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MEN’S BASKETBALL
#1.
12/06/08
at Dominican (NY)
Orangeburg, NY
W, 70-64
#2. #3.
12/09/08 12/29/08
vs. Assumption at Bloomfield
Costello Gym Pleasantville, NY
Last time the Menʼs Basketball W, 74-65 W, 80-67
team lost was on Dec. 3. Pace Tournament
Since then they have been on #4. #5. #6.
an incredible 13 game winning 12/30/08 01/03/09 01/06/09
streak and are currently tied at Mercy vs. St. Michaels vs. LeMoyne
for first place in the Northeast- Pleasantville, NY Costello Gym Costello Gym
10 division. W, 85-41 W, 83-47 W, 76-65
7. #8. #9.
01/08/09 01/10/09 01/14/09
at St. Rose College at Pace University vs. Southern Games in bold
Albany, NY Pleasantville, NY Connecticut St.
were home games.
W, 81-70 W, 71-64 Costello Gym
W, 83-73
Freshman Kyle Caiola scored 16 of his 18 Morgan Green threw a no-look behind the it was time to make a play and when it’s win-
points in the second half, as the River Hawks back pass to teammate Gerald Carter that led ning time, the kid steps up. He’s been that
men’s basketball team survived a nail biter to a 3-point play and a 15-18 lead. The way since day one. We’ve given him the ball
against the Southern New Hampshire Penmen Penmen pulled away, going on a 7-0 run to here since the day he walked on campus. He’s
with a 65-59 win Saturday on Alumni Night lead 15-24. not even close to being a freshman anymore.
at the Costello Athletic Center. Kevin Carr led Carr hit another 3-pointer that cut the deficit He’s a proven commodity for us and he
the ‘Hawks with 20 points, and Penmen guard down to 6 but the half ended with the ‘Hawks proved his worth tonight”
Troy Bowen led all scorers with 27 points. trailing 34-25.The Penmen outscored the The victory against Southern New
The victory was the club’s 13th in a row, the ‘Hawks 16-8 in the paint and both teams had Hampshire sets up a colossal matchup against
second longest winning streak in school his- zero points from the bench. Bentley Feb 4. on a road game. Not only is
tory. “Southern New Hampshire is a very In the second half the Penmen continued to first place in the Northeast-10 division at
quick, athletic, well-coach team.” Said head build on their advantage, as a layup by Bowen stake, but the ‘Hawks have a chance to match
coach Greg Herenda” They were beating us to gave SNHU a 12-point lead at 16:21. Caiola the school record of 14 wins in a row.
loose balls and 50-50 rebounds when general- then went on a tear, leading a 17-8 ‘Hawk run. Herenda recognizes the significance being
ly we’ve been getting those. You have to tip The ‘Hawks led 56-55 with 3:24 remaining able to pull out a win against the 18-4
An early block by center Ali Kanaan ener- “It was alumni weekend but it was freshman sure on us so we’re going to out there and
Caiola scored 16 of his 18 points in the
gized the ‘Hawks from the start, and two 3- night.” Said Herenda. ”[Caiola] in the second play as hard as we possibly can and com-
point bombs by Carr gave them s a 15-7 lead. half literally made every big play for us. He pete.”
second half, securing the ’Hawks 65-59
win on Saturday.
Students at the Radisson only room change,” said gle on campus Nick said, able to eat. of a UMass Lowell presence
take up about thirty percent of Sophomore Eric Ramos. “Students housed here should This semester the meal plan to deal with smaller issues in
WILLIAM BRANTON
their membership, leaving no While distance seems to be get a discount, they were was revised to include more the hallways.
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Students at the Radisson, reason to remove them. an issue, Garoufalis also said, inconvenienced by the points, and a discounted rate “Cadets at the Radisson
who live over nine miles When asked about the “There is more of an opportu- school’s mistake.” for dining on campus. When would be beneficial, instead
away, were worried about a rumor, Resident Advisor nity to become like a commu- When asked the same ques- asked about the change, Adam of calling Nashua Police we
rumor circulating around that Heather Garoufalis said, “I’d nity [here].” tion, Garoufalis said “There Dunbar, the Student could deal with issues the
students would be kicked out be very surprised if that rumor Some students feel frustrated are plenty of options for stu- Government Association same as on campus,” said
and lose their housing during were true.” living so far from campus. dents [not wanting to live environment chair, said, Garoufalis. For now the
this Spring semester. When asked about her expe- “Nine miles is a lot to be dis- here].” “SGA helped along with stu- University registers with the
However, this is a rumor with rience at the Radisson, connected, and I suffered my The students and administra- dents in facilitating their senti- Radisson on a semester by
no holding, as the administra- Garoufalis said, “That it’s freshmen year,” Nick tion are always looking for ments about their meal plan.” semester basis and plans to
tion and many students at the more difficult to connect stu- Schofield said. ways to make life better on This semester security seems continue until a better option
Radisson have never heard dents to campus.” Schofield went on to say that and off campus for students, to be the issue. for students develops in the
word of such a plan. The “disconnect” between there is “a good community of and that includes the Radisson “Problems are dealt with a future.
Steve Lambert, the general campus life seems to be the students” at the Radisson. as well. Last semester, the lot differently up here by law
manager, said, “The students major issue with many stu- When told that the price of Radisson meal plan was a enforcement,” Garoufalis
are our best customers.” dents at the Radisson. living at the Radisson is the problem, with many students said. Many students said they
In
“I will probably apply for a same yearly as living in a sin- complaining about not being feel that there should be more
This
Carter Huttonʼs sweet hockey skills The Killers Womenʼs Basketball
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Looks like this guy is the life of the party Oh boy, The Killers tore it up in Weʼre pulling for a comeback,
bus. Beantown. What was the name of their ladies. We have a front page spot
hit song again? We forget. reserved for you when you do!
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P A G E 2 , T H E UM A S S L O W E L L C O N N E C T O R , F E B R U A RY 3, 2 009
service industry as well. In four’s at McDonald’s don’t do Last weekend, I met an inter- don’t see why those over the support to those older waiters
to be getting your life togeth-
fact, my first two jobs were a body good, resulting in a big esting, nice, young man dur- age of 25 serving food is out there is this: I really love
er, with a steady career, maybe
being a part of that very indus- ole’ mess. ing a night out on the town viewed as such a negative old people, and old people that
even starting a family. If you
try. Being a bus boy, dish- I totally understand if you are with friends. Only, he wasn’t thing. serve me food really just treat
are spending this time memo-
washer, and then a server and in Los Angeles or New York very young, and some would Waiting is definitely not a job me right. Old women wait-
rizing the menu for the nines
ice cream scooper at two dif- trying to pursue a career in argue that he wasn’t very for everyone; serving food resses are so sweet and
restaurant, you really need to
ferent establishments gave me show biz. However, if you are interesting. takes a lot of patience, and I adorable, and make restaurant
get your priorities in order.
much perspective. in Lowell and still waiting We began chatting, and told know by vicariously living dining all the better.
Let us look at the general
However, part of this per- tables at that age, you should me that he and his band were through many restaurant- Waiting tables, at any age,
duties of being part of a wait
spective is that every server really look in the mirror and out celebrating his 29th birth- working friends, that there are takes patience and kindness.
staff at any number of restau-
over 25 had some sort of prob- reconsider your life. day. More drinks turned into more downs to the job than People who work at restau-
rants. First, you say hi to
lem. Drug addictions, abusive more conversation, and more ups. But still, racking in rants, despite contrary belief,
someone, then you remember
husbands, mental disabilities conversation turned into him money simply from bringing have a future. Even if it
what he or she tells you, then
all ran rampant in the over 25 sharing details about his life food from one place to anoth- involves working long days
you bring him or her his or her
crowd at both establishments. with me. One such detail was er does not seem too shabby. on their feet catering to other
stuff. Realistically and objec-
If you are of a well body and his job; he is a waiter at a Although I do admit that it people’s needs, it is a future.
tively, a 5 year old could do
mind, do you really want to be chain restaurant in Lowell. would be hard to pay for a I have no doubt in my mind
that job.
lumped into these categories? Many women would proba- wedding or support a family that my new friend will make
Sure, you have to balance
I think not. bly tell me that a guy that old on a waiter’s salary, I don’t a very happy life for himself
plates, walk on a slippery
LEADERSHIP TEAM That’s ridiculous. That inci- trianism, yet seperates a times, hopefully caused by
dent is like a story you man’s belongings into “nor- our generation. We ought to
would certainly imagine mal” and “terrorist” things, owe 100% of our allegiance
KRISTA PERRY
“RYAN”
would and does happen but is unfathomable to me and to our individual concious
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF could never happen in reali- hopefully to everybody else and to one another, not to
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P A G E 3, T H E UM A S S L O W E L L C O N N E C T O R , F E B R U A RY 3 , 20 09
Massachusetts colleges and Lauren DiBona, a sophomore The sixteen billion being put
English Literature major, said into the grant system is when Pats are playing I don’t
AUDREY MANGONGE
universities. Funding for all
she did not receive any finan- expected to raise that average like them,” he said. “But of
the schools will be cut by 11.6
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cial aid this semester. Even up $500 dollars per student. UML students had mixed the 2 teams playing, neither
percent in the next fiscal year.
The Obama stimulus feelings about last Sunday’s get national attention and I
The budget for the five-
package is expected to Super Bowl—some said they think that’s why people don’t
school UMass system
flood out into the econ- will watch because they con- care.”
itself will be cut from
omy within eighteen sider it tradition, some will Sophomore English major
$470 million to $416 mil-
months. Some students watch for the commercials, Dave Grant said that he is not
lion.
who are struggling with as interested in the game with-
These cuts are anticipat-
financial aid do not out a Patriots presence.
ed to do more than just
believe they will see “But I’ll watch it anyway,”
hike fees. Massachusetts
that grant money within he said. “I think the Steelers
colleges and universities
that time span. are going to destroy the
are now faced with cut-
“I think it’s going to Cards.” Gullekson said he also
ting school programs,
take much longer than Alex Chaves, a junior looked forward to this year’s
laying off personnel, and
that,” said Liz mechanical engineering half-time show.
lowering financial aid.
McCarthy, an major, said he is a fan of foot- “I think Bruce Springsteen
However, some schools
Environmental Science ball in general and enjoys will put on a heck of a half-
have stuck by their com-
major. “We need to fix watching the Super Bowl. time show,” he said. “I’m
mitments to financial aid.
other parts of the econ- and some will watch to think “The commercials are the never all that interested in it,
UMass Lowell has also
omy before we see that about what could have been if real entertainment, it’s just but I like Bruce, and he’s been
stuck by that commit-
money come back into the Patriots were involved. another game to me,” he said. doing it for years so he’ll
ment. Associate Director
the school.” Senior political science “And I’m not a huge Pats fan know how to bring it on the
of the Financial Aid
DiBona’s sister, who goes to King is optimistic the money major Ryan Monoco said that anyway.” big stage.”
Office Carole King said that
UMass Amherst, is feeling the will see students once the while he was looking forward Chaves said people should Gullekson said the coaching
any student who applied for
pinch. stimulus is passed. to the game, it won’t be as just watch the game. dynamics will be interesting.
financial aid would receive
“My sister is a hard-working “This will all evolve in the exciting as Super Bowls of “ Just because ‘your’ team “Mike Tomlin is as cool as
some, though the amount will
student,” DiBona said, “But upcoming year,” King said. years past. isn’t in it doesn’t mean you they come on the sidelines but
vary from student to student.
even her loan decreased.” King strongly suggested that “I just plan on watching it at shouldn’t respect the teams I think Ken Whisenhunt will
“We’re lucky because we
In an effort to curve the students apply for financial home with my parents,” he that work harder or get a little be able to pump up his team to
have more access to student
financial downturn has been aid early and take advantage said. “I think the Pats would luckier than ‘yours’ to be in a fervor,” he said.
loans, verses school who work
taking President Obama is of any funding available. have done well in the playoffs the spotlight,” he said. “After the Cards lost to New
with lenders,” King said
pushing an $825 billion dollar “If there’s any concern, come but what can you do, they lost Brian Gullekson, a junior England at the end of the sea-
Currently, 73 percent of the
stimulus package. In the talk to a Financial Aid coun- one too many games.” chemical engineering major, son, he made them practice in
UMass Lowell population
package, over $159 billion is selor,” King said. Monoco said the Patriots’ said he was still very interest- full pads several times a week
receives financial aid and the
being allocated for education. season is still something to be ed in the Super Bowl. in all sorts of weather condi-
school awards over $60 mil-
Sixteen billion of that will go proud of. “There’s kind of an aura tions to make sure they were
lion each year in grants, schol-
to Pell grants, reports the “We still had a phenomenal about the Super Bowl that just ready for everything,”
arships, tuition waivers, stu-
Associated Press. year that we can all be proud calls you to plant your butt on Gullekson said. “It helped
of,” he said. “Hopefully there the couch and stare at hour them in the playoffs, and I
are some good commercials.” after meaningless hour of use- think it will help them in the
Tom Robinson, a senior grad less analysis and crappy seg- Super Bowl.”
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Your Life” against a cascad- they perform! Yes, it may stage, fists held high, herald- es the pulse of their sound as they followed ringmaster
ing set design of desert ele- seem like this emotion ing the Las Vegas showman- and live show to dizzying Flowers into a fantastical
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ments (palm trees included). should be integral to any pop ship that he was bore from. heights. auditory oasis.
The band reinforces the act thrust into the spotlight. The band marched through Of course, the band ripped The Killers ended the night
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Slumdog Millionaire
behind the band. get through each song.
the silence with songs off
Yet, the playful set-design However, during the band’s down-trodden, and dusty breaking into the music music’s ability to bring back
their newest album Day &
points to a larger sentiment Jan. 26 show in Boston last sound of Sam’s Town. And scene. All of the band mem- color to our sallow souls. The
Age. They debut songs
emanating from the stage. week, Flowers seemed to yet, The Killers solider on bers seemed to decant parts Killers have come back to
“Spaceman” and “This is
The Killers are having fun as spring from the womb of the with a new record that push- of their soul into each song, murder the mundane.
taken into custody and interro- believe it or not, all the expe-
gated intensely for it. riences in Jamal’s life that
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Throughout the course of the lead to him figuring out the
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Danny Boyle and Loveleen movie, Jamal reveals to the correct answers are actually
Tandan’s cross-cultural gem police, and to the audience, pretty plausible, and you real-
has been generating plenty of the memories he has of defin- ly don’t need too much sus-
Oscar buzz, earning a nomina- ing experiences of his pension of disbelief to take
tion for Best Picture. This is extremely rough life that everything in.
extremely surprising for a helped him come up with the Even though the performanc-
Bollywood film with all of the answers on his own, including es in this movie were well
period pieces and blatant his rocky relationship with his done by everyone involved
Oscar bait that came out this delinquent brother Salim and I found both leads Jamal
year. (Madhur Mittal) and, more and Latika to be very likable, I
After viewing the film, it is thought it would have been
easy to see why the academy nice to know them a little bet-
is considering the film for its ter. Especially in the case of
highest honor, even with the the love interest Latika, she is
Love Potion apparent snubs of Aronofsky’s a lead character in the film but
#69 The Wrestler and Nolan’s The doesn’t get a terribly large
Dark Knight not included in amount of screen time. For a
the category. While I am not lead character the viewer
going to run out and read the should be treated to some
novel that the movie is based more screen time to get to
from, Simon Beaufoy’s know the character better.
screenplay makes a genuine This can be excused, howev-
and enjoyable experience. er, because the movie really
The main story revolves isn’t a character-driven story.
around an incredible accom- importantly, the love he has It’s more like a modern-day
1 oz coconut rum
plishment made by Jamal for his childhood crush Latika fairy tale, complete with an
1 oz peach schnapps Malik (Dev Patel), a poor (Frieda Pinto). awesome romance and proba-
1 splash rum teenager living in the slums of The art direction and cine- bly the second happiest end-
4 oz pineapple juice Mumbai. He happens to near- matography are only mediocre ing I saw in theaters in 2008
2 oz cranberry juice ly win a million dollars on the compared to the other films (WALL_E is the undisputed
Indian edition of the hit televi- out like Benjamin Button, but champion in that category).
Pour the coconut rum and peach sion quiz show “Who Wants there are plenty of cool transi- Speaking of the ending, I have
schnapps into a highball glass 2/3 To Be A Millionaire.” tion techniques that make up got to mention that choreo-
filled with ice cubes. Add the pineap- Unfortunately, since he is for that. You would think that graphed musical number (you
ple juice, and fill with cranberry rather uneducated he is sus- a plot this complicated would know which one). Great end-
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of team toughness as the source of the ‘Hawks they‘ve lost five in a row by an average of 7.2
recent woes. points. The recent sub-par of junior forward
“I think we have to get tougher. Honestly if I Jen Valente has been a major hit to the team,
had to pick one thing I would say right now it’s who rely on her to set the pace offensively. The
toughness, both mentally and physically. We ‘Hawks leading scorer finished the game with
has some opportunities down the stretch but we 2 points from 1-3 shooting.
missed a couple of layups. If those are made it Things will not get easier for the team when
becomes a different game but we didn’t finish,” the ‘Hawks (7-13) face 13-9 Bentley College
she said. on the road Wednesday Feb 4.
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P A G E 8 , T H E UM A S S L O W E L L C O N N E C T O R , F E B R U A RY 3, 2 009
The team bus for the UMass Lowell hockey our win, and I hope that we can build off of that.”
team endured a lot of traveling since December, Although he considers Alfond Arena in Maine
and there is no sign of let up as they have several the toughest to win in it seems as though Carter
road games the second half of the season. Eight has had the worst luck against Boston University.
of the past ten games have been either on the road A team that Hutton and the rest of the ‘Hawks
or a neutral site. There is no sign of let up as six will encounter soon.
of the next seven games will be on the road before The team continues their road trip Friday night
they finish the season with three games at home. as they take on Boston University at Agganis
River Hawks goalie Carter Hutton knows that Arena. After suffering an injury in November
this road trip has been a series of ups and downs. against the Terriers, Hutton made his return in
The River Hawks lost their first five games dur- December at Agganis Arena in a 3-2 loss. Hutton
ing the road trip. The only highlight of that stretch took over for an injured Nevin Hamilton despite
being when they had a chance to go to the NHL not being completely ready to play.
Outdoor Classic in Chicago. “I was tagged the emergency backup that week
“We had that six game losing streak we lost a lot which was kind of a joke because I was not sup-
of one goal games,” He said. “But lately we have posed to be ready until after Christmas,” he said.
been playing well. I think that is huge getting “I was semi-ready, but when I get into the game,
back on track for this time of year, because it I try not to think about that stuff.”
makes a huge difference in our league,” he said. As if that was not enough bad luck against one
One of the key factors to the turnaround lately team, Carter had an incident where the BU fans
has been the ability to win close games. Four of had his number…literally.
those five losses were games decided by one goal. “Being the goalie there you are such an easy tar-
Since the game on NESN against Boston get. Last year in the playoffs I skated out and my
College, UMass Lowell is 4-1-0, all games decid- cell phone number is written across the glass,”
ed by one goal. Hutton said. “After the game I had a couple hun-
“The turnaround has not been from anything dred missed calls, and voicemails. It was unbe-
major,” Hutton said. “We have a couple more lievable.”
pucks go our way, and have been able to stay in Despite these incidents and student sections
close games. We are just finding ways to win and from other schools on his case, Carter Hutton
that is the most important thing.” refuses to let the fans get to him on the road.
Of all the arenas the ‘Hawks have to play in the “I take a lot of verbal abuse, but it makes the
rest of the season Hutton feels as though none of game fun,” he said. “But we are a young team.
them are the worst arena to play in. After earning We try not to worry about it. We just go in igno-
a 3-2 victory last Friday night in Orono against rant to it, and come in and try to play our game.”
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Free t-shirts are not going to the regular season title and we responsibility and we are in a
be the only thing fans can look have been fortunate to have very tough conference and we
JULIO TEJEDA
forward to for the game.There won 12 games in a row, we can’t look at five games ahead
The River Hawks men’s bas- will also be a chance for one have confidence but we are of us, we have to look at
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ketball team will be hosting lucky fan to win $10,000 if going to need to learn how to what’s in front of us at this
the Blue Fan Group game of they make a lay-up, free win these big games in moment.” He said.
the Week on Feb. 10 against throw, three-pointer , and a February and I really believe Herenda doesn’t believe in
Stonehill College to promote half court shot within a 30 our kids are going to be up to setting goals for his team
the school’s transition to blue seconds limit. the challenge,” he said. based on wins and losses, but
as the main color. The school wants to build a The top five teams in the the attendance number is an
First year Head Coach Greg strong sense of spirit for their conference are currently sepa- important one to him.
Herenda encourages fans to home games such as that of rated by half a game including He wants all of the fans, stu-
come and support their team the “Cameron Crazies” of night where we start to get a has ramifications, so every the ‘Hawks which are current- dents, faculty, and staff to
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against a tough opponent Duke University. lot of excitement, spirit, and game is important and we ly tied for first in the same come out, pack Costello Gym,
which as of last Friday are 4th Coach Herenda doesn’t tradition back to our pro- have been talking to our play- conference that they were and support their team as the
in the conference with an 11-4 know if the home games can gram.” ers about that since day one,” picked to finish 12th in the Blue Fan Group.
NE-10 record. get quite to an atmosphere on Herenda has the team he said. pre-season poll. “I love to see a full house, I
“Right now we are in a tran- par with Duke, but believes focused in a “one game at a Herenda acknowledges that It’s possible for the ‘Hawks told my players that I’m going
sition of going to blue as our anything is possible. time” mentality and doesn’t the remaining games are to head into the game with a to get them one full house this
main color and we are going “I think our players deserve want to overlook the oppo- going to be an uphill battle 15-game winning streak, year and I’m hoping that the
to be giving away blue t- that kind of support, I don’t nents leading towards the that can determine where the something that Herenda and Stonehill (game) is the first
shirts, we are hopefully going know if we can ever be like showdown on Feb. 10. team ends up in the standing his team are not focused on. one, I think when there’s a lot
to have the school band here the Cameron Crazies but they “Every single game right at the end of the regular sea- “We have put ourselves in a of people in that gym and we
to try and bang the place out had to start somewhere and now is a huge game in regards son. position where every game have our students behind us
and get everyone excited,” we need to start that. I think to getting the best seed in the “There are clearly five teams down the stretch is now a big we are going to be very diffi-
Herenda said. the Blues night might be the tournament, every game now in this league that can all win game, with success comes cult to beat.”
ALAN VERLY
SPORTS EDITOR