Ohio.
The race was supposed to take
place Oct. 13 over UD’s fall break
and has been rescheduled for Nov.
3, Taylor said.
“I decided I was going to run
the half marathon in July and followed a ten-week training plan up
to the race,” she said.
The participants were notified
by email the race had been rescheduled citing safety concerns
as the cause for the decision, she
said. With no one working in the
park for security or rapid care
responders, race planners determined it would not be safe to hold
the event during the shutdown,
Taylor said.
“It was disappointing because
I was supposed to run it with my
sister while I was home, but we are
both planning to go home to run it
on Nov. 3,” Taylor said.
While the rescheduled race is a
personal disappointment, the bigger issue is the impact it will have
on tourism and other racers that
travel much further to take part,
Taylor explained.
“The Towpath Marathon is advertised as one of the most beautiful races in the country and is a
great event for tourism in my area.
With it being rescheduled, many
people will not be able to take part
and enjoy the beauty of the national park,” Taylor said.
SENATE HAS PASSED
STUDENT ORGANIZATION
BUDGET MONTH REQUESTS
WEEKLY PUBLIC MEETINGS
EVERY SUNDAY AT 6PM
IN KU BALLROOM
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NEWS
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Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 5
Fire safety week focuses on cooking hazards on campus
Marissa grimsley
Staff Writer
After senior economics major and
football player, Austin Cohen, died
from burns and smoke inhalation in
a campus house fire in 2000, the University of Dayton stepped up its fire
education program for students.
Sean Englert, life safety and loss
prevention specialist, said the Department of Environmental Health
and Safety/Risk Management uses
the National Fire Protection Association’s fire safety week to educate
students on the risks of fire while
living in a campus dorm or house.
This year’s theme is “prevent kitchen
fires.”
Robin Oldfield, director of EHS/
RM and head of fire safety week on
campus, said, “cooking is definitely
the number one cause of fires on our
campus.”
According to the NFPA reports
published on their website, from 2007
to 2011 3,810 structural fires occurred
in some sort of university housing
across the nation. The NFPA said
cooking has started 70 percent of
these fires.
According to the recently published UD Campus Security and Fire
Safety Report, from 2010 to 2012, there
were been 33 fires on UD’s campus. Of
the 33 fires, 26 were cooking-related.
That means 78 percent of UD fires
over the past three years have been
cooking- related, 8 percent above the
national average.
Since Cohen’s death in 2000, EHS/
RM does something called the Neighborhood Smoke-Out, Englert said.
The smoke-out, located in the Ghetto
with the Dayton Fire Department, is
held to teach students how to get out
of a fire in one of the campus houses,
he said.
Englert explained a smoke-out is
where the fire department creates
fake smoke and lets students learn
how to get out of the house on their
own. He said the fire department also
lets students see the equipment, such
as the ladder truck and the hose, and
demonstrates or how to operate it.
“When the fire happened last year
at 423 Stonemill, during a Halloween
party, it was a week or two after the
smoke-out,” Oldfield said. “The young
man whose house it was heard the
alarm and got everyone out and when
we met with them after they said they
went through the smoke-out and it really impacted them.”
This year the smoke-out will be
held on Oct. 23 at 1516 Frericks Way,
Oldfield said.
Englert said in most buildings
there are four mandatory fire alarms
throughout the year set by the Ohio
Fire Code. He said each resident assis-
Cook only
where it is
permitted.
Test all smoke
alarms at least
monthly.
Never remove
batteries or disable
smoke alarms.
Stay in the
kitchen when
cooking.
Learn your building’s
evacuation plan and
practice all drills as if
they were the real thing.
Look for fully sprinklered
housing when choosing a
dorm or off-campus housing.
If you live off campus, have
a fire escape plan with two
ways out of every room.
When the smoke alarm or fire
alarm sounds, get out of the
building quickly and stay out.
Cook only
when you
are alert,
not sleepy or
drowsy from
medicine or
alcohol.
Check your school’s rules
before using electrical
appliances in your room.
Use a surge protector for your
computer and plug the protector
directly into an outlet.
Make sure your dormitory or apartment has smoke
alarms inside each bedroom, outside every sleeping area and on each level. For the best protection,
all smoke alarms should be interconnected so that
when one sounds they all sound.
Sean Englert, life safety and loss specialist for the Department of Environmental Health and Safety/Risk Management, provided 12 tips for University of
Dayton students to avoid fires in their campus dorms or houses. GRAPHIC BY MEGHAN OSTERMUELLER
tant should know the plan and clearly
tell their residents how to execute it.
Joe Dunham, a freshman undecided business major who lives in Stuart
Hall said they had a safety meeting on
their floor to discuss their evacuation
plan and what to be aware of during
a fire.
“Our RA told us no toaster ovens, which was depressing since a
Pop-Tart in the microwave makes no
sense,” Dunham said. “He told us to
be careful and check it every 15 seconds, and to always stop the microwave if it starts to smell, and make
sure that you open the windows.”
Linda Moodie, a junior global manufacturing and systems engineering
major who lives on Stonemill Road,
said the number one difference be-
tween living in the dorms and living
in a house is the amount of information that is given.
“In the dorms it’s very you need
to do this when the fire alarm goes
off but as you live in a house they let
you make your own escape routes,”
she said. “My roommates and I just
understand that if there is a fire we
need to get everyone out.”
Oldfield and Englert had one major
piece of advice for students, take every alarm seriously no matter what.
Oldfield said, “There is no false
alarm in my eyes, every alarm should
be taken seriously.”
For more information visit, the
University of Dayton Fire and Life
Safety’s Facebook page.
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2013-14 CLERY report reveals fewer alcohol arrests
Byron hoskinson
Staff Writer
On Oct. 1, University of Dayton
Public Safety published the Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, an annual release that tracks
crime and fire statistics from the
prior three calendar years. According to the report, in addition
to crime and fire statistics, it includes information re garding
campus policies and resources for
campus community members.
The report was created in compliance with the Clery Act, a federal statute requiring colleges
and universities to disclose crimerelated information to current and
prospective students and employees, according to clerycenter.org,
the website for the nonprofit Clery
Center for Security on Campus.
“The U.S. Department of Education dictates the standards for
the development of the statistics,”
said director of Public Safety and
author of the report, Randy Groesbeck. “Essentially, they tell us
what we need to report.”
The university must report incidences of criminal homicide, both
forcible and non-forcible sexual
offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, arson, motor vehicle theft, and arrest or disciplinary
referrals for liquor- and drug-law
violations as well as illegal weapons possession, according to clerycenter.org.
Groesbeck said incidents of
robbery, sex offense—both forcible and non-forcible, aggravated
assault, and arson at UD have remained relatively static.
According to the crime statistics, in 2012 there were reports of
six robberies, six aggravated assaults, and seven arsons. Groesbeck said the number of arsons
was higher in 2012 than in previous
years—in 2010 there were three, in
2011 there was one—because of an
individual who set fire to three
pieces of paper in the span of a
weekend in the same dorm, each
of which qualified as a separate
ciplinary action from liquor-law
violations have decreased significantly since 2010, with arrests
dropping from 85 to 53 and referrals declining from 1,216 to 734 in
report’s publication was widely
known on campus and stated that
she was not aware of its release.
After reviewing the statistics, she
said was struck by the number of
“Over the last few years there’s been
an increased emphasis on making
students aware of their responsibilities
regarding the use of alcohol, which has
resulted in fewer citations.”
instance of arson.
The report also showed seven
sexual offenses on campus last
year, down from eleven in 2011 and
nine in 2010. All were categorized
as forcible offenses. The dip in offenses, Groesbeck said may have
more to do with crime reporting
than committing. “There may be
a year where you see fewer sexual
assaults reported and another
year where you see more, but it
stays fairly constant,” said Groesbeck.
According to the crime statistics, both arrests for liquor-law
violations and referrals for dis-
Classifieds
the last two years.
Groesbeck partially attributed
the decline in alcohol citations
to increased cooperation between
fellows in the student neighborhood and the student population.
He also said improved awareness
of alcohol’s effects contributed to
the decline in reported violations.
“Over the last few years there’s
been an increased emphasis on
making students aware of their
responsibilities regarding the use
of alcohol, which has resulted in
fewer citations,” Groesbeck said.
Nikki Henger, a senior biology
major, said she did not think the
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reported alcohol violations, calling it “surprisingly high.”
Groesbeck said drug arrests
have declined while the number
of referrals for disciplinary action
for drug violations have increased
from 162 in 2010 to 243 last year.
He credited the surge in referrals
to increased reporting of drug activity.
Groesbeck said marijuana was
the drug most frequently cited for
disciplinary action.
According to the report, burglaries have declined, dropping
from 31 to 21 between 2011 and
2012. Groesbeck again pointed to
an increase in student awareness,
saying “students are a little more
attuned to their surroundings at
this time.”
He also said there was not a
correlation between the new residence hall policies and the crime
statistics. He said Residence Life
chose to lock the halls as a security
measure.
Regarding student safety in general, Henger said she is not overly
concerned. “As a resident of Dayton, I would say that UD is a fairly
safe place and in a fairly safe part
of town.”
However, Henger expressed
concern over the sexual assault
reports, saying that actual assault
seems to be underrepresented by
the statistics.
While only three years of data
must be published for the report,
institutions are required to keep
the previous eight years of data
on file, according to clerycenter.
org. Previous years’ data is available by request through Campus
Safety, Groesbeck said.
Groesbeck said the report does
not take theft, motor vehicle citations, or vandalism into account.
Concerningunreported crimes,
Henger said “I don’t like how
theft is excluded. It distorts the reality of UD’s criminal situation.”
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Security Report can be found electronically on Public Safety’s website.
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‘The One and The Many’ promotes cultural diversity, social justice
Mary kate Dorr
Staff Writer
The University of Dayton’s
Department of Visual Arts has
brought a unique experience to
campus through “The One and
The Many: Perspectives on Self
and Other in Art & Human Rights”
an exhibition featuring work that
focuses on themes of social justice
and human rights.
Glenna Jennings, an assistant
professor of photography whose
practice involves both photography and curating, has worked to
feature the work of both international and local artists. This
event coincides with “The Social
Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and
Advocacy,” a conference that was
held last week at UD’s River Campus. The exhibit will run through
Oct. 31 and is located in Gallery
249, on the second level of the College Park Center.
This multimedia group exhibition observes global issues
through a new perspective, as
each piece is visual art.
“It offers a chance to think of
human rights in a different way,”
Jennings said. “It is a visualization of these serious issues and
an opportunity to view them in a
way that is not just reading and
discussing.”
Jennings said she selected
the artists and pieces that are
featured, including the work of
Juan-Si González. González, a Yellow Springs resident, is an internationally renowned visual artist. Originally from Cuba, he has
showcased work in Latin America
and Europe for the last twenty
years. Jennings said González was
jailed in Cuba after his participation in an arts activist movement,
making him a major source of the
inspiration behind this exhibit
and pieces González has created
for “The One and The Many” are
unique and made specifically for
this exhibition. Its goal is to help
others gain a new perspective of
social justice.
UD alumna Issa Randall is also
featured in the exhibition alongside the international artists. Her
sculptural piece draws attention
“It is a visualization of
these serious issues...
not just reading and
discussing.”
Glenna Jennings,
ASST. Professor,
Photography
through the use of a variety of
patterns, textures and color, while
involving themes of human rights
and social justice. Jennings said
Randall’s work in the exhibit is
inspired by the practice of Dutch
colonialism in South Africa and
the cruelty of the Dutch gaining
profit from the South African laborers.
Another piece featured is a
Turkish film that Jennings said
she has been familiar with for
Holiday specials cater to wide audience
LANEY GIBSON
Chief A&E Writer
The time of year has finally arrived for all the major television
networks to shamelessly endorse
everything Halloween. As a slave
to marketing, I’m not complaining.
I can and will sit for hours watching all the Halloween-themed shows
and movies played on my favorite
channels. Some may even go far as
to say that the Halloween-themed
television rivals the pumpkin spiceeverything that attacks our senses
every year, but I digress. Like spicy
food, people enjoy their Halloween
from mild Casper-the-friendlyghost-scary, to intense I-can’t-sleepwith-the-lights-off-till-summerterrifying. However you like your
Halloween, popular television has
you covered.
Least Trauma Inducing:
“Monstober Fest”
Perhaps the most nostalgic of the
bunch of Halloween specials is Disney Channel’s “Monstober Fest.”
The annoying Halloween-themed
episodes of their cringe-inducing
daytime sitcoms. However, Disney
Channel normally satisfies their
nostalgia-hungry older audience
with a few throwback Disney Channel Original Movies and adorable
childhood movies. This year the
magic date is Oct. 27 where they will
thankfully show the “Halloweentown” franchise all day. Other movies on the schedule include “Hocus
Pocus,” “The Little Vampire” and
“Monsters, Inc.”
Still Safe without a Nightlight: “13 Nights of Halloween”
On Oct. 19, ABC Family will
begin its version of Halloween advertising. Still safe to watch alone,
the network will show Tim Burton
films including the classic “The
Nightmare Before Christmas.” ABC
Family is one of the more enjoyable
Halloween-themed channels because they also play the Harry Potter series, “Beetlejuice” and other
mild fall-themed movies to satisfy
every television consumer.
Only Watch in the Daytime:
“Fear Fest”
Many of the movies played on
AMC’s “Fear Fest” can be laughed
off as cheesy Halloween classics –
while the sun is out. However, Mike
Meyers is a tad bit more difficult to
laugh at when there is no sunshine
to reassure that there are no masked
murderers in your yard. “Fear
Fest” also includes movies such as
“The Exorcist,” “The Omen” and
“Bride of Chucky.” I would advise
watching these movies with a sense
of humor or in a brightly lit room.
Don’t Watch With Someone
You Want to Impress:
“31 Days of Halloween”
The Syfy channel is probably
the least popular of all Halloweenthemed television, but it is the
most terrifying. Producing a few of
their own original movies that are
weirdly creepy, I would not suggest
watching this channel with someone you want to seem “composed.”
For example, “Grave Halloween” is
a Syfy original about an American
student studying in Japan who has
to save the spirit of her own dead
mother. I’ll pass on that, Syfy. They
also have a string of ghost hunting
shows that are actually pretty terrifying after hours.
All Halloween-themed television should be watched in a happy
state of mind to prevent any cringeinducing, embarrassing yelps of
terror. Hopefully, armed with the
knowledge of the exact type of horror on each channel, Halloween
consumerism will be enjoyable and
nostalgic for everyone.
many years. The film is a collaborative, fictional documentary
focusing on how leisure time is
spent in small Turkish towns.
Jennings said she chose to feature this piece due to the recent
uprisings in Turkey, as it offers a
look inside Turkish lifestyle and
viewers can develop a connection
between the film and the current
state of Turkey.
UD promotes diversity and exposes students to international is-
sues. By bringing in outside artists, Jennings has helped create
a medium in which students can
learn and interpret global concerns. Jennings came to UD two
years ago with a desire to bring in
diverse artists and exhibits.
“I was excited about the potential to grow,” Jennings said. “As
long as I am here, you can expect
to see outside artists continue to
be featured.”
Although an exhibition is only
temporary, the topics of human
rights and social justice will continue appear. In the future, artists can be expected to return to
the university for discussion and
follow-up.
“Although exhibitions have a
short life, they help bring life into
the department,” Jennings said.
For more information, call the
Department of Visual Arts at
(937) 229-3237.
BULLET
WHO PULLS THE TRIGGER?
NEWTOWN | DAYTON | CHICAGO
ARTSTREET STUDIO D GALLERY
PART III ARTIST
RECEPTION:
Tuesday,
October 22
5:30–7:30 p.m.
This multilayered exhibit challenges artists and youth from some of
America’s most devastated areas affected by gun violence to examine
the ideas, images, and psychologies associated with a bullet.
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ArtStreet exhibit layers violence, radical creativity
Grace Hagan
Staff Writer
BRE
A KIN G T H E B U B B L E
TOM’S MAZE AND PUMPKIN
FARM
A not-so-average 8-acre corn maze,
labyrinth and farm animals are featured, rain or shine. There is an $8
entrance fee. It will be open until Nov.
3. For more information, call Tom Eby
Farm at (937) 866-2777.
CHAMBERS OF HORROR:
OHIO’S TWISTED HAUNTED
HOUSE
Located in the old Cambridge Inn
building in Middletown, Ohio, this
haunted house claims to be the average haunted house, making fears reality. Not recommended for children
under 12. Hours are from dark until
midnight on Fridays and from dark
until 1 a.m. Saturdays. The house is
open until Oct. 26. Tickets are $12
per person, or skip the line for $17.
For more information, visit
thechambers.org.
PUMPKIN FEST
AT MCMONIGLE FARM
Haunted houses a little too terrifying? Check out Pumpkin Fest Saturday, Oct. 19, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
at McMonigle farm in Middletown,
Ohio. The event offers a scenic hayride, pumpkin patch and concession
booth that features kettle corn, apple
cider, homemade caramel apples and
toffee. Tickets are $5 for the hayride
and corn maze, and $8.50 for hayride, corn maze and a pumpkin, For
more information, visit fallpumpkinfest.com.
Across America, the topic of gun
violence has taken over television,
newspapers and daily conversation—
and ArtStreet is no exception.
Since Sept. 24, ArtStreet has displayed an art exhibit entitled, “Bullet: Who Pulls the Trigger?” This sixweek exhibit, according to ArtStreet
director Brian LaDuca, “was created
by ArtStreet, myself, my assistant director and my associate director as a
creatively emotional response to the
current violent issues we have occurring across America.” LaDuca said
ArtStreet was looking for a chance to
comment on this timely issue.
Using a layered concept, the exhibit is organized into three installments. The first installment focused
on Sandy Hook. On Dec. 14, 2012, in
Newtown, Conn., 20 students, ages
six to seven, and six adults were fatally shot at Sandy Hook Elementary
School, according to a 2012 CNN report.
Sandy Hook’s installment includes
work from both professional artist
S.B. Woods and kids from the Sandy
Hook Art Center for Kids. Mourning statues created by Woods are
paired with what LaDuca described
as “beautifully gorgeous full-color
paintings by kindergarteners and
first graders” from Sandy Hook to
create a powerful contrast between
tragedy and optimism.
On Oct. 8, the second layer of the
exhibit was added to the first. This
second layer includes works from
local artist James Pate and students
from the Dayton Early College Academy. DECA, taking their own approach on the issue of guns, drew an
eight-foot-long patent of a gun. The
background shows strands of DNA
comprised of bullets. DECA’s professional counterpart and nationally renowned artist, Pate, helped lead this
design and development.
For the third and final layer, the
exhibit will focus on Chicago. Opening Oct. 22, the installment will spotlight artist and art activist Sarah
Ward and her students at the South
Chicago Art Center. LaDuca said
South Chicago Art Center created
576 small wood etchings of bullets to
represent the number of people killed
by guns last year in Chicago. These
etchings represent what bullets mean
to these children in their city.
“Bullet: Who Pulls the Trigger?”
was meant to contribute to LaDuca’s
goal of radical creativity for both ArtStreet and the University of Dayton
as a whole. He said radical creativity is a genesis of a creative idea that
makes a continued ripple impact for
generations to come. The exhibit was
not designed to be a commentary on
gun violence and its respective bipartisan arguments. Instead, ArtStreet
produced a multilayered exhibit on
guns to generate conversations, ideas
and hope.
The gallery space, according to
LaDuca, is meant to create conversation, dynamic relationships and cultural and collaborative impact.
For information on upcoming exhibits and events at ArtStreet, visit
udayton.edu/artstreet/gallery.
‘Bullet: Who Pulls the Trigger?’ an installation is on display in ArtStreet
Studio D through Sunday, Nov. 3. COURTESY OF ARTSTREET
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The 1975 debut full album: bold, romantic, memorable
jOHN rADEMAKER
Staff Writer
The band The 1975 invites the
possibility of some serious eyerolling. The ultra-hip haircuts
and shadowy aesthetic suggest the
guys in this English quartet might
be too cool for their own good.
However, the clear ambition and
transparent songwriting of their
introductory extended plays (EPs)
show a band that might be wearing its heart a little too boldly on
its sleeve.
It’s actually the tension between
aloofness and sincerity that make
The 1975 one of the most endearing
bands out right now: you’ll hear (a
cooler version of) your life in their
songs, and you root for them because it sounds like they’re rooting
for you. It seems like the perfect
recipe for stardom, and the highly
stylized romantic music found on
their self-titled debut album casts
The 1975 as new torchbearers for
heartfelt pop that hits you where it
counts with all the yearning, wonder and confusion of youth.
Frontman Matt Healy seems
acutely aware of the power of
those feelings, citing teen-sentiment mastermind John Hughes
as a major influence on the new
album, “The 1975” according to a
recent interview with Radio.com.
The 1980s have been a chic indiepop reference point for some time,
so it might be easy to assume that
a John Hughes influence is going
for some seriously low-hanging
fruit. There are definite 1980s signifiers littered throughout the album, from the synth bass rhythm
of “Heart Out” to the rhythm guitars on “Settle Down” and “Girls”
to the dreamy synth tones found
on just about every song. These
touchstones seem more like natural components of the band’s musical identity than an attempt at
cheap retroism.
Part of this success is due to
production from Mike Crossey
(Arctic Monkeys, Two Door Cinema Club), who frames the band
in a beautifully polished world
of sound. There are enough textures weaving in and out of “The
1975” for the listener to notice new
things for a while: note the skittering percussion and synthetic
harmonies on the futurist thump
of “M.O.N.E.Y.,” or the stadiumsized updates of old singles “Sex”
and “The City.”
It’s astonishing how the songs
come together as such a cohesive and self-contained whole. Of
course, all of this sheen wouldn’t
amount to much if the songwriting
on “The 1975” wasn’t so consistently strong.
The 1975 could easily be classified as “indie-pop” for convenience’s sake. The band is made
up of four long-time friends playing guitar, bass and drums after
all, and the foundation of their
sound recalls both the widescreen
synth anthems of M83 and the
tight, syncopated grooves of Foals.
But while both of those acts’ most
accessible moments seem like pet
projects in mass appeal, The 1975
make it clear on their debut that
they eat, sleep and breathe pop
sensibility.
As dressed up as these songs
are, they adhere to the classic pop
format at their core. There isn’t
much room for extended jamming
or unconventional song structure,
and it isn’t missed because Healy’s
lyrics and melodies are so bold and
memorable that they give each
song a clear identity.
This is the kind of album that
everybody can have a different
favorite song from. The hooks –
especially on songs like “Settle
Down” and “She Way Out” – seem
designed to get stuck in heads for
days on end. The verses and choruses in “Chocolate” and “Girls”
hit with an infectious rhythmic
fervor that compliments the almost conversational style of
Healy’s words.
The lyrics will probably prove
to be the most divisive aspect of
“The 1975.” Healy has a tendency
to explicitly draw from his own
personal experiences regarding
topics such as friends, sex, love,
drugs and love-as-drugs. Some will
find his choice of words charming;
others may see it as oversharing.
His words may not be the most
graceful, but to fault him for that
would be missing the point. There
Alternative indie/rock band The 1975 released their first full-length album with Dirty Hit/Polydor on Sept. 2.
are simple truths about the messiness of young adulthood on this
album being told in ways not often
found on albums that hit the top of
the UK Top 100 album charts.
For an album that clearly strives
for – and almost reaches – perfection, “The 1975” still has some
faults. In fact, the album might
be a little too sharp. The band’s
trajectory seemed to be headed in
an even more experimental direction on recent EPs “Music for Cars
and IV.” There are some ambient
interludes here that are pleasant
enough, but fall short compared
to the glitchy robot-pop of “Heads.
Cars.Bending” or slow burn of
“Fallingforyou.”
As it stands, “The 1975,” out
now on Dirty Hit/Polydor Records,
is an immensely enjoyable debut
album by a band with a strong
sense of identity. The 1975 will be
playing in Columbus on Oct. 15 at
A&R Music Bar.
Speaker challenges students, stereotypes in heavy metal
Moira bonadonna
Staff Writer
On Thursday, Oct. 24 at 7:00 p.m.
in the Marianist Commons, speaker
Laina Dawes will address issues important to the University of Dayton
community.
Dawes is a freelance metal journalist and concert photographer who
also writes about race, ethnicity and
culture for Blogher.com, where she’s
been a contributing editor for seven
years. Her book, “What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and
Liberation in Heavy Metal,” and her
personal experiences make her a
qualified speaker on such subjects.
According to Dawes, the main message of her book is “to look at how
heavy music can serve as a vehicle for
black women to express their individuality. By interviewing several black
women metal, hardcore and punk
fans, musicians and creatives (writ-
ers, journalists, photographers, etc.)
the book looks at how they have been
able to express themselves though
their involvement in the scenes.”
Bryan Bardine, associate professor
in the English department, teaches an
English honors composition course
that discusses heavy metal music
along with the globalization and popular culture. “Dawes grew up with
brothers who were really into the
metal scene in Canada, but you didn’t
see a lot a lot women or blacks in the
metal scene then,” he said.
Dawes said she wanted to write
about what happens when black
women use music for liberation.
“It has always been assumed that
the stereotypical white, male metal
fan utilizes aggressive music to liberate themselves,” Dawes said. “But I
wanted to write about how it is beneficial as a mechanism for self-liberation
in a society in which black women in
particular have a hard time express-
ing their individuality in Western
society.”
In her book, Dawes addresses what
happens when individualism is misrepresented because of racial and
sexual steroetypes.
“I look at how heavy music serves
as a way to vent frustrations through
heavy music in a way that is emotionally cathartic, instead of internalizing
it,” she said.
Bardine said the issues Dawes
presents are important to the UD
community.
“We’re a pretty homogenous
group, and she’s a person of color
who’s got a lot of really important
things to say about culture,” Bardine
said. “Our students need to look at
things they wouldn’t normally see.”
As a Canadian black woman who
addresses metal and extreme music,
Bardine said Dawes will expose students to things they don’t really see a
whole lot of on this campus.
“It’s a good thing to wake people up
a little bit. Maybe have them look at
the music and culture in a way they
never would have thought of before,”
he said.
Dawes also said her presentation
“ties in perfectly” to the Rites. Rights.
Writes campaign at UD.
“[It shows] how the arts can
change social perceptions and encourage social change,” she said. “I
think to show the participation of
black women in heavy music really
does alter the stereotypes that exist
about black people in general, and
encourages people to see others, regardless of gender and ethnicity, as
individuals who all have the ability
to enjoy and create art.”
Dawes said she believes that what
someone looks like is not an indicator
for what they can do or create.
“One’s lived experiences can radically alter something and change it in
a way that makes it not only a unique
piece of art, but also a useful educational tool that can serve as a positive
contribution within the larger society,” she said.
Bardine said he met Dawes when
she was presenting at The Heavy
Metal and Popular Culture Conference at Bowling Green Sate University last spring.
“She gave a great presentation, we
started talking, and so I invited her to
come over here to speak to UD, and
she accepted,” Bardine said.
Bardine said he hopes that next
year he will be able to bring a conference on metal to UD, but for now he
is happy with what is in store in the
immediate future.
“I think she’s going to be great,”
he said. “I’ve seen her before, and
she seems excited to get here to do
the presentation.”
For more information, look for
flyers around campus or visit lainad.
typepad.com.
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resolve:
“There is joy in work. There is no found happiness except in the
realization that we have accomplished something. ”
-Henry Ford
A m e r i c a n businessman, 1863-1947
Increase in smartphones leads tech tide
Time to re-focus after a restful break
Midterm break is always shorter than we want it to be. We admit it
every year when greeting friends, faculty and staff after it passes as fast
as the landscaping crew rids the campus of fallen leaves.
Some students may have attempted to catch up on sleep. Some might
have used this time to travel home for some quality time with their
families or visited friends at other universities. Especially prudent
students may have capitalized on the time to knock off a few lingering
homework assignments, though in that case it’s not much of a break at
all.
However, now we’re all back on campus, and the semester is in full
swing. Due dates for big assignments are rapidly approaching and it
seems professors are adding more to the ever-growing pile of papers.
While fall break was a great means to reboot and readjust oneself, we
need to put that readjustment to good use in order for the break to be
effective.
Many students can relate to the feeling of complacency that settles
around this time of year. We sometimes feel that we have a handle on our
classes, that we understand how our professors grade and we can ride to
the end of the semester on the “buffer” of good scores we earned at the
beginning of the semester.
This is a dangerous attitude to take, as it can lead to a steady drop in
performance as the last half of the semester wears on. Instead, we should
use the energy we regained from fall break and focus even more on our
classes, because from here on out the course material only grows more
difficult and the deadlines only draw nearer.
In and of itself, the concept of break is one to cherish. It can serve
as a time to center yourself and help you manage upcoming academic
challenges. And while the course material will grow more difficult, this
is not a time to panic, but rather a time to reinforce our resolve.
It’s true that most students probably have a handle on their classes,
an understanding of their professors expectations and a buffer of good
scores, but we need to remember that we still have to apply our skills in
order to guarantee success in our classes. We can’t rest on our laurels for
the remainder of the year – just until Thanksgiving.
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It’s the little things in life that
highlight the big changes in our culture. For me, this meant trying to offer some helpful advice – and holding
back a little bit of laughter at the irony
– this weekend as I watched the sales
associates at the AT&T store struggle
with the obsolete user interface of my
nearly five-year-old, hand-me-down
Samsung Eternity cell phone.
I have to say that the Eternity was a
great device. It did three things, voice
calls, text messaging and 3-megapixel
photos, and it performed reliably in
the face of a decent amount of physical abuse from its multiple users.
Of the half-dozen or so cell phones
that I’ve had over the years, the Samsung Eternity comes second in quality
only to the Nokia 3310, which I don’t
remember once needing to charge in
my entire life, and which played the
meanest game of Snake the world will
ever see.
Sadly, the Samsung Eternity was
never destined to live up to its name.
Even before I brought it to the store to
we used our old cell phones. Clearly,
we are rapidly moving toward a society
where our mobile devices are not just a
way to communicate with other people
but a tool that we use to interact with
every facet of our surroundings.
It’s amazing to me that in this short
amount of time such a staggering difference has developed between smartphone technology and traditional cell
phones. And with this change in abilities has come a change in our behavior.
Where the ability to send and receive calls and text messages, and for
the lucky few, emails and internet access, were once seen as an added bonus, it’s become an expectation.
As students, it’s come to be expected
that we can access our email between
classes for updates and cancellations,
communicate with group text messages, take photographs of missed notes,
and generally be plugged into the internet at all times and places with a tap
of the screen. In practice, not everyone
can do this yet, but it’s the way we’re
headed as a society.
New mobile technology is opening
doors for our productivity and our social interactions, and it will be exciting
to see how our relationship with these
devices changes as more people continue to make the switch to smartphones.
Still, I think I’ll miss that reliable
Samsung Eternity, just like I miss
playing Snake on that indestructible
Nokia 3310.
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transfer my contacts to a new phone,
the Eternity was dead.
Besides some scratches, chipped
paint and a quirky touchscreen, there
was nothing really wrong with the
phone. Rather, what killed my Samsung Eternity was the onslaught of
technological innovation that has occurred in the mere five years since it
was assembled.
It’s interesting how seemingly insignificant experiences can make the
biggest changes in our culture even
more poignant, but that’s exactly what
I saw as watched the cell phone experts
painstakingly manipulate my old device this weekend.
It’s not that these people are inept;
it’s simply that this technology is so
outdated that the average person can
no longer use it. Now that we’ve entered
a world where there’s a supercomputer
in every pocket, it’s impossible – or at
least very difficult – to re-adjust to a
system that is less responsive to the
user. I imagine it would be a lot like trying to drive an antique automobile after you’d been driving a car with power
steering and brakes, traction control,
antilock brakes, bucket seats and all of
the other “user-interface” features that
have come along over a century or so of
automotive innovation.
It’s become obvious to me over the
last few days that the ways in which we
interact with modern mobile devices
are drastically different than the ways
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“I’m an RA on campus so I have to
get back into the swing of things.
Definitely can’t put projects off,
all the due dates are coming up.”
Kevin Eversole
Junior
Mechanical Engineering
“I actually feel refreshed. I got
some good sleep now it’s time to
be back on my A-game.”
Jana sztuk
Sophomore
Mgmt. Information Systems
“I mean I’m still feeling stressed.
I’m a freshman so I’m not familiar with finals yet. But its been
manageable.”
Andrew webb
Freshman
Undecided
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Questioning moral relativism
Society’s rush toward moral relativism warrants caution
Paul G utbrod
Columnist, Freshman
“What’s fine for them is fine for
them.”
“I’ll support whatever you
choose.”
“I’m not gonna judge you.”
These common phrases have
a mutual basis in that epidemic
which plagues our culture and society and which some people know
by the name of moral relativism.
This philosophy can be summed
up hence: there is no absolute, objective moral goodness or evil; all
morality is created and judged
within an individual’s own mind
with no exterior affirmation or
negation.
Along with acceptance of any
creed, religion, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation
or lifestyle preference which society is gravitating to so insistently
comes moral relativism and the
belief that no action ought to be
judged by anyone but the person
performing said action. Clearly,
when taken to its logical end, this
brings only trouble. For example,
according to moral relativism,
if one person decides that his or
her passion and fulfillment in life
finds expression in the drowning
of newborn children, we as a society should not deny him or her
this fulfillment, but rather ought
to accept him or her for the sociopath he or she is (and believe me,
he or she is).
There are countless other examples, some less gruesome and some
more so, which all demonstrate
this nonconformity to our innate
idea of morality. By this I mean
that we, whatever we seem to say
in public, appear to have some idea
of what ought to be acceptable and
what ought not to be acceptable in
general. Yet these ideas constantly
find themselves denied by this acceptance of actions which society
forces upon us.
The question I would raise is
the following: is this idea of moral
relativism simply relative in itself,
perhaps giving some basis to our
inherent ideas of right and wrong
actions?
The idea of any relativism contains, by its definition, a contradiction, for it can be said to be the
truth that there is no truth, or the
proof that there are no proofs. This
idea that one action is perhaps
right for one person (due to their
personal choice) but this same
action may be wrong for another
(due to their personal choice) does
not indicate morality, but rather
the absence of morality.
Morality can be defined as that
set of ideals by which one strives
to live their life, ideals which stipulate the rightness or wrongness
of actions and which demands
conformity to itself.
Moral relativism does not affirm any law of morality, rather it
destroys it rendering our situation
anarchical, characterized by an
ambiguous and flighty idea which
changes from person to person and
contains no more objective truth
than a fortune cookie.
One could even say, “for me,
moral relativism is correct, but
you may follow the morality of
Buddhism which is entirely right
for you.” In this, you have succeeded in saying nothing as to the
appropriateness of one path over
another, which is absolutely necessary to morality. Thus, by its
definition and logical conclusion,
moral relativism shows itself selfcontradictory and not even a true
existent morality in itself but rather the absence of any morality.
So, what can we do to avoid this
chasm of relativism which society
so acceptingly digs and offers for
us? We must maintain our ideals,
we must strengthen our morals,
we must, above all, teach the traditional values of truth, beauty,
courage, honor and love to our
progeny. We shall defeat this false
appearance of morality through
the truth and show it to be unstable and self-contradictory when
taken to its logical end. We must
substitute real morality for this
amorphous and fuliginous idea
which claims to contain the substance and essence of morality.
Learning to be grateful, from my balcony to Munich
I found enough time and flaws to
overlook that I even had a balcony
at all.
Long before I booked a flight
some 4,000 miles away from home,
I knew that there was one aspect
of life I wanted to experience on
M aeve C oleman
Columnist, Junior
My view isn’t spectacular. Behind a scruffy white curtain patterned with cliché autumn leaves,
there’s a sliding door that leads
out to a smooth red-brick balcony
a little longer than the width of my
bedroom.
Across the way stands another
apartment building – frequent
here in Granada, Spain – with an
elderly couple and one deafening
German Shepard. In fact, I can
hear him barking right now.
If you look straight down it’s
not a site for those not fond of
heights, and the walls are littered
with splashy Spanish graffiti. The
streets are stained but clean and
teeming with the almost cinematic
sight of moped bikes.
What’s most interesting about
the view though, isn’t the view
at all. What’s interesting is that
Of course I am grateful for my
life: my parents, my health, my
friends, my home, etc. But more
to the point, I wanted to travel to
learn more than just how to say
it. I wanted to learn how to really
feel it.
roommate and I were less than
thrilled to be boarding a plane to
Munich for the upcoming weekend
Oktoberfest, each draped in two
bulky sweaters, bulging bags that
far exceeded the Ryan Air weight
limitations, and a “haven’t show-
“You pass by things without really asking
yourself what they are, where they came
from, who they belong to.”
Maeve Coleman,
Junior
my adventure abroad: I wanted to
feel grateful.
We fail at this all too often.
Quite honestly I think it’s in our
nature. It’s as simple as learning
to ride a bike, and you pedal without really telling yourself how to
pedal. You pass by things without
really asking yourself what they
are, where they came from, who
they belong to.
This idea easily hit home for me
just days ago as I miserably slept
on a thick, frigid metal bench. Our
flight to Germany was leaving early the next morning and the only
bus we could catch to the airport
was late the previous night – we
opted to sleep at the airport not
really thinking twice about how it
would go.
Nearly eight hours later my
ered in days” look to our faces.
Still, the next day I was sitting
at a crowded table amidst thousands of people from all over the
world; a fact I couldn’t quite swallow until it was right there.
Here I met people from Scotland, Ger many, Switzerland,
Brazil, and from all over the U.S.
of every age, sex, and individual
personality. It was there, sitting at
packed table of a German group of
friends in their late 40’s who graciously offered for my four friends
and I to come and talk with them,
that I realized how incredible and
beyond words the world and everything in it is. Even more, I realized
how simple it could really be – the
simple things, like having a small
balcony outside your bedroom, can
be so amazing.
I guess it’s not enough to put
into words why one weekend really made me reconsider the way I
looked at things. I think it resides
in the fact that life only comes
once and you rarely realize it until you do.
For me, this was exactly that:
realization. You might think traveling is just sightseeing, but maybe
instead you can look at these sites
with a different perspective than
you thought you would. Than you
thought you could.
Ernest Hemingway once said,
“All you have to do is write one
true sentence. Write the truest
sentence that you know.” For me,
I know I am grateful.
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NCAA out-of-bounds taking players’ rights
The National Collegiate Athletic
Association may be the most corrupt, publicly visible company in
the United States.
For years and years it has profited tremendously to the tune of
a $71 million surplus in the 2012
fiscal year, according to financial
statements released by the NCAA
on May 1.
The NCAA benefits from one
of the greatest economic models
that exist in America. It requires
athletes to sign away their inalienable rights for four years under the
guise of an education that may or
may not be paid for. These rights
include access to their names and
likenesses, which are fundamental
human characteristics taken away
by an organization claiming to rep-
resent their best interests when
they really don’t.
For most collegiate athletes,
maybe 99 percent of them, this is
a non-issue because they simply
don’t bring in revenue to their
schools. They’re true studentathletes who benefit from playing
a sport and having part of their
education paid for. But for others,
this can be an extremely important issue, one that may be worth
millions of dollars.
Take an athlete like quarterback Johnny Manziel of the Texas
A&M Aggies, for example. Every
week Manziel is the reason why
Texas A&M sells out its stadium,
Kyle Field, capable of holding
88,000 people. Up until recently, if
you went to the NCAA’s website
and typed in “Manziel” it led you
to a link where you could purchase
a “Johnny Manziel” number two
Texas A&M jersey for $60. Along
with that, the Heisman Trophy
he was awarded as a freshman
brought in an inestimable amount
of publicity and money to the
school. Manziel is more or less
the reason why all of those people
spend $70 for a ticket to show up at
the stadium every week, and he’s
only legally allowed to see room
and board for his all his efforts.
Manziel isn’t the only student athlete to make an impact similar to
this. Just think of star players at
University of Alabama, Clemson
University or University of Florida.
If the NCAA was truly looking
Three cheers to good health
Do you ever wonder, what’s a
healthy option for beverage choices?
With all the options out there, how
can you select the right liquid refreshment that is good for both your
taste buds and body? Is the secret to
health found in coffee? Tea? Scientifically inspired, electrolyte-packed
Gatorade? Or maybe benefits can be
found in alcoholic beverages such as
red wine or beer?
Let’s begin with alcohol, since it
seems to be a popular commodity
on campus. Alcohol in moderation
is OK to drink, which translates to
one drink per day for women and
two drinks per day for men. Though
alcoholic beverages tend to be high in
calories, they do supply some essential nutrients that stimulate creative
juices among other things. Heavier
beer, sweet wines and liquors are
high in sugar and calories which are
known contributors to weight gain
that is synonymous with the “freshman 15.” A better option would be
light beer, drier wine or distilled spirits. However, beware of mixing them
with sugar-filled beverages like soda,
according to Kathleen Mahan, Sylvia
Escott-Stump and Janice Raymond,
authors of Krause’s “Food and the
Nutrition Care Process.” Mineral
water or club sodas are healthier
options because they aren’t fluffed
with additives and processed sugars, effectively reducing the calorie
content. Also, freshly-squeezed fruit
juices or homemade smoothies are
great options.
Craving caffeinated beverages?
With the end of the semester rapidly approaching, it’s important to
recognize what caffeine is doing to
your body before it gets widely consumed during finals week. Within a
half hour to an hour of drinking a
single one cup of coffee – equaling 8
fluid ounces – the caffeine will reach
its peak and be active in the bloodstream for four to six hours, according to “Food and the Nutrition Care
Process.”
Caffeine increases your resting
metabolic rate by 10 percent, according to the Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics’ Evidence Analysis Library.
Caffeine is also a diuretic, which
means it causes fluid loss by way of
urination and perspiration. If caffeine is a part of your daily routine,
it’s important to stay hydrated to bal-
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ance the effects.
This brings us to the next question, what is the proper choice to
make for a healthy and caffeinated
option? Is it coffee or tea? Both contain antioxidants and phenolic compounds, which are proven anti-cancer agents. According to “Food and
the Nutrition Care Process,” 16 fluid
ounces of coffee contains 260 mg of
caffeine whereas a cup of tea of similar capacity contains 60 to 100 mg. If
you’re looking for an energy boost,
choose coffee. However, tea is proven
to have immune boosting nutrients
perfect to combat the imminent cold
weather.
There are a wide range of beverage choices available today, and while
the final decision will often be left to
personal preference, it’s important
to understand the effects these products have on our bodies. So before you
drink up, think about the nutritional
value of your beverage, and don’t forget that a glass of water is always a
great choice.
Jeanna Schuster
Senior
Dietetics
out for student athletes’ best interests they would allow them to
profit off of their own names and
likenesses. The question lies in
where you draw the line between
an athlete like Manziel and a third
stringer on a Division-I team that
doesn’t turn a profit for their respective school. It’s a tough distinction to make, and one that
comes with many legal loopholes
to jump through.
To go along with that a coach
can’t even legally buy a meal for
a recruit. Some of these recruits
are kids that come from less-thanfortunate situations who are truly
in search of a place to play their
respective sport and receive an
education at a reduced price. It’s
ridiculous that they can’t even ac-
cept a free meal without fear of
losing their eligibility to play in
college.
Although the NCAA claims
to act in a manner that benefits
its student athletes, often times
it does not. It acts as a business
that’s protecting its own interests
and has done that to the tune of
tremendous profits. Maybe it’s
time some checks were put on the
NCAA.
Evan Shaub
Senior
Journalism
Help wanted: seeking
new gov’t leadership
I don’t know about you, but if
I was President Obama, I would
place the following employment
ad in the Washington Post and
every major Federal Employment
Notice:
Wanted:
Congressional and senatorial
representatives with skills in diplomacy, tact, integrity, honor,
objectivity, professionalism, public speaking, writing, ability and
willingness to listen to all sides of
an argument, ability to continue
dialogue in the face of disagreement, ability to carefully weigh
all considerations in a nonbiased
manner, and ability to demonstrate concern for all American
people. Must be willing to make decisions for the common good of all.
However, prospective employees
who intend to represent only 1 to
2 percent of the population, and
who are only willing to help certain demographic groups or who
are unable to listen to others and
maintain dialogue with other parties who disagree with them need
not apply. Likewise, those who engage in biased and unprofessional
behaviors that stubbornly stop
government processes, operations
and considerations in a manner
that is harmful to the people in order to play political power games,
or who care more about their own
personal political power than they
do about the people, and who make
congressional decisions and base
all voting to benefit personal and
corporate interests to the detriment of society as a whole and the
common good, need not apply.
Why do we as American citizens
settle like we do? Why do we allow
the very people we elect to represent us and work for us to cause so
much suffering? Is this the kind of
world you want to graduate and go
out into? And when are we going to
do something about it?
Vicki Bentley
Junior
Communication
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Volle y b a l l
Injury sidelines Turner as UD gets split in Northeast
KEITH RAAD
Staff Writer
Already 7-9 overall and 1-3 in Atlantic 10 Conference play, the University of Dayton volleyball team is
now faced with an injury heading
into its third weekend of conference play on the road against Fordham University and the University
of Rhode Island, Friday, Oct. 11,
and Saturday, Oct. 12.
Sophomore outside hitter Alaina
Turner is out indefinitely with an
injury, forcing the Flyers had to
fool around with lineup changes.
With Turner out, redshirt senior
right side hitter Shayne Brown assumed the role of outside hitter. Senior middle blocker Megan Campbell then moved to right side hitter,
which allowed for redshirt sophomore Angel Agu and junior Isolde
Hannan to start as middle blockers.
The new lineup allowed assistant coach Ryan Freeburg to see the
team differently, an opportunity he
met with great fervor.
“We’ve done a pretty good job
[preparing],” Freeburg said. “Our
different players are taking on
their new roles with a lot of enthusiasm. There’s no dragging of the
feet, there’s no backfire. It’s a challenge and in the end it really grows
your players and your team.”
A new look also adds another
level of volleyball IQ for the players filling different roles.
“They get to do other jobs, the
get to understand the team concept a little bit better,” Freeburg
said. “It enables them to get a first
person point of view instead of
from the outside looking in. That
intimate knowledge about how the
team functions is ultimately better
for you.”
With that in mind, the Flyers entered the Rose Hill Gymnasium at
Fordham University Friday night.
Brown led UD with 13 kills as the
Flyers topped the Rams in the
Bronx 3-0 (25-23, 28-26, 25-19).
Though the first two sets of the
match were neck-and-neck, Brown
was excited to grab a victory with
the new semi-uncomfortable lineup.
“We really did need this victory,” Brown said. “Coming off of
a 1-1 weekend, being able to come
out and really play our game was
key. To get our confidence back up
and to regain the good feeling on
the court was great.”
Leading all scorers in kills,
Brown felt confident in her new
position.
“It’s starting to come,” Brown
said. “This is the first time I’ve ever
played on the outside pin, so with
more touches and more touches
and a little more game time, I’ll
start getting more used to it. I’m
excited to really produce for this
team.”
The Flyers’ blocking, fifth in the
country with 2.82 blocks per set,
showed up at Rose Hill as well, as
Agu and Campbell were able to
shut down Fordham’s attackers.
UD totaled 14.5 blocks. The new
lineup put the right players in the
right spots, especially on the block,
Brown said.
“Well I think that we’ve always
been a really good blocking team,”
Brown said. “Coming into this
match, we knew exactly what we
needed to do. Having Campbell on
the right side now, she’s a really
strong blocker, really gets us those
numbers right now. We train really
hard in practice and it shows in the
game.”
Following the Fordham victory,
the Flyers met the resilient Rams
of Rhode Island. In one of the most
thrilling matches of the season for
both sides, the Rams prevailed in
dramatic fashion 3-2 (25-14, 22-25,
25-27, 25-12, 17-19).
In the second and third sets, URI
was able to beat the Flyers. Ahead
18-14 in set two, UD allowed an 11-4
run which allowed URI to win the
set 25-22. In the following set, URI
found itself down 24-20 facing set
point, and again went on a 7-1 run
to win 27-25.
The offensive explosion of the
match saw six players achieve
career-highs. Sophomore outside
hitter Jill Loiars had a career-high
Senior middle blocker Megan Campbell (12) hits during an Atlantic 10 Conference
match against Saint Louis University, Sept. 29, at the Frericks Center. Dayton went
2-2 on its recent roadtrip, capped by a 3-2 loss at the University of Rhode Island,
Sunday, Oct. 13, in Kingston, R.I. ETHAN KLOSTERMAN/PHOTO EDITOR
17 kills, Brown had her first career
double-double with 19 kills and 13
digs and Campbell had 14 kills to
go along with a career-high eight
digs. UD sophomore setter Jenna
Jendryk recorded a career-high 56
assists. URI could not be stopped
as freshman middle blocker Layne
Self had a career-high 18 kills and
freshman outside hitter Lena Vedder had a career-high 17 kills.
Though the Flyers absolutely
dominated in sets one and four, the
Rams got the points they needed
with clutch kill after clutch kill in
sets two, three and five. In the fifth
set, facing match point several
times, URI was able to play tight
defense and nab points off of long
rallies to secure the victory. The
Rams snapped a 20-match drought
against the Flyers.
With eight more A-10 matches
to play, the Flyers need to battle
and possibly get helpful wins from
other teams ahead of them in the
conference standings. UD currently sits seventh in the conference,
and the top six teams lock a spot
in the A-10 Tournament, held at
George Washington University in
Washington, D.C.
Next up, the Flyers will face
Fordham and Rhode Island at home
Friday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 20, at 1 p.m, respectively.
All games can be heard on DaytonFlyers.com.
atlantic 10 & pioneer STANDINGS
(as of Tuesday, Oct. 15)
A-10 Men’s Soccer
A-10 Women’s Soccer
Pioneer Football League
A-10 Volleyball
Pl
Team
Ovr
W-L-T
Pts
A-10 Pts
W-L-T
Pl
Team
Ovr
Pts
W-L-T
A-10 Pts
W-L-T
Pl
Team
Ovr
PFL
Pl
Team
Ovr
A-10
1
VCU
6-4-1
19
2-0-0 6
1
Dayton
9-4-1 28
4-0-0 12
1
Butler
5-2
3-0
1
VCU
17-5
5-1
2
La Salle
5-5-2
17
2-0-0 6
2
SLU
4-9-2 14
3-1-1 10
2
San Diego
4-2
3-0
2
Duquesne
10-8
4-1
3
SLU
7-3-1
22
1-0-1 4
3
Geo. Mason
6-7-1 19
3-1-0 9
3
Dayton
4-2
2-1
3
GW
8-10
3-1
4
Geo. Mason
6-2-1 19
1-0-0 3
4
VCU
7-4-2 23
2-0-1 7
4
Drake
3-3
2-1
4
SLU
8-11
4-2
5
St. Bonnie
7-5-1 22
1-1-0 3
5
GW
5-3-3 18
2-1-0 6
5
Marist
3-3
2-1
5
URI
10-10 3-2
6
Duquesne
6-5-0 18
1-1-0 3
6
La Salle
9-3-2 29
1-1-1 4
6
Mercer
5-1
2-1
6
Geo. Mason
6-13
2-3
7
No.24 Dayton 10-0-2 32
0-0-2 2
7
St. Joe’s
5-5-3 18
1-1-1 4
7
Morehead St
2-4
2-1
7
Dayton
8-10
2-4
8
GW
3-6-2 11
0-0-2 2
8
UMass
5-7-2 17
1-2-1 4
8
Jacksonville
2-4
1-2
8
Fordham
8-13
1-4
9
Fordham
3-7-1 10
0-1-1 1
9
Fordham
3-8-3 12
1-3-1 4
9
Valparaiso
1-5
1-2
9
La Salle
1-23
0-6
10
URI
2-7-0
6
0-1-0 0
10
Duquesne
5-5-1 16
1-1-0 3
10
Campbell
1-5
0-3
11
St. Joe’s
2-5-5 11
0-2-0 0
11
Richmond
4-7-2 14
1-2-0 3
11
Stetson
1-5
0-3
12
UMass
1-10-1 4
0-2-0 0
12
St. Bonnie
3-8-1 10
0-3-0 0
12
Davidson
0-6
0-3
13
URI
5-9-0 15
0-4-0 0
Upcoming
Schedule
Men’s Soccer
10/19 SLU
7pm
Football
10/19 San Diego
6pm
Women’s Soccer
10/19 SLU
7pm
Volleyball
10/18* Fordham
10/20* Rhode Island
7pm
1pm
Women’s Golf
10/21-22* UD Fall Invite
Men’s/Women’s Basketball
10/19 Red-Blue Scrimmage* 2pm
*Home Game
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Men’ s S o c c e r
Perfect record lost after pair of ties to open A-10 season
steven wright
Sports Editor
Gaining points during Atlantic 10
Conference play has proved to be more
challenging for the University of Dayton men’s soccer team than it was earlier in the season.
The country’s highest scoring team
was held scoreless in its A-10 opener
against George Washington, netting
a 0-0 tie on Friday, Oct. 11, at Baujan
Field. Two days later, an own goal prevented another chance to gain three
points in a 1-1 tie for Fordham University on Sunday, Oct. 13.
Dayton went through its 10 nonconference games on the schedule
spotless, going 10-0-0 and was the only
team remaining in the country with
a perfect record on the season. The
team also averaged 2.8 goals per game
in those 10 contests.
Both came at a premium with the
arrival of A-10 play, as an influx of
shot attempts was not enough to ensure goals the team needed to keep its
frantic pace in the standings.
“I think any time you got through
a season, you’re going to have a little
slump, and were starting to have that
right now offensively,” head coach
Dennis Currier said. “We’ve got to get
a little more dangerous than we have
been in the first 20 minutes. The guys
have to understand it’s a 90-minute
game. Hopefully this wakes them up
a bit.”
However, both of the GW and Fordham matches went more than 90 minutes for Dayton.
Dayton led 1-0 in the second half
against Fordham after a goal in the
27th minute from junior forward
Amass Amankona. On a clearing attempt in its own end in the 59th minute, a bounce didn’t go UD’s way, as
the ball off senior defender Jonathan
Nelson slipped into his own net to tie
the match.
UD’s offense would kick back up,
producing 12 shots over the final 30
minutes of regulation and six more
in the two overtime periods, giving
Dayton almost double its season average at 36 for the match. No attempts
were able to get by Fordham graduate
goalkeeper Alex Naples, who made 12
saves.
Currier said he unforunately knows
his team has to put the ball in the net
to win.
Senior defender John Howe said he
thought the team’s effort picked up in
the second half after a sluggish first,
especially in the match’s final 20 minutes, but it wasn’t enough to get his
team over the hump.
“We battled hard, we couldn’t come
away with goals,” he said. “We tied for
the second time this weekend, so we’re
pretty disappointed. We just need to
have a good week this week, come to
go against [Saint Louis University] and
beat a tough team on the road.”
In the match against GW, the physical nature of play between the two
teams was apparent. GW junior defender and midfielder Andri Alexandersson was issued a yellow card within the match’s first 10 minutes, and his
team was called for 20 fouls over the
course of play. Dayton had two players
yellow carded, including Nelson and
senior midfielder Abe Keller, and was
called for 16 fouls.
The rough play picked up against
Fordham, as Fordham had 21 fouls to
Dayton’s 19, and also four yellows to
one for UD.
“That’s expected in a conference
game,” Currier said. “I think everybody is going to come in here and have
a lot of physicality and we expect that.
We’re an older team and I don’t think
we dealt very well with it.”
Dayton still owns the highest winlost-tie percentage in the country at
.917, topping the University of Delaware’s and the University of California, Berkeley’s .907, who are at 101-0 and 9-0-2, respectively. Dayton’s
offense however falls to fifth in the
latest statistical rankings released on
Monday, Oct. 14, at 2.42 goals per game.
Keller ranks 10th in the country individually in points per match at 1.75
after his assist of Amankona’s goal
against Fordham.
The two points gained from the two
ties puts Dayton in an early hole in the
conference standings in seventh place,
tied with GW. Up next is Saint Louis
University, the preseason A-10 favorite,
on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 6 p.m. at Robert
R. Hermann Stadium in St. Louis.
Currier said after both matches he
has stressed the importance of gaining
points in each upcoming match to his
team, with only eight total in the A-10
season.
The zero in Dayton’s record is important to Currier. As long it remains
that way, his team gains a point in every match it plays. He said the team
has to continue to fight to get those
points in every match.
“It could be worse,” Currier said.
“We could be coming off a loss, and we
just have to get our momentum back.”
Senior midfielder and forward Andres Acevedo (7) reacts after missing a would-be winning goal with seconds left in the second
overtime period against Fordham University, Sunday, Oct. 13, at Baujan Field. UD has tied its first two contests of Atlantic 10
Conference play heading into its match against Saint Louis University, Saturday, Oct. 19. ETHAN KLOSTERMAN/PHOTO EDITOR
Wom e n’ s S o c c e r
Dayton extends shutout streak to six against UMass, URI
nathan vicar
Staff Writer
The University of Dayton women’s
soccer team broke two milestones and
won two games on Friday, Oct. 11, and
Sunday, Oct. 13.
UD improved to 9-4-1 after last weekend’s matches, as the Flyers beat University of Massachusetts 1-0, Friday,
Oct. 11, in Amherst, Mass. Then on
Sunday, Oct 13, the Flyers beat Rhode
Island in another shutout, 4-0.
The Flyers defensive scoreless
streak stayed alive, while breaking the
program record for consecutive shutouts thanks to freshmen goalkeeper
Elizabeth James.
“Today was just a solid effort,” said
head coach Mike Tucker after Sunday’s game. “We’re working to get
better. Overall today we just played
extremely well. We’re really close to
where we need to be.”
In the match against UMass, during
the 53rd minute senior forward and
midfielder Stephanie Emery scored
her sixth goal of the season off a pass
from the left end line from sophomore
midfielder Nicole Waters. This was Waters’ sixth assist of the season. Of Emery’s six goals this season, four have
been game winners.
UMass outshot the Flyers 13-12, but
UD had more shots on goal, winning
the battle 5-3.
UD reached the 400-victory milestone with the victory against UMass.
On Sunday, freshmen forward and
midfielder Meghan Blank scored in
the 21st minute off a chip-shot from
Waters. Emery scored the first of her
two goals in the match less than seven
minutes later in the 28th minute on an
assist from senior midfielder Juliana
Libertin.
The team has been finding its flow
recently, Libertin said.
“Starting off in the season, there
were different personalities,” Libertin
said. “But we’re getting stronger and
stronger each game and we’re getting
the shutouts.”
In the first half, Dayton outshot
Rhode Island 8-4.
After halftime, Emery scored her
second goal of the afternoon in the 55th
minute off a right side entry pass from
Libertin, making the score 3-0.
Libertin added another assist in the
73rd minute when Waters scored her
second goal of the season and beat the
goalkeeper on the lower left hand side
of the goal.
James had seven saves in the match
against Rhode Island, and produced
her seventh shutout of the season to
continue a strong freshman campaign.
“I’ve matured this season,” James
said. “I’m taking it game by game,
learning from my mistakes. I’ve grown
more comfortable with myself. Overall
as a unit we are getting better and better.”
Tucker said he sees the team developing itself from its play during the
winning streak.
“It took quite a while to get our flow,
to put people in the right package,
our defenders are playing brilliant,”
Tucker said. “We need to work on the
tiny pieces of the game and putting the
pieces together, it keeps getting better
and better.”
UD has outscored opponents 17-0 in
its past six games.
“We are preparing for the A-10 tournament,” Libertin said. “We are taking
it game by game. “In a few weeks, we
have our rivals [La Salle University]
coming up and we need to take every
practice and opportunity to get better
and be our best.”
Dayton now sits atop of the A-10
standings at 4-0-0.
The Flyers next will play Saint Louis University at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.
19, for Senior Night.
Sophomore midfielder Ashley Campbell (8) kicks a goal during a game against
University of Richmond, Sept. 28, at Baujan Field. UD is 4-0-0 in Atlantic 10
Conference play this season following its 4-0 win over the University of Rhode
Island, Sunday, Oct. 13, in Kingston, R.I. ETHAN KLOSTERMAN/PHOTO EDITOR
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Men’ s S o c c e r
keller all smiles with choice to attend ud
CHRIS BENDEL
Asst. Sports Editor
Senior midfielder Abe Keller
slipped, refering to the sport he loves
as football, before quickly apologizing.
He knows the term “football” has
a different meaning in the states. He
understands basketball, baseball and
America’s football dominate the sports
landscape. He corrected himself – soccer, he said.
Outside of the United States, an
apology for misusing the term would
not only be unnecessary but would
seem completely outrageous.
For the rest of the world, for Europe, and for Keller’s hometown of
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, soccer
reigns where kings once did.
“Football [soccer] becomes a religion,” Keller explained. “They are so
fanatical about their teams. When they
lose, they have a bad week; when they
win, they have a good week.”
When Keller speaks of football,
he recalls the images of watching
his favorite team play in Barcelona.
He speaks of pure passion and emotion that he cannot put into words
for Americans that have never experienced the revelry of the European
soccer culture.
“Soccer used to be everything in my
life,” Keller said. “When I was younger,
all I wanted to do was become a professional player.”
Using Dayton’s own buzzword,
Keller entered – and somewhat stumbled upon – “a community.”
UD head coach Dennis Currier
read about Keller in a Swiss soccer
news article, noticed a knack for scoring, and began keeping tabs on the
Swiss native. The randomness of the
recruitment, as described by Keller,
eventually manifested itself in an opportunity to play college soccer in the
United States.
After finishing his second year of
school and playing for the University
of Sterling in Scotland, Keller proceeded to train with a professional team in
Croatia. There, he faced an important
decision in his life – sign with a professional team and get a jump start
in pursuing his dreams, or finish his
degree at a school of 8,000 that is miles
away in the midwest of the United
States.
Three years later, both the UD soccer program and Keller are thankful
he chose the latter.
The degree – Keller studies journalism – and life experiences proved more
important for Keller and his family. He
joined Currier and a growing assembly of international players on UD’s
roster.
Keller speaks glowingly of the role
UD soccer has played in molding his
leadership abilities and his time spent
outside the friendly confines of Baujan
Field.
“I still love soccer, but it doesn’t
define my life,” he said. “I love it and
I’m very passionate about it, and I have
given everything for it, but if I lose it,
it’s not going to break my life apart.”
Five years ago, Keller admitted, that
might not have been the case.
During his days with Switzerland’s
youth soccer organizations, his collegiate career in England, and his trials
with a professional team in Croatia,
Keller was under constant pressure to
produce results.
His grandfather played professional
soccer. His father had dreams of playing professional soccer until an unfortunate injury derailed his career.
Keller practiced twice a day.
Fast forward to 2013: Keller values
many different features of his identity.
The game he loves is just one of them.
Faith plays a big part in Keller’s life,
as does his community involvement –
both of which were nurtured by his
experiences at Dayton.
He says thanks to UD’s emphasis on
the student aspect of college athletes,
his coaches ask more of him than just
to perform on the pitch, but perform
he has.
In 2011, Keller gained All-Atlantic
10 Rookie Team honors and during the
2012 season, he finished second on the
team in points with 23.
This year, he is enjoying a breakout
senior campaign.
Keller stands 10th in the nation in
scoring with 1.75 points per game, is
tied for 8th in assists and ranks among
the top 50 nationally with .58 goals per
game.
With a team-leading seven goals and
assists apiece, Keller paces a potent offensive attack for UD that has compiled
a record of 10-0-2 and heads into a decisive A-10 matchup with Saint Louis
University on Saturday, Oct. 19.
While Keller has only seen bits and
pieces of Green Street Hooligans starring Shia LeBeouf, a film that glamorizes Europe’s hooliganism associated
with soccer, he doesn’t see the film as a
complete Hollywood fabrication.
“It was unbelievable,” he said.
“People just fight, whole families and
everything. … Even in a country like
Switzerland.”
He explained how in Europe, the intensity of the sport can take over. It is
90 minutes of singing, of chanting, and
of going crazy.
Naturally, Keller didn’t know what
to expect playing soccer in the United
States. He also didn’t know he would
find Swiss cheese at the local Kroger.
Smiling he admits, “I have no clue
why it’s called Swiss cheese. It doesn’t
taste anything like it.”
Coming from the soccer-crazed continent of Europe, Keller was anything
but underwhelmed with the support
for the soccer team and the professionalism of the coaches and program.
“It [UD soccer] was very professional,” he said. “The whole setup with
coaches and strength and conditioning
... It was all very professional.”
Initially, Keller expected lackluster
fan support in the United States, but
was surprised to find intelligent and
dedicated soccer fans across the Atlantic. He enjoys playing in front of a several thousand, relatively well-behaved
fans, at Baujan field.
“That’s something I love about
America,” Keller said. “You go to a
game and it’s just a good atmosphere.
… I was very impressed with the fan
support [at UD].”
Keller looks to lead the team to a
berth in the Atlantic 10 tournament
that will be hosted by UD from Nov. 13
through Nov. 17. After that though, like
any other college student, his future
remains somewhat unclear.
“I’m very excited about it, for the
next chapter in my life,” he said. “If
the opportunity presents itself, I’d like
to keep playing.”
If soccer doesn’t pan out, however,
Keller knows he will be just fine.
The Department of Global Languages and Cultures
announces
a competition for the
Robert C. Conard Scholarship for Study Abroad
and invites applications from undergraduate students
who have declared or will declare a major or minor in the
Department of Global Languages and Cultures
before the application deadline.
 Up to $5,000 in support for enrollment in a language-immersion,
study-abroad experience at a university or other institution of
higher learning in a non-English speaking country of at least one
semester in duration.
 This applies to study abroad programs during 2014 fall and 2015
spring.
 Student must return to the U.D. campus for at least one semester of
study following the study abroad experience.
 Applicants must have completed foreign language instruction in
the target language through the 202 level or equivalent.
 The language of instruction at the host institution cannot be the
student’s native language.
 Application information can be obtained in the Department of
Global Languages and Cultures office, Humanities Center, Rm.
352.
 Deadline for application: February 3, 2014.
Senior midfielder Abe Keller (14) is introduced with a fan before a game against George Washington University,
Friday, Oct. 11, at Baujan Field. Keller leads the University of Dayton men’s soccer team in points this season,
and has helped his team to a 10-0-2 record. ETHAN KLOSTERMAN/PHOTO EDITOR
 One scholarship granted each academic year.
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Foot b a l l
flyers ready for first night pfl game since ‘04
steven wright
Sports Editor
At the Football Bowl Subdivision level, big games are regularly
placed into late night timeslots for
prime television coverage.
When the University of San Diego travels to Welcome Stadium to
face the University of Dayton football team on Saturday, Oct. 19, at
6 p.m. to continue Pioneer Football
League play, fans will get a local
feel for the big game frenzy.
“When I saw we were playing San
Diego, I went to our administration
and said, ‘I’d like to play a night
game. I really would,’’ head coach
Rick Chamberlin said. “I know the
players, it adds a little energy to the
atmosphere, the charge that comes
from being under the lights. We
contacted San Diego and we were
able to work it out so that we were
going to play a night game.”
Dayton last hosted a night game
on Sept. 25, 2010, against Central
State University, a 45-13 win. Its
last PFL home night contest was
on Sept. 10, 2004, against Morehead
State University in a 28-0 win.
Television contracts and the
need for air time are usual factors
in producing night games on team’s
schedules, which is not something
the PFL has had the need to deal
with over the years. The league typically deters schools from scheduling late games to help avoid schools
traveling back home late.
The time is not the only reason
Saturday is a big game for Dayton.
The Toreros come into Saturday
at 3-0 in the PFL, one of two undefeated squads remaining, along
with Butler University, and are 4-2
overall this season.
“Talent-wise and execution,
size and physical abilities, San Diego has it all,” Chamberlin said.
“We’ve had great battles with
them over the years. I thought last
year’s game was the oddity of the
games that Dayton and San Diego
has played, whether San Diego has
won or Dayton has won, it’s always
a battle.”’
The game Chamberlin referred
to was a 41-9 loss last season on Oct.
27, 2012, in San Diego.
Redshirt senior quarterback Mason Mills threw for over 500 yards
in that game, as USD jumped on
UD with 21 second quarter points,
earning an easy win.
Senior wide receiver Ross Smith
said last year’s game is still fresh in
his teammate’s minds and remembers the feeling from the end of the
game.
“Nobody wants that sour taste
in their mouth,” Smith said. “That
was a long flight home to say the
least. We didn’t play like the way
we ever have. Everybody deserves a
second chance and this year is our
second chance at that and I want
to definitely give it all we have and
show we can compete.”
The passing game should play a
large role again in determining the
outcome this year.
Mills leads USD’s passing attack,
averaging 313 yards per game this
season, the top number in the PFL
and seventh overall at the Football
Championship Subdivision level.
Mills is completing 68 percent of
his passes and has a 14-3 touchdown to interception ratio.
His primary receiving target has
been redshirt junior wide receiver
Reggie Bell, who also leads the PFL
and is seventh at the FCS level with
107 yards receiving per game.
On the other side of the line,
Dayton’s defense ranks sixth
in the FCS in passing efficiency
against, allowing only six passing
touchdowns to eight interceptions
gained.
USD defeated Marist College 3533 at home in its last time out on
Saturday, Oct. 12, on a field goal
as time expired after coming back
twice from 10-plus point deficits.
Chamberlin noted this result
helps his team in the conference
standings, as Marist was also undefeated in PFL entering that game
and now falls back into a tie with
UD.
“San Diego and Butler are the
only two teams now without a conference loss and we’ve got both
of them scheduled ahead of us,”
Chamberlin said. “We have the opportunity to take care of business
from our end and not wait for somebody else to do something.”
Dayton is coming off consecutive
PFL victories, most recently a 49-20
decision over Stetson University on
Saturday in DeLand, Fla., in which
UD jumped out to a 42-7 halftime
lead before going into cruise control.
Redshirt sophomore running
back Connor Kacsor has led UD’s
offensive attack with back-to-back
100-yard rushing performances,
including a 244-yard game against
Davidson University on Oct. 5 at
Welcome Stadium, the second highest single game total in school history.
San Diego will enter the contest
on a nine-game winning streak in
PFL play. Dayton leads the all-time
series 14-6, and wants to put itself
back in the race for the PFL championship, which it has won the last
two seasons where it defeated USD
in 2009 and 2010.
“I know the players are excited,”
Chamberlin said. “The coaches, we
usually don’t want to sit around all
day until we get there, but when
you’re playing a team like San Diego and know what it means to the
crowd, and other things, we want a
big crowd, and we know we get big
crowds at night games and that’s
what we’re looking for, because the
support will be outstanding for us
and we’ll need all the help we can
get playing these Toreros.”
Fans watch a football game between the University of Dayton and Marist University, Sept. 28, at Welcome Stadium. Dayton will host its first PFL night game
since 2004 against the University of San Diego at 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19. The university expects the game to be highly attended as it will kickoff shortly
after the conclusion of the Red-Blue intrasquad scrimmages for the men’s and women’s basketball teams at UD Arena. ETHAN KLOSTERMAN/PHOTO EDITOR
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