VMI Cadet. September 20, 2013

              “To Inform the VMI Community”
The Cadet
@
www.cadetpublications.com
Contents
News 1-2
op/Ed 3
Entertainment 4
Sports 5-6
News
Naval Shooting
New Market March
Steve Scafidi's Poetry
Sports
EPL 2013!
Women's Soccer on the
Road
Mayweather vs. Alvarez
THE CADET ONE OF THE
OLDEST COLLEGE
NEWSPAERS
INDEPENDENTLY
RUN BY CADETS
SINCE 1907
VOLUME 107 friday, September 20, 2013 ISSUE 03 $2.00
1907 2013
wek in photo review
The Cadet, student newspaper of the
Virginia Military Institute, was estab-lished
in the Fall of 1907 and has been
continued since that time. Our news-paper
is published every Friday after-noon
during the academic year, except
during Corps trips, holidays and exam
periods. The Cadet offices are located
in the Third Barracks Concourse .
T o or d e r a s u b s c r i p t i on
of the Ne wspa p e r conta ct:
The Cadet EIC Phone:
VMI Box 7 (571) 485-0003
Lexington, VA Office E-mail:
24450-0304 cadetedit@gmail.com
The Cadet is a member of the Publica-tions
Board which serves as the super-visory
body for all cadet publications.
Periodicals postage paid- Lexington, VA
P o s ta l Num be r : U S P 6 5 4 - 8 8 0
The Cadet is published weekly by The News
Gazette, 20 W Nelson, Lexington, VA, 24450.
Editor-in-Chief Ryan Kennedy
Editorial
Contributors
Layout Editors Drake Cong &
	 	 	 Taylor Rafaly
News Editor Sam Guidry
Sports Editor Matt Tonkinson
Entertainment ED. Christine Ray
Editorial Editor 	 Kord Pauley
The Cadet Editor-in-chief Will Dodson
Managing Editor Carson Hogge
Advertising Manager Will Breakell
Newspaper Advisor COL MacInnis
Circulation Jacob Humrich
The News-Gazette
Lexington’s Hometown Newspaper For 212 Years
Welcome back, cadets!
Want to know what’s playing at the movies,
where the best deals in town are or what’s
the news in the town where you’re spend-ing
your four years of college? Check out
 eNews-Gazette.com online, or subscribe
to the newspaper at the special, low 9-month
student rate of $1795. Call (540) 463-3113 or
stop in our o ce at 20 W. Nelson St. - next to
the State  eater.
 
Photos Courtesy of www.blackbird.vcu.edu
Now and again it’s
nice to have a break from
the Spartan lifestyle and take
some time to appreciate the
finer things. Last Wednes-day
VMI and the Glasgow
endowment joined forces to
host a reading by poet Steve
Scafidi in the W&L library.
Mr. Scafidi is a na-tive
of Virginia, but lives
now in Summit Point, West
Virginia where he works as
a cabinet maker. He earned
his master of fine arts de-gree
from Arizona State
University. His poetry has
appeared in many different
publications, and he has
published two books includ-ing
the winner of the 2002
Levis Reading Prize, Sparks
from a Nine-Pound Hammer,
and For Love of Common
Word. His third book is ex-pected
to be published soon.
Scafidi’s work cov-ers
a variety of subject mat-ter
ranging from the birth of
his child to important figures
in American History. His po-etry
often has the feeling
of a folk tale in its descrip-tions
of the small town
life and its unique places
and characters. He even
writes about a talking crow.
Mr. Scafidi read
nine poems from his as-sorted
work. The poems
included, “10 Letter Word
for a Lucky Man,” “Some-times
there’s a Shit Smell
Everywhere,” Song for Sun-day
Morning,” and “Ode to
Rosa Parks.” He also read
1 poem written by the Irish
poet Seamus Heaney, in
honor of his recent passing.
Several of the po-ems
read by Mr. Scafidi
are to be published in his
upcoming collection cen-tered
on Abraham Lincoln.
“I was never re-ally
sure if I was from the
North or the South,” said
Mr. Scafidi, “But in the town
I grew up in everyone had
pictures of Lee above their
fireplaces, and the first per-son
I told that I was writ-ing
about Lincoln cursed as
soon as I said his name.”
Scafidi spoke dur-ing
the reading of a process
he believed was important
to all writers; establishing
a voice as a citizen of one’s
own country. He expressed
this idea in his poem “Ode
to Rosa Parks,” which he
said might strike a spe-cial
resonance with cadets.
Though many of
the cadets in attendance
were there only to fulfill a
class requirement, Mr. Sca-fidi’s
easy going nature, and
powerful, relevant poetry
ensured that the event was
engaging to all present.
“It was a nice
change of pace,” said one
second classman. “Id like
to see more things like
this offered to cadets.”
Though the major-ity
in attendance were ca-dets,
there was a strong
showing of W&L students
as well. Many cadets were
glad to have a rare chance
to interact with students
outside the Institute, and
agree that future events
jointly planned by VMI and
W&L would be a good addi-tion
to the year’s calendar.
Mr. Scafidi’s poetry
is available for reading on-line
through various sourc-es
including connotation-press.
com, and blackbird.
vcu.edu. His work is avail-able
for purchase through
the Louisiana State Uni-versity
Press and through
all major book sellers.
By Spencer Allen '15
Cadet News Writer Steve Scafidi's
FolkTales
A quartet of VMI cadets is go-ing
for a bike ride Saturday, Oct. 5, but
this won’t be a casual jaunt through the
countryside. All offline donations will
be recorded online, and then mailed
to the Semper Fi Fund every Friday.
Cadets to Cycle 102
miles to Raise Money
for Semper Fi Fund
www.razoo.com/story/102mi-Cy-cling-
Event-For-Semper-Fi-Fund
Support the Keydets at