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WEDNESDAY, NovEmbEr <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2012</strong><br />
uNivErSitY of North floriDA<br />
Get knotty<br />
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UNF ropes<br />
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NEED morE coNtENt?<br />
CheCk out osprey tV's newsCast<br />
at unfspinnaker.Com.<br />
the website’s not bad, either.<br />
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// culturAl ExpEriENcE<br />
Dancers weren't the only at the<br />
Road to Asia festival. Food and<br />
music added to the celebration.<br />
8<br />
// cEll phoNE trAumA<br />
<strong>The</strong> next time your phone needs<br />
some TLC, stop by the cell phone<br />
repair shop in Alumni Square.<br />
// it'S ElEctric<br />
<strong>The</strong> recently-signed, electronic<br />
dance music group, Corporate<br />
Slackrs, started in a dorm room<br />
right here at UNF.<br />
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// lEND A hAND<br />
As refugees are sent from around<br />
the world to Jacksonville, the UNF<br />
honors program reaches out to<br />
lend a helping hand.<br />
iNDEx photoS<br />
keri weiland, andrew noble, Charlotte<br />
mCClain, Connor spielmaker,<br />
justin rashaw<br />
sports 19<br />
// oN thE covEr<br />
ropes Course page 7<br />
// oN poiNt<br />
UNF men’s basketball has two<br />
talented players at the point<br />
guard position. Will they<br />
help the team win its first<br />
championship?<br />
// rugbY rulES<br />
Find out about the rules and<br />
intricacies of the sport and<br />
become an instant fan.<br />
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Police<br />
Beat<br />
Oct. 29 Damaged Property (Building 2)<br />
- An officer met with an employee who<br />
said two Pepsi machines had been damaged.<br />
He said the broken latches on the<br />
machines allowed the suspect to retrieve<br />
the money from the drop box. Both machines<br />
were emptied and unplugged.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y planned to remove them within<br />
the following few days and replace them<br />
with new machines. A canvass was not<br />
conducted due to the time frame.<br />
Nov. 6 Marijuana Paraphernalia (Osprey<br />
Crossing) - An officer met with a complainant<br />
who said there was a marijuana<br />
odor coming from one of the rooms. <strong>The</strong><br />
officer approached the suspected room<br />
and made contact with the resident. <strong>The</strong><br />
resident admitted to having paraphernalia<br />
and gave the officer his items, which<br />
included a bag of marijuana and drug<br />
paraphernalia. <strong>The</strong> student was referred<br />
While most vandalism occurs<br />
in down town Jacksonville, you<br />
can find clever sticker graffiti<br />
on pedestrian walkway signs<br />
posted through campus. Some<br />
sticker companies have made<br />
decals specifically for pedestrian<br />
signs in order to make the<br />
figure hula hooping, carrying<br />
skateboards, or made to look<br />
like they are wearing suits.<br />
to Student Conduct. <strong>The</strong> items were<br />
placed in the JSO Property Room.<br />
Nov. 7 Criminal Mischief (Osprey<br />
Crossing) - An officer met with a complainant<br />
who said someone threw a beer<br />
bottle through his window. <strong>The</strong> subject<br />
said he was watching T.V. and heard a<br />
loud crash. When he noticed it was his<br />
window, he looked out but did not see<br />
anybody. <strong>The</strong>re are no current suspects.<br />
Nov. 6 <strong>The</strong>ft (Building 8) - An officer met<br />
with a suspect, Taurean Blaque Watson,<br />
for questioning. A student had reported<br />
a missing laptop and the officer observed<br />
the suspect take the laptop on a surveillance<br />
camera. <strong>The</strong> surveillance video also<br />
indicated the person who took the computer<br />
was a Physical Facilities employee<br />
in uniform. <strong>The</strong> suspect said he had intended<br />
to return the laptop. However,<br />
Oct. 31 Suspicious Behavior (Library) - An officer met with a complainant who said she was approached<br />
by a male who asked her to participate in a project for his class while she was studying<br />
in the library. <strong>The</strong> complainant said she allowed him to run a ballpoint pen along the bottom of<br />
her foot to test her reactions. He then asked to take a picture of her feet. <strong>The</strong> complainant declined<br />
and returned to studying. She then called the Brooks College of Health and was told there<br />
are no projects going on at this time.<br />
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the suspect had not returned the item,<br />
despite there being a reasonable amount<br />
of time to have done so. He had also<br />
made no attempt to do so on this day<br />
and had not reported the incident to his<br />
supervisors. <strong>The</strong> suspect was positively<br />
identified through the video surveillance,<br />
and the officer placed him under<br />
arrest for grand theft. <strong>The</strong> property has<br />
still not been returned.<br />
Nov. 7 <strong>The</strong>ft (Building 16) - An officer<br />
met with two complainants in reference<br />
to stolen skateboards. <strong>The</strong> complainants<br />
said they left their skateboard on<br />
the rack while having lunch and did not<br />
lock them up. Upon returning, the skateboards<br />
were gone. A canvass was not<br />
conducted, due to the amount of pedestrian<br />
traffic in the area.<br />
Nov. 8 <strong>The</strong>ft (Building 16) - An officer<br />
met with a complainant who said his<br />
skateboard had been stolen. <strong>The</strong> subject<br />
said he left his skateboard outside<br />
while eating lunch. He did not lock the<br />
skateboard to the rack and did not know<br />
any possible suspects. When he returned,<br />
his skateboard was gone. <strong>The</strong> officer<br />
searched the immediate area with negative<br />
results.<br />
Nov. 08 <strong>The</strong>ft (Building 61) - An officer<br />
met with two complainants who said<br />
their cell phones had been stolen. <strong>The</strong><br />
subjects said they left their phones in<br />
an unsecured locker in the building.<br />
When they returned to the locker a few<br />
hours later, their phones were not in it.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y said they attempted to call the cell<br />
phones, but they had been turned off.<br />
<strong>The</strong> case has been suspended.<br />
Source: University Police Department Compiled by Olivia Osland<br />
Photo by Keri Weiland<br />
Caption by Lindsay Montgomery
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by the Associated Collegiate Press.<br />
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2007 Better College Newspaper Contest<br />
by the Florida College Press Assocation.<br />
<strong>Spinnaker</strong> Staff<br />
Editor in Chief Lindsay Montgomery<br />
Art Director Joey Taravella<br />
Layout Editors Julie Henderson<br />
Christine Kegel<br />
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Copy Chief Jacob Harn<br />
Copy Editors Katie Tison<br />
Marina Ubert<br />
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Sports Editor Travis Gibson<br />
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— Due to a layout editor’s error,<br />
Connor Spielmaker should have been<br />
credited for the photo on page 13 of<br />
the <strong>November</strong> 7th issue.<br />
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Going through withdrawal<br />
What UNF's class withdrawal policy could mean to students<br />
In Fall 2013, UNF will implement a policy<br />
limiting students to six withdrawals from<br />
classes throughout their undergraduate<br />
careers — three 1000- or 2000-level classes<br />
and three 3000- or 4000-level classes.<br />
Staying within six withdrawals is manageable;<br />
plenty of students graduate without<br />
withdrawing once. But restricting the<br />
number of withdrawals seems like an unnecessary<br />
move. <strong>The</strong> reasons the university<br />
gave for the policy include saving students<br />
from financial burden and pushing<br />
them to talk to their professors and advisers<br />
rather than giving up.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re aren’t better ways to solve<br />
those problems?<br />
We’re not trying to hate on restrictions,<br />
we’re just wondering why UNF needed to<br />
fix something that wasn’t exactly broken.<br />
It may be because of something John<br />
Delaney said, as the Times-Union reported:<br />
UNF’s graduation rate is its<br />
“Achilles’ heel.”<br />
UNF’s six-year graduation rate is reported<br />
between 40-45 percent, depending<br />
on where you look up the information.<br />
That’s far below the rate of at leatst 65<br />
Editorial Board<br />
Quotes of the Week:<br />
—“Language always reminds<br />
us that it, and no one else, is speaking,<br />
that whenever we believe we rule over<br />
our own words, we are in the grip of an<br />
unavoidable but nevertheless<br />
delusive elusion.”<br />
–Jean Jacques Lecercle<br />
—"We talked all night. Oh, but what<br />
the hell did we say?"<br />
—Isaac Brock<br />
percent that experts say most four-year colleges<br />
strive for.<br />
Pushing students through classes faster,<br />
albeit with potentially poorer grades,<br />
could be one reason for the new withdrawal<br />
policy.<br />
Wanting to improve the graduation rate<br />
isn’t without merit — the rates are lowered<br />
by students transferring from UNF after<br />
taking their gen eds, or by students who<br />
have to crawl their way through school because<br />
they also have part- or full-time jobs.<br />
Adding flagship programs and offering<br />
more need-based scholarships are the nice<br />
ways of retaining students and improving<br />
the graduation rate. Policies like the one<br />
going into effect next fall are less rosy.<br />
This type of withdrawal policy is in<br />
line with other Florida universities — another<br />
reason UNF may be creating its own.<br />
UNF began as a commuter school and is<br />
still smaller than most of the other public<br />
Florida universities. It has to try a little<br />
harder to hang with the big boys.<br />
It’s already stricken some of its commuter<br />
image with the freshman residency<br />
requirement. Now, retention and<br />
Lindsay Montgomery – Editor in Chief<br />
Jacob Harn – Copy Chief<br />
graduation rates are the shortcomings.<br />
UNF is steadily improving its outside<br />
image by expanding its buildings, policies<br />
and attendance. We hope these moves will<br />
satisfy the student population, as well.<br />
A few semesters ago, former <strong>Spinnaker</strong><br />
Features Editor Emily Hartford wrote her<br />
farewell column. She spoke of how the<br />
campus’ natural beauty and the original<br />
center of campus, the Green, overwhelmed<br />
her when she first visited the campus. But<br />
years later, after heaps of construction,<br />
“the new center of campus [the Student<br />
Union] is nothing more than a passageway<br />
… I’m disappointed in what the school<br />
has become.”<br />
If UNF is moving forward, so be it. But<br />
the <strong>Spinnaker</strong> would rather UNF cling to<br />
its uniqueness than become a mirror image<br />
of Florida’s university giants by way<br />
of, say, withdrawal policies.<br />
Let us leave you with the same gentle<br />
reminder Emily did two years ago.<br />
UNF: “No one like you, no place<br />
like this.”<br />
Joey Taravella – Art Director<br />
Spencer Goldbach – News Layout<br />
TAyLOr LECKiE<br />
Voters waited outside, at times for hours, to cast their vote at a Florida polling station.<br />
Lining up for our future:<br />
getting out the vote<br />
You have the right to vote, so why<br />
didn’t you?<br />
Perhaps the lines were too long, and you<br />
had to get to class. Maybe you couldn’t decide<br />
who to vote for. You might feel as if you<br />
really aren’t making a difference.<br />
Is it possible that you just aren’t a registered<br />
voter? It couldn’t be that you just<br />
don’t care, could it?<br />
Most of these are legitimate excuses not<br />
to exercise your civic rights. Voting takes<br />
time, and electing the next president of the<br />
United States is a big decision.<br />
If you felt as if the pressure was just<br />
too overwhelming, you were not alone.<br />
According to the Washington Post, about 12<br />
percent of registered voters were undecided<br />
as of September for this past election.<br />
In a country where people have given<br />
their lives for us to have the freedom to<br />
cast our ballot, it is surprising how many<br />
people don’t. My mom has a friend who is<br />
twice my age and who has never registered<br />
to vote.<br />
And I can understand why. She doesn’t<br />
feel informed enough to select a candidate.<br />
What if she makes the wrong choice?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are a lot of people out there who do<br />
not understand the candidates’ platforms.<br />
Is it better to vote for no one than someone<br />
who you know nothing about?<br />
Educating yourself on the people running<br />
for government positions is a very<br />
smart thing to do. According to cbsnews.<br />
com, 25 million people could be voting without<br />
the proper knowledge. This means they<br />
think they are voting for one thing when<br />
they are actually voting for something else.<br />
You cannot base your judgment on television<br />
ads or the fact that the presidential<br />
candidate left a message for you on your<br />
voicemail. It takes time and effort to research<br />
the amendments and nominees, and<br />
many people do not want to put forth the<br />
energy.<br />
Some think it might not matter who<br />
they vote for. After all, you are just<br />
one person.<br />
Let’s not forget that it only takes one person<br />
to change the world. Think of Martin<br />
Luther King Jr., whose actions regarding<br />
Taylor<br />
Leckie<br />
// Contributing Columnist<br />
equal rights set forth a revolution. He was<br />
just one man who convinced millions to<br />
make a difference in this world.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n there could be the fact that you<br />
never registered to vote. <strong>The</strong> high school<br />
recruiters missed you when they were<br />
signing of-agers up during lunches. You<br />
missed the draft. Once out on your own, do<br />
you even know where to go to register?<br />
Try the Internet. All you need to<br />
do is submit an application to the<br />
elections supervisor.<br />
But the most difficult part is deciding<br />
with which party you want to be affiliated.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fact that you just don’t care cannot<br />
be counted as a legitimate excuse. Of<br />
course, you care. You just may not think<br />
you do. You would care if the government<br />
took over all of your rights and limited<br />
your decision-making process.<br />
People risk their lives every day to escape<br />
such tyranny. Could you imagine waking<br />
up each morning being told what you<br />
can and cannot do? That’s what most of us<br />
went away to college to escape.<br />
You have been given the choice to decide<br />
your future. Be smart about it. Investigate<br />
it further. You might be surprised at<br />
what you discover about our country<br />
and yourself. Look at it this way: if you<br />
are lucky, you have another four years to<br />
prepare yourself.<br />
If you still don’t feel you’re ready to<br />
make this kind of decision, just know there<br />
are millions of others out there who will do<br />
it for you. <strong>The</strong>y did it this week when reelecting<br />
Barack Obama as our president.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se people proved the lines are never<br />
too long to keep them from affecting<br />
our future.<br />
Email Taylor Leckie at<br />
reporter18@unfspinnaker.com.<br />
Cyberspace vs. healthy minds<br />
I am grieved that many young, bright<br />
individuals are turning inward, becoming<br />
victims to the rapidly growing<br />
pandemic: technology.<br />
Imagine a socially deprived young person,<br />
who feels so little kinship with his<br />
surrounds that he invents his own world<br />
in cyberspace.<br />
This person thinks they can escape their<br />
mortifyingly lonely reality. But inside, they<br />
know this false world it is just a fancy curtain<br />
of denials. Cyberspace allows them to<br />
escape their drab dorm room and decorates<br />
their life.<br />
How can a person survive in this unforgiving<br />
world if they trap themselves in a<br />
shell outside the realm we live in?<br />
But whom do we blame? <strong>The</strong> young person<br />
who chooses to forsake reality for a<br />
whimsical cyberspace, or the technology<br />
that made their fantasy come true?<br />
Can a gun kill a person? Only in the<br />
hand of another person. A gun is a mere<br />
tool, neutral until held by someone with<br />
a bias.<br />
<strong>The</strong> same goes for technology. We can’t<br />
direct our blame upon something that can’t<br />
choose for itself. We can’t blame technology<br />
for not connecting with the world around<br />
us. We can only blame ourselves.<br />
Lies are voiced into our ears and echo:<br />
it’s okay to misguide the blame for our farces.<br />
And we do so.<br />
Technology is no longer a mere part of<br />
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COMING TO GET ME!<br />
Ahmed<br />
Aedan<br />
// Contributing Columnist<br />
our lives. It’s the center of it.<br />
Imagine if an apocalyptic event were to<br />
happen, and no technology remained.<br />
Those with a weak sense of purpose --<br />
who ramble this earth with no goal but to<br />
live day-by-day, eating and breathing technology<br />
-- are the first to go nuts.<br />
As humans, we have the ability to adapt<br />
under the most deprived circumstances.<br />
Unfortunately, we may be without the tools<br />
to survive a world without internet -- with<br />
no more video games and no more movies.<br />
What’s the point of imagining such<br />
a world?<br />
It’s to wake people up. It’s to get them to<br />
smell the odor emitting from the vile addiction<br />
we have to technology. If we don’t temper<br />
our tendencies soon, we’ll drown.<br />
I’m not advocating a complete anti-technology<br />
society. That would be devastating<br />
on different levels. I simply ask to moderate<br />
the addiction, to control it. Rely more<br />
on fellow humans and less on machines.<br />
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Osprey Challenge Course busier than it looks<br />
By Justin Chandler Porter<br />
STAFF REPORTER<br />
Students are noticing the UNF Osprey<br />
Challenge Course, on any given day, looks<br />
more like an abandoned tree fort than a<br />
rigorous high-altitude event.<br />
Although it sits idle throughout most of<br />
the day, OCC facilitators are assuring students<br />
the $250,000 student-funded course is<br />
seeing plenty of action -- so much that they<br />
are no longer taking reservations until further<br />
notice.<br />
“We’re booked throughout the semester,”<br />
said Tomas Marentes, OCC manager.<br />
Marentes said, since opening in<br />
September, the course has held events every<br />
weekend for a campus club or organization,<br />
including Student Government,<br />
Kappa Delta sorority and, most recently,<br />
the 2013 Doctors of Physical <strong>The</strong>rapy from<br />
the Brooks College of Health.<br />
He said there are two or three programs<br />
participating per month, not including<br />
staff training programs.<br />
Marentes said one of the biggest reasons<br />
people might feel it’s not being used<br />
is because of its newness and that it’s only<br />
open to UNF students.<br />
Sergio Bayona-Diaz, an international<br />
student from Colombia and course facilitator,<br />
said almost all of the 17 trained faculty<br />
members are students.<br />
Marentes said class schedules limit any<br />
organization or group to the days studentfacilitators<br />
are available to help operate<br />
the course.<br />
Bayona-Diaz said another reason the<br />
course doesn’t appear busy is that training<br />
is still ongoing and there are many course<br />
hours that must be met to go from trainee<br />
to facilitator.<br />
Marentes said it is also hard to find<br />
committed groups capable of exhausting<br />
four to eight hours for the courses’ physically<br />
demanding programs.<br />
“That’s a big chunk of time to be in the<br />
air,” Marentes said.<br />
Bayona-Diaz said, with training nearing<br />
completion, the course will be able to<br />
open to public groups and organizations<br />
as early as January.<br />
Ben Waddington, a UNF public law junior,<br />
said he has seen the course in use<br />
only once during the week since it was<br />
built.<br />
Marentes said weekdays were slow but<br />
not void of events. He said the facilitator<br />
schedules offered much more flexibility<br />
during the weekends.<br />
He said the most recent weekday group<br />
was the 2013 Doctors of Physical <strong>The</strong>rapy<br />
from the Brooks College of Health. <strong>The</strong><br />
group’s first day on the course was Oct.<br />
25. It returned Nov. 7 to complete its highelement<br />
challenges.<br />
Reservation reservations<br />
Marentes said reservations are all online<br />
and must be made 21 days prior to participation.<br />
UNF Campus Recreation gives<br />
three optional days for those who sign up,<br />
to better coordinate what works for the<br />
staff and the group.<br />
Alex Mross, a UNF journalism junior,<br />
said he would love to use the course were it<br />
not for the three-week waiting period after<br />
signing up.<br />
“You can’t just go on a free Friday,”<br />
Waddington said, “you have to wait three<br />
whole weeks.”<br />
Marentes said the three-week waiting<br />
period is crucial because it allows facilitators<br />
and visitors to interact and personalize<br />
their experience.<br />
To do that, Bayona-Diaz said, groups<br />
regularly meet with staff to discuss group<br />
interests, what skills need to be developed<br />
and what goals are expected to be met from<br />
the challenge.<br />
“We want to make sure what the group<br />
wants to develop,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> University of South Florida’s<br />
course, the Riverfront Park Challenge<br />
Course, is similar to the Osprey Challenge<br />
Course in that it has low- and high-altitude<br />
events and is designed to be more of<br />
a team-building exercise than an obstacle<br />
course.<br />
D.J. Pollock, outdoor recreation<br />
KEri WEiLAnDi SPinnAKEr<br />
coordinator for USF, said USF’s course sees<br />
a lot of action.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> big struggle is making sure there<br />
are enough facilitators to keep participation<br />
high,” Pollock said.<br />
He said a lot of nearby middle and high<br />
schools use the facility, as well, and said<br />
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps groups<br />
of up to 100 people are common.<br />
Sasha Griffith, an outdoor pursuits intern<br />
for Florida Gulf Coast University, said<br />
her campus’ Eagle Challenge Course remains<br />
fairly busy and will have 22 groups<br />
throughout the Fall semester. <strong>The</strong> course<br />
sits out on a 10-acre field, miles away from<br />
the main campus.<br />
Pollock and Griffith said summer and<br />
the beginning of fall have been the busiest<br />
times for the course.<br />
Both Pollock and Griffith said the weekends<br />
are busier than weekdays because<br />
students staff the course and must attend<br />
class all week.<br />
“Hopefully over time, it will get more<br />
popular,” Mross said.<br />
Pollock said USF Student Government<br />
does not fund <strong>The</strong> Eagle Challenge Course,<br />
and students must pay to use its facilities<br />
-- $15 for the full, six-hour program.<br />
At UNF, Student Government-sponsored<br />
organizations can use the facilities for<br />
free, but independent students and student<br />
groups must pay fees. Those fees range<br />
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THE CHALLENGES Of<br />
UNf’S rOPES COUrSE<br />
Justin Cato, assistant director<br />
for intramural and club sports,<br />
helped train some of the challenge<br />
course’s student-facilitators.<br />
Y-kNOT<br />
He said this is one of the first,<br />
and possibly most demanding,<br />
challenges.<br />
Two ropes on either side of<br />
the tree house combine into one<br />
knotted rope and extend the<br />
length of the challenge. Students<br />
must work their way over the<br />
knot together, remaining in contact<br />
with the person in front of or<br />
behind them.<br />
“Some groups can handle it,”<br />
Cato said. “Some can’t.”<br />
ISLAND HOPPErS<br />
Is a high-level element that<br />
involves groups migrating, in unison,<br />
across six suspended 2-feetby-3-feet<br />
platforms. Cato said all<br />
members of the group must be<br />
present on one platform before<br />
moving to the next platform.<br />
He said Island Hoppers is not<br />
only physically challenging but is<br />
also a great exercise in communication<br />
and teamwork.<br />
THE SCArY fErrY<br />
Requires students to pull their<br />
body weight through the course.<br />
Groups of four sit on a suspended<br />
log and use hanging ropes as<br />
pulleys. By pulling the rope, the<br />
log glides along its course from<br />
the starting tree house to the<br />
checkpoint gate.<br />
When participants don’t pull at<br />
the same time, the log can twist,<br />
making it harder to navigate the<br />
log.<br />
When performed successfully,<br />
Cato said the challenge can be<br />
completed in a couple minutes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2013 Doctors of Physical<br />
<strong>The</strong>rapy spent well over half an<br />
hour attempting to complete the<br />
challenge Nov. 7.<br />
from $12.75 to $51.63, according to the<br />
pricing matrix on the Osprey Challenge<br />
Course’s website. Each price is per student<br />
and is dependent on which course the<br />
group would like to fulfill.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Osprey Challenge Course requires<br />
groups of eight for any of the event programs.<br />
Email Justin Chandler Porter at<br />
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DRC kicks off fee at 40 cents; UNF<br />
Athletics requests $1.77<br />
More requests for the Fee Assessment Committee<br />
By ryan thomPson<br />
ENTERPRiSE EDiTOR<br />
Amid fewer credit hours for campus entities<br />
to use when requesting fee increases<br />
for the next fiscal year, the UNF Disability<br />
Resource Center requested 40 cents for its<br />
inaugural fee, and UNF Athletics requested<br />
a $1.77 fee increase at the Nov. 8 meeting<br />
of the UNF Student Fee Assessment<br />
Committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> SFAC announced at its Oct. 4 meeting<br />
the credit hours students are taking<br />
dropped to 403,000 hours in 2011-12 from<br />
408,000 in 2010-11. Fewer credit hours<br />
means less money campus entities have<br />
access to when planning their 2013-<strong>14</strong> budgets.<br />
Because the committee approved UNF’s<br />
health fee’s definition to include the DRC<br />
Oct. 4, Dr. Kris Webb proposed the first<br />
DRC fee budget at today’s committee meeting.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 40 cents would give the center<br />
$152,741, which would complement the<br />
money the center receives from the education<br />
and general budget for accommodations,<br />
according to Webb’s proposal.<br />
Webb, the center’s director, said she kept<br />
the fee as lean as possible. But UNF’s growing<br />
number of deaf students and students<br />
with serious disabilities necessitates appropriate<br />
funds to accommodate those students.<br />
Federal law mandates the center not<br />
turn away students in need of its services,<br />
Webb said, and 15 deaf students at UNF use<br />
the center’s specialized accommodations.<br />
Shari Shuman, the UNF vice president<br />
of administration and finance, asked Webb<br />
for the center’s budget projections from<br />
previous years to see how the center used<br />
its money. Webb will present those projections<br />
at next week’s meeting.<br />
Webb was not alone in presenting a fee<br />
proposal to solace budget concerns.<br />
Athletic Director Lee Moon said the $1.77<br />
increase will help transition UNF’s athletics<br />
programs into fully funded, Division-I<br />
programs at the National Collegiate<br />
Athletics Association level. He said UNF is<br />
a two-year cycle away from this goal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fee increase would give the athletics<br />
department $556,200 more from student<br />
fees than it collected in <strong>2012</strong>-13, according<br />
to Moon’s proposal.<br />
Besides increasing scholarships to<br />
match the increase in tuition and funding<br />
salaries for new assistant coaches, the fee<br />
increase would establish a $25,000 tailgating<br />
budget.<br />
This would make the athletics department<br />
fund its tailgating events independently<br />
of other entities’ support.<br />
FEE REQUESTS<br />
UNF Disability Resource<br />
Center requested 40 cents<br />
for its inaugural fee.<br />
UNF Athletics requested a<br />
$1.77 fee increase.<br />
UNF Student Health Services<br />
did not request<br />
a fee increase.<br />
UNF Auxiliary Services did<br />
not request an increase<br />
to the Transportation<br />
Access fee.<br />
Currently, the Student Life and Services<br />
fee, Student Government, UNF Athletics<br />
and the UNF President’s Office fund athletics<br />
tailgating.<br />
And although the DRC and the Athletics<br />
Department predict they will need extra<br />
funding in the next fiscal year, two campus<br />
entities said the revenue from fees they<br />
have in <strong>2012</strong>-13 is sufficient.<br />
UNF Student Health Services is once<br />
again not requesting a fee increase, said<br />
Doreen Perez, the director of health administration<br />
at UNF. Should the committee<br />
agree on Perez’s proposal, the fee will stay<br />
$2.99 per credit hour.<br />
Perez will request $21,888 from the UNF<br />
Auxiliary Oversight Committee, to make<br />
up the difference the decrease in student<br />
credit hours creates, according to her proposal.<br />
Shuman said the department’s spending<br />
is on target with its projects, and the<br />
entities that proposed last week, UNF<br />
Health Promotion and the UNF Counseling<br />
Center, were not.<br />
Vince Smyth, the director of UNF<br />
Auxiliary Services, did not request an increase<br />
to the Transportation Access fee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fee covers the shuttle system, which<br />
started in fall 2007.<br />
If the fee receives the committee’s blessing,<br />
it will remain at $4.08 per credit hour<br />
next school year.<br />
Smyth said this year’s fee will be enough<br />
to fund next year’s needs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> committee will meet Nov. 15 to review<br />
the extra documentation it requested<br />
in past meetings and to solidify its fee recommendations<br />
for fiscal year 20<strong>14</strong>.<br />
Email ryan Thompson at<br />
enterprise@unfspinnaker.com.<br />
KEri WEiLAnD i SPinnAKEr<br />
Chris Cadigan repairs a cracked iPhone screen at CPR Cell Phone Repair in Alumni Square.<br />
CPR cell phone repair business<br />
opens in UNF Alumni Square<br />
By taylor nelson<br />
CONTRiBUTiNG REPORTER<br />
CPR Cell Phone Repair opened Nov. 5 in<br />
the location previously held by Chartwells<br />
between Sbarro and the UPS Store.<br />
Run by Carla Aldridge and her husband<br />
Ruben, the UNF store is the chain’s second<br />
Jacksonville location. CPR Phone Repair<br />
sells refurbished phones, buys phones and<br />
fixes phones, laptops, tablets, game systems<br />
and sound systems.<br />
<strong>The</strong> couple took advantage of UNF<br />
Market Day to spread the word of their<br />
new on-campus location and their original<br />
location at Beach and Hodges behind the<br />
Chick-Fil-A.<br />
Having sent several children through<br />
UNF, and with several more to come, Carla<br />
Aldridge said she is excited to get even<br />
more involved on campus and connect<br />
with students and faculty.<br />
“You build your business one customer<br />
at a time,” Aldridge said.<br />
CPR Phone Repair will accept Ozzie<br />
Bucks as a form of payment. Ozzie Bucks<br />
are also accepted at the original location.<br />
Aldridge said she doesn’t want the students<br />
to worry about the level of trust between<br />
them and the store.<br />
“We’re not out to make a killing,”<br />
Aldridge said. “We have an honest basis<br />
and fair and reasonable prices.”<br />
Tully Burnett, the associate director of<br />
UNF Auxiliary Services, said her department<br />
considered several businesses before<br />
choosing CPR Phone Repair, including a<br />
spa and salon, a hair cuttery and a basic<br />
computer repair store.<br />
However, many of the businesses that<br />
could have filled the space were voided,<br />
due to the contracts the school holds with<br />
Chartwells and the UNF Bookstore.<br />
Burnett said Auxiliary Services tried to<br />
find a business that could serve everyone<br />
on campus.<br />
“One thing that everyone has one or<br />
more of is some kind of electronic device,”<br />
Burnett said.<br />
Burnett said there is no cost for UNF to<br />
house CPR Phone Repair and by leasing<br />
the space to the business, UNF is actually<br />
making a small profit.<br />
Under the current contract, the business<br />
has a five-year agreement with UNF and<br />
a provision for a five-year renewal. CPR<br />
Phone Repair has met with Information<br />
Technology Services to form a better understanding<br />
of what each is responsible<br />
for. ITS declined being interviewed.<br />
With the store now open, Aldridge said<br />
she is enthusiastic to spread the word of<br />
its services to faculty, students and their<br />
parents.<br />
Students’ reactions to the store have varied.<br />
Faris Batshone, a UNF economics junior,<br />
said he wouldn’t get a refurbished phone<br />
because he has friends who have had problems<br />
with their refurbished phones.<br />
Jasmine Arnott, a UNF English freshman,<br />
said the on-campus repair store is<br />
convenient for her.<br />
“I hate driving, so anytime I don’t have<br />
to it’s really great,” she said.<br />
CPR Phone Repair is open Monday<br />
through Thursday 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and<br />
Fridays 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.<br />
Email Taylor nelson at<br />
reporter22@unfspinnaker.com<br />
Road to Asia Festival showcases<br />
Asian culture for UNF students<br />
By noor ashouri<br />
STAFF REPORTER<br />
Through instruments, song and dance,<br />
the Road to Asia Festival showcased Asian<br />
culture in the Osprey Plaza of the Student<br />
Union Nov. 8.<br />
<strong>The</strong> UNF Asian Students in Alliance<br />
club (ASIA) hosted the second annual Road<br />
to Asia Festival in conjunction with the<br />
Intercultural Center for PEACE, Osprey<br />
South Asia Association, Filipino Student<br />
Association, Muslim Student Association<br />
and the African-American Student Union.<br />
During the event, approximately ten<br />
performances featured Korean, Filipino,<br />
Indian, Afghan, Vietnamese, Chinese and<br />
Japanese tradition and culture.<br />
During intermission, attendees had the<br />
opportunity to sample foods from various<br />
regions of Asia.<br />
Nearly 30 performers prepared for the<br />
event by practicing two to three times a<br />
week starting in September, said Melissa<br />
Deguino, president of UNF ASIA.<br />
Deguino, who started organizing this<br />
event in May, said the goal this year was<br />
to incorporate more culture and diversity<br />
than the previous year and shed light on<br />
the beauty of Asian culture.<br />
Margie Castro, a journalism senior, said<br />
By Blake middleton<br />
CONTRiBUiNG REPORTER<br />
<strong>The</strong> NCAA announced Nov. 1 that UNF’s<br />
Hodges Stadium will host the Men’s and<br />
Women’s Division I Outdoor Track and<br />
Field East Regionals May 29-31, 20<strong>14</strong>.<br />
Hodges Stadium, which has also hosted<br />
the A-Sun Track and Field Championships<br />
since 2009, will hold the NCAA Regional<br />
for the second time in school history. <strong>The</strong><br />
venue held the <strong>2012</strong> regionals in May.<br />
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COnnEr SPiELMAKEri SPinnAKEr<br />
Charlotte Zuzarte and Neha Sharma perform a<br />
bollywood dance at the festival.<br />
that it was her love of dance that brought<br />
her to the Road to Asia Festival. She said<br />
being a Columbian, she wanted to compare<br />
her customs with Asian dance.<br />
Email noor Ashouri at<br />
reporter10@unfspinnaker.com<br />
COUrTESy Of ATLAnTiC SUn<br />
<strong>The</strong> track at UNF Hodges Stadium is awaiting another NCAA Track and Field East Regionals.<br />
Hodges Stadium to host 20<strong>14</strong> NCAA<br />
track, field Division I regionals<br />
Nick Morrow, the UNF Athletics business<br />
manager, said hosting this event<br />
brings a lot of national recognition to the<br />
athletic department, to Jacksonville and to<br />
the UNF campus as a whole.<br />
Lydia Moneir contributed to this report.<br />
Email Blake Middleton at<br />
reporter13@unfspinnaker.com.
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Art, design chair lands SECAC<br />
Exemplary Achievement Award<br />
By katie striCkland<br />
CONTRiBUTiNG REPORTER<br />
<strong>The</strong> Southeastern College Art<br />
Conference awarded the chair of the UNF<br />
Department of Art and Design its most<br />
prestigious award Oct. 19, according to a<br />
news release.<br />
Dr. Debra Murphy won the organization’s<br />
Exemplary Achievement Award.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> award has not affected my teaching,<br />
and frankly, no one knows about it really,”<br />
Murphy said.<br />
Murphy said she wants to connect with<br />
her students and share her passion for art<br />
with them.<br />
She said she always feels pressure to do<br />
well when teaching, but the award doesn’t<br />
add to that pressure.<br />
And Murphy’s students hold her in high<br />
regards.<br />
Krista Cavalieri, a current student of<br />
Murphy’s, said she would recommend her<br />
to anyone.<br />
And Page Valtinson, a UNF art and design<br />
major, said she only hears good things<br />
about Murphy.<br />
“All of the awards and accomplishments<br />
she’s made help bring recognition,<br />
awareness and distinction to not only the<br />
department, but the university as a whole,”<br />
Valtinson said.<br />
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UNF to limit student withdrawals<br />
starting in the Fall 2013 semester<br />
By ryan thomPson<br />
ENTERPRiSE EDiTOR<br />
UNF is implementing a policy in fall 2013<br />
that will limit students to six withdrawals<br />
throughout their undergraduate careers,<br />
said Megan Keuhner, UNF’s registrar.<br />
All students will start fresh when the<br />
policy takes effect, she said.<br />
Kuehner said she worked with faculty<br />
to find the trend in withdrawals. Based on<br />
this, the policy allows for students to withdraw<br />
from three 1000- to 2000-level classes<br />
and three 3000- to 4000-level classes.<br />
Kuehner said many variables factored<br />
into this decision.<br />
With this policy, she said the university<br />
is hoping to save students from the consequences<br />
of excess hour calculations and<br />
the financial implications of students’<br />
withdrawing, especially considering recent<br />
changes in state funding.<br />
Kuehner said she hopes this will encourage<br />
students to talk to their academic<br />
advisers and professors when they are<br />
struggling, rather than give up.<br />
Exceptions to the new policy are medical<br />
reasons, military service or withdrawal<br />
refunds for students with extreme circumstances.<br />
A withdrawal refund requires a student<br />
to file a fee petition through myWings,<br />
which would then go through a fee committee.<br />
That committee would decide if the<br />
student’s circumstance justifies withdrawing.<br />
UNF is not the first university to implement<br />
limitations on the number of withdrawals<br />
an undergraduate student may<br />
have.<br />
Building 57 dedicated to Betty, Tom Petway<br />
By lydia moneir<br />
STAFF REPORTER<br />
Building 57, housing the College of<br />
Education and Human Services, was dedicated<br />
to Betty and Tom Petway Nov. 9.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Petways have been involved in UNF’s<br />
growth since it was founded in 1969, according<br />
to a news release.<br />
<strong>The</strong> building, which sits adjacent to<br />
the Student Union on the west side of<br />
Boathouse Lake, has been anonymous for<br />
its entire existence, but can now be referred<br />
to as Petway Hall.<br />
Pierre Allaire, UNF’s vice president for<br />
Institutional Advancement, said this and<br />
other buildings around campus are being<br />
named in order to make them more recognizable.<br />
In order to address the number of unnamed<br />
buildings on campus, Allaire said<br />
UNF formed a campus naming committee<br />
two years ago.<br />
<strong>The</strong> University of Florida allows students<br />
four withdrawals: two prior to completing<br />
60 credit hours and two after finishing<br />
60 credit hours, according to the UF<br />
Registrar’s Office.<br />
<strong>The</strong> University of South Florida limits<br />
students with 59 or fewer credit hours to<br />
three withdrawals and to two withdrawals<br />
after the student has accomplished 60 or<br />
more credit hours.<br />
Lauren Lloyd, a UNF biology junior,<br />
said limiting the amount of times a student<br />
can withdraw is a smart idea because<br />
it encourages people to stay on track, especially<br />
considering the financial costs of<br />
school.<br />
However, Danielle Schmidt, a UNF<br />
chemistry sophomore, said this policy is<br />
not fair because it should be at students’<br />
discretions whether they want a withdrawal<br />
on their transcripts.<br />
Schmidt expressed concern for students<br />
who may need to withdraw due to a family<br />
death. Kuehner said this may be an exception,<br />
depending on the documentation the<br />
student provided.<br />
Danny Gabriel, a UNF freshman, said<br />
the new policy may discourage students<br />
from challenging themselves with harder<br />
classes.<br />
Only the UNF undergraduate program<br />
will implement the policy. <strong>The</strong> graduate<br />
program has its own council with a different<br />
set of policies since it deals with<br />
a different student population, Kuehner<br />
said.<br />
Email ryan Thompson at<br />
enterprise@unfspinnaker.com<br />
<strong>The</strong> Petways, along with being involved<br />
with the board and other committees at<br />
UNF, also donated funds to the Disability<br />
Resource Center, which is located in<br />
Building 57.<br />
Betty Petway said this cause is important<br />
to them because they had children<br />
with learning disabilities and had to go<br />
out of town to receive help. Petway said the<br />
DRC enables those with disabilities to be<br />
successful earlier in life.<br />
Betty Petway said it was important to<br />
her and her husband to share their success.<br />
Tom Petway said UNF is an integral<br />
part of the Jacksonville community, and<br />
that he wanted to give back to that community.<br />
Email Lydia Moneir at<br />
reporter20@unfspinnaker.com
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Electronic dance trio Corporate Slackrs shares stories of its recent success<br />
By ZaCh sweat<br />
STAFF REPORTER<br />
<strong>The</strong> room was covered in black soundproofing<br />
material and the desk was piled<br />
with electronic devices. <strong>The</strong> faint glow from<br />
the computer screen and LEDs provided the<br />
only illumination in an otherwise dimly<br />
lit room.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a seemingly endless stream of<br />
wires and chords coursing their way across<br />
the room where the members of Corporate<br />
Slackrs used their instruments to manipulate<br />
the band’s distinct sound.<br />
“Corporate Slackrs’ goal is to be that<br />
group where you can go party with your<br />
parents,” said AJ Ironman, the group’s DJ.<br />
“Our track list and set goes from old school<br />
hip-hop to ‘90s rock but has a consistent<br />
[electronic dance music] style. I like for<br />
people to always wonder what we’re going<br />
to play next.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> group finds success in the unique<br />
trio of Ironman, the DJ, Sean Reilly, the<br />
graphic designer and Devin Meadow, the<br />
MC. All three of the Slackrs help produce<br />
the group’s original tracks.<br />
Corporate Slackrs formed in the spring<br />
of <strong>2012</strong>, but the group has already started<br />
its rise to success, opening for acts such<br />
as Porter Robinson, Calvin Harris and<br />
Steve Aoki.<br />
One of the group’s more successful<br />
tracks, “Warp 1.9 Corporate Slackers Trap<br />
Remix,” was recently picked up by the electronic<br />
dance music group Bingo Players<br />
and has been played throughout the country<br />
at various venues.<br />
Meadow, a networking & telecommunications<br />
management senior at FSCJ, and<br />
Reilly, a marketing and advertising junior<br />
at FSCJ, said the most memorable thing<br />
that has happened to the Corporate Slackrs<br />
since forming was playing in front of 3,000<br />
people at a Steve Aoki show.<br />
“When I saw 3,000 people looking me in<br />
the face at Steve Aoki I couldn’t believe<br />
it,” Reilly said. “I had to keep pinching<br />
myself to make sure I wasn’t in a dream<br />
waves<br />
11/15<br />
As part of international Education Week, the<br />
international Center is hosting the World Fest<br />
Village in the Osprey Plaza. <strong>The</strong> “village” will<br />
have international food, musical performances<br />
and representatives from several<br />
countries. <strong>The</strong>re will also be calligraphy<br />
demonstrations, henna and face painting<br />
along with other activities. <strong>The</strong> fun will take<br />
place from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.<br />
JUSTin rAShAW / PUrE nighTCLUB<br />
(L to R) Devin Meadow, AJ Ironman and Sean Reilly performed at Wide Awake <strong>Wednesday</strong>s.<br />
world. I never thought that something I<br />
started in my bedroom would put me into<br />
that position.”<br />
In recent months, the trio has signed<br />
with Steve Aoki’s record company, Dim<br />
Mak Records, to produce official remixes.<br />
Meadow said being signed shows that all of<br />
the group’s hard work is starting to pay off.<br />
“To someone like myself, who started<br />
this whole music thing as a side hobby,<br />
COrPOrATE SLACKrS<br />
Corporate Slackrs opened for Steve Aoki and played in front of 3,000 fans at Aqua Nightclub.<br />
11/16<br />
Need a dose of classical music? <strong>The</strong> UNF<br />
Orchestra is having a concert at the All Saints<br />
Episcopal Church on Hendricks Avenue.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group will be performing works by<br />
Beethoven, Wagner and Part. <strong>The</strong> concert is<br />
free to the public and begins at 7 p.m.<br />
what we have done in this short time span<br />
is huge,” Meadows said.<br />
Electronic dance music, or EDM, was<br />
the highest growing genre in the U.S. in<br />
terms of album sales last year.<br />
Billboard.com said in 2011, Electric<br />
Daisy Carnival and Ultra Music Festival<br />
drew a combined 380,000 attendees. This<br />
startling number bested all former attendance<br />
records for EDM festivals.<br />
11/17<br />
Osprey Productions and the UNF Organic<br />
Project are putting on a Fall Festival at the<br />
UNF Ogier Gardens, which is located behind<br />
Lot 18. This event is free and will feature live<br />
music, crafts, hayrides, a petting zoo and a<br />
farmers market. <strong>The</strong> event will take place<br />
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<br />
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With the recent explosion of popularity,<br />
many EDM fans have decided to try<br />
their luck and become DJs or producers<br />
in the scene.<br />
Ironman said he began DJing about two<br />
years ago, mixing tracks during his first<br />
year of college in his UNF dorm room in<br />
the Crossings. He said it was more of a<br />
hobby or pastime than a full-blown career.<br />
“One Christmas, I just asked my dad for<br />
a controller deck,” Ironman said. “He was<br />
like, ‘I’m not going to get you something<br />
too expensive.’ I had to prove to him that I<br />
was going to make money first.”<br />
Meadow, nicknamed “Corporate” by<br />
Ironman, the MC of the trio, had been producing<br />
hip-hop tracks for about four years<br />
before meeting Ironman through shows at<br />
Freebird Live during the summer of 2011.<br />
From there, the pair began to combine<br />
their unique blend of distinct sounds until<br />
the last piece of the puzzle was found<br />
in Reilly.<br />
While sitting on the couch one day,<br />
Ironman came up with the group’s name<br />
after combining Meadow’s nickname<br />
“Corporate” with Ironman’s personality,<br />
“slacker.”<br />
Ironman said the key to being a successful<br />
artist lies not only in having self-confidence,<br />
but confidence in your music.<br />
“If someone says I suck, I’m going to<br />
do everything in my power to prove that<br />
person wrong. I have to prove that I’m the<br />
truth,” Ironman said.<br />
Ironman said his favorite thing about being<br />
a DJ is the fans, the reputation, and being<br />
able to create his own music.<br />
“Being able to hear my set, and imagining<br />
how people react, and then playing it<br />
and they react the way I want them to its<br />
like, ‘Yes.’ That’s how I know I’m doing it<br />
right. That’s definitely the part I love about<br />
it the most,” he said.<br />
Email Zach Sweat at<br />
reporter11@unfspinnaker.com<br />
11/17<br />
<strong>The</strong> intercultural Center for Peace is hosting<br />
a Native American Celebration on the green<br />
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. <strong>The</strong>re will be Native<br />
American dancers, flute players and storytellers,<br />
as well as craft and food vendors. it is<br />
free and open to the public. Come out if<br />
you want an interesting cultural experience.<br />
Maybe you can do a dance to welcome the<br />
colder weather.
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Honors students reach out to Jacksonville’s refugee community<br />
By kasandra ortiZ<br />
CONTRiBUTiNG REPORTER<br />
As the holidays approach, UNF honors<br />
students’ hearts and closets are opening<br />
up to better accommodate the refugees<br />
of Jacksonville.<br />
Honors students are required to take a<br />
colloquium class that involves immigration<br />
and national identity. But the class<br />
also teaches them to develop leadership<br />
skills through community outreach centered<br />
on refugees.<br />
<strong>The</strong> UNF Reads Program introduced the<br />
students in the program to a book called<br />
Outcasts United, a story about refugees<br />
who play on a soccer team and the issues<br />
that arise between the town and the refugees.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book served as an inspiration<br />
for community outreach that would allow<br />
the students to get an idea of what it<br />
would be like to be an immigrant to the<br />
United States.<br />
Many of the refugees that the honors<br />
students are involved with are from Burma<br />
and Ethiopia and fled to America because<br />
of ethnic violence. Faith-based organizations<br />
work with the government to bring<br />
the refugees out of camps and place them<br />
in American cities. Jacksonville is a prime<br />
Leslie Kaplan guides projects that help refugees<br />
adapt to a new life in Jacksonville.<br />
place for refugees because of the climate<br />
and low cost of living.<br />
Leslie Kaplan, the interim director of<br />
the honors program, said there are about<br />
200 students involved with the project.<br />
Comprising the 200 students are 10 groups<br />
that serve refugees in different ways. Some<br />
of the groups include mentors, researchers<br />
and athletes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> researchers are in charge of finding<br />
out who the refugees are, where they are<br />
from and what kind of culture and conditions<br />
they are coming from — this way, the<br />
students will be able to better assist incoming<br />
refugees.<br />
This includes interviewing refugee<br />
families who have been here a while to<br />
SATUrDAY, NOV. 17:<br />
<strong>The</strong> refugee soccer tournament<br />
will take place on the fields at<br />
UNF from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<br />
see what parts of the transition process<br />
can be polished. This information is then<br />
shared with the other groups so students<br />
can address the refugees’ issues in a clearer<br />
way.<br />
Montgomery Steele, a physics sophomore<br />
who is part of the research team,<br />
said he learned a lot from the hands-on<br />
experience the project provided.<br />
“We got to appreciate the culture and<br />
learn amazing things that do not get covered<br />
in the news at all or in textbooks,”<br />
he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mentors also play a big role in the<br />
immigration project by visiting refugee<br />
families once a week for 10 weeks. This<br />
Halloween, the mentors helped the families<br />
create their costumes. <strong>The</strong> refugee<br />
children then went trick-or-treating in the<br />
UNF dorms to avoid the unsafe conditions<br />
in some of their neighborhoods.<br />
In addition, the Honors Program started<br />
a clothing drive for the refugees about six<br />
months ago. Since many of the refugee<br />
families come from hot climates, they do<br />
not have any winter clothing. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
two drop sites around the city: Old Navy at<br />
the St. Johns Town Center and William’s<br />
Athletics on San Jose Blvd.<br />
Nov. 17 will be a big day for the program<br />
and the refugees. <strong>The</strong> plan is to hold a soccer<br />
tournament with the help of the men’s<br />
soccer team and the Sports Management<br />
Program, and then host a traditional<br />
Thanksgiving celebration for the refugees.<br />
Kaplan said the soccer tournament will<br />
allow the students to mentor the refuges<br />
while maintaining one aspect of their culture.<br />
<strong>The</strong> traditional Thanksgiving will<br />
serve as a chance for them to learn our<br />
traditions and make their integration into<br />
our culture much smoother.<br />
Kaplan said she hopes a lot of students<br />
come out for the soccer clinic.<br />
“A lot of students are reading<br />
about refugees because of [Outcasts<br />
United], and it might be interesting<br />
to see what that looks like,” she said.<br />
Email Kasandra Ortiz at<br />
reporter21@unfspinnaker.com<br />
Philanthropy Club hosts its second Philanthropy Week<br />
By kasandra ortiZ<br />
CONTRiBUTiNG REPORTER<br />
UNF’s Philanthropy Club is celebrating<br />
its second year of existence with All About<br />
Philanthropy Week.<br />
“Our All About Philanthropy Week celebrates<br />
everyone who makes UNF possible,”<br />
said senior marketing major Christina<br />
Viera. “It’s not well known among students<br />
how alumni, staff, and faculty giving<br />
makes our experience at UNF what it is.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Student Philanthropy Council<br />
will be at different locations on campus<br />
throughout the week, giving clues for<br />
their social media scavenger hunt, Find<br />
PHIL, and raising awareness about their<br />
cause. <strong>The</strong> club will also be present on<br />
Philanthropy Day at Market Days, Nov. <strong>14</strong>.<br />
Ozzie will make an appearance from 11a.m.<br />
to 1p.m. and food will be provided.<br />
“It’s all about having that spirit of giving<br />
back. It’s giving to others. It can be<br />
Did you know?<br />
phi•lan•thro•py | fi-lan-thruh-pee | noun<br />
WANT MOrE?<br />
For more information on the<br />
Philanthropy Club of UNF, please<br />
visit www.unf.edu/annualgiving/<br />
students.<br />
your time, your talent, or your treasure.<br />
It’s not all about giving monetarily — but<br />
also volunteering and doing other things<br />
in your community,” said club founder<br />
and Assistant Director of Annual Giving,<br />
Claire Miller.<br />
In the spring, the Philanthropy Club<br />
will be bringing back the spirit of giving<br />
with its event Tomorrow Made Possible,<br />
which allows students to express their<br />
gratitude to UNF donors by writing them<br />
thank you cards.<br />
Email Kasandra Ortiz at<br />
reporter21@unfspinnaker.com<br />
Altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money,<br />
property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by<br />
generosity to other socially useful purposes.<br />
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Your closet is crammed full of clothes you never wear. Clean it out and donate<br />
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You’ve got a special talent that not many know about. Go ahead and show it<br />
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Exercise is not an enjoyable pastime for you, and you’ve been avoiding it lately.<br />
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You had a falling out with a loved one a while ago. it’s time to forgive and<br />
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Electronic Recycling Collection<br />
Support UNF’s Enactus society by bringing<br />
any and all old electronics (TVs, computers,<br />
etc.) to Sam’s Club at 10690 Beach Blvd.,<br />
32246. <strong>The</strong>se items will be donated to a<br />
local Jacksonville company started by a<br />
UNF alumn that recycles to prevent landfill<br />
pollution.<br />
Karate Classes<br />
Free Karate Tuition (80 a month savings) –<br />
Japanese style- Beaches location for helping<br />
with karate classes Monday and <strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
5-7pm. Check Website www.admakarate.com.<br />
Email: Erlinda at imredrider08@<br />
gmail.com. No karate experience necessary.<br />
CCW Community Night<br />
<strong>Wednesday</strong>s on the third floor of the<br />
Student Union CCW hosts community night.<br />
This includes a free dinner, a short film,<br />
a vibrant discussion, and is an awesome<br />
opportunity to meet some fellow Ospreys!<br />
More info at campustocity.org and facebook.com/ccw6<strong>14</strong>.<br />
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Sunday nights at 8pm in Building 15 Room<br />
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Zachary Kelly, junior astrophysics<br />
“Get things done.”<br />
Victoria Safarova, freshman, nutrition<br />
“No more taxes.”<br />
Nathan Lauer, graduate student, Biology<br />
“Wake up, America!”<br />
Keysha Ray, junior, management<br />
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Rhianna Lindsey -<br />
“Every hour, happy hour.”<br />
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<strong>The</strong> model for this shoot, who happens to be<br />
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any character he chooses. He brought an entire<br />
duffle bag full of props and clothes, and<br />
it was amazing to watch him transform in<br />
front of the camera. For this shot, he became<br />
a famous boxer getting promotional photos<br />
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UNF point guards run the show on the floor<br />
By raleigh harBin<br />
STAFF REPORTER<br />
Will Wilson, UNF senior and men’s basketball<br />
starting point guard, walks onto<br />
the floor, feeling the pressure of his team,<br />
the crowd, and the expectations of head<br />
coach Matthew Driscoll. Driscoll expects<br />
Wilson to lead his team and set up the offense<br />
with the unique and unselfish ability<br />
to dish out assists.<br />
Wilson doesn’t portray the role of the<br />
flashy, athletic point guard. He is a 5-foot-<br />
11, 175 pound, blue-collar type guard<br />
— one whose results don’t always show<br />
up on the stat sheet, but can impact the<br />
game tremendously.<br />
“Will [Wilson] understands how to make<br />
your team better,” Driscoll said. “He’s not<br />
a guy that’s going to make a whole bunch<br />
of buckets, but he gets into space, and most<br />
importantly he gets guys shots.”<br />
Defensively, Driscoll said, Wilson<br />
causes havoc for opposing teams, but<br />
these abilities don’t always show up on<br />
the stat sheet either. Wilson tallied 24<br />
steals last season, but the team was last<br />
in the league in that category.<br />
“Point guards usually aren’t the team<br />
leaders in steals,” Driscoll said.<br />
Setting up the defense in a position to<br />
get steals, however, is a major component<br />
of playing the position. If every man isn’t<br />
on the same page, then the onus is on the<br />
point guard.<br />
Wilson said that it’s his job to make sure<br />
everyone on his team knows the defensive<br />
plays that Driscoll selects.<br />
UNF could spend the first half of a game<br />
running man-to-man defense, which was<br />
its majority defense last season. If Driscoll<br />
wants to switch to a zone defense, then it’s<br />
Wilson’s job to relay the message to his<br />
teammates on the floor.<br />
“I’m so hard on him be-<br />
“<br />
cause I was a point guard —<br />
anything that goes wrong, I<br />
get on Will [Wilson]. If the<br />
bus breaks down, it’s the<br />
point guard’s fault.”<br />
“I like to set the tone<br />
for the team defensively,”<br />
Wilson said. “If we’re<br />
switching from the man to<br />
the zone, and there’s a guy<br />
who’s confused, nine times out of ten it’s<br />
the point guard’s fault. You just make<br />
sure that you’re communicating to everyone<br />
else.”<br />
Wilson’s veteran leadership and defensive<br />
abilities earned him an average of 21<br />
minutes per game last season, including<br />
671 total minutes and starting all 32 games.<br />
Wilson dished out 3.2 assists per game<br />
last season, which placed him second on<br />
the team in the category. He averaged only<br />
AnDrEW nOBLE i SPinnAKEr<br />
Will Wilson orchestrates the team’s offense and defense from the point guard position.<br />
2 points per game, while shooting 36 percent<br />
from the field, 36.4 percent from beyond<br />
the arc and 42.9 percent from the freethrow<br />
line — numbers that both Driscoll<br />
and the Wilson, a Vero Beach native, agree<br />
he must improve upon.<br />
Driscoll said the ideal stat line for his<br />
point guards at the end of the year would<br />
be a 2.5 to 1 assist turnover ratio, shoot 85<br />
to 90 percent from the free throw line, and<br />
Will [Wilson] understands how to make your<br />
team better. He’s not a guy that’s going to<br />
make a whole bunch of buckets, but he gets into<br />
space, and most importantly he gets guys shots.<br />
— Head coach Matthew Driscoll<br />
shoot 40 percent in three-point field goals.<br />
“My teammates and coaches expect<br />
me to be able to take and make the open<br />
three pointers,” Wilson said. “When the<br />
other teams are fouling, I want to be able<br />
to step up and hit my free throws.”<br />
Wilson said that he’s shot more this<br />
offseason than ever before in his time<br />
at UNF. Driscoll wants him to be more<br />
aggressive on the floor in taking shots,<br />
especially open jump shots. He said he’s<br />
confident in Wilson’s ability to knock<br />
down the open three-pointers.<br />
“He’s really gotten better at understanding<br />
where the defense is based on<br />
our scheme,” Driscoll said. Driscoll also<br />
expects Wilson to improve in locating<br />
the most productive shooter, aka “the hot<br />
guy,” this year.<br />
“When a guy makes a shot, you want to<br />
try and get him another one,” Driscoll said.<br />
“I wish they could control<br />
the game a little more without<br />
me controlling it for<br />
them.”<br />
Wilson’s stability characterizes<br />
what Driscoll said he<br />
looks for in a point guard,<br />
and his ability to pass the<br />
ball is what defines playing<br />
point guard. Wilson wants<br />
to lead the league in assists<br />
to turnover ratio, something<br />
he said he prides himself on as a<br />
point guard.<br />
But sometimes, possessing the ability to<br />
score from the number one position on the<br />
floor creates real problems for opponents.<br />
That’s where 6-foot-2 true freshman<br />
point guard Ray Rodriguez comes in.<br />
Playing last season at Hialeah Gardens<br />
High School, near Miami, Fla., Rodriguez<br />
averaged 18 points and 10 assists per<br />
game. In 2011 Rodriguez earned first team<br />
19<br />
All-Dade County Honors, per selection by<br />
the Miami Herald, and led his team to the<br />
8A High School State Championship.<br />
“I tend to shoot a little more than Will<br />
[Wilson] does,” Rodriguez said. “My role<br />
is to not force anything, but coach has<br />
given me the green light [to shoot] since<br />
I got here.”<br />
Rodriguez’ length and his ability to<br />
shoot the three from anywhere on the<br />
floor contributed to Driscoll’s decision to<br />
sign the Florida native. Driscoll also covets<br />
Rodriguez’ passing ability and quickness<br />
in handling the ball. <strong>The</strong> Rodriguez<br />
and Wilson duo is something Driscoll said<br />
he’s never had as a coach at UNF. Wilson<br />
provides defensive prowess and Rodriguez<br />
brings natural shooting ability.<br />
“I’ve always had the pass-first mentality,”<br />
Rodriguez said. “I would consider myself<br />
more of a point guard with the ability<br />
to shoot the ball.”<br />
Rodriguez said when he first arrived<br />
at UNF his conditioning was sub-par, but<br />
the running and the up-tempo pace of the<br />
offense contributed to his now improved<br />
conditioning.<br />
“I feel like I could play a full game if I had<br />
to without getting tired,” Rodriguez said.<br />
In the opening game of the season<br />
against Edward Waters, Wilson led the<br />
team in minutes played with 28 and was<br />
productive distributing the ball, tying a<br />
school record with 12 assists, in the victory.<br />
Rodriguez said defense is his biggest<br />
weakness, including knowing who to cover.<br />
He said he has to become more confident<br />
on the defensive end of the floor, know how<br />
to close in on a shooter, pick up his on-ball<br />
pressure, and improve his overall defensive<br />
awareness.<br />
“It was a big adjustment coming into<br />
college,” Rodriguez said. “At the end of<br />
the day, defense wins championships, and<br />
we’re trying to win championships.”<br />
Driscoll said that UNF might experiment<br />
with running both Wilson and<br />
Rodriguez and splitting the number one<br />
spot on the floor, or moving Rodriguez over<br />
to the shooting guard position, something<br />
Driscoll said he experimented with as an<br />
assistant coach at Baylor.<br />
However the playing time at point guard<br />
plays out, the position directs the offense<br />
and defense; he’s the captain, the leader,<br />
and go-to guy. Men’s basketball hopes with<br />
Wilson running the floor and Rodriguez<br />
backing him up, it will be able to play<br />
its way into capturing the Atlantic–Sun<br />
Championship.<br />
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UNF’s longest tenured head<br />
coach begins another season<br />
By raleigh harBin<br />
STAFF REPORTER<br />
<strong>The</strong> UNF women’s basketball head coach<br />
Mary Tappmeyer is embarking on her 21st<br />
season — she’s been with the UNF women’s<br />
basketball team since the beginning<br />
and has had both fond and disappointing<br />
memories with the squad.<br />
Prior to landing the job at UNF,<br />
Tappmeyer went from graduating from<br />
SUNY-Cortland, to Lamar University<br />
in Beaumont, to Texas as a graduate assistant,<br />
and then to the University of<br />
Missouri-Rolla in 1984, where she landed<br />
her first head coaching job.<br />
“I don’t forget where I came from,”<br />
Tappmeyer said.<br />
Tappmeyer coached at Missouri-Rolla<br />
for seven years, where she became the<br />
winningest coach in program history, an<br />
honor she stills holds today. Through her<br />
time at Missouri-Rolla, she learned how to<br />
manage a team and the personalities that<br />
come with it.<br />
Learning the odds and ends of leading<br />
a basketball program, such as at Missouri-<br />
Rolla, assisted Tappmeyer as a developing<br />
coach. When UNF came calling prior to the<br />
1992 season, Tappmeyer knew she had an<br />
opportunity but also a challenge.<br />
UNF didn’t have a women’s basketball<br />
program then, so Tappmeyer faced the challenge<br />
of building a program from scratch.<br />
Tappmeyer led UNF from the lowest<br />
ranks in basketball, to the Division II<br />
Peach Belt conference in 1997, to where the<br />
program is today, the Atlantic-Sun conference<br />
in Division I college basketball.<br />
“To see how much [UNF] has grown, it’s<br />
just been a great, great run,” Tappmeyer said.<br />
Starting a program from nothing provides<br />
obstacles not many coaches face. One<br />
such challenge included working under<br />
the direction of four different athletic directors<br />
in 21 years.<br />
Tappmeyer said she had to become a better<br />
manager after Athletic Director Lee<br />
Moon was hired in February 2009, because<br />
he required her to add assistant coach<br />
Nancy Miller, assistant coach Keunta<br />
Miles, assistant coach Erica White and director<br />
of basketball operations Stephanie<br />
Tileston to her staff.<br />
“If you do it long enough and you truly believe<br />
in what you do, you just stick to what<br />
you do,” Tappmeyer said. “[Moon] is very<br />
involved in the basketball programs, he’s a<br />
little bit of [both hands on and hands off.]”<br />
While Tappmeyer continues to build up<br />
UNF’s women’s basketball program, her<br />
plan wasn’t always to coach basketball.<br />
Tappmeyer had several other career options,<br />
one of which was to go into medicine,<br />
and another was to pursue a career<br />
in golf. Neither option came to fruition,<br />
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Tappmeyer built a team from scratch in 1992,<br />
and led the 2010 team to a 2nd place finish.<br />
however, by the time Lamar University<br />
hired her a graduate assistant.<br />
“Because I was so young, I was very<br />
disciplined and very demanding,”<br />
Tappmeyer said. “I unfortunately played<br />
for four coaches in college. Four coaches<br />
with four different coaching styles, so I<br />
took bits and pieces of what I liked and<br />
what I didn’t like.”<br />
Tappmeyer’s record proves that she’s a<br />
strong basketball coach for the program<br />
that she’s built. Top statistics on her resume<br />
include consecutive appearances<br />
in the 2003-04 Division II NCAA tournaments<br />
and a runner up finish in the 2009-10<br />
Atlantic-Sun Conference.<br />
Tappmeyer’s distaste for losing is also a<br />
driving force behind her team’s progression<br />
and her coaching mentality.<br />
“I hate losing more than I like winning,”<br />
Tappmeyer said. “When a game’s over, I’m<br />
thinking about all the things that we have<br />
to do better — the things that we did wrong<br />
that I really need to fix.”<br />
UNF’s head woman in charge has 379 career<br />
wins, 284 at UNF, and is one of a handful<br />
of coaches to stay with the program<br />
through three transitional periods of competition,<br />
from NAIA, to Division II, then<br />
finally to the Division I ranks.<br />
Through all of the struggles and a long<br />
coaching career, retirement hasn’t entered<br />
into her mind just yet.<br />
“If I ever got to the point where [losing]<br />
didn’t bother me, I’d have to think about<br />
it,” Tappmeyer said.<br />
For UNF’s <strong>2012</strong>-13 season, Tappmeyer only<br />
thinks about hoisting that A-Sun championship<br />
trophy at the end of the season — that<br />
would cap off an accomplished career.<br />
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COUrTESy Of ChArLOTTE MCCLAin<br />
Junior Ben Waddington plays as the scrum-half, making the decisions for their next attack.<br />
Get to know your rugby rules<br />
By ZaCh morgan<br />
STAFF REPORTER<br />
If American football has a close relative<br />
in the sporting world, it’s rugby. Despite<br />
the two sports sharing multiple key components<br />
of gameplay, the rules of rugby remain<br />
largely unknown.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Deadbirds, UNF’s club rugby team,<br />
play under the Rugby Union umbrella, thus<br />
abiding by their rules and regulations.<br />
A match, played on a pitch, consists of<br />
two 15-man teams with each team separated<br />
into two groups — the forwards and the<br />
backs. <strong>The</strong> forwards are made up of these<br />
positions: loose head prop, hooker, tight<br />
head prop, second rows, wing forwards,<br />
number eight and the scrum half. <strong>The</strong><br />
backs consist of the fly-half, inside center,<br />
outside center, wing and the fullback.<br />
“Forwards tend to be your bigger guys,<br />
who do more of the hitting, where as your<br />
backs are smaller, quicker guys who do most<br />
of the running and passing,” Joseph Eichner<br />
said, a junior veteran of the Deadbirds.<br />
<strong>The</strong> scoring methods in rugby are similar<br />
to those seen Sunday during professional<br />
football games. Players attempt to<br />
move the ball towards goal lines placed on<br />
opposite ends of the field.<br />
A “try” is one way to score in a rugby<br />
match. It is similar to a touchdown in football<br />
except the player must touch the ball<br />
to the ground after crossing the goal line,<br />
and only five points are awarded instead of<br />
six. Unlike football, forward passes are illegal<br />
in rugby. Instead, running with the ball<br />
advances the ball toward the goal. Players<br />
use combinations of lateral and kick passes<br />
to navigate the ball upfield and avoid defensive<br />
pressure.<br />
Following a successful try, the scoring<br />
team has the opportunity to score an additional<br />
two points by placekicking or drop<br />
kicking the ball through the opponent’s uprights.<br />
<strong>The</strong> kick must be in line with where<br />
the ball was touched down.<br />
Another way to score is off a penalty<br />
kick, which are awarded after certain infractions<br />
occur. <strong>The</strong> fouled team is given<br />
an unopposed kick at the spot of the incident.<br />
If near the opponents goal, on a penalty<br />
kick, they may attempt a kick through<br />
the uprights and above the crossbar, if successful,<br />
three points are awarded.<br />
Flagrant tackles are the culprit for most<br />
UP NExT:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Deadbirds are set to wrap up<br />
their season with a title at the Collegiate<br />
Florida Cup, beginning,<br />
Nov. 17, in Gainesville.<br />
penalty kicks. “When it comes to tackling,<br />
you cannot high tackle, shoulder charge<br />
or dump tackle, if you do, it’s a penalty,”<br />
Eichner said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last way to score in rugby is the drop<br />
goal, which is similar to a penalty kick, except<br />
it can be attempted at anytime during<br />
the game. In order for the drop goal to count,<br />
the ball must be drop kicked, meaning it<br />
needs to be dropped to the ground first and<br />
then kicked off the bounce. Three points<br />
are awarded for a successful drop goal.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> main way of scoring is by running<br />
the ball into the try zone and placing the<br />
ball on the ground,” Trace Horevitz said, a<br />
senior fly half.<br />
Some of the most unique plays during a<br />
rugby match occur during scrums and lineouts.<br />
A scrum takes place, under Rugby<br />
Union rules, in order to resume play after<br />
a minor infraction. It involves up to eight<br />
players from each team that link together<br />
in three rows and interlock with the opposing<br />
team’s players. <strong>The</strong> ball is then fed into<br />
a tunnel between the two teams and they<br />
both compete to gain possession.<br />
A line-out occurs when the ball has gone<br />
into the touch, the term used to describe<br />
out of bounds. During a lineout, both<br />
teams line up with an equal number of<br />
players one meter apart and compete for a<br />
ball thrown between them.<br />
<strong>The</strong> game of Union Rugby is internationally<br />
popular, but remains an esoteric<br />
sport in America. According to a study<br />
by Coventry University, participation in<br />
the sport grew by a rate of 350 percent<br />
in the U.S. between 2004-11. According to<br />
USArugby.org, during the 2010-11 season,<br />
there were over 32,000 college members<br />
and 854 college clubs registered with USA<br />
Rugby, roughly a <strong>14</strong> percent increase since<br />
August 2008.<br />
Travis gibson contributed to this article<br />
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A division breakdown of<br />
the <strong>2012</strong> NBA season<br />
Atlantic Division<br />
It’s the most entertaining division race<br />
except for Toronto. New York is under<br />
siege, as the Knicks will try to keep their<br />
new neighbor in Brooklyn, the Nets, at<br />
bay in what will be one of the NBA’s most<br />
intense rivalries over the next few seasons.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Philadelphia 76ers have quietly<br />
put together two solid seasons under<br />
Doug Collins and should keep pace with<br />
the overrated Knicks and the high profile<br />
Nets, but look for the revamped Celtics to<br />
maintain control of the division.<br />
Southeast Division<br />
Adding Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis<br />
to the squad makes last year’s NBA Finals<br />
Champions, <strong>The</strong> Heat, an even stronger<br />
force to deal with in <strong>2012</strong>, but after last<br />
year’s playoff scare against Indiana, will<br />
Miami’s ultimate demise come at the hands<br />
of a team with a dominant big man? Dwight<br />
Howard hopes so. Speaking of the big man,<br />
or lack thereof, get ready for a rough season<br />
in Orlando. Disgruntled superstars have<br />
been traded before, but it’s never been handled<br />
so poorly. Charlotte, Washington, and<br />
Atlanta are capable of stealing a low playoff<br />
seed, but do not pose a serious threat to<br />
LeBron, Bosh, and Wade.<br />
Central Division<br />
If Derrick Rose’s comeback is half as<br />
good as the commercial about his comeback,<br />
then the Bulls should hold off a surging<br />
Pacers franchise. Cleveland will take<br />
another step forward this season as Kyrie<br />
Irving develops, and while I don’t expect to<br />
see them in the playoffs, it wouldn’t surprise<br />
me to see this young Cavs team overachieve<br />
and sneak in with a late season<br />
run. Milwaukee and Detroit are prime candidates<br />
to unload their rosters at the trade<br />
deadline. Look for Brandon Jennings to be<br />
the next superstar on the move.<br />
Pacific<br />
Division<br />
Northwest<br />
Division<br />
Southwest<br />
Division<br />
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Southwest Division<br />
Credit the Rockets for being aggressive<br />
and landing Jeremy Lin and James Harden<br />
in the last six months. With a solid young<br />
nucleus, Houston has a strong foundation<br />
to build upon for the future. Dallas should<br />
be revitalized after last season’s championship<br />
hangover. <strong>The</strong> Spurs will have another<br />
solid season, but don’t expect San Antonio<br />
to get out of the West. Memphis has been<br />
tough for the last couple of seasons, but<br />
a rising Hornets squad led by Anthony<br />
Davis may overshadow the Grizzlies.<br />
Northwest Division<br />
It’s the deepest division in the league.<br />
Oklahoma City should retain control, but<br />
there has been a lot of excitement in the<br />
Northwest over Portland’s first round<br />
pick, Damian Lillard. Unlike Cleveland<br />
and Utah, Denver did not collapse after losing<br />
their superstar. If the Timberwolves’<br />
gambles on Andrei Kirlenko and Brandon<br />
Roy pay off, then Minnesota could be found<br />
in the playoffs this season.<br />
Pacific Division<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lakers are stacked; Nash, Kobe,<br />
World Peace, Gasol, and Howard. Anything<br />
less than a title will be a disappointment<br />
for this edition of the Lakers. One of<br />
the biggest threats to the Lakers is their<br />
Staples Center roommate, <strong>The</strong> Clippers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Clippers are a legitimate championship<br />
contender this year. But let’s not<br />
forget about Golden State. Golden State’s<br />
solid list of acquisitions over the past two<br />
years should begin to pay off this season,<br />
as <strong>The</strong> Kings and Suns will spend most of<br />
this season in rebuilding mode.<br />
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Atlantic<br />
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College basketball on aircraft carriers<br />
After the cancellation of the Nov. 9 game<br />
between Ohio State versus Marquette<br />
aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown, and the cutting<br />
of Georgetown vs. Florida short —<br />
that same night after halftime, due to condensation<br />
on the court aboard the U.S.S.<br />
Bataan — is it time for college basketball<br />
to abandon ship?<br />
No way.<br />
It would be a grave mistake to eliminate<br />
carrier games — they’re great attention<br />
grabbers that could attract more fans to<br />
the sport.<br />
What do schools like Florida and Ohio<br />
State have in common? <strong>The</strong>y’ve consistently<br />
produced top teams over the last decade.<br />
Playing a high-profile matchup, such as a<br />
carrier game against a quality opponent,<br />
allows a basketball team to capture some<br />
relevance during the final weeks of football<br />
season.<br />
NBC Sports, the television network for<br />
the games, may be upset, but they can only<br />
Nick<br />
Knudsen<br />
/// Staff Reporter<br />
blame themselves. On paper, NBC Sports did<br />
a great job assigning back-to-back primetime<br />
slots on a Friday night, but they didn’t<br />
have the foresight to avoid the condensation<br />
issue. This can be easily remedied by scheduling<br />
the games during the daytime.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Buckeyes and Golden Eagles were<br />
given a 7 p.m. tip off in Charleston, South<br />
Carolina. According to weather.com, the<br />
city’s average low temperature for early<br />
<strong>November</strong> is approximately 50 degrees. On<br />
game night, the observed low was 34 degrees.<br />
Georgetown and Florida were scheduled<br />
for a 9 p.m. tip off in Jacksonville. According<br />
to weather.com, the low was 45 degrees,<br />
while typical First Coast weather in early<br />
<strong>November</strong> averages lows of 51 degrees.<br />
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<strong>The</strong>se yearly averages indicate and could<br />
have helped predict poor seasonal weather<br />
trends that should have been accounted<br />
for when scheduling the games. Nothing<br />
too out of the ordinary happened weatherwise,<br />
it was simply poor planning.<br />
Carrier games should be viewed as<br />
works in progress. College basketball has<br />
found a great way to connect with the<br />
military on Veteran’s Day weekend. Aside<br />
from the extraordinary visuals created by<br />
the stands and court on the deck of a carrier,<br />
the games’ proceeds go toward charitable<br />
organizations, such as the Wounded<br />
Warrior Project.<br />
Some argue that the Veteran’s Day salute<br />
can still occur, but should follow Michigan<br />
State and UConn, who opened at Ramstein<br />
Air Base in Germany, by playing these<br />
games indoors at military bases. While<br />
still meaningful and more practical, these<br />
games lack the uniqueness and attraction<br />
of games played on a carrier.<br />
According to militarytimes.com, talks<br />
are well underway for 2013 carrier games.<br />
Rumors about a potential “Carrier Madness”<br />
tournament, involving as many as eight<br />
teams in 20<strong>14</strong>, have been circulating.<br />
Perhaps schools like Kentucky, North<br />
Carolina, and Duke don’t need to deal with<br />
the potential headaches that can come<br />
with a carrier game, but if these schools<br />
turn down future offers, schools like UNF<br />
should jump at the opportunity.<br />
College basketball has created an early<br />
season draw and should not be discouraged<br />
by this year’s disappointment. Make<br />
the necessary adjustments and move on.<br />
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raleigh harbin<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
Clayton tinkle<br />
Contributing Reporter<br />
Question 1: did Johnny manziel earn a heisman by dethroning alabama? and do you think alabama will still win the seC?<br />
Manziel is a great quarterback, but no<br />
freshman has ever won the Heisman<br />
Trophy, and that trend won’t change this<br />
year. As for Alabama, I’d like them to roll<br />
the tide all over Georgia. <strong>The</strong> Bulldogs<br />
are good but won’t be able to handle<br />
Alabama’s running game.<br />
I can’t figure out this decision to save my<br />
life. I heard rumors that Jackson was asking<br />
for a piece of the ownership pie to go<br />
along with a new contract to coach this<br />
season — that might be the only reason<br />
the Lakers passed on Jackson. If that<br />
rumor isn’t true, choosing D’antoni over<br />
Jackson is like choosing a hamburger you<br />
found on the floor over a steak from a<br />
five-star restaurant.<br />
Yes to both. Manziel is playing some awesome<br />
football and he’s exciting to watch.<br />
That usually equates to some Heisman<br />
love. And knocking off the No. 1 team<br />
in all of the land usually helps. Alabama<br />
slipped up against A&M and they know it.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y will win the SEC convincingly.<br />
I think it’s insane to think D’Antoni was<br />
the better choice of the two, but with<br />
that being said, I think he is a great fit.<br />
He’s got a relationship with Nash already<br />
and his offense perfectly suits the Lakers’<br />
personnel. I think things will turn around<br />
in Los Angeles.<br />
Manziel has better numbers in both<br />
passing and rushing than Collin Klein.<br />
However, Klein’s team is undefeated and<br />
in the BCS Championship race. Manziel’s<br />
team will probably only go to the Cotton<br />
Bowl. If not this year, Manziel will get a<br />
Heisman before his career is over. Not to<br />
be a “homer,” because I am a Georgia<br />
Bulldawg fan, but Bama looks vulnerable.<br />
If Georgia plays defense like it has for the<br />
past three weeks, there’s no reason UGA<br />
won’t win the SEC.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lakers should’ve hired Phil Jackson. He<br />
obviously has a bunch of NBA Championship<br />
Rings, but, perhaps more importantly,<br />
he knows how to manage superstars and<br />
their egos. D’antoni had trouble in New<br />
York City on the big stage, and while he<br />
runs a great offensive scheme, his overall<br />
management skills aren’t nearly as gifted<br />
as Jackson’s.<br />
I’m not sure that one game decides a<br />
Heisman winner. If it does, it’s Manziel’s<br />
to lose. He proved he might be the most<br />
dynamic player in the country. I still<br />
think Colin Klein is leading the race, but<br />
Manziel, without a doubt, put his name in<br />
the hat. As far as Alabama goes, I thought<br />
they wouldn’t win the SEC from day one,<br />
and I stand by that. <strong>The</strong> Bulldogs will beat<br />
Alabama in Athens.<br />
Question 2: the lakers hired mike d’antoni though it had been reported that the job might go to Phil Jackson. do you think<br />
d’antoni was the right choice?<br />
I’d still like the Texans to win the Super<br />
Bowl, but the best team right now is the<br />
Denver Broncos. Peyton Manning has the<br />
Broncos ranked third in the league in<br />
passing, and the defense is tenth in the<br />
league against the run. <strong>The</strong>ir four game<br />
winning streak and revitalized quarterback<br />
makes them the most dangerous<br />
team as of right now.<br />
It has to be the Texans. <strong>The</strong>y squeaked out<br />
a big-time win against a good Chicago<br />
team last week, and the Falcons fell to a<br />
decent Saints squad. <strong>The</strong> Texans are steamrolling<br />
right now and with Jacksonville on<br />
the slate next, they aren’t slowing down<br />
anytime soon.<br />
Right now the Texans are the best team<br />
in the NFL. <strong>The</strong>ir defense is incredible:<br />
Watt has swatted 10 passes this season,<br />
Arian Foster is having another incredible<br />
season and Shaub is doing really well.<br />
Watch out for the Falcons though, they<br />
aren’t going anywhere.<br />
I don’t think D’Antoni was the right<br />
choice, but that’s why I’m not in the<br />
Lakers’ front office. Though I’m sure the<br />
Lakers wanted Jackson’s championship<br />
experience, I’m also sure Steve Nash being<br />
the point guard had a lot to do with this,<br />
as he will implement the same offense<br />
which will work a little better than Jackson’s<br />
triangle offense.<br />
Question 3: the Falcons lost for the first time all year to the saints. now that an undefeated record is off the table, who do you<br />
think is the best team in the nFl?<br />
Women’s Volleyball Box Scores<br />
Set Scores 1 2 3 4 5 k E TA Pct.<br />
UNF (19-11) 22 25 18 25 15 62 30 168 .190<br />
ETSU (20-11) 25 18 25 20 12 50 29 155 .135<br />
Nov. 10, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Nov. 9, <strong>2012</strong><br />
FINAL SCORE:<br />
UNF 3 - ETSU 2<br />
FINAL SCORE:<br />
UNF 3 - USC Upstate 0<br />
Set Scores 1 2 3 4 5 k E TA Pct.<br />
UNF (20-11) 25 25 25 X X 48 17 130 .238<br />
USCU (11-19) 21 23 13 X X 29 18 120 .092<br />
UNF (1-0-0) vs. EWC (1-2-0)<br />
Nov. 10, <strong>2012</strong><br />
FINAL SCORE:<br />
UNF 79 - Edward Waters 65<br />
UNf<br />
## Top Scorers Points<br />
03 Smith, P 22<br />
01 Wallace, T 13<br />
02 Beech, B 9<br />
free Throws<br />
UNF 10-18 (55.6%)<br />
EWC 12-18 (66.7%)<br />
I still stand by the San Francisco 49ers. I<br />
think they are the most complete team<br />
in the league, and will catch fire in the<br />
playoffs. That defense is phenomenal and<br />
their offense isn’t too bad either. Tons<br />
of weapons on the offensive side of the<br />
ball, great special teams, a fundamentally<br />
sound defense, one the of best coaches in<br />
the league, all make for a team looking<br />
to take the next step. This is the year they<br />
take that step.<br />
Men’s Basketball Box Scores<br />
Scores by Period 1 2 Total<br />
UNF 40 39 79<br />
EWC 36 29 65<br />
EWC<br />
## Top Scorers Points<br />
25 Clarke, O <strong>14</strong><br />
04 Hill, N 12<br />
30 Bush, J 11<br />
field Goals<br />
UNF 30-60 (50%)<br />
EWC 25-57 (43.9%)
SPORTS 24 <strong>Wednesday</strong>, <strong>November</strong> <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2012</strong><br />
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