The Towerlight, April 23, 2009

ThETauiErlighb.cnm. Check ins should and si Check inside for a complete guide to what you should and shouldn’t do this Saturday at Tigerfest See pages 14-15 View highlights from Wednesday night’s Drag Show in the University Union Thursday www. thetowerlight. com liTtnTUn Published by Baltimore Student Media for the Towson University Community April 23, 2009 Timeline of a tragedy Photos by Eric Gazzillo/TTie Towerlight Left, Cpl. Mike Hill, spokesman for Baltimore County Police, meets with the press Monday, hours after the Parente family was found dead at the Sheraton Baltimore-North. Center, hundreds of Loyola students attended mass Tuesday to mourn the death of Stephanie Parente. Right, BCPD Chief James Johnson announces the results of the autopsies Wednesday. Loyola College left shaken after Parente murder/suicide NICK DiMARCO Senior Editor After four days of investigation there are still loose ends to be tied. The motive is unclear, though there is certainty that the Parente family tragedy has left students and community members shaken. Baltimore County Police confirmed Wednesday morning that William Parente, 59, murdered his wife and daughters, one a Loyola College sophomore and the other an 11-year-old, before taking his own life at the Sheraton Baltimore-North hotel, less than a mile away from Towson University on Dulaney Valley Road. A cleaning crew found the family Monday afternoon. The bodies of the women were grouped on the king-size bed of the 10th floor room. William Parente was found dead in the bathroom from an apparent suicide. Autopsy results revealed that three females died from blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. Police are trying to determine a murder weapon. The Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York is looking into potential illegal financial handlings conducted by William Parente. See PARENTE, page 10 Rejects ready to rock ‘fest Saturday’s headliner wraps up album, heads to Burdick CARRIE WOOD Arts Editor Prepare to be given hell. Saturday, April 25 marks the day Towson students have been waiting for: Tigerfest. At the forefront of the festival are The All-American Rejects, the Oklahoma-based pop- rock band that’s currently dominating the airwaves. The group’s 2008 single, “Gives You Hell," hit No. 1 on the radio in the United States, and is just one of several hits the band has had since their self-titled debut album. Lead guitarist Nick Wheeler said that the song peaked when the band was overseas in Japan, after a "long freak¬ ing flight" from Sydney, Australia. "When you’re on an overseas flight, you always seem to get to your destination at like seven in the morning and you feel like shit," Wheeler said. "I turn my phone on and I get all these messages and [they say] ‘Gives You Hell' is No. 1 in America. And I’m like ‘Aw, man, that’s pretty cool.’" He said that he immediately informed fellow rejects of the news, but received a lackluster response. He credits that to the setting they were in and the exhaustion the band felt at the time. "We’re a total wreck. We can’t even be excited. And we’re in freaking Japan. We’ve been overseas for over a month and we have no perspective on America at all," Wheeler said. See REJECTS, page 14