The Towerlight, September 24, 2009

XXMY SCHEDULE SUCKS FINALISTS... SEE PAGE v w PAGE 14 )) Blake Savadow Towerlight Adjunct professor John Mancini III formed the John Mancini Band with Towson undergraduates Tom Haller and Dave Wright. The band's first album, “ JMB,” came out in spring of 2009 and also features John Mancini Jr., Russell McCray and Patrick McAvinue. The band has been featured in the October issue of Relix magazine. Campus vaccinations gone until October OLIVIA OBINEME Staff Writer Distribution of the seasonal flu vaccine, which should have taken place over the course of two days, was brought to a close at 2:30 p.ra. Tuesday, just about eight hours after the start, due to the fast depletion of supplies. More people were making the effort to immediately get their shots after reports came out on Friday that confirmed 33 cases of the H1N1 virus and roughly 130 flu-like illnesses on campus. "We put in an order for addi¬ tional vaccines, and we were told initially that we would get it in time to split it between the two clinics for Tuesday and Wednesday," director of health services Jane Halpem said. "But for the new order, the distributors called us back and said that they couldn’t guarantee that they could get it to us or when they could get it to us." The usual order for the Fall season is about 1,000 to 1,200 doses, but as soon as the Center for Disease Control recommend¬ ed that everyone receive a flu shot, Halpem said the University administration agreed to make it available to students for free, See FLU, page 7 Professor, students perform together in nationally-recognized John Mancini Band LAUREN SLAVIN Arts Editor Adjunct English and film professor John Mancini III will often start his first class of the semester sitting in the back row of the classroom with his head down and a hoodie pulled over his face. "[The students] freak out when I stand up and start handing out the syllabus," Mancini said. At 32 years old and only four years out of graduate school at the University of Southern Mississippi, Mancini does look like he belongs at a desk as opposed to behind a podium lecturing. "My secret mission in taking the job was to start a band," he said. "I knew I would meet a lot of talented people here because they have a great music program, and it worked.” The Towson University-based John Mancini Band has taken off since their formation in 2007, their most recent accomplishment being fea¬ tured in the October issue of Relix magazine. "It’s the steeple of the jam band community,” Mancini said. "So it's kind of crazy to start at a magazine like that.” The band consists of Mancini and undergraduates Tom Haller and Dave Wright. They have been playing gigs at the 8X10, Recher Theatre, and, most recently, Sullivan Hall near New York University. In the fall semester of 2007, Mancini met Haller, a music per¬ formance major, in an English 102 course he was teaching. Haller was a student who had added the course late. "He was one of those people that’ll actually talk to you,” Mancini said of Haller. "Most people just sit there, especially first year students.” After trading CDs in class and dis¬ covering a common interest in music, the two decided to jam together. Haller had recently broken up with Adelphi, a Towson rock band signed to Drive-Thru Records, and needed a new group to play drums in. "At first it was a little different being friends with a professor," Haller said. "But he’s an easygoing guy and we both had a common interest, which was music, so it was very easy to connect.” They later added a bassist, Wright, now a junior finance and economics major, and the band was formed. "We have the trio, and I feel that it’s essential for us to keep that bond," Mancini said. See BAND, page 16