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TURNER COWLESStaff Writer
Rick Scott became the offi cial governor for the state of Florida on the steps of the Old Capitol during the Swearing-In Ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 4 at noon.
Agriculture Commis-sioner Adam Putnam, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Chief Financial Offi cer Jeff Atwater were all sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Florida Su-preme Court Charles T. Canady. Lieutenant Gov-ernor Jennifer Carroll was sworn in by the Honorable Judge Linda McCallum of the Supreme Court of Florida.
At noon, just after be-ing sworn in on the Scott family bible, Scott began to give his inaugural ad-dress.
“We gather today to talk about Florida’s future, to assess where we are, to
defi ne where we want to go and to plan how to get there,” said Scott. “Clear goals and hard work can achieve amazing things. Once we take the right steps, I am absolutely con-vinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work. Some [of the unemployed] are young adults who got a degree and were eager to get
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Reid Compton/FSViewGov. Rick Scott waves to the crowd after being sworn in during the Inauguration Cer-emony on Tuesday, Jan. 4, in front of the Old Capitol Building.
Reid Compton/FSViewWorkers set up for the inauguration of Rick Scott held on Tuesday, Jan. 4, in front of the Old Capitol Building.
TURNER COWLESStaff Writer
Following the Inaugura-tion on Jan. 4, Gov. Scott and Lt. Gov. Carroll led the Inaugural Parade down Monroe Street, renamed Rick Scott Way for the af-ternoon. Scott and Carroll paused briefl y to take pho-tos at the intersection of “Jennifer Carroll Street” and “Rick Scott Way” be-fore taking their places at the head of the parade-viewing tent.
Many marching bands were present in the pa-rade; at least fi ve bands from Rick Scott’s Florid-ian hometown of Naples were represented.
Chief Financial Offi cer Jeff Atwater rode in on a 1936 open-air fi re engine. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Senate Presi-dent Mike Haridopolos joined the governor and lieutenant governor in the stands a few minutes later.
TURNER COWLESStaff Writer
At an event focused on thanking those serv-ing the United States in a military uniform, the Ad-
jutant General of Florida Maj. Gen. Emmett Tit-shaw thanked the troops for their service. He stat-ed that he spoke for all of the troops in Florida, say-ing, “We know the public
appreciates us and we appreciate their appre-ciation.”
After country music star John Michael Mont-gomery, Lt. Gov. Jenni-fer Carroll spoke to the
crowd.“For 20 years, I had the
honor of serving this great country that has given me tremendous opportuni-ties and a chance to live the American Dream,”
Carroll said. “I traveled the world and learned to fi ght for myself and for my nation, but my fond-est memories of my time
Parade welcomes new politicians
Joseph La Belle/FSViewThe FSU Marching Chiefs walk down Monroe Street in the Inaugural Parade to welcome Gov. Rick Scott and Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll to Tallahassee on Tuesday, Jan. 4.
Tallahassee shows military appreciation
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TURNER COWLESStaff Writer
Gov. Rick Scott hosted the Inaugural Ball at the Leon County Civic Cen-ter, Jan. 4, where almost 1,000 people were pres-ent, including FSU Presi-dent Eric Barron and many other education offi cials from around the state.
Barron expressed his excitement about the change in Tallahassee.
“There’s [sic] a huge number of people here from all over the state, and a lot of people truly committed to the State of Florida,” Barron said. “Every time you have a big change like this, it is a time of excitement, a time of a little bit of ap-prehension perhaps, but I just sort of feel a big com-mitment to this state.”
Barron explained that he sees higher education as playing a signifi cant role in helping the econ-omy.
“What I focus on most is higher education, of course,” said Barron. “There is no doubt that, if you’re going to generate jobs, higher education is a major player. I get the sense that the new ad-ministration understands that higher education really has an important role to play. So I’m en-couraged by that and I’m going to do my best to
speak and watch as we go through the legislative session and, of course, budgets speak louder than anything else. I real-ly think that all of us un-derstand that the state is in rather tough fi nancial condition and we have to fi x that. My belief is that, if we allow our universi-ties to operate in the mar-ketplace and we were to, in a sense, make sure that regulations aren’t stopping us from operat-ing in the marketplace, I think that we can prove just how great the Florida universities really are.”
Senate President Mike Haridopolos was also in attendance.
“We want to focus on what business owners are telling us,” Haridopo-los said in regard to cre-ating a recent graduate-friendly business climate. “They’re telling us that they want stability from the government. They want certainty. They want predictability. Right now, they’ve no idea what’s coming out of Washing-ton, D.C. They have no idea what the costs might be to run a business. What we’re going to of-fer is ‘no to taxes, no to regulations and making it harder for one Floridian to sue another’ and that will improve the business climate. So all of this
capital that is on the side-lines right now will get back into our economy as opposed to being on the sidelines or invested in other countries.”
Haridopolos explained what he hopes will be a way to stimulate the job market in Florida.
“Our more intense fo-cus right now is how we handle what is called mer-it pay,” said Haridopolos. “We want to reward the best and brightest teach-ers with higher pay; they deserve it. I think certain people’s spiritual gift is teaching. Their spiritual gift is in the classroom and we want to reward those best teachers,
those teachers who really do a good job of inspiring people.”
While the guests were mingling, the announc-er requested that Gov. Scott’s daughters make their way to the stage sig-naling the arrival of Gov. Scott. Ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney introduced Gov. Scott to the stage.
“There is no doubt, I think, in anybody’s mind here that Rick Scott is the right guy at the right time,” said Rooney.
After being introduced, Scott welcomed the guests to the ball and asked that they enjoy themselves. Before par-taking in the fi rst offi cial dance with his wife, Ann, he promised that Florida was going to be a model for, “education, for job growth, for making sure we don’t waste taxpayers’ money. […] This is a cel-ebration for a whole new leadership team in Talla-hassee and we’re going to change Tallahassee.”
The fi rst dance was to the tune of the Rod Stew-art song “Have I Told You Lately.”
After the fi rst dance, the band began to play a medley of tunes ranging from Earth, Wind & Fire to KC and the Sunshine Band. Guests sang along with the band and danced for the remainder of the evening.
1,000 attend Inaugural Ball
Joseph La Belle/FSViewEric Barron and his wife speak with guests at the Governor’s Inaugural Ball.
started on their lives, but they couldn’t fi nd a job, and they’ve had to move back home.”
Scott explained that ed-ucation will be a focus in creating work.
“We’re going to become the place where high qual-ity education is translated into high quality jobs,” said Scott. “As we know, every child is unique and every child can learn. We will have an education system that allows the maximum amount of choice: a sys-tem focused entirely on what’s best for individual student learning, not for special interests. We’re not going to create a work-force for the future if we’re stuck with an education model from the past. It requires magical thinking to expect government to create prosperity. Govern-
ment has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.”
In his inaugural address, Gov. Scott emphasized his determination to make Florida the most business-friendly location “in the world.”
“We need to manufac-ture more things in Flori-da,” Scott said. “We need to capitalize on our geo-graphical location as the natural connector and dis-tribution hub for the grow-ing economies of Central and South America. Job creators need to know that government of the Great State of Florida[… is] here to work with them, not against them.”
From a historical per-spective, Scott remarked on the ability of Floridians to recover from crises.
“And every generation has been resilient,” said Scott. “In the 1880s, yel-low fever hollowed out entire communities. In the Depression of the 1930s, more than one in fi ve fami-lies required relief funds to survive. In the 1940s, over a quarter of a million Flo-ridians served in uniform and their worried families were sometimes short of basic necessities. In ev-ery decade we’ve had to rebuild after horrifi c hur-ricanes. After adversity, Florida has always come back stronger.”
The President of the Florida State University College Democrats and the Florida College Demo-crats Joseph Schweitzer explained his views from the event.
“I thought that it was interesting,” Schweitzer
said. “His speech style was something I hadn’t heard before. It wasn’t prepared; it sounded sort of ‘common man,’ which I guess appeals to everyone who voted for him. It was a very anti-government speech from someone who now runs the government. It was business-oriented, which is what would be ex-pected from Gov. Scott.”
Former senator Mel Mar-tinez (R-FL) said he thinks Gov. Scott will be able to work with local govern-ments toward strengthen-ing Florida.
“It takes everyone com-ing together, but we’re in a bit if a crisis in Florida when it comes to our economy and I think he will now at least be setting the goals,” said Martinez. “The rest of us need to be good citizens and follow
him because we’ve only got one governor and he’s got a plan and I believe it’s at least worth listening to his plan and implementing it.”
Gov. Scott was joined on stage outside the Old Capi-tol by former governors Jeb Bush, Buddy MacKay, Wayne Mixon, Bob Mar-tinez, Claude Kirk Junior and Charlie Crist; former senator Mel Martinez, Sens. George LeMieux and Bill Nelson; Florida Senate President Mike Harido-polos, Former lieutenant governor Jeff Kottkamp, Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll; Maj. Gen. Emmett R. Tit-shaw Jr. (the Adjutant General of Florida); Briga-dier Gen. Don Tyre (the Assistant Adjutant Gen-eral of Florida), as well as family members and close friends.
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In a special January/February 2011 edition of Discover magazine, the detection of a cancer gene by Florida State Univer-sity postdoctoral fellow Yoichiro Tamori and As-sociate Professor Wu-Min Deng, who dubbed their discovery the “Mahjong” gene, ranked No. 18 in the scientifi c journal’s recap of 2010’s Top 100 science and technology stories.
The FSU biologists, in collaboration with a team of scientists in Britain, were the fi rst to identify a “cell competition” process that occurs between cancerous and non-cancerous cells in the initial stages of cancer. If cancerous cells possess the “Mahjong” gene, they will win the “cell competi-tion” and overpower their normal, neighboring cells. It is then when cancer cells become deadly to a body, as they proliferate uncon-trollably and overwhelm
their healthy neighbors.The scientists named the
gene “Mahjong” after the Chinese game of skill and luck.
“When Dr. Fujita came over from London, we tried to think of a name that both labs found interest-ing and acceptable,” Deng said in a video interview posted with the press re-lease. ‘“Mahjong’ came out because it’s a very compet-itive board game popularly played in both China and Japan.”
After the “Mahjong” gene and cell competition process was confi rmed in fruit fl ies, it tested suc-cessfully in mammalian cell cultures as well. The biologists found that the “Mahjong” gene acts to determine the winners of cell competition through its close relationship with another powerful protein player.
A better understanding of the ways that acquired mutations in key proteins can lead to the cell compe-
tition process, could in turn help foster new therapies that increase the victory of healthy cells in their battle against their opposing mu-tant cells.
“This fi nding is the fi rst step to understanding cell competition,” Tamori said. “We know the Mah-jong gene is a very impor-tant part of the process, but we still don’t know the exact function of the Mahjong gene; that is our next step in our research endeavor.”
FSU makes groundbreaking cancer discoveryThe new ‘Mahjong’ gene ranks high in 2010’s top research stories
BAILEY SHERTZINGER Assistant News Editor
Florida State Universi-tyís Blackboard Secure-Apps page experienced multiple complications during the beginning of drop/add period on Tues-day, Jan. 4.
Many students who logged onto their Black-board accounts at 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning were unable to change their schedule until later in the afternoon. For a period of time, the SecureApps tab was unavailable, causing students to search else-where for the location of their classes.
Randy McCausland, the person responsible for the organization that supports the University’s enterprise computing applications, said Tuesday’s problem was largely due to the amount of people on the server.
“Yesterday’s service in-terruption of the Secure-Apps application system was related to system con-gestion in the application server environment that supports the University’s student systems applica-tions,” McCausland said.
Students were able to access the SecureApps tab later in the day.
“The symptoms of the
service interruption (slow or unresponsive Web pages), were alleviated after the support team in-troduced a series of sys-tem changes, including changes to system tuning parameters and the ad-dition of server compute capacity to the application environment,” McCaus-land said.
McCausland added that the University is still re-searching the problems Blackboard experienced on Tuesday.
“We are still investigat-ing the diagnostic infor-mation that was gener-ated during the event to determine the actual root
cause of the system issue, but at this point we have reason to believe that the issue was caused by a con-fl uence of high user work-loads and adverse effects of routine system and application maintenance that was conducted late in the Fall 2010 semester,” McCausland said.
Blackboard experienced issues in the past dur-ing class registration and drop/add periods due to high volumes of students accessing the page.
FSU senior Eric Shapiro said he was frustrated with the reoccurring prob-lems Blackboard experi-ences during times when
user rates are known to be high.
“I actually heard that FSU wasn’t expecting stu-dents to use drop/add this year,” FSU Senior Eric Shapiro said.
McCausland expressed remorse for the complica-tions Blackboard caused to FSU students and fac-ulty.
“Information Technol-ogy Services takes the support of the student information systems very seriously, and certainly re-grets the burden this ser-vice interruption placed on the University’s stu-dents, faculty and staff,” McCausland said.
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in service in the United States Navy aren’t of the foreign countries or the battleships or not of the rewards and awards that I received on promotions, but it is on the relation-ships that I formed with the great men and women just like you. We’re all members of an exclusive club of proud Americans and their families who make the choice to serve and make the sacrifi ces necessary to protect and defend the greatest nation on earth called America. So today, we’re here to simply say, ‘thank you.’”
Carroll then welcomed her partner Gov. Scott onto the stage.
“Now, Rick served in the Navy as well; he served for four years but he doesn’t
out-rank me… until tomor-row,” said Carroll. “But I tell you, he’ll be one of the fi nest governors that this state has ever seen. He has a heart of gold. He has a commitment to making sure that our military men and women are properly served by their state.”
When Scott arrived on stage, he began to thank the military men and women in attendance at the event. He told them of his time in service and he explained the most impor-tant thing he learned.
“This country was built on having freedom and none of that will be here if we don’t acknowledge and respect and honor those who have served to defend our freedom,” Scott said.
In an exclusive conver-sation with the FSView & Florida Flambeau, Con-gressional Medal of Hon-or recipient Col. George “Bud” Day explained what it felt like to receive the Medal.
“Well, I think to every medal recipient it’s a real surprise,” Day explained. “First of all, it puts you in company with some of the country’s great heroes and it’s hard to visualize your-self in that position. For example: Jimmy Doolittle, who did the Tokyo raid in the spring of 1942—April of 1942—was one of my heroes as a young man.”
Gen. Jimmy Doolittle was in the United States Air Force when he led troops in the Doolittle raid in the Pacifi c Theatre in
1942 during World War II. “I was 17 when he did
that strike and was trying to get in the military, so it’s kind of hard to imagine that someone would put you in the same category as Jimmy,” said Day.
Day is one of 86 living recipients of the Congres-sional Medal of Honor in the United States. Day was a pilot for the United States Air Force in the Vietnam War. His plane was shot down in late Au-gust of 1967 over North Vietnam, where he was captured by the Viet Cong, interrogated and severely tortured. After escaping from his prisoner camp, he was recaptured by the Viet Cong. He was award-ed the Medal of Honor by President Gerald Ford in
1976.Day went on to explain
what he saw as the great-est part of the Military Ap-preciation event.
“I think the patriotic spirit of this event, you know, that’s what this country is all about: free-dom,” Day said. “Well, it was very touching; there are not a ton of these kinds of things that go on, where the big empha-sis is on love of country and freedom and civic duty and recognition of the kids that have been out there getting shot at. Some of these performers on the stage today did a good job of bringing home those basic things of ‘God Bless America.’ That’s something you don’t hear enough of.”
Joseph La Belle/FSViewNewly appointed Gov. Rick Scott and Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll walk together in the parade following the 2010 Inauguration held at the Old Capitol on Jan. 4.
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In exchange for a $12,000 stipend and full coverage of tuition, books and fees, 60 Florida State Univer-sity students will work for a new branch of defense, information assurance for government agencies.
“It’s more than just a scholarship paying for your college, it’s more about the benefi ts that you get after college,” current Scholar-ship for Service Fellow David Guidry said. “Where they say that it’s a two-year commitment after college to work for the govern-ment, it’s more of an op-portunity to make contacts in the fi eld.”
FSU, whose Center for Security and Assurance in IT (C-SAIT) is recognized for excellence in educa-tion and research at the national level, is not new to the Cyber Corps program. In 2003, FSU was awarded funding for the four-year Scholarship for Service program for the fi rst time.
The grant, sponsored by the National Science Foun-dation and the Department of Homeland Security, is awarded to about 15 of 70 applicant institutions. FSU’s principal investiga-tor in selecting students to the program is Mike Burm-ester. Co-Principal Inves-tigator Feifei Li explained the alliterative name.
“The Cyber Corps set up this scholarship for ser-vice program for graduate students that later go into the workforce for the gov-ernment to do information assurance related jobs,” Li said. “That’s the Cyber part. The Corps comes from the fact that the students, once they graduate, will work for government agencies on information security du-ties.”
To get the grant, Flori-da State’s Department of Computer Science went through a rigorous applica-tion.
“It is an annual competi-tion,” Li said. “Every fi ve years, there is a deadline posted by the National Se-
curity Foundation. All the institutions can apply for this grant, and it is a very competitive process.”
Faculty write a proposal of 15 pages to be reviewed by NSF explaining their plan for the students who will go into the Scholarship for Service program, in-cluding courses, research projects and evaluation criteria.
“More importantly, the signifi cant requirement of the proposal is to explain how we plan to place the students after they gradu-ate, how we help them fi nd jobs,” Li said.
Potential applicants are not limited to the comput-er science department. The program is advertised, and when applications come in, anyone with a GPA above 3.0 is considered.
“We look at students from other majors too, for example criminology, information technology—essentially whoever has interest in information and excellent academic stand-ing will be a good candi-
date for this program,” Li said.
After passing the paper application step, students go through an interview process with faculty, and from there a select amount learn of their selection in individual meetings. To evaluate candidates, Su-dhir Aggarwal, the other principal co-investigator along with Xiuwen Liu, ex-plained the criteria used.
“[Students selected have] the capabilities of getting through the program as well as being able to work in the federal agency after-wards,” Aggarwal said.
For both Sereyvantha Ty and David Guidry, 2010 Scholarship for Service re-cipients, FSU’s Masters in Computer Science seemed like a natural fi t. Both com-pleted their bachelors in computer science at FSU and are continuing in fam-ily ’Nole tradition.
Ty’s focus is steganog-raphy, the fi nding of a message in an image, and Guidry’s is Security of Da-tabase Management.
According to Ty, since so much today depends on computers, the structure and workings of the coun-try are very vulnerable to cyber attacks.
“In the technology age, the only way to defend is computer science and in-formation security,” said Ty.
The program does not specify courses, but al-lows students to focus on their own research, which is part of what attracted Scholarship for Service fellow Shay Ellison to the program.
Ellison, whose focus is digital forensics, is attend-ing a D.C. job fair this week with colleagues Guidry and Ty.
This initiative has the capability to bring recog-nition that will attract top students university-wide.
“[The Cyber Corps] is re-cruiting people to work on network security to help keep the nation safeguard-ed from network attacks and other things, from oth-er countries and malicious
people from across the world,” Ellison said. “[The program] aims to make sure the U.S. remains the leader in information secu-rity and continue to protect itself from outside threats and inside threats.”
The program looks to expand in partnership with Florida A&M University, re-cruiting students from the joint college of engineering. This year, the department is applying for another Schol-arship for Service Grant to-gether with the department of Criminology for their in-terdepartmental program of computer criminology.While many struggle to fi nd jobs after graduation, those in the Scholarship for Ser-vice program seem to have no worries.
“This is guaranteed em-ployment for these stu-dents after they graduate,” Department Chair David Whalley said. “They have very good paying jobs.”
For more information about FSU’s cyber security, visit www.sait.fsu.edu/in-dex_2010.shtml.
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EMILY OSTERMEYERContributing Writer
In an effort to bring laughter to an interna-tional audience, recent Florida State University graduate Joseph Ducasse created SeJoe.com, a website with increasing success focused on pro-viding jokes with French and Creole humor. Du-casse said he hoped the website would provide a positive outlet for French and Creole speakers.
“If they want to laugh, have a good time, they just go to SeJoe.com and they’ll fi nd everything,” Ducasse said.
According to Ducasse, the idea for the site origi-nated out of boredom when he searched You-Tube for Haitian jokes in Creole and French and found nothing. Having
grown up in Haiti before moving to South Florida at the age of 14, Ducas-see appreciated Haitian humor. He posted a few videos of his jokes to You-Tube, and the concept took off, which eventually led to the creation of Se-Joe.com in October 2009. Today, Ducasse’s audi-ence members view his website from all over the world, including France, Canada, Haiti, China and Pakistan.
“In November, my site had 1.5 million hits from 97 countries, and that’s with no advertising, just by promoting through Fa-cebook and Twitter,” Du-casse said.
Ducasse said the key to the site’s success is its jokes.
Bianca Salvant, a senior at Florida A&M University, chief blogger and intern at
SeJoe.com, agrees that the power of the website lies in its humor. Salvant added that the website was especially popular among Haitians and Hai-tian Americans during the devastating earthquake that hit the country last January.
“After the earthquake happened, it was just like a lot of people really just wanted to get their mind off it, or to go to something where they could laugh,” Salvant said. “During the time of the earthquake, the website probably had the highest amount of hits, because of that.”
According to Salvant, who was raised by a Hai-tian father and Puerto Rican mother, comedians and actors are typically not respected as profes-sionals in the Haitian com-munity. Both Salvant and
Ducasse felt the pressure when they were growing up to pursue career paths their parents desired. Du-casse graduated with a de-gree in Biology from FSU last spring, despite his long-held aspiration to be an actor.
“I never wanted to be a bio major,” Ducasse said. “My parents wanted me to be a doctor. You know Haitian families; they only know three professions: that’s doctors, lawyers and engineers. If you are their kids, they won’t al-low you to do anything else. They are so stub-born, because to them, that’s the only profession that brings money in, that provides for their family.”
While in school, Du-casse recalled attending his science classes with apathy, all the while nurs-ing his dream to be an
actor and taking acting classes as electives.
“I would go to a science class and I would just not be happy,” Ducasse said. “I mean, I passed all of my classes. I graduated, but I would take acting as an elective. And every time I would go to an acting class, I would be the hap-piest kid in the class, be-cause that’s exactly what I want to do.”
When Ducasse fi nally graduated, he made the decision to focus his ef-forts on his own dreams.
“Before, when people would tell me, ‘If you have a dream, follow it,’ I never took that seri-ously,” Ducasse said. “I always thought it was just a saying, but now that I’ve created my own thing and I’m really doing what I want to do, I re-ally see that it’s not just a
saying, it’s a way of life. You really have to do what you want to do, and not do what somebody else wants you to do.”
Salvant agrees with Du-casse’s outlook and en-courages other FSU stu-dents to follow Ducasse’s example.
“I think that a student seeing someone from their own community striving, doing their own thing, [be-ing an] entrepreneur, will give them inspiration to do their own thing,” Sal-vant said.
Currently, Ducasse is keeping busy promoting a DVD of his jokes available for $9.99, as well as re-cruiting media production interns at FSU to assist him with the development of his cartoon, currently featured on his website, that he is hoping to turn into a sitcom.
FSU grad strives for laughter with Creole humor
CHAD SQUITIERIContributing Writer
Two Florida State Uni-versity alumni were re-cently recognized for their achievements as dedicated librarians and were award-ed the 2010 I Love My Li-brarian award.
Paul Clark, who fi nished his master’s degree in Li-brary and Information Sci-ence at FSU in 1996, and Jeff Dowdy, who graduat-ed with the same degree in 2010, received the award sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times. The award, which comes with $5,000 as well as rec-ognition for their dedica-tion, had only 10 fi nalists throughout the entire na-tion.
Clark, a Clay County systems librarian, is com-monly known as the “Li-brary Guy” amongst state legislatures. Clark earned the nickname after he
spent 80 hours of his va-cation time in Tallahassee lobbying state legislatures to not cut funding for Flor-ida’s public libraries. In a successful attempt to stop legislatures from taking $21 million in state funding away from public libraries, Clark stood outside the Capitol in the Tallahas-see sun every day for two weeks, peacefully holding up signs for his cause.
Clark decided to lobby legislatures in person in-stead of using phone calls and e-mails.
“I couldn’t be sure that the e-mails and voice mes-sages were actually being received by the legisla-tures and not just their aids,” Clark said. “By hav-ing signs and hanging out where I would be noticed throughout the Capitol, I felt like I could get the message across.”
Clark, who embraces his new nickname and now owns the domain
name thelibraryguy.com, stated that he was over-whelmed with joy when he fi rst heard the news about receiving the award to the point where he broke out in tears.
“It has been overwhelm-ing for me,” Clark said.
In the future, Clark hopes to co-write a chil-dren’s book about his work in the Capitol.
Dowdy, who started working as a librarian at Bainbridge College in Georgia during the sum-mer of 2009 after inquiring about an internship, was also recognized for his per-formance on the job. In a nomination for the award, a Bainbridge instructor de-scribed Dowdy as being an “invaluable asset to Bain-bridge College.”
Dowdy helps students and teachers alike navi-gate and maintain the dif-ferent school websites available for research. In his short time with the
college, Dowdy has also helped accomplish much outside his normal realm of duties, including writing a marketing research re-port for the library as well as implementing both library and tutoring pro-cedures. Dowdy said that he is most proud of the relationship he has cre-ated with the faculty and students at Bainbridge.
“Whether it’s putting to-gether a research guide, or showing a student some citation tips, I enjoy the times I feel I have helped someone,” Dowdy said.
Dowdy is grateful to re-ceive so much support al-ready in his young career and claimed to have been in a state of shock upon receiving the award.
“I just kept asking questions to make sure I wasn’t just a fi nalist or that I hadn’t misunder-stood,” Dowdy said.
Dowdy and his wife just welcomed their fourth
child and claim that the money will be put toward diapers.
To learn more about the accomplishments of
both Paul Clark and Jeff Dowdy, or to nominate another librarian for this year’s award, visit iloveli-braries.org.
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Written and drawn by David Finch, Batman: The Dark Knight is a traditional Batman detective story in the best sense of the word.
The fi rst arc of the series follows Batman as he inves-tigates the death of a child-hood friend, and the effects it has on his life. Finch has developed a strong, if not regularly used, concept that will keep Batman purists entertained. While the issue is overly verbose, and Finch seems to have a tentative grasp on Batman as a char-acter, the end result is, nev-ertheless, an adequate start to a new Batman-centric on-going series.
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GRACE NORBERGSenior Staff Writer
World-famous DJ Steve Aoki’s show one year ago was a slamming success that gave students hope that big shots such as he could be drawn to small clubs in Tallahassee in-stead of always sticking to the big cities like Mi-
ami. That was the fi rst live show Party Degree ever put on, and was a tough act to follow. This year, the fi ve Florida State Universi-ty students who run Party Degree promise another exciting Aoki event—this time decking out 20/20 Nightclub with glow-in-the-dark stars and planets for a “Dirty Disco in Outer
Space.” “It’s going to be a show
that FSU students are going to talk about for months to come,” Party Degree associate Nima Ajabshir said.
The guys of Party De-gree, who have run this company for two-and-a-half years, put an immense amount of effort into the
production of their live events, usually planning two months beforehand so that everything runs smoothly the night of the show. Past artists they have brought to Tallahas-see include Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa, AC Slater, Milk Man, Sam Adams and MSTRKRFT—a hefty list for only one year of
live shows. After Aoki, Party Degree hopes to get Skrillex, a dubstep DJ who has worked with Dead-mau5, to play in Tallahas-see.
“Basically our goal is to hit every facet of FSU,” Party Degree co-owner William Dieterle said.
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FSVIEW & FLORIDA FLAMBEAU STAFF
1. Angry BirdsSince downloading it
for my Droid a couple days ago, Angry Birds has consumed my life. Every time I find a spare moment, I’m on it. Plus, with “Seasons” there’s even more to keep you hooked. If you’re look-ing for a new addiction, this is the way to go.
2. The Kindle Amazon’s eReader
made many appearances under Christmas trees this Holiday season. However, unlike remote-controlled helicopters, fitness programs or any other traditionally use-less present, the Kindle is not a novelty. With its flawless screen and quick download ability, the Kindle is the best product for the new generation of eReaders. Plus, most newspapers offer a free trial period, in which the paper is delivered to the Kindle homepage everyday, making it easier to keep one’s resolution to “keep informed.”
3. Kanye West’s vid-eo for “Monster”
It’s been on and off YouTube for the past week, but Kanye West’s video for the My Beau-tiful Dark Twisted Fan-
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COLLIN MIRANDAStaff Writer
Though unlikely, there’s a chance you may have come across Revenge of the Titans in the past. Open betas and demos have been fl oating around the Internet for quite
some time now. Now, in-troduced through the re-cent release of the second Humble Indie Bundle, a more complete version of the game is now available for all to download and enjoy.
Revenge of the Ti-tans is unique in that it’s a mash-up of a tower defense game and a real-time strategy game. Play-ers are tasked with saving earth by protecting some
bases from the Titans, an alien race that roughly re-sembles a darker version of the Pac-Man ghosts. As with most every game pertaining to the tower defense and RTS genres, one will need to acquire resources in order to up-grade defenses to fend off progressively more diffi -cult aliens. There are no mobile forces, just a vari-ety of turret-based weap-onry which you can place
strategically on the map. One of the more inter-
esting elements in the game is how it attempts to eliminate a specifi c fl aw found within tower defense games: the ability to create an impenetrable fortress for the remain-der of the game once you upgrade your equipment enough, thus removing any challenge and mak-ing the game easier as you progress—generally the
opposite of what you’d want a video game to do. Revenge of the Titans does this by only allowing you to upgrade one thing per level, implementing a fi nancial rollover sys-tem, and requiring you to micromanage your de-fenses.
By limiting you to one upgrade per level, the game effectively prevents
Dismember ‘the Titans’Indie RTS brings new elements to an old genre
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RENEE RODRIGUEZAssistant Arts & Life Editor
Comedian Tig Notaro will share her deadpan and sarcastic brand of comedy with audience members at Club Dow-nunder on Thursday, Jan. 6. Though hailed by Comedy Central as a “comic’s comic” for her unique humor, Notaro
had not always planned on working in comedy.
Born and raised in a small Mississippi town, Notaro later moved to Texas to attend high school but eventually dropped out. Shortly thereafter, Notaro tran-sitioned to Denver, Colo., where she dab-bled in the music in-dustry as a promoter.
Though a musician in her own right, Notaro often felt too frightened to share her music with audiences, which led to working as a promoter before discovering her passion for comedy.
In a recent interview with Westword, Notaro described her fear of sharing her music on-stage.
“I used to shake so much—out of fear—when I played guitar, if anyone watched me,” Notaro said.
“Like, it was such a private thing that I would do alone at my house, and if anyone watched me play, I would get so nervous that I would shake and I wasn’t able to play
the guitar. […]Whereas with standup, you can leave the mic in the mic stand and hold on for dear life, you know, and people won’t necessar-ily see you shaking.”
Following her move to Los Angeles with friends, Notaro discov-ered her love for com-
Tig Notaro brings laughs to CDUStand-up extraordinaire to perform on Thursday, Jan. 6
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ARTS&LIFE FSVIEW & FLORIDA FLAMBEAU | JANUARY 6, 2011PAGE 6
COMIC from 5
a hold fi le. Nemesis #4Mark Millar wraps up his
over-the-top run on Nem-esis with a bloody issue and a twist ending. Millar’s concept asks what would happen if a character such as Batman was evil and went on a mission to kill high-profi le police offi cers. As a whole, the series is violent, disturbing and—at times—awkwardly paced. Millar is fond of explosions and relies on shock value to sell comics. The last is-sue is more of the same. Nonetheless, those familiar with Millar’s other works (such as Kick-Ass) know how the man operates. In other words, the series is the equivalent of watching a B-level action movie. It’s a nice distraction, but not worth seeing—or in this case, reading—for a sec-ond time.
In this issue, Chief Blake Morrow leads an assault on Nemesis, which culminates on a fi nal showdown that is hastily conceived and writ-ten. It’s fl uffy and airy and stylistic. It’s also something of a letdown. Millar sets himself up for a second series under the Nemesis title, but if it isn’t better than the fi rst, don’t bother picking it up.
Final prognosis: Millar writes for 12-year-old boys. You do the math.
Batman Detective Comics #872
Writer Scott Snyder
you from farming for re-sources and becoming God-like within the fi rst few levels. The rollover system means that any money you have acquired or lost will remain con-stant from level to level. This forces players to at-tempt to complete a level as effi ciently as possible, using as few resources as they can, since they will also need enough money to survive the next stage, as well as to purchase new upgrades.
The game also requires that players stay vigilant over their defenses. They will need to manually (by clicking on them) reload turrets, which can’t shoot while they are reloading, as well as manually col-lect any resources they have mined to earn pre-cious cash. These unique elements ensure that the player, regardless of their skill level, remains chal-
lenged throughout the game, and can create some interesting, though hectic strategic situations, such as choosing the right time to reload a weapon.
While this may all sound somewhat complicated, the game is rather simple when compared to stan-dard RTS games such as Starcraft. The visuals conform to the gameplay with a charming, simplis-tic style. The game has a predominantly pixilated retro feel, but with a few modern touches that make it look smooth and up to date. The levels are dark and done with a minimalis-tic aesthetic, almost com-pletely barren aside from a few roads, some burning buildings and your base, making the battlefi eld con-vey a sense of desolation, as well as allowing im-portant elements such as weapons or enemies to be easily located at a glance.
Revenge of the Titans can still use a bit more pol-ish. Some control aspects are awkward, and can determine whether you win the level or not, con-sidering the Titans attack with formidable speed and power. One such example is not being able to perform certain functions, such as reloading, after you have been placing turrets or something of the sort.
The game requires that you return to your menu and deselect the place-ment tool in order to re-gain control of your mouse pointer. The menus and HUD will often get in the way of the map, causing frustration when trying to maintain your weapons or placing something, espe-cially considering that the Titans begin their attacks from the margins of the map. The diffi culty can get a bit too diffi cult in certain places, and the game can
be very miserly in terms of money. Overall, the game presents a promising expe-rience if developer Puppy Games can tighten a few bolts here and there. It’s no replacement for hardcore RTS games such as Com-mand & Conquer, but it does offer a few breaths of fresh air to that sort of gameplay, and will surely please and challenge fans of the genre who are in search of something differ-ent.
TITANS from 5
stepped into DC Comics’ fl agship title last month and delivered what many are calling a homerun. He’s fol-lowed this up with another strong showing that’s moved Detective Comics from an occasional purchase to a much-anticipated, regular buy.
The second issue for the three-part “The Black Mir-ror” storyline has the Dick Grayson iteration of Batman tracking down a secret auc-tion house that sells goods related to super villains. Grayson works with Bat-man family regulars to go undercover with—surprise, surprise—horrible results.
Grayson is a funnier and more charismatic Batman than his predecessor, and Snyder nails this perfectly, scripting pitch-perfect inter-actions with various char-acters. Additionally, Snyder peppers in enough intrigue to keep the story moving along without turning it into a mindless sprint that often befalls lesser writers.
Of the numerous Batman titles on the market, many of which appear in this column regularly, Detective Comics is the only one worth. Sny-der’s work is violent, funny and smart-—all marks of great storytelling. Get in on the ground fl oor.
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J. MICHAEL OSBORNE & ERIC SARRANTONIOManaging Editor, Staff Writer
The FSView’s Tops of 2010The music year in review
Top guilty pleasure track: Wiz Khalifa, “Black & Yellow”
Yeah, ah ha, you know what it is: the song that does nothing to expand hip-hop as a genre, but still has ev-eryone singing along to the
almost too-simple chorus. “Black & Yellow” is the lead-off single for Wiz Khalifa’s still-untitled third album, and it has broken him into the mainstream. Charting at six on the Billboard Hot 100, the song became a party mainstay throughout 2010.
It is hard to pick out what makes it a more popular song than the thousands of others it imitates. Maybe fans are attracted to Wiz’s whiney vocals in opposition to the overly masculine tones of countless other rappers or maybe they admire his lyr-
ics, but songs like this are not celebrated for their individu-al qualities; they are enjoyed with as much disregard for the art of sound as possible, and that might be the perfect break from the ambitious themes on Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs or deciphering lyr-
ics on any of P a n d a B e a r ’ s singles. Sometimes music needs to be enjoyed just be-cause it exists, and not sim-ply because it has to mean something.
Top roadtripping track: Sufjan Stevens, “Impos-sible Soul,” Age of Adz
Finally, America gets its own version of Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn.” While the two songs could not be more different, both tracks are
long enough to entertain through a long drive (“Im-possible Soul” at a paced 25 minutes), both make use of outlandish electronics for the instrumentals and vocal distortion, and both stand out from their respective contemporaries. The simi-
larities end here, however, as Sufjan picks up and makes one of the most cinematic musical experiences ever. The song is ideal for long drives because it has more changes and surprises than most other musicians can pack into their entire al-
bums. Each listen re-veals n e w i n t r i - cacies and the duration of a long-distance drive is the perfect time to study all 1,535 seconds of it.
Top dance track: Cari-bou, “Odessa,” Swim
“Odessa” may not have been played in every club across the continent, but that is only another point in the argument that independent music is better than popular
music. Any DJ could put it on between a Lady Gaga and Katy Perry track and keep everybody dancing, regard-less of what type of music the audience likes. And if you had a chance to see Caribou on tour in 2010, you know just how the audience reacts
when the song is played.From the opening boom to the whooshing stop, this is one of the 2010’s best album openers—an introduction to a perfect dance album. Like most other music from the year, it lays the nostalgia on heavy. The drums and
guitar suggest the best kind of disco music, but the rest is pure originality. Here’s to the dance par-ties that recognized that originality and talent over the faux-music of the chart-topping pop stars.
The Because-of-Course-He-Did Award: Kanye West, My Beauti-ful Dark Twisted Fan-tasy
Listening to Kanye West’s latest, stellar album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted
Fantasy, straight through may arouse some very con-fusing and burning ques-tions inside of you. For example, why did he give it that obviously ridiculous title? Why did he try to fi t an entire “We Are the World” of contributors onto one al-
bum or, in the case of “All of the Lights”—which features at least a few seconds of Rihanna, Fergie, The-Dream and Elton John, among several others—one song? Why does he conclude what may be the album’s most emotionally powerful
song, “Blame Game,” with an extended Chris Rock bit that includes the phrase “Yeezy reuphol-stered my p***y”? Why? Because it’s Kanye West—because of course he did.
And no one else—no pop star nor rap star—could
have pulled it off but Kanye, with an
album that may come to defi ne 2010.
Top band that’s keep-ing guitar rock relevant: Women, Public Strain
In the early ’60s, record companies were worried that guitar music was a passing fad.
Almost 50 years later,
rock ‘n’ roll has gone through enough genre twists and turns to prove its endurance.
When Women made their debut in 2008, they showed promise as one of the stand-out guitar bands. With their sophomore album, Public
Strain, they have helped to continue the growth of gui-tar music.
It is diffi cult to trace in-spiration in Women’s mu-sic because they take a bit from every generation. Post-punk, math rock, am-bient and even folk music
all appear in varying forms on the album, but it’s the combination of all those infl uences that makes Women one of the most important rock bands out now.
Top No. 1-charting al-bum: Vampire Weekend, Contra
Contra is only the 12th independently distributed album to reach Billboard’s No. 1 spot in the 19 years since Nielsen Soundscan
has been recording data on the sale of music. With Arcade Fire topping the chart in a similar vein later on the same year, it has be-come clear that indie is be-coming the mainstream—disregard the paradox.Vampire Weekend is a band
even your parents might listen to, and if they don’t, they should. The band has been accessible from the start, gaining accolades from Rolling Stone—a magazine notoriously sketchy when it comes to covering “good” music.
Contra gets a bit experi-mental, but nevertheless maintains its accessibility, a feat achieved by only a small number of musi-cians like David Bowie and Talking Heads. Those comparisons will only be-come more relevant as the
band puts out more music. For the time being, the im-provements are clear and fans remain pleased, with all signs pointing to Vam-pire Weekend’s next al-bum to undoubtedly reach the No. 1 spot, as well.
Top indie band to ex-plode in 2010: Beach House
No. 43 on the Billboard 200 and an appearance on Conan may not sound like much on its surface, but for a duo with a drum machine
that was formerly known, adoringly and almost ex-clusively, by bloggers and their trolls, it means a lot for the increasingly blurred line between indie and mainstream. Whether it was Beach House’s far more fl eshed-out sound on
Teen Dream, their third ef-fort, or that singer Victoria Legrand’s show-stopper of a voice fi nally caught up with people—or that they sim-ply assembled an 11-track collection of the best pop songs of the year—Beach House dropped their al-
bum in January and claimed the rest of the year as their own, not to men-tion single-hand-edly justifying the existence of the term “dream pop.”
The Future-of-Music Award: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Be-fore Today
Before 2010, Ariel Pink was often cited as a huge influence on many of to-day’s lo-fi acts. When
“Round and Round” hit in early 2010, he smashed most expectations of where his career was headed after signing to 4AD. The song was not only well-recorded, but also contained just about every pop-sensibility of
the past few decades. Before Today followed two months later and ce-mented the evolution of his music. Some songs off the album already ex-isted in lo-fi versions, but their fully realized forms revealed Ariel as a ma-
ture musician who will have a profound impact on the future of music. 2010 was a year of heavy nostalgia for the music of the ’90s, but Ariel is finished with that de-cade’s lo-fi direction and is once again ahead of
the game with his glam-rock influenced music. Don’t be surprised to find more artists following in the trails of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti in 2011.
Top band to see live: LCD Soundsystem
From Beach House to Monotonix, Tallahas-see put a whole lot of top-notch talent on its venues’ stages in 2010. Unfortunately, you had
to go to Orlando or At-lanta to see the most ex-citing tour of the year, behind one of the best albums of the year: LCD Soundsystem’s This is Happening. LCD has always had a reputation for fantastic live shows,
but this tour felt spe-cial and, in many ways, transcendent. Since the band’s frontman/song-writer/vocalist James Murphy has indicated that This is Happening may very well be the last LCD album ever,
the shows took on the feeling of wild abandon-ment that can only come from a group of abso-lute pros who aren’t sure if they’ll ever play together again, forming the audience and band into one giant, joyous
party all conducted by Murphy’s ring-leading talk-singing.
Playing a longtime LCD fan’s wet dream of a setlist, this tour proved why LCD Sound-system is still LCD Soundsytem.
Top hip-hop album: Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Much has been made by now of Big Boi’s long-long-long-awaited album, Sir Lucious Left
Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Rest assured: Any hype this album, the first solo effort from the criminally underrat-ed half of Outkast, may have had around its re-lease was completely warranted—it had the
words “instant classic” written all over it from the first drumbeat of “Daddy Fat Sax.” Con-stantly surprising and consistently danceable, Lucious Left Foot is a practical keg stand of fiery, fun southern rap,
the likes of which we haven’t s e e n s i n c e , w e l l , the last O u t k a s t album(s).
Top latecomer: Ghost-face Killah, Apollo Kids
Ghostface Killah was passed over for most blo-gosphere year-end lists, but many knew enough about Ghostface to leave a note at the bottom saying that,
if his predictably delayed album hadn’t come out as late as Christmas, it would have probably made it to-ward the top. And Tony Starks didn’t let us down: Apollo Kids is yet another killer, hard-hitting entry in what’s become a bit of a
Wu-Tang renaissance since Raekwon’s Only Built for 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II. With a list of contributors ranging from Wu members Meth-od Man and GZA to Busta Rhymes and The Roots’ Black Thought, Apollo Kids is Ghostface’s best since
2 0 0 6 ’ s F i s h -scale, and wound up well worth the wait.
Top newcomer: Sleigh Bells, Treats
Sleigh Bells were huge before they even dropped a single, mostly thanks to some hyperactive blog-gers, their signing to MIA’s N.E.E.T. label and that
Derek Miller, one-half of Sleigh Bells, was the gui-tarist from Poison the Well. Once they did drop that single, though, the utterly thunderous “Tell ’Em,” they were an instant, noisy household name—and the album that followed far
from disappointed. In a year mostly dominated by follow-up albums and big-name indie dinosaurs—the National, Joanna Newsom, LCD Soundsys-tem, et al.—Sleigh Bells left their own loud, catchy crater on its surface, and,
for my mon-ey, put to-gether the de facto record of s u m m e r 2010.
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“We’re not just trying to target Greek or this or that. We want to target every-thing from hip-hop to elec-tronic, even country shows and arena shows. Those are two things we’re trying to work on now.”
Another facet of Party Degree involves promot-ing certain nights at clubs, such as Mandatory Make-out Monday at Clyde’s, Thursdays at Paradigm, Fridays at 20/20 and “Soon To Be Announced” Satur-days coming up this semes-ter. This type of promotion is what Party Degree was originally meant to do, and they became so successful at it that club owners began clamoring for them to host nights.
Party Degree even has its own DJ, Daniel Crespo, who was discovered play-ing on a Wednesday night at Tantra. The guys took him under their wing and made him not only a house-hold name in Tallahassee, but all over Florida.
“I started this as some-thing small in my dorm room, nothing big, and af-
ter I started working with these guys, it became a full-on profession,” Crespo said. “Literally, I pay my bills off this.”
DJ Crespo is a senior ma-joring in nutrition at FSU as a backup plan, but he hopes that his DJ career will take him to all the big clubs in Miami after he graduates. He will be open-ing for Aoki, who is a fan and even asked for one of Crespo’s mixtapes last year after the show. Party De-gree even has plans to start a record label with Crespo this spring. They recently purchased their fi rst offi ce in town, and are planning to create a studio for Cre-spo.
Party Degree admires Aoki because he is not only renowned for his DJing, but he originally started off cre-ating a record label called Dim Mak.
“He kind of expanded into all these different facets—he’s signing talent, he’s doing music, all these things,” Dieterle said. “Party Degree is similar in the way that we’re trying to take
over all facets like Aoki. We’re extremely confi dent, whether we should be or shouldn’t be, and Aoki’s the same way.”
The other three members of Party Degree include co-owner Ian Ruzal-Bron and associates Jordan Bolton and Sam Nebel. For more information, visit www.PartyDegree.com. To listen to DJ Crespo, visit www.soundcloud.com/crespothedj.
steveaoki.dimmak.comAfter a sucessful fi rst show in town, DJ Aoki heads back to Tallahassee for more action.
tasy standout “Monster” is a fittingly dark and twisted icing on the al-bum’s cake. With more than a few severed heads and women’s corpses, Kanye, Jay-Z and Rick Ross dressed to the nines and Nicki Minaj taking her bombastic, schizophrenic verse lit-erally, ’Ye clearly needed something undoubtedly wild to follow up on his 35-minute Runaway film—and, with the un-doubtedly wild “Mon-ster” video, he found it.
4. End of Year lists Upon returning to
Tally after winter break, I arrived to a mailbox
bursting with several magazines offering their authoritative “best,” “worst” and other defini-tive annual lists. Wheth-er it was Entertainment Weekly’s pop-culture catalogue of what I should be watching, lis-tening to, reading—or avoiding altogether—or Esquire’s “The Mean-ing of Life: What I’ve Learned” collection by more than a dozen icons interviewed, I had more than a little reading to get through before class-es started. Ever the glut-ton for a good list, we’ve even bothered to whip up one of our own (see page 7).
5. The Flaming LipsFollowing in the foot-
steps of artists like Kanye West and Robyn, The Flaming Lips have announced their in-tent to release a song a month for a grand total of 12 tracks in 2011.
This year-long album creation process works perfectly for the often-quirky Flaming Lips, giv-ing them time to create and refine their sound gradually.
“The dilemma is wheth-er we’re going to release it on vinyl, cereal boxes or some of it on toys that we make,” Wayne Coyne said in an interview.
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edy and left the music world behind.
“I think also standup just came more natural-ly to me, that it wasn’t so scary,” Notaro told Westword. “I got pret-ty good at guitar and drums, but it wasn’t...standup just felt so right from the second that I did it.”
Her drive and pas-sion for comedy soon proved to be worth the wait as her career quickly took off and led to performances on Comedy Central Presents before land-ing a recurrent role on the now-defunct Sarah Silverman Program
as “Officer Tig.” Close friends, Notaro and Silverman continue to work together—Notaro will star in a monthly comedy variety show, Tig Has Friends, on which Silverman worked as executive producer.
In addition, Notaro regularly performs at various venues, includ-ing the Hollywood Im-prov and the UCB The-ater and also worked as a writer for the 2010 MTV Video Mu-sic Awards.
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Trust your instincts about your ca-reer and make a plan. Put it in the schedule and take action.Gemini (May 21-June 21)—To-day is an 8 -- Be adventurous with your imagination, but not with your money today. Capture your brilliant ideas on paper. You may really have something special.Cancer (June 22-July 22)—To-day is a 7—Dream big with other people’s money. It’s a perfect time for partnership. Put yourself in their shoes, and imagine huge value for them.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)—Today is an 8—You’re very productive to-day. Working and communicating with loved ones just fl ows today. Let your creativity run wild, and capture all these brilliant ideas on paper.
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Today’s Highlight in History:On Jan. 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; free-dom from want; freedom from fear.
On this date:In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were mar-ried in New Kent County, Va.In 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the fi rst successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.In 1861, Florida militiamen seized the federal arsenal at Chattahoochee.
In 1950, Britain recognized the Communist government of China.In 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Opera-tion Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.In 1982, truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of 10 of the “Freeway Killer” slayings of young men and boys. (Bonin was later convicted of four other killings; he was executed in 1996.)
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SCOTT CRUMBLYStaff Writer
With their 65-60 loss at Auburn on Monday night, the Florida State men’s basketball team complet-ed their fi nal non-confer-ence game of the regular season and now head into a grueling, 15-game stretch against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents.
Florida State (11-4, 1-0 ACC) will travel north to Blacksburg, Va., on Satur-day afternoon looking to remain undefeated in con-ference play after getting off on the right foot with a six-point win over Clem-son on Dec. 10.
The ’Noles enter their showdown with the Hok-ies (9-4, 0-1) having won six of their last eight con-tests, with those six victo-ries coming by an average of 11 points per game.
Virginia Tech comes into Saturday with a streak of its own, having won fi ve straight after dropping their ACC opener to Vir-ginia last month.
Seminole forward Chris Singleton has been the key to FSU’s success to this point in the season and is averaging just over 15 points and eight re-bounds per game. Single-ton’s offensive game has been clicking as of late, with the junior averaging 17 points per game over the last eight contests, in-cluding a 28-point perfor-
mance against Butler and a 20-point outing versus Auburn.
Singleton, the reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year, is also among the ACC’s elite in steals and blocked shots and is one of the reasons Florida State has the conference’s top-ranked fi eld goal per-centage defense.
That defense will be put to the test on Saturday in Cassell Coliseum, as the ’Noles will have to contain the conference’s top scorer in Virginia Tech guard Mal-colm Delaney. The senior is averaging 19.1 points per game on the season, using his deadly outside shooting ability to carry the scoring load for Tech.
FSU will need to keep a hand in Delaney’s face all game long, as he is shoot-ing 46 percent from the fl oor that includes a 43 percent clip from beyond the three-point arc.
The Seminoles have im-proved collectively on the offensive end of the fl oor where they looked lethar-gic in their games against Florida and No. 2 Ohio State. On the year, FSU is now averaging 72 points per game and has not put up less than 62 points since managing a dismal 44 against the Buckeyes on Nov. 30.
The start of conference play is an especially impor-
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FSU goes on conference call’Noles begin long stretch of ACC play at Virginia Tech Saturday
Joseph La Belle/FSViewMichael Snaer and Florida State will aim for a 2-0 start in ACC play Saturday at Virginia Tech. FSU has never started 2-0 in the conference under head coach Leonard Hamilton.
Joseph La Belle/FSViewIt seemed the only thing the Seminole team could hit was its own foot as a poor shooting night by Florida State sank its chances against Auburn.
ERIC ZERKELStaff Writer
Winners of three straight contests, the 24th-ranked Florida State Seminoles travel to Blacksburg, Va., to clash with Atlantic Coast Conference foe Vir-ginia Tech in their confer-ence opener.
A once highly contest-
ed matchup, the battle between the Hokies (9-5) and Seminoles (12-3) has run stale in recent years.
Florida State has won four straight in the series and 12 out of the last 13, pushing the ’Noles’ record to 17-9 all-time against Virginia Tech.
Also in the Seminoles’ favor is their recent run of
success in ACC openers. The ’Noles are winners of four straight conference openers.
Even with history against them, the Hok-ies present a tough test for the Florida State of-fense. Virginia Tech holds its opponents to a stifl ing 61 points per game. The Hokies are led up front by
the play of Shanel Hen-derson. The junior guard averages 13.4 points per game—a Hokie best—and will provide a chal-lenge for Seminole guard Courtney Ward, who is among the most valuable players for Florida State on the offensive end.
Ward, who is averaging 10.9 points per game, has
proved her worth in other intangibles this season. The senior guard leads the team in both assists and steals, averaging 3.6 assists and 2.1 steals per game.
While Henderson is the only Hokie who averages double-fi gure scoring,
Seminoles look to keep streakingWomen’s Basketball opens ACC play against VT
BRETT JULASports Editor
Florida State’s start to the 2011 season has been chock full of ups and downs, and their most recent game against Auburn was continuing proof of that.
Just when the Semi-noles looked to be back on the upswing after a big win over No. 15 Bay-lor in Hawaii on Christ-mas Day, a road game against an average Tigers team was all it took to bring them back to level ground.
FSU (11-4) struggled fi nding its touch both from the fi eld and the free throw line, and Auburn knocked down eight key 3-pointers, as the Tigers staved off the Seminoles for a 65-60 win Monday night in Auburn, Ala.
The Seminoles shot just 35 percent from the fi eld, 19 percent from the 3-point line and 50 per-cent from the free throw line. The shooting per-formance was marred by an abysmal fi rst half in which FSU connected
on just 8-of-33 fi led goal attempts and 1-of-15 3-pointers.
While their offense was clearly having issues all night, so was their usually stingy defense, as the ’Noles, who lead the nation in defensive fi eld goal percentage, al-lowed the Tigers to shoot 47 percent from the fl oor and 42 percent from be-yond the arc.
The win for Auburn was their fourth-straight and fi rst over a team from a major conference this season.
“Since the beginning of the season, we’ve gotten a lot better,” said Auburn guard Josh Wallace, who fi nished with nine points and seven assists. “And it’s starting to show.”
The catalyst for the Ti-gers was freshman Josh Langford, who notched a career-best 16 points. Of those 16, 11 came in the fi rst half, which helped Auburn build a 27-22 lead after the fi rst 20 minutes of play.
Florida State would
Men’s basketball tripped up by TigersPoor shooting plagues Seminoles in 65-60 loss to Auburn
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It’s that time of the year, folks.
Time to exchange your football jerseys for your mesh tank tops; the pig-skin for the roundball; Jimbo Fisher for (gulp) Leonard Hamilton.
That’s right—it’s bas-ketball season in Talla-hassee.
Sure, the basketball season “officially” start-ed back on Nov. 12 with a win over North Flori-da, but let’s be honest: sports fans in this town are hardly aware there’s even a basketball team at this school until the Seminoles first finish up their season on the grid-iron around New Year’s. We’d obviously prefer for every football sea-son to end closer to mid-January in the national title game, but let’s be patient—we’re working toward making that hap-pen.
The fact that Tallahas-see is clearly a football town, coupled with the FSU basketball team pe-rennially playing their fair share of creampuffs in the early season sched-ule, is why I believe bas-ketball season truly starts Saturday afternoon with what’s sure to be a tough challenge in Blacksburg, Va., against a talented and experienced Virginia Tech team.
Regardless of what the critics say about the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence (many are saying it’s a “down year” for the league), it’s never an easy haul for the 12 teams who go through the 16-game conference schedule on a yearly ba-sis, and ACC games are all that are left on the Seminoles’ schedule until hopefully a third-straight appearance in the NCAA tournament.
Does FSU have what it takes to get back to the proverbial “Big Dance”? From what I have seen through the first 15 games this season, my answer has not changed one bit since I stepped foot on this campus in the fall of 2005: Of course they’re capable—it’s just a matter of bonding their bevy of talented players and finding consistency on the offensive end.
I know the latter of that previous sentence about finding consis-tency on offense prob-ably won’t happen, but one can dream, right? This university is full of consistencies: as long as there’s Greek Life, Pot-belly’s will be a thriving establishment; as long as entire colleges are head-quartered inside Doak Campbell Stadium, we never will have a Thurs-day night football game; and as long as Hamilton is leading our basketball team, you better love de-fense, because despite landing great recruits after great recruits, this team will inexplicably be consistently inconsistent on offense. It’s been that since I’ve been here, so
It’s all about hoops
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Melina Vastola/FSViewDerwin Kitchen and the Seminoles look to put their shooting woes in their rearview mirror as they take on Virginia Tech to continue their conference schedule on Saturday.
tant mark for the ’Noles, who have only defeated one ranked opponent in their fi rst 16 games and will need to perform well
in the perennially com-petitive ACC to keep their two-year NCAA Tourna-ment streak alive.
Historically, Florida
State has fared well against Virginia Tech, win-ning 25 of the 42 all-time meetings between the teams and defeated the
Hokies in their only meet-ing last season.
Saturday’s game will be televised on ESPN2 and is set to tip off at 3 p.m.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)—Michigan fi red coach Rich Rodriguez on Wednesday, ending a disappointing three-year tenure marred by embar-rassing losses and NCAA violations at college foot-ball’s winningest pro-gram.
Athletic director Dave Brandon announced the decision after meeting with Rodriguez on Tues-day and again Wednesday morning. He said the two had an “open, honest and direct exchange.”
“I believe this is the best decision for the future of Michigan football,” Bran-don said. “We have not achieved at the level that I expect.”
Rodriguez, who was the head coach at West Virginia before arriving in Ann Arbor, fi nishes 15-22 at Michigan. Rodriguez was just 6-18 in Big Ten play and 11-11 at home. The school can buy out the fi nal three years of his contract for $2.5 million.
Brandon said he will im-mediately begin a nation-al search for a replace-ment amid speculation that Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, a former Wol-verines quarterback, and former Michigan assistant Brady Hoke, now San Di-ego State’s head coach.
Brandon said he has talked with Harbaugh and “will continue to talk” with him.
“I personally believe that Jim Harbaugh is
headed to the NFL, that’s my opinion,” Brandon said.
Brandon said a candi-date with head coaching and recruiting experience would have an edge in the search and he didn’t set a deadline for making a de-cision.
“My timetable is: Go fast, but do it the right way,” Brandon said.
Rodriguez was not im-mediately available for comment. He and his wife, Rita, drove past TV satel-lite trucks and reporters camped out near Schem-bechler Hall Wednesday and entered the back door of the indoor practice fa-cility. A team meeting was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
“Everybody fi nds out info before the players cause they feel that if they were to tell us we would blabber it to the world,” defensive back Troy Wool-folk wrote on his Twitter account.
Rodriguez’s fi nal season was pivotal and it didn’t go well on or off the fi eld.
He helped the Wolver-ines win seven games to earn a postseason bid, then stood helplessly on the sideline on New Year’s Day as Mississippi State handed them their worst bowl beating, a 38-point drubbing in a Gator Bowl loss that looked all too fa-miliar.
Quarterback Denard Robinson couldn’t con-sistently make the sensa-
tional plays he did during a jaw-dropping start to the season. And Michi-gan’s young defense, which ranked among the nation’s worst, was over-matched again.
“There’s a thought of getting a defensive-mind-ed everything,” Brandon said when asked if he was looking for a head coach who emphasizes defense. “I want the ball boys to be defensive-minded.”
Rodriguez fi nished 7-6, losing six of the last eight games. The improvement wasn’t enough from his 5-7 fi nish last year and the Michigan-record nine losses in his debut season in Ann Arbor.
He was 1-11 against ranked teams and 0-6 combined against rivals Ohio State and Michigan State.
The season had clearly weighed on Rodriguez.
He surprised support-ers and his players at the team’s postseason ban-quet when he broke down and cried, talking about the toll his job had on his family, then quoted the Bible and Josh Groban and played a song from the musician in a surreal scene.
“I don’t think Rich Ro-driguez has had a peace-ful night sleep since he ar-rived in Ann Arbor,” said Brandon, who was lured to Michigan a year ago from his job as chairman and CEO of Domino’s Piz-za. “I think that his three
years here ... can some-what be defi ned as three years of turmoil. It seems like it was one thing after another. It clearly impact-ed recruiting. It clearly im-pacted the positive energy that the team needs to be successful. It created a lot of hardships and a lot of distractions.
“Clearly, we need to put ourselves in a position where that is all history.”
Michigan’s former ath-letic director, Bill Martin, hired Rodriguez away from West Virginia after the 2007 season in a messy divorce. The school Rodri-guez had played for and rooted for as a kid had extended his contract a year earlier, and he didn’t want to pay a $4 million buyout. Michigan eventu-ally agreed to pay West Virginia $2.5 million, leav-ing Rodriguez to take care of the rest.
From the beginning and until the end, he struggled to be accepted at Michi-gan. Some wanted LSU’s Les Miles to return to Ann Arbor, where he was an assistant for the late Bo Schembechler. Miles, who has been LSU’s head coach for six years, said Wednesday: “I very much enjoy where I’m at.”
On the fi eld, Rodriguez didn’t inherit a roster full of talent from Lloyd Carr. Quarterback Ryan Mallett transferred to Arkansas and offensive guard Justin Boren left for Ohio State, making his transition even
more challenging.The Wolverines took
pride in winning with class and by the rules for three-plus decades under Schembechler, Carr and Gary Moeller.
Under Rodriguez, the program was hit by the kind of news it dreaded.
Just before the 2009 season, anonymous play-ers told the Detroit Free Press that the Rodriguez-led program was exceed-ing NCAA limits on prac-tice and training time.
“We know the rules, and we follow the rules,” an emotional Rodriguez declared a day after the report was published. He insisted the off-the-fi eld “drama” didn’t affect his team.
The school later ac-knowledged that it was guilty of four violations. It was put on three years of probation, though Ro-driguez and the school avoided major penalties in part because the NCAA agreed that the coach didn’t fail to promote an atmosphere and compli-ance in his program.
Still, Paul Dee, chair of the Division I infractions committee, compared the coach’s role to that of be-ing captain of the ship.
“The coach is ultimate-ly responsible, but that doesn’t mean that the coach is involved in all of the activities that oc-curred,” Dee said. “Some of the things that did oc-cur did not get all the
way to the coach, but ul-timately, the coach bears a responsibility for the program.”
Rodriguez is widely considered one of the ar-chitects of the spread of-fense that has become the rage in college football, creating his version of three- and four-receiver sets at tiny Glenville State in 1990.
Rodriguez recruited two freshmen who could lead his offense: Robinson and Tate Forcier and they helped the 2009 team get off to a strong start that put Michigan on the cover of Sports Illustrated. His defenses never kept pace.
Toward the end of the collapsing 2009 season, Rodriguez took a few not-to-subtle shots at Carr and his staff in terms of recruiting talent to Ann Arbor.
“The last three Febru-arys, or four Februarys, have hurt us a little bit,” Rodriguez said. “The next two or three Februarys will be very critical. That’s where it starts.”
Rodriguez, though, didn’t get a chance to fi n-ish what he started.
“Rich is a good person and coach,” Brandon said. “It’s unfortunate that it didn’t work out at Michi-gan, but I’m sure that Rich and his staff will fi nd op-portunities at other insti-tutions.”
—Courtesy of Larry
Lage, AP Sports Writer
Michigan fi res Rodriguez after three seasons
I’m not expecting it to change now.
But I won’t knock Ham-ilton too much. After all, he is the one responsible for bringing in the great talent we’ve had over these last couple years and for instilling a relent-less defensive mentality that has the Seminoles
leading the nation in field goal percentage defense.
I, for one, am a fan of defense, but only to a certain extent. I do like to see a good share of shots find their way through the basket. Strangely enough, that’s the object of the game. There’s no excuse for having a po-
tential first-round NBA draft selection (Chris Singleton) who is sur-rounded by great ath-letes and only scoring 44 points, in a 40-minute game, with a 35-second shot clock. That actually happened in a game this season to Florida State in a 58-44 loss to Ohio
State on Nov. 30.Offense has never been
Hamilton’s forte, but it sure would be nice to see at least a subtle improve-ment from years past. Even the slightest im-provement could be all the ’Noles need to dance longer than one round in the tournament, which
has been the result of their previous two tour-nament appearances. A knee injury to standout center Xavier Gibson certainly doesn’t help the cause, however, and it will be up to players like Singleton, senior Derwin Kitchen and forwards Bernard James and Oka-
ro White to step up to the challenge and carry the program to new heights.
Here’s hoping that mission can be accom-plished, although I have to say that the word “skeptical” doesn’t even do my thought process justice for the remainder of this season.
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come out hot to start the second half, however, opening the half on a 9-2 run that was capped by a Chris Singleton dunk—two of his game-high 20 points on the night—that put the ’Noles ahead 31-29 just two and a half minutes into frame. Singleton added 10 re-bounds in the game to give the junior his sixth double-double of the sea-son.
Leads were hard to come by for Florida State against the Tigers, as Au-burn later would go on an 11-0 run that featured back-to-back 3-pointers by Allen Payne and Ear-nest Ross, who also had a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, to give the Tigers the lead at 45-36. Florida State responded with a 10-1 run and tied the game at 46 on a Michael Snaer 3-pointer, but Langford’s fourth and fi nal three-ball of the game would put Auburn (7-7) ahead for good at 49-46 with 4:42 to play.
Even without injured center Xavier Gibson, the Seminoles still had a distinct size advantage over Auburn. FSU, how-ever, didn’t exploit that advantage effectively, as they fi red up 25 3-point-ers and got just 13 total points from forwards Bernard James, Okaro White, Terrance Shannon and John Kreft.
Auburn head coach Tony Barbee felt the ’Noles could have done a better job getting the ball inside to their post play-ers, but also gave credit to his team’s execution on defense as to why FSU was unable to expose the size disparity.
“I didn’t think they took advantage [of their size],” Barbee said. “If they would’ve thrown
AUBURN from 10
it to the block time after time [Monday], we would have had issues.
“But I thought we did a good job mixing up our defense. As good as we were defensively, it was a case of them not making shots as well.”
Senior guard Derwin Kitchen joined Singleton in double-fi gure scor-ing with 12 points, while James contributed eight points, seven rebounds and four blocked shots. Center Rob Chubb was the third Auburn player to reach double-fi gures with 10 points.
Joseph La Belle/FSViewCierra Bravard and the Seminoles look to get a positive start to their conference schedule against VT on Thursday.
Florida State presents a much more balanced
attack for the Hokie de-fense. Four Seminole
STREAKING from 10
starters average in double fi gures, with Chasity Clay-ton and Christian Hunni-cutt providing key support off the bench.
Prospective All-Ameri-can Cierra Bravard leads all scorers with an average of 14.1 points per game and shooting a team-best 56 percent from the fi eld. Bravard also leads the Seminoles in rebounds with a 7.7 per game aver-age.
Alongside Bravard help-ing to anchor the front-court is true freshman Natasha Howard, who av-erages 11 points per game and six boards per game.
Bravard and Howard’s size will pose a challenge to a smaller Virginia Tech frontcourt, providing a key matchup for this game that many should expect the Seminoles to expose.
Virginia Tech is an im-pressive 8-1 at home this season and winners of three straight on their home court. Two of Flor-ida State’s three losses have come on the road this season, though the ’Noles ended Missouri’s fi ve-game home winning streak in their last con-test.
Also key will be the turn-over battle. Virginia Tech
averages 18 turnovers per game, but makes up for that on the defensive end by forcing their opponents into an average of just over 20 turnovers per game.
Once beleaguered, of-fensive consistency has risen for the Seminoles during their three-game win streak. The ’Noles are averaging just 13 turn-overs per game during the three-game span, posting a
season-low eight turnovers in their game against Mis-souri.
Florida State averaged 21 turnovers in their three losses this season, leading to a combined 87 points for the opposition. Keep-ing the ball safe and out of Virginia Tech hands will prove crucial for Florida State.
The game tips off Thurs-day night at 7 p.m.
NCAA
Pryor leads Buckeyes past
Razorbacks The debate over which
conference is stronger seems to be never-ending, and after a rough week-end for the Big Ten, which included losses to TCU, Florida and Texas Tech, the Ohio State Buckeyes were out to prove something Tuesday night in the Sugar Bowl against the Southeast-ern Conference’s Arkansas Razorbacks.
“They have a great con-ference. No one would re-fute that,” Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel said. “To beat a team like that is spe-cial.”
With many predicting yet another win for the SEC, the Buckeyes (12-1, 7-1 Big Ten) answered the call, holding on for a 31-26 victory over the Razorbacks (10-3, 6-2 SEC). Ohio State was led on offense by their junior
quarterback, whose well-publicized mobility once again caused headaches for an opposing defense. Pryor racked up 336 total yards, 221 of which came through the air, where Pryor aver-aged 8.8 yards a completion and had two touchdowns.
But it was Pryor’s feet that allowed the Buckeyes to convert on critical third downs down the stretch, extending scoring drives and keeping the Arkansas offense off the fi eld at the most critical times of the game. Pryor fi nished with 115 yards on the ground and averaged 7.7 yards a carry.
Pryor was one of fi ve players that were allowed to play despite being cited for NCAA rules violations. The players will suffer a fi ve-game suspension that begins at the start of next season. Dan Herron and DeVier Posey, who are also in line for suspension, each scored a touchdown for the Buckeyes.
“Their contributions were important,” Tressel said. “They’re great kids.
And I’m looking forward. ... We’ve got a plan. And if we’ll stick with our plan, we’ll be fi ne.”
Trailing 31-13 in the third quarter, Arkansas began to fi ght back, scoring on a touch pass from quarter-back Ryan Mallett to Jarius Wright. The Razorbacks would convert the ensuing two point play and then score on a safety at the be-ginning of the fourth quar-ter.
The play of the game, however, may have been Soloman Thomas’ intercep-tion of Mallett as the Razor-backs were driving to win in the fi nal minute, thus mak-ing Arkansas’ comeback ef-forts all for naught.
Ohio State’s win broke a tie with USC and Florida for most wins in a BCS bowl game. The Buckeyes now sit alone at the top of that list with six BCS bowl wins in nine appearances.
ACC
Virginia Tech falls in Orange Bowl, mixed
results for ACC
In the ACC’s automatic bowl bid for its conference winner, the Virginia Tech Hokies struggled mightily against the Pac Ten’s sec-ond-place team, the Stan-ford Cardinal, being handily defeated 40-12.
The Hokies (11-3, 8-0 ACC) came into the game riding an 11-game win streak. After falling to Boise State and then FCS James Madison early in the year, Virginia Tech marched to the ACC Championship game where it defeated Florida State.
ACC Player of the Year Tyrod Taylor kept the Hok-ies in the game in the fi rst half, using a beautiful pivot to avoid pressure, then fi r-ing a frozen rope to David Wilson to put Virginia Tech ahead 9-7 early in the sec-ond quarter. After an An-drew Luck touchdown pass, for which the extra point was blocked, and a VT fi eld goal, the Hokies went into the half only trailing by one point, 13-12.
Luck, the Heisman run-ner-up, would prove too much for the Virginia Tech defense however, as it was all Stanford in the second
half. Luck threw touchdown passes to his tight end Coby Fleener three times in the second half, each time for no less than 38 yards.
“We came out in the sec-ond half and established a rhythm,” Luck said. “We were making some uncom-mon mistakes in the fi rst half. We just went back to blocking, throwing, catch-ing, and it worked out for us.”
Head coach Jim Har-baugh praised the play of his quarterback.
“Andrew Luck is the straw that stirs the drink around here,” Harbaugh said.
If Luck decides to leave for the NFL draft after this season, he is projected as the number one overall pick, which is held by the Carolina Panthers.
The loss by the Hokies caps a mixed bag of results for the conference this bowl season.
ACC
Maryland names Edsall as
replacement coach
After forcing out former head coach Ralph Fried-gen, the Maryland Terra-pins have named Randy Edsall as their new head football coach. Edsall led the Connecticut Huskies to a Big East title and a berth in the Fiesta Bowl. The con-ference title was the Hus-kies’ second under Edsall’s leadership. They also won a conference title in 2007.
Edsall has coached at Connecticut for the past 12 years, taking the Huskies from a Division I-AA school to the FBS’s Big East and fi nally their fi rst BCS berth ever this season. Edsall was also named the Big East Coach of the Year this sea-son.
Edsall replaces Friedgen, who turned the Terrapins from a two-win team last season into a division con-tender this season. The Ter-rapins were one game with-in reaching the conference title game in 2010. After fall-ing to Florida State in their second-to-last conference game, Maryland played spoiler to N.C. State.
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BRIAN PETRITIStaff Writer
Do it. Call the bluff. Show some spine, for once. Let’s play them at their own game. The disadvantage of being a pragmatist and a thinking man in these times is the unwillingness to engage the other side in a dogfi ght. That same pragmatism has led to a watered down agenda more than once during
Obama’s presidency. Admittedly, I’m a big
proponent of the steady-does-it brand of American legislative process; the Framers knew what they were doing. It just does not seem like good poli-tics to bet on the economy getting better by 2012 as a platform-to-be. Republi-can heads get larger while the president doesn’t call the grand ol’ bluffs.
Now the artifi cially cre-ated “problem” of budget politics has grown to titan-ic proportions as more and more Americans become aware of the issue. As re-
cently as last week, the Republicans threatened to not raise the $14.3 billion debt ceiling, which sounds like a logical step toward waning the United States off unchecked spending. Until one realizes that it could, and most probably will, lead to the defaulting of loans on our part, which threatens to bring down the country into a depres-sion even worse than that started in 2008.
It is humorous to see the budget hawks of the right hiding their sins behind the president in an effort to bring what is a sec-
ondary issue to the table. While the debt is bloated beyond reasonable pro-portions, there is both a better time to tackle it, and better people who should tackle it.
The question I’m bring-ing up is purely political. Why doesn’t this president push back on the Repub-licans? He has achieved his goals in pyrrhic battles that have cost him ideo-logically, and while the system thrives on this, he has been politically stag-nant.
The GOP is running cir-cles around both Obama
and his party. They have picked up the staff of bud-get politics, even though their stances on the issue dictate a contradiction. The last president did not exactly keep us in the green—or even the black, for that matter. Didn’t the Republicans also want tax cuts while waving the same banner of budgetary sainthood?
The most worrying thing to watch politically has been the miss of op-portunity after opportu-nity to take advantage of the gaffes the right pulls. Those so-called “patriots”
of the right on Capitol Hill looked out for foreign money interests when 9/11 fi rst-responders tried to get help with their trage-dy-related health issues. It was Jon Stewart and FOX News that called the Re-publicans out.
Is Obama dropping the ball politically, or does he have something genius planned to save the day?
He’s already lost the progressives and, with the middle slowly shifting its stance right, what will he do not only for 2012, but the American left in gen-eral?
Playing chicken with RepublicansComing To America
SAMUEL BERKOWITZ Staff Writer
Moral equivalence between disparate con-cepts is nothing new to the liberal repertoire. Questions such as “Who are we to judge?” are the hallmarks of the mod-ern liberal’s aversion to taking a definitive stand on things being right or wrong.
I came across a good example of this re-cently on Cult of Mac, where Leander Kahney whimpered that Apple “joined the shameful ranks of U.S. compa-nies that oppose press freedom.” Ron Callari at InventorSpot asked disingenuously, “If iPad disrupted the laptop and eReader industries, and WikiLeaks was a politi-cal game-changer in the world of journalism—how did they cross paths to motivate one to reject the other?”
So, because they both had a certain “disrup-tive” influence, one for good and the other not so much, it is a foregone conclusion that Steve Jobs shouldn’t take an ethical stand and ban Assange’s filth from his App Store?
I unashamedly admit that it is liberals like Jobs who restore my faith that morality and membership in the Dem-ocrat party are not mu-tually exclusive.
Putting aside the myriad inconsistencies in liberals’ passion for the First Amendment, wherein “Thank you God for this diploma” is ex-clusionary hate speech but “God hates (gays)” is an ACLU flagship cru-sade, the issue at hand is not so much a murky First Amendment gray area as a cut-and-dry criminal one of national security.
18 U.S.C. 793(e), pro-vides: “Whoever having unauthorized posses-sion of, access to or con-trol over any document, writing, code book, sig-nal book, sketch, pho-tograph […] relating to the national defense, [... which] the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the in-jury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, will-fully communicates (et cetera) the same being to any person not enti-
tled to receive it, or will-fully retains the same (et cetera) […] Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.” Moreover, 18 USC 641, provides that any per-son who ‘receives’ or ‘retains’ a ‘thing of val-ue of the United States’ knowing it to ‘have been embezzled, stolen, pur-loined or converted’ is also guilty of a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Assange is being lion-ized by many as a hero, a crusading journalist going after the big bad American “imperialist” paradigm and all that jazz. On a more rational note, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen said in an inter-view with Democracy Now, “Disagree with the war all you want, take is-sue with the policy, chal-lenge me or our ground commanders on the de-cisions we make to ac-complish the mission we’ve been given, but don’t put those who will-ingly go into harm’s way even further in harm’s way just to satisfy your need to make a point.
Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is, they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Af-ghan family.”
Whatever this man’s intentions, the fact re-mains that he is guilty of serious crimes and should be prosecuted accordingly, and hope-fully given the maximum penalty. We are a nation of laws, not of emotion-al pseudo-intellectual subjectivities. The fact that a threat to national security postures him-self as some sort of icon for what he perceives to be freedom does not make his beliefs valid or his actions justified. The integrity of journal-ism in general is in a bad way, just as ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and The New York Times will tell you about FOX News, albeit mainly out of petty jealousy. Oscar Wilde said that “Its fail-ings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducat-ed, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.” If only Mr. Wilde could see Time magazine now.
Good Apple, bad apple
Look at It This Way by Daniel Ackerman
ERIK EMBREYStaff Writer
Happy 2011, readers! I hope everyone fi nds themselves well at the start of this New Year and spring semester. The hol-iday has come and gone, and I’m sure everyone has made his or her reso-lutions for 2011. (Mine: actually eating breakfast in the morning and not making frivolous on-line purchases.) Be they big or small, New Year’s Resolutions usually tend to slide off a few weeks in, but they can be good to set for the rare times when they do manage to stick.
President Obama him-self has made a resolution
during a New Year’s ad-dress to fi x the economy of our country. (It must not have stuck last year.) Clichéd rhetoric aside, it makes one wonder if 2011 will be the year that the economy manages to lift off once again. The presi-dent will no longer have the majority in Congress from now until his next election, so he’ll have to be willing to compromise in order to see any prog-ress in the legislature. His unspoken resolution is probably more along the lines of resolving to work
around the roadblock a mixed party congress brings about.
It also means that, if the market does manage to somehow pick up seri-ously on its own this year, the fi ght of whose policies caused it to do so should be amusing to watch.
While we’re on the topic of policies, the sud-den fl urry of activity be-fore this last year let out was quite impressive. Congress somehow went from a lame duck session to effectively repealing DADT, as well as pass-ing 9/11 responders bill and giving consent to the New START treaty. Where did this sudden fl urry of activity stem from, and how can Congress make
it happen again? The Re-publicans were in for a bit of a shock through all of this previous month; the Democrats were able to prove that they can get items off the agenda when pressed against a wall. They’re going to need that legislative ac-celerant for the next two years.
We’re entering a new time now for the country, which is also apparently known as the Interna-tional Year of Forests. (No, really. Search “Unit-ed Nations observances” on Google. That legisla-tive accelerant? Trees.) Hopefully all of your res-olutions for 2011 will be ones that stick, and if not, there’s always next year.
What New Year’s Resolution will you forget?
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