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RENEE JACQUESContributing Writer

On Thursday, April 21, about 65 students from Florida State University, Florida A&M Univer-sity and Tallahassee Community College gathered at the Capitol to rally for students receiving the Bright Futures scholarship.

The students protested against the proposed cuts from the scholarship, which, if enacted, will deduct about $1,000 a se-mester from each student. With looming tuition hikes, this pres-ents a problem for many college students in Florida.

At around 12:30 p.m. FSU stu-dents met on the Union Green and prepared for the rally by making signs that read “Bleak Futures” and “We Won’t Pay

For Their Crisis—Workers and Students Unite.” They then pro-ceeded to march through the FSU campus and Kleman Plaza to arrive at the steps of the old Capitol to rally against Gov. Rick Scott and the other legisla-tors in Florida who are pushing for the cut.

Rachel Walsh, a member of the FSU Coalition for Education, said that students expressing their disdain for the proposal is an important aspect in changing the legislation.

“We’re really trying to raise awareness amongst students,” Walsh said. “This is something that affects all of our lives. De-mocracy is about political par-ticipation, so if they’re doing things that affect our lives nega-tively, our role is to get involved and let them know that we don’t approve of what they are do-ing.”

During the rally, organiz-ers passed out pencils and en-couraged participants to break the pencils in half. They then marched to the governor’s offi ce and, under heavy opposition, waited until security opened Gov. Rick Scott’s door. The stu-dents then, one-by-one, placed the broken pencils on Scott’s

Students rally against Bright Futures cuts

Students from FSU, FAMU and TCC march on the Capitol

Zachary Goldstein/FSViewAbove: Police block protestors from Gov. Rick Scott’s offi ce on April 21. Left: Students march through Kleman Plaza on their way to the Capitol, rallying against proposed Bright Futures cuts.

Zachary Goldstein/FSViewOrganizer Jamaal Rose delivers a speech to protesters and gathered media alike about the importance of education in society.

KARLANNA LEWISStaff Writer

Fifteen students joined local and national public offi cials on Thursday, April 21, to discuss pressing issues in the commu-nity and nationwide. The dis-cussion, part of Obama’s “100 Roundtable Initiative,” was hosted by Kalpen Modi, associ-ate director of the White House Offi ce of Public Engagement. He is widely known as the titu-

lar “Kumar” of the Harold & Kumar fi lms, as well as his stint on House.

Though Obama began the national program by visiting Cleveland in February, organiz-

ers of Florida State University’s session had to put everything together in a week.

“They told us that Kal Penn the actor would be coming by, and if we could organize the dis-cussion, he could participate,” said Nick Russell, director of FSU’s Offi ce of Servant Lead-ership. “We have people from a variety of ideological issues but also local issues that we can

Obama, Penn host roundtable

EMILY OSTERMEYERContributing Writer

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars recent-ly launched a blog called TalkNerdy2Me to discuss dif-ferent aspects of college life.

“It’s a place for our members and other college students or people wanting to fi nd out what’s going on college cam-puses to go for information written by college students or experts in a specifi c fi eld,” said Leah Schklar, chief editor of TalkNerdy2Me.

The blog invites members and experts to discuss topics, such as scholarship opportu-nities. It features seven sec-tions titled “tech geek,” “chic geek,” “eco geek,” “pop geek,”

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“fi t geek,” “campus geek” and “biz geek.”

“It pretty much cov-ers all the basic different types of categories that college students are inter-ested in—from chic to fi t to business—anything that we felt college students could relate to,” said Ace-cia Thomas-Baker, NSCS coordinator of marketing and Chic Geek staff writer for TalkNerdy2Me.

The blog is written by NSCS national staff mem-bers, NSCS member con-tributors and experts on the topics discussed. Guest submissions are also wel-come from members, non-members, experts, campus newspapers and campus offi cials.

“We want everybody to be talking, all the time,” said Janine Deegan, out-reach manager at the NSCS.

The production team posted calls for writers on Facebook and Twit-ter, and NSCS members from across the country contributed articles to the blog.

“We wanted to give them an opportunity to be a part of the blog,” Deegan said.

Deegan said it’s im-portant to encourage a dialogue among those in the higher education community.

“Sharing information is amazing,” Deegan said. “It really does open doors to new things.”

The social media group at NSCS devel-oped the idea for the blog. Deegan said the group wanted to fi nd a way to expand their dis-cussions about tuition, scholarships, honors societies and other as-pects of the education community to students themselves.

“We decided that we should be putting it out to our members, let-ting our members get in the discussion about all these topics, seeing

what they think and really reaching out to them with this information instead of just keeping it internal,” Deegan said.

The blog launched on March 30, and staff mem-bers are thrilled with the response.

“We’re happy that we ac-tually are able to offer the opportunity to our mem-bers, just another oppor-tunity to have a forum for them to discuss things that they’re interested in,” Dee-gan said. “We love it.”

Thomas-Baker said the blog provides a great op-portunity for college stu-dents to network with po-tential employers.

“This is a great way for them to build their re-sume,” Thomas-baker said.

“They can say they were a contributor to a blog for a national organization, and it’s good for college students because they can check out what other col-lege students are saying or what other college stu-dents are doing around the country. They can connect with others and they can express themselves in a free area on the inter-net.”

Schklar said TalkNerd-y2Me provides an outlet for people to be creative.

“I think a lot of people have things to say and they don’t necessarily have a place to say it,” Schklar said.

Schklar said the blog also allows NSCS to es-tablish itself as an expert

in the world of higher edu-cation.

“We want to not just be an honor society but a place for people to go for a college-related question,” Schklar said.

Schklar said she’s been amazed by the interest of NSCS member contribu-tors.

“Way more people are dying to write for it than I ever would have imag-ined,” Schklar said.

If you’re interested in contributing to the NSCS blog, send your submis-sions to [email protected]. To check out the blog, visit www.talknerd-y2me.org.

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work with and address.”The student organizers

of the event extended in-vitations to a select group of diverse student lead-ers.

“I immediately went to my friend Nick in student government to put a good group of kids together to be involved,” said Erik Kamrath, a senior po-litical science major and organizer of the event. “I talked to Joe Schweitzer, the president of College Democrats. It’s a student initiative; it was Obama’s idea, but it’s put together by students who are in-volved. I’m glad we got to have Kal here. He didn’t go to every Florida school.”

While the event was de-signed to leave room for freeform discussion, the agenda included issues of federal budget, health care, education and, lo-cal phenomenon, a “brain drain.”

“One issue is this brain drain, where we have stu-dents in Tallahassee, but they graduate and they leave,” said Kamrath. “Tallahassee doesn’t get those smart kids here and starting businesses. They go to D.C., they go to New York.”

This brain drain con-cerns City Commissioner Gil Ziffer who feels more needs to be done to con-nect students with oppor-tunities in the com-m u n i t y . However, Ziffer also acknowl-edges that many who leave also return.

“ T h a t ’s exactly the road they trav-eled,” said Ziffer. “They went away, they came back, and in the process sometimes they bring businesses with them.”

While Modi works with youth engagement on

a day-to-day basis, this roundtable effort is a spe-cial project.

“The president in March challenged his staff to hold a hundred round tables across the country,” said Steven Schale, former director of the Obama campaign in Florida. “Students in Tallahassee took the ini-tiative and applied, and this is the third stop for Kal in Florida; he was at University of Florida and FAMU. He was an intern for Sen. Obama during the campaign, and after the campaign he went to go work with Obama. He works with youth around the country and we’re for-tunate to have him com-ing to Florida.”

The idea behind the project is not as much for White House staff like Modi to speak to com-munities, but for them to listen.

“It’s something a lot of folks people really expect out of this president and something, with his back-ground as a community organizer, he just likes to do,” said Modi. “A lot of advocacy groups in Washington aren’t youth focused, and while there are groups that represent blocks of young people, there isn’t a universal group. We always think of groups like AARP, and there isn’t really a youth equivalent of that. It re-ally is up to young people to let other folks know what they’re doing in their communities.”

What Modi and oth-ers discovered by talking to community members is that they are ready to voice their opinions on and solutions to hot-but-ton issues. For example, working with college stu-dents led to the creation of a $2,500 tax-break for them, as well as loan for-giveness for those enter-ing public service. Even though this is Obama’s

initiative, many of the is-sues discussed have room for common ground.

“The majority of issues, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, but you care

about the cost of educa-tion,” said Modi. “There’s a big generation gap that works in the favor of young people, moving the needle on some issues not just now but for the fu-

ture. When we have kids, do we want to inherit a world with clean energy, economic viability, the whole nine yards? I think we do, so this is the fi rst step in that direction.”

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Riley Shaaber/FSViewKal Penn, associate director of the White House Offi ce of Public Engagement, discusses both local and national political issues with representatives of FSU’s student body on April 21. The meeting, held on FSU’s campus, was part of Obama’s ‘100 Roundtable Initia-tive’ taking place this spring.

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secretary’s desk to paint the picture that their edu-cation will be “broken” if the cuts take place.

“It symbolizes all the broken education promis-es and our broken future,” said Patrick Shepherd, a graduating senior major-ing in political science and an organizer of the rally.

Shepherd, who plans on returning back to school one day and becoming a professor, explained that although the main reason that students are protest-ing the cut may be seen as “selfi sh,” preserving the right for a free education will benefi t the society as a whole.

“I believe in democracy and that, in a free soci-ety, students and educa-tion should be the No. 1 priority, above all else,” said Shepherd. “Every-one should have an equal opportunity to get what-ever education they can get to move up in society. [Education] should be a vehicle [for] poor people to become rich people. They will gain the full po-

tential of their capabilities through education, and then they can go on into the society and become whatever they want to.”

According to Shepherd, enacting education cuts will eventually create a plutocracy, allowing the wealthy to take control of the country.

“When you cut off the ability for students to get an education, you’re effec-tively creating a plutoc-racy,” said Shepherd. “If only the rich people can go to school and those of us who do get in but aren’t ultra wealthy are saddled with debt for the rest of our lives, what does this country start to look like?”

Students are frustrated because they believe that the Florida government is not dealing with the defi cit in a logical way—that the solution to the problem is “not framed correctly.”

“We are saying that it’s actually a revenue prob-lem,” said Shepherd. “The people in the legislature have continuously and

systematically refused to do any kind of sane taxation for the biggest companies—the richest people, the people who can afford it the most. And even then, the laws that they do have, they’ve refused to enforce. There are so many loopholes in the Florida tax code for huge corporations to get out of paying our state anything.”

Even though the govern-ment may limit students’ access to education, stu-

dents are maintaining their belief that education should be free and more community-driven by tak-ing part in the Center for Participant Education (CPE). A bureau of the Stu-dent Government Associa-tion and a part of the Free University Movement, CPE provides free classes to the FSU student body. The classes range from political theory classes, to skill-based classes on sewing and knitting. They also offer study groups for

certain classes at FSU.Walsh, the upcoming

director of CPE, said the goal is to constantly keep the student population actively involved in devel-oping curriculum for the university.

“The goal is to foster the sense that education and educating commu-nity members is a role of the community, and that education really should be free and non-hierarchi-cal.” Walsh said. “We want to encourage students to become more involved and more empowered as a part of running the univer-sity and to feel like they have more of a say over our education.”

Walsh also expressed concern over another pro-posed bill in the Florida legislature that will pos-sibly reduce minimum wage. If this bill passes, on top of the Bright Futures cut, Walsh said she would encounter a deep fi nancial problem.

“I can’t afford to lose $1,000 a semester.” Walsh said. “[The minimum

wage bill] would severely reduce my income. I’m an independent and, if my income’s reduced and if I lose money from my scholarship, that’s going to put me in a really diffi -cult situation. And I know that some of my fellow students would also be [the same] situation.”

The students protest-ed until about 3 p.m. on Thursday and gained the attention of many people, including various media outlets.

“This is a nationally oc-curring social destructive force.” Ralph Wilson, an FSU student and activist said. “Essentially, this is a kind of bloodless war be-ing waged against lower class people.”

Shepherd said the cuts are relative to the amount of money a student has.

“I think it makes perfect sense that, if you have a billion dollars, losing $10 million isn’t a big deal,” Shepherd said. “If you have a thousand dollars, losing a hundred dollars is.”

Zachary Goldstein/FSViewStudents protest Gov. Rick Scott’s legislation on the steps of the Old Captiol, Thursday April 21.

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Finals week is a time when students try to cram a semester of knowledge into three days of study-ing. This diffi cult task sometimes prompts stu-dents to engage in illegal activities: namely, taking perscription drugs that are not perscribed to them. Many students take psychostimulants, drugs that can create temporary mental changes, like Ad-derall and Ritalin.

Adderall is a drug that combines two forms of amphetamine—dextro-amphetamine and amphet-amine—that helps treat

attention defi cit/hyperac-tivity disorder (ADHD). Ritalin is Methylpheni-date, another amphet-amine that treats ADHD, a learning disorder. Chil-dren and Adults with At-tention Defi cit/Hyperac-tivity Disorder (CHADD) is a not-for-profi t organi-zation that serves those suffering from ADHD. CHADD says that heredity is the most likely cause of ADHD, noting the strong neurological base of the disorder.

Kevin Frentz, a health educator at Thagard Stu-dent Health Center, ex-plained how brain func-tions can be distributed.

“It’s like a normal dis-

tribution curve,” Frentz said. “There are some people that just are al-ways on top of everything. It’s like they’re born that way. There are, of course, other people who have [ADHD] to such an ex-treme amount that even on medication they’re still all over the place. Major-ity of people have good days and bad days. ”

Surveys have been done to estimate the number of students using stimulants without a prescription, but these surveys can lack sci-entifi c validity due to the lack of incentive for stu-dents to honestly answer questions. Less than 5 per-cent of college students

reported to the American College Health Associa-tion (ACHA) that they had been professionally diagnosed or treated with ADHD in the last year. Of the 1,796 students that ad-mitted to taking non-pre-scribed stimulants, 7 per-cent of men and 5 percent of women took it non-pre-scribed. Only 834 students said they were prescribed medication to assist with their ADHD. Six percent of students who took the survey—nearly 2,000 stu-dents—admitted to taking stimulants that were not prescribed.

Frentz compared psy-chostimulants to steroids for a student’s brain.

“Some people still want the easy way out,” said Frentz. “They feel, just like people on steroids for sports, you might be gift-ed or you might be a good athlete, but you’re think-ing, ‘Well, I don’t need to take those steroids but that guy who’s really gifted and better than me without steroids is on ste-roids and I’m going to fall behind—I need to take them.’ The same mentality comes about with people taking Adderall.”

Ilese Weingarten, out-reach coordinator for the FSU counseling center, said that many of these students have misconcep-tions about this drug.

“Students think that, because it’s prescribed to people, it’s a safe drug,” said Weingarten. “Well, it’s a safe drug under a doctor’s supervision pre-scribed to you because someone has gone through a lot of assessment to say that this is a medicine that can help.”

This medication can defi nitely help, but it only helps if there is a legiti-mate need for it. It does not come without some signifi cant risks.

“It can be potentially dangerous,” said Weingar-ten. “For people who don’t have ADD, it’s an amphet-

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amine.”Not only does the am-

phetamine of Adderall have a similar effect to speed, it also gives stu-dents a false sense of confi dence, according to Frentz.

“For people who need Adderall, it really has a place and it really does help them focus, but when you get a person who doesn’t need it tak-ing it, the drugs show a small effect,” Frentz said. “More often, research-ers come up with nega-tive fi ndings, unable to show a clear cut across the board improvement on any of a wide variety of tasks. Adderall, re-searchers found, makes you think you’re doing better than you actually are.”

Side effects can be serious. An 80 milli-gram bottle of Strattera (the only non-stimulant ADHD medication on the market) comes with warnings of “serious car-diovascular events (e.g., sudden death stroke, myocardial infarction), serious liver damage and major effects on blood pressure and heart rate.”

“Even a small dose makes you very shaky, and you could end up in the hospital,” Frentz

said. “Kids have been hospitalized from taking too much. They think they’re having a heart at-tack.”

These health risks are not the only risks that come with taking a psy-chostimulant without a perscription.

“I think the health is-sue is the primary con-cern; the secondary con-cern is getting arrested,” Weingarten said. “It is a felony charge to have am-phetamines in your pos-session not prescribed to you.”

Maj. Jim Russell of FSUPD said that Adder-all is not an uncommon drug when it comes to student arrests.

“Ritalin is less com-mon, but Adderall is often used as the ‘study drug,’ ” said Russell. “What we normally fi nd is a student in possession of a single, or a few pills. Dealers do operate on campus, [but] are harder to catch.”

According to the ACHA, the only type of prescription drug more college students took unprescribed were pain-killers (e.g., Vicodin, OxyContin).

“Mark” (whose name has been changed to maintain anonymity), an FSU sophomore major-

ing in marketing, admit-ted to taking Adderall on occasion during this time of year.

“I take it because I feel as though it helps with concentration—helps you stay up,” Mark said. “It gets me in a zone where I actually enjoy what I’m studying.”

When asked about the risks, Mark said he was not very concerned, be-cause it’s so infrequent that he actually takes the stimulant.

“I only take it maybe once a month for just one class, say fi nancial accounting,” Mark said. “After this class, I prob-ably won’t do Adderall again for school classes unless it’s the equivalent to organic chemistry or something harder. All in moderation, I say.”

“Sarah,” a senior grad-uating this week with a degree in art history, also admitted to taking Ad-derall on occasion. She said that she used it to help her fi nish a paper.

“It helps me stay fo-cused; it doesn’t help me study,” Sarah said. “It helps me stay focused on studying. I’m not really concerned with the risks because I’ve only done it once or twice; I try to avoid it when I can.”

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KARLANNA LEWISStaff Writer

In 2008, Florida State University followed the lead of Syracuse University in establishing a program aimed at assisting disabled veterans in forming their own entrepreneurial initia-tives. Each year, about 20 veterans are selected to FSU’s Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program.

The program runs from May to June of each year and consists of two parts. First, veterans complete an online introduction to business course. Then they are ushered to FSU’s main campus to participate in a business boot camp.

“This program gives them the tools they need,” said Lindsay Potvin, public relations manager of the College of Business. “It’s exactly like the boot camp they’ve gone through—very structured, long days. It’s an education given in the style and process they’re used to. The goal is to help them create busi-nesses, create lives, and beyond that, to ease them back into the transition of being a civilian. That’s a re-ally complex, intense tran-sition.”

The preparatory online curriculum also serves as a tool for Program Direc-tor Randy Blass to weed out less enthusiastic can-didates.

“I have uninvited folks during the online portion of the course,” said Blass. “If I don’t feel their par-ticipation is up to what it should be, I try to catch it there before the expense of bringing them out here.”

Veterans injured in a post-9/11 confl ict are eligi-ble for the program, which receives hundreds of appli-cants each year. Even from the initial stages of the ap-plication, though, the pro-gram is selective.

“I don’t want anyone to be discouraged, but it is selective and competitive, and we do turn people away,” said Blass. “Typi-cally, it’s because they’re not ready. Our qualifi ca-tions are trying to identify those that have a passion

for this, typically those that have wanted to do this ever since they were young, and that really comes out in the application. In addition to having a passion, we try to identify those who will re-ally take this opportunity and do something with it, versus just going through the program for the educa-tion.”

Though not technically considered university stu-dents, the veterans admit-ted to the program are giv-en a true ’Nole experience.

“We give [the veterans] one night to just chill and go to the President’s Box at Doak,” said Blass. “We take them out on the fi eld and have a tailgate party, and anoint them as Seminoles. They get a big kick out of that, a little taste of Florida State’s culture.”

Among the seven univer-sities now running the EBV program nationwide, FSU occupies a prominent posi-tion. FSU was the second school to offer the EBV-Families program. The Families program, hosted on the Panama City cam-pus, extends the opportu-nity to the primary care-giver of a severely disabled veteran.

“When a young man or woman comes back in a wheelchair, with a brain injury, that loved one fi nds themselves now having to take care of that person,” said Blass. “It puts a strain on when they can work and where they can work. This program teaches them how they can start a business and still bring in income, in addition to doc-tors’ appointments and ev-erything else.”

This year also marks the fi rst national EBV confer-ence, which FSU will host at the Walt Disney World Resort.

“As we attract corporate dollars, they wish to see us expand what we’re do-

ing,” said Blass. “Florida State is the lead school hosting a national confer-ence. It’s going to be open to all graduates from all schools, all years. We’re going to address the needs of businesspeople who have already started their business. It’s also a great networking opportunity for these veterans to meet their counterparts from other schools and realize they’re part of a broader community of veteran en-trepreneurs.”

Although the Offi ce of Veteran Affairs works to assist veterans in transi-tioning to civilian life, many are of the opinion that part of the responsibility lies in the universities.

“The Florida State Uni-versity College of Business is dedicated to serving the veterans of our country,” said Caryn L. Beck-Dud-ley, dean of the college. “Through our partner-ship in the consortium of schools that offer the EBV program we are honoring a responsibility to serve those who have paid an ultimate price in defending our nation.”

Graduates of the pro-gram are not without their own success stories. From J.R. Martinez, who now stars on the soap All My Children, to the founder of United Doves, a busi-ness that releases trained white doves at weddings and special events, gradu-ates can be found in a vari-ety of industries.

FSU has also managed to fi nd private donations to fully fund the veterans’ ex-penses in the program.

“FSU is one of the rea-sons the EBZ program has grown, because we have always been the second school to offer these pro-grams,” said Potvin. “With-out us, this program might never have a gone to a na-tional level.”

We give [veterans] one

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Director of FSU’s EBV Program

FSU’s EBV program repositions vets as

entrepreneursCollege of Business provides

opportunities to disabled veterans

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With the increasing availability of music pro-gramming software, it seems as though almost everyone thinks they have what it takes to be a DJ.

Few of these so-called aspiring deejays, howev-er, are able to say they’ve accomplished what Mi-ami’s DJ Rascal has at a mere 22 years old.

Now a recognized DJ with residences in Mi-ami’s hottest nightclubs, DJ Rascal first tried his hand at deejaying as a high school sophomore

while attending a house party.

“I was at a party and some kid that I knew was deejaying with CD players,” recalled Ras-cal. “I’ve always been kind of a loner, so I was standing around, people-watching, and I went up to him and I asked him, ‘Hey, can I try?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, here,’ so I just started playing music and I ended up deejaying the entire night. I don’t want to call it deejaying, though, because I had no idea what I was doing at the time [laughs], but people were dancing and I kept on and on.”

With no complaints from fellow party-goers, Rascal felt inspired to continue testing his abil-ities as a potential DJ.

Eventually, the then-16-year-old obtained a job other aspiring dee-jays could only dream of at that age.

“I started taking it seri-ously because I nailed a gig on the beach for $100 a night from 10 o’clock until five in the morn-ing,” said Rascal. “I did that every single night from Tuesday through Sunday for a year-and-a-half while I was still in high school. It was fun. I was 16 and deejaying in

a 21-and-over club every single night. My father used to drive me to the club because I wasn’t old enough to drive and then he’d pick me up when I was done.”

Though he was young, Rascal’s father seemed to understand that his potential was beginning to flourish and agreed to support him.

“He was cool with it as long as I stayed in school [laughs],” said Rascal.

Once a shy teenager, Rascal now rocks the crowd at Miami’s Arka-dia nightclub as the resident DJ on Tuesday and Friday nights and at

Mynt on Saturdays. Before garnering these

spots, Rascal was work-ing with the Opium group, who are in charge of running Miami night-clubs such as Mansion, Set and Louis, among others.

At the time, however, they hadn’t officially placed Rascal on their official DJ roster so he continued pursuing his own thing while deejay-ing at numerous places around Miami before nailing a gig at Mynt.

“Once [Opium] found out I was at Mynt, they

DJ Rascal on the riseBeloved Miami DJ continues to impress audiences

Photo Courtesy of DJ RascalMiami’s DJ Rascal recently released ‘Two11 Bootleg Package,’ which is currently available on soundcloud.com/djrascalmusic.

ERIC JAFFEStaff Writer

Offi cially sponsored by Florida State University on April 20, Uniform 18 is a student-run organiza-tion dedicated to improv-ing the lives of every 18 to 20 year-old across Tal-lahassee by attempting to reform the legal drinking age.

“I decided to start Uni-form 18 after becoming frustrated that I was con-sidered an adult in most aspects of the law, yet I was still unable to pur-chase alcohol,” said found-er Adam Greenstein.

As a freshman in the Florida State College of Motion Picture Arts (oth-erwise known as “The Film School”), Greenstein described his organiza-tion with the passion of a young political leader.

“The goal of Uniform 18 is to raise awareness and initiate intellectual con-versation about the cur-rent alcohol laws,” Green-stein said. “We feel that the 21 drinking age is not an effective long-term pol-icy. The organization is in-tended to create a univer-sity-based movement for more effective means of

dealing with alcohol. It is our belief that, by creating better policies, we should be able to divert resources away from enforcing the drinking age and increase funding for the enforce-ment of issues that are di-rectly problematic such as binge drinking and drunk driving. By having more inclusive laws, we would be able to encourage safe drinking across all age groups, not just 18 to 20 year-olds.”

By becoming a recog-nized student organiza-tion (RSO), Uniform 18 is now capable of holding meetings and events on campus, as well as gaining funding from the SGA.

Greenstein has enor-mous ambitions for the project, not only locally, but also nationally.

“I hope to fi nd support-ers of Uniform 18 that are willing to start chapters in both universities and high schools around the nation,” Greenstein said. “We need to gather as much support as we can get to bring about change. Our chapters will help universities implement programs on their respec-

Uniform 18 asks:

Got booze?New student organization

seeks to reform drinking age


It’s no secret that there is an overabundance of music-related websites on the Internet, most of which tend to feature the same information and material as the next.

Florida State Universi-ty’s Austen Vanderbleek and Georgia Perimeter’s Arturo Macias, however, seek to provide a more personal take on the mu-sic industry rather than regurgitating what other music-related sites fea-ture time and time again. Co-founded by Vander-bleek and Macias, Hip-sturbed.tumblr.com is a music discovery platform dedicated to celebrating, exploring and sharing the art of music with readers. At Hipsturbed, guests will fi nd a number of songs they’ve prob-ably never heard (but will most likely enjoy), video recaps of concerts they attend, write-ups on various artists, as well as original mixtapes created by Vanderbleek and Macias. Described as “one of those friends you can always go to for new music recom-

mendations, to discuss your favorite bands, or anything else music-re-lated,” the founders of Hipsturbed rest on the idea that what they pres-ent on their site refl ects their personal tastes and ideas versus only includ-ing what’s considered popular.

“My goal was to make people think about the way they’re acting and to open up dialogue about music to everyone,” said Vanderbleek on the site’s purpose. “We try and put our personalities into our writing, so we’re not just writing informa-tion—you can go else-where for information. Using creativity and whatever knowledge we have about the genre/art-ist, we try and make the writing entertaining.”

Hipsturbed also aims to share its tastes with the hope of giving read-ers who desire to listen to something other than mainstream material somewhere to turn to for something new.

“It’s a music site where you don’t really know what you’re going to get and even if you don’t like it, at least you’ve been

exposed to it,” said Van-derbleek. “Music isn’t always easy to discover. People often ask me where or how I look for music. I honestly don’t know—I’ve found music through so many differ-ent platforms over the years I kind of just draw on each. Just as there is media literacy, there’s music media literacy, too. […] In the end, hopefully Arturo and [my] music tastes/con-nections are something people enjoy more often than not.”

A frequent concert-goer, Vanderbleek origi-nally conceptualized the idea for Hipsturbed as he became weary of the atmosphere present at some of the shows that he attended.

“I was tired of going to shows for the music and ending up being distracted by the show the crowds put on,” said Vanderbleek. “Also, it turned a hobby of mine into something produc-tive. This, combined with some of my friends already looking to me for music information and

‘Hipsturbed’ offers refreshing experienceStudent-run website adds personal

touch to music platform


Toad the Wet Sprock-et with Graham Col-ton—Thursday, April 28, doors 8 p.m. at The Engine Room. Admis-sion: $20

Formed on the out-skirts of Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1986, Toad the Wet Sprocket is an Amer-ican alternative-rock band consisting of Glen Phillips (vocals, guitar), Todd Nichols (guitar), Dean Dinning (bass) and Randy Guss (drums).

Though the band en-joyed success during the 1990s for hits such as “Walk On the Ocean,” “Fall Down,” “All I Want” and “Something’s Always Wrong,” they temporarily disbanded in 1998 to pur-sue individual projects.

In 2006, however, the members reconvened to tour across the United States and play in nu-merous small venues. By December 2010, the band announced their official reunion and recently re-leased their sixth studio album, All You Want, earlier this month.

Wavelets, The Cau-tion Children, You Blew It!, Coffee Eyes and Oh! Geography—Friday, April 29, doors 7:30 p.m. at The Far-side—Admission: $5

Always one to honor and celebrate local and regional music, The Farside will play host to Wavelets, an experi-mental five-piece from Gainesville consisting of Ryan Willems, Lee Kraft, Steven Gray, Scott Carr and Luke Moses.

Orlando’s You Blew It! will also be performing in addition to Jacksonville’s The Caution Children, delightfully described as “twinkly screamo […with] very awesome stage presence” by The Far-side. Made up of Adam Gilroy, John Frank, Kee-gan Nugent and Arnold Francisco, local favorite folk/country Oh! Geogra-phy will also perform.

Menace Beach: Sum-mer Begins/Bon Voy-age to Mustache FL—Friday, April 29, doors 9 p.m., at The Engine Room. Admission: La-dies FREE till 11 p.m., $7 under 21, $10 after midnight

Even though school is out for the summer, Menace Beach shows no signs of slowing down the party and, thus, will be hosting the first of many Menace Party she-nanigans taking place over summer.

Unfortunately, the par-ty will also be a farewell to one of Menace Beach’s resident DJs of the past two years, Mustache FL aka Nicolas Daniels.

Fellow residents Team Jaguar and Ben Danner will also be present along with Truewill on the pa-tio.

WCP and BMP pres-ent: MartyParty with Team Grime & Sato-

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Born in South Africa, MartyParty aka Marty Folb, grew up influenced by the local tribal music. In 1994, Folb moved to San Francisco, where he

began DJing house and hip-hop around Califor-nia.

Labeled as the Iggy Pop of electronic music, MartyParty produces layered tracks of beat, bassline and harmonics building up to a full fre-quency crescendo.

His music has been

called “purple” music—a hybrid of electronic mu-sic, dubstep and hip-hop blended together. Not surprisingly, MartyParty describes his live show the “purple opera,” as it’s a high energy specta-cle with its intense bass, beats and cutting edge sound.

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tive campuses that will help encourage safe and responsible alcohol con-sumption.”

Uniform 18 was offi -cially brought to Face-book on April 15. Since its conception, the orga-nization’s page has re-ceived a steadily increas-ing amount of support from students at FSU and abroad. The accumula-tion of Greenstein’s work online, however, is yet to come.

“We have a website in the works that will hopefully be up and run-ning within the next few weeks,” Greenstein said. “I want to the site to be as informative as pos-sible, so it’s still a work in progress. We’re cur-rently gathering as much research for the website as we can to strengthen our argument before the page’s offi cial premiere. Students can still visit us online now at www.uni-

form18.org, but it’s just our logo and a link to the Facebook page. It’s im-portant for students who are interested in the proj-ect to ‘like’ the Facebook page as soon as possible so we can inform them when the site goes up.”

Greenstein hopes to start promoting Uniform 18 over the fall semester. For now, students can learn more about Uniform 18 on its offi cial Facebook page.

JULIE HINDSDetroit Free Press via MCT

Davy Rothbart has poked around oth-ers people’s lives with Found, his published collections of random lost or abandoned notes, letters and photos.

Now it’s his turn to share some of his per-sonal business in My Heart Is an Idiot, a doc-umentary.

Filmed in 2005 and 2006, the road movie follows the 36-year-old author as he tours the country for his Found live show and promo-tional stops. But its real focus is his bumpy love life, which is as yearn-ing, funny, painful and enigmatic as the discards featured in his magazines and books.

My Heart Is an Id-iot could be described as a bohemian update of 1986’s Sherman’s March, the quirky medi-tation on romance by Ross McElwee. It’s also reminiscent of the 2010 talker Catfi sh, at least in terms of being a story about a search for love with big surprises along the way.

The movie was shot and edited by first-time feature director David

Meiklejohn, who says in the production notes that the goal was to keep filming, “no matter how raw the moment.” Meiklejohn also writes about pondering how true any documentary can be, a question that “haunts the film and oc-casionally comes to the foreground, sometimes even being asked by the people in the film them-selves.”

Rothbart says that, ex-cept for some obviously re-created moments, it’s all true—right down to his lovelorn crying jags and including much old-er footage he had taped of himself weeping.

During his journey, he reaches out for advice from unexpected sourc-es, like actress Zooey De-schanel and GOP leader Newt Gingrich. He also gets words of wisdom from Aaron, a 2,000-year-old monk channeled by his endearing mother.

In other words, this is not a typical rom-com. Rothbart spoke recently about how My Heart Is an Idiot was made and what he’s learned from the experience.

Q: How did this shift from a movie about your tour to a movie about

your love life?DR: (David Meikle-

john) said he wanted to come along with me and my brother Peter on these cross-country Found tours that we do, in order to make a docu-mentary about Found and the whole experi-ence of being on the road and people bringing us found stuff.

He just wanted to document all of it. But when he got home from the first tour, he said he was looking at all the footage and he realized that he’d been intending to document our Found magazine tour and he’d actually documented the ups and downs of my love life. As he told me about these differ-ent scenes that he’d cap-tured, I realized he was kind of right. He said he wanted to follow these threads that had been brought up on the first tour and see how things would wind up. He came with us again the follow-ing year.

Along the way, we started talking to a lot of people. I was looking for advice on my own situ-ation, but also just try-ing to hear about other people’s experiences. So many of the found notes,

Q&A with ‘Found’ collector and documentary subject Davy Rothbart

the-communicator.orgRothbart is the subject of the new documentary feature ‘My Heart Is an Idiot.’

unlikelywords.comDavy Rothbart compiled and published the ‘Found’ books.

part of what appeals to me so much about them is the fact that you can feel like you’re going through something in your own life that’s really difficult, a real struggle, and you can feel really alone. But then you read some found note written by a stranger and you’re like, oh, this is a total stranger who’s going through the exact same thing. It does make you feel less alone and it can give you perspective.

In a weird way, I felt as we talked to other people about the issues going on in their lives, I started to realize some of the things I was dealing with were things that other people have dealt with, too. There’s something uni-versal to anyone’s search for love.

Q: The film starts off portraying you as sort of a hopeless romantic, may-be a hapless romantic at times. And then things get a lot more complicated. Were you worried about making your life such an open book to viewers?

DR: Yeah, in some ways, it’s an odd feel-ing to open yourself so completely and really put (on screen) yourself and all the mistakes you’ve made and regretful things

you might have done or careless or even reckless ways you may have lived your life. It’s a little scary to put that out there for people. One factor is for years I’ve been publish-ing other people’s most private and intimate mo-ments in Found magazine. Of course, these found notes that we publish, we change the names and we find ways to keep the per-son anonymous. But still, I felt like the least I could do was to put myself on the line in the same kind of way and open myself to people.

There’s some part of me that’s nervous that people will judge me for these mistakes I’ve made and things I’ve done that I’m not proud of, but I also hope they’ll find ways to relate to these things and maybe even have more compassion for them-selves and what’s gone on in their life. A couple of people that saw the movie told me that the section when I’m crying, all those early shots of me crying in high school and college, they said it was meaningful to them. It’s the kind of moment that most people suffer through alone.

Q: How did you get ce-

lebrities to give you love advice and which one surprised you most?

DR: All of these people were people we just ran into randomly during the course of the tour. I did this event in L.A. and Zooey Deschanel, she sings in a band. We were backstage and just thought, she’s been in a lot of movies about love. Maybe she’ll have some ideas for me. She was re-ally nice.

And Ira Glass, of course, he’s my boss. I do a lot of work for This American Life, the radio show. He, of course, is as insight-ful as ever. He’s a smart guy and he’s known me for a long time now, gosh, probably 12 years.

Newt Gingrich sur-prised me. Here’s a guy who I don’t agree with his politics and I know that he’s sort of famously had his own issues with love. But maybe the more things you deal with, the more you gain some kind of wisdom.

Just the fact that he was willing to engage with such an odd question, that he wouldn’t have a canned response for, to actually be really that thoughtful and reflective and give, I think, some re-ally nice advice.

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slowly started work-ing me in, and I was with Opium for almost two years,” said Rascal. “Then I wanted to chal-lenge myself and I got the opportunity to jump to Arkadia. I took the op-portunity to play there, not knowing if it was going to be a one-time gig or an every-Tuesday type of thing. Then I did it, knowing that it was going to cause problems with me and Opium be-cause they’re big com-petition, but I took the risk and did it and then I got offered the Tuesday night residency, which was a relief. After that, I was offered Friday nights so I rolled out with it and I’ve been there ever since playing music on Tues-days and Fridays and then Saturdays at Mynt.”

At 22, Rascal is the youngest DJ to have secured spots in exclu-sive clubs, something in which he takes a great deal of pride.

“I think I’m the only DJ who has been able to do that because Mynt is so exclusive,” he said. “They don’t bring in many dee-jays. They just have two

or three deejays there—thank God I’m one of them. To this day, I’m the only DJ that’s been able to do that at 22, which is super dope. […] I have the ability to play for dif-ferent crowds almost ev-ery single night, which is cool.”

In regard to his other material, Rascal recently released his Two11 Boot-leg Package. The mix, which received 10,000 hits during the first week it came out, is currently available on soundcloud.com/djrascalmusic.

In addition to having residencies at some of Miami’s hottest clubs and releasing new mate-rial, Rascal has also been talking closely with Steve Aoki.

“I met Aoki when I opened up for him once here in Miami and I played the first song that I ever produced,” said Rascal. “I opened up for him and then he went on and did his thing and when he was finished deejaying, it was my turn to play again. I felt like playing the only song I had ever produced, and when I played it, Steve went cra-

zy [laughs]. He started grabbing my shoulder and jumping and he was like, ‘What is this?’ I was like, ‘Dude, I just finished this yesterday. I made it,’ and he said he really liked it. We’ve just built a relationship from there, and every time he plays in Miami, he requests for me to open.”

Along with his residen-cies in Miami clubs, Ras-cal has played elsewhere, including Tallahassee.

“I’ve played in Tal-lahassee a couple of times,” he said. “You guys party hard—really hard [laughs].”

As for his future plans, Rascal hopes to move to New York for a few months to see where it takes him.

In the meantime, he’s enjoying his opportuni-ties in Miami.

“Right now, I’m in the best clubs in South Beach, so it’s hard to compete with,” said Ras-cal. “I’m young, so hope-fully in five years, I’ll be playing festivals, having a lot more relationships with people I look up to, working on music and continuing to be happy.”

recommendations was my encouragement.”

One thing the founders don’t like to hear is their site being called a “music blog.”

“I don’t like the word blog because it seems they’re self-important,” said Vanderbleek. “To blog in and of itself is to think that what you have to say or write is of interest to other people. Specifi -cally, in the music world, I’ve had a problem with blogs building crazy hype around the same music.”

As for the name Hip-sturbed, it was inspired by Vanderbleek’s and Macias’ strong mutual disdain for hipsters and what they

represent.“Hipsters give indie a

bad name because they are an identifi able group of people who act, dress and smell a certain way,” said Vanderbleek. “[It’s] basically a culture that has been tied to a lot of the music I listen to. I’m not a member of this cul-ture and I feel like a lot of people feel the same way. So [Hipsturbed] ends up being a home for people who want to enjoy the mu-sic they like, but feel out of place with that music’s scene. Some scenes are like bad horror movies.”

In a similar vein, part of Hipsturbed’s aesthetic is inspired by Macias’ love

for horror fi lms. “The initial idea was

always about sharing un-discovered or notable music, but it was Austen who suggested that I add my interest for the spe-cifi c fi lm genre,” said Ma-cias. “[With] our tweets and mixtapes, we’ve tried incorporating the horror aesthetic into all aspects of our ‘movement.’ Visi-tors to our site are instant-ly welcomed by Jocelin Donahue from Ti West’s The House of the Devil, nodding to the staple ‘fi nal girl’ from slasher fi lms. I think we’re witnessing the dichotomy between fi lm and music fold right before our eyes. Both industries

are becoming involved with each other more than ever, and they seem to be blending together, unable to differentiate between the two.”

Aside from sharing new music and implementing fi lm into their aesthetic, the founders of Hip-sturbed have also made it a point to reach out to as many readers and mu-sicians as possible. With a Twitter, SoundCloud, Facebook page, Last.fm and their main website, Vanderbleek and Macias have been able to capture the attention of some of the most unexpected of visitors, including Jah-coozi, Born Ruffi ans and

Diplo. Various artists looking to work alongside Hipsturbed have also ap-proached Vanderbleek and Macias with different ideas and material.

“We’ve had people make us mixtapes from Austra-lia (The Gripp) and Can-ada,” said Vanderbleek. “Plus, we have a local Mi-ami artist, Nikolais Javan, who we believe will blow up soon—he is like an electronic music sponge, recreating his infl uences with his eclectic touch—in the process of getting remixed by a South Af-rican producer/DJ Das Kapital.”

Despite the following they’ve already estab-

lished, Vanderbleek and Macias would like to see even more involvement and feedback from the lo-cal community, as they’re dedicated to unleashing the potential of bringing together a community through their movement.

“I want people to tweet at us about a show they’re excited about, local bands to share music with us so we can try and help them get exposure and com-ments on our Facebook page,” said Vanderbleek. “I want a dialogue about music and a community for people who do not fi nd music through their friends and everyday life to turn to.”

Photo courtesy of DJ Rascal22 year-old DJ Rascal fi rst began deejaying as a 16 year-old high school sophomore.

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SCOTT CRUMBLY Staff Writer

The No. 10 Florida State Seminoles played host to Duke over the weekend, marking the fi rst time since 2007 that the Blue Devils had traveled to Tallahassee. It was a trip Duke would rather forget, as FSU swept the Blue Devils over the weekend.

The visitors from Dur-ham, N.C., were in for a rude welcome when FSU ace Sean Gilmartin took the mound to open the se-ries on Friday evening.

Gilmartin was brilliant for the ’Noles, striking out a career-high 13 batters and allowing just one run

in eight innings of action. Gilmartin’s control was on full display as he slung 70 strikes in just 97 total pitches.

The Seminoles (31-10, 14-7 Atlantic Coast Con-ference) took a 1-0 lead in the second on a line-drive home run from Jus-tin Gonzalez, and Johnson drove in the fi nal run in the fourth inning.

After Gilmartin’s exit, relief pitcher Daniel Ben-nett came on to close the game by retiring three straight for his fi fth save of the year.

“I’ve never seen [Gilmar-tin] like that,” said FSU third baseman Sherman Johnson. “It seems every

time he goes out there he’s going to go eight innings of one-hit, two-hit, three-hit baseball.”

Gilmartin’s performance on Friday was a tough act to follow, but FSU pitcher Hunter Scantling did not disappoint on Saturday.

In six innings of work, Scantling struck out fi ve batters and allowed Duke (20-23, 4-17 ACC) only two runs on three hits en route to a 10-3 victory for Florida State.

Scantling (3-0) received a vote of confi dence from the coaching staff and re-mained in the starting ro-tation after a tough outing against Virginia Tech. The junior right-hander was

pleased with his bounce-back performance.

“I was hoping last week would go a little better,” said Scantling. “Just to come back and get some quality innings and help the team get the win was big.”

The ’Noles went to work offensively against Duke starter Marcus Stro-man (1-3), a Major League prospect with mid-90s power. Mike McGee start-ed the scoring in the fi rst with a two-run single that drove in Johnson and De-von Travis, and FSU never looked back. Stroman’s day ended after fi ve in-nings of work in which he surrendered fi ve hits and

six earned runs.“That young man is as

impressive as any young man we’ve competed against this season,” FSU skipper Mike Martin said.

The Seminoles put the game out of reach with a four-run performance in the fi fth. After a double from McGee, James Ram-sey knocked in a two-run single and by the time the frame was over, FSU owned a 6-1 advantage.

The ’Noles added two runs in the sixth on an RBI-single from Seth Miller and a run-scoring double from Johnson. FSU closed out its scoring with two more

Seminoles dominate Blue DevilsStout pitching and clutch hitting propels baseball to series sweep

Joseph La Belle/FSView James Ramsey and his fellow Seminoles put on impressive performances at the plate and on the mound to send Duke packing without a win.

HARRIS NEWMANContributing Writer

After stringing three wins together to end the regular season, the FSU women’s tennis team used this momentum to carry them through a wild and historic postsea-son run, culminating in a heartbreaking 4-3 loss to No. 5 North Carolina (22-5, 11-2 ACC) in the ACC Championship.

The tournament began with the No. 18 Semi-noles (15-7, 10-4) facing Wake Forest (6-16, 0-12). Florida State disposed quickly and easily of the Demon Deacons with a 4-0 sweep.

Highlighting the match was Federica Suess’ sin-gles victory, which solidi-fi ed her as the winningest singles player in FSU women’s history. Soph-omore Amy Sargeant clinched the match with a 6-4, 6-0 victory on court six.

The Seminoles ad-vanced to the semifi nals with a 4-3 victory over the No. 11 Virginia Cava-liers (18-7, 7-5).

FSU lost the doubles point but proceeded to rebound strongly by win-

ning four of six singles sets. Suess tied the match at 3-3, and sophomore Ruth Seaborne conclud-ed the match with the fi rst match clincher of her career.

The road only got tougher for the Semi-noles, who then had to face top-seeded Duke. After two matches in two days, FSU maintained their momentum and notched a 4-3 victory—their eighth in a row.

After FSU jumped out to an early l-0 lead, win-ning the doubles point, the Blue Devils answered right back.

Duke took a 3-2 lead in singles after Segarelli lost to Duke’s No. 80 El-lah Nze. The match saw FSU’s Rybakova and Scharle in their third sets with each victory neces-sary for the Seminoles to advance. Rybakova end-ed hers fi rst, winning her 102nd career match in a tiebreaker.

Scharle upstaged Ry-bakova’s momentous victory just soon there-after, as she upset Duke’s top ranked player, No. 18

Seminoles fall in championship

Women’s tennis falls just short of ACC title

Melina Vastola/FSViewAshley Stager’s two-run home run on Sunday helped FSU steer clear of a sweep.

ERIC TODOROFF Contributing Writer

The Florida State (26-23, 8-9 ACC) softball team came into this weekend looking to build on their already impressive sev-en-game winning streak when they faced the

University of Maryland Terrapins (32-13, 8-5) in a three-game weekend series.

The fi rst game of Sat-urday’s doubleheader featured a pitching duel between FSU’s Sarah Hamilton and Maryland’s Kerry Hickey. Hickey’s

strange delivery allowed her to hide the ball well and baffl ed the ’Noles, throwing a no-hitter, striking out 10 batters. Hamilton kept FSU in the game allowing just one

Seminoles avoid sweep by downing Terps on Sunday

Rough weekend ends on high note as FSU shuts out Maryland in fi nal game of series

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ERIC ZERKELStaff Writer

The top-ranked Florida State men’s track team earned a measure of re-venge Saturday, stringing together a late run of re-sults to surge past Virginia Tech and take home the Atlantic Coast Conference outdoor track and fi eld championship.

Earlier in the year it was the Seminoles who came out on the short end, fi n-ishing second to the same Virginia Tech squad, and in the process ending their bid for a ninth straight ACC indoor track and fi eld crown. This time out, Seminole Maurice Mitch-ell made sure the ’Noles would come out on top.

With just three events to go, Florida State trailed Virginia Tech 141.5 to 124.5, needing a strong per-formance in the 200-meter dash to challenge the Hok-ies for the title. Mitchell would secure MVP honors after placing fi rst in the 200m with a time of 20.19, tying the ACC record set by former Seminole Wal-ter Dix.

Mitchell wasn’t the only one coming up big for Florida State. Seminoles Brandon Byram, Charles Clark and Brandon O’Conner would round out the rest of the podium, fi nishing second, third and fourth, but more impor-tantly handing the ’Noles 29 points and the lead.

“Virginia Tech has got to be a top-fi ve team,” Semi-nole head coach Bob Bra-man said. “We had some unbelievable performanc-es and we needed every one of them; we only won by 21 points. That’s not a huge margin. I don’t know today what we could have done better here.”

A slew of other Semi-noles starred in the event. Ngonidzashe Makusha took home three golds throughout the course of the event, winning the long jump with a distance of 7.72 m, taking part in the 4x100 Relay, and top-ping off his performance with a 9.97 in the 100-me-ter dash, good enough for a new ACC record. The Seminoles posted a time of 39.61 in their victory in the 4x100 relay, and swept the podium in the 100-me-ter dash.

Junior Michael Putman and sophomore Brandon O’Connor also took home individual titles, winning the discus and the 400-me-ter dash, respectively. Senior Ciaran O’Lionaird would polish off the Semi-nole victory with his pair of victories in the 5000-me-ter and 1500-meter runs. His times of 13:52, and 3:40.69 were good enough for two ACC records.

While the men stole the spotlight with a seventh straight ACC title, the women came up just short, fi nishing in second place behind Clemson with a fi -nal score of 132.5.

“The women, we were just trying to do as best as we could,” Braman said. “We didn’t double-up and

Seven straight

Men’s track claims ACC

outdoor title; women take

second

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earned run, but lost the decision 1-0.

The lone run of the game came in the top of the fi rst inning after Sara Acosta drew a lead off walk and got to third on a single by Vangie Galindo. With two outs, Marisha Branson doubled to deep center scoring what would prove to be the game-winning run.

In game two of the dou-bleheader, the FSU bats fi nally got going but the bullpen squandered a late two-run lead to lose the game 7-4.

The Terps scored fi rst in the top of the third. Bat-ting out of the ninth spot, Kendra Knight was able to reach on a fi elder’s choice. Due to an error by Briana Hamilton, Acosta got on base and Knight was able to hustle to third. Galindo struck again doubling to left center scoring both runs but was tagged out trying to stretch it to a triple.

In the bottom of the sixth, the ’Noles were able to put together a four-run rally. Morgan Bullock got things going with an infi eld

single and promptly stole second. Another infi eld single by Shayla Jackson pushed Bullock down to third. Senior Jan Lapicki then came through with a clutch two-run double down the left fi eld line ty-ing the game at two runs apiece.

Kirstin Austin replaced Lapicki on the base path and used her speed to scoot down to third on a wild pitch. With veteran Aherberg at the dish, FSU head coach Lonni Alameda then called for the suicide squeeze scoring Austin.

Freshman Celeste Gomez capped the rally with a line drive single to left pushing the lead to 4-2.

In a rare relief appear-ance, Sarah Hamilton came into the game in an attempt to secure the save. Candice Beards led off with an infi eld single and then Lexi Carroll doubled to center, putting the tying runs in scoring position.

Kathy McLaughlin had an RBI groundout to close the score to 4-3. Hamilton then lost control of the game and hit Nikki Mai-er and allowed another

single to tie up the game. With two runners on, Gal-indo put the nail in the coffi n and crushed a home run over the center fi eld fence, putting the Terps on top for good at 7-4.

FSU could not answer in the bottom of the seventh and grounded out three consecutive times to end the game.

In the fi nal game of the series on Sunday, Sarah Hamilton made up for her blown save with an im-pressive outing, not allow-ing a run, striking out six and allowing just fi ve hits

in 6 2/3 innings, leading the ’Noles to 5-0 victory as Florida State avoided the sweep.

FSU took advantage of mental mistakes made by Maryland starting pitcher Kerry Hickey. Hickey was responsible for three runs, one on a wild pitch and two due to illegal pitches. Ashley Stager added a two-run homer in the bot-tom of the fi fth, extending the Seminole lead to fi ve.

FSU heads to Gaines-ville on Wednesday for a matchup against the Flor-ida Gators.

SERIES from 8

triple-up our kids and we were still able to score 130 points to get second. We are really proud of both teams.”

Kim Williams would star for the women. Wil-

liams won the triple jump for the fourth consecutive year, posting a 46 1 1/4, good enough for an ACC record. She also won the long jump, making her the only woman to win mul-

tiple events. Jessica Parry also

earned top honors. Her time of 16:14 was good enough for fi rst in the 5000-meter, making her the only other woman to

earn an individual title. The Florida State track

and fi eld team will return to action next Thursday, April 28, when they play their part in the Penn Re-lays.

SEVEN from 8

HARRIS NEWMANContributing Writer

Shocked and surprised could describe how the Seminoles are feeling right now, as they dropped their opening match of the ACC Tournament 4-2 to the Maryland Terrapins (12-11, 3-8 Atlantic Coast Conference), a team which Florida State is historically dominant against.

The No. 44 Seminoles (9-15, 4-7 ACC) entered the match knowing it was a “must-win” in order to clinch a seed for the up-coming NCAA Team Cham-pionships, and are now uncertain about their fate moving forward.

Florida State began the match with a slow start, as they lost the doubles point after two matches.

Maryland’s John Collins

and Maros Horny stunned the Seminoles top doubles team of No. 13 Vahid Mirza-deh and Connor Smith, knocking them off the court fi rst with an 8-4 win.

That momentum seem-ingly carried onto court two, where Andy Magee and Jesse Kiuru won 8-3 over Anderson Reed and Andres Bucaro.

Mirzadeh and Smith usu-ally set the tone with their doubles play, as the duo is 17-7 on the year and had won fi ve of their last six matches, including a vic-tory over Duke’s No. 7 team last weekend.

“Maryland came out with a lot of energy in doubles,” Seminoles head coach Dwayne Hultquist said. “I thought they were a hun-grier team and wanted it more.”

Mirzadeh turned the tide

in singles, though, as the Seminoles’ 26th-ranked player was off the court fi rst with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over No. 106 Maros Horny, who Mirzadeh defeated in straight sets two weekends ago.

This dominant win from Mirzadeh further supports his case for ACC Player of the Year. The senior was Florida State’s experienced leader, as he won seven of his last nine matches, and had a 10-match winning streak earlier in the season. He is 17-7 in singles, includ-ing seven ranked wins.

“Vahid has had a phe-nomenal year,” commented Hultquist. “He really needs to be considered for ACC Player of the Year with the type of season he had.”

It was the shaky play from the younger Semi-noles which proved to be

One and done for SeminolesMen’s tennis drops opening ACC match

the team’s downfall. An-derson Reed and Andres Bucaro were both up in their fi rst sets, but each re-linquished their leads and dropped the fi rst set.

The losses by Reed and Bucaro, which both came in straight sets, were the last two points the Terra-pins needed to clinch the match and silence FSU’s ACC title hopes.

“We made a nice little run in the beginning of singles,” said Hultquist. “[Reed and Bucaro] were up in their fi rst set. If we would have won the fi rst fi ve sets, we would have controlled the match.”

Amidst the disappoint-ing loss, Jordan Kelly-Houston nevertheless provides a promising fu-ture for the Seminoles. After starting slowly in the spring season at 3-11 in singles, the sophomore had won fi ve matches in a row.

He put the Seminoles up 2-1 after a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Maryland’s Tommy

Laine. It was Kelly-Hous-ton’s eighth ACC win of the season.

The Seminoles’ season destiny is now the hands of the selction committee.

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runs in the seventh on a Jayce Boyd home run.

After freshman David Trexler and Gary Merians got roughed up to start Sunday’s fi nale, Mark

Waugh fi nally stopped the bleeding and went on to pitch 5.1 innings of score-less ball, helping FSU to a 13-9 win.

FSU found its groove

again offensively, putting up four runs in the bot-tom of the fi rst. Ramsey extended his ACC-leading hit streak to 19 games with an RBI-double to score

Sherman Johnson. Boyd and Parker Brunelle added RBI-doubles in the inning.

After scoring runs in the fi fth and sixth, FSU ex-ploded for six runs in the

seventh to retake the lead. McGee, Ramsey, Boyd, Travis, Tapley and Brunelle all crossed home during the frame. Ramsey scored once more on a sacrifi ce

fl y in the ninth to close out the scoring.

With the weekend sweep, FSU has now won 21 in a row over Duke at Dick Howser Stadium.

Reka Zsilinska, to clinch the match and send the Seminoles to the Cham-pionship match.

“I was so exhausted I didn’t even realize at fi rst that I won,” said Scharle. “I knew it was coming down to me, so I just pulled myself together, hung in the match and fi nally was able to fi nish it.”

The Seminoles then faced No. 5 North Caro-lina in what was FSU’s second ACC champion-ship game in the pro-gram’s history. Their run came to an end, however, as the Tar Heels won 4-3 in the fourth and decid-ing match.

After FSU won the dou-bles point, UNC picked up three straight points in singles. Sargeant won to tighten the match at 3-2 and Seaborne contin-ued her impressive play by tying the match at 3-3.

The match then came down, once again, to Noemie Scharle. Un-like her previous match, though, Scharle was un-able to grind out the vic-tory, and eventually lost in a third-set tiebreaker.

Although FSU dropped the championship match, the prestige of their run is unprecedented and not one to be over-looked. They entered

TENNIS from 8

one of the toughest con-ference tournaments and, after four matches in four

days, came literally inches away from bringing home a trophy.

“A high is temporary, but belief is permanent,” said coach Hyde. “This

team truly believes there is no limit for them this year, and that very clear-

ly showed again today in their play and in their fi ght.”

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Joseph La Belle/FSViewRafael Lopez and Florida State clawed back from an early defi cit and scored six runs in the seventh inning of Sunday’s game to secure a sweep over the Duke Blue Devils.


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SAMUEL BERKOWITZ Staff Writer

Much like the left-wing position on immigration, when it comes to unions, most liberals seem to be clinging to circumstances pertinent to a bygone era. We’ve heard ad infi nitum the canards about unions protecting the workers from the big, bad corpora-tions, the sole aim of which is to glut themselves on the blood of the defenseless, complete with Montgom-ery Burns from The Simp-sons perched in his tower, tapping his bony fi ngers chortling “Excellent!” as low-level employees slave away from dawn to dusk for minimum wage. At one time, unions performed a needed function in keep-ing conditions in factories

from becoming oppres-sive and the like. Howev-er, as time and laws have passed—child labor pro-hibitions, for instance—unions have, much like Al Sharpton, become something of a corrupt di-nosaur in denial. Putting aside mafi a-related issues, unions have become much less of a help to American workers seeking meaning-ful employment, and much more of a fi nancial siphon for the Democratic party.

As reported on Hu-man Events, “According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2010, there were 14.7 million Ameri-cans belonging to unions. While that only represents 11.9 percent of all wage and salary earners, there is a substantial amount of dues money fl owing to unions. If we were to use a conservative fi gure of $50 per month for union dues, in 2010, unions col-

lected $735 million per month in union dues from America’s unionized workers. Multiply $735 million by 12 months and you get a whopping $8,820,000,000 that was collected in union dues in 2010. Divide $8,820,000,000 by $33,227 and you’ll fi nd that if unions did not take union dues from workers in 2010, 265,447 workers’ jobs could have been sup-ported. Since union dues only go to support the salaries and benefi ts of union bosses, their staffs, and their golf courses, airplanes and other costs, perhaps the argument re-ally needs to be reversed. Rather than creating or saving jobs, given that unions do not produce a product and can actually be attributed with being masters of manipulation, buying politicians, killing companies, pushing poli-cies that stifl e growth,

as well as creating huge pension and health care defi cits, perhaps it’s re-ally time to rein in union dues.”

Department of Labor Statistics on Ohio, for instance, show the aver-age pay for private sec-tor employees stagnating around the $40,000 mark between 2006 and 2010. Average pay for AFSCME 4 (American Federation of State, County, and Munici-pal Employees) employ-ees went from $70,000 to somewhere between $95-100K.

Bus Drivers in New York City and Boston see $28 and $30 per hour, respec-tively. As blogger Jason Hart asked, “If Ohio’s pub-lic union members hang by a thread, why do union bosses take so much for themselves? If overpaid private industry entrepre-neurs and investors are the root of Ohio’s fi scal

troubles, why shouldn’t Ohio taxpayers be con-cerned about six-fi gure union salaries?”

They probably are. But the “system” so of-

ten invoked by liberals has gotten to the point where unions are able to consistently demand more and more while giv-ing huge sums of money to Democrats who, in turn, increase the size of gov-ernment and membership in public-sector unions, and so forth. One hand washes the other and, ul-timately, the one paying for it is the American tax-payer that the Democratic party is supposed to care so much about.

The New York Post re-ported last fall, “FSCME’s ranks have grown 25 per-cent in the last 10 years, and its election spending has steadily increased from $19 million in 1998 to almost fi ve times that

today. Once they were al-lowed to organize and en-gage in collective bargain-ing beginning in the 1950s, public-sector unions steadily came to dominate the labor movement. A de-cade ago, public workers were 42 percent of union-ized workers; they are more than half today.”

Employees deserve reasonable protections in their place of employ-ment, and as subjective as the term “reasonable” may be, it is generally understood from a legal standpoint that it may be construed as that which the average person would deem reasonable.

I would contend that, as usual, the left’s con-ception of reasonable differs sharply from that of the American public—or more aptly that por-tion thereof not so easily swayed by loud, anti-cap-italist screeching.

Against the Grain

Snakes of the unions

Dear Editor,The U.S. Department of

Justice showed their true colors last week, and the colors are not red, white and blue. The U.S. Attor-ney General of the South-ern District of New York indicted the owners of the three largest international online poker sites; the FBI seized their domain names and warrants were issued to freeze their assets in 76

bank accounts, both do-mestic and foreign. Appar-ently the DOJ believes this American pastime is a seri-ous crime that justifi es ex-penditure of extensive law enforcement resources.

The poker sites, which are licensed and strictly regulated in their home ju-risdictions as well as many other countries in Europe, have practically been beg-ging the U.S. to license

regulate and tax them here in the U.S. Instead, our government chose to at-tack these popular sites, deny the choice to play to U.S. citizens and put at risk the fi nancial health of thousands of U.S. profes-sional players. This is not the “American way,” but rather, a harsh example of government forcing its own morays on the Inter-net and its own citizens.

There is no U.S. federal law that makes online

poker illegal. But the DOJ, pursuing its own agenda, has stretched the law forbidding online sports betting to include poker. And all this to stop adult Americans from pursuing their preferred recreation in the privacy of their own homes. Is our Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer the law of the land? Has Democracy fallen to the pursuit of political agen-das?

While we fi ght in foreign

lands to protect freedom and the democratic way of life, we cannot turn a blind eye to the erosion of those principles in our own back-yard. Millions of Americans play and enjoy online pok-er. It is not the place of our government to take away that freedom of choice. Yes, we need to protect the under-aged, those who suffer from gaming addic-tion and all players from consumer fraud. But these can easily be done through

licensing and regulation of the industry.

If I wanted to live in a country that tightly controls the choices I make, I could move to one of the many repressive foreign regimes. However, I’m a proud American who believes in freedom and democracy. Please don’t shame me by making a mockery of those principles.

—Martin Shapiro, Florida State Director, Poker Players Alliance

Letter to the Editor

The Los Angeles Times via McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The Human Rights Cam-paign has been a powerful force for the rights of gays and lesbians, but the or-ganization has stumbled in objecting to the hiring of a former solicitor gen-eral to defend the consti-

tutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. The tradi-tion of lawyers defending unpopular or controver-sial clients is an honor-able one. DOMA, which defi nes marriage as the union of one man and one woman and permits states to refuse to honor same-sex marriages performed in other states, is wrong-

headed, and we welcomed President Obama’s deci-sion not to defend it.

But that doesn’t mean the House of Representa-tives, which took over de-fense of the law from the administration, shouldn’t retain the ablest counsel available.

Former Solicitor Gen. Paul D. Clement, a re-

nowned Supreme Court litigator, qualifi es. That is too much for the Human Rights Campaign, which assailed the decision by Clement’s law fi rm to take the case as “a shameful stain on the fi rm’s reputa-tion.” It’s perhaps under-standable that leaders of an advocacy group like the Human Rights Campaign

would be outraged at the idea of anyone defending a law that they so strongly believe is discriminatory. But the suggestion that it’s shameful for Clement or his fi rm to do so misun-derstands the adversarial process.

[...] In criticizing Clem-ent’s law fi rm for agree-ing to defend DOMA, the

Human Rights Campaign contrasted that decision with the fi rm’s admira-ble record in promoting equality for gay and lesbi-an employees. But there is no contradiction—unless one believes that DOMA doesn’t deserve a defense. We hope Clement loses, but we don’t begrudge him the assignment.

Defense of Marriage Act: Attack the law, not the lawyer

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Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is a 7 -- Lis-ten to what your partner wants, and

see how you can fulfi ll it. You have the self-discipline to make things happen. Accept their gratitude. What comes around goes around.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7 -- Be thrifty and patient, and your respect-

ful past treatment of others earn you kudos now. Keep furthering your education, no matter your age. Inquire among friends for opportunities.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 7 -- Re-arrange things for greater effi ciency.

Write in your journal. Stay on track with the help of a friend. Stand up for what you know is right. Shift expectations.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 9 -- Your charm is captivat-ing. Say the magic

words, and ask for what you want. Collect an old debt. Work starts to pay off. Accept another assignment for a bonus.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is an 8 -- Postpone ex-pensive socializ-

ing. Patience and courtesy are worthwhile practices. You’re the stabilizing infl uence. Share the love with others ... and invite them on a picnic.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is an 8 -- Communication is key and so is intu-

ition. Keep working towards your goals, even if at times it feels like there’s no progress. Don’t give up. Do what’s required.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is an 8 -- Break through the myth of the “starv-

ing artist.” You can be creative and make money at the same time. Invest in love. Use your imagination. Study what you love.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is a 9 -- New information chang-es your choice. The

more precision, the more profi t. Your common sense comes in handy. Keep the energy fl owing, and practice steadily. Money comes in.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 6 -- You may not think so, but you’re looking

good. Keep feeding your inner good wolf, so that it’s louder than the bad one. Follow intuition and the map. Trust love.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most chal-lenging.

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