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The weekly student newspaper of The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New YorkVisit us on the web at www.strosechronicle.com Volume LXXXI Issue 14November 27, 2012
The Chronicle
Arts & Opinion SportsNews & Features
States React to Election With Threat of Secession.
See page C11
Women’s Soccer heads to NCAA Final Four. See page D16
Not Your Typical Bed and Breakfast. See pages A4
The Absence of Crosswalks in the Pine Hills Neighborhood.See pages A2
Men’s basketball off to a hot start. See page D15
M. Williams Smith Reviews Lincoln. See pages B9
Green Leaf Café Offers Healthy Choices for College Students
By JOURDAN THOMPSONContributing Writer The new Green Leaf Café
opened its fi rst location at 217 Western Avenue. A space previ-ously occupied by Pepper Jacks and Chicken Joe’s has made a transition from fast food to a healthier fare. The restaurant sets itself apart with its plans to use social media, such as Facebook, to attract customers along with its numerous smoothie options.
Green Leaf Café opened about
a month ago. Gary Singh and Ajay Gill own the Café. Singh, who moved to Albany from New York City eight months ago, spot-ted the owners of Chicken Joe’s moving out while driving down Western Avenue. Chicken Joe’s celebrated its new location open-ing on Western Avenue in Octo-ber of 2011; however the restau-rant closed after only ten short months.
Green Leaf is unlike most food
By KAYLEE PAGANOContributing Writer
On a short walk down Madison Ave. the sounds of traffi c are a constant presence at all hours of the day and night. Car horns and tires squealing are a common oc-currence, and there is a high fre-quency of car accidents.
With four lanes of cars, Madi-son Ave. has one of the highest
Traffic Calming Moves Forward on Madison Ave.
volumes of traffi c in the City of Albany, as one of the three ma-jor roadways leading downtown to the heart of the capital district. Many residents of the Pine Hills neighborhood view the current traffi c patterns as a large safety hazard to all that travel the road-way, including cyclists, pedestri-ans and drivers.
In 2010, the Albany Common Council passed the Madison Ave.
calming program. This initiative would reduce
the number of lanes from four to two. In addition to that, a center turning lane would be added in hopes to alleviate accidents and improve the safety of pedestrians. A center turning lane would pro-vide drivers with better visibility when turning, therefore promot-
Students Celebrate National Philanthropy DaySee page A9 for More Photos From the Event
The College of Saint Rose recognized those in the community who, through the simple act of giving, make a difference to The College on Thursday, November 15th. ZACHARY OLSAVICKY
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Volume 81 Issue 14The Chronicle November 27, 2012NewsA2Local Newspaper
Moves to Pine HillsNeighborhood
By APRIL BANACHContributing Writer
The Pine Hills neighborhood has welcomed new residents: the staff of Metroland. The Capital Regions Alternative Newsweekly paper has been uniquely covering and distributing the latest events in the region for nearly 30 years. Although well established in the community, the location where Metroland “makes the magic happen” is reborn at 523 Western Avenue.
“The office space is pleasant,” comments Stephen Leon, head editor and publisher at the news-paper, on the current residence. Ironically, Leon states that the previous office located on 419 Madison Avenue, and was too big for his staff. Metroland newspa-per is owned by six different in-dividuals—Leon being the only active participant involved with the paper on a daily basis out of the group, was given the duty of searching for a more sensible space. Though rental options ap-pear frequently throughout the area, Leon felt the new office of Metroland must offer the right ca-pacity and scene.
“It’s a nice neighborhood, I’m familiar with it and the employ-ees are too,” Leon states of his Pine Hills spot.
The staff of the Capital Re-gions Alternative Newsweekly was reduced recently, providing further explanation for the move. “A few positions were cut”, says Shawn Stone, holding the posi-tion as Arts Editor of the Met-roland newspaper. Elaborating
further, Stone says the editorial department lost four members, bringing the team from seven in-dividuals to three. One position in the production team was released, also.
In 2004, Madison Avenue be-came the home of the Metroland newspaper staff. Since the staff has said its last farewells, the old
“It’s a nice neighborhood,
I’m familiar with it and the employ-
ees are too.”Stephen Leon
brick building remains unoccu-pied and off the market. Though the present utilization of this his-toric place may not be of a con-cern to the team any longer, it is to a local individual.
“It could be a useful source in the community that would help vibrate economics, as well as some community service” said decade long Albany resident, Qaadir Islam. He adds that occu-pying the location will allow for “a remembrance of the building and the service it provided in the past.”
The building was built in 1891 and was originally used to house the members of the Fourth Pre-cinct Police Station.
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The Absence of Crosswalks in the Pine Hills Neighborhood
By SAM MAXWELLStaff Writer
In the past 24 months, there have been 12 accidents involv-ing pedestrians in the Pine Hills neighborhood, according to Ste-ven Smith, the public information officer for the Albany Police De-partment.
Out of the 12 accidents, there were ten injuries.
Dating back to January of 2007, there have been 37 reported accidents involving pedestrians, with 36 injuries as a result.
One possible explanation for these accidents is a lack of cross-walks, and crosswalk signals in the neighborhood.
One mother is concerned about the safety of her small children.
“There could be more cross-walks in Pine Hills,” said Erin Tobin, Pine Hills resident and member of the Pine Hills neigh-borhood association.
Tobin has three children, and would worry less about their safety if more crosswalks were installed.
“I would feel much more comfortable letting my older children walk the three blocks to Ridgefield Park alone if there were more crosswalks along the route,” said Tobin.
Echoing these thoughts is Ann Sipher who lives on Park Avenue,
and walks her dog three times a day in the neighborhood.
“When I get to an intersection, before crossing I have to check right and left, check the light to see what color it is, and check be-hind me to make sure no cars are turning,” said Sipher.
And even then, there are no guarantees the drivers are paying attention.
“Drivers think they are more important than the pedestrians,” said Sipher.
Even though residents in the area have stated their displeasure, there is a process in order for more crosswalks to be added.
“The procedure is that a re-quest has to be made and then reviewed by Traffic Engineer-ing. If we find that the requested crossing can be granted, we then schedule the work,” said Smith.
“If the work is done by the City or the City contractor, the cost is approximately $4.00 per feet,” he added. That price includes the material and the labor necessary to install the material.
Last summer, the city of Alba-ny added crosswalks along South
SAM MAXWELL
The intersection near Ridgefield Park, one of the areas that some resi-dents of Pine Hills feels a crosswalk should be located.
“When I get to an in-tersection, before cross-
ing I have to check right and left, check the light to see what color it is, and check behind
me to make sure no cars are turning.”
Ann Sipher
Main Street, but did not add sig-nals across parts of South Main itself at the intersections of Park Avenue and South Main Avenue. Another place where crosswalk signals were not added is at the intersection of Partridge street and Morris Street.
Tobin believes one place that needs a crosswalk and signal is at the intersection of Ridge-field Street and Park, saying she “could not believe” there is not a crosswalk there. Many Pine Hills residents cross the intersection to enter Ridgefield Park.
Even though the speed limit in the neighborhood is 30 mph, cars drive faster than that on a daily basis. If more crosswalk and crosswalk signals are not added, it is only a matter of time before more injuries occur.
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In Brief
Pulitzer-Prize-winning co-chief art critic for The New York Times, Holland Cotter, will be delivering a lecture on Western Art in the 21st century at The College of Saint Rose.
Cotter’s address, sponsored by the Cathryn Buckley Arcomano Endowed Lectureship in Contem-porary Art, will be delivered De-cember 5th at 7 p.m. in the Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium.
Cotter, who’s been a staff art critic at The Times’ since 1998,
received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2009 and, in 2010 was given the Lifetime Achieve-ment Award for Art Writing by the College Art Association.
His regular weekly beat for The Times includes reviewing art in all five boroughs, and most of New York City’s art and cul-ture museums, along with street-based communal work by artist collectives.
Cotter holds a bachelor’s de-gree from Harvard College,
New York Times Co-Chief Art Critic to Speak at Saint Rose
where he studied poetry with Robert Lowell. He also earned a Master of Philosophy degree in South Asian art, with a focus on early Indian Buddhist art, from Columbia University, a Master of Arts degree in America Modern-ism from Hunter College of the City University of New York.
For more information about the lecture, contact Dr. Lucy Bowditch, associate professor of art history, at 518-485-3903 or [email protected].
The Girls Next Door to Hosts A Cappella Invitational ConcertSaint Rose’s all female a cap-
pella singing group, The Girls Next Door, will be hosting an invitational concert this Saturday with a portion of the proceeds go-ing toward Hurricane Sandy Re-lief in the Picotte Recital Hall of the Massry Center for the Arts.
Performing to “Once Upon an Invitational” theme, The Girls Next Door will be singing with four other college a cappella groups at Saint Rose’s second an-nual invitational concert. The oth-er a cappella groups include Uni-versity at Albany’s Serendipity, The Binghamton Crosby’s, The Hofstra Dutchmen, and Oneon-
ta’s Hooked on Tonics.
Each a cap-pella group will be performing four to six songs each. The Girls Next Door, an award-winning and nationally-recognized a cappella group, will be singing songs ranging from classic rock to new pop, and from Ingrid Mi-chaelson to Beyoncé and even Disney.
The concert will begin at 3 p.m. and it’s open to the public with a five dollar admission fee.
CAITLYN HUGHES
Calendar of Events
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Tuesday, November 272 p.m. APA Style Workshop Academic Support Center4 p.m. MAPS ALB 1096:30 p.m. Student Association Standish7 p.m. G4G (Girls For God) Sanctuary7 p.m. Theatre Guild Lima Basement8 p.m. Yoga Sanctuary
Wednesday, November 281 p.m. Thesis Statement Workshop Academic Support Center3:45 p.m. Environmental Club Community Service Office4 p.m. SEB Standish5 p.m. Mid-Week Mass Sanctuary5:30 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Adelphi Nolan Gym7 p.m. Spectrum Standish7:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Adelphi Nolan Gym7:30 p.m. St. Rose Madrigals Concert Massry7:30 p.m. BASIC Sanctuary
Thursday, November 2910 a.m. Chicago Style Workshop Academic Support Center3:30 p.m. Mind, Body, and Spirit The Counseling Center3:30 - 4:45 p.m. Great Expectations Workshop Lally Symposium6 p.m. Women’s Initiative Main Lounge7 p.m. Cabaret Night Jack’s Place7:30 p.m. St. Rose Tuba/Euphonium Concert Massry9 p.m. Green Pageant St. Joseph Hall
Friday, November 306:30 p.m. Strose vs. Hunger Souper Concert Jack’s Place
Sunday, December 26:30 p.m. College Mass St. Vincent de Paul Church
Monday, December 35:15 p.m. Yoga Sanctuary7 p.m. Outside the [BOX] Lima Basement8:30 p.m. CEC Lima Lounge
Volume 81 Issue 14The Chronicle November 27, 2012NewsA4Not Your Typical Bed and Breakfast
By TORI WALTERSContributing Writer The Pine Hills area is sur-
rounded by colleges and is largely populated by graduate and inter-national students who are looking for places to live for the school year. What many students do not realize is that there are easier and less expensive housing options than apartments and on-campus dormitories, one option being the Pine Haven Bed and Breakfast on Western Avenue.
The classic definition of a bed and breakfast is a small, comfort-able place to stay for a short pe-riod of time. It typically has less
than ten rooms and resembles a house rather than a hotel. While the Pine Haven Bed and Break-fast may resemble the average lodging house, visitors will find the inside to be a different story.
Owner and retired nurse, Jan-ice Tricarico opened Pine Haven Bed and Breakfast more than 25 years ago and has always intend-ed for it to be a place for people to stay as long as they would like. To Tricarico, her business is just a normal bed and breakfast.
According to Tricarico, there are eight rooms upstairs and four less expensive and more secluded rooms in the basement. The old Victorian décor and daily rou-
tines resemble an ordinary bed and breakfast, but its extended-stay model and penchant for at-tracting tenants from all areas and walks of life that sets it apart.
Tricarico has allowed some guests to stay anywhere between one and five years. Many tenants have even made it their tempo-rary home, the main group being international graduate students.
“You can stay for one night; you can stay for five years, it doesn’t really matter,” said Tri-carico.
Just passing by Pine Haven Bed and Breakfast, there is noth-ing outside that alerts the public that extended stays are available. This doesn’t seem to bother Tri-carico. The only advertising she feels she needs is a small notice on her website regarding extend-ed stays, and the glowing recom-mendations she’s received from previous residents and others in the area, including college Resi-dence Life offices, and Albany hospital staff.
University at Albany epidemi-ology international graduate stu-dent from the country of Georgia, Eka Karkashadze, 30, has been living at the Pine Haven Bed and Breakfast since September 2012 and plans to stay until May 2013. Since University at Albany has limited on-campus housing options for graduate students, Karkashadze was recommended to stay at Pine Haven Bed and Breakfast by some of her col-leagues from home whom have stayed there in the past.
“I feel very comfortable here,” said Karkashadze, who pays be-tween $600 and $700 monthly to stay.
While Karkashadze has her own bedroom, she enjoys spend-ing time in the common rooms of the house, studying and relaxing. According to Karkashadze, ev-ery morning breakfast is offered downstairs in the dining room for all of the guests including coffee, yogurt, bread, and other pre-made items. Internet, heat, electricity, cable, water, kitchen
facilities, breakfast, and access to all common rooms are included in the monthly fee.
TORI WALTERS
Eka Karkashadze
TORI WALTERS
Tamar Zurashuili
“You can stay for one night; you can stay for five years, it doesn’t really matter,”
Janice Tricarico
Another University at Albany epidemiology and biostatistics international graduate student, Tamar Zurashuili, 32, is also stay-ing at the Pine Haven Bed and Breakfast. Like Karkashadze, Zurashuili is also from the Repub-lic of Georgia in Europe. She also
heard about the ability to have an extended-stay through previ-ous students who have studied abroad. Zurashuili has been stay-ing at the bed and breakfast since August 15 and plans to leave for Georgia on December 23 when the semester ends.
According to Zurashuili it is a very safe and convenient place to stay with the police station across the street, a pharmacy and gro-cery store down the road, and a bus stop right in the front of the house. She also said that the own-er still cleans the bedroom and bathrooms, vacuums, and even changes her sheets despite her long stay. Zurashuili is currently paying for her stay with cash that she has received through a schol-arship.
“It’s like being at home,” said Zurashuili.
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By LAUREN HALLIGANFeatures Editor
A Strose versus Hunger “Soup-er Concert” holiday benefit show will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 30 at Jack’s Place in the CCIM. The show is being hosted by the Artist Management class, and all donations will ben-efit the Unity House of Troy food pantry. Admission will be grant-ed with a minimum requested donation of either a few canned or nonperishable food items or $3.00 in cash.
The show will feature local tal-ent such as ska band Drew and The Grand Spectacular, singer/songwriter Shannon Vanderlaan, rock group Between the Arctic, The Plastic Faction, Uncle Joel’s Comb, and Peaceful Bull, are also on Friday’s bill. The six partici-pating bands each include mem-bers associated with colleges in the Capital Region.
A class assignment, each stu-dent in Professor Laura Hart-mann’s Artist Management took on a different role on the man-agement team in making Friday’s show a success. “All semester we have been learning the ins and outs of management and we are actually putting these compo-nents to work with this show,” said student Noelle Ricci, who is also in one of the performing bands.
The class decided to organize a charity show with the Unity House, a human service agency, in order to contribute to commu-nity wellness near the holidays. The organization provides food services and counseling to local people dealing with struggles in-cluding poverty, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and domestic vio-lence.
The Unity House is specifi-cally requesting canned fruits and vegetables, baby formula, baby food, and cereal items.
A representative from the class has been in contact with the Uni-ty House in organizing the show. All canned goods and donations will be given directly to the char-ity shortly after the event, just in
time for the holiday season.The Artist Management class
is pleased to have the opportunity to produce this community-ori-ented Soup-er Concert, showcas-ing the local talent while helping local people. The class invites all to support Strose versus Hunger, the fighting hunger in the Capital District, and to come enjoy the show.
“Hunger and poverty are a lot more prevalent in society than people realize,” said Saint Rose junior Amal Tlaige. “I think it’s great that Saint Rose is reaching out and making an effort towards helping those in need. While we are college students, every little bit of effort and donations counts towards helping an overwhelm-ing cause like this.”
Strose vs. Hunger “Soup-er Concert”
The class hopes that students, community members, alumni, and fans of music will fill Jack’s Place on Saturday evening, gen-erating donations that will indeed help Saint Rose stop local hunger. “We ... feel that bringing together musical and community events not only brings a crowd, but sup-ports a good cause” said Ricci, adding “It should be a fun time and we have been working hard to put it all together!”
Doors are to open at 6:30 p.m. and the event is open to the pub-lic.
More information on this event can be found at the Jack’s Place Facebook page at http://w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / j a c k s .place.520?fref=ts.
KAREN MCGRATH
Communications student Valeriya Ponomorova presenting her paper: “Waking the Undead: Zombie Genre and Active Audiences,” during the panel titled “ A Selection of Top Papers from the Theatre,
Film and New Multi-Media Division” at the 98th annual conven-tion of the National Communication Association in Orlando, Florida
earlier this month.
Saint Rose Student Presents Work in Orlando
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ing safety for all.The calming project would
also still have on street parallel parking, as many drivers utilize that parking on a daily basis in the Pine Hills neighborhood. On top of these changes, the plan also calls for the creation of a bicycle lane.
“From a bicycling point of view, there is little protection for cyclists or pedestrians,” said Lorenz Worden in reference to the current layout. Worden is a prominent member of the Albany Bicycle Coalition. The calm-ing project would also call for a reconstruction of the pavement, which Worden sees as a neces-sity. Road conditions are unsafe along Madison Ave, and often cause cyclists to swerve into traf-fic, which Worden would love to see improved.
Overall, the calming program has great potential to immensely improve the well being of all resi-dents of the Pine Hills neighbor-hood.
This proposal was unanimous-ly passed two years ago; how-ever, there has yet to be a change to the landscape of Madison Ave. Though there have been no physi-
Madison Ave.
cal changes to the layout of the roadway, progress on the project is moving forward.
In November of last year, the City of Albany sent out a request for proposals to local firms to conduct a study of the traffic pat-terns along Madison Ave. The purpose of this study was to ex-amine the “feasibility” of the traffic-calming proposal.
The city selected Creighton Manning to perform the traffic study after receiving numerous bids from various civil engineer-ing firms across the region.
Creighton Manning is a civil engineering firm with headquar-ters in downtown Albany. The firm was responsible for orga-nizing the traffic scenes from the movie Salt, which filmed its traf-fic scenes in Albany. Creighton Manning was awarded the 2010 transportation project of the year award from the Institute of Trans-portation Engineers in the up-state, New York category.
William Trudeau, coordinator of traffic engineering for the City
of Albany, is heading this project. Trudeau was unable to provide specific information on the out-come of the study, as it has yet to be finalized.
“The study began April 1, 2012 and has been underway all sum-
mer and fall,” said Trudeau. The firm will then take the informa-tion gathered throughout the study and come up with multiple designs to present to the city.
Worden is, “hoping that the Creighton Manning Study will come out with the calming plan,
“From a bicycling point of view, there is little protection for
cyclists or pedestrians.”Lorenz Worden
and reduce speed limits and lane changes.” The creation of the center turning lane would allow for less cars swerving out of the left hand lane, promoting the safety of all cars, pedestrians and cyclists.
Creation of a bicycle lane is not guaranteed as of the moment, as the dimensions of Madison Ave. are currently not suited for a full width cycling lane. “I would rather have a shared lane than a narrow bike lane,” said Worden.
The study has recently wrapped and outcomes, “look positive,” according to 10th ward council member, Leah Golby. A draft re-port is currently circulating inter-nally within the city government, and results should be relatively available by the end of the year.
The Albany Common Council met with the assistant chief of the city’s finance committee in the past few weeks to discuss budget-ing the proposal.
“Neighbors are eager. I per-sonally am eager,” said Golby, “change looks promising.”
“The study began April 1, 2012 and has been underway all
summer and fall.”William Trudeau
Madison Ave. has one of the highest volumes of traffic in Albany.
JACKSON WANG
KAYLEE PAGANO
The calming project would call for a reconstruction of the pavement.
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places in the area. The owners’ goal is to offer a healthier option for college students and residents of the neighborhood. Singh has experience working in the food business having managed restau-rants throughout New York City. Singh does a little bit of every-thing at the Cafe and is a hands-on owner. On most days you will find him in the kitchen cooking up whatever the customer re-quests, answering phones, and even taking orders.
“I have a lot of friends around this area, they told me they want-ed some healthier food options. The name is fresh and it’s a good concept with a great location,” said Singh.
Green Leaf Café is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, sev-
en days a week. The menu con-sists of Panini’s, wraps, burgers, sandwiches, breakfast plates, pas-tries and baked goods. They also have “create your own” options, which include salads and burri-tos. Green Leaf has homemade smoothies and carries healthy brand name beverages such as Neuro, Naked, and Silk drink products. Another thing that sets them apart from other cafés is the restaurant in house grinded coffee beans.
Menu prices appeal to students like Amanda Bartol from the Uni-versity at Albany. “Everything is under eight dollars and the food actually tastes amazing,” said Bartol.
These prices were chosen to attract college students whom cannot always eat healthy food on a limited budget, Singh said.
Green Leaf Café The most popular menu item in the past two weeks has been the smoothies.
Bartol along with most custom-ers love Green Leaf’s smoothies.
“My personal favorite is the new Chocolate Banana smooth-ie,” Bartol said.
Emily Larkin a staff member at Green Leaf Café loves the variety of food options and enjoys work-ing at the establishment.
“My favorite thing on the menu is the Burritos, they are ‘create your own’ and the Mexican food here is really authentic,” Larkin stated. The price for this “create your own” option is $6.95.
Green Leaf has many plans for promoting the new restaurant. The restaurant is currently fea-turing a smoothie of the week. Larkin along with Singh has put together this and other innovative ways to attract cus-tomers.
“We made a Face-book…and hope to have things like cus-tomer appreciation cards,” said Larkin.
These cards would include items like smoothies and cof-fee where if you purchased a certain amount you would re-ceive stamps toward a free one. These ideas along with other pro-motions are still in the planning phases, since the café has only been open for a few weeks.
The future is some-thing the owners of Green Leaf Café are looking forward to. While the intersec-tion of Western Ave. and Quail Street is currently the only lo-cation for Green Leaf Café, the owners plan to expand throughout the Albany area and Capitol Region.
“The goal is to be here for a long time and serve people healthy food,” Singh said. The smoothie of the week sign at the Green Leaf Café.
The dining area in the Green Leaf Café.
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Volume 81 Issue 14The Chronicle November 27, 2012NewsA8Saint Rose Celebrates National
Philanthropy Day
A sign talking about National Philanthropy Day. Mia Wade asking for students to show support for veterans.
A student helping out at the event. Students making crafts during National Philanthropy Day. ZACHARY OLSAVICKYZACHARY OLSAVICKY
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November 27, 2012 Volume 81 Issue 14 The ChronicleArts B9Daniel Day-Lewis is Backed By
A Strong Supporting Cast in Lincoln By M. WILLIAM SMITHStaff Writer
There are times when many people mistake acting as an easy task, considering it to be just “pretending to be other people,” who don’t have any real respect for the art. What they fail to real-ize is that acting is often a daunt-ing task, and the people that take it seriously tend to take it very seri-ously. Daniel Day-Lewis is one such actor, well-known for being incred-ibly picky about what projects he participates in. And then, once he does pick a project, he fully immerses him-self in it.
A method actor of the most traditional sort, he never breaks character when playing a part, to the point of several legendary stories existing about his acting process. My personal favorite is his experience on a stage produc-tion of Hamlet, where he broke down sobbing in the middle of the scene where the father’s ghost first appears to him and refused
to go back on stage. He claims he saw the ghost of his own father.
So, because I respect Day-Lewis’ immense devotion to his craft, I was ecstatic when I found out that he had been cast as the lead role in Steven Spielberg’s biopic of Abraham Lincoln. As a lifelong fan of both Day-Lewis and Spielberg, this was a match made in heaven, and the film
mostly lives up to that potential.
As expected, Day-Lewis is terrific in the lead role as Abraham Lin-coln. He blends into the role so well, it’s actu-ally incredible; the second I saw him onscreen I forgot there was
an actor playing him. It was as if Lincoln himself was sitting there, and Day-Lewis pro-vides him with a much-needed sense of gravitas, while also working to humanize him. We of-ten think of Lincoln as this monu-mental figure, who singlehand-edly freed the slaves and fixed the country by himself. Spielberg has made a film that focuses on the smaller aspects of Lincoln,
delving into his personal life and dispelling those “monumental figure” notions, while still mak-ing him come across as a great man. The film is at its best when it’s just Lincoln arguing, fighting, and laughing with his adversaries and his staff.
And though Day-Lewis is a force to be reckoned with and his mere presence is enough to over-shadow a film, Lincoln is backed by one of the strongest support-ing casts of the year. Main roles are played by Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but that only scratches the surface. Nearly every supporting part is played by a great character actor, and part of the fun is just seeing them pop up, even it’s just for a scene or two. Michael Stuhlbarg, Jackie Earle Haley, James Spader, John Hawkes, Jared Harris, Walton Goggins, David Costabile, Hal Holbrook, Tim Blake Nelson; the list goes on. Each actor de-livers a strong performance, and they make a strong case for call-ing Lincoln one of the best-acted films in some time.
Spielberg wisely keeps most of the action on the political spec-trum, and the film provides some surprising insight into the politi-cal process, drawing a parallel to
“Day-Lewis is a force to be reckoned with
and his mere presence is enough to over-
shadow a film, Lincoln is backed by one of the
strongest supporting casts of the year.”
Abraham Lincoln, one of the most famous of all United States presi-dents, is portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg’s biopic Lincoln.
politics today while it does it. The epic wartime battles of Sav-ing Private Ryan have here been replaced by scenes of men just talking at desks, but the film man-ages to keep those scenes suitably intense. However, the film falters a bit when focusing on Lincoln’s family.
This is not the fault of Sally Field or Joseph Gordon-Levitt (portraying Mary Todd and Rob-ert Lincoln, respectively), but rather, that story just isn’t as in-teresting as the main story it’s playing against. And in particu-lar, Gordon-Levitt’s plot seems ultimately pointless; it feels un-derdeveloped, underwritten, and predictable (I know it’s based in historical fact, so predictability shouldn’t really be an issue, but it could have been done in a more exciting way).
As such, I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that Lincoln dies at the end. Though I was fond of the film, I felt the assassination could
have been handled better, I would rather they had ignored it entirely and just ended the film before it happens, as it seems rather abrupt in when played in the film itself, as if Spielberg said, “Okay, we’re doing a Lincoln movie, so I guess we HAVE to do this.” It’s not that it’s bad, it just ultimately feels un-necessary.
Lincoln is a good, sometimes great film with a fantastic cast and a real earnestness behind it. Day-Lewis continues his streak of truly immersing himself in his roles, and Spielberg takes his per-formance and makes something incredibly human out of it. De-spite my misgivings about some aspects of the story and a ques-tionable ending, people should definitely see Lincoln.
Final Grade: Four Scores! Get it? (It gets an A-. I just couldn’t not make that joke.)
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Breaking Dawn-Part 2By RACHEL M. BOLTONManaging Editor
Twilight my old enemy, we meet again, for the last time. And what an interesting last time it was. Like its predecessor, Break-ing Dawn-Part 2 was enjoyable for the wrong reasons. Instead of a heartwarming vampire-human love story, I watched a laugh out loud comedy with the worst spe-cial effects in the world.
Breaking Dawn begins were the last one left off, and I tittered trollishly for the first fifteen min-utes. Bella wakes up from her post-labor disaster as vampire, and the audience is treated to watching the ridiculous sight of Kirsten Stewart running through the woods at top speed. Lo and behold, she smiles. I can take the idea of vampires in a fantasy movie seriously, but not watch-ing twiggy Bella in a dinner dress wrestle a mountain lion to the ground to eat it.
Don’t get me started on Ed-ward and Bella’s daughter Re-neesme. As a hybrid of a human and a vampire, Reneesme is won-derfully smart, special, and per-ceptive, even as a baby. Because real babies don’t smile or move, the filmmakers decided that a CGI one was a better idea. It is freakishly horrifying to look at. Forget the blood and decapita-tions; I shielded my eyes every time that obviously fake baby was on screen. She is even made of CGI as a small child.
Plus, there is the creepy love story between Jacob and Re-neesme. You can never make a young man’s obsession with a little girl PG. Because he im-prints on her, the two have to be soul mates when little Reneesme is grown. Excuse me while I go throw up.
Of course Edward and Bella’s happiness can’t last forever. An-other veggie vampire mistakes Reneesme for an immortal child, a vampire who was turned at a far too early age. The Volturi, the vampire rule makers, plan to kill her and destroy the Cullen fam-
ily. Save for Alice, whose psychic powers interest the leader of the Volturi, Aro.
The Cullens gather other vam-pires to witness that Reneesme is not an immortal child. This was my favorite part of the movie. The vampires they find have more personality and more inter-esting backstories than Edward, Bella, or Jacob. There is a love story between two of them that is more heartbreaking and sweet than five movies worth of the two leads.
The Volturi are creepily won-derful. I can pretend for a few minutes that I’m watching a mov-ie about real vampires. But they aren’t without their own silliness. Aro is played with rotten glee by Michael Sheen (too bad they couldn’t get Charlie). However, his costume looks like a combi-nation of Michael Jackson and My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade.
Despite proving that Reneesme is not a real vampire, the Volturi want a fight, because they don’t like to be proven wrong.
This movie was advertised with a twist ending, but don’t expect any mind blowing stuff. SPOILER ALERT: the battle seen in all the trailers is in fact one of Alice’s visions of a pos-sible future. I’m sort of glad it was all just a dream, because the only character I can say I sincere-ly like gets his head pulled off at the start.
In some strange way, I am sad that Twilight is over. I sure didn’t enjoy all of them, but I will miss listening to Robert Pattinson complain about how stupid they are, and the masochistic pleasure of watching how bad the acting and dialogue is.
In the end, Stephenie Meyer did in fact create an interesting vampire mythology (minus the sparkling), but she is not a tal-ented enough storyteller to create an interesting plot with the better characters she created. So Twi-light, I give you my warped final salute. Fan-fiction writers start your engines…
Indie Band Bear Language Makes Debut in AlbanyBy ALISSA PETSCHEStaff Writer
Bear Language, an indie alter-native rock band out of Boston, made their Albany debut playing at Jack’s Place on Saturday, No-vember 17. The band was one of four openers for headlining act The Front Bottoms.
Bear Language played a 45-minute, seven-song set of body-vibrating beats with unde-niable funk and jazz influences. They were, by far, the most in-strumental band of the evening. Their set gave off the vibe of an impromptu jam session rather than a previously decided set list, making it almost impossible to tell where one song ended and another began.
Although it took the Boston trio a few songs for the crowd to warm up, once they did the pul-sating sound was enough to get the gaggle of music lovers bob-
bing along.Their presences on stage were
perhaps what made their set one of the most zealous of the night. It was clear to see the members of Bear Language fed off each other while performing, pushing each other to play harder and louder. Bear Language’s enthusiastic de-meanors were infectious as they bounced around stage. Not even a broken guitar string could stop the high-octane trio from doing what they loved.
The broken string sparked a real impromptu jam session that kept the crowd satisfied, as the situation was resolved. After borrowing a guitar from another band the set continued smoothly as if nothing had happened.
One of the highlights of their set was definitely the song, “Mary Go Around,” which was essentially the most traditionally arranged song. After teaching the crowd the words to the cho-
rus the band jumped right into it with everyone singing and danc-ing along. The song also featured guest vocals from Alex Thomas, the band’s photographer and videographer. Thomas worked the mic and the crowd with his melodic voice and charismatic smile. He gave, perhaps, the most memorable performance of the set and possessed a certain ‘su-perstar quality’ that could some-day move him from behind the camera to center stage.
Overall, Bear Language put on a loud, energetic and animated show that was sure to draw them a new fan base in the area and a reason to return when they finally put out a full-length album.
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November 27, 2012 Volume 81 Issue 14 The Chronicle C11Opinion
By KATHERINE BAKAITISStaff Writer
Initially, the subject of certain states threatening to secede from the Union had not seemed like such a big deal, they were just upset about the election outcome, but since reputable news sources have given it the time of day, it probably deserves recognition.
Using the Obama Administra-tion’s We The People website, two dozen petitions have sprung up from Alabama, Alaska, Ari-zona, Arkansas, California, Colo-rado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis-souri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (fantastic), Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ore-gon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vir-ginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The most popular petitions have come from Texas and Louisiana, unsurprisingly enough. In order for a secession petition to be considered for re-view, it must contain at least 25,000 signatures within 30 days. Twenty-five thousand people is only a small fraction of most of these states, so it is not like the whole population of the state is going along with the secession, which is a good thing.
TIME had an interesting article in an issue shortly after the elec-tion; it was saying how the GOP strategy was to move further away from centrists/moderates (ideals most people in the United States hold) and lean as far right-winged as possible. And what is worse is that the right-wing ex-tremists and Tea Party members have soiled the true meaning of the word “patriot.” The modern day Republicans have become similar to Slytherin House in
Harry Potter, only wanting “pure bloods” in their clan (someone had to say it). GOP strategists have stated that they are not willing to compromise their val-ues in order to appeal to a larger demographic—a plan that will eventually lead to their demise. What is wrong with this proposal is that they are pulling away from minorities (which are slowly be-coming the majority) and current (liberal) trends, and appealing to only a small number of potential voters. This ties into the secession issue because since the conserva-tives have morphed into even more dogmatic people (never thought that was possible), they are unwilling to compromise and even more unwilling to live under the watch of a leader whose ide-als are radically opposite of their own. They cannot move to Can-ada because they have universal, socialized health care, and Aus-tralia is out of the picture because their woman Prime Minister is an atheist. So the solution according to some is total separation.
Secession is risky business. No matter what your values are, there is no doubting that we as citizens are almost completely safe in the United States. If a state were to secede, they will have to give up nearly everything. Any military bases in the seceded states will have to be closed and all military personal will be relocated back to America, except for guards to monitor the new border. The Coast Guard will no longer be able to occupy the waters belong-ing to the seceded state (if appli-cable to their geography), so they will have to form their own Navy to protect their own boarders from foreign invaders, drug smugglers, illegal aliens, and terrorists.
U.S. passports will have to be turned over immediately, entry into the U.S. will require a new passport from the new country, and visas will need to be obtained for people staying in the U.S. for
more than two weeks. Funding for highways, transportation, bridg-es, infrastructure, and education will undoubtedly will be cut en-tirely. Representatives to the U.S. Congress from the former states will be asked to leave Washing-ton D.C. immediately. All U.S. business licenses will be revoked. The new country will suffer large amounts of unemployment be-cause anybody working for the U.S. government (Federal Civil Service employees) within that state will be terminated, and since the FAA will no longer be running in their airports, all air traffic con-trollers will also be terminated. Anybody receiving payments for Social Security, Medicare, Med-icaid, and Disability can reapply and the U.S. Congress will de-cide if foreigners are allowed to receive payments from the U.S. government (unlikely). Also, to add insult to injury, the seceded state will probably have to pay their portion of the national debt before leaving.
If they were to secede (which can never actually happen) then the Civil War and all the lives lost in it, including President Lin-coln’s assassination, would have been in vain. What ever happened to “these colors don’t run”? If they do run away, then maybe they were never true Americans in the first place and we would be bet-ter off without them. Then again, we could not allow them to leave (they are still Americans after all – unfortunately) because they would not survive on their own (monetary-wise). Then again, the government could refuse their secession petition just to torture them, but that would just end up torturing everybody else. It is ac-tually kind of ironic how around the time the movie “Lincoln” was released; states are threatening to secede from the Union. History repeats itself all too often—or at least it’s desperately trying to.
States React to Election With Threat of Secession
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By LAUREN SEARSStaff Writer
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. It is an even better holi-day when you are able to enjoy the quality time with your family, while relaxing, and stuffing your face. Thanksgiving 2012 was the best thanksgiving I have had since beginning college.
Commuting to school al-lowed me to have the time dur-ing Thanksgiving break to spend time with my family that I only see once in a while, which was a blessing. My little cousins were so excited that I was home and could actually stay for dinner and not have to rush to other places! If I still was in Queens or even liv-ing on campus, my time with my family would be very limited be-cause I’d have to try and squeeze all of my family time into a span of a few days. That is exactly what happened Thanksgiving
2011. I ended up not relaxing be-cause I was stressed out having to travel from Queens to New Leba-non and back and forth to Albany and back down to Queens again in four days. I still was unable to see everyone in my family that I would have loved to seen because of the traveling.
Thanksgiving 2012 also made me happier because I got to enjoy every minute of break. My cous-ins and I went out Black Friday shopping. My mom and I put up our Christmas Tree like we do every year the day after Black Friday, and actually had the time to make it the best Christmas tree we have decorated in years. I got to actually ate leftovers at my other cousins house all week-end! Overall being home sweet home for the holidays is the best because I can actually enjoy them to the fullest extent and be in the Holiday Spirit!
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November 27, 2012 Volume 81 Issue 14 The Chronicle D13Sports
By EDDIE KADHIMContributing Writer
Every Thursday night there is a battle in Pine Hills at local bars to bring in a crowd, and keep them coming back. On November 29th the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints will face off in a pivotal divisional game that could decide who goes to the playoffs, a game that up until mid-Septem-ber would have only been avail-able on the NFL Network.
“Since Cable has started carry-ing Thursday night football games I would say our profits have been cut in half on Thursday nights…It costs me over $5,000 a season to carry the NFL Network, and now people can just watch the games from home,” According to Shane Hely, owner of Professor M. Bar-leys, a bar on Western Avenue.
In order to carry the NFL Net-
work, a service that does not come standard with direct TV or Time Warner Cable it costs a household just over $5 a month. Due to bars having so many people watching, the price is calculated by multi-plying the max capacity times the cost of the service.
The week before Time Warner Cable and the NFL made a deal to show Thursday night games, the New York Giants played a then important game against the Caro-lina Panthers. Local bar owners reflected on the night, and those who could show the game ended up having a significantly larger crowd.
“That Thursday night was bru-tal; literally no one came out to the bar until the game was over because we don’t have the NFL Network.” Jack Dempsey, man-ager at The Stone Crow on Yates Street, remembers a very slow
day, as Giants fans were not in-terested in going to a bar in which they couldn’t watch their favorite team play.
A few blocks down the road, Juniors on Madison Avenue, a bar under the same management as The Stone Crow, was show-ing the Giants game to a packed house.
“There (were) people stand-ing everywhere, it was probably the busiest we’ve been since we expanded,” stated Giles Chance, a manager at Juniors, who was bartending on that day.
Bars like the Stone Crow rely heavily on their drink specials and special events to bring in a mostly young college crowd. Nate Hol-linger, a Senior at the University of Albany who lives in the Pine Hills neighborhood says he fre-quents all the bars around, but does admit now that he can watch
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A view of the Stone Crow on Yates Street during Thursday Night Football.
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Thursday night games from home he doesn’t go to the bars as early on Thursdays.
“I think a lot of the times if my team was on Thursday before I would go to the bar just because I couldn’t watch them at home, but now that I can watch from home and save some money, I usually just stay in or go out after the game.”
Dempsey says he was happy when the games got moved to cable because now in the future if the Giants or other local favor-ites are on again he can carry the game and not have to cough up the extra coin.
Chance and Hely agree that the cost of showing other additional packages, such as pay-per-view event at their establishments sim-ply isn’t worth it. Chance said for a regular four-hour Ultimate Fighting Championship event it would cost the bar between $1,000 and $1,500.
Hely expressed how hard it would be to make his money back on such an event because he would not only have to pay the cost of the event, but also promote the event, and have a packed house just to make his money back.
Another issue with showing a pay-per-view event or a football game is the goal of bars to get people in, fill them up, and get them out. Chance explained that people only have so much they can put in their body, and a lot of the times they will then sit around and not spend any more money.
For Haliwell as long as the drinks are flowing and the pro-motions are going, he’s a happy man. “I really just love all the promotions around here, you’ve got bingo every Wednesday at the Crow, Trivia at the Pub…as long as cable doesn’t take that away I’ll be happy.”
Many local New York Giants fans have elected to stay home now that the NFL Network is shown on Time Warner Cable.
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By BRIAN HUBERTContributing Writer
It’s November. The leaves are down, and it’s time for turkey, pilgrims, and Black Friday sales, and as surely as the leaves fell and it got colder outside, we saw another Miami Marlins fire sale.
This one was unprecedented, with the Marlins unloading over $186 million in future payroll by sending Shortstop Jose Reyes, starting pitcher Mark Bhuerle, the ace of their staff Josh Johnson, catcher John Buck, and infielder Emilio Bonifacio to the Toronto Blue Jays in a trade that involved twelve players.
USA Today reported that the Marlins got shortstop Yunel Es-cobar, made infamous by his ho-mophobic slur last summer, start-er Henderson Alvarez, infielder Adeiny Hechavarria, catcher Jeff Mathis, minor league pitch-ers Justin Nicolino and Anthony Desclafani and minor league out-fielder Jake Marisnick in return.
Not surprisingly, the commis-sioner everyone loves to hate, Bud Selig, had no problem with this trade, despite the warnings from ESPN baseball experts on how this will permanently dam-age the image of Major League Baseball in the eyes of the people in Miami they have so desperate-ly tried to attract.
Hey, if Benedict Arnold was still around, Selig would prob-ably let him buy a team, no ques-tions asked. Perhaps the Royals, they would fit him perfectly.
But wait, this was not how 2012 was supposed to end for the Marlins, not with another contro-versial fire sale. All of this on top of a season that saw the Marlins finish dead last in the NL East with a 69-93 record.
2012 was supposed to be a wonderful new beginning for baseball in Miami, with a spar-kling new $634 million dollar publicly-financed retractable roof stadium, an oddly decorated in-door oasis including an aquarium, what could pass for the world’s
largest ugly lawn decoration, and a museum of bobble heads. This new paradise would finally bring out fans by allowing them to es-cape the unbearable heat, humid-ity, and lousy views, of their for-mer home in the football oriented Miami Dolphins stadium.
With the new home, came a new name, the Miami Marlins, and the arrival of stars like former Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, and starter Mark Bhuerle, and former Padres closer Heath Bell brought excitement to the mound.
These additions to the infield and the mound complemented staff ace Josh Johnson who went 11-6 with a 2.30 ERA in the 2010 season. Johnson nearly had a no hitter against the Braves in 2011 before his season was ended early due to injuries. Johnson had been with Marlins since 2005, an eter-nity in the revolving door world of Marlins baseball.
For a bit of buzz, and contro-versy, the now disgraced Marlins owner Jeffery Loria even threw in the hot tempered combo of Ozzie Guillen as Manager, and the trouble-making ex-Cubs starter and reliever, Carlos Zambrano. All of these acquisitions brought the Marlins Payroll to a sky high $118 million.
This time, Loria promised Marlins fans things were going to be different. Burned twice by his fire sales following World Se-ries Championships in 1997 and 2003, it seemed like Miami base-ball fans finally had a reason to dream big and believe that things would be different, but the wheels started to come off almost from the start.
Perhaps the most treason-ous part of Loria’s new Mar-lins Scheme was his trademark shrewdness. To get his new pal-ace built with taxpayer money, instead of his own, Loria first threatened to move the team to San Antonio if Miami did not pay for a new stadium.
Elected officials fell hook, line, and sinker for Loria’s threats, and his promise of a new palace rising
like a phoenix in the troubled Lit-tle Havana neighborhood. ESPN Grantland reported the Citizens of Miami Dade County picked up a large majority of the cost of Loria’s $634 million palace. By contrast, the ever-stingy Lo-ria and the Marlins contributed a measly $125 million. The county pitched in with another interest-free loan on top of that.
In the end, Grantland reported that total cost to the county would be $2.4 Billion in 40 years when the bonds are finally paid off. Such a great deal for Loria, and such a bad deal for the citizens of Miami—a real shame.
For many years, Loria, sold us on the story of the Marlins as the
poor paupers of the league who just needed a new baseball-only palace to win. Then fans would stream through the turnstiles en-masse and at last the Mar-lins could finally make money. Grantland reported this was a lie. Thanks to revenue sharing, the Marlins were making money all along, and their 2012 revenue grew to between $70 and $80 Million dollars before they even sold a single ticket. A new na-tional MLB TV deal in 2014 will line Loria’s pockets with another $25 million.
That’s right, no matter what the Marlins will make money, even if nobody shows up for a solitary game. With their payroll gutted, Loria’s potential for a handsome profit is even higher. It’s easy to see why Loria would concoct such a treasonous scheme with
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zero concern for Marlins fans, or the hard working taxpaying citizens of Miami, who deserve more.
Instead of new schools, or foreclosure relief, the citizens of Miami get broken promises, broken dreams, and a baseball palace where the magic of 2012, is replaced with the cruel realties of Miami baseball. Now MLB is stuck with the ugly end product of a toxic stadium scheme in Miami with no easy way out for anyone involved. It will be a long uphill climb for MLB to regain the trust of the people of Miami.
Perhaps Selig and MLB can at least try to make things right by waiting for the right opportu-nity to run Loria out of the game, while declaring him a traitor the integrity of the game, and ethical business practices.
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November 27, 2012 Volume 81 Issue 14 The Chronicle D15SportsGolden Knights Starting Off Hot
By JOSHUA NATOLISports Editor
With all the commotion of the Women’s Soccer team look-ing to make another National Championship run, the success of the Golden Knights Men’s Basketball squad has flown under the radar ever since their season started earlier this month. The Golden Knights have started off very hot this season, going unde-feated with four wins, more than half their total victories from last season. The Golden Knights have garnered wins over Mercy, Con-cordia, New Haven, and most recently Le Moyne in their first Upstate Challenge game away from home. As if the undefeated streak wasn’t impressive enough, they are beating these teams by an average of 15 points per game.
Why all of this success now? With the Golden Knights losing three key seniors last year in Rob Gutierrez, Brian Hanuschak, and Sheldon Griffin, one would think they would be in a much larger hole than they found themselves
in a year ago. Such is not the case this year.
So what has changed? For one, teamwork and ball move-ment have been vastly improved. Transfer point guard Dan Mund-weiler has found his way into making this offense function ef-ficiently. This team doesn’t care who scores as long as the ball goes through the hoop on their end. Even with a starting lineup loaded mainly with scorers, the Golden Knights remain as unself-ish as a team you can find.
Free throw shooting has also played a big role in the success of the Golden Knights thus far. They are shooting close to 80 percent from the line, knocking in an av-erage of nearly 15 free throws a game. Those 15 points just so happen to be their average mar-gin of victory against opponents. Free throw shooting percentage hasn’t been the only outstanding statistic for the Golden Knights either. They are making nearly half of their shots from the field with a .497 field goal percentage. The only blemish on their stat
sheet has to be their assist to turn-over ratio. The Golden Knights average 16 assists per game with fourteen turnovers a game, leav-ing a ratio of 1:1.
Another huge help for the Golden Knights this year has been the off-the-bench produc-tion of sophomore Chris Dorgler who has been averaging close to ten points and four rebounds a game, sparking the second unit.
Along with strong bench pro-duction, the Golden Knights have developed their own version of a “big-three” in the starting five. Dominykas Milka has been the backbone of the team’s front-court, averaging 14 points and ten rebounds a game. After strug-gling in the season opener against Mercy, Milka has really stepped into his big man role, control-ling the paint on both ends of the floor. Senior Andre Pope has been lethal in numerous aspects on the offensive end. A guard who can shoot as well as slash to the basket, Pope has average 14 points this season with a three-point field goal percentage of The Golden Knights have started off hot, going 4-0.
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.500, making seven of 14 in the last four games. Pope also put the Golden Knights over the top of Le Moyne in their last contest, hit-ting the game winning lay-up as time expired. A new face for the Golden Knights, freshman Tyler Sayre has exploded onto the bas-ketball scene at Saint Rose. In his first four collegiate level games, Sayre has averaged 14 points and nearly five rebounds a game. Sayre was just recently named the Northeast-10 Conference Rookie of the Week.
The sky really is the limit for
this team if they can keep up this high level of play. The Golden Knights’ next four games include home stands against Adelphi and Assumption and road matches against Pace and American Inter-national. Pace and Assumption will prove to be true test for the Golden Knights as Pace now sits with a 3-1 record and Assump-tion remains undefeated at 4-0. The home match against Adelphi is set to take place this Wednes-day in the Nolan Gymnasium at 7:30 p.m.
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Dominykas Milka has done his part in the paint to help out the Golden Knights.
Volume 81 Issue 14The Chronicle November 27, 2012SportsD16
By SHAWN BERMANStaff Writer
The College of Saint Rose Women’s Soccer team will be making a familiar trip this Thurs-day when they head down to Evans, Georgia to take on the second-ranked West Florida Ar-gonauts in a National Quarterfi-nal game.
Dating back to 2008, this is the Golden Knights fifth straight Championship Finals (national semifinals and final) appearance as they look to capture back-to-back National Championships. For the Argonauts, this is their third time in the past five seasons that they have advanced to the NCAA Division II Champion-ships.
In their 2011 National Quar-terfinal game, The College of Saint Rose took on the California (PA) Vulcans and posted a 1-0 victory against them when Gold-en Knights midfielder Gianna D’Errico scored the only goal of the game with 47:59 elapsed.
The last time that West Flori-da as in a National Quarterfinal game was back in 2009 when the edged out The Eagles of Carson-Newman 2-1.
The College of Saint Rose and West Florida do have some his-tory on their hands. In the 2008 season, these two teams met each other in the National Semifinal game. The Argonauts got the bet-ter of The Golden Knights and ended their National Champion-ship dreams with a 4-0 victory over them.
Unlike the 2008 Golden Knights, this is a very different team. Led by junior forward Carmelina Puopolo, The College of Saint Rose has high hopes in their upcoming matchup against West Florida. Earlier in the week, Puopolo was honored with the East Region Player of the Year. Puopolo leads the nation with 57 points and 20 goals, and is second with 17 assists. She also owns the school record for points (139), goals (49) and assists (41).
Not to go unnoticed, four other players along with Puopolo have also earned a spot on the 2012 Daktronics East All-Region Team for The Golden Knights. Junior midfielder Sydney Bond, fresh-man midfielder Amanda Vasquez, senior back Molly Harpster and junior keeper Jessica Gerski, have all garnered All-Region honors, which is made up of only
29 players.All season long, Harpster and
Gerski have helped solidify a strong defense for Saint Rose that is currently ranked sixth national-ly with 0.51 team goals-against-average. The Golden Knights have also yielded only 55 corner kick thanks to them, and has only allowed 12 goals all season, in-cluding just one in the first half.
The Argonauts have a handful of players that Saint Rose should look out for. West Florida had five players named to the Dak-tronics All-South Region team. Junior keeper Sarah Story, junior midfielder Chelsea Palmer, junior midfielder Shelby Bush, senior defender Rachel Cutts and sopho-more defender midfielder Taylor Harblon, all earned first team honors for The Argonauts.
Perhaps West Florida’s biggest weapon is junior keeper Sarah Story.
Story was not only named the Gulf South Conference Player of the Year, but she was also named the South Region Player of the Year, and it is easy to see why. Story has recorded 12.1 shutouts and has started every game for The Argonauts this season. She has played all but 31 minutes for
Golden Knights Headed to Georgia
The Golden Knights team is preparing to defend their National Championship in Georgia.
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Carmelina Puopolo looks to lead the Golden Knights this Thursday.
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Saint Rose is looking to win its second National Championship.
West Florida this year and has compiled a 0.57 goals-against-average, and has a collective 86 saves.
The College of Saint Rose looks to avenge their 2008 Na-
tional Quarterfinal game loss against West Florida Thursday.
If they do so, The Golden Knights are just one step closer to defending their National title.