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US Kills Osama Bin Laden Decade After 9/11 Attacks
less than 40 minutes. Bin Laden was shot in the head, officials –––––––––––––––––––––––––– said, after he and his bodyguards resisted the assault. WASHINGTON – Osama bin Three adult males were also Laden, the face of global terror- killed in the raid, including one ism and architect of the Sept. of bin Laden’s sons, whom of11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a ficials did not name. One of bin firefight with elite American forces Monday, then quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run. Long believed to be hiding in caves, bin Laden was tracked down in a costly, custom-built hideout not far from a Pakistani military academy. The stunning news of his death prompted relief and euphoria outside the White House and around the globe, yet also deepening fears of terrorist reprisals against the United States Laden’s sons, Hamza, is a senior and its allies. member of al-Qaida. U.S. offi“Justice has been done,” cials also said one woman was President Barack Obama said killed when she was used as a late Sunday from the White shield by a male combatant, and House in an announcement that two other women were injured. seemed sure to lift his own poThe U.S. official who dislitical standing. closed the burial at sea said it The military operation took would have been difficult to mere minutes, and there were no find a country willing to accept U.S. casualties. the remains. Obama said the reU.S. Blackhawk helicopters mains had been handled in acferried about two dozen troops cordance with Islamic custom, from Navy SEAL Team Six, a which requires speedy burial. top military counter-terrorism “I heard a thundering sound, unit, into the compound identi- followed by heavy firing. Then fied by the CIA as bin Laden’s firing suddenly stopped. Then hideout — and back out again in more thundering, then a big By DOZIER & DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS
blast,” said Mohammad Haroon Rasheed, a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, after the choppers had swooped in and then out again. Bin Laden’s death marks a psychological triumph in a long struggle that began well before
one man and one woman.” He went on to say that to fit in with –––––––––––––––––––––––––– this Constitution ideal, the law needed to be refined. In fact, In a state that forbids same- Mark Miner, the spokesperson sex marriage, the year 2009 for Gov. Rick Perry, said giving marked a feat for Texas as a law transgendered people marriage allowing transgendered people rights was never planned and is to use documentation of their working to try to “clarify the unBy LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
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–––––––––––––––––––––––––– BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Southerners turning to their faith to make sense of the devastation left behind by the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S.
Tennessee. The storms that roared across the South last week flattened churches and crushed the homes of pastors and parishioners in a ragged stretch from Mississippi to Virginia. At least 342 people were killed and thousands more hurt.
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history also will be counting on the federal government for help, which Obama Cabinet members assured would come quickly. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured hard-hit neighborhoods of Alabama and Mississippi on Sunday to offer condolences and pledge support. “This is not going to be a quick comeback or an immediate (recovery) but it will be, in my view, a complete one,” she said in shattered Smithville, Miss., where little was left standing. Federal officials already have See BIN LADEN page 5 said several areas are eligible for disaster relief, including 28 counties in Alabama and four in
the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Qaida was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled. “We have rid the world of the most infamous terrorist of our time,” CIA director Leon Panetta declared to employees of the agency in a memo Monday morning. He warned that “terrorists al-
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Storm Survivors Turn to Faith, Federal Government
So on the first Sunday after the disaster, believers streamed into houses of worship to give thanks for being spared, to mourn the dead and ponder impossible questions. Why did some survive without any explanation? Why did others die for no apparent reason? Many people in this highly religious region saw God at work, even amid the devastation. “God just put his big old arms around us,” said Peggy Blevins, 59, of Rainsville, Ala. “I don’t understand why he takes some people and leaves others. But I thank him just the same for pro-
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The 2011 UNH Spring Weekend! All of the cars on North Campus were cleared to make room for –––––––––––––––––––––––––– a variety of awesome carnival rides and games. Spring Weekend is one of From 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., the busiest times of the year for North Campus was absolutely the University of New Haven. packed with people taking adBy ISAAK KIFLE STAFF WRITER
get a massage, get your nails done, receive a caricature of yourself, get served at a tiki bar, jump onto a Velcro wall, sumo wrestle, and much, much more! On top of everything else, there were a variety of enter-
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sexual reassignment to obtain a marriage license was signed into effect by Sen. Tommy Williams and Rep. Lois Kolkhorst. Now, nearly two years after this initial ruling, the same legislators are trying to reverse their decision. When asked about the change, Sen. Williams had this to say: “The Texas Constitution clearly defines marriage between
intended consequences” of that law. In 1999, a state appeals court decision declared that gender is designated at birth and remains a life-long attribute in spite of a sex change. While Kolkhorst has been tightlipped for her part, Sen. Williams insists the intent See RIGHTS page 7
A large reason for this is all of the events that are put on around campus every year at this time. Following the spring concert on Friday, April 29 was the spring carnival on Saturday, April 30.
vantage of everything there was to offer. There was a truck offering brick-oven pizza and another with fried dough. In addition to the rides, there were stuffed animals you could make, you could
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tainers at the carnival to keep people entertained throughout the day. They performed a variety of magic tricks and prop See WEEKEND page 7
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USGA President’s Corner Fellow UNH students, I would like to say congrats to all of the members of SCOPE for planning a wonderful spring weekend. I hope everyone had a great weekend and had time to relax. Great job to everyone who had a part in making this weekend such a success; it couldn’t have been done without you. I wish you all the best of luck with finals. Make sure you work hard and give it one last push before the summer. I want to thank you for your support this year, and I cannot wait to start another year as your USGA President. I will be around all summer working for orientation and getting ready for next year. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail, call or stop by the office. For the seniors who are moving on from UNH, I wish you the best of luck wherever life may take you. Thank you all for being my classmates, my friends, and helping me to have the best four years of my life. I hope everyone has a wonderful summer and continues to have happy and healthy lives! Find Happiness in everything you do. Scott Kazar USGA President USGAPresident@newhaven.edu
Want to get involved with the Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA)? Next year’s meetings will be on Tuesdays at 1:40 p.m. We hope to see you there!
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SCOPE It Out!
by Michelle Morra
It has been a great semester, and it is extremely depressing to know that this is the last “SCOPE It Out” article of the semester. Every committee has put on great events, and they all led up to the best event of all: Spring Weekend! There was the concert, then carnival, then comedian, and finally the drive in movie, and those were just the events that SCOPE put on. It was three days packed full of fun. On Friday, the Spring Concert shook the entire Charger Gymnasium. Rock-it Scientists, who were the DJs for the night, opened up with some audience favorites and gave them a twist; they played in between bands all night and kept the party going. Then David Nail came on and sang some new songs, but of course sang his number one hits “Red Light” and “Turning Home.” Far East Movement also put on a good show; there was even a giant monkey dancing on stage. And We the Kings put on a great finale to end the night. They had everybody on their feet dancing and singing and enjoying a great show. All the bands put on a great show and all the students and their friends had a great time. Then on Saturday, Halloween and Spring Carnival Committee had their major event of this semester: Spring Carnival. The theme they picked this year was “Under the Sea.” and they had some great activities to go along with it. There were sea creatures that you could stuff yourself, a mechanical shark, tiki bar, and the biggest one of all a tortoise. Not only were there activities, but great shows to go with them. The Balloon Freak put on a great magician and balloon show; he even put himself in a balloon! And then Fly by Night brought a whole bunch of talent and put on a great show. There was Brian Rudo who got out of two straight jackets, and Juggle This that juggled knives right over the partners face. Besides the shows and the activities, there was some great food. Fried dough, potatoes on a stick, waffles, fried Oreos, and a pizza truck just to name a few. Everything was amazing; it was a great day with great weather, and everyone had fun. That night right after the Spring Carnival, there was the Spring Comedian: Ralphie May! Not even a minute had passed after ending the Carnival and there were there students standing in line waiting for the doors to open for Ralphie. For the first two hundred and fifty students, Comedy and Lecture committee gave away free blankets. Before Ralphie went on to make everyone laugh, Danny Lobell opened and got everyone ready. He had a great response; everyone was laughing to the point where they couldn’t breathe. Then as Danny walked off the stage, everyone was at the edge of their seats waiting for the big guy. If you thought that Danny made everyone laugh real hard, Ralphie was making students cry because they were laughing so much. It was a great show, a great end to the day, and just a good time. After a long two days, SCOPE took a breather and put on a relaxing Drive-In Movie in the Quad. On Sunday, Just Go with It was playing in the Quad to calm everyone down from such a fun filled weekend. There was food and giveaways, and we gave away SCOPE pillows to go with those awesome blankets. It was a hilarious movie starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston; the combo was dynamic! It was a great way to end the weekend. This weekend is always one of the most fun and the biggest event SCOPE puts on all year, but every single event this year was great. We all work really hard to bring fun to campus, and we have had some great responses. So from all of us at SCOPE, thank you for another great year. We can’t wait for next year!
Health and Fitness My First 5K
by Melanie Rovinsky
Although I have been running for quite some time, I did not participate in my first race until this past March. After playing soccer my entire life, when I came to college, I was simply looking for a way to stay fit that would not involve the pressure of competitive sports. However, the more I ran, the more competitive I became… with myself. Finally, I worked up the courage to sign up for a 5K, and it was one of the most positive experiences of my life. Change Your Pace When all you are doing is running, it is easy to get in a rut. Signing up for a 5K gave me the extra push I needed to kick my workout into a higher gear. I had been putting in a little over five miles every morning at almost the exact same time. Suddenly, I was finishing my runs faster, and I found that I was more motivated to improve my speed. I set a goal time for myself, and because I loathe failure, I was determined not to cross the finish line a second later. Get Nervous By nature, I am a chronic-worrier, so you can imagine what my nerves were like on the week leading up to the race. If I had not been so worried about finishing slowly, I definitely would not have put in the extra work to ensure that that would not happen. I purposely signed up for a 5K (3.1 miles) because it was significantly shorter than the distances I was used to running. However, I worried that the course would be hilly and my short legs would tire quickly. To compensate, I pushed the incline on the treadmill to 10 and ran hills outside in my neighborhood. I also enlisted a friend to run with me, so I would have someone next to me when the race began. Take It All In Arriving in downtown New Haven with the 2,000 other participants was thrilling (and nerve-wrecking at the same time). As I watched all of the different runners, I couldn’t help but feel like I was taking part in something bigger than myself. Not only was everyone there to support a great cause, but all of these people were there to take a step towards a healthier and more active lifestyle. As it neared the start of the race, everyone gathered at the starting point. I found myself surrounded by men and women, children and senior citizens, marathon runners, and recreational walkers – all walks of life. When the official announced that the course was “pancake flat,” all 2,000 of us cheered in unison. Boost Your Confidence When the gun went off, something inside of me did too. My legs felt weightless, my lungs felt clear, and my mind felt relaxed. I started running at my comfortable pace but realized I could go faster. When I reached the first mile marker in less than eight minutes, I decided to throw out my previously made goal and reach for a new one. The crowd lining the streets encouraged me to move faster, and the lone man standing about a half-mile before the finish line seemed as if he were clapping and shouting just for me. I passed a lot of people that day, but as fast as I ran, I could not seem to catch up with the eight-year-old in front of me. He caused me to keep pushing myself. I was the 356th person out of 2,000 to cross the finish line, and I finished in 23 minutes and 54 seconds– more than three minutes under my original goal! Challenge Yourself Getting fit is all about having fun and feeling good about yourself. Maybe a 5K isn’t for you, but there are so many different ways to expand your fitness horizons! Set goals for yourself, work until you physically cannot work any harder, and I promise, you will be happy you did. Have a safe and active summer!
Did You Know? by Joann Wolwowicz
A Royal Wedding
They Royal Wedding has come and gone, and I don’t know about all of you, but I got up at 5:00 a.m. just to watch it. But today’s Did You Know is not about the most recent Royal Wedding that occurred. In fact, it’s about the one wedding that was called the “wedding of the century” that took place on July 29, 1981 at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Any guesses as to which wedding I might be referring to? The wedding of Lady Diana Frances Spencer to Charles, Prince of Wales was clearly the wedding to beat with this current spectacle that had the whole world obsessed.
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Having been seeing each other for about six months, Charles proposed to Diana on February 3, 1981, at a dinner for two at Buckingham Palace. Roughly six months later, they were married by the Archbishop of Canterbury and twenty-five other clerics of other religions. The church service, however, was a traditional Church of England wedding service. 3,500 people were in attendance in the congregation of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Add that to the other 750 million people that watch the ceremony worldwide and the radio audience, a billion people were said to have been involved. Two million spectators lined the route of the procession from Clarence House, with 4,000 police and 2,200 military officers to manage the excited crowds. Arriving in a glass coach, escorted by five military police, and dressed in a wedding dress with a 25-foot train, Diana was ready to meet her prince charming at the altar. Charles wore his full dress naval commander uniform. Lady Diana was twenty years old at the time, while Charles was thirty-two years old. After the hour and a half long ceremony, the couple went to Buckingham palace for a small dinner for 120 select individuals. Before the dinner however, as per tradition, the royal couple appeared on the balcony, starting the famous tradition of pleasing the crowd with a kiss. This fairytale wedding was labeled as the most watched event on television. Millions of people witnessed Diana reverse the order of Charles’ two first names. Additionally, Diana refused to use the word obey in the phrase obey him; the phrase was consequently left out at the couple’s request. Traditions that started at this particular Royal Wedding were carried on into this wedding thirty years later. Crowd favorites, such as the procession and the balcony kiss are now integrated elements that the world expects to see. However, with a new generation come new ideas. Other traditions, such as the riding in glass carriages to the church, were scraped in order to show the English people that the Royal Family can adjust to the modern world and the suffering economy. I don’t know about the rest of you, but for those of us who managed to get up that early to see a part of history in the making, I was quite impressed with what I saw. It isn’t every day something like this happens, and since the last time a wedding of this magnitude was thirty years ago, I decided that it was a good chance to see what I missed last time.
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Another Great Year
By Jakki Gouveia
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, IFSC
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Hey all! This is Jakki, your Inter Fraternity Sorority Council executive assistant. I just wanted to give you all an update on the great things that Greek life has been doing. A couple of weeks ago, we had our “Supergreek” Greek week. Within that week, Greek life held three community service events, which is something we’ve never done before. We held penny wars all throughout the week, and the organization who collected the most pennies at the end won all the money from the week for their philanthropy. The winning organization for penny wars was Sigma Iota Alpha, who received $781.61 and donated it to the March of Dimes Foundation. We want to say thank you to all of those who helped out by donating to the organizations; it was greatly appreciated. Our next event was canstruction, an event in which we held a canned food drive in the surrounding area of
Milford. With the help of Trader Joe’s, we were able to drop off about 600 bags. Our final count of food was 697 pounds, which was donated to the Connecticut Food Bank. Our last community service event for the week was a frozen clothes race, in which the clothes used were donated to Goodwill. We hope in the future to see all of you come out and support us during Greek week. Within the past couple of weeks, some great events had been held by various organizations. We hope that you were able to show your support for Delta Phi Epsilon’s ANAD Week and Lambda Alpha Upsilon’s American Idol, Deal or No Deal, and Lambda Wet Down Events. Also, we hope that you enjoyed Delta Chi’s Pudding Tug of War and were able to stay clean, and we hope to see you at their last blood drive of the semester. Lastly, thank you for your support with Sigma Alpha Epsilons World Cup Tournament, Sigma Chi’s pledge class’s Pig Roast Fundraiser, and Phi Sigma Sigma’s Spring
2011 new member’s fundraiser for the Pacer Foundation. Next year, we hope to see even more events; we hope you all come out! With the end of the year coming up, IFSC held elections for their new executive board for the 2011-2012 school year. We would like to say congratulations to Walter Cantarero from Delta Chi for his new president position, Tori Ford from Delta Phi Epsilon for her vice president position, Alexa Mutt from Delta Epsilon Beta for her executive assistant position, Chris Erath from Delta Chi for his re-election as treasurer, and Aaron Colon from Sigma Chi for his sergeant at arms position. Good luck next year everyone; we know you will do a fabulous job with Greek life. Lastly, we would like to say congratulations to all of the newly elected sweethearts, and good luck to all of those graduating seniors! It’s been a great year; thanks for all of your support and we hope you decide to join Greek life next year!
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Obama Mocks Trump’s Presidential Ambitions
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama exacted his revenge Saturday after weeks of attacks from his would-be Republican challenger Donald Trump, joking that the billionaire businessman could bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden. With Trump in attendance, Obama used the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner to mock the reality TV star’s presidential ambitions. The president said Trump has shown the acumen of a future president, from firing Gary Busey on a recent episode of “Celebrity Apprentice” to focusing so much time on conspiracy theories about Obama’s birthplace. After a week when Obama released his longform Hawaii birth certificate, he said Trump could now focus on the serious issues, from whether the moon landing actually happened to “where are Biggie and Tupac?” “No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than ‘the Donald,’” Obama said, referring to Trump’s claims
the same day that he was responsible for solving the issue. For Trump’s decision to fire actor Busey instead of rock singer Meat Loaf from his TV show earlier this month, Obama quipped: “These are the types of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir.” And then, as a coup de grace, Obama showed a screen with his vision of how Trump could bring change to the White House. “Trump” was prominently displayed in glittery letters and girls could be seen with cocktails on a Jacuzzi-augmented front lawn. Trump chuckled at some of the earlier jokes, but was clearly less amused as comedian Seth Meyers picked up where Obama left off. “Donald Trump often talks about running as a Republican, which is surprising,” said the Saturday Night Live actor, entrusted with providing some of the comedy for the evening. “I just assumed he was running as a joke.” Trump stared icily at Meyers as he continued to criticize the real estate tycoon. Obama and Trump found themselves in the same room after an intense week of attacks from Trump, who has pig-
As Illinois National Guard troops went door to ––––––––––––––––––––– door with local law officers to enforce the mayor’s CAIRO, Ill. – With fed- “mandatory” evacuation eral courts opting not to order the previous night, step in, the Army Corps those who were allowed to of Engineers has begun stay — a courtesy extendpumping explosives into a ed only to adults — did so Missouri levee as it weighs at their own peril, signing whether to blast it open to waivers acknowledging ease inland floodwaters they understood the risk. and spare an Illinois town A few hours later, Maj. where most residents were Gen. Michael Walsh, the forced to scurry from a corps officer who ultiriver still rising to record mately will decide the leheights. vee’s fate, ordered crews U.S. Supreme Court to move barges to the MisJustice Samuel Alito, souri side of the river and without explaining his begin loading pipes emdecision, rejected Mis- bedded in the levee with souri’s latest and perhaps explosives in anticipation final attempt to block the of blowing up a two-mile corps from intentionally section just downriver breaching the Birds Point from Cairo. levee to ease pressure and Insisting no decision reduce water levels along on the levee’s fate had the swollen Mississippi been made, Walsh said it and Ohio rivers. The levee would take 20 hours to get lies on the Mississippi, just the pipes filled — time he downriver from where it would spend observing the merges with the Ohio near rivers’ rise and the rainfall, the small city of Cairo. which continued pounding The ruling by Alito, the region into early Monwho handles emergency day. requests from Missouri The Ohio, as of early and various other Midwest Monday, had risen to 60.58 states, came the same day feet at Cairo — eclipsing all but 20 to 30 families in the 1937 record there of 2,800-resident Cairo were 59.5 feet. The river was ordered out of the city and expected to crest Tuesday away from the Ohio, which at 61.5 feet and stay there eclipsed its 74-year-old re- for at least into Friday, cord height was expected raising the corps’ concerns to rise further. See LEVEE page 7 ASSOCIATED PRESS
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gybacked on the birther conspiracies and even Obama’s refusal to release his university grades to raise the profile of his possible presidential bid. And the birth certificate was clearly the key punchline for the evening, which typically offers the president a chance to show off his humorous side and a town consumed by politics and partisanship to enjoy a light-hearted affair. Obama’s presentation started after the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s patriotic anthem, “Real American,” played. Images of Americana from Mount Rushmore to Uncle Sam were shown on the screen, alongside his birth certificate. And then he offered to show his live birth video, which turned out to be a clip from the Disney film, “The Lion King.” On the serious side, Obama took time to thank the troops for their service overseas and noted that the people of the South, especially Alabama, have suffered heart-wrenching losses. “The devastation is unbelievable and it is heartbreaking,” he said. He encouraged the journalists in the room to help tell the stories of those who have been hurt by the storms and saluted those who lost their lives while covering
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Trove of Historic Records of Holocaust Goes Online
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR & RANDY HERSCHAFT ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK – A trove of papers and photographs documenting the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors includes notable names like Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. But Benzion Baumrind’s name might have stayed forgotten to his descendants without the records kept by a humanitarian aid agency. A genealogist discovered Baumrind, one of 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust, was in her family with one stray document buried in a database of historic papers and photos kept by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. With over 500,000 names, and more than 1,000 photographs, the searchable collection documents the relief organization’s vast efforts during World War II and the postwar era in 24 countries, from China and Japan to the Dominican Republic and Bolivia. The records, being made available online for the first time on
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most certainly will attempt to avenge” the killing of a man deemed uncatchable. “Bin Laden is dead. AlQaida is not,” Panetta said. Retaliatory attacks against the U.S. and Western targets could come from members of al-Qaida’s core branch in the tribal areas of Pakistan, alQaida franchises in other countries, and radicalized individuals in the U.S. with al-Qaida sympathies, according to a Homeland Security Department intelligence alert issued Sunday and obtained by The Associated Press. While the intelligence community does not have insight into current al-Qaida plotting, the department believes symbolic, economic and transportation targets could be at risk, and small arms attacks against other targets can’t be ruled out. In all, nearly 3,000 were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks nearly 10 years ago, the worst terror assault on American soil. As news of bin Laden’s death spread, hundreds of people cheered and waved American flags at ground zero in New York, the site where al-Qaida hijacked jets toppled the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Thousands cele-
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Monday, open a singular view into the lives of survivors that the JDC aided during that cataclysmic period. “We can get broader pictures of the actual everyday social life in the aftermath of war,” Kenneth Waltzer, director of the Jewish Studies Department at Michigan State University, said of the collection. Until now, the organization’s archive has been largely inaccessible to the public, kept at a private storage warehouse located a short subway ride out of Manhattan. Volunteers entered names in a database for over a year; rare, fragile documents were scanned into the computer system. Users of the site can submit names to identify people they recognize in the photographs, which may be later added to captions. “A website like this is where history meets technology,” said Gideon Taylor, an executive with the New York-based committee. “It’s taking history out of the dusty files... And bringing it out into the community.”
The committee plans to put even more documents from its archive online later this summer. The project is one of a growing number around the world aimed at making
style of the hippie 1960s. “Looking back, it’s amazing that people had the will to organize, to create organizations to help people who fled other countries and were in dire need,” said Max, who was 6 months old when his family, the Finkelsteins, fled Berlin, and found safe haven in Shanghai, where the JDC also had a relief operation. For Linda Cantor, the past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York and a volunteer who helped put the names online, the colAP PHOTO lection helped her find available on the Internet Paris by the coma relative she never primary records about the mittee in 1945. Also on the knew about. Holocaust. list: a future Chief Rabbi A researcher with 30 “It is a world phenom- of Israel and one of the years of experience in enon that’s launched by youngest surviving prison- genealogy, even she was the technology,” said Da- ers of Buchenwald, Israel surprised when she came vid M. Kleiman, president Meir Lau, who was 7 years across a document that of Heritage Muse Inc., a old when he was liberated. connected her to BaumNew York-based genealBegin, the future Israeli rind, who lived in the Pology technology firm. prime minister, is named ish town where her family The collection offers on a list of 9,000 Polish was from. glimpses of the lives of Jewish refugees receiving That document, a list children who survived the the agency’s aid in Vilna, of Polish Jews expelled Holocaust to become mor- Lithuania, in 1940. by the Nazi German goval and spiritual leaders, Another person named ernment and living in the politicians and artists. in the files is Peter Max, border town of Zbaszyn, There was the 16-year- the famed New York art- Poland, between 1938 old teenager who would ist whose cosmic-colored and 1939, showed that become an author and works became a signature her great-aunt was named
as Baumrind’s contact in the United States. It was a tantalizing clue that would help her document him as a cousin. “My discovery allowed him to have a place in somebody’s memory,” she said. The committee, commonly known as the Joint, was founded in 1914 to help Jews in need in warravaged Europe and Palestine. During World War II, it provided assistance to refugees from Lithuania to Japan and helped Jews escape Europe, including by booking them on ships headed for the Americas. Claus Hirsch, 76, of New York, fled Berlin with his parents and brother and found asylum in Shanghai and had to rely on the Joint for hot meals. As a volunteer, going over lists of names and keying them into the database, it has been an emotional experience. “It’s nice to see a name on a list,” he said, before he began to weep. “I saw names of people I had known years ago. And I hadn’t thought about them in 30 or 40 years.”
brated all night outside the White House gates. As dawn came the crowd had thinned yet some still flowed in to be a part of it. A couple of people posed for photographs in front of the White House while holding up front pages of Monday’s newspapers announcing bin Laden’s death. “It’s a moment people have been waiting for,” said, Eric Sauter, 22, a University of Delaware student who drove to Washington after seeing TV coverage of the celebrations. The development seems certain to give Obama a political lift as the nation swelled in pride. Even Republican critics lauded him. But its ultimate impact on al-Qaida is less clear. The greatest terrorist threat to the U.S. is now considered to be the alQaida franchise in Yemen, far from al-Qaida’s core in Pakistan. The Yemen branch almost took down a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas 2009 and nearly detonated explosives aboard two U.S. cargo planes last fall. Those operations were carried out without any direct involvement from bin Laden. The few fiery minutes in Abbottabad followed
years in which U.S. officials struggled to piece together clues that ultimately led to bin Laden, according to an account provided by senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the operation. Based on statements given by U.S. detainees since the 9/11 attacks, they said, intelligence officials have long known that bin Laden trusted one al-Qaida courier in particular, and they believed he might be living with him in hiding. Four years ago, the United States learned the man’s identity, which officials did not disclose, and then about two years later, they identified areas of Pakistan where he operated. Last August, the man’s residence was found, officials said. “Intelligence analysis concluded that this compound was custom built in 2005 to hide someone of significance,” with walls as high as 18 feet and topped by barbed wire, according to one official. Despite the compound’s estimated $1 million cost and two security gates, it had no phone or Internet running into the house. By mid-February, intelligence from multiple sources was clear enough
in a city that is home to three army regiments and thousands of military personnel. Abbottabad is surrounded by hills and with mountains in the distance. Critics have long accused elements of Pakistan’s security establishment of protecting bin Laden, though Islamabad has always denied it, and in a statement the foreign ministry said his death showed the country’s resolve in the battle against terrorism. Still, bin Laden’s location raised pointed questions of whether Pakistani authorities knew the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted man. Whatever the global repercussions, bin Laden’s death marked the end to a manhunt that consumed most of a decade that began in the grim hours after bin Laden’s hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center twin towers in Manhattan and the Pentagon across the Potomac River from Washington. A fourth plane was commandeered by passengers who overcame the hijackers and forced the plane to crash in the Pennsylvania countryside.
one of the world’s most esteemed humanitarians — Wiesel — listed on a document naming 426 orphaned boys from the Buchenwald concentration camp who were taken to
US Kills Osama Bin Laden Decade After 9/11 that Obama wanted to “pursue an aggressive course of action,” a senior administration official said. Over the next two and a half months, the president led five meetings of the National Security Council focused solely on whether bin Laden was in that compound and, if so, how to get him, the official said. Obama made a decision to launch the operation on Friday, shortly before flying to Alabama to inspect tornado damage, and aides set to work on the details. The president spent part of his Sunday on the golf course, but cut his round short to return to the White House for a meeting where he and top national security aides reviewed final preparations for the raid. Two hours later, Obama was told that bin Laden had been tentatively identified. Bin Laden was positively identified through “multiple methods,” a senior Pentagon official said Monday, adding that he had personally seen a photo of the corpse. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record, declined to say what other methods were used. The remains were taken
to a U.S. warship, but the official declined to say which one and where the ship was. Panetta was directly in charge of the military team during the operation, according to one official, and when he and his aides received word at agency headquarters that bin Laden had been killed, cheers broke out around the conference room table. Administration aides said the operation was so secretive that no foreign officials were informed in advance, and only a small circle inside the U.S. government was aware of what was unfolding half a world away. In his announcement, Obama said he had called Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after the raid, and said it was “important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding.” One senior administration told reporters, though, “we were very concerned ... that he was inside Pakistan, but this is something we’re going to continue to work with the Pakistani government on.” The compound is about a half-mile from a Pakistani military academy,
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Police Presence Beefed Up at NY Airports, WTC Site
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NEW YORK – Law enforcement agencies around the U.S. added security measures on Monday following Osama bin Laden’s death, out of what one called “an abundance of caution.” In Los Angeles, police were stepping up intelligence monitoring, while New York was sending extra police to its subways, airports, bridges and the World Trade Center site itself. Judy Banez, a nurse who commutes to New York City from Pennsylvania and lived in Queens on
9/11, said she was happy bin Laden was killed and had no problem with the added security at New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal. “We’re being vigilant and we can now go on with our lives,” she said. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it will add more police at the facilities it runs, which include the airports, the George Washington Bridge and ground zero. “This response is not based on a current threat, but out of an abun-
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Eighty-four Port Authority employees died in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Wa s h i n g t o n ’ s Metro transit system also stepped up security. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly issued a message to all police commands reminding them that while there’s no information indicating a specific threat to the nation’s biggest city, officers should remain alert. He directed that AP PHOTO the midnight tour in the subway system be
held over into the morning rush-hour. The head of the House Homeland Security Committee said the U.S. must temper victory with vigilance in the wake of bin Laden’s assassination. Rep. Peter King told NBC’s “Today” show the al-Qaida terrorist organization could “try to avenge this death” and said “we’ll have to be on full alert.” King also said there will be “round-the-clock” government surveillance to determine if al-Qaida is planning or organizing a retaliatory attack. He said federal agencies will be trying to find out if an attack is possible or imminent, “and how we can
prevent it.” In Los Angeles, a top counterterrorism commander said police will be stepping up intelligence monitoring. Assistant Commanding Officer Blake Chow, who heads the department’s counterterrorism and special operations bureau, said Sunday night that officers will be keeping a close ear on intelligence buzz to develop immediate response plans accordingly. Police in Philadelphia were on heightened alert, checking on mosques and synagogues and stepping up patrols at transportation hubs and historic places, Lt. Raymond J. Evers said.
dinner pay for journalism the news. scholarships for college Other possible Repub- students. lican presidential hopefuls Several journalists will in attendance were former also be honored at the dinUtah Gov. Jon Huntsman, ner: Rep. Michele Bachmann • Dan Balz of The and former House Speaker Washington Post and Jake Newt Gingrich. And stars Tapper of ABC News, for such as Sean Penn and winning the Merriman Scarlett Johansson also Smith Award for presidenwere among the more than tial coverage under dead2,500 people who attend- line pressure. Balz won for ed. coverage of an unexpected The association was appearance by Obama formed in 1914 as a liaison and former President Bill between the press and the Clinton at a White House president. Every president briefing, and Tapper won since Calvin Coolidge has for revealing that Obama attended the dinner. Some would ask Director of Naof the proceeds from the tional Intelligence Dennis
Blair to resign. • Peter Baker of The New York Times, for winning the Aldo Beckman award for sustained excellence in White House coverage, for stories dubbed “the education of a president.” • Michael Berens of The Seattle Times, for winning the Edgar A. Poe Award for excellence in coverage of news of national or regional significance. Berens uncovered flaws in a health care plan for seniors that resulted in neglect, abuse and even death.
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NASA Says No New Launch Attempt Before Next Sunday
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's space shuttles are dragging their tails toward retirement. The high-profile voyage of Endeavour — the next-to-last space shuttle flight led by the husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — is off until at least next Sunday because of a technical problem. The latest culprit, believed to be a bad fuse box, illustrates just how complex these space machines are and why NASA's goodbye to the 30-year shuttle procon’t from page 1
tecting us.” When the storm drew near, she and her family hid in a hallway of their house. She believes they survived only because some trees fell on the house, pinning it down and preventing the tornado from hurling it through the air. “To some people it might sound cold, but God does have a plan,” Blevins said. “I know I sound like one of those Southern Baptists, but I am.” In most small towns around here, churches serve as community centers, town halls and gymnasiums. Besides Sunday services, they host Boy Scout troop meetings, neighborhood voting, bake sales, basketball games and Wednesday night prayer meetings. Some churches were
gram may be a long one. Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates quickly headed back to Houston on Sunday morning, two days after their first launch attempt was foiled. Giffords wasn't far behind; she was in Houston by midafternoon, ready to resume rehab at the hospital where she's been undergoing treatment since January, after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt. She had arrived in Florida Wednesday to take part in the excitement of the launch countdown and to see her husband blast off. It was not immediate-
ly known if she would be back for a second try. Her presence added to the drama surrounding Endeavour's liftoff. So did that of President Barack Obama and his family. They were disappointed not to see a launch on Friday, but still dropped by for a tour at Kennedy Space Center anyway. Obama hinted he might make a return visit to see the very last shuttle launch this summer. The tip-off that Endeavour had a problem was the failure of heaters that are crucial for keeping a fuel line from freezing in space. The launch was
called off Friday as the astronauts headed to the pad to board the shuttle. NASA has now traced the problem to the switch box. Over the decades, space shuttles have encountered all sorts of technical problems, from nose to tail, that have held up launches. So have problems with their tanks and booster rockets. Fuel leaks. Engine shutdowns. Wiring problems. Stuck valves. Burst hoses. Turbine failures. Hail damage, even woodpecker holes in the insulating foam of fuel tanks. The list goes on — no surprise given the estimated 1 million parts per
shuttle and 2.5 million parts when you throw in the giant fuel tank and two boosters. Discovery sat out launch for four months before making its final mission in February. It was grounded by a cracked fuel tank. Now it's Endeavour's turn to stall. "It is kind of funny. It's almost like they don't want to give up," launch director Mike Leinbach said Sunday. "But it's just coincidence." Taking out the suspect switch box in Endeavour's engine compartment and putting in a new one is relatively straightforward,
Leinbach said. But two full days of testing will be needed — on multiple systems associated with the box. The heaters that remained off Friday are crucial for keeping a hydrazine fuel line from freezing in space, which, in turn, could lead to a rupture and even a fire once the shuttle is back in the atmosphere. The hydrazine feeds the devices that provide hydraulic power to move the main engine at liftoff and the brakes and rudder during landing. Mike Moses, chairman of the mission manage-
wiped out. Some of those left standing have become headquarters for rebuilding. American Christian Academy, a private school in Tuscaloosa, hosted a service at a football stadium within walking distance of neighborhoods where several churches were wiped out. The school distributed food, clothes, Bibles and other supplies to residents who came to worship. “We’re hoping to feed them and give them some spiritual food,” said Rob Cain, the school’s athletic director and campus pastor. Lisa Thompson, 37, her fiance and her daughter came to the service because they don’t know if their church, College Hill Baptist Church, survived. They haven’t made it past the police checkpoints that have sealed off the area.
“My faith is stronger now than ever,” she said. “I know God will test you, but it can’t be nothing but stronger.” Thompson, whose home in a different part of Tuscaloosa was destroyed by the tornado, said she has found strength in the help that her family has received from volunteers who flocked to the city after the storm. She hoped to volunteer her own time at the school. “I had to do something,” she said. “How can I not? We’re still here.” Disaster-relief groups from various denominations were quick to arrive in shattered neighborhoods. For Macolee Muhammed, the first volunteer who emerged was Dustin Casey from Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. Muhammed accepted the prayer of a relief work-
er who stopped by what was left of her Birmingham home. It didn’t matter that she was Muslim and he was a Southern Baptist. The 61-year-old was full of worries: Were the power lines strewn around the neighborhood live? Can the federal government help her? She told Casey she hoped she wasn’t going insane. “I haven’t slept since April 27th,” she said. Casey assured her that her reaction was normal for the circumstances. “There is hope,” Casey said. “One day at a time is what you’re going to have to do. This is a life-changing experience.” Muhammed said she had no job or insurance for her house: “For me to start all over, it would be like me being a hobo.” Casey suggested they pray, and Muhammed
agreed. Casey thanked God for sparing her life and prayed she would be given hope and see “there is a light at the end of the tunnel.” “Amen,” Muhammed said. On a day when many turned to their spiritual leaders for comfort, 100 worshippers, friends and relatives prayed beside the caskets of East View Chapel Church pastor Rev. Bob Raper and his wife, Mary “Sis” Hullander Raper. The couple was killed in Apison, Tenn., when a tornado wiped out their mobile home. “You never know what a week may bring, so be sure you have your priorities where they ought to be,” said Rev. Bob Dasal at the funeral. “If there’s someone I want to say ‘I love you’ to, tell them. ... Don’t hesitate, don’t wait.
Value what you have been blessed with.” Poplar Springs Baptist Church in Ringgold, Ga., has been transformed into an informal help center, dispatching volunteer chain saw crews to saw down trees, handing out bottled water and feeding people who are without food and electricity. Pastor Chris Petty said church members started to understand the destruction as they sent members to assist widows in the congregation after the storm. “We just showed up at the church and started putting things together and sending people out and saying, `What do you need?’” said Petty, who had just guided a tractortrailer carrying bottled water into the church parking lot.
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Idaho Miner’s Body Recovered Nine Days after Cave-In
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In Salmon, Idaho, a silver miner’s body was recovered on Sunday in a cave, more than a mile underground. Mine company executives have reached the conclusion that it was an unexplained cave-in. The body belonged to fifty-three-year-old Larry Marek.
The president of the mine company sent out a video message after the collapse, expressing his hope that the veteran miner might have miraculously survived the April 15 mine collapse. The president of the company had search teams make advanced searches through the caves, as deep as two hundred and twenty-feet to locate the miner. Hecia executive, Mela-
nie Hennessey explained, “We are heartbroken to report that we now believe Larry was under the fall of ground when it occurred and is deceased. Words cannot express the deep sorrow we feel at the tragic loss of our friend, colleague, and 30year veteran of the mining industry. Marek was presumed dead, and his remains were later found and brought to the surface.
Hennesset also stated that “the company will begin our in-depth investigation to discover how and why this happened.” Reports show that Larry Marek had not been in contact with anyone he was in the underground tunnel with his brother, who was the only one of the two to survive the collapse. Known as heroic silver minor, Marek’s death was an unfortunate
turn of events. The collapse occurred in one of several communities in a historic Idaho mining district, known as the Silver Valley. This valley was disposed to impulsive rifts of rock (rock bursts). These rock bursts triggered the cavein. Cave-ins are the single most dangerous threats that minors face alone when mining. The Lucky Friday Cave is known as
one of the deepest mines in North America, at approximately six thousand one hundred and fifty feet deep. With this recent collapse and fatality, it is obvious that the danger of these types of caves should not be taken lightly.
the Transgender Education behind the law change is Network of Texas said. In to try to assess and offset addition, they maintain the 2009 law with the 1999 that if this law is approved, appeals court ruling and it will not only put a stop ease the process of mar- to future transgendered riage licensing for county marriages but also void and district clerks. any current marriages. BeAs for advocates of cause a court order holds transgender marriage such immense power, lerights, they have cited the gal disputes could threaten Texas proposition as un- the validity of the marfair and discriminatory. riage without the court ac“We want to be recog- knowledging sexual reasnized as people. We want signment. The same holds to have the same rights as true despite transgendered all of you,” Lisa Scheps of people still being able to
obtain marriage licenses using other state and federally-issued documents. Though the law change has yet to be sanctioned, Shannon Minter, an attorney for the national Transgender Law and Policy Institute, is just one of many people hoping for a move forward: “It would be terrible for Texas, now that it finally caught up with the rest of the country, to take a step back.”
welled. Cairo and the rest of Alexander County can ill afford major flooding. The area’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at about 12 percent in March, 3 percent higher than the state average. Several of the county’s sheriff’s cruisers were repossessed in recent years because it hadn’t paid its bills. Cairo served as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters early in the Civil War and became a hub of commerce thanks to rails and the rivers, growing to 15,200 residents by the 1920s. But air travel un-
would have been overflowing that time of day were shuttered. Saturated ground had given way under some streets, in one case leaving a crater about 8 feet deep near another stretch of buckled road. “Like any situation of this magnitude, it’s going to hopefully endear people to each other,” Police Chief Gary Hankins said. “Hopefully, this will prove our worth as far as coming together as a community.”
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about the strain the water was putting on the levee in Cairo and other cities. Cairo’s floodwall can handle 64 feet. The corps said breaching the Birds Point levee would provide would take pressure off Cairo’s floodwall and other levees father south along the Mississippi. But the plan could inundate 130,000 acres of farmland in Missouri’s agriculture-reliant Mississippi County. Missouri officials contend that would crush that region’s economy and environment by rendering that cropland
useless under potentially feet of sand and silt. Given the record water levels, “this is a dramatic, once or twice in a lifetime kind of occurrence” for the region, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said after touring the levee Sunday with Walsh. “We understand the general and his team have difficult decisions to make.” Just 17 miles from Cairo, near tiny Olive Branch, Janice Bigham watched as her husband and volunteers desperately scrambled to heighten the sandbag wall that made their ranch-style home an oasis from the swampy, snake-
ridden floodwaters that already had swallowed up many nearby homes and outbuildings that lacked such defenses. “All we can do is hope and pray that they blow that levee,” said Bigham, 40. “That’s the only thing that might take the pressure off; otherwise, the water will be over the road and wipe out Olive Branch.” Bigham said her grayand-white brick home needed to be saved, because her late father helped build it. “That’s all I have left of him,” she said before turning away briefly, her chin trembling as tears
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ment team, said next Sunday is the earliest possible launch date. "There's still a whole lot of short-term work that has to be done," he told reporters. This will be the last voyage into orbit for Endeavour, NASA's youngest shuttle. NASA officials have stressed repeatedly that they will not ease up on any launch rules, even as the shuttle program winds down. Extra precautions were put in place after the 1986 Challenger launch accident and the 2003 Columbia disaster. A total of 14 astronauts died in those two catastrophes.
Leinbach said Endeavour's current problems are not necessarily a sign of age. It first flew in 1992. Officials did not immediately know the age of the switch box in question. "As far as the orbiter getting old, no, it's a machine and occasionally machines break," Leinbach said. "This time, we had a failure in a switching box ... it's just part of the business." The delay, if it last much longer, could end up having a domino effect on the final shuttle mission. Atlantis is scheduled to blast off June 28 to close down the program. For now, anyway, that date is still safe.
As for Endeavour's astronauts, they will remain in quarantine this week at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kelly will be able to visit Giffords in rehab, provided she remains germ-free and he stays clear of possibly contagious people, officials said. Once NASA's shuttles are done flying, they will be on display in Florida, California and the Washington, D.C. area. NASA will continue to rely on rides to the International Space Station in Russian Soyuz capsules while new spacecraft are developed by private companies.
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dermined its geographic importance, and employers and many residents left the city after a race riot in 1967. The riverfront now resembles an Old West stage set, its facades crumbling and windows boarded up. Some buildings are little more than heaps of bricks. On Sunday, the city looked apocalyptic, its streets deserted of traffic that only included police cars. Prisoners loaded sandbags on an auto-parts business’ lot, then loaded them in a fire-brigade fashion onto a dump truck under the watchful eye of guards. Churches that
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routines that kept the audience laughing for hours. One even stayed after his performance to make balloon animals for people. He even had to stay after everything else in the carnival closed to finish making balloons for everyone! Lastly, everyone was given a ticket coming in to the carnival, and at the end, prizes were drawn. They included Visa gift cards and gift cards to Five Guys, Target, ITunes, The Olive Garden, and the
UNH Bookstore, as well as two Nooks, a Blu-ray player, an Xbox 360 with Kinect, a GPS, Wii, and two 32” LCD TVs! The carnival wasn’t the only event that took place on Saturday however. At 8:00 p.m. in the Charger Gym, there was the spring comedian. This year’s comedian was Ralphie May, famous from the first season of Last Comic Standing as well as several Comedy Central specials. After opening act Danny Lobell, a great comedian
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of his own, Ralphie May took the stage and put the audience in stiches with his routine, covering topics from race to terrorism and other current issues. SCOPE (Student Committee of Programming Events) and their volunteers have worked tirelessly each day and night of spring weekend to setup, operate, and cleanup each event. So a huge thank-you goes to them for making this one of the best weekends of the year!
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A Successful Spring Weekend and the End of the Semester
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Who had a great time during Spring Weekend? I know I did! Since I became involved with The Charger Bulletin during my sophomore year, I used Spring Weekend as an opportunity to become a “member” of SCOPE for a weekend. I helped out with the setup for the concert on Thursday night, security and breakdown during and after the concert on Friday, and the carnival and load out of the gym on Saturday. It’s a lot of work crammed into a really short amount of time and the planning has been going on for a long time, so I think everyone should give SCOPE a big thank you for planning and executing everything! I would personally like to thank
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the entire student body for having a responsible and fun Spring Weekend with limited problems. At the concert on Friday, there were only a handful of really tiny issues with rowdy students and when I spoke with Ron Quagliani on Saturday during the carnival, he said that there weren’t many issues at all. It’s great to know that our student body here at UNH can party and have a good time while largely maintaining control! Moving on to another topic entirely, as many (hopefully all by the time this issue is out) of you know, Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Military action on Sunday. This
is a great step in the fight that has been going on for
not true. In his speech he clearly gives credit to the CIA and the small group of Americans that carried out the mission. The only credit that Obama took was directing U.S. intelligence to continue looking for Bin Laden and authorizing the mission; he never suggested that he ran into Pakistan himself to complete the mission. Regardless of my political beliefs, I think that the president of our country deserves respect. Folks need to sit down and have a good think before they go and get riled up over nearly ten years now; how- a speech that they took ever, I have seen too many the wrong way or misunpeople bad mouthing Pres- derstood. Don’t let a petty ident Obama for his ad- issue overshadow a great dress on the subject. The achievement. number one complaint I To wrap up my final edsaw suggested that he was itorial of the year, I would taking credit for the entire just like to thank everyone operation, which is plain who picked up a paper
throughout the year. I hope you enjoyed what Joann and I, as well as all of our staff, produced. We work hard on The Charger Bulletin and do our best to create something great for the UNH community to read. That being said, I would really appreciate any feedback that any one has for us in order to improve the paper for next year, as both Joann and I will be returning as Assistant Editor and Editor-in-Chief! If you have any input, don’t hesitate to send an email to ChargerBulletin@newhaven.edu with whatever it is you think should be changed. I can’t make any promises, but if I can make the changes you want, I will. A few things I am already looking into for the Fall 2011 semester are rewards for the first student to complete the games in each issue and
the inclusion of weather and horoscopes. There are a few more tricks up my sleeve, but I’ll let you know about those next year! Another thank you I would like to put out there is to all of the graduating seniors on The Charger Bulletin’s staff. You have put some great work in this newspaper, and Joann and I, as well as the other managerial staffs that you have worked under, really appreciate it. Good luck in all your future endeavors! Finally, for all the graduating seniors, good luck moving on in life. I hope you’ve enjoyed your time at the University of New Haven and I wish you the best of luck in your futures! Good luck on finals everyone, and I hope you all have a great summer!
strong. I really enjoyed myself this weekend. Attending the spring concert, carnival, and comedian are always events that I look forward to all year. I hope that everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did. Of course, I do know that there are always people who aren’t happy with the way things are planned, what is offered at these events, or just complain that things are lame. But the way I see it is you cannot make everyone happy. In every situation, I’m convinced that there will always be at least, if not more (and usu-
ally it’s more) ten percent proud of what we actually of people who are unhappy accomplish. and complaining. It’s just With all of that being a fact of life, and if we let said, I believe that if a majority of people enjoy something, then you can rate what you’ve done as a success. I know that a majority of people enjoyed this entire weekend, and so therefore, like always, it was a complete success. Fantastic job SCOPE! Another event that I was very excited to attend was this semester’s spring play: Rent. Because I was busy most of the weekend, I was especially looking forward to seeing the show Sunday afternoon. I those unhappy folks bring heard such amazing reus down, we wouldn’t be views about the show from
people who attended the previous nights. When you hear that a show received a standing ovation every night, you can’t help but be extremely excited. I was very impressed with how well the show turned out. It was so well done, and the acting and singing was impeccable. I only wish I had been able to see the show at least twice. For those of you who missed it, it was really a large accomplishment for the UNH theatre department. It was nice to see so many people involved, whether it was in the show, backstage, or in the audience. Now, since we are reaching the end of my editorial, the last editorial of the semester, I suppose it’s
time to do the usual sentimental part. Thank you to all of our staff writers who have written consistently for us. It’s always nice to see so many staff contribute. I hope that those of you, who are still around next year, continue to write. I also hope that we have some new staff writers in the future as well. Lastly, good luck to all of the seniors graduating. Matt and I still have one more year here to go. We look forward to working on The Charger Bulletin again next year, since we had so much fun doing it this year. Hopefully you liked what you saw and read. If not, then join our team and help us improve. Enjoy your summer!
Ending the School Year with a Fantastic Weekend
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After a fantastic Spring Weekend, I know that it’s now time to finally start preparing for finals. With today being the last day of classes, it is finally beginning to set in that summer is just around the corner; we just need to push past those pesky final exams before we can fully relax. Hopefully all of your final exams are scheduled on decent days, at decent times, and not all packed together on the same day. Hopefully this weekend gave you the relaxation you needed to get back into the last week and a half of school. Let’s end
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“In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way. Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand - ‘Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.’”
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Even though I didn’t win anything big, I truly enjoyed spring weekend People, when you are angry at something at UNH and say something along and I want to send out a thank you to SCOPE and every other organizing/ the lines of “I can’t believe I’m paying $40,000 for an event or item” you are helping force on campus for making not only spring weekend possible but in essence being an idiot. You are actually most likely paying less than a also for making all the events over the school year possible. dollar. So, stop complaining about every little thing and go find something better to do with your time. This is more on a personal note; I want to thank you all for the wonderful year. I have truly enjoyed writing for The Charger Bulletin. I have come to the conclusion that people don’t really change their thinking patterns (or at least very rarely do). You can have a conversation with a person and iron things out, and most likely in a week or two, they will be back to what they where up to before.
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I know this is an expensive university; I pay a lot of it out of pocket myself. Gut for god’s sake, stop looking at every little thing like that’s what you’re specifically paying for. It’s really annoying, and it’s very ignorant. It takes a lot of money to make UNH run, and everything on campus takes such a tiny portion of your tuition. They just all add up. All in all, please just start looking at the big picture please. [Editor’s Note: At most schools, it costs more to run the school than tuition money alone brings in.]
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Word of the Week: Incredulous [in•cred•u•lous] adj. 1. Skeptical; disbelieving: incredulous of stories about flying saucers. 2. Expressive of disbelief: an incredulous stare. Fact of the week: Odontophobia is the fear of teeth. Did they seriously just say that? “It’s not that I dislike many people. It’s just that I don’t like many people.” -Bryant Gumbel Weekly Thought: When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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Jeffery’s Restaurant
By Kait Richmond & Shawn Tremblay
With graduation right around the corner, we decided to branch out to a more upscale restaurant choice for a review. Jeffery’s is located in Milford, CT (just minutes from the mall). The website states, “In the summertime you can sit out on the patio and enjoy the lovely flowers and singing birds. The inside has recently been remodeled, with a fireplace and piano in the lounge,” and we agree. The restaurant is filled with cliché décor, but they don’t come off as pretentious. The only immediate downside is their hours of operation. We shared an appetizer as well as an entrée, and our bill came to about $45. It may be expensive, but it was worth it. Our food journey started with, “a pair of Maine crab cakes over pear and mango chutney with chipotle and citrus aioli topped with crispy wonton strips.” The cakes were amazing! Our main course was good, but not worth $30. We had, “a combination of jumbo shrimp and lobster meat with a lime crème fraiche and tenderloin of beef with a mushroom bordelaise sauce served with sweet corn potato gratin, garlic broccoli rabe, and haricot vert.” Basically it was their version of surf and turf. Overall the experience was a pleasurable one. The waiter was with us from start to finish (but not in an annoying way). He greeted us as we walked in, brought us bread, poured our water, made routine check-ins, and was more than helpful. He received a great tip. Everything about this place was extremely welcoming. Overall: 4 out of 5 stars Category: Upscale, creative Service: Friendly, helpful, knowledgeable Selection: Smaller, unique Aesthetics: Cliché décor, cozy, welcoming Atmosphere: Quiet, romantic
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Round 1 to Wade and the Heat, 99-90 over Celtics
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MIAMI – Dwyane Wade knew his regularseason numbers against Boston were lacking. He also knew that wouldn’t matter in the playoffs. And Game 1 — which seemed more like Round 1 — of what’s already an emotionally charged series went to Wade and the Miami Heat. Wade scored 38 points on 14 of 21 shooting, James Jones set a Miami postseason record with 25 points off the bench, and the Heat beat the Celtics 99-90 on Sunday to open their Eastern Conference semifinal series. “We’re going to have to fight for every inch, every game we get,” Wade said. “Right now, we won Game 1. We’re supposed to. We’ll go back and focus on winning Game 2. We’re at home, we have homecourt advantage. They’re just trying to come in and steal one like they’ve done in the past. So it’s our job to come out with the same mentality in the next one.” LeBron James finished with 22 points, six rebounds and five assists for Miami, which led by as many as 19 before a fiery finish that saw plenty of players jawing at each other — more than that in some cases. Paul Pierce
was ejected with 7 minutes left, after picking up two technicals in skirmishes with Wade and Jones within a span of 59 seconds. Ray Allen scored 25 points for Boston, which lost for the first time in five games this postseason. Pierce scored 19 and Delonte West finished with 10 for the Celtics, while Rajon Rondo and Kevin Garnett were held to a combined 14 points on 6-for19 shooting. “There’s so many things we need to do to get better,” Allen said. “I think everybody in that locker room knows that, just from a small conversation we just had.” Game 2 is Tuesday in Miami. Given how Boston ousted Miami last season, and ended James’ playoff runs with Cleveland in 2008 and 2010, these teams have history — and more than a bit of dislike, and that was apparent. It was physical throughout, with West earning a technical and Jermaine O’Neal picking up a flagrant foul along the way, before things really got hot in the fourth. Pierce took offense with a hard foul by Jones, each getting double-technicals there, and Pierce and Wade — who have a
bit of history themselves — renewed acquaintances not long after that. Referee Ed Malloy called both for doubletechnicals, and Pierce was
going into the Indy 500 later this month. He has started from the pole in all four races. “It was an awesome race,” Power said. “There were so many different track conditions. It was a matter of keeping calm and getting past most people without making mistakes.” Power fell to the back of the field after pitting early while Sato and others stayed out despite an early yellow flag instructing drivers to slow down. Despite the track still extremely wet in places, Power was able to quickly move back to the front. “The conservative thing
was to come in,” Power said. “It was a good strategy (to stay out).”
“And in the rulebook, that is a verbal taunt,” Crawford said. “And it just so happened to be Pierce’s second technical foul.” Pierce’s first technical, Crawford said, came after he made contact with Jones during a dead ball period. Rivers said he knew the Heat would try to play physical ball, but said what he saw Sunday didn’t apply. “That’s chippy,” Rivers said. “That ain’t physical.” Countered Wade: “Very interesting that Doc said that.” Pierce did not speak with reporters postgame. After he departed, the Celtics tried to rally. Allen made a 3-pointer to get within 90-82, but Chris Bosh and Wade had Miami’s next two baskets, restoring a double-digit lead that wasn’t again seriously threatened. “Every game is going to go like this,” Wade said. “We look forward to the challenge.” Wade averaged 12.8 points on 28 percent shooting against the Celtics in four regular-season matchups, his worst numbers in both categories against any opponent this season. Whatever wasn’t working then, well, it was fixed for Game 1. He had nine field goals
and 23 points by halftime — while the entire Boston starting five combined for eight field goals and 21 points in the first 24 minutes. He had a steal to set up Mario Chalmers’ layup with 0.1 seconds left in the first quarter that put Miami up 20-14, and added a more spectacular buzzerbeater near halftime. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra wanted a 20-second timeout to set up the final possession of the half, only to get overruled — surely without complaint, either. Wade waved it off, then kept waving his arm to clear his teammates away, setting up a drive past West for a bank shot with 0.8 ticks remaining that put Miami ahead 5136 at the break. Boston was completely out of sorts, perhaps rusty from sitting around for a week after sweeping the New York Knicks, and partly because Miami’s defense bottled up everything the Celtics tried. Rondo was on the bench with three fouls for the final 11 minutes of the half, and the Celtics missed 20 of their first 26 shots from the field. “Ultimately, what we’re trying to do is beat the Boston Celtics in basketball, the game of basketball, four times,” Spoelstra said. “We have one of them right now.” Jones drew Rondo’s third foul on a play where
he ended up sprawled out under the Boston basket, grabbing his lower back and writhing in pain. Jones inflicted hurt the rest of the quarter, shooting 4 for 5 from 3-point range in the second period alone. “JJ probably had the best game of anybody,” James said. Jones took down Pierce and Allen in the 3-point shootout at All-Star weekend — and some of that same form returned Sunday. “Someone had to step up,” Jones said. “I got some good looks. All of our playmakers got me good looks and I was able to knock them down with confidence because these guys trust me in the big moments.” NOTES: Including the April 10 victory, Miami has now won consecutive meetings with Boston for the first time since early 2007. ... Boston was without Shaquille O’Neal (calf) and Miami remained without Udonis Haslem (foot), both still out with injuries, though it seems both could be returning at some point in this series — maybe even Tuesday. ... Plenty of celebrities showed up, including Diddy, Gloria Estefan and rappers Drake and Rick Ross. ... Rivers, on former Boston assistant Tom Thibodeau winning the NBA’s coach of the year award: “He came in and did his job.”
fourth in the race, which ended at the two-hour limit with only 55 of the scheduled 75 laps completed. Franchitti now trails Power by 14 points. The race restarted with 14 laps completed after torrential rain on Sunday had made track conditions unsafe, forcing it to be stopped twice and eventually postponed. Last year’s inaugural Sao Paulo 300 also was affected by severe weather and ended before its scheduled 75 laps. AN AP PHOTO The cars reFormer drivers’ leader turned to a dry Dario Franchitti recov- track on Monday but it ered from a crash to finish started raining hard again
as soon as the green flag dropped, forcing all cars to immediately go to the pits for wet tires. Drivers still struggled to stay on track and visibility remained poor because of water spraying from the cars. Power nearly lost control a few times and came close to touching the wall at the exit of a corner, while Ryan Hunter-Reay, who started second, spun out and crashed the back end of his car. He finished 18th. The first yellow flag to slow down came when Sebastien Bourdais missed a turn and went straight into a tire barrier. At the restart, Sato passed Power to take the lead going into the first chicane. Franchitti was one of the many drivers having trouble breaking into the first corner with several others being forced into
the runoff area. Danica Patrick, Alex Tagliani, James Jakes and Justin Wilson also had problems on the slick track. Venezuela’s E.J. Viso had a good run on the wet and was up to second before receiving a drive-thru penalty for repeatedly blocking Marco Andretti. Viso dropped to ninth after the penalty and eventually finished 13th, one position ahead of Andretti. The next four IndyCar races will be on oval tracks, beginning with the 100th running of the Indy 500 on May 29. The race was postponed Sunday after rain created havoc at the start, with several cars crashing and going off the track at the tight first chicane. It was stopped after only nine laps because of poor visibility and slippery track conditions.
screaming as he departed. Boston coach Doc Rivers said he thought Jones and Wade went at Pierce too aggressively on the two plays that ended his forward’s night. “I thought both were flagrant fouls, personally, and I don’t think we should react to either one,” Rivers said. Wade acted like he didn’t hear what Pierce said to him on the play with 7 minutes left, dismissing it as “gibberish.” Crew chief Dan Crawford said Pierce’s second technical was merited because he directed profanity at Wade.
Will Power Wins Postponed IndyCar’s Sao Paulo 300
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SAO PAULO – Will Power of Australia won IndyCar’s Sao Paulo 300 on Monday, a day after the race was postponed because of heavy rain on the streets of South America’s biggest city. Graham Rahal was second and Ryan Briscoe third on a wet track at the 2.5-mile, 11-turn Anhembi temporary street circuit. Power, who started from the pole position, drove to victory for Penske after Japan’s Takuma Sato had to pit for fuel with about 10 minutes left. Sato led for 23 laps but finished eighth after his gamble failed. Power finished 4.672 seconds ahead of Rahal and 7.904 in front of Briscoe. It was his second win in four races this season, giving him the points lead
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PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Phillies couldn’t get a win on a night their fans were cheering some historic news. Ronny Paulino had a career-high five hits in his first start for the Mets, including a go-ahead double in the 14th inning, and New York beat the Phillies 2-1 after news of Osama bin Laden’s death had fans at Citizens Bank Park chanting “U-S-A! US-A!” The chants started in the top of the ninth inning and picked up in intensity throughout the inning. Philadelphia players weren’t sure what was happening until alerted of the news by center fielder Shane Victorino. “I was sitting in the dugout and didn’t understand what was going on for a minute,” Philadelphia starter Cliff Lee said. People could be spotted all over the ballpark checking their phones as the news was breaking that the United States had killed the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks. “Evidently they were happy,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said, “but I was more concentrating on the game.”
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Phillies Fall Short, Lose 2-1 to Mets in 14 Asked his reaction, Lee added, “It took them long enough.” The potent Phillies offense managed just seven hits against six Mets pitchers. “There were opportunities for us to win the game, but we just couldn’t get a hit,” Manuel said. Mets starter Chris Young set the tone, as the righthander pitched seven scoreless innings while allowing two hits and striking out seven. “He’s very deceptive,” Manuel said. “At the same time, we should score some runs on him.” Lee gave up at least one hit in every frame and was lifted after seven innings, giving up a run on eight hits with five strikeouts and two walks. “They definitely made me work a lot,” Lee said. Taylor Buchholz (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings in relief to help New York snap a three-game losing streak and salvage a game in the series. Kyle Kendrick (1-2), one of six Philadelphia pitchers used in the 4-hour,
44-minute game, pitched three innings and allowed four hits. David Wright led off the 14th with a single to
sive, five hits in his first full game,” Collins said. “And he handled the pitchers very well.” It was the first loss in a
left and went to second on Jason Bay’s one-out single to center. After Ike Davis flew out to the warning track in center, Paulino laced a double to left to score Wright and put New York up 2-1. Paulino finished 5 for 7 in his second game of the season for New York. He was placed on the DL on April 10 with anemia after missing the first eight games while serving the remainder of a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a performanceenhancing substance. “That’s pretty impres-
series finale this season for Philadelphia, which had been 8-0 in such games. The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning on Carlos Beltran’s double that scored Wright, who had three singles. Young cruised through six innings and wiggled out of a jam in the seventh. “Probably a night I will never forget,” Young said. “I was in the training room when I heard the announcement. I got chills hearing that crowd. It’s a historic night and a great victory for the United States.”
The Phillies loaded the bases without a hit in the seventh thanks to a pair of walks and a hit batter. But Brian Schneider struck out on a check swing to end the threat. Manuel was ejected for arguing by third-base umpire Lance Barksdale, who made the strike call on Schneider. It was Manuel’s first ejection of the season. The Phillies tied the game in the eighth when Ryan Howard AN AP PHOTO lined a twoout single to left against left-handed reliever Tim Byrdak to score John Mayberry. Byrdak was replaced by Francisco Rodriguez, who walked Ben Francisco to load the bases before getting Raul Ibanez to ground out to second to end the inning. For Ibanez, it completed an 0-for-4 night that stretched his slump to 0 for 34. Philadelphia managed just two hits off Young, a third-inning double by Schneider and a fourthinning single by Placido
Polanco. “Try to forget about it and come back Tuesday,” Howard said. “It’s baseball. Those nights happen.” Dating back to last season, Young is 3-0 with a 1.43 ERA in his last eight starts and he has not allowed more than one earned run in seven of the starts. Polanco’s fourth-inning single extended his hitting streak to 11 games. He is batting .429 (18 for 42) during the streak. NOTES: Philadelphia OF Ross Gload was excused from the game due to the death of his grandfather. The Phillies dropped to 72-27 on Sundays at Citizens Bank Park since it opened in 2004. ... RHP Roy Oswalt is scheduled to return to the Phillies on Thursday and could start on Saturday. He left the Phillies last Wednesday to be with his family in tornado-ravaged Mississippi. LHP Cole Hamels will start Tuesday in place of Oswalt. ... Philadelphia RF Domonic Brown, who broke his right hamate bone in spring training, will begin his rehab assignment in Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Monday.
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HISTORY OF THE WORLDBy Mark Andrews
May 2: ON THIS DATE in 1863, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men; he died eight days later. In 1932, Jack Benny’s first radio show made its debut on the NBC Blue Network. May 3: ON THIS DATE in 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city. In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen as Britain’s first female prime minister. May 4: ON THIS DATE in 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. In 1886, during the Haymarket Riot in Chicago, a bomb killed seven policemen. May 5: ON THIS DATE in 1925, schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for promoting the theory of evolution in Tennessee. In 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space aboard the Mercury capsule Freedom 7. May 6: ON THIS DATE in 1851, Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola, Fla., patented a refrigeration machine to treat malaria patients; this led to the development of air conditioning decades later. In 1937, the German dirigible Hindenburg exploded in flames at Lakehurst, N.J. killing 36 people. May 7: ON THIS DATE in 1925, Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Glenn Wright made an unassisted triple play. In 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending the European conflict of World War II the next day. May 8: ON THIS DATE in 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. In 1952, Mad magazine debuted. This week’s question: In 330, what city became capital of the Eastern Roman Empire? (Mark Andrews can be reached via e-mail at mlandrews@embarqmail.com.) (c)2011 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
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Dave’s Music Report Summer ’11: A Look Ahead
As another school year comes to an end, another summer gets ready to kick off, and, as usual, the possibility of great music is high. While it’s still too early to really predict who and what’s going to dominate the airwaves, it’s a safe bet that a whole new set of summer anthems are
on their way! This is the time of year when people like to have fun, party, and be care free, and the music has to match. As with every summer, I would expect to hear fun, “dancy,” and catchy songs. Considering all of the songs that fit that description that have come out over the
past few months, I’d say we are in for a real treat. Last year we saw artists such as Ke$ha, Usher and Katy Perry bring out massive hits, but who are this year’s contenders? Well with Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez off to a great start with their new album projects, I would put my
money on them. In addition, despite the fact that Beyonce’s new single “Run The World (Girls)” hasn’t lived up to Queen B expectations, I would never count her out. I also think that Britney Spears is going to give us a classic summer anthem as her Femme Fatale album
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2005’s “Rebirth,” and was worse off with “Brave,” which came two years later. Lopez has never been a musical icon, and she probably never will be. But she is a great entertainer — and that’s reflected throughout most of her seventh album, “Love?” The Pitbull-featured “On the Floor,” which has the “party, party, party” vibe that has taken over Top 40 radio, is irresistible and addictive. It was produced by RedOne, the man behind Lady Gaga’s
“Bad Romance” and “Poker Face.” The hitmaker also works his magic on the celebratory dance jam “Papi.” Lopez also has future hits with the Lil Wayne-assisted “I’m Into You” and “Good Hit,” a Fergie-sounding jam produced by The-Dream and Tricky. Lopez is best, though, when she collaborates with producer D’Mile. The two songs — “(What Is) Love?” and “One Love” — were leaked in 2009, but they don’t sound dated. They’re biographical
tunes about Lopez’s love life, which includes two failed marriages and stints with Ben Affleck and Diddy. If there’s something this girl can sing about, it should be love lapses — and when she does, she does it well. CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: Lopez’s strongest vocal performance is all over the groove “(What Is) Love?” It makes her role as a judge on “American Idol” a bit more fitting.
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Jennifer Lopez, “Love?” (Island Def Jam Music Group) Jennifer Lopez’s latest single — the international smash “On the Floor” — opens with this line: “It’s a new generation of party people.” And luckily the singer has taken note. Lopez, 41, isn’t the same star she was 10 years ago, when she dominated both pop and urban music charts. She struggled with
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is still going strong. It’s also a strong possibility that newcomers such as Jessie J (or possibly some we don’t even know yet) could blow all of the competition away. The summer months are known for breaking artists, and I would guess that summer 2011 is no ex-
ception. While it is impossible to predict the musical landscape of the upcoming months, there is no doubt that the songs we’ll hear will always remind us of this particular season.
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LOS ANGELES – Television's "Judge Judy" is keeping her hand firmly on the gavel through 2015. Judy Sheindlin signed a new multiyear deal to stay with the long-running syndicated program that last season ranked No. 1 in daytime, CBS Television Distribution said Monday. "I am thrilled with the opportunity to continue this exciting second ca-
reer," Sheindlin, 68, said in a statement. A former judge in New York, the tart-tongued Sheindlin presides over small-claims cases on her program that's in its 15th season. "Judge Judy" had been renewed until 2013 before the new agreement was reached. The deal comes as Oprah Winfrey prepares to wrap up her talk show after 25 years, leaving Sheindlin and other daytime stars to jockey for position. Winfrey's cable
channel, OWN, launched in January. Sheindlin had publicly toyed with the idea of ending her show in 2013, but "Judge Judy" remains a strong draw. In the 200910 season, it ranked No. 1 among daytime series and became the first program in a decade to outdraw "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Sheindlin is "at the top of her game," said John Nogawski, president of CBS Television Distribution, the show's syndica-
tor. She's been the mostwatched TV judge since her show's 1996 debut. She was hospitalized overnight in Los Angeles in late March for undisclosed reasons but said "all is well" after she was released. In a 2006 interview, Sheindlin said, "The truth is, you're really supposed to know when to say goodbye in any job you're in. I hope that I'll know."
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Priest
PRIEST, a western-fused post-apocalyptic thriller, is set in an alternate world -- one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. The story revolves around Rated a legendary Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) from the last PG-13 Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece (Lily Collins) is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on an obsessive quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend (Cam Gigandet), a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q) who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.
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May 5, 2011 Is Smart and Healthy Finals Prep. Day in the Center for Learning Resource (CLR)! The event includes: Freebies! Free relaxation tips! Free study tips for finals!
Free tips for healthy eating choices! Free tutoring (as always)! Date and Location: Thursday, May 5th, 12:30pm—9:30pm
Career Services Mock Interviews The Career Development Center has put on another set of successful mock interviews for over 35 students. The interviews were held as a part of Professor Marty O’ Connor’s criminal justice pre-internship classes. The interviews were conducted by professionals in the field from various departments. The East Haven Police Department, University of New Haven Police Department, West Haven Police Department, and Hamden Police all had representatives interview students to assess them on their strengths and weaknesses. The mock interview process was incredibly helpful for students as they start applying for internship and jobs.
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