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NEWS
Students will tour places like Cubas capital, Havana and Old Havana.
that would explore the political and social environment of the Caribbean region, Black said. The professors were not initially
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focused on traveling to only Cuba, but also to Trinidad and Tobago as well. The two destinations would have allowed for students to experience and
There will be lectures on topics such as race in Cuba, the recent changes in the Cuban economy and society, since the recent economic reforms made under Raul Castros administration. Students will visit the site to observe and learn about how social problems such as poverty, child welfare and healthcare are managed. Trips will be made to the national monuments signicant in the 1959 revolution as well. Most importantly, noted both Duncan and Black, students will have the opportunity to interact with Cubans and Cuban society and learn rsthand about politics and life under a communist regime. As with any travel outside of ones home, students will have a cultural experience. The professors have preliminary details in hand (course ideas, reading material, connections with Common Ground Travel, etc) and an informational meeting will be Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in Old Main 211.
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News Brief
Frozen Putt-A-Thon approaches
The Mercyhurst University Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) is hosting the annual Frozen PuttA-Thon on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the HarborView Miniature Golf Course. The event consists of a classic game of miniature golf, but in a slightly colder climate than usual.. The course is located at 36 State Street and guests can play from noon until 5 p.m. The greens will be thoroughly cleaned off from the snow and ready for proper game play. Tickets are $3 per person and proceeds benet Mercyhursts PRSSA activities fund and the Erie City Mission. For more information visit www.frozenputt.com or contact PRSSA President Joseph Pudlick at (814)-602-0993 or prssa@mercyhurst. edu.
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tastier of the two dishes. In order to participate in the tastings, students brought either 50 cents or a canned good, with all donations and proceeds going to the United Way. The event drew a crowd of almost 250 people and left attendees with a healthier mindset to start the new year off right. This years event featured an array of appetizers, soups, entrees and desserts. Buffalo Chicken Dip, quesadillas, chicken club wraps and Reeses Bars were just a few of the menu items featured. Students who helped to prepare the dishes explained that they took the original recipe and replaced certain ingredients with healthier alternatives, which helped to reduce the fat and calorie content but not the taste. Another factor to the challenge was that the healthy dish must have the same texture and taste but appear identical to the original dish.
Police Log
Friday, Jan. 18 Larceny Egan Hall Referred for discipline Sunday, Jan. 20 Liquor law violation 3923 Briggs Ave. Referred for discipline
Sunday, Jan. 20 Possession or use of controlled substance 3810 Lewis Ave. Referred for discipline Sunday, Jan. 20 Public drunkenness/college violation 3940 Lewis Ave. Referred for discipline
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Students Alyssa Ross, Megan Helton, Jake Jakiewicz, LAVA Attorney David Baxter and club adviser Meredith Bollheimer pose for photo after the donation was presented to LAVA.
FEATURES
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Alums Mary Margaret Dill, Ronnie Sikora, Lee Stanford and Diane Marino practice for upcoming performance in the 60s.
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Most Catholic high schools and grade schools have a school uniform that is mandatory for each person to wear everyday, but to think of a college having a dress code is pretty bizarre. Not too long ago, in the 1960s, our very own Mercyhurst implemented a dress code for the students. At the time it was an all girls school. The 1961 Mercyhurst Student Handbook gave some examples of what the girls had to wear to class on a regular basis like, sport dresses, suit skirts, and blouses; sweaters and blazers make the proper attire for class. Imagine being handed this book on your rst day of class as a freshman. Today these standards are obviously not held high and we do not have a dress code. Styles have changed a lot since the early 1960s and the existence of a dress code restricted people from allowing them to have their own personal sense of style. Students in 1961 were permitted to wear styles such as slacks, and Bermuda shorts, and kilts may be worn at picnics and hayrides or by decorating committees and stage-craft crews in carrying out their work. This section is referring to casual dress for everyone in 2012 currently on campus. Ladies would have to wear a skirt everyday to class, and I know for some people that would not go over very well today, especially to 8 a.m. classes during winter term.
norm, we would probably be more accepting of certain rules. The rest of the rule book had features on what girls were allowed to wear in the dorms and even off campus. The styles would obviously not be relevant in todays society, but if there were a list of restrictions on dress for todays campus, like the strict rules of the 1961 Mercyhurst Student Handbook, students would go crazy.
trasting color of pink with her golden glitzy cut out dress. Nicole Kidmans black McQueen dress, a very popular color, was original and unique with the boning cut out on her ribs, and gold accents on the top. Some other worst dressed outts consisted of Halle Berry in Versace, Lucy Lu in Carolina Herrera, Eva Longoria in Pucci and Amanda Seyfried in Givenchy. Stars that didnt get the recognition they deserved were stunners Jennifer Garner in Vivienne Westwood, Naomi Watts in Zac Posen and newcomer Olivia Munn in Armani. Since the dark red, classic blacks and nude tone colors were the most popular here are the best dressed in each of those categories: in black Amy Poehler, actually wore a very chic suit made by Stella McCartney. Best red, Marion Cotillard in an asymmetrical and modern dress in Raf Simmons for Dior. Isla Fisher was the winner wore the best blush colored dress of the night in Reem Acra. Overall, most fashion that hit the red carpet was more successful than expected.
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1960s alums Norma Jean Pavolic, Beth Campbell and Marilyn Sullivan model appropriate outts for the Junior Prom.
Amy Poehler, Isla Fisher and Marion Cotillard were best dressed at the 2013 Golden Globes.
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Students have prepared a selection of music from both contemporary and classical musical theater for their rst performance.
Another shock to this song was the guitar solo. It is a rare oddity in any song Ben writes to have a guitar solo, and even though it is short, it is wonderfully warm and feels very natural for this song. The last track on the album, Im Building a Fire, is exactly why I love Ben. He has the ability to write beautiful lyrics that are also very somber. He sings over a hollow guitar Im building a re / to keep you warm / long after I retire / Cause this body is / bound to expire tonight, tonight. If you like Death Cab or just want a good album full of every emotion, check out this album. Who knows, Bens lyrics may even help to heal some of your Former Lives.
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A select chamber group for the Mercyhurst Concert Choir have been selected as guests of the Polish government to give a stunning concert at a national Polish festival.
Sklodowska square in front of the University of Maria Curie Sklodowska. Ryan has volunteered to arrange a solo concert featuring her students by having them perform duets, solos or in small groups pieces. After the Polish festival is over, they will travel to Krakow where they will shop, sight-see and visit the famous Wieliczka Salt Mine. They will also travel to Warsaw to see the Polish Uprising Museum, which opened to memorialize the 60th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 during World War II. All of the students selected to attend are ecstatic to travel to Poland. I am very excited to visit the underground salt mine in Krakow. Being able to sing in many different churches around the world is such a great opportunity, said Marisa Jacobson, a junior music education major who also went to Italy with the group last year. Compared to past trips, this one will have a more vigorous singing schedule and itinerary for the students, but they are very excited and honored to have been invited to partake in such a special event in Lublin.
Mercyhurst students and the Erie community were given a great treat last Thursday, Jan. 17, as piano professor Shirley Yoo, Ph.D., gave a recital on the stage of Walker Recital Hall in the Audrey Hirt Academic Center. Yoos show featured a number of virtuoso pieces that included her colleague and friend, Stephen Buck, Ph.D. Buck is an active performer, pedagogue and chamber musician who started out his impressive career as a musician at a debut performance at Carnegie Hall in 2006. He is now employed by the State University of New York Purchase and Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, N.Y. and has obtained his Doctorate of Music Arts degree from Yale University School of Music. Yoo and Buck showed incredible versatility by starting out the performance playing on two grand pianos that were facing each other. As the concert progressed, the two musicians then moved to repertoire that required four-handed piano, which means that they were using the same piano. This often meant that Yoo and Buck were reaching over, around and across the other player, which not only is incredibly difcult, but gave the per-
formance that extra wow factor as well. The recital consisted primarily of Brahms pieces arranged for both two pianos and four hands. They selected Variations on a Theme by J. Haydn, op. 56b to begin the recital. The pianos were set up next facing each other, perpendicular to the audience, with Yoo on the left side and Buck on the right. They proceeded to play two movements from Oliver Messiaens Visions de l Amen. The next three pieces were arranged for four hands. Brahms Sixteen Waltzes, op. 39, selections from Jtkok and Brahms Hungarian Dances Book 1, Wo01 nos. 2-5 composed the second half of the recital. One of the movements from Jtkok, titled Hand in Hand, was denitely one of the most interesting pieces of the evening. In order to play the piece, Yoo and Buck were required to play with their hands overlapping. The left hand would play a set of keys and the right hand would play the black keys in between them, hence the musicians were playing literally handin-hand. The performance was much anticipated by the DAngelo Department of Music. Yoo and Buck displayed a fantastic skill set for the students, showing not only phenomenal mastery over their art, but also exemplifying that music can be fun as well.
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Friday, Jan. 25 - 2:15 p.m. & 7:15 p.m Taylor Little Theatre
Based on true events, Argo chronicles the life-ordeath covert operation to rescue six Americans which was unknown by the public for decades. As the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage.
OPINION
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The views expressed in the opinion section of The Merciad do not necessarily reflect the views of Mercyhurst University, the staff of The Merciad or the Catholic Church. Responses on any subject are always welcomed and can be emailed to opinionmerciad@mercyhurst.edu.
After the re alarms went off for 12 minutes in Hirt on Tuesday night, students and faculty were forced to evacuate the building. Well, most folks just remained in the lobby because of the frigid temperatures. We can be grateful, however, that the alarms work and that campus remains safe.
It was in April of last year when I started to form my bucket list: a compilation of about 30 things that I want to do before I die. I started listing things like visit China, run a half and full marathon and jump into Lake Erie in the middle of winter. As I was on one of my runs this weekend I was wondering whether my bucket list was a good idea. Sure, having goals in life is great; I have so many that I probably couldnt name them all if I tried. However, I
I want. Sure that comes along with going to school and working, but it still drives me crazy. Anyways, the point I just wanted to get across, is why not open your life up and let the adventure come to you? I honestly believe that life is what you make it; if your life is an everlasting to-do list, you are doing it wrong. So, since you chose to go to Mercyhurst, land of opportunity and service, why not take advantage of it and do something new? If you open yourself up more, allow more diversity into your world, perhaps then your bucket list will come to you.
Despite the claim that there would be more advertising for MSGs 4-1-4 Forum, many students have only just begun to hear word of the event. Is this lack of student interest or lack of MSG advertisement?
The snow has taken numerous casualties, as students forget how to function in real snow. The number of people falling and slipping shows us that clearly last years winter was entirely too kind to us.
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SPORTS
Mercyhurst University baseball will kick off their season against Chowan University Feb. 9 and 10.
year jitters did not seem to show with these two. Last season, Altavilla represented the ABCA/Rawlings Atlantic Region First Team, NCBWA Atlantic Region First Team, PSAC West First Team selection and the Daktronics Atlantic Region Second Team. Altavilla sees his preseason ranking of All-American as powerful motivation. Its great being recognized and sets the pace not only individually but as a team for the season, Altavilla said. McMillen nished last season with a .380 batting average, led the team with 27 walks and a .457 on-base percentage. McMillen received many post-season accolades; as part of the ABCA/ Rawlings Atlantic Region Second Team, NCBWA Honorable Mention
Bodo leads the Lakers in goals this season with 10. I have gotten a lot of great passes from my teammates, which has allowed me to score as much as I have been, Bodo said. Additionally, Bodo is tied for the most power play goals in the nation this season. To be tied for the most power play goals in the nation is a big accomplishment for myself, and it feels good being at the top of a nationwide list. I wouldnt be tied for this if it werent for my line mates on the power play that have given me backdoor passes all year long, said Bodo. It is easy when I have good players to play with that can see the ice well and that can nd me at the backdoor. The rst phase of voting for the 2013 Hobey Baker Award will run through Sunday, March 10, and interested voters can make their selection on the Hobey Baker website.