By Julie Morcate

For this year’s Alpha Psi Omega dance concert, Opposites Attract: It’s a Love Hate Thing, directors Kim Vogel and Nikki Wittenburg came up with a provocative puzzle: whether love and hate are truly opposites.

“At the beginning you’re sure of which dances are love and which are hate, but by the end of the show you can’t really tell which is which,” said Vogel, a junior business honors major with a theater minor.

By Oliver Joszt

Next time you walk the streets of Manhattan, imagine that a massive monster is standing in front of you, destroying the city.

In J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield, this fiction turns into reality.

Cloverfield opens with official-looking Defense Department lettering, telling the audience that it is seeing video footage recovered from the area formerly known as Central Park. As they show us the video, the first few minutes open with a young couple flirting and cavorting in a nicely appointed Upper West Side apartment. The footage, which they shot themselves, shows them horsing around and having a good time.

By Aurora Slothus

When anyone mentions literary legal thrillers, one name comes to mind: John Grisham. Even in the past few months, with the release of The Appeal, Grisham has dominated bestseller lists across the country. But there is another name in the legal thriller genre that has also seen the success of being on The New York Times bestseller list. This name is John Lescroart, an author who has published 19 novels, almost all of which have been bestsellers.

By Hal Goodwin

When you see Jason Thompson casually walking around campus, don’t be fooled by his calm demeanor and his perpetual ear-to-ear smile, because when you see him on the hardwood, he’s as fierce a competitor as you’ll ever come across.

By Chris Taylor

Horror has survived four generations of video game systems. From Splatterhouse on the Turbographix16 in 1988 to the Resident Evil series, gamers have always enjoyed the sudden rush of a dog jumping out of nowhere to bite off their leg or slice a throat or two. Now it is 2008, and there are brand new systems on the market that can create incredibly realistic thrills and chills. This is precisely what makes the Condemned series the new king of survival horror video games.

By Laura Mortkowitz

After sweeping Fairfield during Saturday’s doubleheader, the men’s baseball team lost a game in extra innings to the Stags on Sunday.

During the first game on Saturday, Fairfield (11-25 overall, 9-6 MAAC) took an early lead with two runs in the second. However, Rider (21-16 overall, 9-6 MAAC) rallied and responded in the third inning with three runs to take the lead.

By Paul Mullin

In its last two tournaments before the MAAC Championship begins, the Rider golf team managed to secure two Top 5 finishes, and even walked away from one outing with a winning golfer.

At the Mount St. Mary’s Spring Invitational last weekend, the Broncs rose from an 11th place ranking on Day One to finish fifth out of 18 teams with a final team score of 894.

A dedication ceremony for the new Isaac Witkin Sculpture Park was held this past Monday to celebrate the outdoor sculptures placed on Rider’s campuses. From left to right, Professor Harry Naar, Lawrenceville SGA President Laura Vendetta, President Mordechai Rozanski and Nadine, the sculptor’s daughter, take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony to honor Witkin’s masterpieces.

By Kristie Kahl

The Broncs returned home from the Larry Ellis Invitational with two Rider records and numerous individual
rankings to show for the weekend.

Sophomore Kelsey Kohler finished 27th in the 5,000-meter with a Rider record time of 18:10.29 while junior Elizabeth Spokony set a Rider record in the triple jump at 11.77 meters.

By Sana Husain

The incessant vibrating of a cell phone is an irresistible invitation to peek at your newest text message. Even while you try to listen to your professor, the buzzing beckons to you.

During class, cell phones have become a major distraction for college students, and are a common problem in many classrooms. Students and professors have to deal with obnoxious ring tones, vibrating pockets or fingers concentrating on sending a text message rather than taking notes.