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In the 21st Century, your soul mate
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA
January
24
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2007
Volume 30, Issue 19
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Glover pushes for education
BY LAUREL WRIGHT
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
See GLOVER, page 6
JOAO BICALHO
Jacksonville’s
former
sheriff,
Nathaniel “Nat” Glover, has been reaching out to Duval County students as
University of North Florida’s special
advisor to the president.
Glover, who began his work with UNF
in November, said he has been working to
motivate, inspire and encourage young
students to think about higher education.
“For so many years we’ve been focusing on just finishing high school and only
a select few think about going to college, I
would like to see more kids go to college,”
Glover said.
Glover is the envoy for higher education into the community, especially the
minority population, said UNF President
John Delaney, “the goal is to make sure
the student body is reflective of
the community.”
Delaney said Glover’s high profile in
Northeast Florida makes him a great fit
Campus
sanctuary
in works
Former Jacksonville Sheriff Nat Glover has been working
as a special adviser to the president at the University of
North Florida since November 2006.
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Student Union racking up costs
BY MELISSA DIXON AND MATT COLEMAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER AND ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Ground has yet to be broken on the
University of North Florida’s new Student
Union, but the project has already exceeded
the original estimated cost of construction.
Zak Ovadia, director of facility planning,
who also oversees the building’s construc-
tion, said recent estimates of approximately
$37 million, place the student union about $2
million over the proposed budget. The $37
million estimate does not include non-construction costs, he said.
Shari Shuman, vice-president of administration and finance, said that estimates of
overall costs are around $45-46 million.
“It is over the amount we had estimated,
but we are in the cost estimation period and
we will make changes,” she said.
President Delaney explained the initial
cost of the building was estimated to be $35
million, but that he expected the total cost
would end up around $50 million.
See UNION, page 6
BY MATT COLEMAN
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
The administration at the
University of North Florida is in
the preliminary stages of bringing a multi-purpose building
that will house lectures and religious services to campus.
The building, which was proposed by President Delaney, is
estimated to break ground in
three to five years. The structure
has been referred to as a sanctuary by the university administration, and it will be the site of
various events such as concerts
and weddings. A definite price
range has yet to be determined,
but Dr. Pierre Allaire, the vice
president
of
institutional
advancement, estimated the construction would cost $4 million
to $6 million dollars.
“We’re in the preliminary
stages of the project,” Allaire
said.
“The
location and
design haven’t
been
determined.
For
now,
we’re
really exploring the conceptual side of
a facility like
Allaire
this.”
A request
for proposal for the building has
been released by facilities planning and various construction
companies will bid on the project. Allaire said selection of a
company will be based on the
design work they submit, which
will include estimates of the
structure’s maximum capacity,
and other various layout considerations.
Allaire said the sanctuary
will be a versatile addition to
campus, able to hold a wide
range of different activities for a
myriad of groups.
“We’ve spoken about including storage closets to house various items,” Allaire said.
“Whether the building is being
used for lectures or for religious
services, space will be provided
for equipment.”
See SANCTUARY, page 8
Consulting group calls for State University System overhaul
NEWS EDITOR
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The Florida State University System needs to make
major changes to better serve the educational needs of
Florida residents but also to stay afloat, according to a new
report.
Issued by the Pappas Consulting Group Inc., the
report was released last week and heavily criticizes the
current structure of the State University System and its
fiscal expenditures.
Pappas Consulting was hired by the Florida Board of
Governors last year to examine the current SUS and make
recommendations for its long-term growth.
The report states that further study of the state’s
future higher education needs is required and the SUS has
focused on graduate and professional programs to the
detriment to undergraduate education. The report also
states “the conditions for success do not yet exist for the
implementation of a long-term master plan for higher education in Florida.”
The report also recommends
fundamental changes to the existing
funding structure and formulas for the
state to place a higher priority
on the needs of the state as a
whole, instead of individual institutions.
The establishment of a State
College System is also recommended
by the report. The SCS would be a
subsystem of the SUS and could
consist of independent and community colleges, branch campuses, existing SUS institutions and new institutions.
The state colleges would focus almost entirely focus on
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undergraduate education, with a suggested mix of 90 percent full-time undergraduate students and 10 percent fulltime graduate students. The colleges in the system would
be governed by the BOG.
While the report states that UNF, along with other existing universities, “would be natural choices to form the
foundation of the new state college system,” it also
addresses the reality that many of the schools already
have master’s and/or doctoral programs. It states “to
expect them [the universities] willingly to give up entirely
either their graduate aspirations or their substantial
autonomy is not realistic.” To entice institutions to join
the SCS, more resources would be allocated to
those institutions, according to the report.
“That’s not the type of university UNF sees itself
being,” said UNF President John Delaney. Delaney said a
See SUS, page 7
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BEST
This month, University of North Florida
administrators are revising the school’s
strategic plan to streamline many of the
processes involved in everyday decision-making. The more red tape they
can trim away, the better.
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WORST
The planned Student Union building
appears to be gradually increasing in
cost from an original $35 million projection to today’s estimate, which stands
at around $50 million.
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The administration should set a firm
ceiling for how much the university is
willing to spend and reconsider everything except those features students
have said they want.
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Loan rate cut might cause deeper wounds
he newly Democratic
Congress recently passed a
resolution by 356 to 71 to cut
need-based student loan
interest rates from 6.8 percent to 3.4
percent by the year 2011, a move
which has drawn criticism from
Republicans and education
analysts alike.
Under the plan, students could
save thousands of dollars when
repaying their loans. However, the
plan only affects loans issued after
July 2007. It will have no effect on
current loans or any issued before
then. The interest rate cut will only
apply to subsidized Stafford loans
and not affect unsubsidized loans,
Perkins loans or loans taken out by
parents. According to congressional
estimates, the plan would cost nearly $6 billion – a cost to be paid by the
banking and lending industries in
the form of lower subsidies, which
will then cast the associated costs
down to the consumer to be sure.
Supporters of the plan hail it as a
way to help more students go to college by making it easier to repay
their loans. However, instead of
offering more funding to Pell and
other grant programs, or increasing
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the amount of aid available to students, the plan only encourages
more low- and middle-income students to carry enormous debts
upon graduation.
Instead of offering students the
chance to receive an affordable education, this plan only allows students to dig themselves in to an everdeepening hole of debt, and does
nothing to help those students who
have already graduated with loans
or who are still in school but have
already taken out thousands of dollars in loans. This plan does also not
help those students who receive
financial aid from a variety of
sources other than subsidized
Stafford loans.
This plan is also only a temporary
measure. The interest rates would
gradually decrease over the next five
years to 3.4 percent. However, after
only a six-month period in 2011, the
interest would go back up to the
original rate.
The plan would expire unless
approved again by the House in 2011.
So this plan will only help those students who take out subsidized
Stafford loans after July of 2007 and
no one else. And then it will only
decrease the interest rates on those
loans for five years and then they
are right back where they are now.
Instead of helping all students
who receive financial aid, this plan
alleviates a small portion of educational debt for a few select
borrowers.
Yes, the plan could help some students save some money in interest
over the course of their repayment –
but that’s only if they can afford to
repay their loans at all. Millions of
loans are disbursed every year to
millions upon millions of students.
According to the National Center for
Education Statistics, 69 percent of
all undergraduates in public fouryear institutions received financial
aid in the 2003-2004 school year, 45
percent of which were loans.
Once those students graduate,
they are faced with tens-of-thousands of dollars in student loans
they must pay back to Uncle Sam. So
while the Democrats are taking a
small step toward helping needy students with the mounting costs of an
education, they are not addressing
the key issue – most students can’t
afford to go to college in the
first place.
Glover brings badly needed focus to schools
he Duval County school district is in trouble. The graduation rate for the 2004-2005
school year was 65.5 percent,
according to statistics from the
Florida Department of Education.
That means four in 10 students didn’t
graduate on schedule. The dropout
rate was 5.9 percent for the same time
– that’s a total of 2,414 students – indicating that greater than one in 20 students left school for good. And among
the 126,535 that managed to stay in
school, there was a total of 30,755 suspensions among them – or roughly
one per every four students.
The conventional thinking goes
that schools are understaffed, teachers underpaid and programs underfunded. Somebody ought just to allocate more money to schools – that
would solve everything. The more
wizened, informed critics in the field
have been saying for years, however,
that this just isn’t so.
The real question is one of student
motivation. Pay every teacher
$100,000 a year and still there will be
some students without any desire to
learn or study or do their homework.
It’s a problem money clearly can’t
solve, and hasn’t over decades of
attempts – so what is the best way to
approach the root of the problem?
The University of North Florida is
leading a bold initiative into exploring that problem.
Based on the idea that what failing
students really need may not be found
in new school supplies, a set number
of computers in art classrooms or
more high-speed golf carts for security guards to zip around in, President
John Delaney is suggesting the use of
what may have been a key missing
element up until this point: a role
model.
If there’s anyone locally who’s
lived the true rags-to-riches power-ofperseverance life, it’s former
Jacksonville sheriff Nat Glover.
Glover, a personal friend of
Delaney’s, is stepping in to teach
Jacksonville students about the
underlying value of a good education.
He has said many times in conferences and interviews that, were it not
for the education he took seriously
when he was privileged to receive it,
he’d either be dead or in jail today.
Is it a sure bet that Glover’s influence will have any effect on the statistics? Certainly not. But he seems personally bound to the task and determined to do everything he can to
make a difference, and if there’s anyone that can do it, it’s Glover – a man
who’s already proved he can shake
things up and upset the status quo in
any setting.
Glover’s certainly got his job cut
out for him – let’s see what he can do.
Defining sex proves much
is in the eye of the beholder
STUDENT
OPINION
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Naya-Sheree Agarrat,
Junior, Communications
ot too long ago, defining sex was
pretty easy. Almost everyone
agreed on the same definition –
something akin to what one might find in
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary: “Either of
the two major forms of individuals that
occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male
especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures.”
To get a more precise definition, I
looked up sexual intercourse, which was
defined as “heterosexual intercourse
involving penetration of the vagina by
the penis.”
While Merriam-Webster’s definitions
are close, they do not hit the nail on the
head for most of the meanings in
today’s society.
Many people credit Bill Clinton for this
change in society’s view on what exactly
sex is. He, after all, did not think he had
sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky
because it was only oral sex.
So what exactly constitutes sex, especially in a generation that wants to go but
not exactly all the way? In recent years,
terms like technical virgin and halfway
virgin have entered the lexicon. A technical virgin or halfway virgin is someone
who engages in sexual behavior such as
oral sex and anal sex, but not in
sexual intercourse.
But even intercourse has gray areas – I
know a woman, for example, who calls
herself a virgin because upon trying to
lose her virginity she was partially penetrated with a penis but did not reach
intercourse because it was too painful.
Then there is the area of gay sex. Are
homosexuals having sex since there is no
penetration of the penis in the vagina?
Are homosexuals in a sense virgins?
When I asked friends to come up with a
definition of sex, they said it is when you
give yourself to someone both physically
and emotionally. So what about people
who engage in casual sex? Are they not
having sex due to the fact they tend to
leave their emotions out of it? What if
two people are engaged in intercourse but
one person thinks it’s casual and the
other thinks it’s emotional? Could one be
having sex and the other not?
Although it may seem like this raises
even more questions than answers, that is
simply because sex no longer has one
definitive definition. People decide what
sex is for themselves – sex is now in the
eye of the holder and the beholder. For
the record, if you want my definition – if
you can get an STD from it, it’s sex.
E-mail Naya-Sheree Agarrat at uspinnak@unf.edu.
Welcome back: SG has big
things planned this semester
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s your student body president, I’d
like to welcome you back for the
spring semester. After speaking
with many of you in person at our
“Coffee with the Presidents” event last
week, I know we are all excited about
beginning a new year at the University of
North Florida.
President Delaney and I began this
semester chatting with more than 100 of
you in our new student lounge over a cup
of Starbucks coffee. I’d like to thank
many of you for the encouraging words
about our efforts to be accessible and
informative this year. You asked about
many of the projects we finalized last
semester – like the student lounge, car
wash and hot dog stand.
You thanked us for working with the
library to keep it open for 24 hours during
finals and for working with the bookstore
to provide a test express lane.
I told many of you about the new DVD
and game rentals at the library as well as
the ground breaking planned for this
summer on our new $45 million student
union building.
I was also able to discuss our plans for
STUDENT
OPINION
Justin Damiano,
Student Body President
this semester, and this spring will be even
more exciting than the last. There are a
number of our initiatives that will be
unveiled this semester as well as information you need to know about statewide
issues that involve every student in the
state university system. As you have
already heard, we are finalizing our on
campus shuttle system and working to
complete our skate park.
As always, I want to be your “go-to
guy” and pledge to continue to be here to
serve you. I look forward to working with
you again this semester.
E-mail Justin Damiano at uspinnak@unf.edu.
Tax credits crucial to hybrids’ success
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The following editorial appeared in the
Orlando Sentinel Wednesday, Jan. 17.
he only thing wrong with Congress
extending tax credits to consumers
of gas-sipping hybrids, which
Toyota asked it to do this week, is that it
hasn’t done it already.
The credits are intended to jump start
motorists’ interest in the cleaner-air vehicles, and that’s exactly what they’ve been
doing. Toyota already has sold more than
60,000 of them – more than any other
automaker. But full-credit allowances,
which go as high as $3,150, end once a
company sells 60,000 hybrids.
That’s wrong. Yes, more people than
ever are buying hybrids. But more still
need an incentive to embrace the new kid
on the block. Since Toyota started reducing the credits, the company has reported
fewer hybrid sales.
Democrats now running Congress
should do what Republicans there last
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DISCOURSE
year chose to avoid: Extend the tax credit
for all hybrids.
(c) 2007 The Orlando Sentinel.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune
Information Services.
CORRECTIONS
The Spinnaker apologizes for any errors
that have been printed.
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President John Delaney does not drive
three GMC Envoys, as suggested in a column Jan. 17. He drives one university-provided white 2006 GMC Envoy.
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The last sentence of the Jan. 17 “IFC
recruiting for spring semester” news brief
should have read “The Interfraternity
Council is the governing body of all fraternities at UNF. Selection of a new sorority
begins next week.”
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Letters to the Editor
Delaney: Where in the
world am I? Right here
I’d love to talk about Shantal
Voorwinden’s recent opinion piece.
I try to pride myself about accessibility, although I suppose I can always
do better. Perhaps that is why the column wounded me a bit! One of the
advantages of the University of North
Florida is the fact that it is an intimate
environment, and that should include
interaction with the president.
We have tried to set up vehicles to
make sure that I spend time with students. I return every e-mail and call
from students (and faculty) within two
days. I go to any class when asked, if
my schedule is in sync with the class,
and speak to two or three classes every
semester. I go to visit any student
group that asks if I don’t have a scheduling conflict.
“I try to pride myself
about accessibility
[...] Perhaps that is
why the column
wounded me a bit!”
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I visit the Student Senate once or
twice every year. I meet with the leaders of Student Government once a
week on average. Every few weeks a
student asks to interview me for a class
assignment, and we do that in person,
on the phone or via e-mail.
When I first got here, we tried to
have a campus “town meeting” for students, and we only had a couple of students show up each time. So we are
now going to try a coffee kind of thing
(at Starbucks) every month to sit and
meet students.
Every three or four weeks Mauricio
Gonzalez, the vice president of Student
Affairs, sets up a lunch for me with a
group of students.
We have done groups of students
who live in housing, with Greeks, with
international students, with out-oftown students, with representatives
from clubs. Each semester, we set up a
larger “group” lunch of students who
sign up.
I go to many ceremonies of student
organizations when asked every
month. I go to dozens of athletic events
each semester. I go to Homecoming
events and the orientation sessions. I
generally eat lunch on campus.
Anyway, you get the point, but I get
yours, too – I’ll keep working on it.
Next time, feel free to call before writing such an article – I may not change
your mind, but at least journalistically
you will have heard the other side.
Anyway, I look forward to seeing
you!
John Delaney
President
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Column misrepresents
president’s involvement in
campus affairs
Although it is a pleasure to see students caring enough to express their
opinions, I believe that Shantal
Voorwinden’s student opinion piece
regarding our president’s lack of visibility with University of North
Florida students is, to say the least,
inaccurate. In fact, it couldn’t be further from the truth.
Although extremely busy as a university president, John Delaney meets
on a routine basis with many campus
student groups, including a scheduled
session with AASU leaders coming up
in about a month. He also has a standing meeting with Student Government
officers to be sure he has his ear to the
ground on student concerns that they
are attempting to address. Just since
the beginning of this academic year he
has scheduled discussions over free
pizza with student groups ranging
from athletes and international students to fraternities and sororities, to
name a few, simply to urge them to
share how they feel about their experiences here.
In addition to these formal sessions,
it is not uncommon for our president
to be seen chatting with students while
waiting in line at Sbarro, or at the
campus hot dog stand, or in the courtyard at a table. I also understand that
he has an open door policy for students with legitimate concerns, his email address at UNF is public record,
and he has even participated at some
of Student Government’s Midnight
Breakfasts since I’ve been a student
here, sacrificing a good night’s sleep to
be where students are no matter how
late. I do believe that he tries very
hard to be connected with our students, and in fact seems to enjoy it.
Many students have benefited from
his fundraising efforts to increase student scholarships, as well as his lobbying efforts in Tallahassee that take
him away from our campus but which
have brought many enhancements to
UNF including increased classroom
space in new academic buildings.
It’s my bet that if we are still fortunate enough to have him here in a few
more years, he will continue to try to
find ways to get us to slow down and
talk to him.
Many more students than you
might imagine have made his acquaintance long before crossing the stage at
graduation and shaking his hand
while holding their prized degrees in
the other.
As president, Delaney is visible and
listens – and way more so than most
campus presidents, according to
employees here who have worked at
other universities. Not many other students can say their president has
shown such care and concern for the
students, their concerns and their
interests. I am quite positive that
Delaney does.
Rachael Tutwiler
Senior, Political Science
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NEWS
University strategic plan
to undergo streamlining
BY TAMI LIVINGSTON
NEWS EDITOR
Excellence, focus, accountability and relevance – these are
the guiding principles at the
University of North Florida, and
the university’s plan to adhere to
those principles is currently
undergoing a revision.
The Faculty Association’s
Strategic Planning Committee is
working to revise the university’s strategic plan to improve its
structure and make it shorter.
“Last year we gave ourselves
the charge of identifying certain
aspects of the strategic plan to
tweak, so to say, with guidance
from administration,” said Dr.
Yemisi Bolumole, committee
chair and assistant professor in
the Coggin College of Business.
Currently, the plan contains
11 key elements or strategic
objectives that focus on a number of areas, including academics; quality students, faculty and
staff; university funding, the
master plan, community connections
and
continuous
improvement.
Under the revision, the strategic plan’s current 11 key points
would be condensed into eight,
Bolumole said.
The current Quality Students
and Student Life elements will
be combined into a new section,
called Student Focus.
The Master Plan and Funding
categories would also be combined,
and
Continuous
Improvement would no longer
be a separate category but a subcategory in each of the eight
new elements.
Dr. Tom Serwatka, UNF vice
president and chief of staff, said
the
Strategic
Planning
Committee had three goals in
mind when revising the plan.
First, cut the plan down in
length. Second, position the outcome statements closer to the
objectives, which will make it
easier to measure the progress
of the objective. Third, collapse
a few of the statements because
of overlap.
The proposed revisions are
not final, Serwatka said. They
must be approved by the faculty
association, the president’s
office and the board of trustees
before they become official, he
said.
“The goal here is that first we
par down the elements, and
we’ve done that,” Bolumole said.
“We now need to take each element and start working on it –
making sure that all the objectives and issues identified in
each element matches off with
what we do at UNF.”
Bolumole said the revision
process will not be completed
immediately but will take time.
When the revision process if
finished, Bolumole said the goal
is to ensure the directives from
the university administration
are being followed and reflect
what the university does, and
also the actions and strategic
plans coming from the colleges
feed into the master strategic
plan effectively.
“That’s what we’re going for,
to find the disconnects if they
exist, and to work to better fit
the one with the other,”
Bolumole said.
The strategic plan can be
viewed on the UNF Web site on
the President’s Office Web page.
E-mail Tami Livingston at
news@unfspinnaker.com.
Birdbathing in the bathroom
Jan. 8, 2007 – Burglary
(Lot 18)
Jan. 9, 2007 – Lost property
(Building 41)
Jan. 11, 2007 – Misuse of
public facilities (Building 15) –
While on routine patrol, a UPD
officer was informed by the office
staff of Building 15 that an older
woman had been using a bathroom to bathe and clean personal
effects. The staff told the officer
that on Dec. 1, 2006, they had
found the woman in the bathroom using two sinks, a soap dispenser and a towel to take a “birdbath.” A custodial worker
informed the officer that she had
seen the suspect from Dec.1
through Dec. 15. asleep in various
parts of the building.
Jan. 13, 2007 – Grand theft
(Osprey Cove)
Jan. 16, 2007 – Possession of
alcoholic beverage by person
under 21, possession of drug paraphernalia (Osprey Landing) – An
Osprey
Landing
resident’s
attempt to drink a beer at the
smoker’s table failed after he was
approached by a UPD officer. The
officer found that the suspect had
been covering a partially full can
of Steel Reserve with his sweatshirt. The suspect allowed the
officer to search his room, where
two empty bottles of champagne
were discovered. The officer also
located a contraption designed to
mask marijuana smoke, which
the resident referred to as a
“neighbor.”
The resident was issued a
Notice to Appear for underage
possession of alcohol and possession of drug paraphernalia. He
was also referred to student conduct.
marijuana and drug paraphernalia (Lot 10)
alcoholic beverage by person
under 21 (Lot 4) – A UPD officer
was dispatched to Lot 4 after
another officer observed two
males in a red Ford Ranger shooting fireworks. After taking a
portable breath test, the driver’s
blood alcohol level was revealed
to be 0.023, and he was issued a
citation for the violation.
The driver was also issued a
citation for failure to show his
driver’s license. The passenger
stated he had shot off a couple of
fireworks earlier.
Both suspects were referred to
student conduct.
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BOT
to
approve
student
transportation
fees
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WEEK
of
the
”How did you
meet your last
or current
significant
other?”
“I met him when I
saw his band, Mi
Capitan, play at
the Art Bar.”
BY TAMI LIVINGSTON
NEWS EDITOR
Un iversity of North Florida students may
be required to pay millions of dollars more in
fees next year if they are approved by the university’s Board of Trustees at its next meeting, Jan. 26.
Before the board for approval are prices of
next year’s parking permits, along with
increases to the athletic, activity and service
fees and the implementation of a new transit
access fee.
“We decided to increase the fees [the athletic and service and activity fees] not by how
much our cap was, but by the direction the
programs were going and the needs of the
programs,” said Student Body President
Justin Damiano. The proposal for next year’s
parking prices will increase the price of each
permit and create a new premium parking
category that will replace general and 2nd and
3rd floor garage parking.
The athletic, activity and service fees each
student pays in their tuition, are proposed to
increase by 77 cents next year if approved by
the board. Athletics would increase by 43
cents and the A&S fee would increase by 34
cents.
The
Student
Fee
Assessment
Committee
voted in November to
increase the two fees based
upon the expectation that
tuition will increase by 3
percent next year. If tuition
does not increase, then neither will the fees, said vice
president of administration
Shuman
and finance, Shari Shuman.
A new transit fee of up to
$3.85 is being recommended for approval from
the board to support the implementation of a
campus shuttle system by the start of the fall
term.
The board’s Finance and Audit Committee
approved parking permit prices and the athletic and A&S fee increases in December.
The Board will be short a member at its
meeting, due to the recent resignation of one
of its members; however, the vacancy will not
effect the Board’s ability to function or enact
legislation, said Dr. Tom Serwatka, UNF vice
president and Chief of Staff.
Board member Steven Halverson recently
resigned from the BOT due to time commitments, Serwatka said.
“He’s been a faithful, faithful, board member,” Serwatka said. “Steve never does anything half-way; if he’s going to be on your
board, he’s going to be a fully participatory.”
Halverson is also the President and CEO of
the Haskell Company, a Jacksonville, design
and building construction company.
Halverson was appointed to the Board by
the Florida State Governor in 2001 and served
until December of 2006.
Since his position must be filled by
appointment from the Governor, it may be a
few months before it is occupied,
Serwatka said.
The board is scheduled to meet 2:30 p.m
Jan. 26 in the University Center, Room 1058 at
.
Millionaire withdraws $100,000 scholarship promises
BY JAN HEFLER
SARAH PATTON
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
JUNIOR,
DEAF ED.
A millionaire who stunned
southern New Jersey by promising $100,000 grants to three students who were graduating from
his old high school has dropped
another bombshell.
He’s reneging on his muchhyped Laureate Award. The
money has evaporated for the
three Gloucester County high
school graduates, who won whopping,
unrestricted
$100,000
awards to pay for college tuition
and projects they hoped would
change the world.
Boston businessman John B.
Smith Jr. swooped into his alma
mater, Delsea Regional High
School, each of the last two years,
interviewing students and lavishing the most deserving with
awards that could be used for
“We met at a
gospel music
workshop in
Atlanta.”
MICHAEL
THOMPSON
SENIOR,
MUSIC
“I met her at the
Florida-Georgia
game. She broke
up with her
boyfriend to go
out with me.”
MATT CAVILL
JUNIOR,
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
“education, personal development or professional purposes.”
School officials called the size of
the Laureate Awards extraordinary for the region.
When the excitement died
down, Smith, a consultant who
has advised philanthropists on
how to manage their donations,
delayed payments, then paid a
fraction to two recipients, then
admitted in December he has
financial troubles.
“It’s a very unfortunate circumstance,” said Donna Magee,
the mother of a recipient who
didn’t get a cent. She waited until
after her son, who is now in college, took his finals to tell him.
“Usually donors are very generous to our students and always
honor their commitments,” said
Barry Galasso, executive director
of the New Jersey Association of
School Administrators. Galasso
said he hadn’t heard of a default
like Smith’s in his 34 years
in education.
School officials said they
trusted
Smith
when
he
announced his first award in
2005, and that they took
no precautions.
Officials saw the gift as a boon
for students from a rural area,
where the median household
income is roughly $50,000, to pursue college or a career that might
have been out of reach.
“I have great apologies to
express at this point,” he said,
“and find it very unfortunate and
am doing the best I can to seek a
resolution to these matters.”
For their part, the students
have come to accept the loss of
money with grace.
“I think I’ll be fine,” said
Magee, an engineering major.
“He had good intentions and was
trying to do a generous thing.
One of his business partners
didn’t come through with
the money.”
Peifer felt the same way.
“The man gave me a tremendous opportunity, and I’m thankful for it,” Peifer said. “He gave
me a head start, but unfortunately an incident happened.”
White couldn’t be reached, but
her mother, Jeanne, said that her
daughter “absolutely will be fine.
[...] Bitterness, anger, belief or
disbelief is not our focus, and it
shouldn’t be. Life has too much
to offer.”
For now, Smith said he’s out of
the philanthropy business, opting instead to do consulting for
private corporations.
(c) 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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“We’ve known
each other since
we were 11. We
were enemies at
first, but that
changed in high
school.”
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EDWARDS
JUNIOR,
GRAPHIC DESIGN
“I went to high
school with her
and I saw her on
a Thursday night
at The Globe.”
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GLOVER: Former sheriff tapped to advocate value of education
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for this position, and “people are
going to love him.”
Glover said he began working
on the “homework part” of his
job, creating the infrastructure to
make sure the students he speaks
with will have a place to go.
Glover has also been looking
for scholarship money from
resources in Jacksonville.
“I want to create means for
kids to go to college,” Glover said.
“If we take the excuse of not
being able to pay for college off
the table then we will attract
hundreds of kids.”
Delaney said helping children
get to college will set a precedent
for the future.
“We want to reach out to students who will be the first in
their family to go to college,”
Delaney said.
Glover said he has been speaking with Duval County students
wherever he can.
He said he believes the
younger the students are, the
more influential he can be, but he
is willing to talk to any student
about education.
“I have been going to schools,
churches, groups, and wherever I
can have a collection of children.
Since I am former sheriff, I usually have a captive audience,”
Glover said.
Glover is hoping for all area
colleges to benefit from his work
with young students.
With more students who have
not thought about college actually attending post-secondary
schools, the community at large
will benefit, Glover said.
E-mail Laurel Wright at
uspinnak@unf.edu.
GLOVER AT A
GLANCE:
Nat Glover, the special adviser to
President John Delaney of the
University of North Florida, grew up
in a “pretty tough” neighborhood
where lots of his peers ended up in
prison or dead. He grew up in the
core of Jacksonville.
“Some of us were fortunate
enough to get out and appreciate
education,” Glover said.
He was one of the fortunate
ones.
Growing up, Glover’s goal was
to finish high school and to become
a detective.
“I didn’t talk about going to college, becoming a detective was my
life goal,” he said.
It was a challenge for him not to
be completely influenced by peers
and surroundings. It was hard staying out of trouble where there were
so many opportunities to get into
trouble, Glover said.
“I had to stay out of situations
that could result in death and overcome encouragement not to go to
school,” he said.
Not going to school was not an
option in Glover’s house. “I was
more afraid of my mom than my
peers,” he said. He went to school.
Glover received a scholarship to
play football at Edward Waters
College as a linebacker, and he
took advantage of it.
Without the scholarship, he said
he would be dead or in prison, and
he never would have attended college. He went on to receive his
master’s in education from the
University of North Florida.
Glover was a detective for 15
years with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s
Office and was Sheriff of
Jacksonville from 1995-2003. He
became the first African-American
to be elected sheriff in Florida in
more than 100 years, according to
the City of Jacksonville Web site.
As sheriff, he donated four
years of his pension to an academic scholarship fund, which totaled
almost a quarter of a million dollars.
Glover said his current goal is to
influence as many young people as
possible and to make a difference
in the world. He is proud of his family, being an officer of his church,
having had a rewarding career in
law enforcement and being referred
to as the ambassador to higher
education.
Glover describes himself as
empathetic, and he prides himself
on trying to understand and relate
to others position, situations and
feelings.
UNION: Building to be social ‘center’
Voter registration drive
The
Duval
County
Supervisor of elections will be
holding a voter registration
drive on campus from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Jan. 24 and 25. Tables will
be located in front of the Coggin
College of Business and the
courtyard. Voter registration
forms will also be available on
the Green from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Jan. 25 during Spring Bash.
This is the last chance to register to vote for the presidential
primaries in February.
Compiled by Tami Livingston.
from page 1
Delaney said calling the building over
budget would be shortsighted, as the cost of
the facility is always changing.
“We are always adding and subtracting,”
Delaney said. “As we add more details and
make decisions that either add or subtract
cost, we sneak up on what that number happens to be.”
Construction of the 150,000 sq. ft. building
will begin in June 2007. The new building
will feature a game room with pool tables, a
computer gaming area, a food court and
administrative offices for student government. The boathouse will relocate to the new
building, and there will be an expansion of
Outtakes. A proposal to include a pharmacy
is also being considered, said Dr. Lucy Croft,
assistant vice president of student life.
“The idea is to have a defined base where
students can gather at a central location for
informal discussions and food,” she said.
Croft said the plan has been in the works for
several years.
When Student Government decided on a
student union in 2001, the decision to raise
tuition by a few dollars was initially the plan
for raising funds for the building. Students
have been assessed an activity fee based on
the amount of credit hours they are enrolled
per semester. It is uncertain whether or not
students’ fees will be increased due to the
recent estimates, Ovadia said.
But with the recent overall estimates figuring at almost $50 million, some students,
like Vanessa Fleury, a sophomore studying
international relations question the importance of such an expense.
Fleury said she is excited but skeptical
about the new development.
“I’ve visited a lot of schools that have student unions and it works out great, but I don’t
know if it should cost that much,” Fleury
said.
The new building will be located west of
the UNF Arena’s parking garage, where
portable classrooms and offices now reside.
Construction on the project is expected to
last around two years, and should be completed by Fall 2009.
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SUS: College system proposed
from page 1
full-time graduate percentage closer to 20 percent would be ideal for
UNF.
Delaney said major criticisms
in the report are that too many
universities in Florida are pursuing their own agendas and the
state can’t afford that. This also
leads to schools competing over
students and having unfilled programs, he said. Additionally, the
report recognizes the need for
more branch campuses, he said.
“She [Alceste Pappas] criticizes
the system for things I think that
those of us involved at UNF would
agree need to be fixed but her fix of
the State College System – I don’t
think addresses the problem she
identifies,” Delaney said.
Besides the number of graduate programs already offered at
UNF, the number of students
attending UNF does not match the
report’s recommendation for a
state college, said Dr. Mark
Workman, provost and vice president of academic affairs.
According to the report, the
optimal enrollment of a state college would be 7,500 full-time students. Workman said Pappas calculates full-time enrollment differently than the state does and if
UNF calculated full-time enrollment according to their method,
UNF’s current full-time enrollment would be approximately
13,000 and growing.
“In the very near future, I
“I think it’s far
too early in the
process to even
anticipate what
the actual impact
of the report
might be.”
“
Dr. Mark Workman,
Provost, UNF
would say we would be twice the
number the report identifies as
optimum for an undergraduate
institution,” Workman said.
While the report suggests
major changes to the SUS,
Workman said he does not see it
causing a radical change in UNF’s
mission, which is “a very strong
commitment to high quality
undergraduate education along
with an equally strong commitment to graduate programs – those
we currently have in place and
those that prove to be relevant to
the evolving and emerging educational needs of the region,” he
said.
“I think it’s far too early in the
process to even anticipate what
the actual impact of the report
might be,” Workman said.
The report will be discussed by
the Board of Governors at its Jan.
24 meeting and a public hearing is
scheduled in Orlando in February.
The BOG does not have to
accept the recommendations and
can change them or make them
stronger, Delaney said. He said he
expects debate about the plan to
happen over the next few months.
“I think that’s going to be part
of the challenge, to distill from the
report some priorities and an
agenda that everyone can agree to
and be supportive of,” Workman
said.
“I guess I would encourage faculty and students both to be really
patient as we determine what
aspects of the report bear pursuing and what aspects are perhaps
best put aside,” Workman said.
The 71-page report is available
on the UNF Web site on the
President’s Office page.
E-mail Tami Livingston at
01/22
The following is a summary of
the business conducted at the
recent Senate meeting.
l J.T. Holton and Nick Peres
were both appointed to Senate.
Raymond Dailey was removed
from Senate because he is no
longer a student at UNF.
SB-07S-2084 – Creation of
Solicitor General – The Executive
Branch will now have a new position known as Solicitor General
to resolve the statute conflict of
the Senate Attorney General
both defending and prosecuting
those accused of violations.
l Presented by Senator A.J.
Souto.
l Passed by unanimous consent.
SB-07S-2085 – Revision to Title
VII – Change to Chapter 706 of
the Solicitor General’s taking
over the responsibilities of the
Attorney General to defend
those accused of violations.
l Presented by Senator AJ
Souto.
l Passed by unanimous consent.
SB-07S-2086 – Student Awards
2007 – Funds in the amount of
$314.95 will be used to pay for
Student Awards to be presented
at the 2007 SG Banquet.
l Presented by Senator Kyle
Peters.
l Passed by a vote of 32-0-0.
SB-07S-2087
–
Resident
Assistant In-Service – Funds in
the amount of $222.66 will be
used to pay for food, drinks and
utensils for the Feb. 23, 2007
Resident Assistant In-service
meeting.
l Presented by Senator Kyle
Peters.
l Passed by a vote of 33-0-1.
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NEWS
SANCTUARY: Designed for ‘introspection’
from page 1
“This is a place
where UNF
alumni will want
to get married.”
“
BY ANNE BLYTHE
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Justin Damiano,
Student Body President
sanctuary has been affirmative.
“Last week, the president met
with several community members to discuss the project.”
Allaire said. “The feedback from
the members was very positive.”
Student body President Justin
Damiano said the sanctuary will
be a place for future UNF students
and alumni alike.
“It is going to be a beautiful
building out on the water,
designed to take advantage of
UNF’s natural beauty,” Damiano
said. “This is a place where UNF
alumni will want to get married.
It will be a tremendous addition to
the campus.”
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COURTESY OF MEDIA RELATIONS
Due to the proposed sanctuary’s ability to double as a lecture
hall, UNF will apply for Cortellius
matching funds from the state of
Florida. This will ultimately
reduce the amount the school has
to raise from private sources to
fund the building’s construction.
The sanctuary concept was
first brought to the campus’ attention during the Oct. 20, 2005 meeting of the Board of Trustees.
According to the meeting minutes, Allaire approached the
board with a local architect’s rendering of what the building could
resemble. A possible location by
the northern lake near the
Kernan entrance was also discussed.
President Delaney said the
campus sanctuary would aesthetically enhance the campus and
“provide a location for introspection and thought.”
“If you look at other mature
campuses, they have a number of
student life amenities,” Delaney
said. “It is important to have a
place on campus for students to
relax and meditate.”
Allaire said the response to the
President John Delaney is proposing a new sanctuary building be constructed on campus within the next three to five years.
Presidents meet with students over coffee
BY SARAH DEINER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
E-mail Sarah Deiner at
uspinnak@unf.edu.
REBECCA DALY
University
of
North
Florida
President
John
Delaney and Student Body
President Justin Damiano,
met with students Jan. 18 in
the Starbucks coffee lounge.
The event was planned so
that students could voice
their opinions, Delaney said.
Delaney said these events are
integral to his success as president.
This may become a monthly event, Damiano said.
Universities
offer campus
burial plots
So many people are dying to
return to their alma maters that
some universities are making it
possible to spend eternity there.
Duke University and UNCChapel Hill are among those
that have recently carved out a
niche in the afterlife business.
As families become more
transient and less attached to
hometowns, many are investing
their loyalty in their old
schools. At some, you can invest
a lot.
At Duke, eternal rest for cremated remains at the new
Memorial Garden in the Sarah
P. Duke Gardens costs $25,000.
“We have visitors [...] who
sprinkle ashes here now. We
wanted to have a little more control,” said Jeffrey Yohn, director
of development at the Gardens.
Stories are legion across the
country of loved ones scattering
ashes at night on football fields,
in gardens and at other campus
haunts potent with meaning.
Now they can do it less
furtively – but some schools
have seized upon the final homecomings as fundraising opportunities.
In Duke’s case, the university
is trying to build a $10 million
endowment for the Sarah Duke
gardens to pay for paths, walls
and special plots, Yohn said.
UNC-Chapel Hill offers a different opportunity.
The
Old
Chapel
Hill
Cemetery has run out of room
for all the Tar Heel born and
bred.
So in 2005, UNC-CH dedicated
Memorial Grove, a patch of
woods just outside the cemetery,
to accommodate the ashes of
those with strong UNC ties – for
a state-school price of $300.
Now there is more room for
the Tar Heel dead.
(c) 2007 The News & Observer.
PAGE 9
BY SARAH HOUSTON
FEATURES EDITOR
After a long day of school and work,
you sit down at the computer and anxiously await those four little words:
You’ve got a date.
Millions of Americans are signing up
for online dating services, according to
online dating sites. These services allow
people to simply register (for a fee), take
a personality test and get matched up to
someone compatible with them.
Whether people have difficulty meeting others in person, are too nervous
about first dates, or just want to meet
someone while in their pajamas, it is
unknown why people are trying online
dating. But the statistics are clear – people are trying this modern way of dating.
One of the most recognizable online
dating Web sites is Match.com.
Established in 1995, it now has 15 million
members. It has members in over 240
countries and sites in 18 different languages. Match.com has had more than
400,000 singles find love on its Web site in
the past year, according to Match.com.
Nine out of 10 people on Match.com want
a relationship, according to the Web site.
There are many different types of
online sites that narrow down potential
prospects. With a little searching, you
can find sites for Gays, Christians,
Hispanics and many more.
Match.com has a new program called
Match.comPLATINUM, which provides a
matchmaker to do your searching for
you. So for the busiest of people who
can’t even find time to online date, this
plan, which costs more, is for you.
The site offers a program called
MindFindBind by Dr. Phil, which incorporates his no-nonsense approach to dating. This program includes weekly
videos, podcasts and dating techniques
and more.
The process to start online dating is
straightforward. Most Web sites offer
free personality tests and profiles.
After answering an abundance of
questions about yourself to see what
your true personality is, it’s time to set
up a profile. This can be a little scary
knowing people all over the world can
look and judge you, but you must remember you’re here to find love.
Nervous about your picture?
Match.com offers a free Portrait Toolkit
by stylist Jay Manuel of Voyeur’s Guide
that allows members to look at good photographs and learn how they can make
their profile pictures more eye catching.
Once you develop a profile, start
browsing. Know that fees are required to
continue your stay on most sites. Each
Web site is different, but most usually
offer plans for one, three or six months at
a time. Most Web sites offer a trial period
of six months free of charge.
And if you become one of the hundreds of thousands that find love, members are allowed to easily cancel their
subscriptions.
So why go out to that smoky bar?
Staying at home and scoping out Mr. or
Mrs. Right could be right at
your fingertips.
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EXPRESSIONS
Cell phones shifting the way
students interact with others
Calendar for Wednesday, Jan. 24
through Tuesday, Jan. 30
Wednesday, Jan. 24:
BY ROSS BROOKS
ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
Cell phones are taking this
nation by storm. From newfangled phones that take pictures
and play MP3s to old school
phones with batteries big
enough to jump-start a car, it
seems that just about everyone
owns a cell phone.
In fact, since the mid ‘90s,
cell phone use has increased
over 300 percent in America
alone, with U.S. citizens paying
out more than 100 billion dollars
for service every year.
Americans are also talking
up a grand total of over 1 trillion minutes annually, and
that’s only with half of the
nation subscribed.
Cell phone companies attract
new customers every day, and
with what seems to be a new
phone coming out every week
with technology that fulfills the
role of a laptop, MP3 player, and
television all rolled into one.
It’s no wonder cell phones are
quickly becoming a necessity
for most students. It’s almost
impossible to walk to class without hearing someone’s digitized
ring tone version of “Make it
Rain,” or whatever the weeks’
hottest song might happen to be.
Other than ring tones, pieces
of conversations can often be
heard as cell phone talkers walk
the halls, speaking way too loudly about how wasted they were
the night before, or how stressed
they are about class.
Some students run out of
class to take a call, or, what
most people think to be a most
discourteous move, answer their
phones while in the middle of
a conversation.
It is this blatant rudeness
and lack of courtesy exhibited
by people who can’t put their
cell phones down that drives
Josh Longenecker, a freshman
International Business major,
up the wall.
“I really hate it,” said
Longenecker. “They talk too
loud, like they’re the only person in the room. It’s really dis-
tracting when people use their
phones in class. But I use mine
too sometimes.”
Most professors would tend
to agree with Longenecker on
the distractions caused by cell
phones. Some might force a student to leave class for the day, or
take away points from their
final averages.
Still, there are others who
prefer less draconian methods of
punishment, like English professor Dr. Bart Welling, who has
students dance to the beat of
their offending ring tone.
While Welling definitely feels
ringing phones can cause distraction, he likens this distraction to that of a student walking
in to class extremely late, or
doing assignments for other
classes during the middle of
his lectures.
Welling feels while distractions in class do occur, the real
problem with the increasingly
prolific use of cell phones is the
effect they are having on
American culture as a whole.
“For me the big picture is
that [they] destroy community.
They are changing the way we
communicate with each other,”
Welling said. “They should be
supplementing things like land
lines, letters, and e-mail, not
replacing them.”
Aside from robbing people of
face to face contact, Welling is
also concerned with students
having to pay cell phone bills
which seem frivolous when compared to the other, more essential things in life.
“Students are spending
money on cell phone bills
instead of spending that money
on things like books, or beer
even,” Welling said.
Welling isn’t the only instructor with these concerns.
Marcus Pactor, a visiting
instructor in his third year at
the University of North Florida,
said he doesn’t own a cell phone.
“If you look around on campus everyone is hooked to their
cell phones and that makes it
hard to meet people,” Pactor
said. “They isolate people more
than they help them to
open up.”
Professors aren’t the only
ones taking notice of the growing number of students fixed to
their phones.
Ashby Davis, a junior
English major, feels the major
problems with cell phones is
that incoming students may not
feel as inclined to branch out
and meet new people if they can
call their old friends any time
they feel like it.
“The major problem is that
people don’t have to look around
and appreciate the other people
around them, they can just live
in their own little bubbles,”
Davis said.
Whether or not cell phones
are definitively changing the
means by which American’s
communicate and socialize
remains to be seen.
The technology is still relatively new, dating back only 30
years. However, as the technology which brought cell phones
from their obscure and bulky
beginnings continues to
improve, and as more and more
features are added into cell
phones, they will be viewed less
as a phone and more of a tool
for entertainment.
It can hardly be denied that
people might begin to rely on
their cell phones for entertainment and fulfillment instead of
looking for other ways to satisfy
these needs.
As it stands, modern cell
phones are capable of playing
music, television, movies, and
doing a myriad of other tasks
not normally associated with
any previous telephone.
And if they ever figure out
how to wirelessly transmit beer
through a tap on a phone, it
could very well spell the end of
man as the social party animal
that he is. With television,
Internet, music, and beer all
conveniently tucked into a pocket, why would anyone ever need
to leave the house again?
E-mail Ross Brooks at
features@unfspinnaker.com.
Matisyahu’s remix album has ‘No Place to Be’
BY MATT COLEMAN
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Simon and Garfunkel. 50 Cent and bullet
wounds. Keith Richards and illegal substances.
These all represent some of the greatest
collaborations the mainstream music industry
has ever unleashed onto the world.
In 2004, a strict devotee of the Jewish faith with
the eye-catching stage name of Matisyahu revealed
a new combination – Hasidic Judaism and
dancehall reggae.
After playing the Bonnaroo music festival in
2005 and gaining a grassroots fanbase, Matisyahu
shot to worldwide fame with the release of a live
album and his last studio album, Youth, which
peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard charts.
Seeking to parlay his newfound success into
more records sold, Matisyahu recently released No
Place to Be, an EP of remixes including a live DVD
of a performance in Israel.
The album is a fairly haphazard collection of
previously released tracks and questionable remix
choices. The first three songs are various cuts from
Matisyahu’s first two studio albums and do little
more than stretch out the record to seven tracks.
After the first three throwaways, No Place to Be
actually takes a downward tumble with the inclusion of a weak cover of the Police’s “Message in a
Bottle.” Matisyahu’s flimsy vocals on the track simply lack the driving force behind Sting’s tenor and
end up being overshadowed by the over-processed
guitars. The song features a solid hook, but that’s
not exactly high praise for a cover song.
The album is book-ended by two remixes and a
dub version of the Police cover already on the EP.
In a head-scratchingly bizarre choice, Matisyahu
allows his song “Jerusalem” to be chopped by
Sails to the wind
Matisyahu’s latest EP is a boring retread of old material
and subpar remixes.
Swisha House DJ Michael Watts and included on
the album as a new mix. The track is ponderous
and the bass on the vocals is artificially raised,
sounding as if Watts recruited former Swisha
House member Slim Thug to record the mix in
a trailer.
One of the bright spots of the album is the Small
Stars remix of “Youth.” Eschewing the rap-rock of
the original track, the new mix sports a faster beat
and little flourishes like harmonica. It takes a different approach and succeeds more than it fails.
The dub version of “Message in the Bottle” is
fairly standard, with a lot of reverb and echo, some
dense bass and little emphasis on vocals.
With such a lackluster record, one would think
the live DVD would have benefited. Unfortunately,
Matisyahu’s live set in Tel Aviv is disturbingly subdued. At points, his guitarist looks like a reanimated corpse and the crowd is virtually nonexistent.
Interviews are interspersed into the live set, but
these are often brief and provide little substantive
commentary on who Matisyahu really is.
No Place to Be is an exercise in futility, containing little more than a few throwaway remixes, covers and a deadpan live DVD. With this release
Matisyahu presents his own style of reggae-lite, as
if his music is a gateway drug to more substantial
dancehall sounds.
E-mail Matt Coleman at news@unfspinnaker.com.
–-Free showing of Disney’s “Lion King,” 8 p.m., Building
14, Room 1700.
Thursday, Jan. 25:
–Spring Bash on the Green starting at 11 a.m.
–“I Can’t Stop Loving You – A Celebration of Ray Charles,”
7:30 p.m., Lazzara Performance Hall.
Friday, Jan. 26:
–Jacksonville Jam game, 7 p.m., UNF Arena
–Free showing of Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland,” 8 p.m.,
Building 14, Room 1700.
Saturday, Jan. 27:
–Hoops for Hope women’s basketball game, 2 p.m., UNF
Arena. Wear pink to support breast cancer awareness.
Monday, Jan. 29:
–“The Rainbow Fish” 10 a.m., Lazzara Performance Hall.
–Distinguished Voices Lecture with Ambassador Nabil
Fahmy, 7:30 p.m., University Center
Tuesday, Jan. 30:
–“Music of Our Time”– Peter Wright, 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts
Center Recital Hall, Room 1200.
Complied by Ross Brooks.
Advice for the hung-over
BY HARRY JACKSON JR.
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Your hair hurts, your
mouth feels as if you've
eaten steel wool, your stomach is angry at you, and you
can't see across the room.
The only good news is that
you recognize the person
sleeping beside you as your
significant other.
This is a hangover. You
drank too much, and now
you're paying for it.
What to do?
The only time-tested
method is to take a couple of
aspirin
or
ibuprofen
(Motrin, Advil), drink a lot
of water, fruit juice or
something
such
as
Gatorade, then get some
rest and wait for the effects
to go away, says Dr.
Charlene Prather, associate
professor of internal medicine at St. Louis University
School
of
Medicine.
Anything to get the water
back into your system and
to replace the nutrients
(electrolytes) that the alcohol drained away will help.
Prather can give some
specific medical advice: do
not take Tylenol, she
warns, because its reaction
with alcohol residue in the
liver can be toxic.
"The hangover is still a
mystery to scientists," said
Erin Hunt-Carter, a clinical
psychologist and doctoral
candidate at the University
of Missouri at Columbia.
"We know that heavy drinking may lead to headache,
fatigue, thirstiness, gastrointestinal distress and
other assorted unpleasantries. But we don't really
know why this happens or
why some people report
being hangover-prone and
others hangover-proof."
Hunt-Carter is writing
her doctoral dissertation on
hangovers and alcohol
abuse. Hunt-Carter is tackling the subject because no
one else has.
"Scientists have not yet
identified the exact mechanisms that lead to the misery of hangover," HuntCarter said. "We know that
people increase their risk of
hangover with each drink,
so heavy drinking is especially likely to produce a
hangover."
"It's not what you drink
but how you drink it. If you
drink to intoxication, you
are likely to get a hangover,"
Prather said.
"It may be a form of
withdrawal," Prather said.
"But it may be because
things in alcohol are toxic."
Prather suspects the
dehydration from drinking
too much is the big culprit.
"Alcohol is a diuretic,
and it causes a lot of
urination," Prather said.
The symptoms of a hangover mimic those of
severe dehydration.
Prather loathes the
binge drinking in colleges.
Many students think they
have a hangover when they
actually suffer from alcohol
toxicity; their body is being
destroyed by too much
alcohol. Alcohol is a
depressant, and too much
can shut down your system
and kill you.
A new rave among the 20
and 30-something crowd is
over-the-counter
pills
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EXPRESSIONS
claiming to reduce or eliminate hangovers. While
they've been around since
the mid-1990s, about two
dozen have popped up in the
past two years.
Mike
Pearson,
cofounder
of
HangoverReview.com, and
his associates tested more
than 50 of the pills and concluded the newer pills are
versions of the old pills.
Some work best by taking
one before going to bed, others by taking one or two
between drinks.
The Web site also lists
the ingredients in these
products; the most common
are vitamins B-6, B-12 and
C. They also contain a
bunch of herbs and a few
minerals, such as calcium.
Pearson did name the
most effective over-thecounter hangover remedies. Only one, Alcohol
Hangover Relief, claims to
work after a night of drinking. The others are preventative a little late for the day
after the party. Take them
before or during your misbehavior.
The more experienced
set,
including
Mark
Pollman, a freelance bartender, author of books
about bartending and spirits, and member of the
Bartender Hall of Fame,
has less high-tech advice.
"I would say, 'Don't drink
too much in the first place,'"
Pollman said. "If you do,
put something really nice
and greasy in your stomach
before you start."
(c) 2007, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Man breaks into crowded apartment
BY MIKE PINGREE
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
BZZZZZ! OH, ER I JUST THOUGHT
I’D DROP IN
A Sydney, Australia, man attempted
to break into his neighbor’s apartment
which shared a common wall with his
by cutting through the wall with a circular saw. He soon found out there were
five people home at the time.
TALLAHASSEE; NO, BOISE; NO,
GRAND RAPIDS
A Chicago woman got so drunk that
she had to be hospitalized after she
played a game of Trivial Pursuit in
which participants had to take a shot of
booze when they answered a question
incorrectly. Officials said she became
heavily intoxicated after “continually
providing wrong answers.”
AT THE TIME, IT SEEMED LIKE A
GOOD IDEA
A man in Wichita, Kan., called the
police to report that two armed men had
forced him at gunpoint to sign over the
title of his motorcycle to them. But an
investigation revealed the guy was
hosting a crack party, and, when the
crack ran out, he signed away his cycle
to buy more.
DADDY, WHERE’S FRITZIE?
A man in Berlin told his 6-year-old
stepdaughter he was taking her pet beagle for a walk, then took the little doggie
to a bar where he convinced the owner
to buy the animal for $53, which the man
spent on beer.
WHAT KIND OF A MAN ARE YOU,
ANYWAY!?
A major executive with a wife and
three kids went trolling for some
extracurricular, shall we say, partnerships on the Internet. He hooked up
with a 22-year-old woman who, while
extorting $125,000 from him, wrote him
surprisingly
self-righteous
notes
demanding the money. She called him
“disgusting” for “what you’ve done to
your wife.”
WHAZZAP, DUDE, I MEAN OFFICER
Police in Chicago pulled over a man
for running a stop sign and found 92
pounds of marijuana in his car. They
decided to search the vehicle because
he was smoking a joint when they
stopped him.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN
IN THE PHONE BOOTH
A man was thrown out of a strip club
in Columbus, Ohio, and responded by
phoning
in
a
bomb
threat.
Unfortunately for him, the club has
Caller ID, and the bouncer was able to
trace the call to a nearby pay phone.
TALK ABOUT INCRIMINATING
A man was caught in the parking lot
of a greenhouse in Lower Nazareth
Township, Pa., with planting pots and
other items he had shoplifted under his
coat. Among the things he had on him
was a list with the heading “things
needed to grow pot.”
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED
Police set up a checkpoint in Bremen,
Germany, to randomly stop drivers to
see if they had been drinking. A drunk
driver pulled over on his own because
he mistakenly thought a vehicle had
broken down, and he wanted to help.
(c) 2007, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information
Services.
Wo rk p l a c e
strategies will
require careful
discussion
before being fully
implemented.
Although
March 21 - April 20 an active
approach to
advancement is healthy,
authority figures may be temporarily unreceptive to fresh
ideas or individual confidence.
Remain cautious and wait for
group approval: your talents
will soon be acknowledged.
A close friend or relative
may announce complex
family plans or unique ideas
for relocation. Don’t over
react: a balanced response is
vital.
A calming influence will now create new intimacy
between loved ones.
After several days
of competing social
interests
and
emotional stalemates, love relaApril 21 - May 20
tionships will
now offer valuable alternatives
for harmony. Remain focused on
shared home plans and positive
family events. Fast growth will
soon be unavoidable. Financial
adjustments may be necessary.
Property loans, timed payments
and long-term debt should now be
thoroughly reviewed: stay alert.
New job opportunities may now
need to be briefly
delayed.
Before
mid-week,
some
Geminis will experience the sudden
arrival
of
a
demanding shortterm assignment.
May 21 - June 21
Paperwork and
difficult financial calculations
may be involved. Complete all
duties before exploring outside
options: your patience will soon
prove worthwhile. Watch also for
a controversial proposal from a
close friend or lover. Shared
expenses or exotic travel plans
may be accented: remain flexible.
Social privacy is important to the
success of longterm friendships.
Someone
close
may now reveal
unexpected
romantic or family information.
Take time to clarJune 22 - July 22
ify obligations or
probe for answers. Mistaken facts
or inappropriate comments may
jeopardize key relationships.
Bold family encounters and new
home agreements are accented.
Vital issues may include promises between relatives, payment
schedules or revised habits.
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Lasha Seniuk’s
Business contacts
or new romantic
invitations may
now arrive from
unusual sources.
After
Tuesday,
pay special attention
to
group
events, planned
July 23 - Aug. 22
celebrations or
f a m i l y
reunions. Many Leos will expand
both their social outlets and
workplace commitments. Fresh
projects will bring positive
results: accept all creative proposals and revised team assignments. Love relationships will
intensify: expect new affections
and bold overtures.
Respond quickly
to the subtle comments of loved
ones. Sensitivity
is now a top priority for friends and
romantic
partners. Others will
privately judge
Aug. 23 - Sept. 22
the sincerity of
public reactions. Don’t disappoint: deepening intimacy and
trust is now available in longterm relationships. A key official
may announce new job assignments. Use this time to display
your unique understanding of
workplace problems and complex
business practices.
Group events and
complex social ideas
will this week provide a new emotional perspective.
Study the romantic or family
Sept. 23 - Oct. 23 habits of others
for
valuable
clues. Loved ones will eventually
respect your needs and opt for
candid discussions. Loan applications and financial partnerships
are accented. Stay focused: roommates and relatives will soon ask
for vital documents. Physical
energy may be sluggish. Get
extra rest, if possible.
Seductive flirtation and new
i nv i t a t i o n s
should not be
underestim a t e d .
Passionate
relationships are
e a s i l y
established Oct. 24 - Nov. 22
and highly
rewarding. Remain open
but ask for a clear indication of long-term intentions. Attached Scorpios
can expect increased sensuality or shared social
interests. Single Scorpions
may be mildly unnerved by
the candor of potential lovers.
A powerful wave of nostalgia
arrives: expect the return of old
friends.
Romantic promises are now reliable. This is the
right time to
study the actions
and words of
loved ones for
indicaNov. 23 - Dec. 21 clear
tions of longterm
intentions.
Some
Sagittarians will now end a brief
but intense phase of miscommunications in love relationships. If
so, expect complicated social
requests and renewed family
plans to soon emerge. Home
repairs and increased spending
are accented. Go slow, however:
next month new promises may
require bold choices.
Revised financial
planning
will
bring the desired
l o n g - t e r m
results. Closely
study all deadlines,
family
purchases or
Dec. 22 - Jan. 20
i nv e s t m e n t s .
Loved ones need to witness your
daily ability to make reliable
decisions. Although legal issues
will not become complicated,
avoid risky real estate ventures
and wait for group approval.
Pamper the body: minor health
issues affecting the lower back,
kidneys or circulation may be
bothersome.
Late social invitations are annoying but worthwhile.
Loved ones and
close friends may
wish to explore
creative forms of
entertainment or
new artistic outlets.
Provide
Jan. 21 - Feb. 19
cheerful enthusiasm: key friendships will
strongly benefit from open
romantic discussions and unique
group activities. Later this week,
a potential business partner may
promise fast financial loans.
Don’t be fooled: minor facts and
numbers may prove misleading.
Postponed business duties or
practical
money
decisions will now
require your full
attention. Expect
work officials to
press for increased
daily commitments
and revised payment schedules. Feb. 20 - March 20
Seriously consider new employment. Your time
and energy are deserving of
reward. Don’t accept compromise. Home relationships will
steadily expand to include
planned celebrations or reunions.
Offer acceptance.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Jan. 18
Overtime hopes crushed by Stetson
BY NATALIE NGUYEN
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
E-mail Natalie Nguyen at
sports@unfspinnaker.com.
Women’s basketball 48,
East Tennessee State
University 87
Jan. 19
Men’s tennis 1, Florida
State University 6
Jan. 20
Women’s tennis 5, Georgia
Southern University 2
Women’s basketball 68,
Kennesaw State
University 73
Men’s basketball 58, Mercer
University 77
Jan. 21
Men’s tennis 1, University
of Miami 6
Jan. 25
JAMES FERNANDEZ
With a chance to record its first
win in the Atlantic Sun
Conference this season, the
University of North Florida men’s
basketball team fell short by
three points.
The Ospreys took the visiting
Stetson University Hatters to overtime Jan. 18 to start a competitive
conference weekend.
North Florida stayed close to
Stetson throughout the game and
finished tied 50-50 at the end of
regulation. Junior point guard
Chris Timberlake made a running
lay-up to force the game into overtime at the buzzer.
The Ospreys faltered at the free
throw line during overtime however,
making
two
of
seven, a pattern they took
from regulation.
The Ospreys made two 3-point
shots out of seven attempts during
the game, and recorded 41 percent
of shooting for the game. The
Hatters shot 37 percent from the
game, but scored six more
shots behind the arc than
the Ospreys.
“All you can ask for is that guys
keep trying and not give up,” manager
Evans
Davis
said.
“Sometimes games will come
down to the wire, and other
times
the
game
can
let
you down.”
North
Florida
lost
the
game 63-60.
Junior center James Grimball
led the Ospreys, scoring 18 points,
while Timberlake scored his season high of 17 points.
The team played its second
conference game of the weekend
Jan. 20 against Mercer University.
The Ospreys scored 17 points off
turnovers and scored 10 fast break
points for the game, only to
lose 77-58.
Both Timberlake and Grimball
continued to lead the team, as
Grimball recorded his sixth double-double this season with 10
points
and
10
rebounds.
Timberlake added to the Osprey
offense with 18 points. The slow
start to the game was one of several factors that contributed to
the loss, including shooting 25 percent in the first half and making
one
3-point
shot
out
of
eight attempts.
“They [Mercer University] had
guys that could really contribute
some solid minutes and we struggled with that,” Davis said. “We
just have to make sure that our
guys contribute as much as
they can.”
The Ospreys will have another
chance to win a conference game
when they travel to North
Carolina take on Campbell
University Jan. 25 and GardnerWebb University Jan. 27.
Junior center James Grimball led the Ospreys, scoring 18 points against
Stetson University and 10 points against Mercer University.
63-60
18
Game high for
Ospreys by
James Grimball
41
Percent of shooting
for the Ospreys
against Stetson
0-9
Osprey record in
the Atlantic Sun
Conference
Regulations hinder senior year of competition
BY HOLLI WELCH
SPORTS EDITOR
REBECCA DALY
One collegiate athletic career
may be over for a University of
North Florida swimmer, as
NCAA rules bring a halt to her
final year in the pool.
Senior
Monique
SallesCunha is fighting against the
odds – and the NCAA – to join
her team one last time at the
2007 Pacific Coast Conference
Meet. If the NCAA doesn’t
address her case in two weeks,
she
won’t
get
past
the
Jacksonville airport.
The problem with the NCAA
is that this is Salles-Cunha’s
sixth consecutive year on a
college roster.
“College athletics is a time
clock that begins the first day
of your freshman year and
continues for four years, five
years at most,” said Michele
Bronner, the UNF compliance
officer who is handling the case.
“Salles-Cunha’s five years are
up, but she still hasn’t
gotten her four years in
to compete.”
The reason: Salles-Cunha did
not swim for two years, due to a
personal injury early in her
career, a fact that is not recorded
on the NCAA file.
If Salles-Cunha had suffered
an injury such as a broken her
leg or a torn ACL, the case
would be much easier to present,
Senior Monique Salles-Cunha is forced to sit out of the pool until the NCAA
responds to the 80-page documentation she submitted eight months ago.
said Bronner. Instead, the senior
suffered from post-traumatic
stress and depression during
her freshman year at Duke
University.
“My case is unique,” SallesCunha said. “The NCAA doesn’t
normally deal with situations
Women’s basketball vs.
Mercer University, 7 p.m.
Men’s basketball at
Campbell University, 8 p.m.
Jan. 26
Women’s tennis at Lamar
University, 10 a.m.
BY THE NUMBERS
Final losing
score for UNF
against Stetson
University
Men’s basketball 60, Stetson
University 63
like this. They have rules written for physical injuries, not
mental.”
The division is cautious
which athletes it gives six-year
petitions to because it can be
abused. The process includes a
decision as to who was in con-
trol of their situations and who
was not. Through 80 pages of
documentation, Salles-Cunha
hoped to show that she was
unable to function in an ordinary way during her first “official” year on a college team.
When the process started
eight months ago, Salles-Cunha
thought she would have been
cleared long before the end of
the season.
“In the beginning, I expected
that she would be swimming
already,” Bronner said. “I didn’t
think we’d have to fight so hard
or so long.”
At the 2006 Pacific Coast
Conference Meet, Salles-Cunha
led the team in the 100-yard and
200-yard breastroke events, finishing sixth and third, respectively. She also posted eight topthree finishes throughout the
season. This year she has been
able to practice with the team
but not travel or compete – something she said has been disappointing.
If the ruling comes back negative, or too late, Salles-Cunha
says she prefers cheering for her
team from the bleachers rather
than staying dry in Jacksonville.
“I would rather fly out to
California and support the team
at conference,” she said.
But for now, the swimmer
must wait for the ruling.
E-mail Holli Welch at
sports@unfspinnaker.com.
Swimming vs. GardnerWebb University and
Georgia Southern College,
6 p.m.
Jan. 27
Women’s tennis at TexasPan American, 10 a.m.
Swimming vs. GardnerWebb University and
Georgia Southern
College, 10 a.m.
Women’s basketball vs.
Stetson University, 2 p.m.
Gardner-Webb University,
8:15 p.m.
Track at Pepsi Invitational
Jan. 28
Women’s tennis at Texas-El
Paso, 10 a.m.
Savannah State University,
7 p.m.
In Brief
SPORTS
Volleyball coach resigns
University of North
Florida volleyball head
coach Bryan Bunn resigned
after leading the Ospreys
for seven years.
Bunn will be the associate head coach at Baylor
University beginning in
February.
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SPORTS
Excuse-proof
your workout
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Team loses battle against
A-sun conference foes
BY JEREMIE CANTON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
FAMILY CIRCLE
(MCT)
When it’s time to exercise,
most people can dream up
countless reasons to skip. But
the secret to boosting your fitness motivation for good is to
dodge the inner escape artist for
just a few months.
Here are some tips to sidestep
seven common excuses.
FILE PHOTO: JAMES FERNANDEZ
The University of North
Florida women’s basketball team
lost its first road game of the week
to East Tennessee State University
Jan. 18, before losing 73-68 in a
hard-fought
overtime
game
against
Kennesaw
State
University, Jan. 20.
East Tennessee State shot 53
percent from the field, including
eight 3-point baskets, to outscore
North Florida 87-48.
East Tennessee guard Sierra
Evans, who went 3-3 from behind
the three point line, obtained a
double-double with a game high of
21 points and 12 rebounds.
Teammate Michele Devault contributed 18 points to the game.
Sophomore guard Jennifer
Bowen led the Ospreys in scoring
with nine points, six rebounds and
three steals, while freshman
guard Shandrea Moore followed
with
eight
points
and
five assists.
Bowen and senior guard
Cecilia Woolfolk shared a team
high in rebounds with six
rebounds a piece. The Ospreys collected a total of 38 rebounds,
including 16 on the offensive end,
while ETSU recorded 43.
The East Tennessee State Bucs
ended the first half with a 49-20
advantage. They continued the
second half by increasing their
lead to as many as 44 points before
handing UNF their fourth loss
in a row.
Freshmen Shennette Sheffield
and Shaina Strozier each contributed six points, while on the
defensive end Sheffield collected
five rebounds and two steals.
Freshmen Willonda Windham and
Tiffany Williams also contributed
with four points each.
After taking a fall to ETSU, the
Ospreys came out energized
against Kennesaw State.
Senior guard Denisia Andrews
scored the first two UNF points
with a jumper before assisting
Woolfolk to complete a three-point
shot, giving UNF a 7-1 advantage
early on.
Kennesaw State kept the game
close throughout the half, however, and was ahead 34-28 at
halftime. The Ospreys opened the
next half on an 8-2 scoring run to
tie the scoreboard at 36.
Freshman point guard Shandrea Moore led the Ospreys with eight points
and five assists against East Tennessee State University. North Florida lost
75-68 to East Tennessee State.
The game continued and finished at a very close pace, leaving
both teams tied 60-60 at the end
of regulation.
In overtime, Kennesaw State
put together a 9-0 run that
the Ospreys were unable to
recover from.
“We lost in overtime and
missed big free throws down the
stretch,” said head coach Mary
Tappmeyer. “We initially played
good defense but Kennesaw State
got 26 offensive rebounds. We need
our guards to do a better job boxing out in the zone.”
Bowen scored a team high 16
points and six rebounds while
teammates Guldager and Andrews
followed with 12 points each.
The Ospreys return to the nest
Jan. 25 to host Mercer University
at 7 p.m. and Stetson University
Jan. 27 at 2 p.m.
E-mail Jeremie Canton at
uspinnak@unfspinnaker.com.
Exercise excuse: It’s boring!
Fitness fix: Doing anything
over and over again, whether
it’s 20 minutes on the treadmill
or eating the same breakfast
every morning, is a recipe for
monotony. But when you mix up
your routine, you’re more likely
to enjoy it and stick with it.
The key is to vary your
workouts right from the start,
rather than waiting until the
boredom sets in.
Exercise
excuse:
I’m
too busy!
Fitness fix: “No time” is a
top reason people quit a fitness
program. So schedule workouts
just as you would lunch with a
friend or a doctor’s appointment. Every Sunday evening
grab your calendar or PDA and
block out 30 minutes each day of
the upcoming week for workouts. If you truly can’t squeeze
in a half hour one day, plan to do
10-minute bursts at lunch.
Exercise excuse: I’m too
tired to go to the gym.
Fitness fix: Many people
think they’re too worn out to
work out, but research shows
that exercise actually gives you
energy by boosting circulation,
elevating your heart rate and
releasing feeling-good chemicals like serotonin.
Exercise excuse: I’m overweight or out of shape.
Fitness fix: It’s natural to
feel self-conscious in the gym if
everyone else looks like they’ve
stepped out of the pages of a
magazine. Work out in the privacy of your home at first, until
you feel more confident. Then
A PROFESSOR
WITHOUT EXCUSES
University of North Florida
professor Peter Magyari said
he instructs his exercise
physiology classes to integrate
physical activities into daily
routines. “One way to
overcome the excuse ‘I don’t
have any time’ is to incorporate
exercise to replace something
you do everyday,” he said.
Magyari, former Mr. Florida and
Mr. Southern body building
champion, suggested parking
in the furthest spot or taking the
elevator instead of the stairs.
The Spinnaker will complete
the series on fitness with a
final look at how students,
professors and athletes can
utilize the facilities on campus
to get fit for 2007.
tour different health clubs until
you find one where you fit in.
Exercise excuse: I should be
spending time with my friends.
Fitness fix: The easiest way
to squeeze in a workout without
sacrificing precious time with
your friends is to exercise
together. Develop a fitness
schedule that includes a 30minute walk or bike ride in
between classes.
Exercise excuse: I’m clueless as to where to begin.
Fitness fix: With so many
machines and classes, starting a
workout program can be daunting. Sign up for two or three sessions with a personal trainer to
get you going.
(c) 2006, Family Circle.
PAGE 16
SPORTS
Walls of fame
On-campus restaurant honors Osprey athletes
BY NATALIE NGUYEN
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
E-mail Natalie Nguyen at sports@unfspinnaker.com.
ILLUSTRATION
: ROBERT K. PIE
TRZYK
Students who have dined at Wackadoo’s Grub and Brew may have noticed
the walls are not just painted blue and gray. Instead, school spirit and a
little history are shown through the pictures of those who have made their
marks at the University of North Florida.
Team pictures, athletes in action, and Osprey notables have adorned the
walls, tables and bar top since 1974, when the restaurant opened as a temporary
service to a campus under construction.
Athletes who have received recognition and accolades vary with the history
of the athletics program. The very first Osprey athletes competed in the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, then the Peach Belt
Conference, and now the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Recent graduate Dyann Busse is one such athlete featured in the
restaurant’s decor.
Busse participated in women’s basketball and softball during her four years
as an Osprey, and currently has a framed tribute to her career.
“I think someone just told me that I was on the wall,” Busse said. “One of my
friends said ‘Hey, I had lunch with you today! I ate lunch with you at
Wackadoo’s!’”
With numerous talented athletes at UNF, the decision to recognize certain
athletes rests on the shoulders of Wackadoo’s management and the
athletic coaches.
“We check with the coaches and decide who’s notable or worthy,”
Wackadoo’s manager Brian Woods said. “I get in contact with the athletes for
pictures and information, and then we get it framed and up on the walls.”
Woods said he hopes fans notice the atmosphere created by the pictures, jerseys and old newspaper articles as they watch the games on the big screen.
Some students and employees have expressed interest in specific athletes or
teams already placed on the walls.
“We do try to update once a year,” Woods said. “Unfortunately we’re not able
to redo them every semester because of costs. Any preferences from customers
or employees usually do stay up even if they’re a couple years old.”
Now that the Ospreys are Division I and a student union is on the horizon,
renovation updates to the memorabilia are in store.
“We are planning on changing the concept,” Woods said. “As far as the pictures and shrines go, we’ll probably take the ones that are still a tradition with
us and then start on some new ones.”

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