Barack Obama’s transition team is looking into
hundreds of President Bush’s executive orders,
including abortion, stem cell research, and drilling.
This could be seen as the most controversial measures
since being elected as president. On the other hand,
Obama could be showing how serious he is about
making this a new era in Washington. Executive
orders are used to implement orders under their
policies.
During Obama’s campaign trail he stated that he would
modify Bush’s restrictions on stem cell research.
Back in 2001, Bush banned the National Institutes of
Health from giving money to research on stem cells.
Obama is also planning to overturn Bush on abortion and
family planning issues. Planned Parenthood said they expect Obama to
overturn a policy that
prevents tax payers from paying groups overseas who
promote and support abortion.
32 killed in Baghdad after bombing
This past Monday in Baghdad, 39 people were killed
by explosives set off by militants in three Iraqi
cities.
32 of the people were killed in the three bombings in
Baghdad, while the remaining five were killed by a
suicide attack. This also killed two police
officers.
Bomb number one was set off at around 8:00 a.m. in the
north side of the city when a car bomb exploded. The
car was in a marketplace in the Adhamiya
neighborhood. A little later, the second bomb, also
located in a car, was set off. This made people
gather around the exploded cars, which is when bomb
number three came into play. A bomber with a
explosive vest came in and the vest exploded. These
three bombings killed 32, while 75 others were hurt.
The interior ministry reported that this was the
deadliest attack in the capital city in nearly four
months.
NEW! HE SAID/SHE SAID
NEW!
Ever wonder what the
opposite sex was thinking?
This
"He Says, She Says"
column brings you through
the mind of both the female
and male perspective during
a first date.
HOME TOWN HERO
Tony
Catinella is this week's Hometown Hero. He lived in a
town comparable to Pleasantville, loves sports, and enjoys
BBQ Baby Back Ribs.
SPORTS
C.C Sabathia is this year’s top MLB free
agent according to Tony Catinella. Other names on
this year’s listinclude Manny Ramirez and A.J
Burnett.
“I
know that we have a great shot at making it to Nationals this
year again and winning," said sophomore Kelly Wegland. For
the 17th straight year the Franklin Pierce women’s
soccer team has qualified for the NCAA division II tournament
and will host the
Eastern Regional.
The first round
Northeast
10 tournament match up between the Bentley Falcons
and the Franklin Pierce Volleyball team will mark the
fourth straight year of the team making a tournament run.
In
this week’s Really
America, a man smuggles a date rape drug into the US and
claims it as "holy water," a couple neglects their kids because of
Dungeons and Dragons, a man assaults his girlfriend because
of macaroni, and a church orders its members to have sex
seven days in a row.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Hendrix
drummer Mitch Mitchell found dead.
The last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience was
found dead early Wednesday in Portland, Oregon.
Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience,
was sixty one years old when he was found dead in his hotel
room. Deputy medical examiner Erin Patrick said, “Mitchell
apparently died of natural causes," reported the Associated
Press (AP).
Mitchell had an “explosive drumming style that can be
heard in hard-charging songs such as ‘Fire’ and the debut album
‘Are You Experience?’" said the AP.
Kenny Wayne Sheperd, a blues-rock guitarist, said, “Mitchell
was to drums what Hendrix was to the guitar."
Throughout his career, Mitchell not only played
with Hendrix, but also with Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Keith
Richards, and Muddy Waters.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Another speeding ticket? Don't
panic
Stewart Rutledge of
lifehacker.com claims to have
received around
thirty speeding tickets
in his lifetime; however, there
are
no violations on his record.
Thanks to his immense
experience, Rutledge not only
knows what to do once you see
flashing blue lights in your
rear view mirror, but also what
to do if you do receive a
speeding ticket in order to keep
it off of your record and apart
from your insurance.
Rutledge claims the most
important thing to do after
receiving the ticket, is to
leave the scene as a
polite and forgettable
individual. If your main concern
is insurance, Rutledge says it’s
extremely possible to convince
the judge to grant you an
alternative
punishment.
-Come
out to Harlow’s Pub in Peterborough New Hampshire
Friday November 14.
Theeight-member Folksoul Band will be playing New
Orleans’s based music which include Cajun, Mardi Gras, and
soul.
-Think you
can melt a block of ice with a T-shirt inside? Head to the
Franklin Pierce men’s hockey game against Assumption
College on Friday November 14 to enter the Frozen
T-shirt contest! The prize for whoever can unfreeze the
T-shirt and then put it on is a $10 gift card to Dunkin
Donuts! Come to the game and show your Franklin Pierce
Pride! (Reported by Snezana Stojkovic)
-The Mike
Wakefield Jazz quartet will be
playing this Friday, November 14 at the
Sunflower Café. Take a right out of campus and follow
all the way until the lights and there it is! Great jazz as
well as great food!
-Come out all weekend to the Warehouse
Theater located across from Edgewood Hall to see the
play T.V. by Jean Claude van Itallie. It is a satirical
one act play and admission is only $2.00 with your Franklin
Pierce ID! Any questions? Contact Nancy Stone.
-It’s a big sport’s
weekend. Follow the men’s soccer team
to LeMoyne College in Brookhaven New York on Friday, or the
women’s volleyball team to Pace University also on
Friday. Don’t feel like traveling? The men’s ice hockey
team is also playing on Friday against Assumption
College. Come out and show your Franklin Pierce Pride!
-Head down to Lakeview Saturday night November 15 from
8:00-10:00 p.m. for a miniature carnival!
Experience Director Corey Lawson came up with the idea.
There will be relay races, and even the infamous
"Hot Dog Guy" from the freshman courtyard. (Reported by Sara Saldivar)
*"It
means for every point you make, your level drops.
Kinda like you're startin' from the top...
and you can't do that." -Society by Eddie Vedder.
The
Ecology
Club is proposing new green projects including placing bins at registered
parties and motion light sensors for next semester.
Facilities is also negotiating with an unidentified company to
use wood pellet boilers to heat parts of the campus.
The Franklin Pierce men's soccer team was
invited to the NCAA tournamenton Monday night,
despite the fact that they fielded an ineligible player
in the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament semi-final
game last week.
For the first time, students
of Professor Lynn Chandler's Challenges of Math and Science
Class presented at the Project Learning Tree Conference in Plymouth, NH on
November 13th.
Over a 100 students flooded
Pierce Hall for the biggest International Food
Night in 9 years, as dishes from 11 different countries
were featured.
Monadnock Institute's Fall
Symposium and the Ecology Club outlined the University's efforts on going green.
Hal, Susan and George
are three dysfunctional co-workers whose lives are even more
dramatic than all the TVthat they watch on a daily
basis. The
Theater Department’s fall production TV
tells their story.
News Briefs:
Empty Bowls islooking for volunteers
for its 3rd annual event held Monday December 8. The
project's main objective is to show support for soup
kitchens, food banks, and similar organizations that help fight
the global hunger crisis.
Want to show off your voice? Head down to
the Raven’s Nest Pub Friday November 14th for Karaoke
Night! Sing your heart out from 7:00-9:30 p.m.
The Pierce Activity Council (PAC) got
ideas for upcoming events at a national conference held in
Harford Connecticut November 6-8. “I saw some really good
comedians. I see them live for 15 minutes and that really
helps decide on whom to bring onto our campus," said Kim Ruth, a
PAC member.
The men's and women's basketball team will
open their season at home on November 19, when they host
the Riverhawks of UMass Lowell. The women begin at 5:30
and the men follow at 7:30. Residential Life will be
sponsoring the event with a free give away for the first 100
fans at each game.
Don't forget to print
out the Raven's Nest coupon
in this issue. It will save you a dollar off your
next $5 purchase.
SENIOR PROFILE
Senior
Yoko Hisada
shares why she would pick Franklin Pierce over any Japanese
University and how her love for travel has turned into her
dream job.
FEATURES/IN-DEPTH
Graduation may creep up on seniors quicker
than they think which is why Randy Bernosky has the low down
on bustling
job markets.
Smoking is very bad for you, but generally people who smoke
already know that. So why don’t they quit?
Because smoking feels good. It stimulates and focuses the
mind at the same time that it soothes and satisfies. The
concentrated dose of nicotine in a drag off a cigarette
triggers an immediate flood of dopamine and other
neurochemicals that wash over the brain’s pleasure centers.
Inhaling tobacco smoke is the quickest, most efficient way
to get nicotine to the brain.
“I completely understand why you wouldn’t want to give it
up," said Dr. David Abrams, an addiction researcher at the
National Institutes of Health. “It’s more difficult to get
off nicotine than heroin or cocaine."
Smoking “hijacks" the reward systems in the brain that drive
you to seek food, water and sex, Dr. Abrams explained,
driving you to seek nicotine with the same urgency. “Your
brain thinks that this has to do with survival of the
species," he said.
Nicotine isn’t equally addictive for everyone. A lot of
people do not smoke because they never liked it to begin
with. Then there are “chippers," who smoke occasionally but
never seem to get hooked. But most people who smoke will
eventually do it all day, every day.
New discoveries in genetics may explain why certain people
take to smoking with such gusto and end up so addicted. Some
people, for instance, produce a gene-encoded enzyme that
clears nicotine from their bloodstreams rapidly, so they
tend to smoke more and develop stronger addictions. Others
possess special receptors in the brain that bond extra
tightly with nicotine, giving them an especially intense
high that makes it harder to quit.
Nicotine by itself does not cause cancer, heart disease or
other major health problems linked to smoking; other
chemicals in tobacco smoke are to blame. Nicotine
replacement can be used alone or with prescription
medications or, for best results, combined with counseling.
Recent evidence suggests that using two forms
simultaneously, like the patch and gum together, works
better than either alone.
Most important, former smokers have to rediscover that it is
possible to enjoy life without cigarettes, although the
yearning may never die completely.
Obama looking to reverse many of Bush’s policies
