april 22 2009

ELM CITY’S EVENING OF FUN AND DANCE!

SNAP is an evening of dance cre-ated at the Center for the Arts at Christ Church in New Haven.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Volume 87, Issue 25

PRO-LIFE PROTESTORS FIGHT HARD

President Obama’s pro-choice mentality leaves pro-life supporters fighting hard for their beliefs.

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The student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938

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INDEXArts & Entertainment

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Bulletin Board5

Community & AdvicePage 9

EditorialsPage 6

Police Log/ Fun & Games

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National/World NewsPage 3

New Haven NewsPage 4

SportsPage 10

SPRING WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE A SUCCESS!

RECSports’ Spring Weight Loss Challenge has concluded and results have come in! Read more inside!

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By JONATHAN CASCIOSTAFF WRITER

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ACJA Symposium Focuses on In-vestigation of International Crimes

WEST HAVEN—The Henry C. Lee Institute of Foren-sic Science hosted its annual Arnold Markle Symposium two weeks ago. The symposium is in honor of the late Ar-nold Markle, who was a well known prosecutor for the City of New Haven and a friend to many in the forensic sci-ence field.

This year, the symposium focused on the Investiga-tion of International PHOTO COURTESY ROB HANSON

The UNH ACJA pose with Dr. Henry Lee at the symposium on April 12, 2009.Crimes. On April 12, the American Criminal Justice Association hosted a trip for 20 students and an ad-

visor to attend this two-day symposium. Students were able to hear from some of the best professionals in

the criminal justice and fo-rensic science fields.

The first day was kicked off with a presentation by

Dr. Henry Lee, who as al-ways got the attendees in-volved with some morning laughs. As the day went

on, the excitement started to build for the speaker di-rectly after lunch who was Chris Hansen from Dateline

WEST HAVEN—Last Saturday marked the Twen-ty-Ninth Annual Interna-tional Festival at UNH. This is a remarkable event put on by the International Student Association. If you haven’t gone yet, what are you waiting for? For five dollars with a UNH student ID, you get an all-you-can-eat buffet of various cul-tural dishes. I suggest not eating at all before hand if you would like to try food

Annual International Festival a Success for Twenty-Ninth Year

from every country. You get full servings, not Sam’s Club samples. As you di-gest, the countries present perform all sorts of tradi-tional songs, dances, and ceremonies.

The purpose of the fes-tival is to learn about other countries. Each country had flags, photographs, and pieces of art to showcase. The exhibitors were very friendly and very infor-mative. Fourteen displays were set up around the gym at North Campus: Nigeria, Brazil, China, Iran, Af-ghanistan, Saudi Arabia,

India, Turkey, Russia, Ma-laysia, Thailand, USA, Ca-ribbean Student Associa-tion, and the Latin Student Association.

Three awards were giv-en for Most Informational, Most Interactive and Best Cultural Presentation. Saudi Arabia won Most In-formational and India won Most Interactive Country (visitors could get tattoos!). The final category ended in a tie between Malaysia and Russia.

I’ve been going to the In-ternational Festival for four years now, and I’m normal-

ly a very picky eater. I have always enjoyed the food there, but this year was the best so far. Everything was packed with flavor. Most of the entrees were very spicy, especially the chili chicken from India which was a kick to the taste buds. It was hard to taste anything after India. Russia had milder food and the honey cake was very sweet. Nigeria re-ceived a lot of visitors due to a delicious fried dough dessert called a puff puff. Three food awards were

ZOLOF ROCKS CAMPUS!

SCOPE ends their rockin’ week with a Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer and Call II Consciousness concert.

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NBC: To Catch a Predator. As expected, he discussed the show, how it came to be what it is and the direc-

tion it will be going in the future. Guest speakers for

Campus Events, Etc.The Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

April 26th—May 2nd

Second Annual Jessica Santos’ WalkSaturday, April 18th, 2009

Location: Oak Street Beach & Deck in West Haven, CTRegistration starts at 9:30 am and the walk begins at

10:30am. $5 for students and $20 for non-students

For information on transportation and registration, please contact Nikita [email protected]

Hot Topics in Criminal Justice DiscussionMonday, April 20th

6:00—7:30 pmMeeting Room A&B

Walk-A-Mile-In-Her-ShoesSunday, April 26th, 2009

Check-in at 12:00 pm and the walk starts at 1:00 pmLisman’s Landing in Milford, CT

Please visit www.rapecrisisctr.org to register and directions

Sex Offender Registry PresentationTuesday, April 28th, 2009

4:30 pm in Alumni Lounge

Second Annual Take Back the Night EventTake Back the Night is a rally and march to end sexual vio-

lence. There will be speakers, a candle-light vigil, and a speak-out forum.

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Starts at 4:45 pm in Alumni Lounge

Lawn signs with facts and statistics on crimes and victims’ rights

Thursday, April 30thAcross Campus

Wednesday, April 225 ¡Sobremesa!

Jazzman's in Bartels Hall, 1pm – 2pm Test Preparation

Maxcy 210E, 2pm – 3pm Women's Softball vs. Stonehill College

UNH Softball Field, 3pm – 5pm Pool League

New Hall Game Room, 7pm – 9pm

Thursday, April 23 Women's Softball vs. Caldwell College

UNH Softball Field, 3pm – 5pm Twisted Thursday

Echlin Dining Hall, 9:30pm – 11:00pm
















National/World NewsThe Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

NEWs BrIEfsBy Associated Press Writers

By MELANIE ROVINSKYSTAFF WRITER

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Zack’s Wacky StacKYour place to find the oddest stories in mainstream news.

By Zack RosenBogus waiter tricks customers at 2 NJ restaurantsHOBOKEN, N.J. –Po-lice say a man posing as a waiter collected $186 in cash from din-ers at two restaurants in New Jersey and walked out with the money in his pocket.

Diners described the bogus waiter as a spikey-haired 20-something wearing a dark blue or black button-down shirt, yellow tie and khaki pants.

Police say he ap-proached two women dining at Hobson’s Choice in Hoboken, N.J. around 7:20 p.m. on Thursday. He asked if they needed anything else before paying. They said no and handed him $90 in cash.

About two hours later he approached three women dining at Margherita’s Pizza and Cafe. He asked if they were ready to pay, took $96 and never returned with their change.Miss. woman gets

shot in head, but makes teaB I R M I N G H A M , Ala. –A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Fri-day. Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospi-talized three days af-ter being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot his wife. A bullet struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head, au-thorities said. She is expected to fully re-cover.

“There’s no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God,” said Sher-iff Mike Byrd of Jack-son County, Miss.

“She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head,” Byrd said. “Then he went out on the back porch and shot him-self.”

A deputy was

greeted by the woman when he arrived min-utes after she was shot with the slug from a .380-caliber handgun.

“When the officer got there she said, `What’s going on?’ She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was con-scious, but she was confused about what had happened,” he said. “She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.”

Byrd said the bul-let apparently passed through the lobes of the woman’s brain without causing ma-jor damage. She was rushed to a Mobile hospital by a helicop-ter.

While such cases may be rare, neuro-surgeons say such an outcome is possible. Medical journals also confirm people have been shot in the head with little or no lasting injury.

“You just don’t hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they’re

dead,” Byrd said.School: Ohio teacher took students to strip clubHAMILTON, Ohio—A school spokesman said a southwest Ohio teacher has resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. Butler Tech school district spokesman Bill So-lazzo said the 47-year-old teacher resigned Thursday.

He said the teacher told Edgewood High School administrators that the students, all cheerleaders, asked her to take them to the bar in February.

The teacher told school officials in an e-mail that she got permission from the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them to the club.

The teacher taught marketing at the school and previously served as a coach for the district’s eighth-grade cheerleaders.

Police plan to charge driver in fatal acci-dentHOUSTON –Police plan to charge a driver who lost control of his car after using his cell phone, sending the vehicle into a rain-swollen ditch and killing five children, a spokesman said Sunday.

Three counts of intoxication manslaughter were being prepared against Chanton Jenkins, 32, Houston police Kese Smith said.

Smith said Jenkins failed a field sobriety test after the accident Saturday, which followed tor-rential rain storms.

The bodies of three boys — ages 4, 7 and 11 — were found inside the vehicle. A search was planned Sunday morning for two girls ages 1 and 3, but morning fog delayed the use of a helicopter, Smith said.

The driver and another adult escaped from the vehicle, along with a 10-year-old girl.

Smith said the adult passenger told police Jenkins was the father of four of the children in the car, including the 10-year-old girl who escaped.

The current was so strong and the conditions so treacherous that it was several hours before authorities could search the sedan. Police said the vehicle was swept 100 feet from the spot where it left the road.

The passenger told police rain was falling heavily when Jenkins answered a cell phone. The passenger said Jenkins lost control when he hung up the phone and the car flew down an embankment into the ditch, Smith said.

At least one other traffic death was blamed on the powerful storms that swept across south-east Texas.

Smith did not know if Jenkins had an attor-ney to speak for him.

Madonna injured in fall from startled horse in NYNEW YORK –Madonna took a tumble while horseback riding in the Hamptons on Saturday when her mount was startled by photographers, and she suffered "minor injuries" and bruises, a spokeswoman said.

Paparazzi had "jumped out of the bushes" to photograph her, spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg said.

It's at least the second fall from a horse in four years for Madonna, who recently turned 50.

The singer was treated at a Southampton hospital and was released, said Rosenberg, who wouldn't disclose more details on her condi-tion.

Madonna, singer of such pop classics as "Like a Virgin" and "Material Girl," had been visiting friends in the Hamptons, a playground for the rich and famous on the eastern end of Long Island.

Pro-life Protestors Fight Harder Under Obama

President Obama’s pro-choice mentality has caused a spike in the activity of anti-abortion organizations across the United States.

During the course of President Obama’s campaign, he made an extensive effort not to marginalize individu-als in the pro-life con-stituency. According to Politico Reporter Carrie Brown, how-

ever, the president’s first few months in office have triggered an explosion in anti-abortion activity, as he has moved to “defend and expand a woman’s right to choose.”

In July 2007, Obama told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that sign-ing the Freedom of Choice Act would be among his top priori-ties as president. The Act would make the right to have an abor-tion part of federal law.

Rev. Frank S. Page, a member of the president’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Part-nerships, stated “The verbalization that [President Obama] wishes to find com-mon ground – we are just not seeing that.”

According to Polit-ico, the president has made several public decisions that have set the anti-abortionists afire. Chief among these were his deci-sions to repeal current conscience protec-

tions for medical pro-fessionals and move forward with the use of stem cells for sci-entific and medical purposes.

For two presiden-tial terms already, anti-abortionists have had little to worry about, and conse-quently, little to act on and about. After eight years of smooth sail-ing, however, activists against abortion are remembering once again what it is like to fight for their beliefs.

New Haven NewsThe Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

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Annual Symposium Attracts 20 Students

also distributed: the Best Appetizer award (Turkey), Best Entrée (tie between Nigeria and Afghanistan), and Best Dessert (Brazil).

Last but not least was the entertainment portion of the night. The two Masters of Ceremonies were Yauhan Mehta and Ni-misha Monpara, who kept people laughing between acts. First up was the Chinese Lion Dance performed by

29th Year Continues Strong UNH Tradition

con’t from page 1 the Western Zick-efoose and another member of the Wu Dang Kung Fu Acad-emy. This dance was easily my favorite of all the performanc-es. The lion moved throughout the audi-ence and played fetch with itself. Turkey’s traditional marriage proposal skit earned the Most Original for the night. India and Russia caused another tie, winning Best Vi-sual Appeal for their

cultural dances. China defended its champi-onship title for Best in Show with an um-brella dance.

The International Festival is an amazing cultural experience. It is definitely some-thing all students must see before graduat-ing. It’s Epcot without the Spaceship Earth. The Thirtieth Annual Festival will be held around the same time next year.

WEST HAVEN—In RECSports news, Season Four is coming along nicely. In Cam-pus Recreation news, the Spring Weight Loss Challenge has concluded and the re-sults have come in.

For those of you who don’t know or re-member, teams com-prised of students and faculty accepted the challenge of reach-

RECSports’ Spring Weight Loss Challenge a Success

By KAT WILBERDINGRECSPORTS

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WEST HAVEN—Every year, incoming students flock to the University of New Haven, dead set on starting the new year of classes, activities, and events on the right foot. Students take advantage of our new classrooms, the Beck-erman Recreation Center, the soon-to-

Students Who Aim to Give Back and Why You Should Too!

be-established Henry C. Lee Center, and the clubs and organi-zations that make up student life. But what attracted these stu-dents to UNH? What keeps these buildings and groups running? What makes the Uni-versity of New Haven a bustling and popular school?

In some ways, we have the workers of the Phone-A-Thon and the Senior Chal-

lenge to thank for the growing success and population of our uni-versity.

SPUD, Students Promoting Under-graduate Develop-ment, is a student-run organization that fo-cuses on expanding undergraduate knowl-edge on giving back. President Brendan Pearson expressed the need for continual stu-dent support, “Only 75 percent of the

money needed to live, learn, and socialize on campus comes from student tuition. The rest is raised through fundraising. Who bet-ter to ask for support then the people that use this money the most?”

The Phone-A-Thon, a continuous alumni contact asso-ciation, aims to reach students that have al-ready graduated and parents of current stu-

dents. The group aims to raise awareness of monetary needs on campus. As Supervi-sor Jessica Negron pointed out, “In-creased alumni sup-port raises the Alumni Giving Percentage of our school. If more alumni give money, we have a higher per-centage as a school, and therefore the val-ue of our school in-creases.”

When the value

of the university in-creases, the value of student degree’s increase, making it easier to find and hold stable jobs. In today’s growing economic problems, what better way is there to spend money than to give back to the university and gain professional support at the same time?

Finally, the work-

ing a healthy lifestyle. The competition was both motivational and informative as healthy living classes were of-fered for any Becker-man Recreation Cen-ter member to attend. Most importantly, the challenge was a suc-cess. Collectively, the participants of the Weight Loss Chal-lenge lost 244 pounds. Congratulations to everyone who partici-pated; we hope you learned some valuable lifelong skills to keep

you in a healthy and happy lifestyle.

The participants could win individu-ally (one faculty/staff winner and one stu-dent winner) and/or as a team. The challenge was based on percent of weight lost, so those with the highest percentages were the winners. Congratula-tions to Patrick Torre of the Business Office, the Challenge’s fac-ulty/staff winner, who lost a total of 13% of his weight.

Congratulations to Krista DiVincenzo, who lost 12% of her weight to become the student champion of the Challenge.

In the team arena, the Glutes were the clear victors with a combined loss of 9.84% of their total weight.

However, don’t dis-count the other teams. Both the Fire Breath-ing Rubber Duckies (4.86%) and Team All Business (4.45%) had great weight loss per-

centages and reached second and third place respectively.

In the end, ev-ery team lost weight, which is a success by any measure. We hope all the participants got something out of this competition that they can apply or use in the future. With the ac-complishments of this year, the Campus Rec-reation staff is looking forward to bringing the Weight Loss Chal-lenge back next year.

Monday also included Howard Safir (former NYPD commissioner) and Avi Domb (Divi-sion of Identification, Israeli Police). That evening students had some time to shop, eat and socialize at the conference center.

After reading the biographies for Tues-day’s speakers, day two was shaping up to be another great day, and the speakers definitely lived up to

student expectations. Dwight Adams started the day with a pre-sentation on the FBI response to terror at-tacks that discussed many global terrorism issues such as the Ko-sovo War Crimes. He was followed our own Mario Gaboury who discussed global hu-man trafficking. Dr. Gaboury was able to open eyes to a large is-sue that is not ending soon enough. One of the last presentations

was by two U.S. attor-neys who discussed white-collar crime and shared wiretaps and key points of the investigation with at-tendees.

Overall, the stu-dents were able to get a new perspective on what issues are prev-alent on an interna-tional scale. We hope to make this an annual conference for stu-dents to attend.

The Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

UsGA President’s Corner

Congratulations!

Louis Eswood IIIUSGA President

USGA Meetings are at 1:45 every Monday in the Alumni Lounge. All are welcome!

By KELLIE LYNCHELM CITY DANCE COLLEC-TIVE

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The Greek Spot This week is GREEK WEEK!! All week there are going to be

events and competitions in the German Club or the Quad. Hope to see everyone there! It will be a GREAT TIME!!

Monday: Eating Contest in the QuadTuesday: Dance-off in the German Club

Wednesday: Collegiate Bowl in the QuadThursday: Mr. and Mrs. Greek in the German

Club

Every Night at 7:00 pm. Hope to see you there!!

NEW HAVEN—On Saturday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m., Elm City Dance Collective will

High Fashion To Be Presented in Evening

of Fun and Dance

present SNAP, an eve-ning of dance created by Kellie Ann Lynch, at Center for the Arts at Christ Church in New Haven, Conn.

ECDC invites the audience to enjoy drinks and light fare while being immersed in SNAP, a movement performance that ex-plores the rarefied, hyper-stylized world of high fashion. SNAP offers a twisted per-spective on the glam-

orous couture world of the runway show. From signature walks to explosive dance, SNAP creates a bi-zarre fantasy world unto itself.

The performance

will take place in The Undercroft at CACC, located at 84 Broad-way, New Haven. Tickets are $25 ($15 for students and se-niors). Reservations are recommended and may be made by call-ing (401) 741-8140.

Elm City Dance Collective (ECDC) is a nonprofit organiza-tion formed by dance artists dedicated to supporting a collab-orative creative com-

munity and providing artistic opportunities through classes, work-shops and perfor-mances. Founded by Lindsey Bauer, Jen-nifer Brubacher, Kel-lie Ann Lynch and

Emilia VandenBroek, ECDC currently uti-lizes the Center for the Arts at Christ Church (CACC) for such movement ex-periences as modern dance classes, con-tact / improvisat ion jams and performance rehearsals. ECDC is grateful to the CACC for its support. Visit www.elmcitydance.org for more informa-tion about upcoming programs.

Saturday, April 25 – Sunday, April 26

Relay for Life of SCSU and UNH at SCSU

3:00 pm Soft Opening (Set Up)

4:30 pm Caribbean Theme Survivor Reception Let us take this opportunity to honor our Survivors and

Caregivers RSVP to [email protected]

6:00 pm Opening Ceremony9:00 pm Luminaria Ceremony

Midnight or 1:00 am Quiet Hours6:00 am Morning Excise

7:00 am Closing Ceremony

Volunteers and teams needed to FIGHT CANCER!

UNH AND SCSU UNITE TO FIGHT

www.relayforlife.org/scsu, sign up your team today!

Relay For Life is 24 hours of fun for a great cause – joining the American Cancer Society’s fight against cancer. Teams

of 8-12 people walk around a track throughout the night. The entire community will come together through Relay to step

up the fight against cancer. Call today to join us!

Even if you are not on a team you are welcome to check out what all the TALK IS ABOUT!!!

Find out how you can get involved:

1.800.ACS.2345 www.relayforlife.org

I would like to start this week’s ar-ticle by congratulat-ing Wilfred Burrows on being elected the 2009-2010 USGA President. Wilfred has done an amaz-ing job in the role of USGA Vice President this year and I believe will continue to move this organization for-ward.

The student body also elected Heather Brown as the USGA Treasurer for the 2009-2010 year. The changes to the USGA constitution passed as

well as all of the sena-tor applicants.

I would like to wish the best of luck to the members of the USGA for next year. I’m sure you will all do an amazing job.

Also, in the USGA this week, we voted on the 2009-2010 budget at this Monday’s meet-ing, and passed the al-locations made by the Budget Committee.

I want to publicly thank the members of the Budget Commit-tee who worked for a combined ten hours to sift through all of

the budget proposals and put together the budget allocations for USGA-recognized clubs and organiza-tions next year. It is always a tremendous task and your dedica-tion and persistence is not forgotten!

EditorialsThe Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

Zack RosenAssistant Editor

Celina NatolaEditor-in-Chief

When settlers first came to America, the first group to be at-tacked were the Indi-ans – you’ve heard it before, cowboys ver-sus Indians, right?

Years later, people potentially ate too many mushrooms and began killing off each other due to claims of being a witch.

Years later, it was the Jewish population during World War II, as well as Asians such as Japanese-Ameri-cans after World War II, then blacks, then Muslims, middle-easterners, and now homosexuals.

For centuries, peo-ple have been hat-

Gay Elephants Are Not Real Elephants!?

councilor Michal Grzes from the city of Poznan, located in western Poland,

said, “we didn’t pay 37 millino zlotys (7.6 million pounds) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant

Grzes continued, saying that "we were supposed to have a herd, but as Ninio pre-fers male friends over females how will he produce offspring?”

The head of the Poznan zoo said 10-year-old Ninio may be too young to decide whether he prefers males or females as elephants only reach sexual maturity at 14.

Many animal rights activists, as well as gay rights leaders, are concerned that Ninio is being treated this way simply because of his sexual orienta-tion. Even in today’s day, where homosexu-al humans are still dis-

ing other people for – well – stupid rea-sons. Go-ing with the latter example, one zoo in War-

criminated a g a i n s t , these activ-ists find it disturbing-ly shocking that Ninio is being re-ferred to so harshly.

saw, Poland is draw-ing some controversy due to not wanting a homosexual in their zoo. A homosexual el-ephant, that is.

C o n s e r v a t i v e

Other conserva-tives are even saying that there is no such thing as a gay animal.

I suggest these indi-viduals look up what a “human” is.

live there.”According to lo-

cal media, the gay el-ephant, named Ninio, prefers male compan-ions and will probably not procreate.

Get Your Voice Heard!Submit editorials to the Charger Bulletin by e-mailing them to [email protected]

Students and the West Haven CommunityA few weeks ago,

the College Demo-crats welcomed three guest speakers into their weekly meeting. West Haven Council-man-at-Large Stephen DeCrescenzo and two other councilmen won over the students with pizza and soda as they discussed increasing student involvement with the community. Together, the group brainstormed ways that the College Dem-ocrats can increase student awareness

of community issues and become more in-volved in West Haven politics.

Getting students more involved with the community seems like a simple issue. It’s certainly been brought up in numer-ous different venues by numerous different organizations. How-ever, a major increase in student concern for our surrounding com-munity has failed to occur; at least over the past four years.

What’s weird is how oblivious we are to the city we live in for most of the year. For about nine months, we live in West Haven. Yet, how often do we consider West Haven the town we live in?

It’s a difficult situ-ation because even though our campus is a part of West Haven, we are entirely our own community. It’s hard to care about the condition of Campbell Ave. when we need

to find non-existent parking spots in time for class.

Another factor is ignorance. Did you know that we can reg-ister as voters in West Haven? Since we are residents for most of the year, we could participate in local voting. The power to vote in the city of West Haven also allows us to have a say in cam-pus issues. Council-man DeCrescenzo pointed out that if the city doesn’t approve

UNH building plans, new buildings can’t be built on campus. I

think we can all agree

that student voices don’t get heard here. So why not take them higher than UNH?

It may be too late for me, but I hope that the College Demo-crats can educate stu-dents on what they can do for the com-munity we live in. We spend plenty of time complaining about it, but we never consider what kind of impact we could have on it. I think it’s about time we looked into it.

Arts & EntertainmentThe Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

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SCOPE Rocks Rock & Roll Week; Ends with Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer and Call II

Consciousness ConcertPhotos by Kimberly Harman

LOS ANGELES—Zac Efron has taken the box office crown from his Disney team-mate Miley Cyrus.

Efron's comedy 17 Again, in which he plays the youthful ver-

Efron Turns 17 Again into Number One Hit with $24 Million Opening Weekend

sion of a middle-aged man magically trans-formed to high school age, debuted as the top weekend movie with $24.1 million, accord-ing to studio estimates Sunday.

The No. 1 opening for the Warner Bros. movie solidifies the big-screen potential

for Efron, who rose to fame with Disney's High School Musical series.

"There's no ques-tion that Zac's a star," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros. "He's such a hard-working, talented individual. He certainly has given

his all to promote this movie."

Universal had the No. 2 movie with Rus-sell Crowe and Ben Affleck's Washington thriller State of Play, which pulled in $14.1 million. Crowe plays a reporter investigat-ing a series of deaths linked to an old col-

lege friend (Affleck) who's now a rising star in Congress.

Cyrus' Hannah Montana: The Movie slipped from first place to fourth with $12.7 million. That lifted the domestic total for Cyrus' movie spinoff of her Disney Channel show to $56.1 million

after 10 days in the-aters.

Hannah Montana finished just behind DreamWorks Anima-tion's Monsters vs. Aliens, which took in $12.9 million to raise its domestic haul to $162.7 million. Es-

Community & AdviceThe Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

Advice CornerQ: I am a junior and I just turned 21. I’ve had a girlfriend

for the past 2 years – she’s a senior in high school and she’s 17. Her parents just found out that she would have been 15 when I was 19. I’m afraid they will call the cops – what should I do?

A: If you two are really in love then age shouldn't matter. try to sit down with her parents and talk about how much you love each other.

A: You are going to jail.

sportsThe Charger Bulletin | April 22, 2009

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A JOHN KRITZMAN PHOTOUniversity of New Haven football concludes spring practice with spring game.

WEST HAVEN – University of New Haven softball pitcher Breanne Gleason and baseball second base-m a n E v a n O k o n h a v e b e e n n a m e d t h e Charger Bulletin Athletes of the Week for the week e n d i n g Sunday, April 19, 2009.

Gleason helped lead the Chargers’ softball team to a 13-3 record, includ-ing a 12-2 conference record, over the past two weeks. She be-came the Chargers all-

time strikeouts leader on Monday, April 13 when she passed Jo-Lynn Cimino (1994-98) who previously

held the record with 614. Gleason, only a junior, has 245 strike-outs so far this season and threw 119 over the last two weeks. She recorded 12 of the Chargers 13 wins

in 100 innings pitched the last two weeks and only allowed 15 earned runs. Her 1.05 earned run average over the last two w e e k s h e l p e d h e r e a r n e d Eastern College Athletic Confer-e n c e (ECAC) P i t che r of the W e e k h o n -ors as well as Northeast-10 Con-ference Pitcher of the Week honors last week. Gleason, also named the NE-10 Player of the Week for the week ending April 12, 2009, has also

boasted a team-high .353 batting average and 14 RBI.

The softball team returns to action on

Wednesday, April 22 when they host Stone-hill College at 3 p.m. The softball teams concluded their 2009 regular season home games on Thursday, April 23 when they

host Caldwell Col-lege.

Okon has helped to lead the Chargers to a 7-3 record over the last two weeks. He’s leading the team with by hitting .400 over the two weeks and has driven in sev-en runs. On Thursday, April 16 Okon broke the Chargers all-time hits record by passing former UNH stand-out and Hall of Famer Rob Skinnon (1998-01) who previously held the record of 233. With 44 hits this sea-

son, Okon has brought his career total to 236. In the same game, Okon hit a double to left center, which drove in the Chargers game-winning run, ty-ing him with Michael Moras for the all-time doubles record of 53.

The baseball team returns to action on Weds., April 22 when they travel to Franklin Pierce University at 3:30 p.m. The Char-gers return home on Friday, April 24 in a game against Bentley University.

Wednesday, April 22Softball vs. Stonehill (3 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 22Baseball at Franklin Pierce (3:30 p.m.)

April 23-25Outdoor Track & Field at Penn Relays

Thursday, April 23Softball vs. Caldwell (3 p.m.) Senior

Day

Friday, April 24Baseball vs. Bentley (3:30 p.m.)

Saturday, April 25Baseball vs. Franklin Pierce (12 p.m.)Softball at Franklin Pierce (12 p.m.)Women’s Lacrosse at Assumption (1

p.m.)

Sunday, April 26Outdoor Track & Field at Yale

Tuesday, April 28Baseball vs. Merrimack (3:30 p.m.)

WEST HAVEN –The University of New Ha-ven football conclud-ed their 2009 spring practices Saturday af-ternoon with a spring game at Ralph F. Del-laCamera Stadium.

The inter-squad scrimmage started with 1-on-1 lineman drills and skeleton drills for backs and receivers. The team concluded the morn-ing with about a hour and a half of 11-on-11.

"I am happy with the progress we made this spring and look forward to a very pro-

Football Concludes Spring Practice with Game

ductive summer and fall camp," said head coach Peter Rosso-mando after the game. " G i v e credit to our play-ers and c o a c h e s for mak-ing the most of this first year," he added.

T h e Chargers full fall schedule is now available as well, although some times are still to be announced. The Char-gers will open the season on Saturday, September 5 when

they travel to Lincoln University (Pa.) for a 1 p.m. kickoff. One week later the Char-

gers play their first Northeast-10 Confer-ence game when they travel to Assumption College. Opening day at the new Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadi-

um is Saturday, Sep-tember 19 when they Chargers host Bentley University at 1 p.m.

The Chargers revive their cross-town ri-valry with Southern Connecticut under the lights at Jess Down Field on Friday, Octo-ber 2.

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Celina’s Salacious Celebrity Gossip

The latest in celebrity news and gossipBy Celina Natola

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 22The HonorsPistol ResistancePanda and ChildOpen Star ClustersDoors open at 7 PM-$10

THURSDAY APRIL 23Kiss KissDr. ManhattanIn:AviateDuck Duck GooseDoors open at 7 PM-$10

FRIDAY APRIL 24The Original, 5th Annual, Space Battle of the Bands Semi FinalsDoors open at 6:30 PM-$10

SATURDAY APRIL 25The Original, 5th Annual, Space Battle of the Bands Semi FinalsDoors open at 6:30 PM-$10Sponsored in part by:WNHU 88.7

SUNDAY APRIL 26Hamden Highschool Benefit for: The DialDoors open at 7 PM-$10

TUESDAY APRIL 28WEEKLY OPEN MICfeaturing Pat HullDoors open at 7 PM, featured act at 9 PM-$5

FRIDAY MAY 1The SmyrkAeroplane, 1929The LowsJosh MeaseMike Falzone & The Peppermint TrickDoors open at 7 PM-$10

TUESDAY MAY 5Kids of Survival

Little Did They KnowShut Up and DealDoors open at 7 PM-$10

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timates for Hannah Montana and Mon-sters vs. Aliens were close enough that the movies could switch rankings when final numbers are reported Monday.

Jason Statham had a so-so opening for his action sequel Crank: High Voltage, which came in at No. 6 with $6.5 million, $4 mil-lion less than the first weekend for the 2006 original.

The Lionsgate se-quel features Statham in a race to recover his heart, which has been stolen by organ thieves and replaced with a mechanical one.

Hollywood main-tained a record box-

Efron Dominates Box Officeoffice pace with just one weekend to go be-fore the busy summer season arrives May 1 with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Hugh Jack-man's spinoff of the blockbuster X-Men franchise.

Overall revenues were at $112 million, up nearly 20 percent from the same week-end last year, ac-cording to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.

For the year, Media By Numbers is track-ing receipts at $2.92 billion, 17.3 percent ahead of 2008's and well above the box-office pace of 2007, when Hollywood took in a record $9.7 bil-lion. Accounting for higher ticket prices,

movie attendance this year is up 15.6 per-cent compared to last year's.

The movie busi-ness is poised to top $10 billion at the box office for the first time in 2009, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers.

"It's going to be a record year, because we've never had a start to a year this strong," Dergarabedi-an said. "Unless the world goes off its axis and spins into the sun, I don't see how we're not going to have a $10 billion year."

Estimated tick-et sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to

Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Mon-day.

1. 17 Again, $24.1 million.

2. State of Play, $14.1 million.

3. Monsters vs. Aliens, $12.9 million.

4. Hannah Mon-tana: The Movie, $12.7 million.

5. Fast & Furious, $12.3 million.

6. Crank: High Voltage, $6.5 million.

7. Observe and Re-port, $4.1 million.

8. Knowing, $3.5 million.

9. I Love You, Man, $3.4 million.

10. The Haunting in Connecticut, $3.2 million.

Miss Same-Sex Mar-riage?

Miss California stirred up contro-versy this weekend when she spoke out against same-sex marriage during the Miss U.S.A. pageant Sunday. When asked what she thought about gay marriage by the gossip queen himself, Perez Hil-ton, the beauty queen responded: "We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

Openly-gay Hil-ton was furious with

the response and the two have feuded via the news media ever since.

The answer was shocking for many

you choose. Some-one from California, no matter how blonde she is, should be ful-ly aware of this fact. Maybe Miss Cali-

ing to be welcomed into the Californian gay community any time soon.

Miss Fail-of-a-Lifetime hopped on

viewers, mostly for the uneducated aspect of her reasoning. Ev-eryone is pretty aware that we do not live in a country where you can marry whomever

fornia was too busy doing crunches and shopping for swim-suits to pay attention during the November elections. You can be sure that she is not go-

the news ear-ly Monday morning for damage con-trol, but it is clear her mis-take cost her the thing she was fighting for in the first place. During an appearance on MSNBC, Perez agreed with a state-ment she made claim-ing her answer

cost her the crown. He described her as the clear “front-runner” and suggested that he was rooting for her until she bombed his question. Oops.

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April Movieson Channel 14

April is Earth Day (April 22nd) and Holocaust Remembrance Month

The 11th Hour (Earth Day Selection)Sunday 8pm, Saturday 1pm & Mon-

day 2am

An Inconvenient Truth (Earth Day Selection)

Friday 11pm, Saturday 4pm, & Wednesday 11pm

March of the Penguins (Earth Day Selection)

Sunday 11pm & Wednesday 8pm

Paperclips (Holocaust Remembrance Month Selection)

Sunday 1am and Tuesday 8pm

Schindler’s List (Holocaust Remem-brance Month Selection)

Thursday 1am, Friday 8pm & Satur-day 1am

I Am LegendSaturday 8pm, Sunday 1pm & Mon-

day 11pm

Arctic Tale (Earth Day Selection)Saturday 11pm and Sunday 4pm

Go Green Video—Recycle (Earth Day Selection)

Tuesday 1am

Go Green Video—Reduce Waste (Earth Day Selection)

Tuesday 11pm & Monday 8pm

Go Green Video—Shop Green (Earth Day Selection)Thursday 8pm

Students Giving Backers are involved in the Senior Challenge, an activity meant to raise money from graduat-ing seniors. The se-nior class, which is made up of the most recent graduates to leave the halls of the University of New Haven, have been re-sponsible in the past for supplying money for the Beckerman Recreation Center. This year, the Senior Challenge is pushing seniors to give to an even more profitable donation: student scholarships. By do-nating money to the university, graduating seniors will get the chance to give back to incoming students with the best gift of all: those lifeline

scholarships that so many of us depend on.

The real ques-tion is: how can you get involved? Most of us on campus are not workers for the Phone-A-Thon, most are not members of SPUD, and most have never heard of the Se-nior Challenge. What can you do to give back?

First: talk to your parents about the P h o n e - A - T h o n ! Chances are they have gotten this call before. Tell them that donating to the school not only helps you, but helps the stu-dents that will come through after you.

Secondly: If you are really into giv-ing back, consider

joining SPUD! They may not be USGA-recognized, but Bren-dan, Jessica, and past president Eric Hard-ing do a great job in creating awareness around campus.

Finally: if you are a senior, look out for the upcoming Senior Challenge! Tables will be set up during the Campbell Crawl and the Senior Week Barbeque. Just a few dollars goes a long way toward a goal of more student scholar-ships! These workers (yes, they are stu-dents too) do a lot to attempt to make the University of New Haven as good as it possibly could be. Join in the action and do your part!

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