THE

CAMPUSSERVING ALLEGHENY COLLEGE SINCE 1876

INSIDE

- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011 -VOLUME 136, ISSUE 7 WWW.ALLEGHENYCAMPUS.COM

HELLOGOODBYE BOOKEDGAP will host the musical gruop Hellogoodbye for a concert next month, PAGE 2.

KATZEN'S KITCHENNew York Times bestselling cookbook author lectures about sustainability and healthy eating.

► S P O R T SSOCCER REBOUNDSMen’s soccer moves to 8-3 after win over rival Penn State Behrend.

PAGE 6

► F E AT U R E SPUMPKIN MUFFINSWelcome autumn into your kitchen with these easy, seasonal treats.

PAGE 4

► N E W SPHOTO SHOOTNVII and students featured in architect’s advertisement photos.

PAGE 3

Colleges host No Impact Week

Allegheny held No Im-pact Week this week as part of a larger event that in-cludes Edinboro University and Gannon University.

The larger Erie No Im-pact Week was designed to be a competition between local colleges and universi-ties.

Sustainability Coordi-nator Kelly Boulton said she organized No Impact Week’s events over the summer.

Boulton said she orin-gially wanted to get other campus groups involved such as Greek Life and Reli-gious Life, but she couldn’t get a hold of anyone over the summer. Once school started, she said there just wasn’t enough time to schedule meetings with ev-eryone, especially since the

By CHELSEA FLEISCHMANNews Co-editorfleiscc@allegheny.edu

event was set to be the fi rst week of October.

She said that despite the synchronized schedules and collaborative effort be-tween the three schools, the week was treated as an indi-vidual event.

“If you compare Edin-boro to Allegheny, it’s total-ly different student bodies, totally different sizes,” she said. “The weeks are very different, but we are doing things to overlap.”

Each of the three schools began the week with a talk by Colin Beavan, author of No Impact Man.

The Black Family Foun-dation, an Erie based non-profi t organization, invited Allegheny, Gannon, and Edinboro to participate in this week’s initiative.

According to director of operations Devin Redinger,

ALDEN SCHOLARS:

By ELAINA MERCATORISNews Editormercate@allegheny.edu

Nearly 60 percent of students who received an Alden Scholar award for the 2010-2011 academic year did not know what it was upon receiving it for the fi rst time, according to a poll conducted by The Campus.

“I guess that’s an indica-tion that we need to get the word out a little bit more and try to do something more with it because it is an academic honor,” said Dean of the College Linda De-Merrit, whose offi ce helps distribute certifi cates for the awards.

Recipient Anna Good, ’13, didn’t think the award is taken seriously.

“I had no idea what it was, and while it’s nice to have that piece of paper, if it does nothing for me, I don’t really care,” she said. “I don’t see what the point of it is except to tell you what you already knew: that you had a GPA above a certain amount.”

Students with a 3.2 grade point average over the course of the academic year qualifi ed to be an Al-den Scholar. Students with a 3.8 GPA qualifi ed as Dis-tinguished Alden Scholars.

The Alden Scholar pro-gram is Allegheny’s ver-sion of a Dean’s List, similar

See IMPACT | Page 2

See ALDEN | Page 3

to Kenyon College’s Merit List.

Other schools in the Great Lakes Colleges Asso-ciation have offi cial Dean’s Lists.

Denison College’s hon-ors students with GPAs of 3.7 or higher on their Dean’s List while Wooster’s mini-mum is 3.65.

A Dean’s List began at Allegheny in the 1930s as a list of students with B aver-ages, the equivalent of a 3.0. Former President Lawrence Pelletier created the Alden Scholar program in 1958.

After receiving an Alden Scholar certifi cate, Sara Mi-

trano, ’13, still didn’t know what it meant to be an Al-den Scholar.

“If you’re a fi rst time Scholar, they should put in a little sheet of paper that explained what it was,” she said. “It lets students know the administration is aware of student achievements.”

On the other hand, An-drew Raker, ’12, thought a change in title would be a better solution.

“Considering that the award is only a piece of pa-per, one might just as well call the award the Dean’s

Allegheny’s honors go unnoticed

CODY MILLER/THE CAMPUSAuthor of the book “No Impact Man,” Colin Beaven spoke on Monday night in Shafer Auditorium as part of No Impact Week. His talk was also given at Gannon and Ediboro Universities this week.

[NEWS] || October 7, 2011 || The Campus 2 AlleghenyCampus.com

THE CAMPUSwww.alleghenycampus.com

Staff and Contact InformationEditor-in-Chief (Print) : Bridget McCartin

Editor-in-Chief (Web) : Daniel Bauer

News Editors:Elaina MercatorisCory RectenwaldFeatures Editors:Cortney O’BrienKatie McHughSports Editor:Colleen Pegher

Associate Editor:Chelsea Fleischman

Photography Editor:Cody Miller

Design Editor:Dana D’AmicoCopy Editor:

Roma Panganiban

The Campus is printed every Friday during the academic year,

except during breaks and exam periods.The Campus is printed by

The Corry Journal.To place an advertisement, call (814) 332-5386.

Rate sheets are available upon request.Box 12, Allegheny College,

Meadville, PA 16335E-mail: business@alleghenycampus.com

Classifi ed Ads are $.50 per word (12 word minimun).

Advertising Manager:Cory Rectenwald

Business Manager:Amanda SpadaroWeb Manager:Rachel Geisel

Faculty Advisor:Caley Cook

FOR SALE:Acoustic Guitar and Hard Case!

Great Condition! Asking price $200Contact Grace Talmadgetalmadg@allegheny.edu

CLASSIFIEDS

September 30 - from Th e Gator UpdaterTh e Campus failed to mention that Patrick Fritz, ’13, won fi rst

place in last week’s golf tournament hosted by Gannon.

CORRECTIONS

To advertise with The Campus, contact us at business@alleghenycampus.comClassifi ed Ads are $.50 per word

(12 word minimun).

CRIME BLOTTER

News editors: Elaina Mercatoris, Cory Rectenwald || news@alleghenycampus.com

By RACHEL GIESELContributing Writergieselr@allegheny.edu

Th e band Hellogoodbye will perform at Allegheny Nov. 5 as part of GAP’s entertainment events schedule for the year.

Th e concert will be held in Shafer Auditorium. Tickets will go on sale the day aft er fall break and will be sold for $5 each. Th e fi rst day of ticket sales are buy one get one free.

GAP President Natalie Cur-tis said the organization decid-ed to bring a more well-known band to campus this year in-

stead of the smaller bands that the majority of students were unfamiliar with.

In order to increase student excitement and participation, GAP agreed to bring a more popular band to campus.

“We’re hoping Hellogood-bye brings a larger student body audience interested in coming to the event,” Curtis said

Hellogoodbye was chosen from a list of possible bands in the given price range. Curtis said the 233 members of GAP received an e-mail asking them

to choose the band they would most like to see. Th e majority of those that responded said Hellogoodbye was their num-ber one choice and GAP fi nal-ized the decision

Curtis also wanted to stress that this is not the major con-cert of the semester. Th ere will be other concerts and events in addition to Hellogoodbye, although no other events have been announced.

Hellogoodbye to play in November

HELLOGOODBYE.NETHellogoodbye will perform on campus Nov. 5 in Shafer Auditorium.

IMPACT from page 1

October 11, 1:19 a.m. - Schultz Hall

Alcohol Violation: a student is being investigated for underage drinking

Round-Trip One-way All Day Everyday724-794-4833 Operating 24/7

Booking Hrs: Weekdays 9AM-5PM

Sprocket CAR SERVICE for affordable, professional, and dependable car service for private and corporate needs.

At

and

From Here to There and Everywhere www.AirportOrbit .com

ELLIOT BARTELS/THE CAMPUSTOP: Kate Darby and Mark Neff, professors of environmental science taught bike maintainance skills in a workshop Tuesday in the Campus Center lobby. BOTTOM: Ian Colley, ’13, Billy Chapel, ’15, Christian Umbach, ’15, and Emma Rainoff, ’15 participated in the unplugged open mic night with bicycle smoothies in GFC Thursday night.

the nonprofi t started col-laborating with Edinboro University to create the Erie No Impact Week after they funded Beavan’s presen-tation at the university in 2009. He said the organiza-tion has been funding green projects for more than ten years.

The presentation at Edin-boro was the fi rst time their organization had heard of Beavan.

“Everything he was working on ran right along with the projects we were working on at the time,” he said.

More than 130 students, faculty, and community members attended Beavan’s talk in Shafer Auditorium Monday night. He spoke at Gannon University earlier

that day, and fi nished his Erie tour at Edinboro Uni-versity on Tuesday.

“There was a great audi-ence there [Gannon], very kind and polite and they laughed at my jokes-the same thing as here,” Beavan said. “There were a lot of thoughtful questions after-ward.”

Dr. Michelle Homan, as-sistant professor of environ-mental science at Gannon, said that she was surprised by the turnout for Beavan’s talk.

“Colin had asked me how many people I though would show up for his talk and I said ‘Oh, I don’t know, 75’,” she said. “We had about 250 people show up.”

In an email, associate

professor at Edinboro Uni-versity Dr. Melissa K. Gib-son, said that about 800 students attended Beavan’s presentation on Tuesday.

“Colin’s presentation was focused for our First-Year Experience program,” she said. “The rest of our [No Impact Week] activities were open to campus and community.”

Program director for the No Impact Project Lilly Be-langer said in an email that more students have already registered for the project online for part two than had signed up for part one. As of Tuesday afternoon, she reported that there were roughly 1500 registrants.

All three schools also planned a “No Impact Man” fi lm screening and night of

smoothies made from bicy-cle-powered blenders.

Boulton said she fi rst mentioned the idea to Gib-son and Homan in one of their summer meetings.

“The smoothies started here,” she said. “They truly thought that it was so cool, of course, because it really is.”

The bicycle-powered blenders were also a fea-tured event in last October’s campus-wide energy chal-lenge.

No Impact Week is the kickoff for Allegheny’s en-ergy challenge.

Boulton said she and the Eco-Reps haven’t fi nalized the event’s agenda yet.

[NEWS]The Campus || October 7, 2011 || 3AlleghenyCampus.com

North Village II featured in photo shootBy ALEXANDRIA DeMERITTContributing Writerdemeritta@allegheny.edu

Photographers returned to North Village II on Wednes-day to conduct a photo shoot featuring redesigned students’ room. Th e photos will be used to promote the residence hall’s designing fi rm, WTW Archi-tects.

Barton Schindel is the de-signing architect of North Vil-lage II. He said that the images from Wednesday’s photo shoot will be used as stock photos for not only WTW Architects, but also its parent company, Mas-saro Corporation.

North Village II residential assistants fi rst informed their residents of the photo shoot opportunity through an e-mail, sent September 29.

Photographers took pre-liminary pictures last Friday. Of the nine rooms that applied, a single room and two quads were selected.

“I was really excited to fi nd out that they did to my room,” said North Village II RA Ra-chael Jander, ‘14, one of the stu-dents whose room was selected for the photo shoot. “When I fi rst moved in, I thought of many diff erent [design] con-cepts [for her room] and it is nice to see others.”

Sarah Knight, Area Coor-

dinator for North Village, said that additional decorations were supplied for the shoot.

“As part of that process for taking the photos, [WTW Ar-chitects] off ered to help sup-plement some of the student’s

ALDEN from page 1

own decorations.”She also said that students

featured in the shoot were al-lowed to keep any extra deco-rations.

Past photo shoot decora-tions have included area rugs

and window dressings.Julie Amsdell and Jamie

Stoltz were both on the photo shoot team. Th ey said that approximately $500 was bud-geted for the decorations that they purchased from IKEA and

KATIE McHUGH/THE CAMPUSLEFT: Students Sarah Wilhelm ’12, Jen Kuneman ’12, Ben Turin ’12 and Jen Kuneman ’12 pose in North Village II. RIGHT: Photographer Ed Massery conducted the photo shoot.

Marshalls. Th ey also used their own personal textbooks as ad-ditional props.

Other students felt that the photo shoot was a good idea and particularly liked that stu-dents could keep the decora-

tions.“Th e school provides us

with a certain amount [of fur-niture],” said Ley Hunter, ’14, said. “Since we have so much space, the walls sometimes look empty.”

ADVERTISEMENTS

List because that is essen-tially what the Alden Schol-ar award is,” he said.

Raker, who knew about the award before receiving it, recognized a more prob-lematic situation.

“I think the bigger dif-fi culty might be for people unfamiliar with the college, who don’t know who Timo-thy Alden was or what an Alden Scholar is,” he said. “Some employers may sense the distinction while others may just question what it is.”

The name Alden Scholar has never been addressed as a problem, DeMerrit said.

Upon creation of the pro-gram in 1958, winners were announced at a special cere-mony, and later at a dinner, until this stopped in 1998.

DeMerrit and her sec-retary Samantha Stephens recalled that the banquet dinner was discontinued because of low attendance from students.

Approximately 600 stu-dents received both awards

for the 2010-2011 year.DeMerrit said the rein-

statement of a banquet din-ner has never come up.

Currently, the names are posted online and in the honors convocation and commencement ceremony programs.

Alden Scholars receive a certifi cate in the mail while Distinguished Alden Schol-ars receive the same certifi -cate in addition to a letter and a book prize.

Although the title Dis-tinguished Alden Scholars was used in their letter, the certifi cates for Alden and Distinguished Alden Schol-ars remained the same. The course catalogue does not indicate a difference be-tween the two.

DeMerrit recognized this as a problem, and said the fi rst step is to change the title on the certifi cates and in the course catalogue to Distinguished Alden Schol-ar instead of only Alden Scholar.

“It’s much more compet-

itive,” she said.Raker wanted even more

recognition for the students who qualifi ed for the Dis-tinguished Alden Scholar award each year.

“I think there could be more emphasis placed on how diffi cult it is to pull off a 3.8 average,” Raker said.

Good felt that the an-nouncement is down-played.

“I think that if they want it to be a big deal, they should make a bigger deal about it,” she said. “I’ve never seen anything about Alden Scholars anywhere except for on the certifi -cate.”

DeMerrit cited a reason for this: unlike other hon-ors, students don’t have to submit an application.

“You’re going to get it if you meet the criteria,” DeMerrit said. “Since you don’t have to apply, it prob-ably makes it below the ra-dar screen, but you fi nd out about it when you receive it.”

www.AlleghenyCampus.com[Features]4 || The Campus || October 7, 2011

Features editor: Cortney O’Brien, Assistant editor: Katie McHugh || features@alleghenycampus.com

“Moneyball” swings, strikes outFilm’s message, development fail to inspire Reviewed by ERIN BROWNContributing Writerbrowne@allegheny.edu

“Moneyball” is a decent film and it’s moderately enter-taining, but it’s nothing excep-tional.

Its basic premise, that “sta-tistics triumph over all,” defeats the feel-good humanist mes-sage it attempts to convey.

The film follows the failed major-leaguer turned general manager of the Oakland Ath-letics Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) as he attempts to bring the team back from the loss of three key players to higher paying teams.

He employs Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a nerdy Yale eco-nomics graduate, to rebuild the team based on a system of complex analysis that narrows players’ skills down to a single number by which they can be compared.

Beane fights against the traditional approach to base-ball and brings in underrated players that other scouts disre-garded.

“Moneyball” is definitely the story of an underdog, but director Bennett Miller and screenwriters Steven Zaillan (“Schindler’s List”) and Aaron Sorkin (“The Social Network”) focus too much on Beane and totally minimize the players themselves.

In doing this, they miss a major opportunity to pull on heartstrings. The team mem-bers’ struggle to overcome

their designations as suppos-edly inferior players and win would have added to the whole underdog struggle and might have made a great sub-plot.

The focus on Beane at the expense of the other charac-ters definitely detracts from

It’s that time of year again, when the weather turns, the leaves change, people carve pumpkins and I buy candy corn.

Fall has officially arrived, and this means I’m already ob-sessed with pumpkin-flavored everything.

My mom makes an easy, delicious pumpkin bread, so I asked her for the recipe.

Muffins are much simpler and quicker to eat, so I decided to attempt the bread recipe in muffin tins.

Go to the store and buy a can of pumpkin now.

Granted, when I went to Tops two weeks ago, they didn’t

By ELAINA MERCATORISNews Editormercate@allegheny.edu

have any yet. Buy a 3-lb. can so you

can make pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, and pump-kin bread.

Insert raisins or chocolate chips for a twist.

Don’t be like me and forget that you need a can opener for this recipe!

If you don’t own muffin trays, buy disposable alumi-num baking pans but don’t dis-pose of them.

I use paper cup liners for muffins and just wash my bread pans and reuse them.

Otherwise, you’ll need the baking basics: sugar, oil, eggs, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, in addition to cinnamon and allspice.

First, preheat your oven to

325 degrees Farenheit.Combine 1 cup of sugar and

½ cup of oil in a fairly large bowl.

Add the two eggs, one at a time, beating after each.

Add 1 cup of pumpkin and mix well.

In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients: 1 2/3 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cin-namon, and 1/2 teaspoon all-spice (which, for the record, is a spice of its own, not a bunch of spices mixed together).

Add the dry bowl to pump-kin mix, stirring just until it’s combined. Be careful not to over-mix.

Spoon batter into muffin pans, and place in the oven.

The kitchen and surrouning area will smell as lovely as fall itself.

The original bread recipe bakes for an hour in the same temperature, but because I used muffins, I began checking them at a half hour.

I took them out after 45 mi nutes, partly because I like my baked goods moist and partly in fear of drying them out.

But they turned out to be the perfect consistency for me.

They could take a little lon-ger than 45 minutes though, pending your consistency pref-erences.

Test them by sticking a toothpick or fork down the middle of one.

If it comes out clean, they’re done!

My batch made 15 muffins, so share the goods with your friends as soon as they’re out of the oven.

Save a few for later to eat for breakfast or a midnight snack.

ing about what is otherwise a rather dull story, and his inter-actions with his teen daughter (Kerris Dorsey) are the most genuinely touching aspect of the whole film.

The film feels generally un-derdeveloped. “Moneyball” leaves me with too many ques-tions.

I wonder whether Brand has any kind of life outside of his numbers and what, if anything, Beane’s perpetual flashbacks to his days as a failing major-leaguer have to do with his drive to implement statistics instead of traditional scouting.

The ending is less touch-ing than it should be when Beane turns down the largest offer in history to work for an-other team simply because he promised himself after turning down a full ride to Stanford for a position in the major league that he would never make a decision based on money again.

Sure, money isn’t every-thing, but it seemed like one heck of an opportunity to me, and he never seemed to have much affection for any of the people at the Oakland A’s any-way.

The film just leaves too much unexplained.

“Moneyball” barely avoids striking out. The message is just not as warm and fuzzy as one would expect from a film about an underdog team.

CODY MILLER / THE CAMPUSWith a pound of pumpkin, Elaina made over a dozen warm, sweet-smelling muffins to share with friends.

the film, but Pitt’s performance helps to redeem the film’s emo-tion.

Brad Pitt dominates the movie and mesmerizes as Beane.

His boyish charisma charms the audience into actually car-

MOVIEBLOGBUSTER.COM Pitt plays the manager of the Oakland A’s trading players based on stats.

www.AlleghenyCampus.com The Campus || October 7, 2011 || 5

Katzen Comesto Campus

Cookbook author to focus on healthy local ea� ng

“� is is a rural community; we have a lot of farmers around here,” Cooper said. “From an economic standpoint, keeping our dollars local is bene� cial, and there’s an overriding bene� t to having fresh produce get to the table quicker. It’s a self-ful� lling cycle.”

In recognition of the upcoming visit, Parkhurst organized various Katzen-inspired events this week such as “Mollie Monday.”

On Monday and Tuesday, the dining halls featured granola bars, rice and pasta dishes and other items from Katzen’s rec-ipe collection.

“� e idea is a takeo� of Mid-Week Madness, just for the week leading up to her event,” said Cooper. “It’s also to get people, students in particular, interested in eating healthy and knowing that there’s not a compromise.”

Noreen Chatta, ‘15, is eager to learn about the lifestyle changes that could come from Katzen’s insight.

“� is [event] being about food directly relates to me and what I consume and my direct quality of life,” Chatta said. “An event like this can teach students to understand what it means to give themselves a higher quality of life and to take better care of themselves, since they’re the only ones who can.”

Scott Scho� e, technical director of programming on cam-pus, who helps faculty coordinate for the annual theme con-tract and execute the programming, said that Katzen’s event � ts of the mold of the rest of the Year of Sustainable Abilities programming.

“� e interesting thing about this year is that it all kind of � ts together,” Scho� e said. “With Colin Beavan relating some things about the environment and the real world, and Mollie coming in and discussing healthy lifestyles, to Bill McKibbin with 350.org having an interesting environmental standpoint...[their viewpoints are] what we’re really trying to represent this year.”

Renowned cookbook author Mollie Katzen, this year’s second Year of Sustainable Communities speaker, will bring a new approach to food educa-

tion to campus this Tuesday.Katzen, author of titles such as the “Moosewood Cook-

book” and “� e Enchanted Broccoli Forest”, will give two separate presentations on sustainable cooking methods.

With a focus on eating healthy and local - her � rst presen-tation is titled “What Does Eating Mostly Plants look Like? Hint: Not What You � ink” - Katzen will provide a dinner table twist to the Year of Sustainable Communities.

Professor Ishita Sinha Roy, member of the Public Events Committee, which is responsible for planning the Year of Sus-tainable Communites events, believes Katzen’s event will show students that it’s possible to eat healthy, no matter where their food comes from.

“Mollie’s particular appeal is that she talks to younger peo-ple about how you can live in a dorm, have a meal plan, and still make good choices,” Sinha Roy said. “Two big obstacles of any social change action are the ease with which you can make these changes and access to the resources. � is event shows that when it comes to making choices about smart eat-ing, it can be easier than you think.”

Director of Conference and Event Services Timothy Coo-per also felt that Katzen’s experiences with her own children would provide a unique perspective for students.

“She has kids who are college age right now, and so she should provide some interesting inside information from a personal and professional perspective,” Cooper said.

Although Katzen’s books sometimes maintain a focus on vegetarianism, Sinha Roy noted that Katzen’s talks will be more broad.

“[� e event is] more the idea of promotion of local foods and healthy lifestyles,” Sinha Roy said.

In addition to guiding students toward healthier eating habits, Katzen’s message will also be accessible to the Mead-ville community, said Cooper. One of her lectures, titled “� e Great Food Flip: Toward a New Center of the Plate,” is open to the Meadville community and will target a broader audience.

Designed by Ashley Payseure

By COLLEEN PEGHER Sports Editor pegherc@allegheny.edu

Courtesy of LORI YACKMACKThe last Gator victory came against DePauw on Sept. 17 (pictured above). Since then, the offense has struggled, scoring only 13 points total versus Wit-tenberg and Case Western in their last two matchups.

Th e Gators suff ered a loss to Case Western aft er a devastat-ing fumble that resulted in a Spartan touchdown that sealed their 17-10 victory in the clos-ing minutes of the game.

“Th e defense had just come off the fi eld aft er stopping Case Western on fourth down,” said senior linebacker Doug Wil-liams. “We were all excited and thought we had won the game. Th en we fumbled and I could just tell by the look on my fel-low teammates faces and the way I felt. We were sick to our stomachs.”

Aft er a solid fi rst half de-fensively, allowing only nine points in the fi rst three quar-ters of play, the Gator defense thwarted a Case fourth-down attempt, leaving the Gator of-fense deep in their own terri-tory with 1:21 left on the clock.

Aft er running two plays, Case’s Dan Calabrese hit tail-back Brian Tamburlin, ’12, forcing a fumble that was car-ried 10 yards by Cary Dieter, putting the Spartans at the Al-legheny fi ve-yard line. With 45 seconds left on the clock, Case quarterback Erik Olson threw a three-yard touchdown pass, giving the Spartans the lead.

Head coach Mark Mat-lak urged his team to get back on the fi eld and do their best to recover. “I was thinking about where they had the ball and getting the defense back on the fi eld,” said Matlak. “We used two timeouts to preserve some

time so that our off ense had some time left on the clock so they had an opportunity to score. It worked out so that we had a Hail Mary pass with fi ve seconds left to give ourselves a chance to tie the game.”

Quarterback Jordan Fowler originally thought that Tam-burlin was down, but the call stood. Aft er a fi nal failed Hail Mary pass attempt, the Gators were left to cope with what would be their third loss of the year, tying their total losses for all of last season.

“My initial thought when-ever the ball was fumbled was Brian may have possi-bly been down, but I did not hear a whistle,” Fowler said. “I had mixed emotions aft er the game. I felt absolutely horrible for our defense because they played their hearts out and did not deserve to lose.”

On the defensive end, the Gators stopped fi ve of seven fourth-down attempts by the Spartans. Th ey also broke up six passes and recorded fi ve sacks. Senior cornerback Tra-vis Wilkins picked off a pass that helped the off ense to score their only touchdown of the game, with fullback Tim Wer-ley, ’13, taking it in from the one.

“Our performance on de-fense was outstanding,” Wil-liams said. “Th e eff ort level and the will to never give up were there. Th ere were several times throughout the game that Case was driving on us and it came down to fourth down. I’m very proud of the defensive unit.”

“Th e defense gave our foot-

ball team a chance to win the game,” Matlak said. “Th ey gave outstanding eff ort under ad-verse situations.”

Fowler was disappointed with the off ensive production. Th e Gator off ense fi nished the game with a total of 150 yards, and earned eight fi rst downs to Case’s 19.

“Off ensively we did not even deserve to be in the game at all with our performance,”

said Fowler. “But as a competi-tor you always hate to lose, so it defi nitely still hurt. Our per-formance on off ense honestly was just sad.”

Th e off ense did succeed in producing one scoring drive which ended with a fi eld goal by kicker Ryan Zipf, ’12, that would give the Gators a 10-9 lead. Th e drive was sparked by a 46-yard Fowler pass to senior tight end Max Kauert that put

Gator offense struggles in loss versus Spartans Football fumbles chance at win, falls to Case Western 17-10

The women's volleyball team battled Hiram Tuesday night,

falling after fi ve tough sets that ended in a 3-2 loss.The Gators will travel to

Washington, D.C. this Friday to participate in the Gallaudet

University Tournment this weekend.

ANDREW CROFFORD /THE CAMPUSFreshman Katelynn Long’s kill put the Gators up 25-24, allowing the Gators to take the fi rst set in a match that went down to the wire.

ANDREW CROFFORD /THE CAMPUSSenior Audra Batdorff helped the Gators take the Terriers to fi ve sets.

the Gator off ense at the Spar-tan one yard line.

“Th e problem with the of-fense during the Case game was our inability to block,” Matlak said. “If our blocking improves then our off ense will improve.”

Fowler stressed the need for improvement on the off ensive end.

“I have been trying to think of why exactly we played so

badly on off ense, and the only answer I can come up with was that we clearly were not pre-pared as well as Case Western was prepared,” Fowler said. “Everyone has to be account-able and prepare better this week in order for us to im-prove.”

Th e Gators hope to rebound from their two-game losing streak this Saturday against Kenyon on the road at 1 p.m.

Aft er falling to conference foe Denison last Saturday, the men’s soccer team defeated regional rival Penn State Beh-rend at a fi nal score of 2-1 at home on Monday night.

Coming off the loss to Den-ison, the Gators were off to a shaky start against Behrend.

“We didn’t really play well early,” said head coach Angelo Panzetta. “We made some ad-justments at the half. I was re-ally pleased with our eff ort and execution in the second half. We were much sharper.”

As the fi rst half came to a close, a goal by Behrend’s Jake Gamble allowed the Lions to take the lead, and left the Ga-tors with their fourth consecu-tive scoreless half, their longest drought of the season.

Going into the second half trailing 1-0, Allegheny quickly tied it up with a goal by junior Conor Azevedo from the assist of Andrew Miller, ’13.

Th e matchup was a physi-cal one, but the physical-ity benefi tted the Gators with the ejection of Behrend head coach Dan Perritano. Lions midfi elder Michael Liebdzin-ski was also sent to the locker room aft er gaining his second yellow card of the day.

Th e Gators were also giv-en two yellow cards during the fi rst half when an argu-ment broke out at midfi eld. Coach Panzetta was skeptical of the calls.

“It was a physical game like always with teams down I-79, but that happens with regional rivalries,” said Panzetta. “Many of these kids played each other in high school and on club teams. It was more the way the refs handled the incidents that made it seem worse.”

Goalkeeper John Lichina, ’14, also questioned the valid-ity of the ejections.

“Th e Behrend coach getting sent off was completely ille-gitimate because he was com-pletely within his rights with

By MATT MASCOLO Staff Writer mascolom@allegheny.edu

what he was saying,” said Li-china. “Th e referee wasn’t hav-ing it and kind of overreacted.”

Despite their ten fouls, the Gators avoided any ejections. Captain Travis Tasker, ’13, ap-plauded the Gators ability to stay in the game, even aft er their two yellow cards.

“I was happy with the way we were able to keep our com-posure, but I honestly expect nothing less from our guys,” said Tasker. “Getting yellow cards and losing composure in big games won’t help us in the long run.”

Tasker’s poise and leader-ship helped the Gators to pre-vail in the fi nal minutes of the match.

In the 85th minute, Tasker sent a cross to David Del Gre-co, ’13, at the top of the box. Del Greco kicked the ball over the head of an approaching defender to score his fourth game-winner of the season.

Del Greco has been a bright spot for the Gators. He recently won NCAC Player of the Week and has six goals for the season in addition to being third in the league in scoring.

“Dave transferring here has been a huge plus for us this year,” Panzetta said. “He’s had a major impact in every game.”

“Dave’s had a huge impact on the team,” Lichina said. “He works really hard every-day. He’s scored a lot of goals for us this year. He’s defi nitely the highest scorer on the team and he pushes everyone else to work that much harder to get better.”

Th e Gators will take their come from behind victory as they head west to Indiana this weekend to face the Little Gi-ants of Wabash College. Both Allegheny and Wabash seek their second conference victory as the two teams jockey for po-sition in the NCAC. Th e teams will face off Saturday at noon.

ALLEGHENY SPORTS INFORMATION The men’s soccer team bounced back from their loss against Denison last Saturday with a comeback win versus regional rival Penn State Behrend on Monday night, putting the Gators at 8-3 overall this season.

Men’s soccer defeats regional rival Behrend

VOLL

EyBA

LL[ SPORTS]6 ||October 7, 2011 || The Campus AlleghenyCampus.com

Sports Editor : Colleen Pegher || sports@alleghenycampus.com