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Shelby SmitheyStaff Writer
Thousands of students, 12,021 to be exact, flooded the parking lots and buildings on the fisrt day of school last Monday, Aug. 22, making this year the highest in enrollment in University of West Florida history.
Since last fall, the univer-sity has had a 2.7 percent increase in enrollment, adding
321 additional students. More surprising however, is a whop-ping 20 percent increase in total freshman enrollment, with 1,463 freshman joining the UWF family this year.
The university can also boast about a 75 percent reten-tion rate, which means that 75 percent of first-time students who enrolled in 2010 returned this year.
“It is an exciting day at
UWF as we open the new academic year,” President Judy Bense said in a news release. “We are getting bigger, stronger, better and meeting our goal of purposeful growth.”
According to the news release, Bense was not expect-ing 12,000 students until the fall of 2012, but her goal was reached a year early. With an increase in students, however,
concerns have arisen about space, especially parking.
Ciara Garrett, a biology major who transferred from Pensacola State College this fall, experienced something on her first day many UWF students already view as an everyday occurance.
“People told me coming to UWF was going to be a lot different than PSC,” she said.
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Student enrollment hits all-time high
Jade HoyStaff Writer
Sticking to her Master Plan this year, University of West Florida President Judy Bense has many new addi-tions that are popping up all over campus. This includes a new residence hall, a Papa John’s pizzeria, new parking lots and other state-of-the-art buildings.
The new residence hall, Presidents Hall, is currently under construction and is predicted to be complete by fall 2012. The five-story building is expected to house 252 students, according to Ken Klindt, director of Facilities, Planning, Maintenance and Construction at UWF.
The new residence hall is being built directly across from Heritage Hall and is expected to be a mirror image of it, with a new courtyard in between them. An area of more than 18,000 square-feet was cleared for the hall, and the courtyard will house a convenience store and a Papa John’s pizzeria.
Kimberly Brown, chief of staff in the Office of the President, said the budget for Presidents Hall is $18 million. Bonds are being used to pay for the immediate cost of building the facility, and other fees paid by future residents will reimburse the lenders.
A new College of Business facility is also under construction. Klindt said more than 13,000 square feet were cleared for the facility and a large courtyard.
“We broke ground on a new state-of-the-art College of Business facility in the spring,” Brown said. “Construction
is ongoing, and it will open in fall 2012.”Brown said the budget for the project is $14.8 million,
to be paid for by Public Education Capital Outlay, a specific construction project grant approved by the Florida Legislature.
Smaller improvements have been made campus-wide as well. New benches and picnic tables have been installed along Campus Drive near Pace Hall, overlook-ing the scenery of the UWF campus.
Maintenance members have also been working hard to put up new off-white signs along Campus Drive direct-ing students to buildings, easy-to-see department signs outside buildings. The old blue signage will be removed once all the new signs are in place.
To reduce frustration and inconvenience caused by the mass amount of construction, officials have made some other changes to help with the transition.
The new parking lot E has been opened behind the Health, Leisure and Sports Facility. It has 110 spots open to all UWF parking permit holders.
“Maintenance personnel worked extremely hard over the summer to lay the new parking lot pavement with a very short time limit,” Klindt said. “They did a great job.”
Parking and Transportation Services announced on its website that lot Z and the outer rows of lot Y are now open to all permit holders, as well.
A third trolley was added on campus to help with the large addition of new students. This brings the total up to three. Brown said the additional trolley has reduced wait-ing times from 15 to seven minutes.
A trolley passes by lots Y and Z every seven minutes in order to help with the inconvenience of walking from these overflow lots.
“We added a third trolley to better facilitate move-ment around campus,” said Chip Chism, Parking Services manager.
Photo by Joslyn Rosado
Presidents Hall is one of the newest additions to the UWF campus. It is being built directly across from Heritage Hall and will house 252 students. A courtyard and a Papa John’s pizzeria are also being built between the two halls.
n Improvements planned, much of campus remains under heavy construction
UWF expansion begins
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After an abundance of success in recent years, the men’s and women’s soccer teams look to continue winning GSC championships and national appearances, as they chase the ultimate goal of winning a NCAA national title.
Soccer teams prepare for fall
9/11 conspiracies; Master Plan blues
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The UWF Salsa club, Pura Sabrosura, meets Thursday nights to showcase their talents and give students free dance lessons.
UWF sorority recruitment and fraternity rush are happening in September.
Salsa club teaches;Greek life begins
Opinions editor W. Paul Smith discusses the preva-lence of 9/11 conspiracies as the 10-year anniversary of the attacks approaches.
In a letter to the editor, a student discusses what the “Master Plan” may bring to UWF.
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Annual fall event showcases student
organizationsMorgan SmithStaff Writer
UWF students, faculty and staff will have another reason to look forward to fall, besides the cooler weather.
Fall Frenzy is sure to draw a crowd of inter-ested students who want to become more involved to Health, Leisure, and Sports Facility. The event will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and includes free food, free T-shirts and plenty of information to acquaint students with the many organizations available to students at UWF.
With the fall semes-ter already in full swing, both new and return-ing students can find out all the information they could want to know about student organizations and more at this annual event.
Representatives from the different student organizations will host tables for their specific clubs, teams or groups and provide students with organization sign-up sheets. Many will also provide handouts detail-ing important information about their organizations, such as group membership requirements and meeting time and location.
U W F S t u d e n t Organizations Graduate Assistant Jordan Lore said the majority of planning
for the event took place during the spring semester and has been a tradition at UWF for several years.
Lore adds that a variety of student organizations have decided to participate in the Fall Frenzy activities this year, and there should be something for every interest.
“Fall Frenzy is open to all registered student organizations at UWF,” she said. “At this time we have close to 80 registered student organizations signed up to host a table at Fall Frenzy 2011. I’m very excited about the initiative the student organizations have taken.”
“We have a variety of student organizations, all with unique passions and purposes,” she said. “There really is some-thing for everyone, and my hope is for students who attend Fall Frenzy to learn about the opportu-nities and value student organizations can offer to their college experience at UWF.”
T h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l Student Association, a s tudent organizat ion whose target is to familiar-ize international students with their new college environment, is one of the organizations registered to host a table at Fall Frenzy.
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Stats: President Bense reaches goals“On my first day, I was followed through the park-ing lot by people wanting my parking spot.”
Tyler Massey, a senior studying marine biology, said he already has simi-lar concerns with park-ing, especially if they are going to keep added more students.
“I think expanding UWF is great, but the first
thing they need to expand is parking,” he said.
UWF has, in fact, added new parking spaces since last spring. However, these spaces are in an overflow parking lot, which are quite a distance from where many classes are located.
Another issue comes into play with the addition of more student, the small
classroom sizes.Eighty-three percent of
classrooms at UWF hold 60 or fewer students, and the university would like to keep it that way. According to the news release, UWF will add 23 new faculty members and additional sections of courses.
The university wants to ensure that class sizes remain small and that
students continue to receive one-on-one assis-tance from faculty.
“Growth is necessary and adds to the vitality of our campus and region,” Bense said in a news release. “We are making investments to ensure that even as we grow, we main-tain our niche of small class sizes and personal-ized attention to students.”
Campus art sculpts interest
Nicole YeakosStaff Writer
They’re everywhere: in the library, in front of the gym and outside vari-ous buildings and class-rooms. Eerily captivat-ing and boasting a stop-and-stare kind of beauty, the University of West Florida’s sculpture collec-tion is definitely something to stare at.
But once the surprise of seeing such a strange sculpture is over, a series of questions arises. What is this thing? How did it get here? Who made it? And why is it lit 24/7? Have no fear, curious sculpture enthusiasts. All uncer-tainties of these strangely elegant art forms can now be put to rest.
Florida’s Art in State Buildings program is ulti-mately responsible for the existence of these creations. The ASB program allows
for 0.5 percent of a build-ing’s architectural costs to be set aside for public art.
One of the most commonly seen sculptures is the geometric gran-ite sculpture between the field house and the Health, Leisure and Sports Facility.
UWF Director of Recreation Bill Healey said a committee reviewed over 500 artists’ submis-sions and had on-campus interviews with three of them. Artist Robert Sindorf was chosen for his piece, Nautilus Freed, symboliz-ing “the act of becoming.”
Sindorf’s main plan for the sculpture was to create a central meeting place for students between these two high traffic areas, rein-forcing the symbol of the university’s power.
This is quite similar to the structure on the oppo-site side of campus.
A kaleidoscope of color sits outside Building 41,
also known as the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences. The Nerve, by Marlo Bartels, is a brightly colored, abstract image of a neuron. This sculpture is literally meant to make students stop, think and take in the art.
Bartels shows a simi-lar interest in thought as John Davis, the creator of another commonly seen sculpture on campus.
D a v i s ’ M i n d i n Motion is the newest installment of artwork at UWF. It stands in front of the recently erected Building 4, the School of Science and Engineering. This steel masterpiece shows a robotic arm riding on the curve of an inclined
plane, ironically forming the shape of a nautilus. It is meant to represent the hands-on learning that is the main approach of the department.
All outdoor sculptures on campus, including these three, are lit at night in order to show respect for the work and the artists.
“It’s crucial to have that exterior lighting,” said Amy Bowman, UWF’s Art Gallery director. “We want to treat these sculptures as if they were in a museum or gallery.”
B o w m a n s a i d t h e new Counsel ing and Wellness Center, as well as the soon-to-be new College of Business, will feature two more brow-raising sculptures.
Photos by Joslyn Rosado
Polished granite sculpture outside HLS Facility.
The sculpture in front of the School of Science and Engineering building is meant to resemble a nautilus.
Opinions &
ditorialsE3Opinions Editor,
W. Paul Smith [email protected]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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W. Paul SmithOpinions Editor
As we quickly approach the ten year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks,
a new survey has been released by the BBC finding that about 14 percent of respondents in the U.K. and 15 percent of respondents in the U.S. still believe the attacks were orchestrated by the American government and not Al Qaeda.
I really thought we were through with this nonsense, but turns out the tin foil hat crowd is still alive and well.
At full disclosure, I was once one of these people — somewhat, anyway. I never fully believed 9/11 was an “inside job” as they say, but I did once dabble in the conspiracy world for a moment there until I came to my senses back in 2003.
Conspiracies about 9/11 are nothing new and have been floating around since almost immediately after the attacks.
In other parts of the world, the conspir-acies are even more widely accepted.
According to a poll conducted by World Public Opinion in 2008, over half of the citizens in China and Indonesia think someone besides Al Qaeda was respon-sible.
In Mexico and Turkey, nearly a third
think the U.S. government was behind the attacks. And apparently over a third of the respondents in Egypt and Jordan think Israel orchestrated the attacks — which would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
While I would love to painstakingly go through each and every ridiculous claim about 9/11 made by the conspiracy kooks (something I have done many times before), there simply isn’t the space available to tackle the moun-tains of insanity associated with these conspiracy theories.
But suffice it to say, they are rife with junk science, bogus speculation and conjecture, and wildly inaccurate depic-tions of the facts of that tragic day.
For example, the conspiracy theorists claim that the World Trade Center towers fell not because of the planes hitting them but because of controlled demolition explo-sives planted in the buildings.
Much of this theory hinges on the erroneous notion that the steel beams in the building would have needed to melt
in order for the towers to fall, and jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel.
The reality is that the steel didn’t need to melt, but just had to lose its structural integrity to cause the buildings to fall.
And then there’s the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. The 52-story WTC 7 also fell on 9/11, and the conspir-
acy kooks have latched onto this as more evidence of controlled demoli-tion.
However, in my opinion, there’s no better evidence against the controlled-demoli-tion theory than the collapse of WTC 7.
The notion is that the shadow government (or
whoever it is the kooks think orchestrated the attacks) wanted to create the elaborate, meticulous illusion that terrorists hijacking planes were responsible for the towers fall-ing, but in reality, they would plant explo-sives in the buildings, right?
Well, why would they just blatantly take out WTC 7 when everyone knows no planes hit that building? Why use the illu-sion of planes at all if you’re just going to
blow up another building in front of every-one without the use of planes?
Of course, the more likely explanation is that WTC 7 collapsed because the building was right next to the towers when they fell and lost its structural strength as collateral damage.
Granted, the Bush administration won themselves no favors in dispelling the conspiracy notions. There is no question that 9/11 was used to justify everything from ramming through the Patriot Act to invading Iraq.
But if anyone was even remotely surprised the Bush administration took advantage of the attacks politically, then you must not pay close attention to politics.
Yet here we are, 10 years later, and the conspiracy theories still live on in the minds of nearly one out of seven Americans accord-ing to the BBC poll.
I empathize with the desire to question the official version of the events. I think it’s good to practice healthy skepticism, but the 9/11 conspiracies are about as bat-shit insane as you can get.
If serious research and common sense do nothing to debunk these ridiculous theories, then I would submit that you’re perhaps either blinded by the ideology of simply wanting there to be a conspiracy — or you’re just wearing a tin foil hat.
Ten-year anniversary of 9/11 plagued by conspiracies
“I think it’s good to practice healthy skepticism, but the 9/11 conspiracies
are about as bat-shit insane as you can get.”
Freedom WhitingContributing Writer
In full disclosure, I do not like Gov. Rick Scott. And appar-ently I am not the only person
who does not like Scott. According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, Scott has a 29 percent approval rating. Essentially, that makes him the worst governor in the United States.
And I’m not just hating on the guy. Sure he looks like Skeletor or the more-evil twin brother of Lex Luthor. However, I have good reasons to dislike Scott.
For one, his $615 million cuts to Florida’s $69 billion state budget. Scott claimed that the cuts were for “short sighted, frivolous, waste ful spending.”
Of course, he never mentions what the so-called “frivolous” spend-ing was. It turns out that some serious programs were cut: home-less veterans, meals for poor seniors, a council for dea fness, a children’s hospital, cancer research and whooping-cough vaccines for poor mothers. Plus there was a $305 million cut to Florida Forever, which is Florida’s premier conserva-tion and recreation lands acquisition program, i.e. the reason anybody even visits Florida.
And after running on a campaign of “job creation,” Scott rejected $2.3 million in federal funding for construc-tion of a high-speed railway that would have created thousands of jobs.
Also, let’s not forget about Scott passing a law requiring people who receive welfare assistance to pass annual drug tests to collect benefits. Everyone seemed so excited as they said that “people on welfare shouldn’t get taxpayer money to pay for drugs.”
These same people, along with Scott, believe that drug use is higher among
people who are on welfare. Well, since the testing started,
preliminary data shows that only 2 percent of those tested were positive for drugs. So there goes that theory of “welfare equals drug use.”
Scott also claimed that the state would save money by not having to give public money to subsidize welfare drug habits. Well, since 96 percent passed the drug test — 2 percent did not take the test — the state has to reimburse the $30 out-of-pocket fee to pay for each test. Plus Florida tax dollars must pay for staff and admin-istrative costs for the drug-testing program. Columnist Steven Benen
points out that the drug-testing policy is limited to low-income Floridians needing temporary aid. “It doesn’t apply to everyone seeking public funding,” Benen said, “only the poor, who the governor assumes are probably drug-addicts.”
The good news for Scott is that he founded Solantic Corp., the company that administers the test. According to the St. Petersburg Times, Scott maintains that he has no involvement in the company, but he does have $62 million worth of the company’s shares contained in a blind trust under his wife’s name. So it’s safe to say that Scott is set to get a nice financial gain from his drug-testing law.
The worst part of it all Scott is doing what he campaigned on, which shows the 2010 election was a referendum on President Barack Obama and not the real issues that matter to Floridians.
“Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead once said, “If Floridians knew as much about Rick Scott as they did Casey Anthony, Florida would be in a better place now.” Preach on, sister!
Rick Scott is the worst governor in the country
“Sure he looks like Skeletor or the more-
evil twin brother of Lex Luthor. However, I have good reasons to dislike Rick Scott.”
The new semester at University of West Florida seems to be centered around one idea: change.
The main topics for discussion on campus have been the construction that seems to be on every corner, new signs, changes in the prices of parking permits and other fees, and the ever-present talk of a football team and new athletic facilities.
We don’t need to wait on new buildings or a football team to start the shift toward a more traditional experience for UWF students, though.
There’s a student life already at this University, if only more students would participate in it.
If there’s anything that we at The Voyager have noticed that appears to be off about the atmosphere at UWF, it’s the apathetic attitude that seems to be shared by much of the student body.
We’ve even caught ourselves expressing less-than-enthusiastic thoughts about how exciting student life is on campus.
It’s up to the students for that to change. It’s not going to come with big announcements from President Judy Bense or new signs on campus.
It’s going to happen when more students show up at on-campus events or get involved in the clubs that are meant to bring people with common interests together.
Bense and the administration continue to push the idea of eventually straying away from the “commuter college” reputation that UWF has earned in the past. Why not change it now?
— The Voyager
Students should get involved on campus
I think there needs to be a school-wide survey on how students feel about this whole moving-forward process.
I personally do not want to put any of my money towards new athletic facilities.
I am not against a football team.
However, I think Judy Bense is moving the school away from the values that it was founded on.
Many students I have talked to came to this school because of the small classes, and beautiful envi-ronment on campus.
If I wanted to attend a big univer-sity with a football team, I would have
gone to Florida State University or the University of Florida.
I enjoy the small friendly atmosphere of UWF.
I also really enjoy all of the nature trails on campus.
UWF was built to be a small University that had respect for nature.
UWF was not established to become a huge university that has
lost its respect for nature.
— Raechel Vecchio UWF student
Changes would tarnish campus environment, university’s nature-friendly atmosphere
“UWF was not established to
become a huge university that has lost its respect for
nature.”
Letter to the editor
Josh CooperStaff Writer
The University of West Florida is pleased to welcome a theatri-cal power couple to the theatre department this year.
The married profes-sors Sam Osheroff and Kristin Danford wil l both be teaching acting. Danford will focus in musical theater and Osheroff will teach classes on general acting.
Osheroff and Danford have a plethora of acting experience working as professional actors in New York. They moved to Vermont after having their daughter, Stella Grace.
They had been looking for work when Charles Houghton, the chair of the Department of Theatre, contacted Danford about an opening at UWF as a musical theater instruc-tor.
“Kris was recom-mended to us,” Houghton said. “During the inter-view process, we found out about Sam.”
He said the school is
lucky for them both to be on the faculty.
“They are going to bring a neat, new energy to the program,” he said.
Glenn Avery Breed, a theater instructor at UWF, said he is excited about bringing them onboard.
“It’s just exciting that they got to come as a duo,” Breed said.
Osheroff and Danford both said they are excited about this new opportu-nity.
“It’s been going well,” Osheroff said. “But it’s only been two days.”
They seemed to be adjusting well to the tran-sition of jobs and states.
“We did our master’s in Sarasota for a bunch of years,” Danford said. “I’m not a stranger to the
Florida heat.”They have big plans
for the year. Osheroff is directing the annual “A Christmas Carol” and “The Laramie Project,” a docudrama about the murder of a gay student named Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo.
Osheroff said the “The Laramie Project” is not about gay rights as much as “what happens to a community after something unspeakable happens.”
Danford is directing “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” in the fall semester and “Seussical: The Musical” in the spring.
The theatre depart-ment encourages students to come see what they have to offer.
Katherine CorderoStaff Writer
At Welcome Week events before the semester began, sorority and frater-nity members passed out pamphlets of information to new students promot-ing upcoming recruitment and rush.
Instead of reading the pamphlets, many students took the pamphlet and threw it away soon after. Some students such as freshman, Monika Hauck, 18, did this because they believe that fraternities and sororities consist of drama and partying.
“When I think greek life, I think of peppy, happy people that party,” Hauck said. “I feel like there is also a lot of drama that is associated with it.”
Patrick Stepina, 21, of the Sigma Chi fraternity, believes time manage-ment is something to be considered when consid-ering going Greek.
“If you can’t manage your time, Greek life isn’t for you,” Stepina said.
Raul Martinez, 21, also a member of Sigma Chi, also believes time management impacts one’s decision.
“It definitely takes up time. However I feel like it’s a big push to keep a high academic standard,” M a r t i n e z said.
E m i l y B r e u e r , 19, a UWF sophomore, chose not to go Greek because of the costs associated, w h i c h i s often in the thousands.
“I know that it costs a lot to be a member of a sorority, and frankly I just can’t afford it,” Breuer said.
Jenny Hasseltine, 21, president of National Panhellenic Council, said her sorority has helped her raise her GPA and
earn scholarships. It has also given her great
n e t w o r k i n g opportunities.
“Right now I am president of Panhellenic and I’ve never had this many o p p o r t u n i -ties to serve,” H a s s e l t i n e said. “Being invited to hear Judy Bense announce to a select group of individuals that we’re going to get a football team, before she announces it to the whole
school, that’s amazing.”For more information
on sorority recruitment and fraternity rush, visit www.uwf.edu/greekaff.
Chad SandersContributing Writer
Pensacola’s Chainsaw Kelly is a band that gets it. Though schooled in the classics, they don’t try to sound retro. On their soon-to-be-released EP, “Dog Days,” they strip the blues down to its bones.
Pensacola nat ives Brandon Smith and Michael “Chainsaw” Daw founded Chainsaw Kelly about five years ago.
They speak fondly of those early days, when they played on the street for change and recorded in random bathrooms and hallways.
“We played a lot of Delta blues, just jamming on banjo, guitar, a lot of harmonica,” Smith said.
The band has shifted over the years to a fuller, electric sound, with Brandon on guitar, Daw on bass and harmonica, and new-comer Chris Whinskey behind the drums.
“Dog Days” was recorded half at home and half by Sean Peterson of the now-defunct Third Floor Studio in downtown Pensacola.
The title track of the new EP recalls the beauti-ful irony of the blues: You can sing about bad things, and it makes people feel good. Daw plays harmon-ica on the track. Through most of the song, his notes creep and slither around the lyrics like a snake.
As Brandon delivers
the final lines of the song, former drummer Matt Nichols starts to ride the snare with no mercy, and Daw plays the harmonica like it’s the night before prohibition. The groove builds to a climax and ends abruptly, leaving the listener wanting more.
“Pinecone Blues” is the stand-out track on the EP. It was recorded less than a week after the band’s origi-nal drummer quit, but they didn’t let it slow them down.
Daw and Smith recorded all the instruments on this track including percus-sion. The song is more simple and folkier than the others on the EP. Just like the lyrics say, the band is
“going home,” both lyrically and spiritually.
Daw said this is one of his favorite tracks on the album. “It’s kind of how the band started,” he said, “just me and Brandon.”
Chainsaw Kelly will hold an EP release show on Sept. 2 at the Handlebar, at 319 N. Tarragona St. The show starts at 10 p.m. with opening acts Pioneers O’
Pioneers and Lucid Lions. There will be a $5 cover charge.
Future plans for the band include releasing a full-length album and moving to Birmingham, A l a . , w h e r e S m i t h currently lives. The band said they still plan to stay current in the Pensacola scene and will return to play
shows from time to time.
Life &
ntertainmentE4
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
L&E EditorRebecca Barnhart
Chainsaw Kelly cuts deep
Couple brings taste of Big Apple to UWF
Photo special to The Voyager
The local blues band, Chainsaw Kelly, will be performing in Pensacola on Sept. 2.
Photos special to The Voyager
Kristin Danford, right, and Sam Osheroff, left, are two new UWF professors in the theatre department. The married couple is coming from New York to teach general acting and musical theater.
Photo special to The Voyager
Sigma Chi brothers take a water break during a basketball game for Greek Week 2010.
Opinions mixedon going Greek
❱❱ Rundown
n Chainsaw Kelly is a local blues band.n Brandon Smith, Michael “Chainsaw” Daw and Chris Whinskey play a variety of instruments.n Their upcoming show is on Sept. 2 at the Handlebar at 319 N. Tarragona St. n Opening acts Pioneers O’ Pioneers and Lucid Lions will start at 10 p.m. $5 cover charge.
Photo special to The Voyager
Chainsaw Kelly’s three members practice for a show.
❱❱ Rundownn Sorority recruitment is Sept. 7-11. The fee is $40. Dress to impress. Wear business casual the first night and it will get more dressy. Information nights are Aug. 31 and Sept. 2. n Fraternity rush is Sept. 12-15. The fee is $5. Dress casual. Events will include a pizza night, shrimp boil, bowling and a BBQ.n UWF currently has 15 active Greek organizations, including 11 national chapters and four campus chapters. The Greek community at UWF was founded in 1967.
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Delta Phi Lambda, an Asian interest sorority, poses in the UWF Auditorium.
“We did our master’s in Sarasota for a bunch of years. I’m not a stranger to the Florida heat.”
—Kristin Danford
Theater professor
Introducing to the stage...
If you can’t manage
your time, Greek life isn’t for
you.”—Patrick
StepinaSigma Chi
brother
L&E/5The Voyager www.thevoyager.net Wednesday, August 31, 2011
danceRachel GilesStaff Writer
“One taste is all it takes” is the spicy slogan for Pura Sambrosura, the University of West Florida salsa club.
Pura Sabrosura meets Thursday nights at 7 p.m. in the Green Room Studio in the Health, Leisure and Sports Facility. The club offers free salsa dance lessons to all UWF students and faculty, and non-students may attend as a guest of a UWF student with a $5 gym fee.
“We do performances on campus and outside of Pensacola,” Pura Sabrosura’s club president Nelson E. Sierra said. “We also do events and socials. Our first one will be Sept. 10 in the Argo Galley in the evening.”
Sierra said that his favorite thing about teaching salsa in Pura Sabrosura was “seeing everyone else fall in love with it.” He said he learned how to salsa through Pura Sabrosura and has now been danc-ing and performing for about a year and a half.
Pura Sabrosura, which is Spanish for “Pure Flavor,” was created in November 2009 and officially became a UWF club in
September 2010. The class is avail-able to all skill levels and teaches several different salsa techniques each lesson.
Founder Clarence “Crombie” Abercrombie said he loved seeing all the new faces each week in the class, and that the club taught students “how to socially dance, so they can go out and have a good time.”
Abercrombie graduated from UWF with a degree in engineering technology and currently is in the Air Force, but he is still an active member of the club.
Toni Aguilar, a UWF student and an original member of the group, said she loved that the club always had “something going on” and that it is always filled with great people.
Aguilar said students think-ing about attending a class should “just try it.” She added that the club regularly celebrates Christmas and Halloween parties and other vari-ous social events throughout the year.
For more information about Pura Sabrosura, contact Nelson Sierra at [email protected] or Toni Aguilar at [email protected] or visit the club’s website at www.uwf.edu/recreation.
Just n Salsa club gives students a chanceto embrace their “pure flavor”
Photos by Joslyn Rosado
TOP OF THE PAGE: Jordyn Grinnell, Vanesa Alvarez and Diana Angles are just a few of the students who come on Thursday nights to learn salsa dance moves.
ABOVE: Clarence Abercrombie twirls Pura Sabrosura vice-president Toni Aguilar on Thursday night.
ABOVE: President Nelson Sierra partners with Lauren Stimmell as the rest of the students practice their partnering in salsa.
RIGHT: Kris Chamblee helps Jordyn Grinnell practice salsa dance partnering during a Pura Sambrosura dance night.
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August 31
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Christie McClungStaff Writer
Whether it’s a small group of freshmen girls walking on treadmills or University of West Florida baseball players finishing a workout, a variety of UWF students use the Health, Leisure, and Sports Facility.
From June 30, 2010 to July 1, 2011,
191,624 students used the facility.
During the same period, 22,379 faculty and 13,880 guests also used the gym.
That is a total of 227,883.Despite these numbers,
overcrowding does not seem to be a problem.
Junior Gabriela Emond said she had never had a problem finding a machine.
“If a class gets full, I have heard of the staff tell-ing students to come back later,” she said, “but that has never happened to me.”
It’s no wonder that the gym attracts so many people, considering all the unique opportunities it presents. These include Zumba classes, a rock climbing wall, and a paint-ball club.
“I have always been active,” senior Steven Simmons said.
Simmons said the paint-ball club was one of the many reasons he worked out.
Although the gym numbers have been soar-ing, some students said it was difficult to find time to exercise.
“I have a lighter sched-
ule this semester,” Emond said, “but with working and school, it can be tough.”
Emond said the group fitness classes worked well with his schedule and held him accountable. “Once you start to get to know the people in the class and the instructor, they notice when you are not there,” he said.
The newly opened
Aquatics Center also provides students with new opportunities.
Those opportunities include swim lessons, pool parties, scuba sessions, and kayak roll sessions.
The gym is free to all students, faculty, and staff. Each member can pay for two guests a day for $5 each.
Josh CooperStaff Writer
Members of the University of West Florida Scuba Club said they are prepared and excited to start the new semester.
Michael Day, a returning student in the pre-professional biology program at UWF, is one of the instructors at MBT Divers.
“We’re a group of certified and non-certified divers,” Michael Day said. “It’s a place where divers can connect. All my best friends are divers.”
The Scuba Club is the largest sports club on campus, with last year’s membership at 179 students from all different fields and majors. The club is a student organization, but some professors dive with the club.
Many science and archeology majors join in order to see things they wouldn’t normally see.
“Everyone is excited the first time they see their first octopus or shark, although, I haven’t see any sharks lately,” Day said. “I finally got to see my first sea horse that wasn’t in an aquarium setting.”
The group takes a spring break trip every year. This past spring they went diving in Key Largo.
Stephanie Mathis, an environmental science major at UWF and president of the SCUBA Club, said the trips was very good.
“It was $200 to $300 for a week’s worth of diving,” she said.
The price of the trip included two dives a day for a full week.
They got to see multiple reefs, the Christ of the Abyss, a few wrecks and John Pennekamp State Park.
David Taylor, a computer engineering major,
works as the head of public relations for the club. “One of my favorite dives was a night dive in Key
Largo,” he said. The club goes on all kinds of trips throughout
the semester, spearfishing and wreck diving. Last semester, they took a 32-person group to dive the USS Oriskany, a sunken aircraft carrier that has been turned into a man-made reef. They also do underwa-ter pumpkin carving every year around Halloween.
The club does more than go on dives and trips. The members do a lot of volunteer work too.
Day said the club is large enough to have volun-teers at almost any type of event.
“Last year, we volunteered for the nursing depart-
ment as accident victims,” Mathis said.“This year, we hope to do some beach cleanup,”
Day said. Day said some of the BP disaster relief money
went toward the club, and the club hopes to use it to clean up wherever it’s needed.
This year, Mathis said, the club is focused on getting more equipment so that more people can dive. They hope to have 12 complete sets of dive equipment for this semester.
The cost of joining the club is $30 per year, or $20 per semester. That includes use of equipment and student discounts at MBT Divers. Meetings are on Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. in Building 13.
Kristine MedinaStaff Writer
Three new group fitness classes are being held this semester at the Health, Leisure and Sports Facility.
On Wednesday after-noon, techno music blared from the speakers in the pedagogy gym to pump up those who participated in “The Situation.” The class focused on the abdomi-nals, obliques and core muscles this semester.
Senior Liliana Guerra, an accounting major, said having the class named after Mike from “Jersey Shore” put a light perspec-tive on how intense the exercises were.
The class is Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the pedagogy gym.
Zumba is an hour-long dance fitness class. It’s a diverse compilation of dance styles, from salsa to hip-hop. It’s fast-paced and is definitely not for those
with two left feet. So far, the class has been a hit.
Even with a high limit of 50 participants, each class always reached capacity.
The Zumba sessions are taught by sophomore Carolina Zuniga, who was born in Columbia. She cheered on her students Saturday morning as they worked to the beat of the music.
“This is how we party in my country, so it’s all fun,” Zuniga said.
Kayla Grosjean, a
senior hospitality, recre-ation and resort manage-ment major, said she loved the energetic atmosphere of Zumba.
“I like Zumba because it’s like dancing in my living room,” Grosjean said. “Except she shows us how to actually move.”
Grosjean has been taking group fitness classes since her fresh-man year. She regularly attends yoga classes, but with more time on her hands, she wanted to look
for something more excit-ing, which turned out to be Zumba.
Since they were intro-duced at UWF, Zumba classes have been packed.
They are held in the HLS Building Blue Studio from 5:30 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, and on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
“Bands and Balls” uses physio balls and resistance bands as tools to get trim and fit. The classes are scheduled from 5:30 p.m.
to 6:20 p.m. on Fridays.Group fitness classes
provide many options for the daily gym-goer or aver-age Joe. The HLS Facility at UWF offers more than 30 group fitness classes per week.
Other options for group fitness classes include yoga, Pilates, Ju-Jitsu, and cycling, and others.
For the fall schedule and more information on group fitness, visit the Group Fitness website at www.uwf.edu/recreation.
Photos special to The Voyager
From left to right, Scuba Club members Stephanie Mathis, Samantha Neckles, Brent Hardy, and Jess Magrino go diving on a scuba trip to Vortex Springs in Ponce de Leon. The club continues to host diving trips each year and encourages members to volunteer in the community.
Junior Samantha Neckles explores a reef on a diving trip to Vortex Springs in Ponce de Leon.
New fitness classes excite students
Busy HLS Facility provides opportunities for students
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Soccer teams have high expectations in 2011Women’sChris ElkinsSports Editor
The University of West Florida women’s soccer team has high expecta-tions to live up to after strong finishes in the NCAA tournament the past two years.
UWF finished the 2010 season 17-2-2. They were eliminated in the second round of the NCAA Tournament after losing to No. 17 University of Tampa in penalty kicks. They were ranked No. 6 going into the tournament.
The Argonauts made it to the final four in 2009 and finished the season 22-0-1 after being ranked No. 1 in the nation.
UWF is ranked No. 19 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll and was picked by the Gulf South Conference for the eighth consecutive season to win the conference. They are the three-time defending GSC champions.
“Rankings are just an arbitrary number,” Head Coach Joe Bartlinski said. “It’s how you finish not how you begin. We want to look at the bigger goal.”
The Argos’ main goal for the season is to make it to the NCAA tournament and win a national championship.
UWF will host the NCAA Division II Soccer Championships from Dec. 1-3 at Brosnaham Park off 10 Mile Road.
“None of us want to sit and watch other teams play on our home field,” senior soccer player Jordan
Stone said. Bartlinski said Stone,
a team captain, is one of many key players to look out for. The Argos will look to her and juniors Tori Fish, Monica Malavassi, Rachel Cutts and senior Tina Murray for veteran leadership after key losses.
Stone, Cutts, Murray, Malavassi, and sohopho-more Alexis Garrand are all preseason All-GSC picks.
The Argos lost lead-ing scorers and NSCAA All-American Shakira Duncan to graduation and Jodi-Ann Robins, the Argos’ second lead-ing scorer and NSCAA A l l - A m e r i c a n w h e n she left to play for the Canadian national team.
“In the past we relied heavily on one or two players,” Bartlinski said. “We need to break out of that mold and make sure everyone carries the burden.”
The Argos will also look for redshirt fresh-man Daniele Cruz Mejia
to be a key addition to the roster.
“She is a hard work-ing-defender, and she is going to provide a lot of toughness on the defen-sive line,” Stone said.
To prepare for the u p c o m i n g s e a s o n , athletes have been play-ing in summer and national leagues.
“The girls who weren’t playing on a team were st i l l working hard, running, and playing so that we will be ready for this season,” Stone said.
Malavassi is the Argos’ returning leading scorer with 33 goals scored last season. Murray is the leading returner in assists with 13. Senior goal-keeper Ali Ryan returns after she led the Argos with 56 saves in 2010.
“We want to start the season strong,” Bartlinski said. “We don’t want to rely on doing well later in the year.”
Stone said, “We have to live up to the rankings, and, hopefully be at the top.”
Men’sGarrett Spencer Staff Writer
With a solid perfor-mance last season and a preseason ranking of No. 1 in the Gulf South Conference, the University of West Florida’s men’s soccer team is gearing up for the upcoming season.
“The team performed well,” Head Coach Bill Elliot said. “We won a conference championship despite quite a few inju-ries.”
The championship was the Argonauts’ fifth consecutive GSC title.
Last season UWF was bumped out of the running for the national champion-ship in the first round of the NCAA tournament by Rollins College. The Argos were defeated 1-0.
Senior Matt Aldred said the team had under-achieved a little, though he went on to say that over-a l l t h e y had a very s t r o n g squad.
Looking f o r w a r d t o t h i s s e a s o n , the team hopes for s i m i l a r results this s e a s o n , but the pressure is height-ened because UWF is hosting the NCAA finals.
“We are hoping for the same success as last season,” Elliot said. “We want to win the GSC championship and make the NCAA final four.”
Christoph Zeller, a freshman recruit, said that if the team hosting the event is not in the tour-nament then they become
the ball b o y s , and they d e f i -n i t e l y d o n ’ t w a n t t o b e the ball boys.
T h e g o a l s the team members h a v e set for
themselves are not going to come easily, because there are a few obstacles in the way.
“The biggest thing facing our team is inju-ries,” Elliott said. “It’s the preseason and we already have players out with injuries.”
Aldred said that in order to overcome the obstacles and the added pressure the team has
been training more. He said he felt the players were more prepared.
The Argo’s have several returning players as well as several new faces.
“We have several key returning players like Marquel Waldron, Sean Reynolds, Stephen Munoz and Matt Aldred,” Elliott said. “We also have some promising new players, such as James Moore, Hector Vega and Junior Prevalus.”
Waldron, Reynolds, and senior Richard Dixon were named to the preseason All-GSC team.
The Argos’ lose lead-ing scorer Daniel Martini but return second leading scorer junior Frank Cope.
The team’s first game is on Sept. 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Miami Shores, Fla. against Barry University.
Photo by Tim Keebler
Senior Marquel Waldron looks to score a goal in practice while freshman Zander Rados watches.
“We want to win the GSC
championship and make the NCAA
final four.”-Coach Elliot