Table Of ContentTALON
61st Issue Fall 2012
From One to Another
Hello All!
Fall is here and the school year is in full swing, and
do I even need to say it? It’s football season! I hear
classmates talking about their Fantasy Football
teams and how great, or terrible, they’re doing.
The KC Chiefs are playing hard, and our own
football team is working hard every day. We are
proud of our Eagles, and the Talon wants to show
its support. Gracing the cover this issue is our very
own Avila football team. Good luck this season
guys!
In this issue, we cover many aspects of the new
school semester. From ethnic food to new clubs,
the Talon team has it covered. Here’s to a great fall
semester!
Cheers,
Liz Carroll
Cover Photo Courtesy of
Arielle Berna
Contents
4 Mock Trial No Longer 12 Marian Center
an Option Makeover
Lack of Support Ends Avila’s Mock Trials The Caf Got a Facelift!
6 Searching for Sugarman 14 Hot Apps
Film synopsis by Allied Faith & Family Snapchat
7 Mu Sigma Pi Brings 16 Colleges Against
Cancer
Sweet, Sweet Music
New Club Fighting Cancer
Avila’s Musical Society
9 Resident Evil: Retribution 17 Disabilities Advocacy
Film Review by Whitney S. Olson
Group
Empowering Those with
Disabilities
11 Cost of Education
20 Blog Corner
Increasing
See What Other’s Are Saying
Rising Cost of Tuition Hurting
Students
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Timothy Aderman Jennipher Cromley
Mock Trial No Longer an Option
Aimee Adams
There will be a lack of Avila Mock Trial, her response was, “Yes,
students in the courtroom I enjoyed it very much.” Despite the
this year. Avila Mock Trial, short response, Cromley’s words
a student organization developed to were full of authenticity.
provide the opportunity to actively
participate in the trial process has For many students like Cromley,
been annulled. Despite the petitions Mock Trial was an opportunity to
of team members, Mock Trial was take their smarts and skills from the
cancelled due to the loss of their classroom to the courtroom. The
previous advisor, Andrea Olitsky. life-like situations set up for Mock
Olitsky’s absence placed the weight Trial competitions were unlike any
of keeping an active program on the plain-Jane classroom curriculum.
students’ shoulders. The students were provided with a
court case and would go to a fake
Jennipher Cromley, a third year trial where they acted as attorneys
pre-law student, was a Mock Trial and witnesses. These life-like cases
member for two years. According to provided students with insight into
Cromley, keeping the program alive the way things work in the real world.
was out of reach for the students. A
combination of packed schedules and The withdrawal of Mock Trial has
lack of resources would make finding affected students and Avila. Timo-
an attorney to teach the curriculum, thy Aderman, a fourth year political
funding bus rides, and the many science/pre-law student, participated
other tasks it would take to complete in Mock Trial during the 2011-2012
a tournament, impossible. When school year. Aderman stated, “With
Cromley was asked if she enjoyed one of the largest memberships ever,
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an exceedingly high GPA average higher learning ought to, for the sake
among members, and the marketable of its student body, prioritize academ-
benefits of having a Mock Trial team ics before all else. The elimination
on campus, the decision to eliminate of an academic team was to me,
this program was, for me, truly a counterintuitive.”
heartfelt disappointment. I felt that
this was not just a hit on Mock Trial, An education is made complete with
but detrimental to the promotion of the addition of experience. Mock
all academics at Avila University. It Trial was more than an organization,
is my opinion that any institution of it was an experience.
Get your tickets
for the KC
Chiefs!
October 7 against
Baltimore Ravens at
12pm
$35 per ticket
October 28 against
Oakland Raiders at
3:05pm.
Contact Wendi Fugitt at [email protected]
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Searching
for
Sugarman
Rodriguez, Photo by Hal Wilson, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
In selected theaters, Friday, Oct. 5th
In the late ‘60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful
melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They
recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one
of the greatest recording artists of his generation.
In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid
rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its
way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a
phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really hap-
pened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary
than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez. SEARCH-
ING FOR SUGAR MAN is a film about hope, inspiration, and the resonating
power of music. This film is rated PG-13.
Courtesy of Allied Faith & Family
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Mu Sigma Pi Brings Sweet, Sweet Music
By Michelle Beeler
Mu Sigma Pi is a student organization Handel’s Messiah at their winter
that encompasses all of the choral concert, which will be held later this
groups on campus, which includes year.
Men’s Glee, Avila Singers, The
University Singers, and the Women’s Mu Sigma Pi also teams up with the
Ensemble. Meika Mnwomah is the theatre department for many of its
current president with Erika Imtfen as theatrical performances. Theatre and
vice president; in addition, they are choir have always gone hand in hand;
surrounded by a large board of other the performing arts department at
choir members. Avila is no exception.
“WE SING!” said Mnwomah, as well This April the theatre department will
as perform at many of the campus be producing the entertaining musical
events such as The Steer Dinner, “The Producers,” which members
held each year to raise money for the of both the choral and acting
university. At the University Kick Off departments will be performing in.
Mass on Thursday morning, August Vice President Imtfen said she is
30th, they acted as the choir and even “most looking forward to the Messiah
featured several soloists throughout and the Steer Dinner,” as those are
the mass. This year they are proud to some of their larger events for the
announce that they are performing upcoming school year.
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Resident Evil
Retribution
Warning: May contain spoilers.
Resident Evil: Retribution begins
following the scene after the credits basing their entire character idea and
of the previous movie RE: Afterlife. personality on the video games. Leon
Hell breaks loose on the cargo ship was still uptight about following
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Wong, who works for the villain from the subtle hints of romance from Ada
Afterlife, Albert Wesker, who has and Leon. The special effects were
also sent in a team from the outside to good and the zombies looked much
rendezvous with Ada and Alice. This better and the Las Plagas were quite
team has Leon S. Kennedy, who fans creepy.
have been asking for since the second
movie, and Luther, who survived Cons: There was no explanation on a
Afterlife and has a thing for Alice. couple of things that have thrown me
off for a while in the movie. Firstly,
Their escape is hindered by Jill *spoiler if you haven’t seen Afterlife*
Valentine, another survivor of Rac- how did Wesker survive a shotgun
coon City, who has been taken over full of quarters into and through his
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by Umbrella’s last remaining mas- mouth. Although Wesker is a main
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termind… the Red Queen. The two villain, he was never that powerful.
0 1 teams fight their way to meet and Secondly, where are Chris and Claire
October 14 at 2:00 p.m.
2 3 escape through the Umbrella base Redfield, who teamed up with Alice
battling everything from Juggernauts in Afterlife and are not even seen in
Sign language interpreter for the hearing impaired (as seen in RE: Afterlife and the the opening sequences of the film?
will be available at Friday night’s performance.
video game Resident Evil 5) to Las The end implies their location, but
Plagas virus (from the game Resident nothing is ever stated and it bothered
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