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Floor seats went on sale Feb. 1 and sold out the next day. They sold for $15 each and if you try to hunt for tickets online you’ll be able to find them for $100 or more.
Wiz Khalifa is the headliner at Nest Fest this Friday. Sammy Adams is the supporting artist and The Spacesuit Junkies and Chaysen will be the opening act for this year’s concert.
What you might not know is that one of the members of The Spacesuit Junkies is a student at FGCU.
Stevie Johnson, better known as S-Jayy, is a senior, and one half of The Spacesuit Junkies. Him and his partner, Plex Boogie, started The Spacesuit Junkies two years ago.
The name Spacesuit Junkies represents these two artists’ addiction to spreading their message through their unique style of music.
The two met several times performing at different showcases when they noticed that they shared the same music style and the desire to bring something new to hip-hop. They spent some time in the studio together and after a couple of sessions it was obvious that their chemistry was unmatched.
“Music gives me a platform to express myself and everyone listens to what I have to say,” S-Jayy said. “I’m inspired by artists that have a great independent movement like Wiz, ASAP Rocky, Mac Miller and No Limit back in the day,” he said.
The Spacesuit Junkies have dropped two mix tapes “Moonrockz” and “The Spacesuit Junkies EP,” which have been featured on hip-hop blogs such as ohsofresh.com, insightpromotions.com, inspirer.nu and cultureclimax.com.
“Moonrockz” represents The Spacesuit Junkies outside the box approach to their music and image.
They’ve also just released their third
mix tape “BoomBoxx,” which has received great reviews and is available for a free download on sites such as soundcloud.com and mediafire.com.
During Nest Fest, The Spacesuit Junkies will be selling merchandise such as Teamspacesuit T-shirts, stickers and their new mix tape “BoomBoxx.”
The Spacesuit Junkies have also teamed up with clothing designer Mark Batties, who is the owner of CrowdKing Clothing, to create a limited edition Spacesuit Junkies shirt, which will be available for purchase for $20.
Students will also have the opportunity
to purchase other items from CrowdKing Clothings new spring line.
If you want to party with The Spacesuit Junkies after the concert they will be hosting an after-party at Balleyorney’s right after the show. Balleyorney is located at 13851 South Tamiami Trail Fort Myers, FL 33912.
For more information on The Spacesuit Junkies follow them on twitter @teamspacesuit and Like their Facebook fan page at facebook.com/spacesuitjunkies.
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Students wearing hoodies gathered at the student plaza last week to take a photo honoring Trayvon Martin, an African
American teenager who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watchman a few weeks ago.
The photo was to represent the sense of injustice some students feel about the case and to raise awareness about the laws the state currently has in place.
Kappa Alpha Psi member Dezmond Wheeler came up with the idea.
“The number of students that have an opinion or have a certain outlook about this came together to hopefully prevent this type of incident from happening again,” he said.
“We have to be careful about the laws that are out there, as well as not waiting until something so tragic happens to come together to have a voice.”
Javid Hinds chose to participate to show that he cares about the case.
“It touched me because of how I grew up. I feel as if it is good for me to do what I can to give back to show that I am aware and that I do care,” Hinds said.
“I was angry to be quite honest. It was a young kid and he was served a dis-justice by an adult. I felt it was really unfair.”
Stevie Johnson (S-Jayy)
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Promising Pathways Conference needs volunteers to help provide respite for families that want to attend the Promising Pathways Conference at FGCU on April 14 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Temple Grandin, well-known self-advocate for people with autism, will be presenting. See information on the FGCU website at http://www.fgcu.edu/events/promisingpathways/. Contact Lynn James at 239-699-0985, Jamie Melendez or Shay Thomas at 239-267-2181. Volunteers also needed at the conference. Students may sign up to assist for part or all of the day at Alico Arena. Volunteers may attend the presentations as well. Contact Dr. Gischel at [email protected].
Keep Collier Beautiful: Join the big cleanup event on April 14 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. For more information visit www.k e e p c o l l i e r b e a u t i f u l . c o m . Contact [email protected] or call 239-580-8319.
FGCU Graduation: Volunteers needed to play an important service and public relations role at both commencement ceremonies (10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.) on April 29 at Alico Arena. Duties may include assisting ushers, managing the door, answering guest questions and lining up candidates. Hours also can be earned for the volunteer orientation held the week prior. Contact Lauren Cargo at [email protected].
Harry Chapin Food Bank: Letter Carriers Annual Food Drive is recruiting individuals or teams to pre-sort and prepare the food left at mailboxes by the generous residents of Southwest Florida on May 12 for transit to Food Bank warehouses. Volunteers can sign up to work at a specific post office location for an 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. shift or a 2:30 p.m to 6 p.m. shift. Contact Bedzaida at [email protected] to get the volunteer form and guidelines. For this event, it is very important that you are able to stand, lift, bend and be outdoors for the entire shift. Call Bedzaida at 239-334-7007 X141 with questions.
Estero Bay Preserve State Park: Enjoy the outdoors? Ever feel like we have a huge impact on the environment? Are you
ready to make a difference and need service hours? Well, then come volunteer at the Estero Bay Preserve State Park. Close to FGCU, off of Corkscrew Road and 41. For more information, contact Scott Stimpson at [email protected].
Lakes Regional Park: Help with a program for children’s tours of the gardens from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on a weekday or Saturday at 9 a.m. Concepts that may be included are: Importance of plants to the earth, plants and insect interdependence, kinds of propagation, composting and nutrients and ability of plants to filter water. Contact Susan Moore at [email protected] or 239-481-7845.
FGCU Food Forest is a student-run botanical garden which highlights tropical and subtropical edible species that grow well in South Florida and is right here on campus. They need students to help on most Fridays between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Contact them before you go at [email protected].
ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization): Help out with agricultural development. Fill out a volunteer application at www.echonet.org. For questions, contact Ruth at [email protected].
Koreshan State Park Historic Site: Students welcome every Wednesday at 8 a.m. Simply show up on time at 3800 Corkscrew Road; the gate opens automatically at 8 a.m. Long pants and closed toed shoes are required; they suggest water and gloves.
Heartland Gardens: Did you know that FGCU alums started this nonprofit? They have a 1,700 square foot raised labyrinth and they’re landscaping the entire acre with edible plants. Help with your financial expertise, business background, economic background, bookkeeping and data entry skills, public relations or communications background or assist with newsletters, e-blasts, or grant writing. Contact Andrea at [email protected] or call 239-689-4249.
Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium: Numerous opportunities. Contact [email protected] or call 275-3435.
Naples Botanical Garden Horticulture gardening starts at 8 a.m. Monday through Friday and includes weeding, potting, moving plants, digging, raking,
sweeping, clearing debris, etc. Wear closed toe shoes. No shorts or tank tops. Bring water. Wear sunscreen. Bring work gloves if you have them. Looking especially for groups of students on Fridays. No last minute requests. Give four to five day lead time. If you commit, then can’t make it, give notice. Be on time. Email Sally Richardson at [email protected].
Rookery Bay: Help give out literature, talk to visitors about the Learning Center or assist with children’s craft. Contact Susan Maunz at [email protected] or call 239-417-6310 x412.
Sustainable Living and Interconnected Education (SLIE): So much of what needs to be done will be decently challenging labor, digging, building raised garden beds, constructing water capturing vessels and their gutters. Contact Hunter Preston at [email protected] or 239-245-3250.
Lee County Sheriff ’s Youth Activities League: Help now through summer. Thursday at 3 p.m. at the board meeting, or flyer creation on Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., or telecommute phone via Skype. Contact Katie at 239-898-6090 or [email protected].
Bonita Springs Assistance Office: Help this primary social service agency and serve the community in assisting needs of clients, enhancing public speaking presentations, or writing informational materials. Contact Maribel Slabaugh at [email protected] or 239-992-3034.
Education for Collier Would love strong, committed volunteers. Workshops in the Take Stock program needs students to help in the ACT testing areas of Math, English, Reading, Writing and Science every week. Sessions held at Grace Place in Naples. Choose Monday or Tuesday evening from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Contact Linda Morton at [email protected].
Uncommon Friends Foundation: Are you a history buff? Become a tour guide in a Georgian Revival-style home located on the bank of the Caloosahatchee River in Downtown Fort Myers. Contact Christine Forbes at [email protected] or 239-337-0706.
Grace Community Center
has a multitude of opportunities. Help with an after-school program for at-risk high school students, tutor to GED seekers, thrift store assistance or serve food to neighbors in need. Contact Cheryl Wilcox at [email protected] or 239-656-1320.
FGCU Athletics: Numerous opportunities with game day operations. Serve as ushers for basketball, baseball, softball, and timers for swimming and diving. Contact Will Pitt at [email protected] or 239-590-7055.
Center for Academic Achievement: Want to use your skills and knowledge from a specific FGCU course to help another FGCU student? Then becoming a tutor with the Center for Academic Achievement just might be for you. Service Learning and paid positions available. We are currently looking to fill tutoring positions for summer and fall 2012 in the areas of math (Calculus 1), Biology I and II, Chemistry I and II, Physics, Economics, Statistics (STA 2023). For further information about this volunteer opportunity, contact the Center for Academic Achievement at (239)590-7906 or stop by Library 103.
Abuse Counseling & Treatment (ACT) Second Act Thrift store needs help. The benefit of volunteering is a 50 percent discount. Also, need someone to help this nonprofit agency with a marketing plan for two to three months available. Contact Honara Jacobus at [email protected] or 239-939-2553.
YMCA Help coach basketball, soccer, flag football or assist with events. Contact Lisa at [email protected].
Take Stock in Children, become a mentor. Few bonds in life are more influential than those between a young person and an adult. Take Stock in Children needs mentors for Caloosa Middle School, Dunbar High School, East Lee County High School, Fort Myers High School, Ida Baker High School, Lehigh Senior High School. Call 239-337-0433 or 949-9049.
Information is provided by the Service Learning department. All opportunities are pre-approved. You can find more opportunities on Facebook at “FGCU Service Learning.”
Saturday, March 31 at 12:45 a.m.: An RA stated she could hear loud yelling that sounded like an ensuing fight coming from a room in Pelican Hall. Officers responded to the scene and the situation was ended without further action.
Saturday, March 31 at 8:16 p.m.: A driver was stopped for a traffic violation and attempted to give the officer a fake Illinois driver’s license. After UPD confiscated the fake ID, a valid Florida license was presented and the driver was issued a
warning for the traffic stop.
Sunday, April 1 at 4:35 a.m.: A compliant was filed from the Relay for Life event that reported three subjects who appeared to be intoxicated. They were observed walking around and messing with other participants’ personal belongings. An officer responded to the scene and escorted them off the event field.
Monday, April 2 at 2:02 p.m.: North Lake Village Commons reported a snake seen in
Laundry Room 1. An officer went to the laundry room and noticed a rat at the location. The rat was relocated.
Monday, April 2 at 2:56 p.m.: An abandoned bike was chained to a pole in front of the North Lake Village guard shack. The bike was removed and placed in the bicycle impound area at UPD.
Tuesday, April 3 at 1:50 p.m.: A theft was filed for books that were stolen at the bookstore on March 31. While selling a book,
the suspect took two additional books while the cashier stepped away. The suspects’ identification was obtained from the receipt and was confirmed from the surveillance cameras.
The Police Beat is compiled by Eagle News staff from public logs available at the University Police Department. Police Beat is not associated with the UPD. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
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This year, FGCU’s annual Earth Day celebration has been expanded to four days. Earth Week will kick off Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. and will conclude with a table at Community Engagement Day on Friday. Although the nearly week-long event is themed “Make a Change,” each day will have its own unique topic.
Tuesday’s topic is food.Events include keynote speaker
John Puigfrom from Eden Farm, who will speak at 1 p.m. followed immediately by the Food Choices
discussion panel.Organizer Joan Firth said she
hopes the FGCU community will participate in the open discussion, which will focus on alternative eating habits.
“It’s about making informed choices,” Firth said.
At 4 p.m., students will be offering guided tours of the Food Forest, the student-run garden located on campus near the Sugden Welcome Center.
Tuesday’s festivities will conclude at 8 p.m. on the library lawn with a showing of “Food, Inc.” The movie discusses the nation’s eating habits and gives insight to
food production and distribution trends.
Transportation and exercise combine for the theme of the day on Wednesday. Highlights include yoga at 9:30 a.m. and a longboard race at 6 p.m.
Also on Wednesday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LeeTran will be offering free rides on a new gas-electric hybrid bus to Elevation Burger at Gulf Coast Town Center.
Thursday’s theme is entertainment.
Activities include an art fair and an “everything swap.” Music will be provided by the Wholetones and Sheffield Crew.
Keishla Negron, a senior who has helped organize several Earth Day events has said that she enjoys the variety the week offers.
“I love how each day focuses on different aspects of our lives,” Negron said.
Firth summed up the week by saying, “Its going to be one giant, awesome information party.”
In related news — on Tuesday, April 3, the Students for Environmental Justice held an informational event titled “Environmental Justice, What’s that?”
According to group president Tyler Offerman, there is a lot of
confusion about what exactly environmental justice is.
He said it’s “not justice for trees” and asked, “When people say they throw things away, where is away?”
He said environmental justice deals with fixing an inequitable distribution of environmental burdens such as pollution, crime and other topics.
That’s why the two hour event dedicated nearly all of the first forty-five minutes to discussing the definitions of what Offerman called the “foundations” of environmental justice—concepts such as privilege, oppression and discrimination.
Earth Week ‘giant info party’ about making informed decisions
Priscilla Thompkins of Alva, Fla. is trying to make the world a better place for homeless cats, and one group of students from the service-learning course Foundations of Civic Engagement is determined to help her.
Thompkins’ story about taking in abandoned cats in our area is one that these students found truly touching. She has attempted to reduce the stray cat population by utilizing the trap and release program provided by animal shelters in our community. Through doing this, she has spayed and neutered hundreds of cats, and in the process, she has encountered many neglected cats from domesticated homes that could not survive on the streets. To keep them safe, she has taken many of these cats into her own home so that she can provide them with food and shelter.
Thompkins, with the help of the group of FGCU students,
is now trying to find homes for many of these animals. All of the cats are spayed or neutered and micro-chipped.
“The issue of homeless cats is a sad reality that many people don’t even think twice about,” said Heather Butler, a student from the group working to assist Thompkins.
Butler, a junior majoring in marine science, and fellow students Rebekah Rosenbaum, Alexa Hughes, Hillary Wilcox, Katherine Nelson, Mackenzie Scott, Mireya Acosta, Laura Siebenmorgen and Amanda Ebel are aiming to help Thompkins find homes for these cats.
They are also hoping that by listing her as a non-profit organization on FGCU’s online database, they will provide students with another option to receive service-learning hours.
“We are joininag forces with Thompkins to help decrease the high numbers of domesticated animals found loose in our neighborhoods or dead on our
streets,” Butler said. “We need the help of the community to assist in taking responsibility for the animals in our area by spaying and neutering.”
Please call (239)410-4121 or visit thecatlady.org if you’re able to contribute to this cause or are looking to adopt a feline friend.
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The semester is coming to a close, and so are service learning projects.
Students have worked hard all semester long with community partners, and it is now time to showcase their work on Community Engagement Day. This year, the theme of the showcase event is “FGCU Students-out to change the world!”
With Community Engagement Day quickly approaching, this is the busiest time of the semester for Director of community engagement and service learning, Jessica Rhea.
“This event is an opportunity for students who are actively engaged in service learning experiences to showcase their current projects and highlight the community partner with whom they are working,” said Rhea.
Community Engagement Day is when FGCU and members of the community recognize student accomplishments with in the community and their service learning experiences.
Rhea also said that she hopes
the presentations at Community Engagement Day will motivate others to go out and volunteer.
“The guests will not only be impressed by the work of our students with their community partners, but will be inspired to get out there and get connected as well,” she said.
Students from some civic engagement classes will also be there.
Miles Mancini, an instructor in the department of communication and philosophy and a professor of civic engagement, requires his students to attend and present.
“In the civic engagement class, it’s important to recognize the work of each group of students,” Mancini said.
Mancini added that his students demonstrate what the day is all about.
“My students are exceptional. I am so proud of what they accomplish in a single semester. They demonstrate the importance of civic engagement, community involvement and amazing critical thinking,” Mancini said. “Their projects are almost always out-of-the box thinking, and I love what the IDS classes offer and bring to Community Engagement Day.
They bring a fresh perspective and enthusiasm to service learning.”
Although service learning is a requirement, Rhea feels that students should use this as an opportunity to discover new experiences.
“This is an opportunity to discover your passions, determine your career path, learn, grow, gain additional skills and put your knowledge to work in the real world, make a difference, build your resume, network with potential employers, have an impact in your community, or even change the world,” she said.
Awards presented at the event will include the top prizes of Overall Course Based Service-Learning Project Award and Overall Non-Course Based Service-Learning Project Award, Environmental Excellence Award, Phenomenal First Year Award, Most Engaged Award, High Impact Award, People’s Choice Award, and Commitment to Service Faculty Award. Each award will include either $50 or $100 of prize money to be dedicated to the group’s community agency.
The event will take place on April 13 in the Alico Arena from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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FGCU has signs and posters about studying abroad, but the Rhodes Scholarship offers this opportunity in a way unlike a normal study abroad program might.
The prestigious Rhodes Scholarship provides students with a full scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.
The scholarship, which is more than 100 years old, provided its fi rst recipients with their trip to Oxford in 1904.
Each year the scholarship is offered to 32 young students from all over the United States and Washington, D.C.
There are several qualifi cations applicants must meet when applying, however. The applicant must be a citizen of the U.S., between 18 and 23, and must be making suffi cient academic progress.
Among the other requirements, applicants must also be able to present between fi ve and eight letters of recommendation, a 1000 word essay, offi cial transcripts and proof of citizenship.
Tamara Edwards, scholarship chair for the Honors Program, thinks this scholarship would be benefi cial for more than just a FCGU student if they were chosen.
“It is very benefi cial because it provides for a full scholarship to Oxford in England and it will bring media attention to FGCU, putting our school on the radar for other potential major scholarship funds,” said Edwards.
Sean Kelly, director of the Honors Program has offered to sit down with interested students to discuss the scholarship and help them compile their application materials.
Although the application for 2012 is already closed, the online application for the 2013 session will be available until mid-July of this year.
FGCU will be hosting the Promising Pathways National Conference on Autism on April 14.
This year’s keynote speakers are Temple Grandin and Tristam Smith.
Grandin, an animal research scientist, has high-functioning autism. She is a bestselling author and is listed in TIME magazine’s 2010 top 100 most infl uential people in the world in the “Heroes” category.
In 2010, HBO created the movie “Temple Grandin,” which shows the effect her research has had in the world of autism.
Smith works at the University of Rochester Medical Center as a behavior specialist in the Community Consultation Program in the Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities.
As a researcher, Smith conducts studies toward identifying effective treatments and interventions for children with autism.
This is the fi fth year FGCU has organized the Promising Pathways
conference.“I think we are such a great
resource here. We have a lot of community support, so we thought FGCU would be a good place to organize a conference,” said Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, an assistant professor and one of the founders of the conference.
Salapska-Gelleri hopes the conference, which is free for students and the public, will give parents a renewed sense of hope.
“The reason we wanted to make it free for attendees is because parents are extremely
burdened. This is a lifelong care scenario so they are extremely burdened by the fi nancial costs of it,” Salapska-Gelleri said. “Also, you can imagine that a parent with a child on the (autism) spectrum will try anything.”
The conference begins at 8 a.m. and takes place in Alico Arena.
There are still 200 tickets available for students. To pick up a ticket, stop by the honors offi ce in Reed Hall 155 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Calling all extroverts.FGCU Athletics is conducting
tryouts for Azul, the mascot for the university.
Those attending should be ready to move around and are advised to wear conformable athletic clothing during tryouts.
A key to obtaining the position is to display animation, especially with hands.
“When you’re in the suit, there’s no talking and you can’t make any facial expressions,” said Nick Mattar, the market corporate partnership intern at FGCU. “There are a lot of ways
a person communicates without using facial expressions. You’d go up to a kid and he’ll ask you, ‘Azul, how are you doing?’ And Azul will need to give him a thumbs-up motion with his bird hands.”
Those who are planning to tryout should also be prepared to travel.
“From a marketing point of view, people like meeting with and shaking hands with the mascot. They’re one of the most recognizable symbols of the university brand,” said Denise Da Silveira, director of marking and corporate sponsorship. “They leave a memorable impression.”
Azul recently traveled with the men’s basketball team to the Atlantic Sun tournament. He also traveled with the women’s basketball team for the NCAA
tournament.A potential problem the next
Azul may have is following in the previous mascot’s footsteps.
Tyler Cole was the mascot for the past three years, and he made quite an impression on the student body.
“Tyler (Cole) was willing to do anything for Azul,” Mattar said. “He worked well with cheerleaders and staff, and he knew where to be at the right times.”
Cole warns that the suit is very hot. However, beyond this minor downside, he says the advantages are superb.
During Spring Fling 2010, an event to promote donations for cancer research, Cole danced and chatted with children who had cancer.
“It was so sad. There were all these kids with cancer, and you get to see them smile and escape from their daily lives for a bit,” Cole said. “Their reactions gave me so much energy.”
Cole has advice for those trying out for Azul.
“Go out there with no fear,” he said. “The last Azul’s were afraid to express themselves fully. When I put on my costume, I get a whole different persona. You have to go at it full force.”
The mascot position pays $8 an hour and can be completely anonymous.
Tryouts will be held on Tuesday, April 17 at 5 p.m. at Alico Arena.
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Before every big event, especially a Wiz Khalifa concert, college students tend to pre-game. Pre-gaming usually takes places a couple of hours before an event. Friends will gather, talk about how excited they are for the concert or event and have a couple drinks. But where will students be pre-gaming this year before Nest Fest? Here’s what FGCU students had to say:“It’s my friends birthday that night,” said Stefanie Beauchamp, a junior majoring in athletic training. “We’re just coming to my place to pre-game with a bunch of friends and
celebrate her birthday with some drinks and obnoxious celebrating,” she added.“I will probably pre-game somewhere in San Carlos Park, most likely party hop,” said Matt Borgia, sophomore majoring in sports management. “Most likely, I will be raging in Coastal,” said Kyle Ostroff, senior majoring in sports management.“Biebs Baby, Happy hour at Club Apple is where it’s at,” said Brad Montgomery, a senior majoring in business managementww.No matter where the pre-gaming party is, there will be college kids getting wild.
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&Excitement for Wiz gets higher as Nest Fest gets closer
In previous years, FGCU has had the pleasure of bringing artists like LMFAO, Busta Rhymes, Far East Movement and many others to perform at Nest Fest and Eaglepalooza. As with all of the big concert events in the past, students are anxiously awaiting Wiz Khalifa’s performance at Nest Fest this Friday. Many have started planning all the details, from their pre-game parties down to their outfits.
Wiz Khalifa’s style usually consists of a fitted or snapback hat. Khalifa has been known to rock fitted hats with the Obey label, a brand of mix progressive design and classic street style.
For his shirt apparel, Khalifa wears sports jumpers, sweatshirts or hoodies, along with camouflage jackets accompanied by his Pittsburgh chain or a tank top to show off his tattoos. Khalifa will usually wear fitted dark denim jeans or camouflage shorts. For shoes, he will likely be spotted with Converse on his feet. Here’s what students will be wearing for Nest Fest attire:
“Wiz is the man; I think the world of him,” Montgomery said. “I can only assume that great of a person must be the offspring of Jimmy Hendrix and Mother Teresa.” “I will most likely be wearing jeans, probably a plaid shirt and definitely Chuck Taylors,” Borgia said. “I’ll be wearing a Taylor Gang or Die shirt probably…and maybe some shades,” Ostroff said.“Calvin Klein black briefs, Polo socks, Taylor Gang Shirt, Converse Shoes for me,” Montgomery said. Girls trying to get that Wiz Khalifa look will usually rock out in bright colored tops accompanied by Ran Ban-style colored sunglasses along with folded headbands. Skinny jeans
of any color will do the trick along with Converse’s Chuck Taylors on their feet. “Honeys be wearing all sorts of things, boots and fur is attractive,” Montgomery said.“I’m pretty much just going to stick with something cute and comfortable,” Beauchamp said. “Jeans and a cute shirt will work fine for me. Wiz can keep his style to himself. I
would get exhausted even attempting to dress like him,” she added.“I don’t know what I am wearing yet,” said Arantza Calligari, a junior majoring in communication. “Something that makes me look like a boss,” Calliagari added.
Just because the music stops flowing and the lights turn on doesn’t mean the party stops as well. The fans continue on through the night by simply moving the party elsewhere.“I’m pretty much just going to wing it for after the concert and see what everyone wants to do. I’m sure we will continue the celebrations somewhere,” Beauchamp said.“I’ll do whatever I hear everyone else is doing. I definitely won’t be quitting when the music does,” Ostroff said.“I’m going to a party off 5th Ave. Holla if you’re trying to go,” Montgomery said.
With every drink consumed, one must remember that safety precautions should always be taken. “We always have a DD, especially for Germain, because we can all continue to drink there,” Beauchamp said. “So we usually have one person drive there that doesn’t drink before
and then either call a cab or have someone who gets off work and doesn’t go to the concert pick us up. Taxis are really cheap; we use them all the time. I’m not about to get a DUI and deal with that,” she added.
“Always have a DD,” Borgia said.“I always make sure I have a sober driver to get me there,” Ostroff said.“You can’t take any real precautions because you have to drive to the concert. I guess you should tailgate and try to get on Wiz’s bus so you have a ride home,” Calliagari said.“In order to be safe, wear a helmet, carry protection and don’t get it caught on tape, because that is forever,” Montgomery said. No matter what route you take, just make sure to get home safely at the end of the night...the option of Wiz driving home would be an added bonus.
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Google leads the charge in making science fi ction a reality
Google recently made headlines by unveiling a tech demo for their glasses with augmented reality capability.
Augmented reality is the blending of digital information and the natural world. It can make real life look like a videogame, but more importantly, it allows its users to access real-time information about businesses, weather, or just their email.
Speaking of real-time, Google is also working on developing a live version of Google Earth.
Although Google is expected to be at least ten years off, the company UrtheCast (EarthCast) plans to mount a couple of cameras onto the International Space Station in their own version of a live satellite feed of the Earth’s surface.
UrtheCast’s cameras would theoretically be capable of producing
images with clarity of up to one meter per pixel, giving an excellent view of the planet’s surface.
The medical field is another source of major breakthroughs in the science of making people cyborgs. General Motors and NASA recently co-developed the K-Glove as a counterpart to the first humanoid robot astronaut.
The K-Glove increases grip strength by ten pounds and reduces the risk of repetitive stress injury. Powered by a belt-mounted battery pack, the glove could be used to aid those with muscular dystrophy, atrophy, or arthritis, in addition to its original manual labor purpose.
Despite the device’s serious therapeutic and industrial implications, it hasn’t stopped the Internet from turning it into a big dirty joke (the favorite seems to be late salesman Billy Mays pitching the glove as the “Power Fap.”)
On a smaller, but perhaps a far more
grand scale, BIND Biosciences has reportedly begun human trials on BIND-014, a nanomedicine that could be used to cure cancer. The nanoparticles would attack malignant cells of solid tumors, while leaving alone the surrounding tissue.
All of this developing technology is exciting news but the question is will it work, and if so, when will it be seen on the market?
With new technology becoming increasingly advanced, one is reminded of novelist Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey), a man who predicted the Internet and iPad 50 years in advance.
Even without the marvels described in this article, how often do we stop and think about just how cool all of our stuff is?
As these appliances, gadgets, and devices move us ever closer to a world of which we have long dreamed, we must ask ourselves, “How awesome is tomorrow going to be?”
As summer approaches, so does the time to shed some of the winter weight and get ready to hit the beach. Here are some easy steps and tips that can help with your transition.
Step 1:
Slowly remove carbohydrates from your diet. Don’t neglect carbs completely but lower the amount you take in. Keep the majority of your carb consumption for prior to your workout and after your workout. If you lower your starchy foods,
your body will be forced to look for fuel elsewhere and begin to take away from your body fat.
Step 2:
Lift weights. If you think that you have to do hours of cardio a day to lose fat, that is wrong. You continually get stronger and preserve muscle while eating a clean diet. Your fat will have no choice but to vanish and you will be left with hard earned muscle. “Weight training is one the best methods for increasing your metabolic rate, and helping achieve fat loss and or muscle gain,” said Ali Runyan, a senior
majoring in philosophy.
Step 3:
Increase your aerobic activity. Don’t make this your only source of exercise but doing some light jogging or walking that will supplement your aerobic capacity as well as help with calorie burning. For more advanced fitness enthusiasts, try implementing some type of sprint work, running or biking, or body weight complexes at maximum effort for minimal time with intermittent breaks. This will help condition you and rev up your metabolism.
Step 4:
Increase water consumption. Summer is hot and you sweat a lot; by staying hydrated you will be able to keep you body working harder, longer, and stay fuller and more satisfied throughout the day.
Step 5:
Stay motivated about getting your body in summer shape. If you have fallen off the wagon, you are not alone. It is never too late to start making changes, just start slow by implementing some of these easy strategies.
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All students have heard this statement before, “Clean up your Facebook if you want to get a job someday.” Have you ever thought about what future employees actually have the ability to find in their Google search on you?
BrandYourself is a website that is set up to help individuals use SEO (Search Engine Optimization) without having to pay the big bucks like big corporations do.
The site was started in 2009 by Patrick Ambrom, Pete Kistler, and Evan McGowan-Watson when Kistler could not get an internship in college because he was being mistaken for a drug dealer with the same name that came up on Google before the real Pete did.
“SEO is the process of making content more friendly to search engines. Whenever Google or any other search engine gets a query they have to rank thousands if not millions of pages. They rank them based on how optimized they are for certain keywords (in our
case, for your name). Optimizing your content for your name will make it more likely to show up high in search engine queries,” Trevor Elwell, head of customer happiness for BrandYourself, said.
BrandYourself.com is a website that can help you increase your own chances of getting an internship or a job after college.
“Your first impression is no longer how you act or what you say the first time you meet someone…it’s what shows up when your name is searched on Google,” Elwell said.
The creators could not have made branding yourself any easier and it’s free.
All you have to do is create an account on the site and get started.
Your Google search score is
simply how good you look online. Improving your score is the
whole point of BrandYourself.com.
You are judged by future employers based on the first page of results on Google. If you don’t show up or have any positive relevant information, you are losing job opportunities.
BrandYourself uses their tools to improve your score by filling results with as much positive content as possible. There are a few steps you have to do to start improving your Google search score.
To improve your content, you link different sites or positive articles about yourself to your BrandYourself account.
With the free version of the program, you can upload three different links. These links can include, but are not limited to,
LinkedIn, Twitter, Word Press and Facebook.
Once the links are connected to your account, BrandYourself.com gives you tips on how to make minor changes to these different links to improve your score.
Not only do they tell you what to do, they tell you exactly how to do it with step-by-step instructions.
BrandYourself.com is the first do-it-yourself program to help individuals take control of their online identity. The website has received many awards since its start up in 2009.
These include being named one of the Top 100 Startups run by Entrepreneurs Under 30, one of the Top 5 Collegiate Startups by Entrepreneur Magazine and being the youngest team ever to win the New York State Emerging Business Technology competition.
So take the next step to make yourself stand out and set up an account to protect you as a future employee.
Summer has always been the most anticipated time of the year. You can be certain of a few things in life but you can be rest assured that summer will always bring time off from school, the sun, and the Van’s Warped Tour.
Warped Tour was created in 1994 as a seemingly simple idea to merge extreme sports and music but as the years progressed and the tour grew continuously popular, sports took a back seat and music took the center stage.
Warped Tour is a one day, rain or shine concert that showcases nearly 100 bands for a reasonably priced ticket. Some concert tickets can be as much as $100, but Warped Tour made it their mission to provide even more bands for tickets as low as $25.
The Van’s Warped Tour is a punk-rock circus that travels in tour buses, vans, and trailers to nearly every state for a one-day musical experience.
The bands chosen range from every genre; from heavy metal to hip hop, and the tour houses big
named acts along with up and coming musical acts.
The day is one big rush of adrenaline and time-slots and the bands and the crews work hard days and long hours to give you a day you’ll never forget.
The Van’s Warped Tour has been a humble beginning for some of the biggest acts in music today. Warped Tour has a variety of stages, ranging from the small, secretive stages to the two main stages that lay side by side in the center.
Bands have worked their way from the small stages, plugging away day after day, year after year, to solidify their spot on the main stage. Avenged Sevenfold, Anti-Flag, 3OH!3, My Chemical
Romance, and Bad Religion are among the many musical acts that have spent their months traveling the country in the blistering heat. The title “Punk Rock Summer Camp” has been used time and time again to describe the several months of sweat (mass amounts), blood (crowd surfers, mosh pits) and (happy) tears that Warped Tour consists of.
For the fans, it has become just as much as their year as it is for the musicians.
Though the bands change and the line-ups are changing for the best and the worst, Warped Tour has always been a constant and a place for old friends to meet up.
Warped Tour is the one day of the year where you can see
four or five (or 10 or 15) of your favorite bands and have the chance to meet and speak with your favorite musicians.
A unique and appealing aspect of the tour is the sense of camaraderie that it possesses.
Musicians can take center stage but afterwards, most bands walk around, greeting fans and enjoying the music themselves.
There is a common ground between musicians and fans,
an experience that doesn’t commonly happen at ordinary concerts.
The Van’s Warped Tour runs every year from June to August, just in time for the heat and the sun. This year, the tour will be making its rounds in Florida; Orlando, St. Petersburg, and Miami with bands like Rise Against, Anti-Flag, and Taking Back Sunday among others.
If this summer you find yourself restless and wanting a day of chaos and adrenaline in the sun, take a moment to check out the bands and tour dates at www.vanswarpedtour.com and prepare for an all-out war.
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I applaud bills that p r o t e c t people from harassment. They should have been around a long time before now,
if you ask me. But when does a bill go further than an incident of harassment and have the potential to be applied to anyone?
As soon as Arizona House Bill 2549 passes, that’s when.
This bill makes it “unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.” I think the parts about harassment are pretty noble, but what about the words obscene, lewd, and profane?
Who decides what that is? And who decides where they will go looking for it? The problem with all of these words are that they can be defined differently by different people and that is dangerous. Opinion about what can offend could allow for a broad number of people to be charged with a class 1 misdemeanor in Arizona, which carries a $250,000 fine and up to six months in jail penalty. For what? Dropping an “F” bomb on
a blog post? Saying something offensive in a reply to a message between friends? What about sharing a picture that could be taken the wrong way?
Arizona is attempting to overstep its boundaries and take on people’s free speech rights. While I think people that use words to hurt other people are a despicable lot, the Constitution says they can say what they want. While it is everyone’s right to scroll right past that jackass that always has something smart to say about everything on Facebook, Reditt, or Twitter, where do Arizona lawmakers get off thinking they should be able to censor what is posted?
This is exactly why the First Amendment is so very important. Without it, we the people would have been silenced long ago. If you are wondering why you should care what goes on in Arizona, keep in mind that history shows that what one state can get passed others will try, so there is reason to think Florida is watching.
Mandie is a junior majoring in secondary social science education. She is married with two children and serves on the Board of Directors of C.A.R.E.S. Suicide Prevention.
Attention all liberals: If you travel back in time to election day 1952, you’ll end up voting for the republican nominee, Dwight D.
Eisenhower.I read a quote not long ago from
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow in which she said the following, which at first made me laugh, but then I was inspired to read about the 34th President of the United States:
“I’m undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I’m in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican Party platform.”
In today’s Republican Party, Ike would have the gates slammed in his face faster from the party than Gary Johnson did by the GOP, due to the fact that Eisenhower understood words the republicans today have removed from their vocabulary: Progress and unity.
He launched the Interstate Highway System. He gave us the Saint Lawrence Sea Way, which ocean-going vessels could travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes as far inland as the western end of Lake Superior, and he kept his promise to end the Korean War.
He wanted the rich to pay their fair share by setting taxes for them at 91 percent. He expanded Social Security, and raised the minimum wage by 25 percent.
He created a program called the Department of Health, Education and Welfare with the goal of reducing the number of hungry and uneducated Americans so the economy could be stimulated. He also created NASA, which helped us explore space in the years to come.
He supported Civil Rights by sending federal troops to Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957 to enforce school desegregation. He also reached outside of the continental 48 states; Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states to join our union in 1959.
Ike was the last great republican president this country ever had, and as much as my dad would not want me to
say it, I highly doubt we will see another compassionate and ambitious republican president in my lifetime.
This is thanks to 30 years of endless tax breaks for the rich, two wars that we spent way too much time waging while dividing the country into a million pieces, and bailing out Wall Street while at the same time treating the middle class like unwanted step children.
We say that we love what the firefighters, teachers, police officers, military, librarians, factory workers, plumbers and construction workers do for a living, but we leave them behind and pay them horribly while giving people like Donald Trump in the business world and Snooki in the entertainment world too much airtime. That may be an indication to why most people my age prefer Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert over mainstream news.
Democrats should not be nice to the Republicans for the rest of the year because they have already shown their true colors of being anti-middle class, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-women, etc., while being war-hungry, pro-business, and pro-religion, which they count as being patriotic.
We all know Ike was a part of the nearly 50-year bridge to prosperity, and the first party in 2012 to realize that will take control of the House, Senate and the White House in November while the other party will have to go back to school and learn their history all over again.
Alex is a junior majoring in communication. He enjoys going to concerts, going to Starbucks, listening to his Sirius Satellite Radio, going to the movies, swimming and playing games like UNO and Monopoly. His favorite musicians are R.E.M., Bon Jovi, Elton John and Kenny G. His favorite magazines are Mother Jones, Newsweek and Rolling Stone, which he loves to pick up at the campus bookstore.
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College is a time of change. E a g l e s c h a n g e t h e i r b e l i e f s , t h e i r p o l i t i c s , their sense of style and their hairdos in the blink of an eye. FGCU is like a candy mountain filled with the most beautiful women in the world, which would also explain why men spend most of their time looking at them and changing partners. This quirky single college woman is pretty happy seeing her gorgeous college women and other women. Which brings me to the question, why be monogamous when it’s clearly ridiculous?
In a series of interviews I conducted with guys on campus, one thing was clear: Every girlfriend they have ever had wanted them to change something about themselves, whether it be the slurpy thing they do with their teeth after eating Moes, the way they laugh or the way they dress.
The only things these men ever did change was girlfriends. Guys lose their focus and then ladies, they lose everything. Sex columnist Dan Savage has the right idea.
“Men were never monogamous. Sixty years ago marriage became a property transaction, but instead of allowing women the freedom of concubines, we decided to allow men the same restrictions women were under. We put monogamy at the heart of all relationships gay and straight, putting a tremendous strain on them.” Today’s idea of love
is intertwined with sex. If you love me, you will keep your belt buckled, sir or madame.
In reality, it doesn’t matter if you are in a committed relationship, you will still want that cutie at the bar like macaroni wants cheese: Hot and slathered on top of you.
“When someone meets someone they’re attracted to, and because society has this misconstrued view of romance, they think, ‘Oh, I must not be in love with my partner anymore or else I wouldn’t be attracted to this person,’” says Savage. “A lot of good, loving relationships are destroyed because somebody wants a little variety or isn’t getting a need met, and it explodes the relationship.”
Whether you’re gay, straight, bi, polyamorous or pansexual, I think sexuality is a lot like yoga: It’s flexible, hippie dippie, and no one considers it a sport until they’ve had an excellent
instructor. Everyone should embrace
their desires like a river. There are no magical love beavers that plug it up. Monogamy, as nice as it may sound, isn’t natural. Just look at animals like pandas, dolphins, lions, sea turtles and Newt Gingrinch. Being monogamous does nothing.
It just gives your partner an excuse to make you change something about yourself and then get bored of you. If you’re married or in a relationship, you may find this article disgusting and say, “Ashley, I’m monogamous.” Good for you.
I don’t believe in promiscuity—nothing’s worse than a lobster on your piano, then crabs on your organ. That’s just nasty. I believe in honesty. If you’re going to be in a relationship and be open to emotions and feelings, then you have to be open to each other about what you need sexually.
Essentially, you have to be each other’s stereotypical “prostitute with a heart of gold.”
Don’t view your monogamy as a balloon you could pop. View your monogamy as Britney Spears going to rehab. You can shave your head and beat a car with an umbrella, but a true fan will still buy your CD.
I think way too many people are getting divorced these days, and I want to preserve marriage. The only way that will happen though, is if we define marriage differently.
It’s not black and white, man or woman, open or monogamous. It’s a twisted yoga position. Namaste.
Ashley Scott is a sophomore majoring in journalism with a gender studies minor. She enjoys art, reading, listening to Savage love and drinks more coffee than anyone ever should.
This is in response to “Denying health care is not a’freedom’”. I felt that this piece was pretty one-sided and anti-religious.
Alex Townsend suggests that Catholics have a “me” attitude and that their right to deny
certain health benefits is less important than a woman’s health. I disagree with that. I think the “we” attitude is nice, but it is completely ironic.
I can see your point-of-view though. Providing women with this healthcare can have benefits. However, the use of contraceptives goes against the beliefs of the Church. You are
basically saying there is no room for religion in America. This “me” attitude you claim Catholics (and capitalists) to have could be the same for you.
Denying me the right to practice my religious views just because it is disagreeable to how America works?
I live in a country where I am too scared to share my religious
views. I live in a country where politicians lose their right to faith because it makes church and state not “separate”. I live in a country where I am oppressed just because I don’t want the same laws as you.
I don’t believe we should force ultrasounds either. I think a woman has a right to privacy.
I do not believe people against
the healthcare mandate should be denied their right to religious freedom. I think I have a right to protect my religious views.
You don’t have the “we” attitude either.
You say the “me” people are treating women like second-class citizens, but Catholics are being treated as second class too.
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In response to Alex Townsend’s “Denying health care is not a ‘freedom’” article, I wish to clear up some facts about contraception as “health care.”
The title, in itself, is misleading. “Health care”, by some, is defined as maintaining and encouraging the body’s normal, healthy functions. However, the oral pill, using artificial hormones to trick
a woman’s body and brain into thinking her body is pregnant, restricts normal bodily functions: Ovulation and implantation. In the most basic sense, contraception cannot be considered “health care” because it does not promote and maintain health, with possible health detriments.
The term “preventative care” also does not conform to the function of birth control. “Preventative care,” as termed by Wikipedia, is care to prevent
disease or illness. However, pregnancy is not an “illness” or “disease” but a normal function of a woman’s body.
Furthermore, oral birth control, especially newer brands, greatly increase the risk of potentially fatal blood clots, which can cause strokes, heart attacks or even death. The first and foremost example are Bayer’s Yaz and Yasmin, which were pulled off the market after multiple lawsuits due to serious medical complications
and deaths. Additionally, birth control causes an even higher risk of blood clotting for those with the Factor V Leiden gene—3 out of every 8 people of European descent.
Birth control is not “health care,” nor “preventative care.” Instead of preventing illness or promoting health, it is a drug that controls a woman’s body so that she has a great chance of preventing pregnancy—at the possible expense of her own health and life. Every medication
has potential side effects, and oral birth control is no different.
Ultimately, it is up to each woman to weigh the risks and benefits, talk to her doctor or health care provider, get screened for Factor V Leiden and decide for herself whether she wishes to take birth control, or even have sex at all.
The FGCU women’s tennis team has thrived without head coach Jennifer Gabou, with a winning record in the Atlantic Sun after an upset victory of Stetson.
On April 7, after falling behind 3-0 in the match, FGCU (7-10, 4-3 A-Sun) stormed back with four straight singles wins to beat Stetson on Senior Day.
It marked the fi rst time FGCU has defeated Stetson and improved its home conference record to 4-1.
When he took over for Gabou, who has taken a maternity leave, assistant coach Joey Barnes knew what he was getting himself into.
“We had already planned for a while that I was going to be coaching the team,” Barnes said. “I’ve worked with coach Gabou for a long time and we both have the same philosophy so this worked out great.”
Barnes has seen great improvement while fi lling in for Gabou.
“They’ve all come together and I’m following coach Gabou’s development plan,” Barnes said. “I need to get the girls physically ready and make sure that they are doing the right thing at the right time. Just by their effort alone they’ve improved.”
Barnes notes that the win against Stetson is a step in the right direction.
“This was a great win,” Barnes
said. “We came in and did what we had to do. It could’ve went either way but we came down and put our hearts on the line.”
With two A-Sun matches left (at Lipscomb April 13, at Belmont April 14) before FGCU’s fi rst conference tournament the following weekend, Barnes feel good about the future.
“I think that we are in a good position, but we can be better,” Barnes said. “I think that we’re working hard to be better. This was one (Stetson) that helps us improve and it makes going to the championship better.”
FGCU has leaned on its standout freshman Sarah Means.
At No. 1 singles, Means has seven wins in dual matches, including three in conference.
Means beat her counterpart against Stetson 6-2, 6-2.
“It’s been a diffi cult season, but I am still learning and growing as a player, so it’s been a pretty good year,” Means said. “The win against Stetson was awesome because it was our fi rst win against them so it felt great to be a part of that.”
Barnes has taken Means under his wing and helped with the mental side of the game.
“I worked very hard before I came here, but it’s helpful to have such great coaches,” Means said. “They’ve helped me on the court and in practice and they’ve pushed me to be better. Especially strategy wise and helping me add components to my game.”
Veteran Morgan Bechtel, a junior, notices a new demeanor from her teammates since Barnes stepped in.
“Coach Barnes has had a positive effect,” Bechtel said. “He’s motivated everyone and everyone seems more relaxed.”
At No. 3 singles, Bechtel holds a 9-8 (5-2 A-Sun) dual match record.
She looks forward to her fi rst A-Sun tournament but won’t take the last two regular season matches for granted.
“They’re both conference
matches so we have to win both of these to get a good ranking for the conference tournament,” Bechtel said.
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A s e v e r y o n e k n o w s , b a s e b a l l started last week and so did the new look Miami Marlins.
T h e y c h a n g e d their name, their look and even built a new stadium. They spent more in this offseason on free agents than they did in the last three combined.
They picked up big names like shortstop Jose Reyes, closer Heath Bell and manager Ozzie Guillen.
This year was supposed to be the year that the Marlins go back to the World Series and bring the love of baseball back to Miami.
Things have not started as they planned.
The defending world champion
St. Louis Cardinals embarrassed the Marlins in its home opener.
Miami didn’t get their fi rst hit until the seventh inning and by the time they got their fi rst run they were down 4-0. They’ve won two of their fi rst fi ve and sit at 2-3.
That’s not even the worst of their problems
Loudmouth manager Ozzie Guillen said some things that haven’t gone over so smooth with the Miami community. Guillen told Time magazine for an article published last week that he loves Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and respects him for staying in power so long.
This has set off tons of Cuban-Americans and has even started protests in front of the Marlins ballpark.
Although Guillen didn’t mean to say what he said, his comments were probably the worst that could’ve been said. The majority of the population in Miami is Cuban and the suburb where the ballpark is located is called Little Havana.
Guillen isn’t Cuban; he’s Venezuelan, so given the benefi t of the doubt he probably didn’t know
how much his comments meant to the Cuban community, especially in Miami.
On Tuesday, April 10, the Marlins took the fi rst step in correcting the problem. They suspended Guillen for fi ve games effective immediately.
Is fi ve games the right punishment for Guillen? I don’t think so.
If the Marlins were smart and wanted to make a statement then they would suspend him for a long period of time or even consider fi ring him.
But they won’t do that. They know better. Guillen is the best and worst thing to happen to Miami since they built that thing out in centerfi eld that celebrates (I think?) when a Marlin player hits a homerun.
With the addition of Guillen, season tickets have skyrocketed. The Marlins are the talk of baseball again. But it all comes with a price.
When you hire a loudmouth, he’s going to say things that are detrimental to the team, and that’s exactly what has happened here.
In Guillen’s press conference
Tuesday, which ran for an hour, he apologized numerous times. He said he was embarrassed. He hasn’t gotten sleep. He says that his relationship between him and the Cuban community has been broken.
However this is not the fi rst time Guillen has been in hot water about saying things about Fidel Castro. In a Men’s Journal interview in 2008, Guillen was asked to name the toughest man he knows.
“Fidel Castro,” he said. “He’s a bull---- dictator and everybody’s against him, and he still survives, has power. Still has a country behind him. Everywhere he goes they roll out the red carpet. I don’t admire his philosophy. I admire him.”
He does now. He promises remarks will never happen again. He said today will be the last day he ever talks about politics. That he will try to repair the broken relationship with all the Cuban-Americans.
He’s on a long road up, but he can do it. He can go back to the crazy loudmouthed manager that everyone has grown to love. He can go back to his normal self and fi nally get some sleep.
He can go back to Ozzie being Ozzie.
So Marlins fans, be prepared to hear things you never thought you’d hear a manager say. Get ready for a long season that will be fi lled with ups and downs. Get ready for a season with Ozzie Guillen.
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ENSPORTSWeekly recap
Highlighted by freshman Brett Comer leading the A-Sun and !nishing 28th in the country in assists per game (5.6), the FGCU men’s basketball ranked in top 50 in the country in three di"erent statistical categories in the !nal NCAA rankings.The Eagles ranked 32nd in the nation in steals per game (8.2), 39th in three-point !eld goals per game (7.8) and 49th in three-point percentage (37.4).
Softball
Men’sbasketball
After going 2-0 in the circle, including a two-hit complete-game shutout last week, FGCU softball freshman Shelby Morgan was named the Atlantic Sun Pitcher of the Week for the !rst-time in her career, as announced by the league o#ce on Monday for the week of April 3-8.
Lowering its team score by four strokes in the second round of the 2012 Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, the FGCU women’s golf team now sits in tie for !fth place on the nine-team leaderboard heading into Wednesday’s !nal round of play at the Venetian Bay Golf Club in New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
Women’s golf
Sand volleyball
The Florida Gulf Coast sand volleyball team hosts its !nal home match of the season on Wednesday, April 11 vs. in-state foe FAU. The match, which will be played at Estero Community Park, is set to begin at 2:00 p.m.
The FGCU baseball team may have been an enormous underdog going into Tallahassee to face the nation’s second ranked team – the Florida State Seminoles on Wednesday, April 4, but with a 5-1 victory they left the state capital with only the second win against a ranked opponent in the program’s history.
Following the win that shocked the college baseball world, FGCU coach Dave Tollett wasn’t afraid to classify the upset as the most significant win that the Eagles’ entire athletics program has ever pulled off.
“It’s the biggest win in school history,” Tollett said. “No one on any level or anyone on our sports programs has beaten a team ranked that high – the No. 2 team in the country. It’s a good win for a bunch of young kids. It’s a feather in our cap, and hopefully it’s something we can build off of. It’s a tough schedule. We play the toughest schedule around. So we’ve just got to
keep playing.”What was expected to be a
two-game series between the ACC powerhouse, FSU, and FGCU of the mid-major Atlantic Sun Conference was cut in half due to a rainout on Tuesday, April 3.
Once the Eagles picked up their bats the next day in the top of the first inning they made it loud and clear that they were there to play, not to fold over to one of the big boys. First baseman Sean Dwyer’s two out double to left center drove in the game’s first run, and a single up the middle by Brandon Bednar drove him in to give FGCU an early 2-0 lead.
Neither team was able to push across another run until the Seminoles scored their first in the sixth. The Eagles, however, responded immediately with three runs in the top of the seventh, suddenly giving them a four run lead late in the ball game at 5-1.
A Zach Tillery one out RBI single, a wild pitch with a runner on third, and a sacrifice fly by Brady Anderson
brought about the key runs that allowed FGCU to pull away in the seventh.
Starting pitcher Harrison Cooney picked up his first win of the season for FGCU with just one hit surrendered in four innings of shutout work. R.J. Brown replaced him in the fifth and allowed FSU’s only run in one and two thirds innings.
Brown gave up two hits, but Jack English and Jason Forjet, who combined to finish off the final three and one third innings, did not give up any more; meaning FSU had a total of just three hits on the game.
During a season where offense, defense, and pitching haven’t hit on all cylinders at times, this victory was a complete team effort in all three phases.
“Team, man, team,” Bednar said. “That’s how we won, with everybody doing their thing. That’s what got us the win.”
“We played tough, they had just gotten ranked number two,” shortstop Alex Diaz said. “We knew it was going
to be a tough game and we came out, we pitched well, we did everything perfect.”
So did Tollett ever believe that his group of players, which consists of mostly underclassmen, could make such history by taking down one of the country’s superior baseball teams?
“Oh, without question,” Tollett said. “I mean, we went to Florida (University of Florida) and played the No. 1 team and we were in every ball game. We just needed a hit here or there. At Florida State we got a couple of hits, we got a good staff pitching performance and it was a good ride back from Tallahassee, for sure.”
After being swept in a doubleheader back home on Friday, April 6 by Mercer, the Eagles were able to win the final game of the series, 4-1, on Saturday, April 7.
“We’re feeling good,” Diaz said. “We’ve got a couple of mid-week games. Mid-week games are tough, but we’re going to go out the same way we went to FSU. We’re going to go out, do our thing, and hopefully get W’s.”
Through all of the ups and downs the FGCU men’s tennis team has faced this season, the senior leadership of Matt Rock and Steve Binninger stayed constant.
The Eagles hold a 6-8 (3-4 Atlantic Sun) record and sit fifth in the conference after losing to Stetson 5-2 on Senior Day last weekend.
Under first-year coach C.J. Weber, FGCU has rebounded from a 2010-2011 season where it finished 1-9 in the A-Sun.
Weber credits Rock and Binninger, two seniors who were here years before the new coach arrived, for building a foundation.
“These guys (Rock and Binninger) provided the leadership that I needed in order to establish a strong foundation to build a successful program,” Weber said. “They both offer leadership in different ways, but both of them bought on to the system that I wanted to implement right from the beginning, and that’s where it starts from the top.”
Rock played in his final home match on April 7 and earned a singles victory for the Eagles against Stetson.
“I couldn’t be more happy for Matt (Rock) because it’s a really special day and players handle it differently,” Weber said. “Some players get really tight, some players get really loose and everything feels
amazing, and they just want to close out their senior year on a bang and everything. I just saw Rock playing really good tennis at the end. He was really fired up, really energetic, and that’s how you want to leave.”
Rock battled back after losing his first set, to win in a third set super tiebreaker.
“I started off with really high energy and kept going, then he (Rock’s opponent) fought his way
back into it,” Rock said. “I lost the first set and then kept going because I knew I could beat this guy. I fought my way back in, he fought his way back, then I just really wanted to win, so I took it.”
While he hasn’t seen the court much this season, Binninger, a redshirt senior who has been here since 2007, has shown leadership off the court that has been recognized not only by his teammates, but also by FGCU.
Binninger was honored as the first-ever FGCU student-athlete to be named to the 2012 FGCU Hall of Fame on April 2.
The FGCU Hall of Fame is for students who have demonstrated leadership, integrity and achievement through leadership activities and service during their time here.
Binninger was involved in the NCAA Self-Study Subcommittee on Academic Integrity, Athletics Health and Wellness Standing Committee, Gender Equality Subcommittee, The National Advisory Committee and the Hiring Committee for Athletic Director Ken Kavanagh.
“I prefer to lead by example,”
Binninger said. “A lot of people understand my character. They understand that I think that leading is a responsibility. They trust me in all my endeavors. Everyone has been very supportive of me throughout my tenure here. My teammates have been very supportive of me, and I’ll continue to pursue excellence.”
Binniger didn’t see the court much in his career, playing in a career high 20 matches last season, but peers admire his character.
“I wish Steve (Binninger) would have had more of an opportunity to play,” Weber said. “I know that he really wanted that, but he still played a very integral role on this team, and from the outside looking in it’s very difficult to understand that, but in every aspect of Steve’s life he exudes excellence.”
The 2012 season isn’t over yet though for these seniors, as FGCU’s goal of making its first A-Sun Tournament remains as they face Lipscomb and Belmont in Nashville this weekend to close the regular season.
Seniors provide rock for rookie coach