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Alex Plimack 

Arts Editor 

Nick DiMarco 

Associate News Editor 

Between classes, a student makes 

her way across campus. She’s focused 

on her cell phone, her fingers moving 

furiously. She cautiously looks up 

from the device to check her bearings 

only to dive back into the conversation 

literally at hand. 

It’s a common sight on Towson’s 

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Feb. 18, 2008 

Putting text messaging before textbooks 

Photo illustration by Patrick Smith/The Towerlight 

As text messaging has increased in popularity among students, some professors have enforced strict cell phone policies in the classroom, raising questions about public safety. 

Safety concerns 

arise as student 

texting causes 

stricter class policies 

Junior Alexia Van Horn’s ‘American Idol’ 

experience leads to musical opportunities 

campus: text messaging, or “texting.” 

But the electronic interchanges 

have moved beyond the walkways to 

the classrooms, students sitting with 

pen in one hand and cell phone in 

the other. 

“I get really bored,” freshman 

mass communication major Michelle 

Danzig said. “For some reason in 

class I’ll think of other things to text 

people. One of my professors will 

kick you out of class if they see you 

with the phone… but I do it all the 

time and they don’t even know.” 

Many professors do take notice, 

however, and have begun to enact 

policies to curb “texting” during 

class. 

One professor spoke of the basis 

for his unique policy: “Talking with a 

friend who’s a lawyer in [Washington] 

D.C., there’s a judge in D.C. where, if 

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your phone goes off in court, he 

takes your battery and keeps it in his 

chambers for the day.” 

He adapted the policy for his classroom, 

adding the caveat that if there 

were a second offense, he would take 

the phone and deduct 10 points from 

the final grade. 

Such policies raise questions of 

public safety versus classroom disruption. 

Following the Virginia Tech shootings 

in April 2007, the University 

implemented an emergency text message 

notification system. While it was 

in planning stages prior to the attack, 

it quickly became a priority. 

“The text alert system went online 

in May 2007,” TUPD captain Joe 

Herring said. “I’ve been here since 

2002 and from that point forward 

we’ve been looking at having a 

See PHONES, page 9 

Board of Regents 

approves trimester 

Pilot program to be evaluated by task force 

Kiel McLaughlin 

News Editor 

After talking about it for years, 

this summer Towson will launch a 

third semester. 

The full University System of 

Maryland Board of Regents 

approved TU’s proposal for a pilot 

trimester program Friday morning. 

Towson President Robert Caret’s 

‘The Associate’ 

2008 begins 

News, page 7 

presentation met few questions 

from the board, according to provost 

James Clements, and received 

unanimous approval. Clements said 

a task force headed by dean of 

the College of Health Professions 

Charlotte Exner is in place to begin 

evaluating what programs will be 

offered this summer during the first 

term of the trimester pilot. 

See TRIMESTER, page 9 

Now on TheTowerlight.com: View video Word on the Street and read student blogs ‘When in Rome’ and ‘Towson Sports Blog’...

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THIS WEEK @ TU 

campus calendar 

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MONDAY, FEB. 18 TUESDAY, FEB. 19 

2008 SGA Election Commission 

applications due 

Room 217 • University Union 

Students interested in assisting with the annual Student 

Government Association elections must turn in applications 

by 5 p.m. today. Applications are available in the office of 

student activities. For more information, call 410-704-4317. 

Intuitive Eating workshop 

3 – 4:30 p.m. • Archives Room • Cook Library 

The Counseling Center will host this event to teach students 

skills and new approaches regarding nutrition and 

body image. The workshop is open and free to all students. 

Kayaking clinic 

Tuesday, Feb. 19 

8 – 10 p.m. 

Burdick Pool 

Free for students, faculty and staff, this clinic will offer 

kayaking instruction on all skill levels. Participants must 

bring a bathing suit and a valid TU OneCard. 

Central Maryland College Career Fair 

10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. • Towson Center 

More than 170 regional and national employers will have 

tables at the Towson Center. Sponsored by the Maryland 

Career Consortium, students are encouraged to bring their 

resume. 

Tuesdays at Towson: French Delights 

7:30 p.m. • Recital Hall • Center for the Arts 

This program will feature various French pieces for 

instruments such as violin, piano, oboe, flute and cello, 

among others. Tickets are $13 general admission, $7 

seniors, and $5 students. 

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 THURSDAY, FEB. 21 

Condom tasting event 

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. • Room 306 • University Union 

As part of National Condom Week, Dowell Health Center, 

Queer Student Union, and LGBT Student Development will 

sponsor this event. Students can taste-test a variety of flavored 

condoms, as well as take home condoms for free. 

Test-taking anxiety workshop 

12:30 – 1:45 p.m. • Counseling Center at Glen Esk 

This free test-taking anxiety workshop is open for all 

students. It will teach techniques aimed at combating the 

nervousness that some experience while taking a test. 

Generation Jeopardy 

File Photo/Kris Marsh/The Towerlight 

5 – 7 p.m. • Richmond Commons • Richmond Hall 

Sponsored by the Honors College Student Council, this 

student versus faculty face-off will feature questions covering 

both generations. Refreshments will be available. 

Songscapes – MFA Theatre Thesis 

Performance 

8 p.m. • MFA Theatre Lab • Center for the Arts 

MFA in Theatre candidate Lane Pianta will present a 

fusion of music and action she calls Songscapes. Tickets are 

$2 general admission and free for students. Performances 

will take place Feb. 21-23. 

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DEAR 

MATTY 

Advice for post 

V-day sexcapades 

I just moved into the dining room of my friends’ apartment and I plan 

to make it my room for the rest of the semester. It’s a decent-sized room, 

I have my own closet and there’s even a chandelier. The problem is that 

there is a gaping hole between my “bedroom” and the living room. How 

can I get busy in there without any spectators? 

-Down and dirty in the dining room 

First things first, you need to work on improving the ambiance of your 

new bachelor pad – even though a chandelier does sound, um, classy. The 

biggest obstacle to your privacy is the fact that you and your lady friends 

will be easily seen and heard. A nice bed sheet from Target will eliminate 

the sight lines for any voyeuristic roommates and a stereo system should 

drown out any odd noises. 

Next, you should probably work out an agreement with your roommates 

to ensure that a) they’re okay with you getting your swerve on 

right next to the living room and b) you work out some sort of system 

for letting them know whenever you have company over – a sock on the 

front door is a tried-and-true method. 

After that, you’re on your own, and if you’ve got enough game to score 

some chicks in a dining room, kudos to you, buddy. 

My boyfriend and I broke up less than a year ago and I can’t fully seem 

to get over him. I’ve casually dated other people and my ex and I have 

become good friends again. But I can’t seem to shake these feelings. We 

live two minutes from each other and have many of the same friends, so 

the common advice of taking more time away from one another really 

won’t work. We have a lot of fun together and I don’t want my inability 

to get over him to affect the friendship that we’ve been rebuilding for the 

past couple of months. Any advice for me would be greatly appreciated. 

-Still holding on 

I’ll admit that it takes a lot of guts to try to be friends with an ex, especially 

when your feelings for them are still raw. The attempts I’ve made 

with my former flames have been disastrous, so you’re definitely a bigger 

person than I am for trying. That being said, you’ve got make sure that 

you’re not sacrificing your own sanity and well-being just for the sake of 

being a good friend. If your friendship is taking a toll on you emotionally 

and mentally because you still want to be with him, you should probably 

take a step back, avoid your ex for a while and work on getting over those 

feelings. You’ll never truly be able to be a good friend unless your sole 

intention is to be one. 

In hooking up, dating and/or relationships, how fast is too fast and 

how slow is too slow? Situation: girl and guy meet. They start hanging 

out, watch a couple of movies, kiss… how soon is too soon for her to give 

in? Will he disrespect her if she gives it up now and how long is it too 

long until he loses interest? 

-The line between fast and class 

This is a difficult question to answer because every person and every 

situation is different. It seems fair, though, to wait until both people are 

ready to express their feelings physically before they start rounding the 

bases. 

For some, that might be the first night you meet. For others, it could 

be after six months of dating. There’s no wrong answer here. 

Just make sure that when you start getting sexual that you’re being 

treated with respect – and that you’re treating them with respect, too. 

And if someone isn’t willing to be patient with you and wait until 

you’re fully comfortable, is that really a person you want to be dating 

anyways? 

Note: If you need some advice, e-mail dearmatty@hotmail.com or visit 

www.thetowerlight.com/dearmatty. Your anonymous letter may appear 

in this space. 

OPINION 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

MacBook Air 

article was an 

unbalanced and 

biased review 

I do not agree with the review on 

the MacBook Air [“Mac Air doesn’t 

live up to price,” Feb 11]. Did you 

actually have a MacBook Air to 

look at and actually use before 

writing the article? I have had the 

MacBook Air for over a week now. 

At first I was a bit reluctant to purchase 

an expensive notebook, but 

after having it for a bit I have no 

regrets. When you write an article, 

shouldn’t you mention the pros 

and the cons after an unbiased testing 

of the material? I feel you just 

stuck with the negatives and did 

not give it a chance to see if there 

was anything you liked. Yes, the 

80 GB of memory is small. But the 

MacBook Air is made for people 

with an amazing set up who want a 

laptop for on-the-go sort of things. 

The fact that it is so thin makes it 

more portable (3 pounds) and the 

battery lasting five hours is amazing 

because of the quality of the 

screen, while other cheaper laptops 

have a battery life of two hours. 

And you did not even mention the 

track pad. That makes everyday 

tasks so much easier with a swipe 

of a finger. You didn’t mention how 

the keys are backlit either. Overall, 

I think you gave a lousy review 

on the MacBook Air. Next time, 

why don’t you write something 

unbiased and write an article like a 

professional. 

Ellice Yi 

Sophomore, business 

Lack of progress 

should result in 

release of head 

coach Kennedy 

Rome wasn’t built in a day but 

Towson has waited patiently long 

enough. Towson Basketball is 

63-133 since the 2001-2002 season. 

It hasn’t had a winning season 

since 1995-1996. It hasn’t made the 

NCAA Tournament since 1991. I 

understand that recruiting is hard 

but look at the facts. Towson is in 

the CAA, ranked [according to the 

RPI] 14th out of 32 conferences 

(that’s good). The Towson Center 

is about to undergo a $30 million 

renovation. 

Towson University has about 

15,000 undergraduates, almost 

20,000 students in all, with an 

increase in students each year. 

The Baltimore metropolitan area 

has over 2.5 million people living 

in it and does not have a 

team that has established itself as 

Baltimore’s school. The East Coast 

is a watershed of talent. Does it 

not bother men’s basketball coach 

Pat Kennedy or athletic director 

Mike Hermann that the University 

of Maryland gets more area publicity 

in sports than Towson does? 

Does it not bother them that there 

are Towson students and alumni 

that track other teams such as 

Penn State and the University of 

Maryland more closely than their 

own schools team? 

The athletes we have at Towson 

practice hard day in and day out. 

They put themselves on the line 

more than 20 times a season to 

represent this school. The athletes 

deserve better. The fans deserve 

better. Towson deserves better. 

How many excuses will be made? 

How many losing seasons must we 

endure with Pat Kennedy at the 

helm? What happens if the team 

is still bad after the Towson Center 

renovation? 

Joe Smith 

2006 Alumnus 

‘Happy Hour’ 

proves writer is 

‘weak,’ makes 

‘terrible decisions’ 

My letter is in reference to the 

articles by Evan Porter “Twentyone 

isn’t just a number” [Feb. 7] 

and “Finding love at the strip club” 

[Feb. 14]. First, are you kidding 

me? You must not know what it 

means to be an alcoholic. Also, just 

because you are weak and make 

terrible decisions, doesn’t mean 

we all do. 

And second, that’s just sad. 

Paying for a hard-on? Is that really 

that cool to you? Is “nudity, 

regret, and a hefty price tag” all you 

have ever gotten from a girlfriend 

(assuming you ever had one)? 

Maybe you haven’t experienced 

a real relationship. Strippers are 

filthy the moment they touch the 

floor. I don’t mean in terms of 

disease. 

It’s just disgusting that they 

subject themselves to worthless 

individuals who don’t care to find 

something real in a person. But 

hey, they’re getting paid; you think 

you’re getting laid. It’s all good 

right? 

Who knows, maybe you write 

these articles on purpose as if they 

were some lure for an unsuspecting 

reader. Maybe you really don’t feel 

this way, you just want to laugh 

at the kid who took you seriously. 

Whatever gets your dopamine levels 

going, I guess. Then again, 

maybe you are serious. If so, you’re 

pathetic. 

Rock Warnick 

Junior, psychology 

Student scared 

that school 

shooting could 

happen at Towson 

After hearing about the recent 

act of campus violence in Illinois, 

it makes me very concerned for my 

safety. It is shocking and saddening 

to hear that students and alumni 

are resulting to violent means. 

Incidents like these make me worry 

because you never know where 

or when a violent occurrence can 

happen. It’s like where ever you go 

you have to watch your back and 

always be aware of the exits. It’s 

ridiculous. 

It’s ridiculous that we live in a 

world where you’re not safe even 

in your own home. I am also concerned 

because I would not know 

what to do if something like that 

ever happen on the Towson campus; 

and that scares me. I think 

that students and faculty should 

be ready if and when something 

like this ever happens. I suggest 

that we think of some sort of drills 

or tips to help students and faculty 

deal with these sorts of situations. 

We also should be mindful to the 

warning signs of disturbing behavior, 

because what could seem like 

a joke could turn into a serious 

situation. 

Amanda Holsey 

Freshman, English 

Multicultural 

conference was 

a successful and 

diverse event 

I was very impressed with 

Towson University’s multicultural 

conference “Diversifying Diversity” 

held in the University Union on 

Feb. 14. The conference brought 

together many people from the 

University and neighboring community 

committed to developing new 

relationships and understanding 

between people of different backgrounds, 

beliefs and perspectives. 

The conference was presented by 

students, staff and outside resource 

people with diverse views, which 

also indicates the sensitivity and 

concerns of the sponsors and organizers. 

Many students who were 

encouraged by faculty and staff 

also attended. Towson University 

is to be congratulated for its efforts 

in building bridges within and 

between the school and general 

communities. I highly recommend 

that anyone take advantage of next 

year’s conference. 

Alan Rubinstein 

Graduate school alumnus ‘93; 

professional studies

The writer’s 

strike is 

over, Barack 

Obama has 

taken the lead 

against Hillary 

Clinton, Mike 

Huckabee still 

thinks he has 

a chance and 

“Saturday 

ight Live” will return to air within 

he month. 

How do these relate? They all 

ie in to my homegrown political 

heory that has shaped the face of 

ur nation since 1975, when the 

hrase, “Live from New York, it’s 

aturday night!” came screaming 

nto our living rooms. 

Allow me to present to you, my 

ear readers, the “SNL Presidential 

omination Theory.” 

I believe the winner of the 

residential election will be deterined, 

not by savvy campaigning, 

he electoral college, the popular 

vote, grassroots politics or whatver 

you’ve been taught by our fine 

olitical science department here 

t Towson. 

Instead, the position of comander-in-chief 

will go to whomver 

NBC’s skit comedy show 

an poke the most fun at (please 

xhale). 

Take for example, the last 16 

years of presidential reign and how 

lose the margin of victory came 

or each would-be head-honcho. 

eorge W. Bush narrowly earned a 

eat in the Oval Office against both 

John Kerry and Al Gore. 

Let’s break this down. Al “I 

peak very monotone, but try to 

opinion 

‘SNL’ will pick our president 

Nick DiMarco 

Associate News Editor 

be funny, all the while I like to 

hug trees” Gore, lost to a man 

that cannot pronounce nuclear, or 

most English words for that matter. 

Which is something “SNL” has 

clung to in their portrayal of his 

character. 

And then there is John “Lurch 

from ‘The Addams Family’” Kerry, 

who actually received more votes 

than the incumbent president but 

still failed to switch his address to 

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. 

“It’s It’s not my place to 

predict who 

will become the next 

president of 

the United States, 

but I will say, he 

(or she) will 

be funny. 

My point is that Kerry would’ve 

been mocked for his stoic demeanor 

and “Lurch-like” attitude, while 

Gore, despite not making it to 

broadcast television, has had a 

recurring role as a environmental 

super-hero on Comedy Central’s 

“South Park.” 

In eight years, half a dozen 

“Saturday Night Live” actors and 

alumni (including Will Farrell) 

have taken shots at imitating good 

ol’ “W.” He’s just barely a funnier 

candidate. 

The connection is based from 

ease of material. 

Let us take a step beyond Bush 

to Billy Boy. 

President Clinton wins his first 

term and then landslides the next 

go around against Bob Dole. 

No one knew about Clinton at 

first, other than he was different 

and young. 

Four years later he’s steeped in 

more political scandal than four 

Tom Clancy novels. Not only did 

he make himself available for constant 

ridicule by “SNL,” but also 

he brought characters with him! 

Stained dressed intern Monica 

Lewinsky and face-lift famous 

Linda Tripp also became characters 

on “SNL.” 

But all that is in the past. 

During the writers’ strike, I 

was worried that my little theory 

would fall by the wayside. However, 

given that the show will start soon, 

according to a plug by guest host 

Tina Fey, I am more convinced than 

ever that Campaign ‘08 will be the 

closest dash for the presidency in 

our lifetime. 

Think of the possibilities! A 

woman, an African-American 

man, a former pastor (who doesn’t 

believe in evolution) and the Crypt 

Keeper (aka: John McCain) are all 

vying for the job. 

See POLITICS, page 6 

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WORD 

What is your opinion 

of students who text 

message in class? 

Justine Hoerning 

freshman, 

vocal performance 

“I text message in class 

all the time. If someone 

texts me, I’ll text 

them back, but I still 

pay attention.” 

Josh Johnson 

freshman, 

business 

“I’m the stealthiest 

texter ever.” 

Arthur Holmes 

freshman, 

computer science 

“I think it’s a good 

way to make three 

hours feel like 30 

minutes.” 

on 

the 

STREET 

Chris Brandow 

freshman, 

mass communication 

“I love it. I’m guilty of 

it.” 

Danielle Martin 

junior, 

psychology 

“I do that all day. It’s 

a way to make class go 

by faster.” 

Jessica Lewis 

senior, 

English 

“It’s annoying when 

you hear the phone 

clicking, but I’m not 

entirely opposed to 

it for entertainment 

purposes.” 

Compiled by Eric Gazzillo. Word on the Street is composed of the 

fi rst six students who are randomly approached by a Towerlight 

photographer on Wednesdays and Sundays. 


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Now I will say, Hillary Clinton 

is a touch on the boring side, so 

her only success (as far as my 

theory goes) stems from the man 

she shares her bed with. The residual 

hilarity that would ensue from 

Billy back in the White House has 

carried Mrs. Clinton to where she 

is now. 

Also, being a senator of New 

York has helped her, given the location 

of show. 

Despite the current polling 

results (that have Obama in the 

lead for the Democratic Primaries) 

I do not think he will win. He 

seems very unfunny. 

He speaks extremely well, doesn’t 

have a shady background, admitted 

to smoking (and inhaling) marijuana, 

and I highly doubt Keanan 

Thompson will drop the 50 pounds 

needed to even consider portraying 

the senator from Illinois. He is one 

of the few politicos to not have a 

consistent portrayal on the show. 

Perhaps Tim Meadows will realize 

he peaked with “The Ladies Man” 

and return home. 

On to the GOP. Don’t you think 

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determine results 

Stay Safe! 

it’s kind of odd that a presidential 

hopeful actually makes it down to 

the final two of seven candidates 

on a single platform? Rudy Guiliani 

tried with “Look at me, I was the 

mayor during 9/11” and we saw 

how well that worked for him. 

Guiliani…not funny, kind of scary, 

definitely mafia related. 

But back to my point. 

Huckabee will not be the 

Republican candidate for office, but 

he made a good effort, considering 

he doesn’t believe in evolution and 

don’t even get me started on how 

he feels about homosexuality. 

The Republican frontrunner, 

McCain, is old, like ancient (hence 

the Crypt Keeper reference). While 

this alone is not enough to win 

him the highest seat in power, the 

combination of old and wrinkly, 

mixed with religious zealot equals 

one hilarious “SNL” skit. 

It’s not my place to predict who 

will become the next president of 

the United States, but I will say, he 

(or she) will be funny. 

Nick DiMarco is a junior mass 

communication major and The 

Towerlight’s associate news editor.


taff Writer 

As another cast of candidates prepare for 

the 2008 installment of The Associate, last 

spring’s victor has found his perfect fit. 

A 2007 graduate of the College of Business 

and Economics, Nicholas Malone now works 

for Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s management trainee 

program, a long way from the position he 

earned as the last competitor standing in the 

Stephens Hall boardroom early last April. 

A management major, Malone was offered 

the coveted position with United Business 

Solutions following last year’s competition, 

which is based on Donald Trump’s business 

elated reality show ‘The Apprentice.’ Last 

year, Jonathan P. Murray, senior vice president 

f investments and a wealth management 

pecialist for UBS Financial Services, acted 

s Trump. 

Malone only stayed with UBS for five months 

efore realizing it was not the place for him. 

“I was majoring in management, and this 

was a hardcore finance job,” Malone said. “It 

was a long way from where I lived, and I had 

o drive an hour every morning to get there. 

t was a great opportunity, just not the right 

pportunity.” 

The experience he gained and the contacts 

e made through the competition aided his job 

earch. He said he was offered jobs from other 

ompanies after leaving UBS before landing at 

nterprise, a job he enjoys waking up to each 

orning. 

“I love it. It’s what I went to college for,” 

alone said. 

He said time in the boardroom competing 

with seven other successful students in the 

CBE and working with teams on case studies 

each week prepared him for entering the business 

world. The case studies come from various 

participating businesses in the Baltimore 

region. 

NEWS 

Finding success beyond the boardroom 

Experience gained in 

The Associate propels 

alumnus Chris Malone 

Res. halls to raise 

funds for sick child 

Sunshine Foundation, URG partner to 

send cancer patient to Disney World 

Carrie Wood 

Assistant News Editor 

As part of a semester-long 

project, the University Residence 

Government has partnered with 

the Sunshine Foundation to 

raise money to grant a wish for a 

child who has cancer. The child, 

Kyle, has a wish to go to Disney 

World. 

“I had a vision of bringing all 

of the residence halls together [in 

order to] grant this wish,” Katie 

Goldstein, vice president for URG, 

said. “I really want to take something 

like URG, which is usually a 

File Photo/The Towerlight 

TU alumnus Nicholas Malone won the 2007 installment of The Associate competition. He now works for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. 

government body and a programming 

body, and do a community 

service project.” 

The first phase of this project 

involved the 12 individual building 

councils. The building councils 

sold “candy grams” in their 

residence halls to students for 

the week prior to Valentine’s Day. 

This effort raised approximately 

$1,000 to go towards the goal of 

$4,000, Goldstein said. 

“The building councils have 

done a fabulous job. All that they 

were told was that this semester 

they would be required to do 

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THE ASSOCIATE 

Malone said many of the case studies were 

geared toward marketing and trying to reach 

target audiences in specific demographics. 

They worked with local companies like The 

Baltimore Sun, and national publications such 

as Girls’ Life Magazine. 

Going into the boardroom week after week 

was also nerve-raking, Malone said. 

“You just have these question of, ‘Was all 

of that work I put into it worth it? Did I do 

enough preparation? Did I work hard enough? 

See WINNER, page 8 

Cases to focus on health care 

St. Joseph Medical president to play part of ‘The Donald 


Staff Writer 

Tuesday, Feb. 19 marks the beginning 

of the fourth annual College 

of Business and Economics competition, 

The Associate. The contest, modeled 

on the NBC reality show “The 

Apprentice,” pits eight CBE students 

against each other for a variety of 

business-oriented challenges, which 

are offered by participating Baltimorearea 

businesses. Each week, the contestants 

are judged based on their 

performance in the challenges, and 

one is let go by that year’s “Donald 

Trump,” typically an executive from a 

Baltimore-area company. The contestant 

who makes it to the end will be 

offered a job. 

“Our ‘Donald Trump’ this year is 

going to be John Tolmie [president and 

CEO] of St. Joseph 

Medical Center, and 

he’s going to decide 

who is going to win 

the competition in 

late April,” Laleh 

Malek, director of 

professional experience 

in the center for 

applied business and 

economic research, 

said. “Each time a 

team loses they have 

to come on a Tuesday 

night where one will 

get ‘fired’ by John 

Tolmie, and then the winning team 

just keeps going until the very end. 

“The The cases case are 

coming from 

actual 

business so s that’s 

one way for them to 

get to know 

our students. 

The final two compete for the job.” 

Malek, coordinator of The Associate, 

said 28 students 

applied for the competition. 

To par- 

Laleh Malek 

Coordinator of The Associate 

ticipate, students 

must be business 

majors who are 

graduating the year 

of the competition. 

Students fill out a 

written application 

and make a video 

to earn a spot in 

the field. 

Past “Donalds” 

were primarily 

based in the finan- 

cial industry, but this year the com- 

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ASSOCIATE: 

Focal point 

of contest is 

health care 

From page 7 

petition is moving away from that 

field. 

Ed Hale, chairman and CEO of 

1 st Mariner Bank, was in charge of 

hiring and firing for The Associate’s 

first season in 2005. Frank Bramble 

of Bank of America served as the 

“Donald” in 2006, and Jonathan 

P. Murray, senior vice president of 

investments and wealth management 

specialist for United Business 

Solutions, held the position in 2007. 

“We decided to move away from 

the financial arena into healthcare,” 

Malek said. “We thought St. 

Joseph’s, being right next door to 

us, would be a great option for us to 

work with, and John Tolmie was very 

excited when we approached him 

about becoming our new ‘Donald.’” 

The first introductory boardroom 

meeting is Tuesday in Stephens Hall 

from 5-7 p.m. The group will be split 

into two competing teams. 

Case study presentations will take 

place on Sunday and firings will 

occur the following Tuesday evening. 

According to Malek, the program has 

been a success from the beginning. 

“If you look at the first year, when 

Ed Hale was our ‘Donald Trump,’ he 

hired four students. Three of them 

are still working for them three years 

later, and are very successful in their 

positions,” Malek said. 

Malek said the program also helps 

strengthen Towson University’s ties 

with the Baltimore business community. 

“The Associate program has 

become very well known in the community,” 

Malek said. “The cases are 

coming from actual businesses, so 

that’s one way for them to get to 

know our students.” 

She also said that many of the 

businesses that offer cases to the 

program end up hiring contestants 

who are fired. While unable to offer 

any specific companies that will be 

working with this year’s candidates, 

she said that, “very big names are 

participating in the competition.” 

Many of this year’s contestants 

were pushed to apply following success 

in the classroom. 

“I wasn’t going to do it, but my 

professor encouraged me to apply. 

So I gave it a shot and made it,” 

marketing major Heather Hurley, 

one of this year’s eight contestants, 

said. 

Most of the contestants said they 

were motivated because of how great 

of an opportunity it is. 

“I thought it was a great opportunity 

to demonstrate what I can 

do, and what I have learned,” management 

major Brian Coulter said. 

“It’s a unique opportunity that’s not 

available anywhere else.” 

The competition begins Tuesday 

at 5 p.m. at Stephens Hall, Room 

218. 

2008 ASSOCIATE CANDIDATES 

news 

WINNER: Malone gained experience 

From page 7 

What did the other team do?” he 

said. 

Malone said that his most 

memorable moment was losing a 

case study that involved Girls’ Life 

Magazine. 

“It was the first time all that 

work was done for nothing. It was 

really the only time I knew someone 

was going to get fired, and had 

to look at my team’s members and 

Photos courtesy of the College of Business and Economics 

think, ‘Which one of us is it going 

be?,’” he said. 

During competition, Malone’s 

schedule was chaotic. Between 

working 20 hours a week, and taking 

a full course load, he worked 

with his Associate teammates in 

the only remaining time he had. 

“You literally have no social life 

during the competition,” he said. 

The experience allowed him 

to gain the practical experience 

needed to succeed in areas such 

Shelby Cooperman is an international 

business and marketing 

major with a minor in Spanish. 

She is a member of the Alpha 

Kappa Psi fraternity, and the 

CBE Council. 

Why will you be The 

Associate? “I am going to win 

because of my leadership skills, 

my ability to compete, and my 

ability to solve problems within 

groups.” 

Amanda Gutin is a marketing 

major with a minor in Spanish 

from Crofton. She is a member of 

Phi Mu, the American Marketing 

Assoc., the Order of the Omega, 

the NSCS, and an intern at 

Community Analytics. 


Associate? “If you can see yourself 

accomplishing something, 

there’s no stopping you. I have 

all of the skills necessary and am 

very competitive.” 

Heather Hurley is a business 

administration major with a concentration 

in marketing. She is 

from Hughesville, Md. She was 

an intern at Community Analytics 

in Canton. 


Associate? “I think that I am 

a very good team player, but once 

the competition gets going and 

people start getting fired, I know 

how to succeed independently.” 

Jennifer Nevin is a business 

administration major with a concentration 

in marketing. She is 

from Bel Air, a member of the 

American Marketing Association, 

and an intern at the Better 

Business Bureau and Phillip’s 

Foods. 


Associate? “I’m going to win 

because I feel like I’m a really 

hard worker. I like working with 

others.” 

as public speaking, teamwork and 

presentation preparation. He said 

his ability to engage the boardroom 

in his presentations led to 

his success in the competition, an 

asset some of his fellow candidates 

struggled with. 

“You need to be able to speak 

in front of a crowd, all of whom 

are scrutinizing every word you’re 

saying,” he said. “The first person 

that stutters is probably going be 

the first person to get fired.” 

The intense atmosphere 

shouldn’t be a deterrent, he said. 

Malone also considers it an opportunity 

to challenge himself and 

build a strong resume. 

“It helps you grow and develop 

as a young professional. It gives 

you tools [to] show employers,” 

he said. “It helps you build quite 

a resume to show employers that 

this is what you bring to the table. 

It’s something you can use 10 or 12 

years down the road.” 

Brian Coulter is a business administration 

major from Frederick. 

He interns with the CBE Student 

Academic Services, is the president 

of the Society for Human Resource 

Management, and is the editor-inchief 

of the “CBE Connect” student 

e-newsletter. 


Associate? “I’m the only management 

candidate, and I see that as 

an advantage knowing that I’ve 

learned things they haven’t been 

exposed to.” 

Kim Hawk is a business administration 

major from Glen Burnie. 

She is currently a member of the 

American Marketing Assoc., Beta 

Gamma Sigma, and an intern for 

TU as the Marketing Coordinator 

for Arts and Culture events. 


Associate? “I believe my academic 

and professional experiences 

show that I’m driven to succeed. 

That’s apparent inthe results of my 

work and I feel that I’ll be able to 

do that in this competition.” 

Rommel Jones is a marketing 

major with an E-business minor. 

He is from Monrovia, Liberia, and 

lives in Laurel. He is a member 

of the American Marketing Assoc., 

the AARP, and is an intern at Wells 

Fargo. 


Associate? “My primary strength 

in this competition is experience. 

Skills that give me an edge are my 

ability to use cross-discipline business 

concepts, critical thinking, risk 

analysis and time management.” 

David Saxe is a business administration 

major with a concentration 

in marketing. He is a 

founding father of Alpha Kappa 

Psi, a member of the American 

Marketing Association, and is the 

captain of the men’s club volleyball. 


Associate? “I’m going to win 

because of my leadership abilities, 

determination and drive to 

be successful.”

PAW PRINTS 

Forty bins added 

to Tower B as part 

of University-wide 

recycling project 

More than 40 recycling bins were 

placed in Tower B over the weekend 

as part of a new recycling program 

for on-campus housing. 

“[This program is] to determine 

if the University should move forward 

with putting recycling bins 

n every floor of the residence 

alls,” Pam Martin, communicaions 

specialist in administration 

nd finance, said. 

This experiment places two bins 

on each floor of the building – one 

for bottles and cans, and one for 

paper products. The recycling outlets 

will be placed in the trash chute 

room on every floor. 

According to Martin, the administration 

feels strongly about the program 

because students have been 

proactive in regard to recycling. 

Some residents have set up their 

a multi-prong approach to getting 

information out.” 

According to Herring, about 

6,000 individuals have signed up 

to receive the text messages. 

Lindsey McCurdy, a junior 

political science and economics 

major, signed up for the 

text message program because 

her boyfriend attends Virginia 

Tech. With professors demanding 

phones be turned off and 

sometimes confiscating phones, 

students may not be receiving 

vital text messages. 

Provost James Clements said 

e was not aware that profesors 

were taking phones from 

tudents. 

“If we’re using this as an emerency 

management system and 

ext is a primary form of that, 

you would want your students 

urrently on the campus and in 

lasses to know,” he said. 

Some students aren’t sure 

ow to receive the University 

lerts on their phone. 

“I don’t even know how [to 

ign up for the messaging sysem],” 

freshman occupational 

herapy major Lauren Crawford 

aid. “I remember they menioned 

it at orientation, but I 

on’t remember them telling us 

ow to do it.” 

Herring said the contract for 

he campus-wide siren system 

as been awarded and the comany 

is working to complete the 

nstallation. That system would 

e another method of alerting 

tudents. 

Clements said he would bring 

own system of recycling on the 

floors of their buildings by making 

makeshift bins of their own 

and taking recyclables down to the 

larger bin in the main lobby, Martin 

said. 

This program begins on Feb. 18. 

If the students of Tower B react 

positively and use the bins, the 

recycling efforts could be expanded 

to all the residence halls. 

--Carrie Wood 

Pedestrian path 

moved closer to 

Millenium Hall 

through April 

Starting Feb. 18, the pedestrian 

path leading around the West 

Village housing complex to the 

Towson Run Apartments will move 

south, closer to Millennium Hall 

until April. 

The first phase of the West Village 

will include two residence halls and 

will include about 670 beds. 

The path was originally locat- 

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= New Buildings 

= Student Pathway 

= Construction Area 

Towson Run 

Apt.Millennium Hall 

ed further north near Enrollment 

Services and then it was shifted 

more to the middle as construction 

progressed. 

“I think what we expect is, it’s 

going to move one more time in 

April to the north location, and it 

will stay there until the permanent 

path [is built],” David Mayhew, 

PHONES: Texting in class 

From cover 

the issue of professors restricting 

cell phone use to the attention of 

Towson President Robert Caret 

and chief of police Bernie Gerst. 

All three sit on the University’s 

Emergency Crisis Management 

Team. 

“I will also discuss it with the 

academic deans and the academic 

chairs to get their views,” 

Clements added. 

Professors find text 

messages distracting 

to lecture 

Professors say they have good 

reason for objecting to the electronic 

message craze. 

“It interrupts the class and it 

sometimes breaks the train of 

thought in the lecture,” senior 

management lecturer Donald 

McCulloh said. “If a professor is 

really moving along, it’s a disruptive 

influence.” 

Such a disruption comes from 

what some teachers claimed to 

be generational upbringing. 

“I think that this is a generation 

that was raised on multitasking,” 

Ann Rothschild, 

assistant family studies professor, 

said. 

But English lecturer Steve 

Heaney didn’t blame students 

and society. 

“It’s more of a diversion,” he 

said. “Students just get bored in 

class during a lecture. So if you 

keep students active, you won’t 

have any of that.” 

Some students said texting 

occurs in some classes more 

than others. 

“It’s not in every class, it’s 

Temporary 

Pedestrian walkway 

West Building East Building 

New Temporary Walkway Location 

director of architecture engineering 

and construction in facilities management, 

said. “When the housing 

opens [the path will] be constructed 

with lights and benches.” 

Construction is also continuing 

on Emerson Drive in front of 

Millennium Hall. The road will 

eventually be extended behind 

Enrollment Services 

Illustration by Jenn Long and Matt Laumann/The Towerlight 

The pedestrian pathway that leads around the West Village housing complex to the Towson Run 

Apartments will move closer to Millennium Hall beginning Feb. 18. The path will move again in April. 

only in the boring classes…Like 

night classes, the two hour and 

40-minute classes. Those are the 

ones I usually text in,” McCurdy 

said. 

Professors have also found 

creative ways to stop cell phone 

usage in their classes. Associate 

professor of economics Tom 

Rhoads has infamously answered 

students’ ringing phones in front 

of the entire class. 

“[It will] largely be to embarrass 

the student,” he said. “I’m 

an economist and I act on the 

basic of incentives.” 

McCurdy said she had a professor 

with another creative solution 

to cellular interruptions. 

“I had a professor who said if 

you were expecting something, 

that you could turn it on silent 

and bring it up front, and if you 

told him ahead of time you could 

come get it, and I thought that 

was fine,” McCurdy said. 

Other professors have simpler 

solutions. 

“I don’t let them do it,” assistant 

English professor Dana 

Phillips said. “I haven’t had a 

problem with it.” 

Blake Yospa, a sophomore 

sports management major, sees 

both sides to the argument. 

“You’re not respecting the 

teachers’ wishes. Most of the 

teachers say on the syllabus 

they don’t want to see the cell 

phone. They don’t want you to 

have it out. They want you to 

keep it turned off,” Yospa said. 

“But I think that’s a little farfetched 

to believe [that] every 

student would have their cell 

phone off.” 

TRIMESTER: 

Third term 

gets approval 

From cover 

“We are going to start this summer, so 

they are trying to determine what we 

need to launch now,” Clements said. “We 

need to get started fairly quickly, because 

it’s the middle of February and some 

summer course packets have already been 

sent out.” 

Clements hopes to have the programs 

laid out be the end of the month. 

The pilot, which received $170,000 

of state funding, will not replace the 

traditional 5-week and 7-week schedule. 

Instead, the 10-week session will be 

available to students in specific programs 

determined by the task force. According 

to the University’s written proposal, the 

pilot will target programs that support 

workforce needs in Maryland and those 

that require extensive lab time. 

The primary goal of the pilot is to make 

more efficient use of space on campus 

during traditionally slow times of the 

year, Clements said 

According to the proposal, the 

University has averaged 2,075 full-time 

equivalent students during the summer 

term over the last three years. 

With the addition of the 10-week summer 

term, they hope to grow enrollment 

by 2 to 4 percent or 42 to 84 FTE students. 

The task force will also be charged with 

determining how the trimester program 

will affect faculty workload. According 

to Clements, the program will provide 

faculty members additional flexibility in 

scheduling their courses throughout three 

terms as opposed to splitting their time 

only between the fall and the spring. 

Towson Run and will empty out 

onto Towsontown Boulevard. 

Work on Emerson Drive is scheduled 

for completion in August 

2008, but Mayhew said the road 

will not open until the West Village 

Commons Building is complete tentatively 

scheduled to open in 2010. 

--Sharon Leff 

SUNSHINE: 

URG to send 

sick child to 

Disney World 

From page 7 

some sort of fundraiser,” Goldstein 

said. “It wasn’t just that they were 

selling a couple things because they 

had to. I really saw these building 

council members truly put their 

hearts into it. I saw so much passion.” 

The URG executive board is also 

working to create a campus-wide 

fund-raiser. They plan to table in the 

University Union during the next 

few weeks. 

They will be selling small paper 

suns for a dollar each in order to 

raise money. Students will write 

their names on the suns, which will 

be displayed around the URG office 

in Tower C. 

Goldstein has chosen to head this 

project because of a personal experience 

she had with the Sunshine 

Foundation. 

“I have a cousin who passed away 

from cancer a few years ago, and 

the Sunshine Foundation sponsored 

his wish,” Goldstein said. “To see 

firsthand the difference that the 

Sunshine Foundation made for him, 

and having this wish granted for 

him, was just an absolutely amazing 

experience for him and for our 

entire family.” 

Goldstein has received support 

from the National Residence 

Hall Honorary and the Student 

Government Association, but has 

mostly focused on the efforts of the 

building councils. 


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Lindsey Tanner 

Caryn Rousseau 

Associated Press 

Beyond Baltimore 

Residents mourn students’ death 

Authorities have 

not been able to 

determine motive 

behind shootings 

CICERO, Ill. (AP) _ The middleclass 

Chicago suburbs that send 

their sons and daughters to Northern 

Illinois University struggled Sunday 

with the closeness of the country's 

latest massacre — this time the gunman 

grew up among them, in a community 

some consider "Mayberry." 

Thousands mourned in church 

services across the region, including 

some in DeKalb, the university 

town where residents have taken to 

wearing the red and black of the 

NIU Huskies since five people were 

murdered in the middle of a science 

lecture Thursday. 

Parishioners at Our Lady of the 

Mount Catholic Church in blue-collar 

Cicero, on Chicago's southern 

fringe, prepared for the funeral of 

Catalina Garcia, the youngest of four 

children of parents originally from 

Guadalajara, Mexico. They're longtime 

parishioners at Our Lady of 

the Mount, a tight-knit group of low 

and middle-income families, many of 

them young, with some older Czech 

and other immigrants. 

"Their parents are making all sorts 

of sacrifices to make sure the kids get 

into colleges. They're selling things, 

they're taking out second mortgages 

on their homes," the Rev. Lawrence 

Collins said at the church. 

Garcia, 20, followed a brother, 

Jaime, to NIU, choice of many working-class 

Chicago-area families. She 

was studying to be a teacher, and 

had talked about coming back to 

Cicero to teach first grade. 

Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press 

A lone mourner at Northern Illinois University places flowers at a memorial for the five victims of 

the Valentines Day shooting on the campus of NIU in DeKalb, Ill., Sunday, Feb. 17. 

"It hits really close to home," 

Collins said. 

The Garcias were the "typical 

Mexican-American family," working 

low-wage jobs to help put their children 

through school, Jaime Garcia 

said Sunday on the porch of the family's 

two-story red brick home. 

"My parents came here to better 

their lives," he said. They worried 

more about their children getting 

caught in gang crossfire at home 

than away at college "in the cornfields" 

of DeKalb. 

"It's like the all-American dream 

cut short," he said. 

Investigators still haven't determined 

what set off 27-year-old shooter 

Steven Kazmierczak, who killed 

five students and injured more than 

a dozen other people with a shotgun 

and pistols and took his own life, 

Kazmierczak grew up to the west, 


Northern Illinois University student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, shot and killed five 

students during a science lecture Feb. 14, before committing suicide. 

in Elk Grove Village, and played 

saxophone in the school band. He 

spent time in a mental health facility 

in his late teens, and police have 

said without elaboration that he had 

stopped taking some kind of medication 

in the days or weeks before the 

shooting. 

His family has moved away, but the 

shooting still echoed in the Elk Grove 

Village, near O'Hare International 

Airport. Resident Pat Egan, a heating 

and cooling repair man whose 

son goes to NIU, described the suburb 

as "Mayberry." 

People there seemed to feel a 

sense of disbelief and confusion over 

the attack that thrust their community 

into the news, said the Rev. Hwa 

Young Chong at the Prince of Peace 

United Methodist Church. 

"I couldn't believe coming from 

a place like Elk Grove he could do 

that," said Judy 

Glomski, who 

has lived in Elk 

Grove Village for 

39 years. "It's 

just a friendly 

town. I guess 

there are sick 

people everywhere." 

Kazmierczak 

attended NIU, 

studying sociology. 

Three 

semesters back, 

he transferred 

across state to 

the more prestigious 

University 

of Illinois in 

Champaign. 

Most students 

and professors 

on both campuses 

remembered 

him as a promising student. 

Yet he'd begun assembling an 

arsenal in August, buying a shotgun 

and three menacing handguns from 

a small Champaign gun shop. He 

added oversized ammunition clips in 

an Internet purchase from the same 

dealer that sold the Virginia Tech 

gunman a weapon. 

Kazmierczak had also begun the 

long process of having his arms blanketed 

with disturbing tattoos, including 

a skull pierced by a knife, a pentagram 

and the macabre clown from 

the "Saw" horror movies, superimposed 

on images of bleeding slashes 

across his forearm. 

Some NIU parents took the shootings 

as a call to action, speaking out 

for stricter gun control in hopes the 

tragedy would propel the issue into 

the presidential campaign. Connie 

Catellani, a Skokie physician whose 

22-year-old son is an NIU senior, 

helped organize a weekend news 

conference with other NIU parents. 

"It's sickening. What are we supposed 

to do, surround college campuses 

with barbed wire and metal 

detectors?" Catellani said Sunday. 

"If somebody had walked into 

that classroom with a hand grenade, 

there would be outrage, yet when 

someone walked in with a handgun 

that's capable of firing off 30 or 50 

rounds in a minute, there's not the 

same sense of urgency," she said. 

Her son, Tony Skelton, was in art 

class when the shootings occurred. 

Catellani heard about the shootings 

from a friend, but was unable to 

reach her son for more than an 

hour. 

"It felt eternal," she said. "And at 

the end of it, I was overjoyed to hear 

from him and all I could think was 

a lot of parents are not going to get 

this kind of phone call." 

College 

town feels 

affects of 

shooting 

Community 

members reflect 

after NIU deaths 

Ashley M. Heher 


DEKALB, Ill. - Northern Illinois 

University is a beacon among 

the cornfields to young people 

from surrounding communities 

that stretch into the outskirts of 

Chicago, about 60 miles east. 

Familiar faces are many on the 

campus of 25,000, where students 

who have followed the paths of 

high school classmates before 

them travel home with friends on 

weekends. 

The proximity amplifies the 

sorrow felt beyond DeKalb, a farm 

town fast becoming a bedroom 

community, after a shooting rampage 

Thursday by a gunman who 

killed five students and wounded 

16 others before committing suicide. 

"It's a personal attack on 

anyone who's ever been affiliated 

with Northern," said Elaine 

Goodwin, a retired professor who 

wiped tears from her eyes after a 

church service Sunday. "There's a 

loyalty. There's a pride in being 

part of NIU." 

Such solidarity in the face 

of tragedy has become one of 

the few, and unfortunate, traits 

shared by the Illinois university 

and Virginia Tech, where student 

Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people 

last April before killing himself. 

Virginia Tech's sprawling 

Blacksburg campus is more than 

three times NIU's size, covering 

about 2,600 acres, and about 75 

percent of the 23,000 undergraduates 

hail from Virginia. More 

than 90 percent of NIU students 

are Illinois residents — many from 

suburban Chicago — and nearly 

40 percent of undergrads leave 

the 755-acre campus for home 

each weekend. 

Still, the two campuses are now 

indelibly linked and reaching out 

to one another for help. 

After the Virginia Tech shootings, 

NIU students spent hours 

stringing together rosary beads 

for students in Blacksburg, 

Monsignor Glenn Nelson, director 

of the NIU Newman Catholic 

Student Center, said at a service 

Friday.

Web site chronicles 

students’ sex-lives 

Some are calling 

for a ban on new 

college-based 

networking site 

Justin Pope 


The Cornell University junior 

was in his dorm between classs 

when the text message came 

n from a friend. Check out 

JuicyCampus.com, it said. 

The student found his name on 

he Web site beside a rambling, 

ilthy passage about his sexual 

xploits, posted by an anonymous 

tudent on campus. The young 

an could only hope the comentary 

was so ridiculous nobody 

would believe it. 

"I thought, `Is this going to 

affect my job employment? Is this 

going to make people on campus 

look at me? Are people going to 

talk about me behind my back?" 

said the student, who asked not 

to be identified. He also wondered 

about his 11-year-old sister, 

who is spending 

ore time on the 

nternet. "What if 

he Googles me? 

hat will she 

hink about her 

ig brother?" he 

aid. 

JuicyCampus' 

ndless threads 

f anonymous 

nnuendo have 

een a popular 

eb destination 

n the seven 

ollege campuses where the site 

aunched last fall, including Duke, 

CLA and Loyola Marymount. It 

ecently expanded to 50 more, 

nd many of the postings show 

hey've been viewed hundreds 

nd even thousands of times. 

But JuicyCampus has proved 

o poisonous there are signs of a 

acklash. 

In campus debates over 

nternet freedom, students norally 

take the side of openness 

nd access. This time, however, 

tudent leaders, newspaper ediorials 

and posters on the site 

re fighting back — with some 

ven asking administrators to ban 

JuicyCampus. It's a kind of plea to 

ave the students, or at least their 

eputations, from themselves. 

"It is an expression from our 

tudent body that we don't want 

his junk in our community," said 

Andy Canales, leader of the stuent 

government at Pepperdine, 

which recently voted 23-5 to ask 

or a ban. 

The vote came after a long and 

motional debate on the limits 

f free speech, and was swayed 

y stories from students such as 

aley Frazier, a junior residential 

College students stud are 

clever and ffun-loving, 

and we wanted wa 

to 

create a space where 

they can share 

their stories. 

adviser. She had recently come 

across a teary transfer student 

who had been humiliated on the 

site barely a week after arriving 

on campus. 

"I can't imagine the disgust 

she must have for Pepperdine 

if that's what (students) say," 

Frazier said. 

College administrators say they 

are appalled by the site but have 

no control over it since students 

can see it outside the campus 

computer network. They say all 

they can do is urge students not 

to post items or troll for malicious 

gossip — and hope that in the 

process they learn about how to 

get along. 

That tactic may be having an 

effect. 

At a number of campuses where 

JuicyCampus was a hot topic even 

just a few weeks ago, students and 

administrators say use and complaints 

have tapered off sharply. 

That's hard to confirm; Internet 

tracker comScore Inc. says the 

site's visitor numbers are too low 

to be counted by its system. 

But more and more postings 

criticize the site, with comments 

like, "let's 

Matt Ivester 

Founder, JuicyCampus.com 

not ruin each 

other's lives," 

and, "If you 

can't personalize 

any of the 

stuff you read 

or write here, 

imagine it happening 

to your 

sister or your 

best friend." 

"People 

have gotten 

just extremely 

sick of hearing all this stuff," said 

Rachelle Palisoc, a freshman at 

Loyola Marymount in California, 

who joined a Facebook group 

called "Ban Juicycampus!!!!" that 

has about 850 members. 

Free to use and supported by 

advertising, JuicyCampus is a simple 

conduit urging users to post 

gossip and promising them total 

anonymity. There are threads on 

campus hook-ups, who's popular 

and who's overweight. 

"Top ten freshman sluts" reads 

one typical thread, and "The 

Jews ruin this school" another. 

Homophobia is common. Many 

postings combine the cruelty of 

a middle school playground, the 

tight social dynamics of a college 

campus and the alarming global 

reach of the Internet. 

JuicyCampus pledges that it 

blocks its discussion boards from 

being indexed by search sites like 

Google, and that appears to be 

true. 

"College students are clever and 

fun-loving, and we wanted to create 

a place where they could share 

their stories," said Matt Ivester, 

the site's founder, who agreed to 

answer questions by e-mail. 

Beyond Baltimore 

Eight dead after car crash 

A white Ford Crown Victoria struck and killed several people 

watching an illegal street-race in southern Maryland Saturday 

Haraz N. Ghanbari/Associated Press 

Vehicles are driven on Indian Head Highway past a memorial, Sunday, Feb. 17. Seven people were 

pronounced dead at the scene, and an eighth died later at a hospital following a street race. 

Stephen Manning 


ACCOKEEK, Md. (AP) - A car 

plowed into a group of street-racing 

fans obscured by a cloud of tire 

smoke on a highway Saturday, killing 

eight people and scattering bodies in 

the early morning darkness. 

At least five others were injured 

in the gruesome wreck along a flat, 

isolated stretch of highway about 20 

miles south of Washington known 

for illegal races. 

About 50 people were gathered 

before dawn along Route 210 as 

two cars spun their wheels, kicked 

up smoke and sped off, said Prince 

George's County police Cpl. Clinton 

Copeland. 

Fans had spilled onto the smoky, 

dark road to watch the cars drive 

away when a white Ford Crown 

Victoria unexpectedly came up from 

behind and smashed into them. 

"There were just bodies everywhere; 

it was horrible," said Crystal 

Gaines, 27, of Indian Head, whose 

father was killed. 

Police interviewed the Crown 

Victoria driver, but no charges were 

pending, Copeland said. Authorities 

were looking for the drivers of the 

two cars involved in the race. 

The combination of the smoke 

and the dark morning likely meant 

the unsuspecting driver could not 

see the crowd, police said. A tractortrailer 

that came by shortly afterward 

may also have struck someone 

on the roadside as it tried to avoid 

the crash scene, according to investigators. 

The Crown Victoria, which had 

a crumpled hood and a partially 

collapsed roof, ended up down an 

embankment with one of the victims 

lodged inside. 

Bodies covered by white sheets 

lay in the road and on the shoulder 

across a 50-foot stretch of the 

road later Saturday morning before 

they were removed by the medical 

examiner. 

Shoes were strewn about in the 

grass, and a pair of dark skid marks 

scarred the highway. 

"It's probably one of the worst 

scenes I've seen," Copeland said. 

"This is a situation that could have 

been avoided, and it's a very tragic 

situation." 

About 50 people were watching 

the race, Gaines said, and she saw 

the Crown Victoria approach without 

its lights on. She grabbed her daughter, 

pulling the girl to safety. But her 

father, William Gaines Sr., 61, had a 

broken leg, and was not able to get 

away in time. Afterward, she found 

his body on the road. 

"He wasn't breathing; he wasn't 

moving," Gaines said. "His body was 

in pieces." 

Her brother, William Gaines Jr., 

was also there. The car came through 

so fast that "it just ripped people 

apart," he said. 

"I didn't even see the car. All I 

heard was stuff breaking," he said. 

Police could not confirm whether 

the car that struck the crowd had its 

lights on. 

The victims' ages ranged from 

their 20s to 60s, police said. Seven 

people were pronounced dead at the 

scene, and an eighth died later at a 

hospital. Police said a body found in 

the car was one of the spectators and 

not a passenger, as they had previously 

assumed. 

Route 210 is a thoroughfare with 

two lanes in each direction and few 

traffic lights along the stretch where 

the accident occurred. The road is 

flanked by some businesses but has 

little traffic in the early morning, 

Copeland said. The speed limit is 55 

miles per hour. 

John Courtney said his brother, 

Mark, 33, of St. Mary's County, also 

was among the dead. He identified 

his brother from a digital image 

police had taken. 

"He liked going to the race track, 

watching races," Courtney said. "It's 

going to take a toll on my family for 

a long time." 

Marion Neal feared her 42-year-old 

brother was among the dead and was 

awaiting images from the police. 

"It's a tragedy," she said. "I don't 

like racing, but that was his hobby." 

Police said that street races are not 

uncommon on the stretch of road, 

but that most occur in the summer 

and involve motorcycles. But relatives 

said some of the victims often 

went to see races held late at night 

on isolated stretches of road. 11 

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MEN’S LACROSSE 

After disappointing 

loss, TU roars back 

Goaltending in question as 

Tigers aim for postseason 

Pete Lorenz 

Sports Editor 

Heading into its 50th season of 

college lacrosse, the Towson Tigers 

look to improve upon two consecutive 

winning seasons that ended in 

losses in the CAA and NCAA tournaments. 

Towson, led by seniors Brian 

Vetter and Jonathan Engelke, was 

picked to finish second in the CAA 

this season, trailing only Drexel. 

“Number one is to go back and 

win the CAA, so we can have the 

tournament here,” head coach Tony 

Seaman said. “The second goal 

would be to win that tournament 

so we can be in the NCAA [tournament] 

automatically. Our third goal 

is always to get into the NCAA and 

see how far we can get.” 

The Tigers must play on after 

losing their assist leader and secondhighest 

goal scorer in Bobby Griebe 

to graduation. An honorable mention 

all-American, Griebe led the team in 

total points in 2007 with 24 goals 

and 23 assists, and Seaman said his 

contributions would be missed. 

“It’s always tough when you lose 

your seniors. Every single year you 

lose good players,” Seaman said. “I 

think [Vetter and Engelke] can certainly 

handle their loads.” 

In addition to Griebe, the Tigers 

also lost senior midfielder Nick 

Williams to graduation and sharpshooting 

midfielder Cryder DiPietro 

who transferred to North Carolina 

after the season ended. 

But now, Vetter and Engelke 

lead the team into a perilous CAA 

schedule and a brutal non-confer- 


News Editor 

Most of the time his lips are 

sealed and his eyes are down. 

Quiet and slightly built, Towson 

freshman Tim Stratton doesn’t 

look like the prototypical lacrosse 

player that Charm City has become 

accustomed to as the sport has 

increased in popularity during the 

last decade. 

He doesn’t have the linebacker 

build of Johns Hopkins’ Stephen 

ence schedule that includes trips 

to Maryland and Johns Hopkins as 

well as home games against Virginia 

and Pennsylvania. 

“The CAA is one of the top two 

every year,” Seaman said. “Our 

strength of schedule is also overwhelming. 

We got to the final four in 

2001. Delaware got there last year.” 

Vetter tallied 15 goals and 10 

assists last season as Engelke led the 

Tigers with 25 goals. The seniors will 

be joined by freshman Tim Stratton 

to lead the offense. Junior Randall 

Cooper, who played attack last season, 

has been moved back to the 

midfield where he started his career 

at Towson. A year ago, Cooper scored 

19 goals and tallied 12 assists. 

Senior Blake Best joined the 

Tigers in the fall after transferring 

in from Lehigh where he guided 

the Mountain Hawks offense for 

two years. Best blew out his knee 

last season and missed the majority 

of the schedule. According to 

Seaman, Best had recovered and 

played well during the fall schedule 

but re-injured his knee and underwent 

surgery over the winter. He is 

out indefinitely, but the Tigers hope 

he returns by April. 

Vetter tallied 15 goals and 10 

assists last season, and Engelke, 

whose 25 goals led the team in 2007, 

will work on offense with Cooper, 

who scored 19 goals and 12 assists. 

The goaltending situation, however, 

is more clouded. Seniors Matt 

Antol and Billy Sadtler will continue 

to battle for the starting spot 

between the pipes. 

“Right now, it’s dead spanking 

Peyser or the all-American pedigree 

of former Tiger scorer Bobby Griebe. 

He didn’t even pick up a stick until 

seventh grade before playing high 

school ball for Manheim Township 

High School, the only high school 

in the district. 

Stratton may not arrive at Towson 

with Baltimore’s preferred pastime 

flowing through his veins, but he 

does bring a record no other player 

in the area can claim. 

In four years of varsity lacrosse, 

Stratton scored 587 points, breaking 

the national record previously 

held be Duke’s Mike Quinzani and 

the legendary Casey Powell prior to 

Quinzani. 

To Stratton, the record 

doesn’t mean much. 

“There weren’t too many good 

teams I had to play against in my 

2008 Spring Sports Preview 

File photo/Patrick Smith/The Towerlight 

Senior goaltender Matt Antol, left, and fellow senior keeper Billy Sadtler are battling it out for the 

starting position between the pipes. The race is currently dead even. 

even,” Seaman said. “Tomorrow [a 

scrimmage game] against Princeton 

will be a big determining factor. 

Right now Matt Antol, the starter 

from last year, and Billy Sadtler are 

dead even.” 

area. Lacrosse just isn’t very popular 

there,” he said modestly. “It 

really isn’t a very big deal.” 

Stratton’s first taste of major 

college lacrosse came during fall 

ball when Towson played top-level 

programs such as Penn and North 

Carolina; experiences he and his 

coaches both felt were valuable to 

his progression. As a final dress 

rehearsal for the season opener 

against the Loyola Greyhounds Feb. 

23, Stratton started on a shorthanded 

roster against Lehigh, as 

he and junior Billy McCutcheon led 

Towson to a victory in the scrimmage. 

With his emergence during 

the off season, head coach Tony 

Seaman and his staff has had the 

opportunity to move players back 

to more natural positions, such as 

Drexel, who was picked to finish 

first in the CAA by the league’s 

coaches’ poll, returns its top two 

goal-scorers, including senior 

Andrew Chapman, who tallied 42 

goals in 2007. The top-three in 

junior Randall Cooper, who played 

near the net for most of last season, 

back to the midfield. 

Aside from his point totals, his 

coaches have been most impressed 

by what he does aside from score 

goals. 

“You think about a scorer and 

you think of the glory position of 

the guy celebrating after scoring the 

goal,” offensive coordinator Andrew 

Combs said. “Timmy does a great 

job of getting ground balls. He does 

the dirty work. He’ll ride someone 

and play defense and he is tremendous 

at picking up the loose balls. 

He’ll dodge and go to the goal when 

he needs to but he does so much 

more than that.” 

His primary goal is simply fitting 

into the Tigers’ attack with 

an opening in the starting line 

assists recorded also return for the 

Dragons, who look to top its 2007 

results in which the team shared the 

regular season CAA title and beat 

then-No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers early in 

the season. 

Softspoken freshman could spark Tigers in 2008 

After breaking 

high school record 

for points, Stratton 

joins Tiger squad 

up that recently became available. 

Senior transfer Blake Best, who 

battled knee problems throughout 

his career at Lehigh, underwent 

surgery during the winter following 

a strong fall schedule, leaving a 

spot alongside Tigers’ top returning 

scorer Jonathan Engelke vacant. 

According to Seaman, Stratton 

will likely fill the void until Best 

is fully healed, though, the head 

coach was quick to recognize if 

the freshman is successful, he will 

remain set atop the depth chart. 

“People get hurt and others have 

to step up and take their place,” 

Seaman said. “I’m sure people 

weren’t sure about Tom Brady when 

he had to step in, and then there 

was that guy Lou Gehrig. Sometimes 

you never know what you have until 

they get on the field.”

WOMEN’S LACROSSE 

Tigers look to win 

more close games 

After going 1-4 in 

one-goal games in 

2007, Towson must 

clamp down late 

Kevin Hess 

Assistant Sports Editor 

After a disappointing 6-9 record, 

including four one-goal losses, the 

Tigers must work to finish strong in 

the close games that led to the team 

missing out on the CAA tournament 

for the first 

time since 2003. 

Led by a trio of 

offensively mind“Last 

yea 

ed juniors and a tough year 

veteran goaltener, 

the Tigers of players. T 

ook to return 

o prominence 

n the CAA in 

008. 

Entering her 

ifth year with 

he program 

fter compiling 

40-29 record, 

which included 

CAA Coach of 

the Year honors 

in 2004, head 

coach Missy 

Doherty said the 

team can learn 

from last year’s disappointment. 

“Last year was a tough year for a 

lot of players,” Doherty said. “This 

year, everybody on the team coming 

ack has seen those experiences, 

o there will be no situations they 

aven’t seen before.” 

The players recognize the closing 

inutes of the game will be crucial 

o their success this season, as they 

were last year. 

“We know what it’s like to be on 

the other side of one goal losses, 

and it’s not a good feeling,” senior 

goalie Mandy Corry said. “This year, 

we want to beat teams convincingly 

nd not worry about close games.” 

The Tigers, who were picked 

ourth in the preseason CAA poll, 

re led by dominating junior midielder 

Hillary Fratzke, who was 

amed first team all-CAA last year 

fter scoring 48 goals and recording 

total of 60 points. 

Fellow junior attacker Meggie 

cNamara and junior midfielder 

ritt Woodfield give the Tigers 

otential all-conference talent at 

ach position on the field, but the 

igers depth stretches far beyond 

The Big Three.” 

Corry said depth is a big strength 

f the team and it “can only help us 

his year.” 

“Our depth is great,” Doherty 

aid. “Our senior class is underated. 

They are a great class as far 

s leadership goes and showing 

Last year was a 

tough year for a lot 

of players. This year, 

everybody on the 

team coming back 

has seen those 

experiences, so 

there will be no 

situations they 

haven’t seen before 

Missy Doherty 

Head coach, women’s lacrosse 

the younger players the ropes. The 

seniors are definitely the leaders on 

this team.” 

While the upperclassmen will 

play a vital role in the team’s success 

this season, many underclassmen 

will be given the chance to add 

to an already potent mix. 

Young players such as sophomore 

Lauren McAfee and freshman Ali 

Lathroum will be able to contribute 

significantly, while sophomore midfielder 

Nikki Marcinik was “dominating 

at the end of last season,” 

according to Doherty. 

“We have a lot of personalities 

on this team, 

but we are all 

coming together 

and making this 

team the best it 

can be,” senior 

attacker Kendi 

Bauer said. “We 

have a really 

competitive 

squad this year.” 

Doherty said 

she is excited 

start the season 

and erase memories 

of an unsatisfactory 

’07. 

“I’m kinda 

psyched about 

our preseason 

rankings,” 

Doherty said of 

the Tigers fourth 

place prediction. “When you are 

ranked lower, there is not as much 

pressure. You become the hunter 

instead of the hunted. We are definitely 

ready to improve.” 

2007 Towson 

women’s lacrosse 

schedule & results 

One-goal games in bold italic 

American Win 17-7 

at Penn Loss 15-7 

at UNH Win 12-9 

at GWU Loss 11-10 

#11 Syracuse Loss 18-10 

#14 Richmond Win 10-9 

Loyola Loss 11-10 

at Delaware Loss 16-15 

at G Mason Win 19-13 

at #6 JMU Loss 13-8 

Old Dominion Loss 9-8 

Willaim & Mary Win 12-7 

at Hofstra Loss 14-11 

Drexel Win 12-6 

#13 JHU Loss 15-9 


Patrick Smith/The Towerlight 

Juniors Britt Woodfield, left, Hillary Fratzke, center, and Meggie McNamara lead a team in need of 

multiple scorers to create a team atmosphere. The ‘big three’ will attempt to answer the call in 2008 

After three years, three big threats 

Fratzke, McNamara, Woodfield lead a team nearly devoid 

of team chemistry in years past toward a better group effort 

Matt Vensel 

Associate Sports Editor 

As ice-cold raindrops poured 

from the grey clouds above and 

University administrators pondered 

the cancellation of evening classes 

on Wednesday, the Towson’s 

women lacrosse team trickled into 

the locker room after braving the 

elements at an afternoon practice 

session. 

Despite being cold, wet and 

winded, a trio of prominent juniors, 

Hillary Fratzke, Meggie McNamara 

and Britt Woodfield – the collective 

backbone of the team – maintained 

bright smiles, bright eyes 

and bright hopes for the upcoming 

season. 

The self-described “laxheads,” 

friends forever bound together 

since they cracked the starting 

lineup in their freshman season, 

now have an opportunity to let 

their talents shine as upperclassmen. 

“In our first two seasons, we 

kind of stayed in the shadows. But 

this year, Hillary, Britt and myself 

have stepped up as leaders on and 

off the field,” McNamara said. 

There’s a reason they were in 

the shadows: the now-graduated 

Shannon Witzel, Towson’s career 

goals leader, was hogging the spotlight. 

An old saying goes “the sum 

is greater than the whole of its 

parts,” but in recent years, Towson 

has relied on standout individuals 

like Witzel and Becky Trumbo to 

carry the load with mixed results. 

The Tigers lost in the first round of 

the NCAA tournament in 2005 and 

came up short in the CAA semifinals 

the following year. 

They tumbled to a 6-9 season 

last year, including a 3-4 record in 

the CAA play, and failed to reach 

postseason play. 

Subsequently, the Tigers have 

resolved to work together this season 

in the hopes that it will get 

them back to the CAA tournament 

and potentially beyond. 

“In the past we’ve had a lot of 

trouble meshing as a team, not necessarily 

because players aren’t talented 

enough, but because players 

were too talented and wanted to 

get everything done themselves,” 

Fratzke said. “We’ve realized this 

year that we have to play as a 

team.” 

“I think this year we’re coming 

together as a group,” Woodfield 

said. “We’re all working as a unit. 

We all know that we can score. 

It’s all about setting each other up 

instead of just working individually.” 

And while the talk around the 

team centers on putting team goals 

before personal ones, it’s hard to 


Britt Woodfield scored 19 goals in 2007 and added seven assists. 

Woodfield has made a name for herself as a versatile midfielder. 


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The Towerlight February 18, 2008


18 

BASEBALL 

Carrie Wood 


Despite being picked to finish 

next to last in 2008 on the CAA’s 

Web site, Towson has an optimistic 

view of the upcoming season. 

“We’re picked to finish pretty 

low,” outfielder Brian Conley said. 

“But we’re looking to surprise 

some teams and finish a lot higher 

than they’re expecting us to.” 

Last season, the Tigers finished 

their season 21 – 30 overall and 

11 – 18 in their conference, leaving 

them at the bottom of the CAA 

and just out of contention for the 

conference tournament. This year, 

they hope to end their regular 

season stronger than in the past 

and make it to the postseason 

tournament. 

“We had a rough year last year. 

We came really close to making 

the tournament, but there were a 

lot of teams low in the CAA so we 

were tossed up with them,” closer 

Jon Dupski said. “We came within 


Strong infield, new rotation highlight 2008 Tigers 

two games of making the tournament 

but ended up not [making 

it]. I think we’ll do a lot better 

this year.” 

Although they were once the 

top home-run hitting team in 

the nation, the Tigers have now 

switched their focus to pitching. 

With strong arms at starting and 

relief positions, the coaching staff 

is not concerned with depth in the 

bullpen. 

“I think it’s as deep of a pitching 

staff as we’ve had since I’ve 


The Tigers have a tough schedule ahead of them, but the team still has high hopes to make the CAA 

tournament. Despite being picked to finish las in the CAA, Towson looks to prove the skeptics wrong. 

Towson baseball 

2008 schedule 

2/22 @ St. Mary’s (Cal) 

2/23 @ St. Mary’s (Cal) DH 

2/24 @ St. Mary’s (Cal) 

2/26 @ Maryland 

2/29 @ Georgia Southern 



3/5 @ Delaware State 

3/7 @ UNC-Wilmington 



3/11 UMBC 

3/12 Mt. St. Mary’s 

3/14 @ James Madison 



3/18 @ NC State 

3/19 @ NC State 

3/21 Hofstra 

3/22 Hofstra 

3/23 Hofstra 

3/25 George Washington 

3/26 @ Naval Academy 

3/28 Albany 

3/29 Albany (DH) 

4/1 @ Virginia 


4/4 George Mason 



4/8 Bucknell 

4/9 Temple 

4/11 Old Dominion 



4/15 Delaware State 

4/16 @ George Washington 

4/18 @ Northeastern 



4/23 Maryland 

4/25 William and Mary 



4/29 @ UMBC 

5/2 @ VCU 

5/3 @ VCU 

5/4 @ VCU 


5/9 @ Delaware 



5/15 Georgia State 



been here, which is forever,” head 

coach Mike Gottlieb, who has been 

at Towson since 1978, said. “What 

we don’t know yet is who our No. 

1 guy is. Hopefully somebody will 

step above everyone else and make 

it known that he’s our best guy.” 

Defensively, the Tigers have held 

on to sophomore 

Nick Natoli at 

shortstop and 

junior Gary 

Helmick at second 

base, both 

who contributed 

to a productive 

infield last season 

and helped 

to break the 

school record for 

double-plays. 

“Last year I 

think we were 

probably the top 

defensive team 

“Last year I 

were prob 

top defensiv 

in the CAA,” 

Helmick said. 

“If it all comes 

together we 

should be about the same as, if, 

not better than last year.” 

The rest of the infield has yet to 

be set by the coaching staff as far 

as an everyday lineup goes. 

Conley, a senior, has proven himself 

as a consistent hitter over his 

last three seasons at Towson, and 

is expected to continue in the same 

fashion this spring. 

Conley expects the team to do 

Last year I think we 

were probably the 

top defensive team in 

the CAA. If it 

all comes together, 

we should 

be about the same 

as, if not 

better than last year. 

well at the plate, even if they don’t 

blast the ball out of the park. 

“I don’t think we’re going to 

be a team that hits a lot of home 

runs,” Conley said. “But we have a 

lot of good solid contact hitters.” 

With so few slots actually set in 

stone for the Tigers’ starting lineup, 

the younger 

members of 

the team will 

have more of a 

chance to step 

up. Freshmen on 

this year’s team 

include righthanded 

pitcher 

Charles Cononie, 

lefty Andrew 

Newfield, and 

fielders Steve 

Freinberg, Beau 

Banglesdorf, and 

Brady Baxter. 

“We’re young. 

There are a lot 

of freshmen and 

sophomores,” 

reliever Corey 

Cascio said. “We’re going to need 

people to step up this year.” 

Towson will be beginning its 

season on the road at the end of 

the month, on Feb. 22 against 

Saint Mary’s College in California. 

“We’re trying to start earlier to 

get as many games in as possible,” 

Cascio said. “It’s pretty exciting. I 

don’t think we’ve ever been to the 

West Coast.” 

Gary Helmick 

Junior second baseman 


The Tigers’ deadly infield looks to lead the team above the low 

expectations set by the poll and rise to the top of the conference.

SOFTBALL 

ignore the individual abilities of 

these three juniors. 

Fratzke, a five-foot-six-inch midfielder, 

was the CAA rookie of the 

year in 2006. 

The accolade proved to be a 

recursor for future success as the 

hifty sophomore garnered second 

eam All-America honors last year 

fter leading the Tigers with 48 

oals and 12 assists. 

“Hillary is probably the quickest 

ut of all of us,” McNamara said. 

She can take the ball through 

hree or four people. She is differnt 

because she can weave through 

veryone.” 

Eliminating Fratzke will likely 

e the game plan for keeping the 

igers off the scoreboard and out 

f the win column, so she should 

xpect to get plenty of attention 

rom the CAA’s finest defenders. 

McNamara will be relied upon to 

ake opponents pay for focusing 

olely on Fratzke, and the junior 

ttack has shown than she is more 

han capable of filling the net. 

McNamara was second on the 

team last year with 32 goals, four 

of them coming in game-winning 

fashion. 

“[Offensive balance] is a good 

thing to have this year because 

if teams want to shut down our 

offense, they won’t be able to 

because we have more than just 

one or two offensive weapons,” 

Fratzke said. 

Woodfield is known as a hardworking 

defensive midfielder with a 

bit of a mean streak, but has shown 

that she can chip in offensively 

when the need presents itself. She 

scored 19 goals and seven assists in 

the 2007 campaign. 

“It’s great that we have a handful 

of players that can contribute,” 

head coach Missy Doherty said. 

“It’s something that I personally 

wanted to develop when I came 

here, an attack where the opponent 

doesn’t know where the attack is 

coming from. Anybody in there 

can score and that’s one of our 

strengths this year.” 

Even Witzel, now a volunteer 

assistant coach with the Tigers, 


Mix-up in lineup provides new look for Towson 

Tigers brimming 

with talent, but 

not depth or 

experience 

Paul Williams 

Staff Writer 

When Towson travels to South 

Carolina for the College of Charleston 

Cougar Classic on Friday, the lineup 

will look different from last season. 

Despite returning 12 letter winners 

from 2007, the Tigers will open 

this season with seven players that 

are either first time starters or are 

playing a different position from 

last year. 

“I think we moved players in 

positions that can help them be 

successful and that match up 

with their skills,” head coach Lisa 

Costello said. “I think there is going 

to be a little bit of a curve but I 

think they’re going to be okay with 

it.” 

Towson not only graduated five 

players from last season, including 

three starters, but three other players 

from last year are no longer on 

the roster for various reasons. The 

lack of experience is not a concern 

for Costello. 

“This group of kids is very athletic 

and very versatile,” Costello said. 

“We’re not very deep, but we’ve got 

kids that can play a lot of different 

positions. We have a pitching staff 

that, if we need them to, can hit for 

themselves, which we haven’t had 

in the past.” 

Senior first baseman Stephanie 

Fudurich is one of only two returning 

starters that will play in her 

natural position. Fudurich finished 

second on the team with 25 RBI 

last season 

Senior catcher Aimee Rosa is 

the other returning starter and will 

split time with freshman Meaghan 

Clark. Rosa led the team with eight 

home runs and 29 RBI last season. 

She ranks first on Towson’s all-time 

home run list with 19. 

Rosa will spend time at catcher 

as well as designated player, 

Costello said. 

While Fudurich and Rosa will 

return to their old positions, the 

remainder of the infield will be 

shuffled around in 2008. 

A pair of right-handers, sophomore 

Shannon Johnston and senior 

Claire Reitmann-Grout, will share 

the majority of the pitching duties. 

Johnston led the Tigers with 13 

wins last season, including 12 

complete games and two shutouts. 

Johnston also struck out 78 batters. 

Reitmann-Grout missed all of 2007 

with a back injury. Junior Kelly 

Ebner and freshman Britney Croner 

will complete the pitching staff. 

Mindy Bean, a sophomore transfer 

from Oregon State, and freshman 

Marybeth Herrick, will compete for 

the starting job at second base. 

Last season at OSU, Bean appeared 

in 37 games and stole seven bases. 

Herrick was a four-year starter and 

a Baltimore Sun all-Metro selection 

at Archbishop Spalding in Anne 

Arundel County. Herrick will also 

provide depth in the outfield. 

Freshman Sammi DiPompo will 

succeed four-year starter Megan 

Zwoyer at shortstop this season. 

DiPompo was a two-time all-New 

Jersey selection and a four-time all 

conference selection at St. Joseph 

High School. 

Sophomore Stef Streets, an all- 

CAA performer at designated player 

last season, will take over at third 

base. Streets batted .241, hit four 

home runs, and added 19 RBI last 

season. 

The Towson outfield will see the 

most turnover with three returning 

concedes that having multiple 

offensive threats working collectively 

will enable the Tigers to 

wreak havoc on opposing goalkeepers. 

“It’s hard for one person to do a 

lot of the work,” Witzel said. “They 

all know they have great talent. 

Everyone can touch the ball and 

put it into the back of the net. So 

if [opponents] want to mark up on 

Hillary or someone else, other players 

will be able to take advantage 

of that.” 

Fratzke, McNamara and 

Woodfield have learned to mesh 

their skills in their time together 

at Towson. And now that the three 

friends have resolved to share the 

spotlight, the sky is the limit for 

the Tigers. 

“Every team wants to be a championship 

team.” McNamara said. “I 

think this year and next year that 

we not only have the potential to 

win the CAA, but to go even further. 

Everyone’s working together 

and there’s a whole different feel 

with the team this year, and I think 

that’s going to take us far.” 

veterans moving to new positions. 

Sophomore Kim Lempa will make 

the switch from right field to center 

field. Lempa led Towson with 13 

stolen bases last season. Senior 

Nina Navarro, an all-CAA performer 

in 2006 and three-year starter in 

left field, will move to right field 

this season. Junior Emily Gould, 

who started at third base last season, 

will replace Navarro in left. 

Senior Erica Dressel, sophomore 

Jocelyn Hall, and freshman Rachel 

Miller will provide depth in the 

outfield. 

“This year, we have all said that 

we are going to take one game at 

a time and focus on the game at 

hand,” Rosa said. “We need to pick 

each other up when necessary. We 

all have been working toward all 

of this at practice and are ready to 

finally get on the field and show 

something.” 

File photo/Kristofer Marsh/The Towerlight 

After revamping their lineup,, the Tigers will take on the CAA with more talent than experience. Only 

two Towson players return to the field starting in the same position that she started at in 2007. 

THREE: Juniors lead team in CAA conference 

From page 15 


Junior attacker Meggie McNamara scored 32 goals, including six 

in one game against New Hampshire, during the 2007 campaign. 


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CAA LACROSSE OUTLOOK 

ODU Monarchs 

CAA Women’s Lacrosse Preview 

Last Year: 7-8, 4-3 

Key players: Kelly 

Kimener, Ashley 

Kellogg, Jessica Noone 

CAA preseason pick: 

seventh 

Outlook: The 

Monarchs will look to play the 

role of spoiler in ‘08 after the 

coaches’ poll picked the team to 

finish next to last in the CAA. 

Senior Kelly Kimener, junior 

Jessica Noone and sophomore 

Ashley Kellogg are the leading 

returning goal-scorers from the 

Monarchs’ 2007 campaign. 

James Madison Dukes 

Last Year: 12-7, 5-2 

Key Players: Annie 

Wagner, Natasha 

Fuchs, Kelly Wetzel 


first 

Outlook: The 

preseason pick 

to win the conference, the Dukes 

return eight starters from 2007 

including reigning CAA Player 

of the Year Annie Wagner, who 

scored 59 goals last season. Senior 

attacker Natasha Fuchs, who 

led the team in assists, will join 

Wagner and goalie Kelly Wetzel, 

who led the conference in saves. 

William & Mary Tribe 

Last Year: 3-13, 1-6 

Key players: Jamie 

Fitzgerald, Jaime 

Sellers, 


sixth 

Outlook: This 

season will 

mark one of redemption for 

the Tribe after an abysmal ‘07 

campaign in which the team did 

not record a victory in conference 

play. This year, the program 

looks to rebuild with eight freshmen 

and five sophomores on the 

roster. Jaime Sellers, however 

returns after leading the team 

in goals. 

George Mason Patriots 

Hofstra Pride 

Last Year: 6-10, 1-6 

Key players: Laura 

King, Alana Chan 


fifth 

Outlook: Four 

seniors will be 

counted on to 

provide experience to a young 

roster. The team has brought in 

11 freshmen to try to best the 

preseason poll, which projects 

the team to finish fifth. Senior 

Laura King will be the catalyst 

on offense after scoring 37 goals 

and earning first team all-CAA 

honors. 

Last Year: 12-7, 6-1 

Key players: Corinne 

Gandolfi, Massie 

Osteen 


third 

Outlook: The 

reigning conference 

champion after defeating 

James Madison, 15-13, in the 

championship, Hofstra is led by 

Corinne Gandolfi, who scored 24 

goals last season. Goalie Maisie 

Osteen also returns after earning 

all 12 of the Pride’s victories a 

year ago. 

CAA Men’s Lacrosse Preview 

Drexel Dragons 

Last Year: 11-5, 5-1 

Key players: A Andrew 

Chapman, Ron Garling 

Jon Van Houten, Colin 

Ambler 


first 

Outlook: The 

Dragons are looking to bounce 

back from a mediocre 2006 campaign 

where they finished 5-9. 

After losing Jeff Pfeffer, who led 

the team in goals, assists, and 

points to the MLL, Drexel will 

be in need of another go-to-guy. 

Look for the veteran leadership 

from defensemen Adam Crystal 

and Steve Grossi. 

Villanova Wildcats 


Key players: Chris 

MacDonald, Eddie 

DiDonato, Bryan 

McCartney 


fifth 

Outlook: The 

Wildcats finished fourth in the 

CAA preseason coaches poll this 

year and look to rebound from a 

CAA semifinal loss to Hofstra in 

2006. Returning to the Wildcats 

this season is junior Chris 

MacDonald, a 2007 CAA prseason 

all-conference selection. 

Hofstra Pride 


Key players: Tom 

Dooley, Mike 

Unterstein, Danny 

Orlando 


fourth 

Outlook: The Pride recorded a 

17-2 regular season record last 

year tying an NCAA record for 

victories in a season. Twenty 

lettermen return for the Pride 

including CAA rookie of the year 

Tom Dooley. Hofstra also brings 

in a new head coach in Seth 

Tierney, former assistant coach at 

Johns Hopkins. 

Sacred Heart Pioneers 


Key players: Evan 

Morgan, Bobby Karl, 

Bobby Rushton 


sixth 

Outlook: Sacred 

Heart enters the 2007 season 

with rebuilding on their mind. 

After posting a disappointing 

2-12 record, the Pioneers have 

room for improvement. Head 

coach Tom Mariano is looking to 

build from the ground up, signing 

16 freshmen, including standout 

high school second-team all- 

American Peter Ridge. 


Delaware Blue Hens 

Last Year: 13-6, 4-2 

Key players: Curtis 

Dickson, Cam Howard, 

Tom Scherr, Evan 

Crowtther-Washburn 


third 

Outlook: The Blue Hens were 

picked to place first in the CAA 

by all seven head coaches this 

year in a preseason poll. They 

return seven starters from their 

12-5 season last season. Perhaps 

the most heralded of Delaware’s 

starters is face-off specialist Alex 

Smith. Smith won 71.2 percent 

of his face-offs last season. 

Robert Morris Colonials 


Key players: Andrew 

Watt, Brandon 

Johnson, Michael 

Fleming, Jason 

Dockum 


seventh 

Outlook: The Colonials have 

the most work to do in the CAA 

conference after a poor 2006 

season. Their recently announced 

14-game schedule includes five 

pre-season top 25 opponents. 

The Colonials are returning their 

two top point -scorers in Andrew 

Watt and Frank Keel. 

Delaware Blue Hens 

Last Year: 11-6, 5-2 

Key players: Katie Muth, 

Courtney Aburn, Nicole 

Flego, Casey McCrudden 


second 

Outlook: The Blue 

Hens return plenty of experience 

to the field, welcoming 

back seven of the team’s top 

eight scorers from a year ago. 

Senior midfielder Katie Muth, 

who scored 37 goals last season, 

is the leader of an offensive juggernaut 

that will have four other 

players who scored 33 or more 

goals in the lineup. 

Drexel Dragons 

Last Year: 12-5, 3-4 

Key players: Jessica 

Bill, Katie Bradley, 

Kaitlin Keegan 


eighth 

Outlook: The 

Dragons will be out to prove the 

conference wrong this season in 

an attempt to get back on top of 

the standings. Though they were 

picked last in the eight-team conference 

according to preseason 

polls, the Dragons went 9-1 at 

home last season and only lost 

once to a non-conference opponent. 

Drexel 

2008 Men’s Lacrosse 

Schedule 

2/23 @ Penn 

2/26 Lehigh 

3/1 @ Binghamton 

3/8 St. John’s 

3/11 St. Joe’s 

3/15 @ Albany 

3/22 @ Lafayette 

3/25 @ Notre Dame 

3/29 Hofstra 

4/5 Robert Morris 


4/12 @ Towson 

4/19 Sacred Heart 

4/26 @ Villanova 

James Madison 

2008 Women’s 

Lacrosse Schedule 

2/28 @ Dartmouth 

3/1 @ Yale 

3/5 Longwood 


3/12 Va. Tech 

3/15 Richmond 

3/19 @ Princeton 


3/29 Stanford 

4/4 William/Mary 

4/6 @ ODU 


4/13 @ Towson 

4/18 Hofstra 

4/20 Drexel 


Delaware 

2008 Women’s 

Lacrosse Schedule 

2/28 Rutgers 

3/5 @ Loyola 

3/8 St. Bonnie 

3/10 UMBC 

3/13 @ ND 

3/18 @ Temple 

3/23 @ Va. Tech 

3/28 PSU 

3/30 @ Towson 

4/4 Drexel 

4/6 @ Hofstra 

4/11 JMU 

4/13 Mason 

4/18 @ ODU 

4/20 @ W/M 

Delaware 

2008 Men’s Lacrosse 

Schedule 

2/23 Marist 

3/1 @ Rutgers 

3/8 Albany 

3/12 @ G’Town 

3/15 Stony Brook 

3/22 Villanova 

3/25 @ Lehigh 

3/29 Brown 

4/5 @ Towson 

4/9 Drexel 

4/12 @ Hofstra 

4/19 Robert Morris 

4/26 @ Sacred Heart 


Brian Vetter and the Tigers will have their hands full in the strong 

CAA. The Tigers were picked to finish second beind Drexel.

NOT JUST FOR 

ATHLETES...!!! 

Please join the TU Athletic Department 

and the AACC for an informative 

lecture/panel discussion entitled 

“Coping with Injury: 

Life After Athletics” 

GUEST PANELISTS 

Dr. Craig Bennett, MD - Team Orthopaedic Surgeon 

Dr. Bruce Herman - TU Counseling Center 

Terry O’Brien - TU Head Athletic Trainer 

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 

7:30 PM • Minnegan Room 

3rd fl oor of the Field House/Unitas Stadium 

For more information email 

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Music gaming gains popularity 

Rhythm games evolving, giving players an escape from reality 

Courtesy ign.com 

“PaRappa The Rapper” is often considered the genesis of modern rhythm games like “Guitar Hero.” 

Tyler Waldman 

Columnist 

TYLER TECH 

Until a few years ago, gamers 

who wanted their games 

with a side of rhythm had it 

rough. Outside of Konami’s 

Bemani games (“Dance 

Dance Revolution,” “Karaoke 

Revolution”), early Harmonix 

games like “Frequency,” and the 

occasional niche title from Japan, music gaming was 

really a small market. 

Fast forward to 2008, and it’s one of the biggest 

trends in gaming right now. “Rock 

Band” and “Guitar Hero” games are 

scorching sales charts. How that Anybody 

happened is a long story, but here 

are a few classics in between that 

deserve second looks. 

attentio 

notice all th 

“PaRappa The Rapper” 

(PlayStation 1, PlayStation Portable) 

is often considered the first modern 

rhythm game. Following the 

“Simon Says” game play model, the 

player takes control of the titular 

two-dimensional paper canine and 

guides him through a set of rap 

battles. In case you didn’t figure 

it out while reading that sentence, 

this game was developed in Japan. 

I’ve noted s 

Sega’s “Rez” (Dreamcast, 

Playstation 2, Xbox 360) has 

game play that feels more like 

“Panzer Dragoon” meets “Tron” 

and Harmonix’s “Frequency” on an extended acid 

trip. The player floats through five different levels, 

shooting attackers and hacking a network while the 

onscreen action essentially remixes the game’s awesome 

trance music on the fly. Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the 

brain behind recent hits like “Lumines” and “Every 

Extend Extra,” produced it. 

The game was recently given a second life on the 

Anybody paying 

attention would 

notice all the games 

I’ve noted so far are 

quirky and Japanese. 

But in recent years, 

Americans have been 

starting to claim the 

throne, most 

of them at Bostonbased 

Harmonix 

Music Systems. 

Xbox Live Arcade. 

Considering the game goes for far more on eBay, 

800 Microsoft Points ($10) is the bargain of the century. 

“Elite Beat Agents” (Nintendo DS) was an unlikely 

hit in America. Based on the Japanese game, “Osu! 

Tatakae! Ouendan,” “EBA” has players take control 

of three well-dressed agents, not unlike the “Men in 

Black” or “The Blues Brothers,” as they use their talents 

to help people in need. Targets pop up onscreen, 

which the player hits to the rhythm. 

Higher difficulties will have players tapping furiously 

at their screens to the tune of Western hits 

(covers) from acts like Jamiroquai, David Bowie, and 

The Rolling Stones. 

Anybody paying attention would 

notice all the games I’ve noted so 

far are quirky and Japanese. But in 

recent years, Americans have been 

starting to claim the throne, most 

of them at Boston-based Harmonix 

Music Systems. 

“Frequency” and “Amplitude” 

(PlayStation 2) can be considered 

parents to “Guitar Hero” and “Rock 

Band.” The player uses the controller 

to assemble beats in tracks of 

a song. In a sense, the multiplayer 

mode of the two games, where each 

player controls the track for a single 

instrument, can be considered the 

beginnings of “Rock Band.” 

2005’s “Guitar Hero” launched a 

phenomenon and became a pop-culture 

sensation. The premise is pretty 

simple. But the game’s addictive 

qualities and charm turned fan euphoria up to 11. 

The series was such a success that everybody 

involved, developer Harmonix and publisher Red 

Octane, was later bought out by bigger companies. 

Harmonix’s new bosses at MTV then put them to 

work on the music game world’s newest hit: “Rock 

Band.” 

See TECH, page 23 

LIFE 

Student juggles 

life, work, success 

MBA student heads consulting firm, 

recognized for entrepreneurship 

Courtesy jssolutions.com 

Graduate student Justin Jones-Fosu, 26, the founder and CEO of 

JS Training Solutions, was recently honored by Ebony magazine. 

Angela Young 

Contributing Writer 

Well-dressed with a briefcase in 

hand Justin Jones-Fosu exhaled 

a sigh of relief after a long day at 

work and fighting traffic on I-695. 

But the University of Baltimore/ 

Towson University MBA student 

and entrepreneur kept a positive 

outlook. 

“No matter what happens, or 

how my day goes, someone would 

love to have my bad day. People 

would wait in line,” he said with 

a smile. 

Though he is busy juggling his 

responsibilities as the CEO and 

founder of JS Training Solutions, a 

T. Rowe Price training coordinator 

and graduate student, Jones-Fosu, 

26, is in love with life. 

Jones-Fosu was recently named 

one of Ebony Magazine’s “Young 

Leaders Under 30 on the Rise,” an 

award to honor entrepreneurs age 

30 and under who are making a 

mark in the corporate world. Jones- 

Fosu said he was both honored and 

humbled by the nomination. 

His response when he learned of 

the nomination: 

“Wow—to even know that someone 

thought enough of me to send 

in my information,” he said. “Just 

that someone noticed the positive 

I was doing and the impact it was 

having [is humbling].” 

Jones-Fosu said he was even 

more honored by the nomination 

after learning about what the others 

on the list had accomplished to 

earn them the nomination. 

“There are more people on this 

earth who could have been included 

before me,” he said. 

In addition to his work, Jones- 

Fosu stays busy by working towards 

his masters through the UB/TU 

MBA program. He is also a member 

of the Golden Key National Honor 

Society and the Beta Gamma Sigma 

Business Honor Society. Although 

he has a 3.68 grade point average, 

Jones-Fosu still pushes himself to 

work harder. 

“I’m not too happy with that. I 

got my first B last semester,” he 

said. 

But Jones-Fosu’s ambition and 

mark in the business world can 

be seen through his work with his 

training firm, which offers services 

See AWARD, page 23

life 

AWARD: 

Magazine 

honors 

student 

for work 

From page 22 

such as leadership development, 

professional development, motivational 

speaking, event speaking, 

career preparation, and personal 

leadership consultation. 

Jones-Fosu said he asked himself 

what he would do without pay, and 

is answer to that question led 

im to find what he said was his 

urpose. 

“I have a formula: purpose plus 

assion plus preparation equals fulillment,” 

he said. 

Much of his personal philosohies 

have been carried through to 

is company. 

“[JS Training Solutions] inspires 

eople to believe, think and act,” 

Jones-Fosu said. 

He said his work is meant to 

nspire and allow people to find 

heir own potential. 

“If you give someone something, 

hey’ll use it, but if you allow them 

o discover it, they will carry it with 

hem,” he said. 

TECH: 

America 

advances 

in music 

gaming 

From page 22 

The game (out for PlayStation 2 

and 3, Xbox 360, soon Wii) takes 

the concept of its other games and 

expands it to, well, a full band with 

guitar, drums, bass, and vocals. This 

creates one of the best party games 

ever. The game features nearly 60 

tracks with many more available 

to download. Something that sets 

“Rock Band” apart from “Guitar 

Hero” is the ability to download 

full albums to rock out to in-game, 

as opposed to just single songs. 

While that feature is still a work 

in progress, announced albums 

include The Who’s “Who’s Next” 

and Nirvana’s “Nevermind.” 

Video games often let people pretend 

to be things they aren’t. And 

from helping a pooch get his groove 

to rocking out like an egotistical 

band frontman, music games are 

some of the most awesome ways to 

escape into that realm. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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The Towerlight February 18, 2008 Crafting 

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MUSIC 

ARTS 

a career after ‘American Idol’ 


Junior mass communication major Alexia Van Horn was a finalist on “American Idol” in 2006. Since then, she has performed at Sunday in the Country and is recording a CD. 

Junior Alexia Van Horn 

is trying to make it big 

in the music business 

after competing on TV 

Lily Lee 

Staff Writer 

Alexia Van Horn went to Birmingham, Ala. 

in the summer of 2006 for a chance of a lifetime: 

auditioning for “American Idol.” 

The Towson junior mass communication 

major and marketing minor advanced through 

the preliminary auditions and had the chance 

to sing in front of the judges to earn a “golden 

ticket” to Hollywood. 

“When Randy [Jackson], Paula [Abdul], 

and Simon [Cowell] graced me with the ticket 

to go to Hollywood, I was ecstatic and I burst 

through the doors almost knocking over my 

mom. I really had the chance to be the next 

American Idol,” Van Horn said. 

But many don’t realize that the competition 

involves a long process. 

Producers take people auditioning section 

by section in the arena for the two preliminary 

rounds, which involve singing for about 

20 to 30 seconds for different judges who are 

well known. 

“You’re with thousands 

and thousands of people,” 

“y 

Van Horn said. “I was there 

probably for seven hours. 

You meet a lot of different 

people from all walks of 

life. Some people make a 

lot of friends there. You’re 

all singing, so you all have a 

common thread.” 

After Alabama, the 

auditions continued for 

Van Horn at the Orpheus 

Theatre in Los Angeles. 

Although Van Horn did 

not move on, she made it 

to the top 100 female contestants 

before being eliminated. 

“You can’t be hard on 

yourself,” Van Horn said. “I 

was a little disappointed, obviously. I think 

it just encouraged me more to keep going. 

‘American Idol’ kick started a lot of things 

for me.” 

Country music is a 

genre of music m I’ve 

always liked, liked but it’s 

something that’s t new 

for me. I’ve always 

thought of being a pop 

singer, but I’m 

definitely headed 

toward this 

pop-country sound. 

Following her experience, Van Horn was 

presented with more opportunities to have 

her voice heard. 

She won a singing competition hosted 

by 93.1 WPOC to open 

Alexia Van Horn 

Junior, 

mass communication major 

the annual Sunday in 

the Country concert at 

Merriweather Post Pavillion 

in Columbia, Md. by singing 

the national anthem. 

“Country music is a genre 

of music I’ve always liked, 

but it’s something that’s 

new for me,” Van Horn 

said. “I’ve always thought of 

being of pop singer, but I’m 

definitely headed toward 

this pop-country sound.” 

Along with 93.1, Van 

Horn has had interviews 

with Mix 106.5 and 98 

Rock and has performed in 

nearby towns. 

Van Horn recently performed 

at a release party in 

Nashville, Tenn. for a magazine called “Rising 

Star.” 

Van Horn has also performed on Towson’s 

campus for an exhibit called “The Secrets.” 

Along with finishing up her degree, Van 

Horn is also looking toward the future. 

“Currently I am working with industry professionals 

in Nashville to create an original 

CD of my own. Meanwhile, I am just singing 

wherever I can to be heard and having the 

time of my life doing it,” Van Horn said. 

But she doesn’t forget the help that her 

“Idol” experience gave her. 

“Being on ‘American Idol’ has taught me 

you need to have passion, confidence, and 

determination to succeed in the music business, 

and although you may fall over and over 

you must get up, slap on a smile, and march 

on,” she said. 

--Alex Plimack contributed to this report 

More information: 

To listen to Alexia Van Horn, visit her 

MySpace page at http://www.myspace. 

com/alexiavanhorn. 

New episodes of “American Idol” air 

Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on 

Fox. For more information, visit www. 

americanidol.com.

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J a c k 

Johnson’s new 

album “Sleep 

Through the 

Static” is just 

as mellow as 

the rest of the 

albums he’s ever released. 

By no means do I hate Jack Johnson because everyone 

enjoys some “windows down in your car and just 

cruising” type of music. 

Johnson sings with a 

rhythmic, catchy type of 

sound. 

His lyrics sometimes 

may not make much 

sense, but his songs work. The words he uses just tend 

to fit with the beats to his guitar. After all, Johnson is 

known for his acoustic, relaxing songs. 

The norm of Johnson’s happy and cute music does 

have a little more variety than the usual. The song “All 

At Once” is a bit depressing. 

Johnson continues with “Sleep Through the Static,” 

s a more upbeat song. The rest of his album continues 

hroughout with a happier tone. 

To be honest, Johnson is past his “Flake” days. It 

eems that his songs are getting a little slower than his 

revious albums. 

I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy Johnson’s new 

lbum, I think I’m just tired of the same types of songs 

n every album he’s created. 

--Lily Lee 

s 

 

i c 

Ingrid 

Michaelson 

Girls and Boys 

Cabin 24 

Often compared 

to Lisa 

Loeb from the 

‘90s, Ingrid 

Michaelson 

will most likely 

appeal to a crowd 

who was either 

too ignorant or just too young to even remember her bispectacled 

predecessor. 

Which is probably for the better. Best known from 

“Grey’s Anatomy,” 

Michaelson exudes 

a girl-next-door confidence 

that makes 

her pop-like album 

neither spectacular 

nor boring. It’s not to say that “Girls and Boys” is a bad 

album, as it’s quite enjoyable, it’s just that each song 

sounds like something that’s been recorded before. 

The opening song “Die Alone” sounds as if it was 

penned by Rivers Cuomo, aside from the “ba-da-da’s” 

that open each verse. The chorus would have worked 

just as well on Weezer’s “Blue Album” as it does here. 

The piano driven “Breakable” is convincingly a Regina 

Spektor outtake. Michaelson shows confidence in her 

airy voice, but the crescendo of a chorus sounds much 

like her Russian counterpart. 

While Michelson’s lyrics are endearing, their playful 

nature can become a bit off-putting. “You take me the 

way I am,” Michaelson sings on “The Way I Am.” 

Maybe she should’ve stayed true to that sentiment. 

--Alex Plimack 

Diary plays to home crowd 

Local band American Diary performs at Recher Theatre 

in support of its newest release ‘The Brightest Colors’ 

Katherine M. Hill 

Staff Writer 

The Recher Theatre’s doors had 

been open for 20 minutes, but a 

long line of local music fans was still 

snaked around the block, waiting to 

enter the venue Friday night. Inside, 

concertgoers were waiting for local 

pop-punk group American Diary to 

take the stage in support of its new 

EP “The Brightest Colors.” 

While fans waited to enter the 

venue, Towson University senior 

and American Diary’s guitarist Mike 

Clark greeted fans and helped them 

find extra tickets. Two girls leapt 

out of line to speak to Clark, who 

stood outside for more than 20 

minutes. 

“Every time we play here it’s 

always a huge show,” Clark said in 

an interview before the show started. 

“I think we have super fans.” 

When the doors opened he 

watched the concertgoers rush for 

he merchandise table to buy the 

and’s newest release and obtain 

heir signatures. 

For guitarist Ben DeHan, every 

an is a friend. 

“They’ll really try to help us out 

without even having to ask. They’ll 

pread our names to all our fans and 

we couldn’t be more appreciative,” 

eHan said. 

Long-term, DeHan said he hopes 

the fan base, spread as far as Japan, 

where American Diary is a part of 

the Fabtone Records family, and 

across the U.S., where the band 

is the main candidate on the roster 

for Toss Up Records, will bring 

more nights like Friday at Recher 

Theatre. 

“Every Every time we play 

here, it’s aalways 

a 

huge show. I think we 

have super fans. 

Michael Clark 

Guitarist, American Diary 

“I think what I see is us making 

a career out of it, hopefully 

meeting new people and affecting 

people’s lives. These guys are my 

best friends,” DeHan said. 

During the group’s performance, 

fans in the front row announced 

that they’d driven more than eight 

hours to see American Diary, which 

also includes vocalist and bassist 

Brandon Ingley and drummer 

Brandon Reeder. 

“It’s something you can really 

get down to,” Clark said about their 

newest release. DeHan described 

“The Brightest Colors” as an album 

worthy of a summer drive. 

During a detailed description 

of American Diary’s sound and 

new album, the members couldn’t 

help but have fun: “Imagine the 

Teletubbies got older and started a 

band,” Ingley said. 

The band’s fun doesn’t stop with 

their music, though. Ingley said his 

primary goal offstage is to pull as 

many pranks at Reeder’s expense 

as possible. Luckily for the band, 

Reeder said he takes it in stride. 

Despite the group’s penchant for 

pranks and fun, American Diary 

remains focused. 

“We want [our listeners] to have 

fun and have a good time,” Clark 

said. “They can have as much fun 

listening to our music as we have 

writing it.” 

The music and new EP embody 

the same joy as “singing every single 

word at the party with your friends,” 

Clark said. 

As for the future, American 

Diary’s said they hope to film a 

music video this spring before joining 

the Vans Warped Tour on the 

East Coast Independent Stage. They 

also said a full-length album will follow 

“The Brightest Colors” within 

the next year. 

 

Anyone with a mouse and some will power can fill 

their scrubby little folders with some free music, and 

that's the beauty of being the wired know-how generation. 

We "steal" music, and the trend won't die out 

anytime soon. Record labels, big and small, know it. 

Musicians know it. Digital music providers like iTunes 

and Amazon know it. Music fans with Web access can 

rape and pillage any label catalog they so desire, and 

as the result of this illegal trade-off, the music industry 

is cut off at its knees and looking for any device 

that'll get it to walk freely again. 

Yet, the solution, or at least part of the solution, 

may not be so uncharted. Record labels, digital distributors and entrepreneurial 

young-bloods are already chipping away at the new block: a business 

venture called ad-supported music. 

It's not a tough concept to swallow, or a totally new one. The basis of adsupported 

music is to embrace the listener and their ways. Instead of giving 

them a good ruler slapping for all those albums they stole, throw a bow on 

that virtual CD case and give it to them for free. The trade off is their time 

and consciousness, both to be flooded with advertising. 

Advertising as a sole means of income is not a fresh concept: the sale of 

ads keeps most print magazines on shelves; Web sites have been supporting 

themselves on ad space for years. Ad supported music, on the same but 

slightly different side, often uses social networking and blogging techniques 

in accordance. Some of them are pretty neat too. 

Imeem.com is a viral content sharing Web site, meaning users post video, 

pictures, audio and play lists with the purpose of sharing. Each user has his 

or her own profile and identity, and they can interact with other users by 

posting comments and sending messages. This then makes Imeem a social 

networking community, similar to Buzznet or MySpace. A simple search 

uncovers nearly anything you would like to listen to in a streaming format. 

Also among the front-runners of ad-supported music is RCRD LBL. Part 

blog, part label, RCRD LBL acts as a music news and feature Web site. 

There are tons of videos to watch, and a nearly unhealthy display of new 

bands and artist to discover. More so, RCRD LBL gives away free music, 

offering mp3 downloads of many of their newsworthy artists. Embedded in 

the news post or lining the sidebars are ads, of course. 

Free music in-exchange of commercial overexposure? No problem. We 

live in a free market country. Everywhere we turn an ad is convincing us of 

its glorified product. Advertising is engraved in the daily grain of American 

life. If I can handle overexposure on TV, or when I read a magazine, then I 

can surely deal when I open my laptop. Nothing but more rad beats for us. 

Sweet Tunes: 

 

Ads making music 

listening legal again 

Julia Conny 

Columnist 

The Everlove - Born from the ashes of Towson's very own Adelphi, 

members of the band have formed a new project: upbeat, happy and really 

well-structured pop-indie rock hits, and it's worth a try. 

Rocket From The Crypt - The band disbanded some years ago, but 

Vagrant Records is releasing a remembrance CD/DVD combo. The costumed 

ska band always knew how to enliven the audience, and now we get 

another taste. 

Courtesy imdb.com 

Metallica with lead singer James Hetfield led the charge against 

Napster and illegal music downloading in the late 1990s. 


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arts 

Love, music for Valentine’s Day Music Mayhem 

Local bands perform for fans and 

chance to play at Relay for Life in April 

Erika Walther 

Contributing Writer 

To celebrate Valentine’s Day last 

Thursday, some students attended 

Music Mayhem for live entertainment 

in the University Union 

Paws. 

The Campus Activities Board 

sponsored the event. 

Sophomore psychology major 

and CAB programming 

chair Asya 

Henriquez coordinated 

most of the 

event, including 

choosing which 

bands would 

perform. Local 

groups including 

The Emilia Band, 

Maddison, Cult 

Hero, Laurelai, 

and The Autumn 

Sun performed. 

“It’s good to 

support local bands,” Henriquez 

said. “Students pay for it at other 

places, but here it’s free.” 

About 50 students attended. The 

performances ranged from acoustic 

and rock to pop, indie, and punk. 

“We want to get our music out 

there,” sophomore business major 

and The Emilia Band member John 

Gudenzi said just before the show. 

The Emilia Band member 

Brendan Kirlin said the band was 

happy attracted students to the 

event. 

“We like playing for our friends 

on campus. Events like this are 

great for student involvement,” 

Kirlin said. 

While some students came to 

the event to see a specific band, 

others found themselves at the 

event by accident. 

“We were just here getting something 

to eat, but 

we saw the music 

and decided to 

stay,” freshman 

Eric Durm said. 

Others attended 

just to hear 

people they knew, 

like sophomore 

family studies 

major Elizabeth 

Quidley, who 

was there to support 

her friends 

that play in The 

Autumn Sun. 

After each band played their segment, 

The Autumn Sun, and The 

Emilia Band were chosen to play at 

April’s Relay for Life event. 

Henriquez said she was very 

pleased with the outcome of the 

event. 

“The turnout was more than 

expected,” she said. “I was more 

than happy with everyone who 

came.” 

 

 

Historical ‘Boleyn Girl’ offers look into 

personal relationships, societal pressures 

Jennifer Tanko 

Columnist 

If you’re 

looking for 

a tale of sex, 

manipulation 

and politics, 

look no further 

than Philippa 

Gregory’s 

“The Other 

Boleyn Girl.” 

This novel is a 

fictitious take 

on the life of Mary Boleyn, sister of 

the infamous Anne Boleyn, who had 

a short reign as Queen of England. 

Although “The Other Boleyn Girl” 

was released in 2001, it’s quite relevant 

right now because the film 

adaptation will hit theaters at the 

end of February. 

Although this novel is a sort of 

“It’s It’s good to support 

local bands bands. Students 

pay for it at other 

places, but here 

it’s free. 

Asya Henriquez 

Programming chair, CAB 

“American Girl” book for grownups, 

it has its roots in historical 

fact (as Gregory makes clear in 

her extensive bibliography). Mary 

Boleyn is a historical figure who 

has been somewhat obscured by her 

sister’s legacy, which is an actuality 

that Gregory uses to her advantage. 

The romantic and sexual whims of 

Henry VIII are accounted for and 

contrasted with the Boleyn family’s 

quest for power, and what their 

daughters are subjected to in order 

to acquire it. Gregory details the 

affair of Henry and Mary, which 

took place years before Henry considered 

Anne as a prospective lover 

or wife. However, although Mary 

rarely questions her family’s ethics 

in meticulously arranging these 

See BOOK, page 27 

Eric Gazzillo/The Towerlight 

John Gudenzi of The Emilia Band performs during Music Mayhem in University Union Paws on 

Thursday, Feb. 14. Other bands included Maddison, Cult Hero, Laurelai and the Autumn Sun. 

Baltimore Trio performs 

Eric Gazzillo/The Towerlight 

The Baltimore Trio, featuring Jeffrey Howawrd, Cecylia Barczyk and Reynaldo Reyes 

with guest Anna Soukiassian perform “Piano Trio in E minor” in the Harold J. Kaplan 

Concert Hall in the Center for the Arts on Sunday, Feb. 17.

elations, Anne’s prowess at manipulation 

wins out, and the reader is 

able to witness the courtship through 

the eventual downfall of this pivotal 

woman through Mary’s eyes. 

“Boleyn Girl” is almost disturbing 

in its exposition of the conspiracy 

of interpersonal relationships and 

how they affect politics and policy 

that is significant all over the world. 

Although this is not surprising, 

because power always serves its best 

interests, it is fascinating to read 

about the real-life play that is performed 

daily for the King by the selfinterested 

actors and actresses of the 

court. This grand collaboration ultimately 

takes its toll on Anne, who is 

written sympathetically as she nearly 

works herself to death while trying to 

emain perfect to the King. 

The first scene in “Boleyn Girl” 

s the execution of the Duke of 

uckingham, who was put to death 

when he suggested that Henry was 

nfit to produce a son and heir to the 

hrone of England. Choosing to start 

with this scene was an inspiring move 

n Gregory’s part, for the tone of the 

ook depends on it. The Boleyn’s rise 

o power depends on the birth of a 

on, so Anne is made a villain when 

he bears Elizabeth. 

Gregory seems to mold characters 

o modern ideals to gain sympathy 

arts 

READ: Continued 

From page 28 

for them. This also happens with 

Mary when she makes triumphant 

gestures to take charge of her own life 

and stop being a pawn of the family. 

Although there is much factuality in 

this, since Mary did secretly marry 

William Stafford, some of the scenes 

can be a bit over the top and seem 

as if they’d be more at home in a 

staple romantic comedy. The factuality 

behind “Boleyn Girl” seems to be 

a hot topic for writers and historians 

alike. At 661 pages, Gregory saturates 

her novel rich with sub-plots, which 

range from Mary’s guilty connection 

with Catherine of Aragon to hints 

of incest between her siblings to her 

brother George’s homosexuality. 

Flawed or not, “The Other Boleyn 

Girl” was definitely a good read. I 

went through it quickly, and the 

juicy sexual politics and intense sibling 

rivalry made me find time to 

read (especially when my time would 

have been better devoted to homework). 

“Boleyn Girl” has four sequels 

and the upcoming film stars Natalie 

Portman as Anne Boleyn and Scarlett 

Johansson as Mary. However, since 

films will never be as detailed as the 

novel, I highly recommend you give 

this one a chance. 

Next week I’ll be reviewing 

“Hartsburg, USA” by David Mizner. 

If you have any books recommendations, 

e-mail me at bookjen.tu@gmail. 

com. 

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Who got the best of the 

Mike Bibby deal? 

Kevin: The Hawks knew that 

a steady, veteran point guard was 

exactly what they needed, and they 

got one in Bibby. 

No team over the past two seasons 

has been able to acquire the 

oft-rumored Bibby, who was considered 

a salary dump by the Kings. 

But the Hawks were able to get him 

without giving away any of their 

considerable young talent and have 

firmly asserted themselves as a serious 

playoff contender in the Eastern 

Conference after adding a strong 

veteran presence. 

Pete: The Sacramento Kings definitely 

got the better end of this deal. 

Why do the Hawks want Bibby? To 

win a championship? Sure, good 

luck, Atlanta. Seriously, the Hawks 

will make it into the playoffs as a low 

seed at best, and will get trounced in 

the first round by Boston, Detroit, 

Cleveland, or Orlando. This team is 

not going anywhere, and by throwing 

away its future, it has pretty 

much guaranteed that they won’t 

have one in the near future. The 

Kings, however, know that Bibby is 

worth more to everyone else than 

he was to Sacramento. They gave 

him up for four serviceable players 

and a future draft pick. What’s not 

to like? 

Besides Memphis, who is 

the best mid-major? 

Kevin: The best mid-major 

resides right here in the CAA. 

George Mason has the depth, talent 

and experience that other midmajors 

lack after making the Final 

Four a couple seasons ago. Coach 

Jim Larranaga has a team that features 

the inside-outside combo of 

Will Thomas and Folarin Campbell, 

who were both vital parts of the 

Cinderella run. John Vaughn and 

long-range bomber Dre Smith add 

to the potent offensive mix and it 

is clear the Patriots are out to prove 

they aren’t just a one-trick pony. 

Pete: No, no. The Patriots are 

good, but watch out for Xavier. 

Nobody knows much about the 

Musketeers because none of them 

score more than 12 points per game. 

But they also have six different players 

averaging double digits this season. 

The Cincinnati Jesuit school’s 

no-name roster includes tiny 

Oklahoma transfer Drew Lavender, 

who is somehow pulling in almost 

three rebounds on top of 11.7 points 

per game despite his five-foot-seveninch 

stature. Lavender also notches 

4.8 assists per game to lead the 

Musketeers in that category as well 

as points. 

I have to give a shout-out, though, 

to Drake and Butler, two mid-majors 

who have had unbelievable seasons 

and deserve honorable mention. 

pete kevin 

LORENZ/HESS 

What should Miami do 

with the No. 1 pick? 

Kevin: After watching the success 

of Mario Williams this year, 

the Dolphins would be foolish to 

pass on another stud defensive 

end, Chris Long from Virginia. 

Bill Parcells and Tony Sparano 

have been adamant about 

their preference to rebuild the 

Dolphins with the 3-4 defense 

and Long is a perfect cornerstone. 

He is a high-motor, productive 

player who will make an immediate 

impact. 

Defense wins championships, 

and Long seems to be the logical 

selection for the team to begin 

rebuilding. 

Pete: The Miami Dolphins need 

to trade this pick to the highest 

bidder. The pick is so valuable right 

now because there is so much talent 

at the very top. 

What team with a mid-round 

draft pick wouldn’t give away its 

selection, along with a small fortune, 

to get a crack at Chris Long, 

Glen Dorsey, Darren McFadden, or 

Jake Long? 

There are so many clubs that 

can find more value in the top 

pick than the Dolphins can. Miami 

can’t remedy its problems with one 

player, and having the first pick in 

each later round would easily justify 

trading this away for a proven 

talent. 

Which team will have 

the best spring season? 

Kevin: The women’s lacrosse 

team is motivated and on a mission 

to prove last season’s 6-9 record 

was a fluke. 

Plenty of talent remains on the 

roster, headlined by star junior 

Hillary Fratzke, but it is their depth 

and experience that will be the 

keys to the season. 

It is clear last season left a bad 

taste in their mouths and that they 

are ready to dominate on the path 

back to the top of the CAA. 

Pete: I look forward to seeing 

the women’s lacrosse team get over 

the hump to win more close games, 

but the men’s team has already 

proven itself to be at the top of the 

conference. 

Most of the CAA seems to be 

looking up at Towson each year, 

and with senior leadership on 

offense, defense and in the goal, 

the Tigers should once again win 

the regular season crown – and 

finally get back to winning the conference 

tournament. 

The team might actually make 

it through the first round of the 

NCAA tournament, too, if it can 

avoid playing teams like Cornell to 

open it up. The key, however will 

be getting scoring out of players 

beyond the big three. 

sports 

ODU: Monarchs top Tigers 

From page 32 

for Old Dominion star guard TJ 

Jordan, who entered the game 

fourth in the CAA in scoring at 

14.4 points per game, yet shot just 

2-10 from the field and scored just 

five points, all in the second half. 

Pym’s 12 rebounds were part of 

the Monarchs’ domination on the 

boards, as the team out-rebounded 

the Tigers 47-28. The inside threeheaded 

monster of Pym, Tiffany 

Green and Jess Canady out-muscled 

Towson and helped the team get to 

the free-throw line 25 times. Old 

Dominion made 20 of its attempts. 

“We had our best free-throw 

shooters in the game at critical 

times,” Larry said. “And to knock 

them down on the road makes a big 

difference.” 

“I can’t comment 

on the offi- 

ciating,” Towson 

head coach Joe “We had 

Mathews said. best free 

“It was a very 

physical game. hoote 

But I think you 

saw the difference 

between 

two experienced 

players 

in Tiffany Green 

and Megan Pym 

and two freshmen 

[Dovile and 

Jessica].” 

Holly Mahan continued to shine 

Despite starting the game with a 

three-forward lineup, Towson was 

not able to contain Old Dominion 

down low in the 73-61 loss Sunday 

afternoon at the Towson Center. 

Senior forward Megan Pym recorded 

her third double-double of the season 

with 15 points and 12 rebounds. 

Junior forward Tiffany Green added 

nine points, eight rebounds, and a 

team-high five blocks. 

The Monarchs out rebounded the 

Tigers 47-28, including 22-13 on 

the offensive boards, and doubled 

Towson up, 40-20, in points in the 

paint. 

Tigers’ bench struggles 

While sophomore Shanae Baker- 

Brice, senior Jamell Beasley, and 

senior forward Holly Mahan all 

scored in double figures, Towson 

still lacked production from the 

bench against Old Dominion. 

Freshman Meredith Kennedy 

matched her career-high with five 

points, but no other reserve player 

managed to contribute. Freshman 

guard Omara Parker and sophomore 

forward Ashlee Keown each logged 

We had our 

best free-throw 

shooters in 

the game 

at critical times. 

for the Tigers, scoring 15 points 

and grabbing 

seven boards. 

Shanae Baker- 

Brice and Jamell 

Beasley also finished 

in double 

figures, scoring 

12 and 10 points, 

respectively. 

The team 

will be back on 

the hardwood 

Thursday night 

as Towson travels 

to Newark to 

face Delaware in 

the first game of a three game road 

trip. 

Wendy Larry 

Old Dominion head coach 

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES 

Monarch frontcourt 

frustrates Towson 

Bench provides little help for Tigers 


Towson head coach Joe Mathews and the Tigers struggled 

against the ODU frontcourt Sunday at the Towson Center. 

significant minutes with 15 and 

13, respectively, but combined for 

only two points and one rebound. 

In total, the Old Dominion bench 

outscored the Towson bench, 26-9. 

Freshman guard Jasmine Parker 

came off the ODU bench to score 

10 points while sophomore forward 

Jessica Canady added 11 point and 

eight rebounds off the bench. 

Second half rally 

falls short 

After falling behind by as many 

as 17 points, Towson mounted a 

comeback early in the second half. 

Towson started the second half on 

a 19-10 run. A Holly Mahan threepointer 

closed the gap to 49-43 

with 12:07 remaining in the game. 

However, the Tigers could pull no 

closer as Old Dominion went on a 

22-11 run to counter the Towson 

streak. A Pym lay-up at the 3:01 

mark gave the Monarchs a 67-52 

second half advantage. The 15-point 

lead was ODU’s largest of the second 

half, and the Tigers never recovered. 

-Paul Williams 

ROBERTS: 

Last-place 

finish is 

inevitable 

From page 32 

and trade second baseman Brian 

Roberts before the start of the 

season. 

I advocated this move in a previous 

column -- it has nothing to 

do with Roberts’ self-confessed 

“one-time” flirtation with performance 

enhancing drugs. 

It has to do more with the fact 

that B-Rob is 30 years old, in the 

prime of his career, and his trade 

value will never be any higher 

than it is right now. 

That, and he will most likely 

get out of Charm City very soon 

after he’s eligible for free agency. 

While they’re at it, they should 

buy out the rest of Jay Gibbons’ 

contract, which will cost them 

about $12 million – I can’t imagine 

anyone would offer anything 

of value for Gibbons, a totally 

one-dimensional player. 

If they can find takers for Jay 

Payton and Aubrey Huff, that’s 

fine as well. 

There’s not much difference 

between finishing in fifth place 

and finishing deep in fifth place. 

While a more casual fan may 

be likely to disagree with me, 

losing 100 – or more – games 

in a single season is not the 

worst thing in the world. The 

Detroit Tigers lost 119 games in 

the 2003 season and were the 

American League champs three 

years later. 

We can also look at the 

Marlins, who have been at both 

ends of the spectrum over the 

last decade or so – they won 

the World Series in 1997, lost 

108 games the next season and 

rebuilt the team to win their second 

Fall Classic in 2003. 

This type of franchise model is 

a wise one, and Andy MacPhail 

is clearly the right man for the 

job by following it.

MEN’S BASKETBALL 

NOTES 

TU knocks 

down 11 

3-pointers 

in victory 

Raboin scores first 

points since home 

opener, provides 

push off bench 

After taking a beating from the 

3-point range against George Mason, 

the Tigers caught fire from deep 

against William & Mary Saturday 

afternoon. Led by sophomore Josh 

Thornton, Towson hit 48 percent 

of their 3-point attempts, scoring 

33 of their 64 points from beyond 

the arc. Thornton hit four of his 

seven shots from 3-point range, while 

Junior Hairston and Jon Pease each 

hit three shots from deep. Coming off 

the bench, junior Tim Crossin hit one 

of his two shots. 

They also successfully shutdown 

the Tribe, one of the best 3-point 

shooting teams in the CAA, in the 

second half, limiting William & Mary 

to just two of 13 after they hit five of 

10 before the break. 

“One of the main points coach [Pat 

Kennedy] went over in the locker 

room was that he wanted us to contest 

all shots and to play tight defense 

on our man while getting out to them 

on the perimeter,” Thornton said. 

Raboin comes to life 

Towson head coach Pat Kennedy’s 

first recruit when he came to Towson 

was forward Sean Raboin. Now a 

enior, Raboin has been buried in the 

ront court’s depth chart for most of 

he season, but Saturday afternoon, 

e served as the Tigers’ emotional 

parkplug. He was taken down hard 

y William & Mary’s John Sexton and 

onverted both free throws following 

flagrant foul. On the following posession 

Raboin drew an offensive 

oul in the post and scored an easy 

ay in the on the next possession. 

e finished with seven points, his 

irst since the season-opener against 

oyola. 

Hairston records 

double-double 

Forward Junior Hairston recorded 

his first double-double in 12 games 

against the Tribe. The junior transfer 

from the College of Charleston 

has tallied double-digit points and 

rebounds in eight games this season, 

but Saturday’s 21 and 11 performance 

was the first since he scored 

22 points and pulled 11 rebounds 

against George Mason in Fairfax, 

Va. on Jan. 5. Hairston now averages 

nearly 10 rebounds per game, ranking 

third in the CAA. 

-- Kiel McLaughlin 

TRIBE: Williams 

tallies nine assists 

From page 32 

sports 

were doing. There were no second 

thoughts. We shot the ball with 

confidence tonight.” 

Sophomore transfer Josh 

Thornton led Towson’s 3-point barrage, 

knocking down four baskets 

from beyond the arc, many of them 

with several William & Mary players 

leaping in his face. 

The 6-foot-1 shooting guard who 

transferred to 

Towson last season 

from Georgetown 

fearlessly fired up 

shots from long 

range out of both 

the half-court 

offense and on the 

wing in transition. 

With just over four 

minutes remaining 

in the second 

half, he knocked 

down two consecutive 

attempts, including one from 

the top of the key after shaking 

the Tribe’s David Schneider with a 

quick crossover. 

“We try to take what the defense 

gives us and coach always makes 

sure to tell us to go inside before we 

go outside,” Thornton said. “There 

is no way that’s better but as a 

player, you always want to be able 

to do more than one thing and 

scoring from different places on 

the court is part of being the best 

“We We knew what wha we were 

doing. Ther There were no 

second thoughts. thou We 

shot the ball with 

confidence tonight. 

player you can be.” 

His fever from deep proved infectious 

as both senior John Pease and 

Hairston joined their teammate in 

lighting up William & Mary from 

deep. Pease, who has shot 37 percent 

this season from beyond the 

arc, knocked down three of six. 

Hairston, the Tigers’ leading scorer 

entering the game averaging 12.2 

points per contest, hit a seasonhigh 

four 3-point baskets Saturday. 

With just over 

a minute remain- 

Junior Hairston 

Tigers’ forward 

ing, point guard 

C.C. Williams 

melted the clock 

near half court. 

With five secondsremaining 

on the shot 

clock, Hairston 

set a pick at the 

top of the key 

and rolled toward 

the 3-point line. 

Williams found the 6-foot-7-inch 

forward who sank the uncontested 

jumper to put Towson up 15 with a 

minute remaining. 

Despite not hitting any shots 

from the field, Williams dealt nine 

assists while only coughing up possession 

twice. He scored only two 

points on free throws, missing his 

lone field goal attempt. 

The Tigers go on the road 

Wednesday to face the Hofstra 

Pride in Hampstead, N.Y. 

Louis Jay/The Towerlight 

Towson senior forward Sean Raboin battles in the post against 

the William & Mary Tribe Saturday at the Towson Center. 

Athlete of the Week 

Josh 

Thornton 

Men’s 

Basketball 

Sophomore shooting guard Josh Thornton 

knocked down four of his seven 3-point attempts 

Saturday at the Towson Center against 

the William & Mary Tribe. He fi nished with 14 

points, two assists and four rebounds. 


31


SPORTS 

Face-off: Who got 

the best of the Mike 

Bibby trade? 

See Page 30 

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 

No. 13 Monarchs hold off Tigers 

CAA-leading ODU 

leads Towson by 

15 at half, cruises 

to decisive victory 

Kevin Hess 

Assistant Sports Editor 

Despite playing without three 

starters in the lineup the Tigers 

pushed the 13th ranked Old 

Dominion Monarchs in the second 

half but fell short at the end, 

73-61. 

Two freshmen, Dovile 

Miliauskaite and Jessica Haywood, 

combined for 15 points and 10 

rebounds in the Tigers starting 

lineup and drew rave reviews from 

ODU’s legendary head coach, 

Wendy Larry. 

“Towson’s really stepped it up,” 

Larry, who has won over 500 games 

as a head coach, said. “I thought 

Haywood did a great job of banging 

[down low], even though she 

hasn’t seen a whole lot of minutes, 

and I think Dovile will be very, very 

good as she continues to mature. 

This team will get better and better 

as they continue to gel.” 

The smallest player on the floor 

had perhaps the game’s biggest 

impact. Jazzmin Walters, Old 

Dominion’s five-foot-two-inch 

junior point guard, had 12 points, 

six rebounds and played tremendous 

defense adding five steals. 

Megan Pym supported Walters 

with 15 points and added 12 

rebounds to help pick up the slack 

See ODU, page 30 

MEN’S BASKETBALL 

Sharp-shooting TU 

upsets favored Tribe 


News Editor 

While still riding an 11-game 

road-losing streak, Towson is at 

ease in the Towson Center. Saturday 

afternoon against the William & 

Mary Tribe, the Tigers, who are 8-5 

at home, made themselves comfortable 

beyond the 3-point line before 

an announced crowd of 2,348. 

Towson scored 33 of their points 

from deep in a 64-52 victory over 


Old Dominion freshman Jasmine Parker drives to the basket against Towson freshman Omara Parker in the No. 13 Monarchs’ 73-61 victory 

over the Tigers Sunday afternoon at the Towson Center. Old Dominion led by 15 points at the half. 

the Tribe, who entered the game 

tied for third place in the CAA. With 

the victory, Towson improved to 6-9 

in the conference, 10-15 overall. 

“We were ready to shoot,” forward 

Junior Hairston, who hit three of six 

3-point attempts, said. “We saw a 

great team come in here a couple 

days ago like George Mason and 

they were ready to shoot. Tonight, 

we went out there and we were 

ready to shoot. We knew what we 

See TRIBE, page 31 

Last-place finish is step forward 

Carrie Wood 


The 2008 

Orioles will 

struggle to 

win 60 games, 

but that’s not 

a bad thing, 

given the 

apparent plan 

of team president 

Andy 

MacPhail. At 

a speaking engagement in January, 

MacPhail was asked why he didn’t 

In This Corner: 

just keep the current roster together 

(this was prior to the Bedard 

deal) and wait for it to jell. 

He responded to the question 

with one of his own, asking the 

fan, “Did you see us last year? It’s 

not jelling.” 

A last-place finish in the AL 

East will give the Orioles some 

more high draft picks. Getting 

Georgia Tech’s Matt Wieters last 

year with their first pick should 

solve their catching situation for 

years to come, as long as they give 

him the time to develop in the 

minor leagues. 

The Orioles seem committed to 

rebuilding their farm system– once 

one of Major League Baseball’s 

most productive. Having high draft 

picks, and signing those picks, is 

the way to get this done. 

In order to accelerate this 

rebuilding process, they should 

go ahead and get it over with, 

See ROBERTS, page 30 

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