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January 15, 2015 | theseahawk.org | volume LXVI | Issue 9

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UNCW professor Paul Hearty joined a team working to find new ways to understand climate change and the precari-ous future of our planet.

Hearty, an associate profes-sor in the environmental sci-ence department at UNCW, is playing a vital role on a re-search team that is investigating Pliocene, a geological times-cale, and attempting to create new methods of viewing and treating global warming to-day. Hearty and the four other researchers on the team were granted $4.25 million from the National Science Foundation so that they can effectively rec-reate a model of Earth during this specific time period. The National Science Foundation granted Hearty and the four oth-er researchers on the team $4.25 million, so they can effectively recreate a model of Earth dur-ing the specific time period.

Hearty and his associates are primarily working on find-ing fossils from Australia and Africa to the East Coast of the United States. They are search-ing for shells, sediments, and rocks that date back to the Plio-cene epoch. These geological deposits serve as evidence of the climate during this specific time period and give research-ers insight into the both the Earth’s crust and ice caps.

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Paul Hearty joins research team granted $4.25 million

Recent government deci-sions led to the removal of sev-eral education programs, jump-starting a decline of teachers in North Carolina.

"One of the main factors contributing to that decline is the state ending the NC Teach-ing Fellowship Program," said Robert Smith, a professor and undergraduate program coordi-nator at the Watson School of Education.

The Teaching Fellowship program awarded high school students financial assistance to obtain a teaching degree. Many of the students in Smith's class relied on the fellowship pro-gram.

The fellowship removal wasn't the only legislative changes potentially causing concern for teachers and stu-dents.

"There were many changes that were implemented such as the removal of teacher tenure, supplement of teachers earn-ing a master's degree, class side caps, and other factors beyond that," said Smith.

Students pursuing a mas-ter's degree will no longer gain a supplement, paying teachers more for continuing their edu-cation. Teachers looking to fur-ther their education would not be compensated for being more qualified and better educated or given no assistance in pay-ing back their graduate degree loans.

Associate professor at the Watson school of education, Brad Walker, took notice of the affects the removal of the supplement caused. "We've saw a real drop in our graduate program," Walker said. "I think a lot of teachers have left after teaching in North Carolina.”

According to Brittany Sattler, a UNCW junior majoring in el-ementary education, for anyone going into a profession, money isn't often the main concern.

"We do it because we love kids and want to make a differ-ence in their lives," Sattler said.

Like many students, Brittany Sattler, a junior at UNCW work-ing to get an elementary educa-tion major, worries about being paid enough after graduation to pay off her student loans.

"It's difficult to accumulate so many loans and not get paid enough to pay them off in a de-cent amount of time," said Sat-tler, who doesn't plan to work in North Carolina once she gradu-ates.

However there has been some action to counter the teacher decline.

"Legislature recently agreed upon a pay increase that aver-ages to about 7 percent." Smith said.

Yet North Carolina is one of the states with the lowest teach-er salaries in the United States. Teachers seeking a better pay wage and benefits are moving to neighboring states such as Vir-ginia or South Carolina.

"If you value teachers, do so by respecting the work that they do, respecting who they are, and seeing them as an investment instead of an expense," Smith said.

N.C. ends teaching fellowship programs Kathrin BittnerintErning WritEr

It was announced on Octo-ber 17 at Midnite Madness that UNC Wilmington would be unveiling a new athletics logo on January 28, 2015. This an-nouncement has sparked the cu-riosity of many students, alum-ni, and fans, as the current logo has been in place since 1992.

Rob Aycock, Senior Associ-ate Athletic Director and Ex-ecutive Director of the Seahawk Club, spearheaded the new logo project.

New UNCW Logo to be unveiled this month

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Professor Paul Hearty poses for a picture at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Professor Hearty is working with associates to determine global warming patterns.

“Once I’ve been here we’ve moved in a very clear and up-front direction about getting this done,” Aycock said, “A lot of people here for a long time have been at least interested in inves-tigating a possible new logo.”

Joe Bosack & Co., a design firm located in Pottsville, Penn-sylvania specializing in sports brand identity, designed the new logo. They have designed logos for schools such as Mississippi State University and Boise State University, and are currently working on new NCAA Cham-

pionship logos. The UNCW athletic de-

partment reached out to many people across campus and held focus groups with student ath-letes, members of SGA, faculty, and staff throughout the design process.

“I want people to know that this has been a university pro-cess. This was not something athletics launched into on our own,” Aycock said, “We’ve gone to great lengths to try to involve as many people on cam-pus as we can.”

ready found through these sam-ples that sea-level during Plio-cene was higher than the current level. Hearty says by collect-ing such data, “[we can] try to understand what the world was like during warmer periods” and thus better understand the cur-

rent status of climate change on Earth today.

Hearty emphasizes he and his team are principally focusing on collecting and gathering data in order to better understand the past and what this information means for “tomorrow’s future”.

Rather than making predictions about the changing climate or attempting to prove global warming is happening on Earth, Hearty is simply striving to “build a comprehensive model of the earth’s atmosphere, ocean and ice sheet systems”.

The current logo has been used in various ways across UNCW for the last 22 years, however the new logo is de-signed specifically for athletics branding.

“I think one of the interesting things is we have a logo right now that’s a spirit mark and it works really well for the univer-sity but it’s not necessarily a dy-namic athletics logo,” Aycock said, “so that was one of the things we really wanted to ad-dress through this process.”

Although the new logo will be used for all athletic depart-ment sports and merchandise, the current logo will stick around UNCW for a while.

“We’ll still have it as a sec-ondary mark. We’ll quit selling merchandise with that logo on it as it relates to apparel but we know that logo is ingrained in the culture here and we antici-pate that a lot of the university will continue to use that mark,” Aycock said, “Moving towards a new logo in not an indictment of that mark.”

In addition to the new logo, there will be new secondary logos and custom fonts the uni-versity will own. This will add a new level of versatility for ev-ery team’s uniforms across all UNCW sports.

“Once we launch this, we will be committed to the brand and identity guide that goes with it,” Aycock said.

Three pieces of the new logo were revealed at the Men’s and Women’s Basketball exhibi-tions on November 8 , a few days later on UNCW Athlet-ics social media pages, and at Wagsgiving.

The full logo will be un-veiled on January 28, 2015 at Wagoner Dining Hall before the Men’s Basketball game against Elon. New merchandise featur-ing the logo will also be avail-able that day.

He and his colleagues are working to gather enough in-formation to correctly and ef-ficiently recreate this 3 million year old version of Earth.

“The upshot is that if we can understand basically how sea-level behaved in a natural system without humans inter-vening,” Hearty said, “we can get a better idea of what kind of changes we can expect in sea-level and ice sheets and ocean currents and all the other factors that are related to that in the fu-ture.”

Several UNCW Environ-mental Science majors ex-pressed excitement surrounding this project, and it what it means for the issue of climate change, because it is difficult for this is-sue to gain attention and fund-ing from foundations such as the National Science Founda-tion. Furthermore, Hearty’s connection to UNCW helps to encourage the green mentality the UNCW campus works to adapt.

Jimmy Morgenroth, an En-vironmental Science major at UNCW, is thrilled about the project and its potential impact.

“Dr. Hearty and his team is conducting research from a geo-logical perspective...the data that they come up with can be extremely beneficial in under-standing climate change in the past and what can be expected in the future,” Morgenroth said.

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The university will reveal a new logo on the evening Jan. 28 at Wagoner Hall. Students are encouraged to look for the missing puzzle pieces to complete the logo.

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Free time is in short supply for Nicole Dempsey, who bal-ances the roles of both a sopho-more at UNC Wilmington and the president of TealTV.

Double majoring in both Film Studies and Communica-tion Studies, Dempsey became president of TealTV, UNCW’s student-led television network, this year. Previously, she held the role of assistant producer and joined TealTV as a way to get involved on campus.

“I’ve always had a creative flair, however I have never been traditionally talented as far as being able to draw really well or something like that,” Dempsey said. “I always thought that film was a really great media for me to get that creative side of my-self out.”

Dempsey was a production assistant on a few student films. Growing up, she watched vari-ous films and knew she wanted to become a producer upon en-tering college.

“I was always a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino movies and I just thought that when I watched them that they were a really good art piece,” Dempsey said.

Her interest ranges from modern to foreign films.

Dempsey previously attend-ed Psych Circle[s1] , a UNCW club that meets weekly to dis-cuss interesting topics in film that have a psychology focus. This year, she dedicates most of her time to her position at TealTV along with her 18-hour class schedule.

Student Profile: TealTV President Nicole DempseyKathrin BittnerintErning WritEr

Pomegranate Books, a lo-cal bookstore and Wilmington gem, recently opened a café to stimulate business and to ex-pand. Owner Kathleen Jewell opened this family-owned and local bookstore ten years ago. Her son-in-law, Manol Geor-gieff, began working with her in order to create the new coffee shop, Café Zola.

The two said that opening the café was primarily stimu-lated by the idea that coffee and books naturally go together. They want to create a space for students and members of the Wilmington community alike to be able to enjoy the experi-ence of reading and perusing the bookstore coupled with an exceptional cup of coffee.

Not only are Georgieff and Jewell attempting to serve out-standing brew to their custom-ers, but they are also working towards giving customers an in-viting and laid-back atmosphere in which they can work, study or hang out in the café.

Georgieff also focused on the quality of the coffee. The coffee will come from one of the four micro-roasters in Wilmington. Thus, Café Zola will support the local coffee brewers while providing customers with an au-thentic taste.

“[I hope to] deliver arti-sanal coffee,” he said, “to give customers an excellent experi-ence.”

Georgieff said he plans to have three different methods of serving the coffee: espresso,

Wilmington bookstore owner opens new coffee shopMiriam HimesOpiniOn EditOr

TealTV Vice President, Rob-ert Oechslin, commented on Dempsey’s work ethic.

“Sometimes we call her the owl because she works day and night,” Oechslin said.

Dempsey described herself as more of a behind-the-scenes person than someone who en-joys the spotlight. She prefers to organize rather than take center stage.

“Nicole is awesome to work with,” Oechslin said. “She was fairly shy when we first met, but as president of TealTV, she has really broken out of her shell and become a more charismatic person.”

He described her as a student who leads by example and sets the tone by showing dedication.

“You just want to work your hardest to be able to keep up with her,” Oechslin said.

TealTV plans to follow their motto, “by students, for stu-dents,” by allowing talented students to show off their skills. Dempsey works with her team to make more student-originat-ed content available to the stu-dent body.

“We are trying to build our presence on campus,” Dempsey said.

She hopes to increase the visibility of TealTV, one of the younger on-campus media orga-nizations. .

After graduating from UNCW, Dempsey hopes to es-tablish herself locally by be-coming a producer. Then, she plans to move to New York or Los Angeles to build her career.

pour-over, and Turkish or Greek coffee. He wants to stray away from the typical ways that chain coffee stores usually serve their coffee and provide customers with a distinct and genuine cof-fee experience.

Other than coffee, the own-ers plan to sell loose leaf tea from all around the globe. They will be collecting differ-ent kinds of tea—from black to green to chai to yogi—and serv-ing it alongside their local cof-fee blends. Their tea is organic and will give non-coffee drink-ers a chance to enjoy the pleas-ant ambiance that Café Zola has to offer.

In the future, Georgieff hopes to include freshly squeezed juices on the menu. He already has juicers and dispensers of lo-cally grown fruit. The café will

also have small food items for customers to enjoy during their stay. They will be importing a variety of sweets from Coastal Cupcakes, Wilmington’s pastry hot spot. Everything the café plans on offering will be local, organic or all-natural in order to create a green and socially con-scious environment in the book-store and café.

Café Zola hosted a soft open-ing on Jan. 13 as the first day of the new installment of the cof-fee shop. In February, the café will host a grand opening com-plete with live music and free beer. UNC Wilmington stu-dents can receive discounts with their student I.D. at all times at Café Zola. The coffee shop will be open around the same times as the bookstore—Monday-Sat-urday from 8 a.m.–6 p.m.

Café Zola opened on Jan. 13 in order to expand on the busi-ness, Pomegranate Books.

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When UNC Wilmington signed Kevin Keatts to take over their men’s basketball program last March, fans and players alike looked forward to what a coach of Keatts’ pedi-gree would bring to a program that had suffered through six straight losing seasons.

After being an assistant coach to Rick Pitino and the Louisville Cardinals for the past three seasons, Keatts had a proven track record of being a great recruiter, and being a part of a great winner.

Now he just needed to bring that success to the Seahawks.

The former long-time coach of renowned prep school Har-grave Military Academy, Keatts inherited a roster full of play-ers recruited by the previous coaching regime. The cupboard was not bare, as there were still talented and experienced play-ers left on the roster, but it was yet to be seen how quickly they would gel in Keatts’ new sys-tem.

Fifteen games into the sea-son, the Seahawks have an overall record of 8-7, already just one win shy of last season’s total, and a conference record of 3-1, equaling last season’s num-ber of conference wins.

After blowing an 11-point halftime lead at home against Hofstra last week in a loss, the Seahawks have since hit a stride, pulling out three straight CAA victories.

The team traveled to CAA-favorite Northeastern on Jan. 5 where they dealt the Huskies a seven point loss. It had been nearly two years since UNCW had won a conference game on the road, their last being a 57-51 victory at Hofstra on Jan. 26, 2013.

UNCW carried that momen-tum into a home contest against defending-CAA champions Delaware, where they topped the Blue Hens 74-73 in over-

Men’s basketball shows gradual improvement under KeattsKevin McClaryStaff WritEr

Junior guard Craig Ponder drives for a layup against Delaware last Thursday.

time, their second overtime vic-tory of the season.

The Seahawks trailed by six with 37 seconds left in regula-tion before taking advantage of turnovers by the visitors to force the extra period.

Senior Freddie Jackson never left the court, playing all 45 minutes, finishing with 20 points, eight rebounds, and five assists. Junior Craig Pon-der finished with 19 points, four rebounds, four assists, and sank two clutch free throws with three seconds remaining to force overtime.

“It’s conference time, and you can tell throughout the coun-try and even in the CAA there’s going to be great games,” Ke-atts said after the game. “It’s un-fortunate that somebody had to lose a game like that. I thought our guys were resilient.”

Several players came off the bench and delivered big plays throughout the game. Junior forward Dylan Sherwood, who has been bothered by an ankle injury recently, drained a three-

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pointer in both the second half and overtime to help propel the Seahawks.

“We had some guys who came in the game and made some really good plays,” Ke-atts said, “You talk about Dylan Sherwood who hadn’t played in a couple games, not the minutes he would like, and he came in and made shots.”

Sophomore C.J. Gettys also came off the bench and con-tributed eight points, eight re-bounds, and five blocks. Gettys made several hustle plays that didn’t show up in the stat sheet, setting screens to get shoot-ers open and diving after loose balls, none more so than the play that helped secure the vic-tory for UNCW.

With the game tied at 73 in the final minute of overtime, Sherwood missed a three that would’ve given his team the lead. Gettys then sprawled onto the floor where he snagged the ball and passed it to senior Ad-dison Spruill, who was fouled.

After missing the first free

throw, Spruill sank the second to give UNCW the one-point victory.

“When you see stuff like that, when you see a seven footer just laying it all out and getting on the floor you have no choice but to give it all to the team,” Jack-son said. “We’ve been doing that since day one, since coach got here, and I feel like that car-ried over into that game.”

“I think since I’ve been here that’s the first game that we’ve won like that at the end of the game,” Spruill added.

After winning the tight victo-ry over the Blue Hens, UNCW dominated wire-to-wire over visiting Drexel on Saturday, earning a 64-57 decision and a third straight conference win.

Senior Freddie Jackson has become instrumental in UN-CW’s success this season. The New Hanover graduate cur-rently leads the team in scoring, averaging 15 points per contest. Jackson is also tied with Spruill for the team-lead in rebounds per game (6.3 rpg), and leads

While club sports teams op-erate differently from Divison I squads, that doesn’t mean their goals are any different.

They both want to be suc-cessful.

Practices, events, and every-thing else that goes into a suc-cessful Divison I team still lies within a club team.

The UNC Wilmington cy-cling club exhibited those quali-ties last year, in their most suc-cessful season to date.

The club was second in Divi-sion II in the spring of 2013 and finished ranked sixth overall. Division II is the placement of a team based on the size of a cam-pus, with Division I for smaller campuses.

The team plans to do better this year, but first has to recruit more members and train exist-ing members who are new to racing.

Cycling club gaining traction on and off campus

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Due to members graduating the previous year, club president Alex Claiborne hopes to recruit more members by making the club more accessible.

“That’s one of the goals I’ve been aiming for this year,” Clai-borne said. “People see us wear-ing our jerseys on our road bikes and are intimidated. I don’t want that. I don’t like that.”

Vice-President of the cycling club William Raynor is also working to train new members who have yet experienced road racing before.

The club is divided into two separate groups Men’s A and Men’s B.

To be placed in Men’s A, members have to complete a set amount of races and rank high enough to be placed. The club plans to gain one other member with the possibility of ranking in Men’s A.

Raynor and club member Carter Harris are the only mem-

The UNCW cycling club has grown in recent years.

bers that are currently eligible for Men’s A.

For interested members, training to handle the road rac-es, which cover both hills and long hours in the biking seat, will be underway during the fall and winter months to prepare for the spring races.

The club plans to develop three female members for vari-ous races out of a total of five or six female members on the team. Along with recruiting more members, Claiborne says that they are also looking to re-cruit more female members for the team.

Road racing starts in Febru-ary and ends in mid-Septem-ber and the team plans to train through the season to prepare for the spring events.

All those interested in join-ing the cycling club are encour-aged to contact Alex Claiborne or William Raynor via email.

the team in minutes played per contest, being on the court for 37 minutes per game.

The younger members of the team have improved throughout the year as well, specifically freshman guard Jordon Talley. Talley has started each of the team’s last four contests, calmly leading the offense while taking

advantage of scoring chances of his own, including finishing with a season-high 21 points in the win over Northeastern.

“Jordon’s been tremendous,” Keatts said. “What Jordon’s given us is a lot of effort, he’s been a tremendous defender on the ball and certainly, believe it or not, a lot of these guys are following his actions because he’s playing so hard.”

While the Seahawks early success in the CAA has raised eyebrows throughout the league (the team was picked to finish ninth out of 10 teams in the an-nual preseason poll), the team still has a long way to go in Ke-atts’ first season at the helm.

UNCW has 14 conference games remaining, with eight of them on the road.

Nevertheless, the team’s recent performance provides hope for the rest of the season. If there’s one thing Keatts wants his players to have in his inau-gural season as head coach, it’s the right mindset in each and every game.

“We’ve preached since I’ve taken the job that the condition-ing will kick in, believe that you’re going to win the game” Keatts said.

“Our motto is we don’t stop playing until the clock hits zero.”

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The UNC Wilmington wom-en’s basketball team contin-ued its ‘breakthrough’ season Wednesday, defeating Campbell University, 89-80, at Trask Coli-seum and improving to 2-0 on the young season.

The Seahawks trailed the Camels late in the first half be-fore tying the game at 41-all on a 3-pointer from sophomore Johanna McMillan with 47 sec-onds left in the half. Campbell never regained the lead, and UNCW finished the half with a two-point lead.

Campbell didn’t miss a shot until the 12:49 mark of the first frame, and sophomore forward Amanda Coffer broke her ca-reer-high of 16 points with 9:22 left in the half. Coffer finished with 30 points, shooting 11-for-17 from the floor and 5-for-6 from the free throw line.

“Every time that she shot the ball, I thought it was going in,” said UNCW head coach Adell Harris, “From where I was sitting in the first half and the second half, she looked like LeBron James out there. … I thought she was big for them. She made every open shot she had.”

UNCW inched ahead in the second half, leading by as much as 15 points with 3:51 left to play. Campbell’s hot start trailed off further into the game, and the Camels finished 22-for-45 (48.9 percent) from the field.

John LeveringStaff WritEr

Shatia Cole defends during Wednesday’s contest against Campbell.

Despite having guards Am-ber Reeves, Shatia Cole and Naqaiyyah Teague foul out within a two-minute stretch with nearly five minutes left in the game, the Seahawks were able to hang on to start the sea-son 2-0 for the first time in Har-ris’ tenure at UNCW.

As a team, the Seahawks won the turnover battle with 22 takeaways from the Camels, while limiting their turnovers to seven. UNCW also had a big day on the offensive glass, grabbing 19 offensive rebounds, which led to 19 second-chance points.

“I think this is such a huge win for our team, our program, our growth, the process of what it means to become a champi-on—that’s what we want,” Har-ris said. “I think this is a huge step in the right direction. I have so much respect for Wanda Wat-kins and the program they run at Campbell. They are a bunch of hard workers, blue-collar kids—not a lot flash out there, but a lot of toughness. We had to really take the game from them—they weren’t going to give it to us—so I’m really proud of our kids for stepping up and taking the game.”

McMillan was one of three Seahawks to score double dig-its, finishing the night with 17 points, breaking her previous career high of 12. She had five of the Seahawks’ eight 3-point-ers, shooting 5-of-8 from be-hind the arc.

Senior Kelva Atkins turned in another impressive outing,

finishing with a team-high 29 points, adding six assists and three steals.

“Kelva is the one who had it going from the start,” Harris said. “I don’t know how many points she had at the half, but I feel like it was 15 or so. You can identify early what they’re go-ing to do with Kelva as it relates to attacking, and we didn’t see any change in what they were doing to Kelva in the 40-minute game. I don’t think there was any adjustment really made to stop her from getting directly to the rim. It’s easy for her to do that—it really is.”

After sitting out in the season opener against UNC Pembroke, sophomore Ryan Flowers made her season debut, coming off the bench with 7:31 left in the first half. Flowers was the lone Seahawk to register a double-double, scoring 13 points and grabbing 14 rebounds.

Last season Flowers started all 32 games and led the Se-ahawks in rebounding with 247.

“I feel like it was very im-portant for me to make a state-ment,” Flowers said. “I had to go out there and do what my team needed, and I feel like I did that tonight.”

Entering the season, Harris had a combined record of 10-53 in her first two seasons as head coach. It’s still early in the season, but with a full roster for the first time, the Seahawks’ im-provements are already notice-able.

After the victory, Kelva At-kins, the lone recruit from Har-

ris’ first recruiting class three years ago, had a succinct answer when asked about the progress the program has made in her time at UNCW.

“One word,” Atkins said. “Breakthrough.

“A lot of credit goes to our kids,” Harris said, “and not just for working hard in the weight room or getting in the gym and doing extra, but for believing in my vision for the program. Ev-ery kid on the roster has been recruited by me or my staff for the last two years, and that has been a grind to replace a full roster in two seasons—that’s basically what we did. And last

year, our kids got an opportuni-ty to play. [They] had to endure some difficult times for us to get to this point, so the success that we’re having now, we’ve paid the price to have. We’ve had our bad days. We’ve been in the grind of it. It’s time to get back up again after we get knocked down. We deserve this. Our kids deserve this. And we will con-tinue to get better, and we will continue to be humble about what’s happening, and we’ll continue to stay hungry. But this isn’t an accident. We’ve worked hard, and we’ve been working hard behind closed doors, so not a lot of people have seen it. All

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Seahawks come from behind to top Campbell

you’ve seen is us lose basketball games. We’ve always believed, and we knew this year—like Kelva said—is breakthrough season. We can either turn the corner, or remain how it has been. Our kids are just deter-mined to turn the corner.”

On Saturday Nov. 22, UNCW will travel to Appala-chian State University for their first road game of the season. Over Thanksgiving, the Se-ahawks will look to add to their ‘breakthrough’ season when they host the UNCW Hampton Inn Thanksgiving Classic over Nov. 28 and 29 at Trask Coli-seum.

Seamen become staple of UNCW sports sceneMcLeod BrownSpOrtS EditOr

For the past few years, there has been a sports team on UNC Wilmington’s campus creating some buzz by winning awards and gaining national exposure.

And it’s not the one you may be thinking of.

UNCW’s male Ultimate team, the Seamen, has become one of the most popular sports clubs on campus, and for good reason.

The Seamen have made a name for themselves, not just on a regional scale, but nation-

ally in recent seasons, advanc-ing all the way to the USA Ul-timate National Semifinals last season which were broadcasted on ESPN3 and ESPNU.

This year, with a huge spike in prospective members trying out for the team, veteran players are excited to see that the club has turned the corner on cam-pus. But it hasn’t been easy.

“The team has changed dra-matically,” said captain Char-lie Lian. “First off, my fresh-man year was the first year we started the B team. It consisted of nine students and our A team only had around 24. Now we had more than 75 players tryout for the team. And now we have 27 students on the A team, and the B team has around 20 stu-dents. Also we have many stu-dents send the team emails be-fore they come to the school and say they are excited to tryout for our ultimate frisbee team.”

Lian, now a senior, has had a first-hand view at the club’s growth in recent years. That growth has in turn led to more success for the team, as well.

After being a national title contender for the greater part of the 90s, and winning the nation-al championship in 1993, the Seamen hit a bit of a lull with the turn of the century.

That has changed quickly, however, with last year’s trip to the D-I College Championships marking the club’s second visit in a row, and third in five years.

After finishing tied for fifth in 2013, the team was able to advance to this year’s semifinals in Mason, Ohio before falling to national runner-up UNC Dark-side 15-10.

The recent resurgence of the team has also created a renewed interest in the sport throughout campus.

“I’ve never been on a team where everyone really bought into the system,” said club member Erik Esposto. “For the Seamen, everyone really buys in and really wants to work for each other to do a good job. When we were going to nation-als, at the end of May, we had about a month between school and nationals. We stayed here and trained the whole time, al-most every day. Everybody just

gave everything they got. They stopped their work schedules, focused just on Ultimate, and worked so hard every day at practice… People were will-ing to put everything into it. For each other, for the team, for themselves, to really grow as a program.”

The growing interest in UNCW Ultimate is a micro-cosm of the sports popularity throughout the country.

Over 12,000 student athletes compete on 700 college ultimate teams in North America. Ad-ditionally, many high schools, including Hoggard, have begun ultimate programs.

The team competed in three tournaments during the fall sea-son in preparation for the up-coming spring portion.

Separated into two teams, UNCW Y and UNCW X, the team first traveled to the Bank Run in Charlotte. UNCW Y ad-vanced to the semifinals before falling to UNC, while UNCW X fell in the finals to the same UNC squad.

At the Wolfpack Invite in Raleigh, UNCW X finished sixth, while UNCW Y advanced to the semifinals.

The tournaments were used as a measuring stick for the team before they deployed their A squad at the Fall Easterns, which took place on UNCW’s campus Nov. 15-16. The Sea-men finished third in the tour-nament, once again dropping to UNC 14-11.

Now gearing up for their spring season, with the Carolina Kickoff in Chapel Hill on Jan. 24th and 25th marking the be-ginning, the Seamen are looking forward to keeping their high level of performance.

With the team’s popularity continuing to soar, people are always encouraged to go out and give the sport of Ultimate a try.

“If you are looking to be part of something big come join ul-timate frisbee club team,” Lian said. “Whether you want to play the sport competitively and play on ESPN or just play for fun, this club sport is for you. Come check it out and give the sport a chance, you will grow to like it and you won’t regret it.”

The Seamen have grown in popularity on campus with their recent success.

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5 01.15.15 |TheSeahawk.org OPINION

I locked the dorm windows, unplugged everything, and ini-tialed the roommate checklist. No more shower shoes, 2am parties in the room above, or suspicious Wag green beans. Fi-nally, the pressure to constantly be my best self, in case of the inevitable awkward hallway interactions on the way to the shower, was lifted. After four months of attempted self-suf-ficiency and ignoring the hair stuck to shower walls, it was time to go home.

I could hardly sleep on the airplane (due to anticipation or the hefty leopard-printed woman leaning on my shoul-der, I will never know.) Child-ish thoughts of home swirled around my head. I imagined myself sleeping past noon and ignoring all my responsibilities to frolic in the snow.

My first semester of college felt more like summer camp than adulthood- full of forced icebreaker games and spontane-ous late nights. College was not home, but a temporary vacation.

When I walked into my house, everything would feel normal again.

Sadly, the mind is the master of embellishment. After hours of travel, my teary-eyed par-ents squeezed me tightly and I rushed into my room. I stopped instantly, bewildered.

It was spotless and my bed was neatly made.

Rather than the comfort of familiarity I had been expect-

ing, I felt strange. There was no yelling, and there was a list of activities planned for the week. Perhaps I had stumbled into a welcoming bed and breakfast. I felt homeless. I certainly did not belong under the florescent lights of my dorm. Now my only option was to be a guest among my own, suddenly po-lite, family.

For most freshmen, myself included, college is our first ex-perience being away from home for an extended period. It is an odd in-between time in every sense. We do not feel like adults, despite the reality of dirty laun-dry. The fall semester is packed with excitement and change, yet four months is hardly enough

time to settle in completely. Then, when we finally return

to our families, eager for the de-served break, home is not quite how we remember it.

Most of all, our friends are different. One of my friends babbled about her sorority sis-ters and was covered in illegible monograms. Another met a girl on a bus during his gap year in South America and may never return, and a third had come to a surprising realization about her gender identity. I felt the same on the inside, but I began to wonder if I had become a new person too.

Despite the changes, how-ever, daily life slowly returned. My dog stole all my blankets

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once again, clothes were strewn across my floor in familiar hap-hazardness, and arguments burst out around the dinner table. I remembered why I sometimes need a break from my mom.

By the last week, everything was normal and everything was boring. I found myself buying various kitten shaped items for my cat-lover roommate and cal-culating what time I would need to wake up to get to classes on time.

Soon, I stuffed my freshly laundered clothes into my hid-eous suitcase and said my good-byes. It hurt a little less than last time. And when I returned to campus, it felt like I was com-ing home.

Men on the move

A Menimist movement has recently sparked the media’s attention as individuals come together to fight for equality for men across the web. Yes, you read correctly. A movement has been organized to not only fight and counter feminism but to protect the rights of men.

The movement originally started on social media as way for men to share jokes concern-ing issues they face as men in the 21st century, but got car-ried away when a few individu-als decided to take the jesting and not so clever word play to the next level and present a new movement, dubbed “Me-nimism” to the spotlight. They have created their own website and foundation, A Voice for Men, which allows men from around the nation to celebrate their common concerns about the feminist movement and present day social and political issues. While the movement has not spread wildly, it does bring to light some unsettling misconceptions about the femi-nist movement all together and the general incomprehension some have towards it.

The Menimist movement focuses on the issues men face currently around the world. These issues range from a va-riety of topics from rape con-cerns to challenging the media on the lack of diversity in male body types presented. Some of their concerns are legitimate a worthwhile as evidenced above. There is a great need in the me-dia for body types and char-acters to be diversified. These relevant and important issues, however, are oftentimes ad-dress by feminist in the feminist movement. Anyone who has taken a gender studies class or who has stayed up-to-date and educated on gender issues in the media would understand and be

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aware of the fact that the femi-nist movement includes work-ing towards solutions to many these concerns.

Thus, it is important to be re-minded of or for others to learn and know that feminism em-bodies a myriad of issues - race, gender, masculinity, feminin-ity, class, etc - and it works to empower individuals positively rather than (as some choose to believe) degrade, belittle, and ultimately usurp all men. Men in today’s society have their own set of issues and quiet suppression. Feminism and feminists don’t hate men - we are working to bring equality for everyone and that includes bringing to light the lies men as well as women are taught and striving to educate everyone on how to filter the distortion of to-day’s masculinity and fight for resolve.

Instead of being ignorant and uneducated by joining a fem-inist-shaming movement like Menimism or thinking femi-nists’ ultimate goals are to live in a man-free society, work to become informed and enlight-ened to a gain a greater and deeper understanding of femi-nist issues and the fight for so-cial, racial, and gender equality around the world.

UNCW students have the opportunity to learn and ex-pand their worldview through a variety of events hosted by the Women Studies Resource Cen-ter. Stay up to date on what they plan for this semester so you can be involved and educated on important social and political topics.

The Menimism movement addresses some issues that are try-ing to be resolved by feminists as well.

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The transition between being at school and going home can be hard for first-year students.

6 01.15.15 |TheSeahawk.org OPINION

Hold on to your Toblerones everyone—there’s a global chocolate shortage. Merely a day ago this news fell under the category of “Horrible Facts That Never Even Occurred to Me to Consider.” But the moment the words fell from my editor’s lips and I started googling, I was wide-eyed with shock and dismay within min-utes. Everything is about to change, friends.

Apparently the world is eat-ing chocolate at a much faster rate than it can be produced. According to the Atlantic, “[in] 2013, the world consumed about 70,000 metric tons more cocoa than it produced. And now, Mars, Inc. and Barry Cal-lebaut—two of the world’s big-gest manufacturers of chocolate goods—are warning that by 2020, that consumption-over-production number could in-crease to 1 million metric tons.” This chocolate deficit may mean smaller sizes and more fillers in beloved chocolate bars—not to mention higher prices. So why aren’t people just grow-ing more chocolate? It’s both a popular and profitable crop, just not quite as profitable as some others. According to Fox news, “Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa is produced in the Ivory Coast and Ghana. But disease, drought and farmers opting to grow more productive crops such as corn and rubber have made growing conditions less than ideal.”

What does this mean for us? For college students? For Americans? For humanity? Are vending machines full of Twix and M&M’s going to be replaced with nothing more than ever-increasing ludicrous

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flavors of potato chips and sad packs of chewing gum? Is trick-or-treating going to become a door-to-door stop for nothing more than pumpkin-flavored pretzels and plastic toys? Are chocolate Santas going to be a thing of the past? What will we eat to console ourselves on Feb-ruary 15th if not enormous box-es of 70% off chocolates in red heart-shaped boxes? Will the Easter bunnies of our youth be a distant memory as monstrous, giant Peeps take over the entire candy aisle? Why bother going to the gym if you can’t undo it all with a Snickers or a Butter-finger?

Is a potential chocolate shortage a big deal? Yes, but is it a cause to panic? Well, not yet. Before you start hoard-ing Hershey’s kisses and cry-ing yourself to sleep, take note: scientists are as worried about this as you (well, almost) and are actively attempting to find a new strain of cacao that will solve the problem of chocolate trees being so slow to produce fruit. Though many have failed to produce chocolate pleasing to the palate, Fox News reports that “farmers in Costa Rica are working on several a new dis-ease-resistant breeds of cacao” and certain strains “are showing

promise not only for [their] abil-ity to resist certain types of ca-cao-killing diseases but because [their] taste is superior to that of other strains being developed.” So Americans may need to empty all the change from their pockets at vending machines and the world may need to be mindful of how much chocolate is being consumed in light of how much faster it can be eaten than produced. But never fear, all is not lost. Science seems to have its priorities straight and is doing its best to fix the prob-lem. Hopefully soon, so there is no lull in our chocolate-buying binges.

Chocolate is being consumed faster than it is being produced which could lead to a potiential shortage of cocoa products.

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Full-time students struggle to work part-time

As students prior and during college, we are continuously re-minded of our need to take more responsibility. This is usually associated with part-time jobs and independence even as full-time students. Similarly to high school, we are still given a con-siderable amount of vacation days overall. During the school period, balancing a part-time job and student life is manage-able for most of us. However, once the vacation begins many students are presented with the issue of housing. In particular, freshman dorms and dining halls close for some of these special holidays leaving those students with part-time jobs in the area homeless, or should I say dorm-less. Considering a fair amount of students work these part-time jobs to pay for their housing or even tuition, the closing of these dorms becomes a major issue. I have encountered many students who work part-time in the area and were unable to take time off over Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although employers may compromise and give out more vacation for their part-time employees, housing still remains problematic. Couch-surfing should surely not be the only alternative to quitting a job in order to find a place to stay over a break. Unfortunately for many, our previous employ-ers from our high school days rarely hire college students for weekends or a short Christmas

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break. Many of us depend on our earnings from these part-time jobs during the school year. Even though the campus offers employment for it students, the hiring process is becoming in-creasingly more difficult as the UNC Wilmington student popu-lation grows each year. Person-ally, I not only work part-time to earn and save money, but I also view this job as an opportunity to work on my time manage-ment and organizational skills. As a result of balancing my studies and work, I feel myself automatically scheduling things and procrastinating less since free time becomes more pre-cious. Furthermore, I believe that this issue should be taken into more consideration if we are expected to slowly break away from dependence and gain more responsibility.

Many students’ dorms are closed over the holidays, creating a problem for those who have a job.

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