On Wednesday, March29, Chris Masterson, fromTV's "Malcolm in the Mid-dle," and Nick Peterson, di-rector of the film "Intellectu-al Property" came intoWPRK for an on-the-air in-terview to discuss "Intellec-tual Property." The filmplayed at the Enzian thatnight for the Florida FilmFestival.

Masterson, who playsthe eldest brother on the hit

Fox network TV show "Mal-colm in the Middle", hasbeen acting since he was twoyears old.

However, that's notwhen him and Peterson met,which was actually twoyears ago. "We met on My-space and we were tradingmusic - which now is illegaland wasn't then," said Mas-terson. "He said 'I have thiscool idea for a movie' and ac-tually it was written byNick's friend Hanson and itwas a really cool script… Iliked it for so many reasons,and the main reason is itgave me the main type ofcharacter I have alwayswanted to play. This was thefirst time I could do some-thing so far from what I real-ly am."

It was not just Mastersonwho decided that he was

going to playthe part ofPaul, a para-noid inven-tor, but Pe-terson aswell. "WhenI first metChris," saidP e t e r s o n ,"because Ihad nevermet him be-fore project,and one ofthe reasonsthat I wasc o n v i n c e dthat he coulddo this partso wellwas…he actu-ally createscharacters with his perform-ances and for this film inparticulars that's what I real-

ly needed."For Peterson, getting

Masterson to play the part ofPaul was just a small step

when it came to preparingfor and making the film."Even before shooting the

In the leadership electionsfor Student Government Asso-ciation of the Rollins CollegeSchool of Arts and Sciencesheld last week, the voters ofRollins College have chosen toreturn to the position of presi-dent of the SGA Caitlin "Cat"McConnell along with hervice presidential running mateLara Bueso. Defeated in theelection were presidential can-didate Allen "Eddie" Mehnertand vice presidential candi-date Savannah Stephen.

Ms. McConnell, advanc-ing a platform to lessen apathyand continue initiatives begunin her previous administra-tion, was able to easily defeatMr. Mehnert while Ms. Buesodefeated Ms. Stephen by aneven greater margin.

The election, for the firsttime in recent Rollins history,was able to mobilize enoughvoters to achieve quorumwithout reopening the votingprocess for an additionallength of time.

The campaigning andelection process began withcontention. Initially, Ms. Mc-Connell ran unopposed, withthe filing deadline for cam-paign eligibility ending with-out additional complete andvalid applications. Immediate-ly following the filing dead-line, Mr. Mehnert filed an ap-peal, citing improper proce-dure on behalf of the ElectionsCommittee.

After several meetingsand procedural hearings Mr.Mehnert was allowed onto theballot, the campaign alreadywell underway, and began arigorous campaign to chal-lenge Ms. McConnell.

The campaign seasonbrought about an exciting de-bate focusing on reforms tothe process of representation.All sides throughout their ap-pearances and in the formaldebate agreed that change inthe structure of SGA and itsconstitution were importantsteps to take in order to ad-vance the state of student lifeat Rollins.

As the opposition, Mr.

Mehnert campaigned on aplatform that necessitatedchange and a writing of the

wrongs that existed in pastadministrations. Ms. Stephenwas not so critical, opting to

represent herself as a new

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Stephen Kellog and the Sixers Rock the HouseKnown for their unique style of music, the

aspiring band came to Rollins to promote theirfirst album released by major record company.

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Making More of Your TimeTwo examples of how college students are see-

ing the world and making a difference in other’slives and end up changing themselves.

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Opinions Topic: The Bush AdministrationDiffering points of view on what the Bush Administration has accomplished for the

country and what the President should do now.page 15

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McConnell and Bueso Elected AfterControversial Campaign

PHOTO COURTESY OF CAITLIN MCCONNELL

ROLLINS’ NEW POWER DUO: Newly elected SGA Vice President Lara Bueso (left) with re-elected SGA President Caitlin “Cat” McConnell.

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Chris Masterson Pays a VisitKelly McNoldy

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INTERVIEWING WITH THE STAR: Chris Masterson from Malcolm in the Middlerecently came to WPRK at Rollins.

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China: Shortages at hun-dreds of factories have ledexperts to believe that theeconomy may be undergo-ing some major changes.

India: Childless parents arenow looking to India forsurrogate mothers. Thenumber of cases of surroga-cy is said to have doubled inthe last three years.

India: Indians are finallycracking down on femalegender abortions.

Afghanistan: Violence ex-pected to increase this year.In the recent weeks aboutfour attacks have takenplace per day.

Brazil: Emergency workersrecovered 19 bodies out ofthe remains of a plane thatexploded on impact when itcrashed into a mountainousregion.

Canada: An explosion in thedowntown shopping districtkilled one man inside of acoffee shop.

Vatican City: Thousands ofpeople from around theworld flocked to the Vaticanto remember the first an-niversary of the death ofPope John Paul II.

Louisiana: It seems that geo-logical faults in New Or-leans have caused the down-ward movement of of land,causing levees, bridges andhomes to sink.

Masschusettes: Three peo-ple were killed when a con-struction crane collapsed ona downtown street.

Tennessee: Dozens ofhomes were destroyed,many were injured and 27people were killed whenthunderstorms containingtornados and softball sizedhail passed through theMidwest.

California: “Ice Age: TheMeltdown” earned a mam-moth 70.5 million dollars inthe first weekend. The se-qual to the previously popu-lar “Ice Age” movie grossedhigher than anticipated.

Washington D.C.: Ex-Housemajority leader Tom DeLaywill not run for reelction inthe upcoming congressionalelections. His long careerwill come to a close at theend of the year.

Illinois: Car seats are nowbeing made heftier for thosechildren that are too heavyfor the standard car-safetyseat.

Pennsylvania: A metham-phphetamine lab discoveredin Somerset County recentlyin a state park. There are nocurrent suspects for the cre-ation of the lab, but the po-lice are investigating further.

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Graffiti-Inspired Artwork by Rollins

On Thursday, March 30,the Cornell Campus Centerhosted the opening of "TheOutsiders Within" art show.The show focused on graffi-ti-inspired artwork byRollins students, alumni andlocal artists.

Everything about theopening and the show wasgraffiti-themed. Most of themusic played was rap andtechno with dark, ruggedbeats, played by DJ KeithJackson of the "My Wax Oc-topus" show on WPRK 91.5FM.

The catered food evenresembled the art workwhich the show consisted of.White, red and black tortillachips with matching salsa,miniature egg rolls, stuffedspinach pastries and cinna-mon-sugar pita chips wereall complimented by sodaand water and laid uponblack and red tablecloths.

"The culture clash ofMexican Asian and Greekfoods was eye opening andreally resembled the sam-pling technology of hip hopand graffiti artwork," saidPhillip Ileto, one of the ob-servers at the art show.

The main part of theopening - the artwork - wasextrememly varied and richin the mediums used andmessages conveyed. Severalpieces actually were madewith spray paint while oth-ers painted bottles of spraypaint onto cardboard.

With several other piecesone would not be able toguess that they were graffiti-inspired unless they recog-nized the work of the artist,who actually does graffitithroughout Orlando.

There were photographsof graffiti and there wereskateboards, both full and

broken in half, painted. Although there were

many pieces, there was notmuch variety as far as thenumber of artists. Therewere six pieces in the showby the artist Null alone andfive by Swamburger.

Some people found thislack disconcerting because itdoes not represent the stu-dent interest in art.

However, other people,such as Ileto, understoodwhy there were not as manyartists, and more specificallystudent artists compared tothe past shows featured atthe Campus Center.

"As the year is windingdown, school is becomingbusier so I understand whythere isn't as much studentcontribution," said Ileto,"however, the art that wassubmitted was still quitegood."

Other art shows thathave been featured at theCampus Center all hadthemes too. Just last Febru-ary the art show curator,Abby Hertz, collaboratedwith the campus rendition of"The Vagina Monologues"and its celebration of V-Daywith an art show centered onwomen, containing risquepictures women.

Other art shows featuredHalloween themed inspiredworks and works containingtexture in the show entitled"Texture, Tactile, Touch."

There will be one moreart show at the end of theschool year that will nothave a theme. It is open toall students, faculty, andstaff. If there are any ques-tions, please contact the cu-rator of the art shows, AbbyHertz.

As for "The OutsidersWithin," Illeto just had morething to say in regards to hisentire experience: "Dope art,dope food, dope beats, dopedope."

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ADMIRING ART: Rollins students attended the Graffiti Art recently to observe the differentmediums and messages conveyed through each piece.

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FACIAL EXPRESSIONS: There were many different types of art at the recent Graffiti exhibit inthe Cornell Campus Center.

SGAgeneration of capable SGAleadership.

The team of Ms. Mc-Connell and Ms. Bueso refut-ed these calls for a change inleadership by citing positiveadvances made by SGAunder Ms. McConnell's ad-ministration during the lastlegislative year and calling fora continuation of leadershipas being necessary for bothstability and change.

This year's campaign sea-son was well-noted as beingrepresentative of the dynam-ic environment of on-campuspolitics. It saw an extensiveuse of facebook.com as ameans of communication andmobilization, a means ofreaching a wide range of con-stituents with relative ease.The campaign also saw animpressive use of visualmedia, with Mr. Mehnert in-vesting in "Vote Eddie" yardsigns and posting themaround campus. The othercandidates utilized more tra-ditional means of advertise-ment, focusing on paper ban-ners, printed flyers, andcandy bedecked with catchyslogans.

The win was a mandateon the leadership of Ms. Mc-Connell, seeking a secondterm as president of SGA. Inresponse to her win she stat-ed, "It's exciting to win theelection and I'm looking for-ward to the opportunity tocontinue all of the great initia-tives SGA started this year.Lara and I already have plansto improve and innovate SGAfor next year.” Ms. Buesoadded, "I eagerly anticipatethe challenges on the horizonand hope that together theRollins community can worktoward the betterment of theRollins lifestyle. We must doall that we can to include thediverse voices of the studentbody in the decisions and ac-tions that not only SGA butwe as students take."

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Dr. Zion Zohar recentlyvisited Rollins to presentstudents with a lecture ongrowing popularity of Kab-balah. Dr. Zohar specializesin Jewish studies and hastaught a wide array of differ-ent courses based on theJewish religion, society andbeliefs.

Why is it that a religionso old is now becoming sopopular? Unfortunatelycelebrities influence societyand promote millions to be-lieve in what they believe in.Fads are always coming andgoing. Kabbalah is the newHollywood fad, whichteaches people the mysticalway of thinking about theuniverse, God and people.

Kabbalah, the Hebrewword for tradition, original-ly designated legal traditionof Judaism, but was later ap-plied to the Jewish mysticaltradition. The goal of Kab-balah is to obtain a completeunderstanding of God, theuniverse and how they relateto each other. Jewish holybooks, symbols and analo-gies are used to achieve thisunderstanding.

The popularity of Kab-balah has become widelyknow through those actorsand singers who have decid-ed to adopt the religion andin turn bring their fans alongwith them.

Madonna, a popular

singer, is famous for her de-votion to Kabbalah. She hasdonated a lot of time andmoney to her belief in Kab-balah. Britney Spears fol-lowed along in the footstepsof her friend Madonna in thepractice of Kabbalah. Spearsclaims that it "has helped meget rid of a lot of negative in-fluences that were guidingme down the wrong path."

Kabbalah refers to oralmystical teaching not nor-mally revealed to the gener-al population, but passed onfrom teacher to pupil. In leg-end God taught Kabbalah tosome angels, who in turnafter the Fall taught it toAdam. The Kabbalah was tohelp mankind return to God.It then passed to Noah, toAbraham and to Moses.

Kabbalah places God asbeing above all existence.According to Kabbalah be-liefs, a pure soul, once thebody dies, will be sent toGod. An impure soul will bereborn in another body, andthe process continues untilthe soul has become pure.Evil is only the denial ofgood, and in the Jewish set-ting evil is only overcomethrough strict obedience tothe law.

The influence Kabbalahhas had on Hollywood hasprompted the opening of"The Kabbalah Center" inLos Angeles, California."The Kabbalah Center" is theinternational headquartersof Kabbalah. The center in-

cludes fast-pacedprayer servicesand separate seat-ing for men andwomen. It is a typ-ical Orthodox syn-agogue, except forthe fact that manywho pray insideare not even Jew-ish. The center hastransformed Kab-balah into a gener-ic, nondenomina-tional mysticism.

"The KabbalahCentre" also sellsthousands of Kab-balah based bookseach year. Theyhave produced aKabbalah energydrink, a highly-caffeinated, vita-min-rich, rabbi-blessed drink. Anddon't forget aboutthe little redstrings that runfrom twenty to onehundred and fif-teen dollars for thefancier ones. A lotof money is made.

S u p p o s e d l yeven famous fig-ures from the past,Plato and Shakespeare,wanted to learn the "secretsof life" by taking up Kabbal-ah. Jewish mystics believedthat every letter in the He-brew alphabet was a channelto the life force of God andpossessed a sacred meaning.Finding associations of

words with the same valuehas revealed a complex se-ries of hidden meanings be-neath the text of the Torah,the book of law attributed toMoses. In fact, it is believedby some that the entire Torahis a single word spelling outone of the names of God.

To believers, Kabbalahhas uncovered a layer of thesecrets of life, and the Cre-ation of the soul and of heav-en.

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SPEAKING TO ROLLINS: Dr. Zion Zohar came to Rollins recently toshare his knowledge on Kabbalah.

Rollins Gets a Lesson on KabbalahRochelle Siegel

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The Florida Film Festivaltook place at the Enzian The-ater and the Winter ParkRegal Cinemas from March24 to April 2. The FFF fea-tured over 150 films from allover the world and UnitedStates, including some fromCentral Florida. The fea-tured guests of the FFF wereJohn Waters, writer of "Hair-spray," and ChristopherMasterson, Francis fromTV's "Malcolm in the Mid-dle."

The FFF opened onMarch 24 with an OpeningNight Party where, for theright price, future audiencemembers met with actors,directors and producers ofthe films that were featuredin the Festival. Several filmsalso opened up the night andquestion and answer ses-sions were held after somefilms with the director.

For those who havenever been to a film festival,it is actually quite simple. Afilm festival can last a coupleof days or a couple of weeks.There is a schedule of filmsbeing played, all of whichare categorized into groups.A festival does not onlyshow feature-length filmsbut short, animated and doc-umentary films as well.Each film has a specific timeand location as to where it isbeing played and tickets arebought to see the film.

For the FFF, there wereseveral groups including,but not limited to, nationalfeature-length films, interna-tional feature-length films,documentaries, animatedshorts, and shorts. The Fes-tival received entries from allover the world, althoughmost of them were from theUnited States. For mostfilms, this was the first orsecond time that they hadplayed even though the film

could have been around forfive years. "The Florida FilmFestival shows a neglectedselection of films that are ac-tually pretty good and thereare so many films that somany people can come andenjoy something there," saidMaria Petrakos.

Some films featured atthe Festival were "Loverboy"directed by Kevin Bacon,"Lonesome Jim" directed bySteve Buscemi, "IntellectualProperty" directed by NickPeterson, "American Stag"directed by Ben Meade and"The Devil and Daniel John-ston" directed by JeffFeuerzeig.

Besides seeing great, in-dependent films, there aresome other perks to a filmfestival, including meetingthe makers of the films. "Thegreatest part of a film festivalis the overall experience ofbeing able to meet sorts ofdirectors and people whoare passionate about film

and exchanging ideas," saidChaz Moore. A festival is theone place where an aspiringfilmmaker’s work can beshowcased without breakingtheir budget. Another greatthing about a festival con-cerning the filmmakers isthat it is almost-free publici-ty for their film. That andthere is free food most of thetime.

Kristen Stone said thatthe FFF really brought thecommunity together. "Itseemed like a really valuablecommunity event becauseeveryone in the area wastalking about it," said Stone.

It is not so often that in-dependent filmmakers havea chance to showcase theirwork. Film festivals areprominent in many citiesthroughout the United Statesand the more popular onesare usually overseas. No-table film festivals includethe Cannes Film Festival andthe Sundance Film Festival.

The FFF was sponsoredby Full Sail. Its theme wasthat of a flight, with postersrepresenting pictures of ofthose one may find on air-plane safety guides.

Some of the winners ofthe FFF were "Convention-eers" directed by MoraStephens for the Grand JuryPrize for Best Narrative Fea-ture, "Sweet Land" by AliSelim won the AudienceAward for Best NarrativeFeature, "Showbusiness: ASeason to Remember" direct-ed by Dori Berinstein wonthe Grand Jury Prize for BestDocumentary Feature,Shaun Conrad and DavidRaccuglia's "Purvis of Over-town" won the AudienceAward for Best Documen-tary Feature and "Full Dis-closure" by Douglas Hornwon the Special Jury Awardfor Screenwriting.

A complete list of thewinners can be found atwww.floridafilmfestival.org.

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As part of the "Mi CasaEs Su Casa" tour, independ-ently signed rock band,Stephen Kellogg and TheSixers, stopped by at RollinsCollege on Wednesday,March 29, and preformed atDave's DownUnder in theCornell Campus Center. Agood sized crowd turned outfor the event, and manywere brought in by the

music that could be heardaround the Campus Center.

The band is attemptingto create a buzz around theirself-titled new album, whichincludes seven new songsand four re-recorded songsthat the band said they"wanted another shot at."This is the first album re-leased through a majorrecord company, Founda-tions/Universal.

This is the sixth albumthat the band has released,

the previous five were re-leased through independentrecord companies.

Stephen Kellogg andThe Sixers have attempted tocreate a solid fan base bycrisscrossing the country,and logging in hours atsmall venues such as Dave'sDownUnder.

According to their web-site, the band has playedmore than three hundredshows in the last two yearsand have sold more than10,000 copies of their al-bums. The strategy seems tohave worked in fact, theband's six albums and vari-ous other band souvenirslike posters and t-shitswhich read "I Love Kellogg."

The band calls them-selves a rock band, but theydo not admit to being a tra-ditional rock band.

They describe them-selves as, "Van Morrisonwith better articulation orElvis Costello without thevitriol." They do indeed havean eclectic sound with a mixof alternative and country.Kellogg prides himself onplaying the harmonica, andthey tap into a fun and play-ful side of music.

The loudest applausethat the band received dur-ing their show came whenthey mixed in lyrics fromcurrent popular songs like,"I'm in love with a stripper","Float On", "My Humps" andother hits from artists like 50

Cent and The Killers. Kellogg has always writ-

ten his own music and hasrecently gotten together toform the band The Sixers.

The whole ensemble ismade up of Kellogg, whoplays guitar and does the vo-cals, Keith "Kit" Karlson,who plays bass and the key-board, Brian "B-Fact" Factorat the drums and Chris"Birdman" Soucy.

All of the other bandmembers are also part of

other musical groups andhave distinct background inmusic. It seems that circum-stance and serendipity iswhat brought these men to-gether. Kellogg is fromWestchester, Pennsylvania,Karlson is from North Car-olina, Factor was born inNew York, while Soucy isfrom New Jersey. They alsonow have extended theirreach to Colorado especially,where Soucy lives.

Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers Perform

the DP and I compiled abook which was like threeinches thick where it literal-ly mapped out every singlecamera placement," said Pe-terson. "So it's already pre-thought and it's not so muchgoing on the set and figuringout what I'm doing next, it'smore the execution andmaking sure it's executed theway you planned."

Masterson also agreesthat planning is very impor-tant when it comes to mak-ing a film, but if someone isan aspiring filmmaker oractor, he advises that theyjust go and do it. "I know somany people who havespent the last five, ten, fif-teen years on this movie thatthey're going to make atsome point," said Masterson.

"They just know that assoon as it gets made they'llbe the biggest thing in theentire industry - but it justhas to get made and theyjust need that break. Andthen I look at all the people

who are working directorsand the difference is thatthey just went and did it,and if they didn't get themoney, they just shot it forless or rewrote it and founda way to do it," said Master-son.

"Intellectual Property" isabout an inventor in the mid1960's whose father sold offall of his inventions when hewas younger. "So as an adulthe's extremely paranoid ofeverything and everyonearound him," explained Pe-terson, "so he kind of livesthis life of absolutely seclu-sion and is actually kind ofhiding from the world."

That is, until a tragicevent happens in Paul's life."So [the event] kind ofthrows him out into theworld and everyone startsnoticing him and he kind ofgoes insane," said Peterson,"and he thinks everyone'sout to get him - mainly theRussians… and it's not tillthe end of the film that youfinally see what's behind thecurtain of the film."

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SINGING IN DAVE’S: Stephen Kellog almost swallowing themic at a concert in Dave’s DownUnder, sponsored by ACE.

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RISING STARS: Stephen Kellog and The Sixers performing atDave’s DownUnder March 29.

Last Friday at Dubs-dread Golf Course, the reali-ty sank in that the year final-ly was coming to an end.The end of the year banquet,held at Dubsdread’s TapRoom, was a huge successwith a sizeable number ofEAMBA 9s and 10s as well asa great turnout of facultyand staff members.

The Tap Room is a verynice facility with two mainlarge rooms inside, a porchon the back, and plenty of

open air space by the course,and was the perfect venuefor the event.

Before ever walking in-side, attendees could tell itwas going to be a specialnight from the music playingand the excitement in the air.Then, upon entering thebuilding and seeing every-one not in class-style busi-ness suits but in fancyevening wear, it seemed im-possible for the evening to beanything other than spectac-ular.

Before being able to jointhe buffet line or start min-

gling, everyone stopped atthe table just inside the en-trance. On it was a com-memorative CD, and, as any-one who stuck around untilthe end knows, plenty ofblue plastic Crummer travelmugs to serve as party fa-vors.

With mugs in hand, at-tendees filled their platesand sat around tables towatch the picture slide show.Everyone enjoyed lookingfor their pictures from theGRASP trip last year or fromany number of socials thisyear. The evening was

capped off with superlativesand appreciation awards.

For most of the atten-dees, the banquet signaled anice start to summer, but for

the members of EAMBA 9, itquickly reminded them thatthe only thing left to do isgraduate.

This past Thursday,March 30, the Rollins Colle-giate Entrepreneurs' Organi-zation (CEO) hosted AdamDudley, President of ACDEnterprises. In his talk, enti-tled "The Not-So GlamorousSide of Entrepreneurship",Mr. Dudley addressed theaudience on his experiencesin entrepreneurship and alsogave away the "seven se-crets" of his multi-million-aire mentors.

With an undergraduatedegree in sports sciences,Dudley spent the first fewyears of his career in the fit-ness industry when he estab-lished his first venture, a mo-bile personal training com-pany. It was through this ex-perience that Dudley firstmade his entrepreneurialcontacts. Mr. Dudleystressed the importance ofthe book, Rich Dad, PoorDad, in motivating him topursue entrepreneurship.He also noted that his mid-dle-class background andlack of support from family

and friends has made entre-preneurship an especiallychallenging new territory.

The talk began with an"entrepreneurial idea tour-nament", in which Dudleypassed out index cards andasked everyone to writedown their business ideas.He collected the cards andthen paired the ideas up andasked the audience to voteon whichbusinessc o n c e p tt h e yt h o u g h thad themost po-tential forsuccess .The ac-tivity had people thinkingon their feet and coming upwith spontaneous ideas.

Dudley then proceededto discuss his experienceswith entrepreneurial men-tors. His involvement withthese mentors has given himthe possibility to participatein a number of ventures: animport/export business,nightclub/restaurant busi-ness, and Gulf Coast real es-

tate deals. Through workingwith these mentors, he wasable to travel, make power-ful contacts and experiencethe ups and downs of start-ing businesses and makingdeals. "Working with men-tors is the fastest way tolearn," said Dudley.

Dudley then offered ad-vice for young people withbusiness ideas. First, it is im-

portant to be prepared.When approaching a mentoror a potential investor withan idea, it is important thatyou have done thorough re-search on your project.

"Entrepreneurs are greatquestion askers," explainedDudley. The mentor/in-vestor you are likely to ap-proach will expect you to beprepared for tough ques-tions. Look at market indica-

tors, compile data, and putthis information into mean-ingful action.

Second, it is importantthat you immediately definea unique competitive advan-tage for your idea. Third,you must make time to net-work. Dudley urged the au-dience to join local network-ing organizations and, mostimportantly, the Chamber of

Commerce. Fourth,when hiring a man-agement team, it isimportant to hirepeople who youclick with and whohave the passion foryour idea. "Favorpassion and atti-tude over experi-

ence and qualifications,"Dudley explained.

He also recommendedseveral books, newspapersand blogs that he feels arequite valuable resources:My Life in Advertising(Claude Hopkins), The Fi-nancial Times, The Art of theStart (Guy Kawasaki),Forbes, Dan Feld's blog atfeld.com and his own blog.

Dudley then highlighted

the "dark side" of entrepre-neurship. He warned of nu-merous failed start-up ven-tures, personal bankruptcy,failed relationships, and alack of support from familyand friends. He sees all ofthese failures and setbackshe has experienced as an ad-vantage. He stressed thatwith failure comes knowl-edge.

Dudley's visit gavethe audience an opportunityto test their entrepreneurialinstincts as well as hear ad-vice from someone familiarwith the hurdles facing theaverage young businessper-son.

Founded in the summerof 2004, the Rollins Colle-giate Entrepreneurs' Organi-zation (CEO) functions asthe student arm of the Cen-ter for Entrepreneurship andis a chapter of the NationalCollegiate Entrepreneurs'Organization. The organiza-tion's goal is to provide stu-dents with a resource thatexposes them to the world ofentrepreneurship.

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Upcoming Events4-27Business EDGE OnlineChatFind out more about theBusinee EDGE SummerBusiness Skills program inan online chat with the ad-missions committee. Noonto 2:00 PM.

4-302nd Annual Crummer GolfTournamentCome to the Red Tail GolfClub in Heathrow CountryEstates for a 4-personscramble. There is $1,000 inprizes and gifts and a regis-tration fee of $75. Sign upby April 14, by calling 407-646-2537.

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On March 6, 2006, I hadthe pleasure of spending theevening with five executivesfrom Turkmenistan.

The event was organizedby the International Councilof Central Florida and spon-sored by the Department ofState. The meeting was heldat Fleming's Prime Steak-house and Wine Bar in Win-ter Park.

The delegation was fromAshgabat, the capital ofTurkmenistan, and consistedof Ms. Zeynephibi Aga-mamedova, a correspondentfor Neutral Turkmenistan, anational newspaper, Mr.Mametkylych Kutiyev, theeditor of Turkmen Gundog-ary, Lebap province newspa-per, Mr. Murad Meredov,legal advisor for economicsociety Hak, Mr. Setdar Rah-manov, a counselor at theleadership council in Ak-Depe region of Dashoguzprovince, and Mr. AbramMogilevskiy, an attorney atMedet law firm.

Turkmenistan was one ofthe fifteen former SovietUnion republics. Turk-menistan borders Uzbek-istan, Afghanistan, Kaza-khstan, and Iran. It is mainlyan agricultural country withlarge gas and oil resources.One-half of its integratedland is planted in cotton,which makes it the world'stenth largest producer of cot-ton. Poor harvests in recentyears have led to an almost50 percent decline in cottonexports.

In 1998-2005, Turk-menistan suffered from acontinuous lack of adequateexport routes for natural gasand from obligations on ex-tensive short term externaldebt.

At the same time, how-ever, its annual exports roseto approximately 30 percentfrom 2003 to 2005 largely be-cause of higher internationaloil and gas prices.

The evening started withMax Stuart, Director of Inter-national Council of CentralFlorida, introducing theguests. He announced thatthe guests made the trip tolearn about local govern-ment. Through a question-

answer section the atten-dees, including myselflearned a lot about Turk-menistan. I was happy toserve as translator for theevening.

Glenn Williams, one ofthe attendees asked thegroup, "I am interested ingas production in Turk-menistan. What can you tellme about it?"

Abram Mogilevskiystarted by giving the audi-

ence a bit of history on Turk-menistan. "The history ofTurkmen people goes backas far as 4,000 years. Turk-men are known as the besthorse riders of the world,who are called dzhigits."

He continued, "Turk-menistan got its independ-ence fifteen years ago and itis hard for the country tocompete with others on in-ternational level because thecountry is so young. Turk-

menistan bordersAfghanistan, Uzbekistan,Iran and it is basically sur-rounded by those countries.Because of this geographicalposition it is harder to exportgas as the gas lines gothrough bordering countriesand a lot of business de-pends on how borderingcountries play with one an-other."

Roshani Gunewardene,a local attorney asked about

how lawyers work in Turk-menistan. Are they inde-pendent or do they have aBar Association, he asked.

Abram Mogilevskiy an-swered, "I was teaching lawfor many years and now, Ihave my own law firm. Mylaw firm represents foreigncompanies, who came toconduct business in Turk-menistan."

Then he said, "There isno Bar Association in Turk-

menistan, but anyone canfile a law suite against alawyer if there is a problem.As a matter of fact, the gov-ernment of Turkmenistanpassed the law that any citi-zen can file a complainedagainst a government offi-cial."

Roshani Gunewardenepursued with another ques-tion, but this time for Mr.Zeynephibi. "How the mediais controlled in Turk-

menistan and are there anyprivately owned newspa-pers?"

Mr. Zeynephibi said,"The media is controlled bythe government and thereare no privately ownednewspapers."

Then Mr. Roshani asked,"So, if you want to critiquethe government can you dothat?"

Zeynephibi said, "Thepurpose of the media is to re-

port a fact and stay as closeto the fact as possible onwhat is going on in the coun-try."

He continued to say, "Ifthere is a problem we try toprovide suggestions on howto improve the area. Thereare sixteen newspapers inAshgabat and over forty sixin Turkmenistan."

After all, I met MuradMeredov. When he foundout that I was from Ukrainehe told me about his vaca-tion in Yalta Ukraine, wherehe likes to visit and stays insummer.

Murad also enjoyed hislast visit to Kiev Ukraine asit is always pleasant to gosightseeing there.

It was a pleasure for meto attend this meeting andlearn so much about Turk-menistan and its people. Iappreciate the group's will-ingness to travel thousandsmiles to come learn about U.S. government, but in sodoing taught me and otherattendees about Turk-menistan.

"We are not here to copythe democracy you have; weare here to learn about yourgovernment," said AbramMogilevskiy.

This event would neverhave happened if it was notfor the Department of Stateand its International VisitorProgram.

You can go to http://ex-changes.state.gov/ educa-tion/ jexchanges/ to learnabout this program.

I was invited to the eventbecause I am a member ofInternational Council ofCentral Florida.

It is only $15 a year forstudents to join. To learnmore about the latter organi-zation go to<www.iccfvip.com>.

And to become a mem-ber and participate in up-coming events contact MaxStuart at [email protected]. Informationabout Turkmenistan can befound at<http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tx.html>.

I would like to thankGerald and the staff of Flem-ing's Prime Steakhouse andWine Bar in Winter Park forhosting the event.

Oksana Bakercontributing writer

COURTESY OF MAX STUART

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Jack Talansky, Elena Bell, Murad Meredov, Glenn Williams

COURTESY OF MAX STUART

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Zina Agamemedova, Abram Mogilevskiy, Oksana Baker

A Spring Break With An ExecutiveDelegation From Turkmenistan

Dear Marian,

I went to a recent in-terview and am still wait-ing for a response. Whatwould you suggest that Ido? Graduating Senior ‘06

Dear Graduating Senior,

Did you send a thankyou letter? After any inter-view, I recommend you fol-low-up with a letter thank-ing the interviewer forhis/her time and consider-ation.

Please note that I sug-gest that you compose an“old fashioned” letter andmail it via the US PostalService instead of simplysending an email. An ef-fective letter will accom-plish a few importantthings:

It serves as a reminderabout you for the recruiterand helps you stand apartfrom the competition.Many people just do nottake the time necessary tocompose and send one.

Sometimes, when youreview the interview, youmay realize that you forgotto mention some key skills

or experiences. A thankyou letter allows you tohighlight these additionalitems and reference yourconversation in the inter-view.

It allows you to rein-force how your knowl-edge, skills and abilitieswill add value to the or-ganization. It is anotheropportunity to spotlightwhat you can do for them.

Prior to sending out theletter, make sure that thereare no spelling or grammarerrors since having mis-takes in the letter can actu-ally backfire on you.

I would be happy toshare some sample thankyou letters and assist youin developing a few of yourown. Schedule time tocome in and meet with meOR email me. I will behappy to help!

Do you have a questionfor Marian? E-mail her [email protected] guarantees that allquestions will be respond-ed to individually or in thiscolumn.

HOLT NEWS 7

WAITING AFTER AN INTERVIEW?DO THE FOLLOWING

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Undergraduates cancomplete a credit course injust four to eight weeks thissummer at the HamiltonHolt School. Two sessionsbegin June 5th and a secondfour-week session beginsJuly 3rd. New studentsmust have their applica-tions and official transcriptson file by April 21st inorder to register May 18th.

Classes are intense. Youmust attend three nightsper week during a four-week session, or two nightsper week during the eight-week session, but you cancomplete a full four-creditcourse during one of theseshort terms. Many under-graduates enroll in electivesduring the summer to fulfilltheir requirements for thebachelor’s degree.

Courses include “CulturalAnthropology,” “Sculp-ture,” “Personal Finance,”“Public Speaking,” “JazzDance I,” “Musical Aware-ness,” “Shakespeare in Text& Film,” “Marine Conser-vation,” “JournalisticEssay,” “History of Rockand Roll,” “Statistics for So-cial Sciences,” “The Artist’sBook,” “Listening,” “Ele-mentary Spanish” andmore.

You can obtain a completelisting of undergraduate

courses, times, and instruc-tors at<www.rollins.edu/holt/200606Schedule.html>. Under-graduate tuition for sum-mer term 2006 will remainat $884 for a four-hour-credit class, but will in-crease to $980 in the fall.For more information aboutadmission and registration,please call student servicesat 407-646-2232.

Holt School seniors ornew students with a bache-lor’s degree also can enrollin a graduate liberal studieselective this summer.Courses completed satisfac-torily can be applied to-ward the master’s degree inliberal studies.

Ed Cohen, professor ofEnglish, will teach “Sher-lock Holmes and Contem-porary Critical Contexts”during the summer eight-week term on Tuesday andThursday evenings begin-ning at 6:45 p.m. The coursewill explore strategies forevaluating “one of theworld’s most remarkableliterary characters,” saidProfessor Cohen. Studentswill examine several ele-ments—including detec-tion, plot, narrative, societyand culture—in the Sher-lock Holmes stories.

Barry Levis, professor ofhistory, will offer “Europein the Ages of Reason andPassion” on Monday andWednesday evenings at

6:45. The course will ex-plore how the art, music,literature, philosophy, andreligious thought in Europefrom 1700 to 1789 and from1789 to 1848 reflected, re-spectively, the Apollonianstimulus and the Dionysianforce. “By studying the po-litical, social, and culturalhistories of these periods,so closely linked in time, wewill determine why they ex-hibited such a strong diver-gence in their individualtemperaments,” said Pro-fessor Levis.

Two short masterworkscourses (1.34 credit hours)also will be offered thissummer. Professor Alexan-der Boguslawski will teach“Introduction to VladimirNabokov” in five sessionson July 11, 18, 25 and Au-gust 1 and 8. Professor JoeNassif will teach “AmericanTheater: The Fabulous In-valid” in five sessions meet-ing June 6, 13, 20, 27, and29. For more information ongraduate liberal studiescourses, visit the Web at<http://www.rollins.edu/holt/gradschedule/liberalstud-ies/Summer06MLSsched-ule.shtml> or call ClaireThiebault at 407-646-2653.

New students register 4to 6 p.m. May 18th at theHamilton Holt School of-fice. Tuition is $984 for afour-semester-hour courseand $328 for a short master-works course.

Summer Term Is Sweet,Sweet, Interesting

Linda Carpenterstaff contributor

LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITYFROM THE DEAN

Dear Students,

You are invited to take a leadership position within theHamilton Holt School and become a member of the Holt SchoolAcademic Honor Council.

Please visit the Hamilton Holt Student GovernmentAssociation's website athttp://www.rollins.edu/holt/hhsga/honorcode.shtml for moreinformation including eligibility requirements and theapplication form.

A faculty reference is required for consideration.Applications are due at the Hamilton Holt School Dean's Office([email protected]) by April 7, 2006.

Thank you,Sharon M. Carrier, Dean

MAKE USE OF THE

CAREER PLANNING AND

SERVICES DEPARTEMENT

New career Opportunities are posted with Hamilton HoltCareer Services.

If you are interested, contact our Career aadviser, MarianCacciatore or visit the Career Planning and ServicesDepartemnet website<http://www.rollins.edu/holt/careerservices/>.

And while you are there, click on AskThe Career Coachto drop Marian a Question or Just send your question [email protected].

Also read the career coach weekly column in TheSandspur. In her column, she answers career related questionsfrom students.

You can call the Holt School as well to set an appointmentto see Marian Cacciatore. She will be more than happy toassist you with your questions.

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EDITOR: KARINA MC [email protected]

Better Than Beer

Common perception ofthe college student's springbreak entails getting awayfrom studies and partyingon the beach. So why wouldone want to undertake morecredit hours and a largerworkload instead of revelingin an inebriated state withthe rest of their friends?

For starters, the interna-tional experience gives onean excellent chance to gain agreater cultural breadthfirsthand.

"I found that the Londonfield study was a great op-portunity as a chance to seewhat's happening outside ofour country," says Julia Jack-son, '07. "I really enjoyedmeeting new people, seeingthe sites, and enhancing mytraveling experience."

Over the course of thetrip, we saw six plays andtwo theatrical productionsof our choice. Along withthe shows, we visited anumber of galleries and mu-seums, and were led by theBoles family. "I want you tosee the London that youwant to see," says Dr. Bolesfrom the Rollins English de-partment. Apart from classmeetings, he permits stu-dents total freedom in thecity.

Many students took fulladvantage of being in Lon-don for their spring breakweek. Between the requiredshows and visits to the dif-ferent attractions, studentswere free to explore the me-tropolis and all of its sites.The liberty we had allowedus to truly experience theculture and personality ofEngland's capital city.

"As a 'family-man,' I washoping for a break from theeveryday pressures at homeand school," says DennisMrozek, Rollins night stu-dent, in an e-mail interview."I was hoping that I wouldhave some fun and relax abit, but I was also hoping tolearn something and absorblife in a different culture."

Most of us found the cul-ture of London welcomingand inviting. Irate London-ers are an uncommon sight,and the most cross wordsyou will hear from them are"Please, be courteous." They

are surely among the mostamiable people in the world,meaning Americans must beon top of their manners. Inthe theatre they are attentiveand observant, and thesmallest noise may interferewith their viewing of theproduction.

After the refined experi-ences in the grand theatres,students were free to see thenight-life of London. Soho

and Picadilly are two areaswhich may attract studentslooking to mingle with theyouth culture. However, onFriday and Saturday nightsit's sometimes impossible tohail a taxi, and the Tube clos-es at midnight. Needless tosay, on a few occasions wefound ourselves walkingendless blocks back to ourhotel.

"It was a valuable expe-rience to see how youngpeople have fun in a differ-ent country," says RachelBubis, '08. "I met a lot ofnew friends in London fromthe class and from the lo-cals."

During the day, the citysites are numerous and youwill want to see as many ofthem as you can. The Towerof London houses thesparkling Crown Jewels, agood experience for seeinghow elaborate the Englishcan be. The London Eye sits

on the bank of the Thamesriver, looking like a giant,slow-moving Ferris wheelfrom which visitors view thecity sprawl. The Globe The-atre is a required stop forstudents to learn howShakespeare's plays first ap-peared.

London's park systemweaves itself extensivelythrough the city; the largesttract of land being HydePark. Here you will findcountless soccer games, aserene waterway, beautifulwalks through gardens andscenic trees, and an areawhere people from all sectsof the world debate issues oftheology, politics, and eco-nomics while standing onstep ladders in front ofcrowds of people.

The greatest part aboutthe London Field Study isthat the cost is billed straightto your tuition, so a studentloan is available for thoseregistered. That does notcover all the costs of the trip,and you will need to bringplenty of money becausethings in London are almosttwice as expensive as theyare in the U.S. Also checkthe weather before yourflight. On our trip the highfor the week was 6 degreesCelsius. But, as DennisMrozek says, "I do think thisis an excellent spring breakgetaway, especially beingfrom Florida. We get sunnearly all year round, so aspring break trip to a colderclimate works well."

The field study offers anexcellent pairing of benefits:world travel and collegecredit. Any student interest-ed in a London cultural ex-perience might find this al-ternative enlightening andentertaining, with many ofthe same freedoms as a nor-mal vacation. The overallpackage may be more attrac-tive than the usual inebria-tion of spring break.

...Or at least an alternative way to spend a college spring break

THE COURTESY OF PAUL HANEY

TIME ON THE THAMES: The London Spring Break group.

Paul Haneycontributing writer

PHOTOGRAPHER NAME / Source

BIG BEN: A London Mainstay

Dear Fox,This past weekend afriend of mine came tovisit from overseas. Wehad great time while hewas here and we endedup getting a little bitcloser than I expected,and now I am findingmyself getting at-tached. Now I hate tobe cliché about thisand get clingy in thissituation, but I misshim more than I am lettingon. He's back in England forclasses and I am still stuckin sunny Florida for at leastthe remainder of the semes-ter. Now I was invited tovisit him this summer, butlet's just be honest, do I re-ally want to travel thou-sands of miles JUST to seehim? And even if I wantedto travel to visit, it wouldtake a great deal of convinc-ing on my part to get mymother to let me go, letalone fund the trip. Whatshould I do? Should I letthis possible relationshipslide or should I start andmake an effort?

Sincerely,Attached and Distant

Dear Attached,Long distance relation-

ships are always a hardtopic and understandablyso. I think the most impor-tant thing you need to do, isrealize whether or notyou're willing to put in timeand effort to this relation-ship.

It would be one thing ifhe lived in Texas, but Eng-land is much further away. Ithink going to visit him thissummer would be a goodidea, regardless of your ro-mantic involvement.

First off, traveling is al-ways exciting and fun, andsecondly, I am assumingthat above all you two are

friends and a friendship isdefinitely worth keeping -no matter what the distance.As for the relationship part,I think you need to under-stand what it would meanto be in a relationship withsomeone overseas.

If both you and yourfriend are willing to travelto see each other once in awhile and make the effort totalk everyday then it couldpotentially work out.

The most importantthing would be your com-munication since youwouldn't be able to be phys-ically present in each other'slives, so keeping in touchwould be crucial.

At the end of the day,however, you need to figureout if anything will evercome out of the relationship.If you end up in a serious re-lationship, would you oryour friend be willing to re-locate to give the relation-ship a real chance? But def-initely take a trip to Englandthis summer! You can con-vince your mom by ravingabout all the wonderfulthings you can learn and seein England, or you can tryand convince your family totake a trip together andwhile you're there you cansneak off and see your loveinterest. Good luck and bonvoyage!

Lovingly Yours,The Fox

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You know what I reallylove about being abroad thissemester? Being able to an-swer the question, "dude,where were you last Fri-day?" in the elevator noncha-lantly with, " Oh, Singa-pore."

My reservations aboutthe city possibly having too

great a similarity to HongKong were immediatelyswept away as the brilliantcolors of the houses and thesmells of foreign spices sentmy senses swirling like Ihave never known before.

The trip to Singaporefelt, strangely enough, like atrip straight back to Europe,except that the people wereshockingly polite and happy.I really had to refocus and

keep the elbow-fightingtechniques that I have per-fected over the months inChina in check, giving peo-ple some personal space.

The first time I heardsomeone say "Sorry" afteraccidentally brushing myarm in the crowd with theairiest of qualities, I think Imay have laughed a little. Ialso had to tune down myvoice a few notches, and re-member what that weirdspikey thing in front ofme was. You know, afork...

The weekend tripwas packed to the brimnot only with remindersof home, though, butwith totally new experi-ences that I never dreamtof. Visited a Hindu Tem-ple? Been there, donethat. Mosque? Beenthere, done that. Slept ina windowless hole afterpassing by big fat scanti-ly clad men sweating inthe smoldering heat inthe hallway of our hos-tel? Been there, not donethat, and still trying toget rid of the mentalimage.

Seriously, though, theentire trip was a blend ofthe strangely familiarand exotic, and comingback to Hong Kong wasthe shock of a lifetime to

say the least.What is with the chaos?

All the signs hanging fromone end of the street to theother? The dirt on theground? The insane cab-drivers?

It is truly strange howquickly one becomes accus-tomed to a place, and that itonly takes a short little tripaway to open ones eyes yetagain as if it were the first

day.I am still em-

bracing the wholeChinese culture,though. There isnothing like it, andwhile, from a West-ern point of view,this city is certainlyundeniably chaoticand vivacious inways that I cannotfollow. My German

attraction torules and ordermake this city themost mind-bog-gling experienceever. I predict thefailure of every-thing in it everytwo seconds, yet,it keeps goingand going, and gainingstrength.

I think Europe andAmerica will seem entire-ly slow-paced and, well,maybe just a little boringafter all of this. So howcan I learn to combat this?I find myself on iTunesdownloading some popu-lar Chinese songs. Whatcan I say? Hong Kong, woai ni ai zhe ni jiu xiang laoshu ai da mi! (I love youlike the mouse loves rice!)That is the tune the Chi-nese people apparentlyhave gone completelycrazy and insane over.

Yep, beats me, too. Being honest, though, it

would not be half as muchfun if I was not perplexed bythe people 50 percent of thetime, right? So, bring it on!

I am still willing to learn,and I better be, because asidefrom the daily cultural holesI can fall into, there are alsoso many public lectures, pre-sentations, etcetera on glob-al politics that I feel beinghere has opened a door ofunderstanding in me notonly to Asia, but to the coun-tries I come from to beginwith. CORA HARDIN / The Sandspur

OLD MEETS NEW: Architecture has itsown cultural conflicts.

Watch out ladies, there isa new ‘Big Man on Campus’.This massive man has out-lasted the rigorous competi-tion by eating chicken wingslike a champ and avoidingflower-ridden fastballs. Hecreates waves with his bellyflops and wowed the compe-tition with his talent at the‘main event’ that took placerecently in the Bush Audito-rium.

Austin Connors, 20, rep-resenting the Rollins Out-door Club squeaked out ofthe field of 12 and won thetwelfth annual Mr. Sham-rock pageant. The pageantwas sponsored by KappaDelta with profits going to-wards preventing childabuse in America.

The participants werechosen from all of the dormi-tories and residential organ-izations on campus. Thisyear the event, traditionallya one night talent show, was

broken up into a week longextravaganza culminatingwith the “main event” onThursday night.

“I thought I was going towin the competition, butthose wings really upset mystomach.” La-Ron Bowden,20, represented Sutton andhad a fantastic time through-out the week.

Monday’s competitionstarted out with the hotwing eating contest. Domi-no’s Pizza boxes stuffed withwings awaited the eagercompetitors. Initially confi-dent about his wing eatingability, Bowden was amongthe first to bow out and relo-cate to a nearby bush. SteveOtto, 19, was the last personstanding victoriously amonga table full of spilled sauces,red grease and chicken car-casses. In the fifteen minutesallotted to the competitors,Steve ate 57 wings andgained bonus points for themain event.

Day two tested the cun-ning and quickness of theparticipants. Instructed to

arrive at Mills Lawn wearingblack, the potential Mr.Shamrocks were paired offand each given balls filledwith flower. The balls werethen thrown and the manwho could avoid the mostdirect hits was passed ontothe next round.

The finals featured aCinderella story and a brack-et buster for sure. TylerMaddox, 19, of X-Club andBowden, two underdogs,dueled in the finals, each ad-vancing with logic and a fewlucky maneuvers. Runnerup Maddox offered his takeon the situation: “He was acleverer player than I.”While La-Ron prevailed,every participant and audi-ence member was well enter-tained and spectators got inthe flower tossing actionsoon after the winner wasdetermined.

Perhaps most appealingto the ladies was Wednesdaynights’ swimsuit and bellyflop competition. Grownmen were reduced to wear-ing thongs, women’s bathing

suits and all too revealingoutfits to appease the femalejudges.

Beginning his routine ina police officers costume,Connors took home the goldin this competition, “Ithought it was a brilliant cul-tural and artistic moment.”

The “main event,” a tal-ent show, was held in theBush auditorium and waswell attended. A five dollarcover charge was donateddirectly to the Prevention ofChild Abuse in Americafund. All of the participantsbrought their best gameeven if they did not have atalent whatsoever.

Among the highlightswere tap dance routines,comedy acts, strip showsand guitar talent. With hisroller skating, drum beatingeffeminate tribute to Madon-na, Connors took home thegrand prize, a three hundreddollar cash prize. What isAustin doing with the prizemoney? “I’m going to Dis-ney World!”

Of course a massive un-

dertaking like The Mr.Shamrock Pageant could nottranspire without manyKappa Delta girls workingdiligently to get this eventoff the ground. Nikki Baird,20, a new member of KappaDelta stated that “it wasgreat having the girls allwork together for charity.”

The ringleader of theevent, Jordan Dunlap esti-mates that the girls haveraised over fifteen hundreddollars this year for the pre-vention of child abuse.

Mr. Shamrock has grownfrom a one night popularitycontest into a week longfundraiser, aimed at findingthe sexiest man on campusand raising both money andawareness for charity.

After a week of seeingthese ‘sexy’ men shameless-ly polish off boxes of wings,throw flour at each otherand jaunt around in theirskivvies, this reporter isready for the Mrs. Shamrockcompetition.

Kappa Delta’s Shamrock StudsAre A Success on Campus

Cora Hardinthe sandspur

Seth Stutmancontributing writer

“The trip to Sin-gapore felt...like atrip straight backto Europe, exceptthat the peoplewere shockingly

polite and happy.”

- CORA HARDINCLASS OF 2007

CORA HARDIN / The Sandspur

TOURIST TIME: Cora explores a tem-ple during her trip to Singapore.

My first experience withChina was three weeks inthe summer of 1999, with aclass trip during college runby a Chinese professor. Theexperience was a real firstsince I had no previousunderstanding, or interest inanything Asian. After Ireturned to the States to fin-ish my senior year, though, Iknew I was going to returnto China and teach English.

I taught English for twoyears, at two separateschools, one year each. Myfirst year was in the districtof Daxing, which is part ofthe municipality of Beijing,the capital. I taught fresh-man undergraduates spokenEnglish at the BeijingInstitute of PetrochemicalTechnology (BIPT).

Daxing is an industrialand agriculture city famousfor its watermelons. Daxingwatermelons continuallywin top prizes at nationalagricultural fairs in China.My school was on the farm-ing side of town, with thefactories on the other.

Beijing Institute ofPetrochemical Technology isa science and engineeringschool but it has recentlyexpanded into business andEnglish programs in order tomeet the growing demandsof the quarter-century oldChinese free market.

My second school wasthe Central University ofFinance and Economics(CUFE) which is one of thetop schools in China. Thisschool is in the HaidianDistrict of Beijing around thecorner from one of China’smany-labeled “Silicon

Valley’s,” Zhong GuanChuan.

My teaching at bothschools was not focused onexpanding their vocabularyor slang or books or listeningto tapes. I was more inter-ested in correcting their pro-nunciation and giving themopportunities to expressthemselves and guide themalong.

Teaching spoken Englishto them was not too much ofa problem even though I didnot speak Mandarin becausemy students usually hadseven years of Englishinstruction previous to myclass.

After I returned to theStates, CUFE became one ofthe ground zeros of theSARS epidemic with at leastone retired professor dying,and my dormitory buildingbecoming quarantined.

Americans often ask mehow my students reacted tome. Chinese students areincredibly interested inlearning about the outsideworld, not just America, andare always curious and veryeager to hear about my ownparticular life and experi-ences.

The crowds of China donot really exist. I grew upnext to New York and thecrowds in that Americantown are not really all thatmuch smaller, or bigger,than in China. As for allthose bikes we Americansthink of when we think ofChina? They have been runoff the road by the swarmsof buses and private cars.

What was the worst partof China? The banquets, andthe air pollution.

What was the best partof China? The students, thepeople, the culture, andmerely the enjoyment of liv-ing where everything is justso different, and yet similarin certain very humanbasics.

Looking back on myentire life, I view everythingas either ‘before China,’ or‘after China.’ My two yearsin China was the turningpoint in my life and withoutdoubt the two most impor-tant years of my life.

If anyone would like toask me questions directly, oris serious about possibleteaching English in China,feel free to e-mail me:[email protected].

Summer is fastapproaching, and it is nowtime to start thinking aboutthe oh-so-scary future. Butremember, it is all aboutbaby-steps and taking itslow, so here are some ideason what you can do thissummer to boost yourrésumé without completelyleaving the life of a collegestudent.

Get a summer job.Apply for something thatboth looks good on yourcareer resume and makesyou stand out from every-one else who went backhome and picked up theburger flipping job they leftoff. For those who have nothad a job before,though,…there is no timelike the present. With websites such as MonsterTrak,your job search is now easi-er than ever. Another greatplace to check out the localjob scene is Craigslist.com,where you can both post thejob you want and search forjobs posted by others.

Volunteer your time. Nomatter where you live, thereis a non-profit agency per-fect for you that is in des-perate need of your help,and working with them isalso a great way to gain realworld skills and great peo-ple skills. Check out yourlocal Boys and Girls club,Habitat for Humanity, oryour local organizations.Alternatively, set up a cloth-ing or food drive through-out your neighborhood, anddrop it off to your localmigrant workers. Not onlywill you get to see a differ-ent style of life occurringright here in the UnitedStates, but you will also bebringing desperately need-ed goods to those who trulyneed it.

Summer school. Maybeyou fell a little behind thisyear, or you just do not havetime to take that specificclass. Start checking outyour local college's summerschedule of classes, andsign up! First, make surethat it is approved byStudent Records. So, stopby and pick up the properforms prior to leaving forsummer.

Summer classes are notjust all about academicsthough. Spice up your life

with some hobby classes.Maybe you took photogra-phy and loved it in highschool, but just have nothad the chance to start it upagain. Your communityprobably offers a widechoice of classes from yogato scuba diving to life guardtraining. The best way tofigure out what is happen-ing is to check out yourlocal community center forinformation.

Travel. These years aresupposed to be the best timeof your life, so pack up yourcar with your best friendsand take a drive somewherenew. AAA is a great place tohelp you with maps andtour books, and you canalways check online onideas for places to go, thingsto see and places to eat.

Alternatively, go some-where international. Thetravel possibilities are end-less now more then ever, socheck out online and travelsomewhere exotic, like atwo week safari in Africa toa week tour of the GreatWall of China. Make sureyou check out the advice onthe country given out by theUS government, and makesure you have the shots youneed.

Internships. It is not toolate to find a summerinternship, but be preparedto search for it. Althoughthey are not always paid,they are a great way ofadding real job experienceto your resume, which isexactly what employers arelooking for with their col-lege students. For intern-ships offered, check out theCareer Services website,which has a list of over 400internships available to stu-dents in every area imagina-ble. On the other hand, youcan always make your owninternship, using yourfriends and family who mayalready have their careerand business set up.

So, get out into the realworld and do somethinguseful this summer,whether it is working, vol-unteering or checking outthe life and times of otherplaces, people and things.The possibilities are end-less, it is just a matter ofmaking yourself go outthere and look.

Summer 2006: The To-Do List Teaching English In China

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Tom Trasentethe sandspur

Kelsey Fieldthe sandspur

PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM TRASENTE

SAY CHEESE!: Trasente was not very interested in atypical grad school scene.

PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM TRASENTE

OFF TO MARKET: Trasente (bottom right) is here on a busymarket street in China.

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Lil Jon as a producerhas made beats for someunbelievable lyricists suchas Lil Scrappy, Trillville,Usher, Bo Hagon, ChynaWhite and Petey Pablo.His latest featured artist,E-40, is just slightly aboveaverage. E-40, straight outof Oakland, California, isa west coast rapper thattries to combine WestCoast lyrical flow withdirty south beats and its"get crunk" ideology. LilJon and Rick Rock Thomasco-produce on E-40'salbum, “My Ghetto ReportCard.”

One part of this ghettoreport card that gets an Ais the beats on the tracksthat Lil Jon produces. Thestandout track on thisalbum is "I'm Da Man,"which features Mike Jonesand Al Kapone. The songis a typical Mike Jonessong, which talks abouthow E-40 can pimp girls,has "purple drank" in hiscup and how he's going torack up an outrageousamount of pocket changefrom this album. The bestpart of the song, however,is when Mike Jones an-nounces the April 18 re-lease of his album, “TheAmerican Dream.” E-40also does a good job ofmixing it up with a coupleof club jams. U and Dat,which features T Pain, is atypical club joint, in whicha guy tries to get a girl at aclub.

E-40 seems to be proudof his distinction, that heis an East coast type rap-per with west coast geog-raphy. He does a decentjob of representing the"Yay Area" Bay Area, Oak-land, San Francisco, Cali-fornia. However, his lyrics

are below average. Thealbum is only average be-cause he does not do agood job of combininglyrics with the beats. Thebest beats that are on thealbum are in the songs:Muscle Cars, Tell MeWhen to Go, U and Datand Yee. Go Hard or GoHome, Gouda and TheyMight Be Taping are theother songs that do nothave Lil Jon beats, but thesongs are good, but notgreat.

Toward the end of thealbum, E-40 throws out acouple of slow jams."Head," which is anotherLil Jon beat, is probablythe best lyrical song onthis album, which provesthat this is not a BADalbum. "She Says SheLoves Me" is the otherslow jam. He ends thealbum with "Happy to beHere," which is his per-sonal life story, talkingabout how he had to over-come the ghetto politicsand how hard he had towork to get in the rapgame.

“My Ghetto ReportCard” is something thatany music fan can listento, only if you accept C'swith an A in the beats de-partment, but a NI (NeedsImprovement) in the lyricsclass.

COURTESY OF EB 40

“My GhettoReport Card”Gets a Solid C

Don’t Waste YourTime — Just ReadShakespeare

Why Amanda Bynescontinues to be given roles inmajor motion pictures I willnever know. I remember herback in the days of Nick-elodeon’s All That, and I re-member thinking she was anannoying, sorry excuse forair time even back then. Thensomeone got the bright ideato take her to Hollywood andput her in films and all thewhile I heard the sound ofnails scratching on a chalk-board in the background andinstinctively cringed. To addinsult to injury, this time theBynes-mobile has taken a hitat time-honored, marvelous-ly coveted literature, defac-ing the true beauty of Shake-speare with the teeny-bopperspring-fling of a film “She’sthe Man.”

“She’s the Man” is amodern day remake of theclassic William Shakespeareplay “Twelfth Night” whichfollows a string of twistedlove affairs as centeredaround the young Viola.Things start to go crazy forour contemporary Viola(Bynes, “What A GirlWants,” “Robots”) when herolder brother decides to skipout on the first weeks of hiselite boarding school, andViola, anxious to continueplaying soccer when herschool season gets cancelleddecided to disguise herself ashim and starts attending hisschool in his place. To com-plicate matters, Viola startsto fall for her brother’s soccerteammate Duke

( C h a n n i n gTatum, “Su-p e r c r o s s , ”“ C o a c hCarter”) whodoesn’t realizethat his newbest friendCesario is ac-tually a girl.To Viola’s dis-may Duke ishorribly smit-ten with the ice-princessOlivia (Laura Ramsey, “In-side Out,” “Lords of Dog-town”) who ironically startsto fall for the fake front of Ce-sario (Viola disguised as aman).

She’s the Man is not abad first try for directorAndy Finkman at breakinginto the teen drama-comedygenre. The screenplay whichwas adapted by Karen Mc-Cullah Lutz (who also wroteon 10 Things I Hate AboutYou) very much has thatsame Shakespeare gonecutesy feel that the modernday mock-ups 10 Things and“O” have when trying to du-plicate the originals of “Tam-ing of the Shrew” and “Oth-ello.” Despite my Bynes-bit-terness the film does havesome redeeming one-liners

and slapstick comedy thatkeeps you interested andchuckling even if neverrolling on the floor. The castactually does a decent job ofembodying the personalityof the characters that Shake-speare once created, thoughtruth be told, I would rathersee the Royal ShakespeareCompany do Twelfth Nightany day.

With all the other seri-ousness in the theatres rightnow, “She’s the Man” is agood escape for a few hoursof giggles marked by twistedand complicated crushes. Ifinstead you want quality the-atre, I suggest you stay awayfrom this flick and continueto pray with me that Holly-wood will one day wake up,smell the coffee, and relegatethis actress back to thethrongs of Nickelodeon-ness.

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COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT STUDIOS

Overall Rating: For awitty, yet unequivo-cally failing attempt atb r i n g i n gShakespeareto the silverscreen

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COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT STUDIOS Juan Bernalthe sandspur

Artist: E-40CD: “My Ghetto ReportCard”

My Ghetto Report issomething that any musicfan can listen to, only ifyou accept C's with an Ain the beats department,but a NI( Needs Improve-ment) in the lyrics class.

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Rollins, Do We Know?

Juan Bernalthe sandspur

Sudoku Fill in the grid sothat every row,

every column, and

every 3x3 box contains the dig-its 1 through 9

Answer: He was a delegate in the Constitutional conven-tion and a key advocate in abolishing slavery.

Maybe, to the untrainedear, they are just anotheremo band. But this band hasmuch, much more to offer.

Movies With Heroes,with their album NothingHere is Perfect, is the soundof desperation. Their intel-lectual lyrics, matched withraw power chords and aharsh, though surprisinglyintoxicating singing voice,leaves a sound that forbidsyou to hit thestop button.

It was not aneasy road forMovies WithHeroes. Theynever won areality show towin their recordcontract. Theypaid their duesin the form offive years ofindie touring and self-recording. They havereleased several otheralbums, but this is the firstunder a "real" record label-CI Records. They describethe album as "five grownmen going for broke."

The album begins with abrief electronica synthesizerriff, giving the listener acompletely different impres-sion of the album than theway it is. This deceivingsound is really the only oneof its kind on the album. Therest of the album consists ofnatural rock sounds likeelectric guitar, bass, drums,and the scratchy, soulfulvocals of Keith Wilson that

are not classically, but rock-fully, beautiful.

While the entire albumoffers the same emo sound,there are definite juxtaposi-tions hidden within the tentracks. The band moves withease from the delicate to thedesperate, the gentle to thegiant, the introspective to thedestructive. The changes aresubtle, but between changesin lyrics, slight changes involume and instrumenta-tion, and changes from com-monplace chordal structures

in the harsher tracks to morecomplex, unusual, unpre-dictable harmony in themore introspective tracks,Movies With Heroes haslearned how to add variety,while still maintaining theirsound.

The album starts off a lit-tle slow. The first few songsare nothing to be excitedabout, really. They are typi-cal emo songs you could findon a million other albums.However, the album finds itsturning point on the fourthtrack "Nothing." The lyricsare hauntingly reflective,and the softer, gentlersounds of the instrumentsand vocals mixed, with the

ever-persistence of rock, cre-ates an enchantingly beauti-ful delight for the ear.

The album continuesstrongly from there, movingon with songs like "Believe,"which is very much in thesame style as "Nothing.""Moth and Rust" is anothersong that mixes the harshwith the delicate in the sameway.

Not all of Movies WithHeroes' songs are of theintrospective quality, how-ever. Some are more imme-

diate and desper-ate, both in thelyrics and in themusic. Songs like"Need It Now" andthe opening track,"Wake Up," conveyfeelings of urgencyand someone whois going for broke,much like the banditself feels like it isdoing in the cre-

ation of this album. Theinstrumentation is harsher,like more common rock, butits rawness does not get inthe way of its melodic, musi-cal quality.

Movies With Heroes hasstill, to some extent, main-tained the indie sound thatthey have produced sincetheir conception in 2000.Their sound, in some ways,is not much different thangroups like Saves the Dayand Our Lady Peace.However, they display amaturity and intelligencethat, paired with their song-writing and performance tal-ents, creates an exceptionalband.

Jami Furothe sandspur

MMoovviieess WWiitthh HHeerrooeess UshersIn The New Emo

COURTESY OF MOVIES WITH HEROES

You can count the goodguys in "Thank You forSmoking" on its permanent-ly flipped middle finger.

An irreverent come-dy about a likable lobbyistfor Big Tobacco whose jobrequires him to encouragesixth-graders to give smok-ing a try, "Thank You forSmoking" is based onChristopher Buckley'suproarious novel of thesame title. The movie isfunny, but not as funny asthe book because it lacksBuckley's unique voice andbecause the 11 years sincethe book came out haveblunted its story about aman so charming that hecould sell cigarettes to YulBrynner on his deathbed.

Aaron Eckhart ("ErinBrockovich's" ponytailedsqueeze) is excellent as Nick,the ciggie-butt apologistwho meets regularly with agun flack and a booze flackto compare notes on whoseproducts are the most lethal.Most of the humorcomes from that sort ofoutrageousness, fromthe gap between thecharacters' lies and whatwe know to be true.

Too often,though, the moviesettles for cheapjokes. Let's face it, anamoral tobacco lob-byist is an easy tar-get for satire, andthe movie's other tar-gets _ Hollywood shal-

lowness, sixth-graders'dopey speeches _ are eveneasier (rent "Citizen Ruth" ifyou're interested in a satirethat gets bigger laughs withbigger risks). That so manyof the jokes do land is due tothe efforts of a cast that islike a best-supporting-actorreunion (William H. Macy,Robert Duvall, J.K.Simmons, Sam Elliott, AdamBrody), under the guidanceof directing newcomer JasonReitman.

In a scene in whichReitman cuts between Nick'skidnapping by terrorists andhis son giving a speechabout what makes Americagreat, the director gives themovie an energy and intelli-gence that isn't always therein his script. Making connec-tions between seeminglyunconnected things, estab-lishing tone, guiding ustoward surprising relation-ships without spelling themout _ these are the some ofthe things a talented directorbrings to the table and thatsuggest Reitman could be aunique new voice in moviecomedy.

Thank You ForSmoking

Chris Hewittkrt campus

On a magical eveningin March music loversfrom all over journeyedpass the white gates andinto Markham Park wherethe honey sweet vocals ofTheresa Andersson andthe not yet tainted bluewater in the Porto-pottiesspoke of new beginnings.This was Friday NightSound Check at Langera-do, an annual evergladefestival that through theyears has attracted a di-verse crowd of southernrockers, Rastafarians,peace loving hippies, andsalsa grooving homies.

In this its fourth yearLangerado provided itspatrons with five stages,to keep the great eclecticmusic and the positivevibes continuously flow-ing. Michael Jordan, a“festival virgin” fromWest Palm said, “This isso awesome, it’s like theentertainment never ceas-es to stop!” as he graspeda half empty Zephyrhillsbottle. Five piece band,Lotus got the people mov-ing kicking the festival offnoon on Saturday withtheir electronic jazzysounds. Men and womenboth dressed in long

skirts danced around theemerald grassy fieldswhile blackening theirbare feet and brighteningtheir spirits. A little dirtdidn’t seem to hinder theenergy in the slightest.After all, this wasn’t justabout jamming out tomusic, but about gettingback to the earth. Naturalsunkissed faces whirledby making their way tothe many vendors whowere selling everythingfrom falafel and hummusto Christ-like rope san-dals and crystal jewelry.

Around 3:00 p.m. justwhen the hot south Flori-da sun was shinningdown in full effect, soul-

ful social consciousMichael Franti and Spear-head took to The SunsetStage like fish to cleannon-polluted water. Notonly did Franti and hisposse of skillful musi-cians get the crowd’s hipsswaying, but also man-aged to motivate them tothink about social justice.Encouraging booty shak-ing while expressing dis-content with the globalsituation of our day mayseem like a hard task buttheses soldiers of lovepulled it off, specificallyin their song, “We don’tstop.” With politically

charged lyrics like, “Awar with jets and a warwith missiles / A war withhigh seated, government

officials” whocouldn’t in themidst of theirgrooving bemade more awareof the many so-cial injusticesthat happendaily. Franti withdreadlocks flyingin his usual “howyaaa feeeeling”vibe actuallyhopped off the

stage and got “down” soto speak with the people.But, who would expectanything less from thisgentle soul who in thepast has performed forAmerican troops whowere stationed in Israel,Iraq and Palestine eventhough he is strongly op-posed to the War.

At 4:00 p.m. Midwest-ern Band Umphrey’sMcGee continued to cap-tivate crowds with theirblended music that hintsat metal, jazz, funk andclassic rock.

Things really took aturn for trippy-ville wheneccentric band The Flam-ing Lips hit the stage. Be-

hind frontman WayneCoyne stood a gang ofabout 30 people deckedout in butterfly, banana,zebra, cheetah and bunnysuites. If one festival goerhad opted not to indulgein the many substancescirculating the park thatday, they were made tofeel like they had anyway.Before breaking intosongs like “She Don’t UseJelly” and “Do You Real-ize” Coyne, much like amanic hamster surfedabove the crowd in a clearplastic bubble. Later theLips conducted a singalong to Queen’s “Bo-

hemian Rhapsody,” it waskind of like karaokenight; only in the heart ofswampland with 15,000friends.

As the sun droppeddown and the stars gracedLangerado with their ce-lestial presence, BenHarper and The InnocentCriminals lit up the Ever-glades Stage in a spiritualsense. Harper, also ex-pressing his concern withissues of social justicethrough song, appearedlike a musical Gandhipreacher of sorts, and wewere his congregation.His intense performancesent langeradoans back totheir cars, tents and ho-tels craving more musicalbliss.

Come the second dayit was musical bliss wegot. Ocean Beach Califor-nia Boys, SlightlyStoopid, brought a realenergetic aura to the fest.Their Reggae infusedbluesy hip-hop rock wasalmost reminiscent of theearly nineties band Sub-lime. An earthy dread-head mama rhythmicallymoved to the southerncountry rock sounds ofFlorida native bandMOFRO, with her littletie-dye dressed son, uponher hip. The funky heavyhorned AntibalasAfrobeat Orchestra andquirky folk guitar geniusKeller Williams kept thepeople dancing, smilingand wishing they couldlive in this enchantingfestival town forever.Some brave souls evenclimbed trees to get a bet-ter view of the perform-ances. The music made itsway from the stage to thevender area, as concertgoers and artists formeddrum circles.

Laura Rincon fromNaples said, “I could getdown to those bongos allday!” while rolling herhips to the beat, playfullytouching her molassescocoa dreads.

As the day turned tonight and the cool windscalmly blew through the

park, The Black Crowesbroke in to their first songof the evening. Perhapsthe only true AmericanRock n’ Roll band not leftover from the sixties, TheCrowes brought to thestage that powerful forceof raw sensual heaviness.Lead singer of TheCrowes, Chris Robinson,jumped around the stageand busted out quite afew Mick Jagger-Iggypop-like moves. When theCrowes finished their set,a bittersweetness seemedto brush over the park.You could see it, that lookof “Is it really over?” onso many sunburnt faces.As people packed awaythe sunscreen and over-sized hula-hoops the onlymusic that could be heardwas the sound of caralarms going off in thelot. Multicolored confettiwas strewn along theground, remnants of TheLips psychedelic perform-ance. Langerado, with itsnon-stop music and warmvibes managed to work itsway into the souls ofmany. We all walkedaway that night withmemories of intrinsicbeats and microbrews,longing for next year ’sfestival which would re-unite us with old friendsand Mother Earth.

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Tues April 1111Music at Midday - Tiedtke Concert Hall - 12:30 PM“US vs Art Thieves” - Chapel Garden - 7:30 PM

Sat April 0808McKean Hall Community

Easter Egg HuntMills Lawn - 11 AM

Thurs April 1313Music at Midday

Tiedtke - 12:30 PM“Freedom of What?” Forum

DownUnder - 3 PMGlobal Peace Film Festival

Bush Auditorium - 6 PMFaculty Percussion Recital - Tiedtke - 7:30 PM

Friday April 0707Shabbat Dinner

Faculty Club - 6 PMPirates vs. Ninjas Movie Night

Sullivan House - 7 PMRollins Horn Ensemble

Tiedtke - 7:30 PM

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As the Iraq war contin-ues, its cost is approachinghalf a trillion dollars.Besides the fact that weshould not have enteredinto this ridiculous wasteof money in the first place,now that we are in, we arein it for the long haul. Ihate to break it to youBushy-poo, but Democracybuilding is not cheap, thisis not the Soviet Union,which tumbled and foundDemocracy. The façade ofnuclear weapons turnedout to be false, the reasonwhy we went into the warin the first place, and peo-ple are still not flooding thestreets in protest. Maybethey do not care, it has notaffected their lives.

What really bothers meis we are spending all thismoney on the Iraq war, andwhen our own country getsblown away by hurricanes,all the sudden there is notenough money to goaround, and so the warcontinues to suck the banksdry.

Then there was the lit-tle issue of FEMA, whichreally made obvious theincompetence of our gov-ernment, starting at thevery top. Note to thePresident-you cannot justappoint people with veryimportant duties who haveno idea what to do when areal tragedy hits-yes, it isvery different in real lifethan what you have read inyour text books.

So now that we are inthe war, we are stuck. Thenthere is the little issue ofour debt, which has sky

rocketed out ofcontrol with noend insight…at leastuntil 2008 thatis. However,until then wehave to dealwith the idioc-racy of the rul-ing partyallowing forblank checks tobe written.

Just recent-ly congressmoved the debtceiling from$781 billion to$9 trillion.Some peopledo not thinkthat the nation-al debt is ap r o b l e m .Unfortunately,the nationaldebt increasesevery day by$2.42 billion,beginning in September30th, 2005. As of today,April 3 2006 at 2:28:23 PMGMT, the outstanding deptis $8,379,790, 610,348.80,according to brillig.com,which has a national debtcounter. So far that is$28,030.71 per person liv-ing in the United States. Ohno, the debt is fine….riii-ight.

I mean, for the mostpart I can look past the facthe is the worst speaker Ihave ever seen... obviouslyYale and Harvard do notfocus on the presentationside of class. Ironic, asmany of them go on topositions which requirethem to make publicspeeches. But more so thanhis awkward “hrming” and“hmming” that he does

when he is asked anuncomfortable question, Idisagree with his politics.

The constitution haswritten in it a separation ofchurch and state, for obvi-ous reasons, and yet it wasmoral, religious ideas thatgot him elected in the firstplace. Maybe instead ofworrying what other peo-ple are doing with theirlives, he should get his ownfamily in line first.

Abortion and gayrights should not be thedefining issues that get apresident elected, theyshould be the secondaryfacts after important issuessuch as national security,national debt and otherproblems that are plaguingto every country. Perhapsinstead of worrying about"Brokeback Mountain", he

should instead be question-ing his bureaucracies whythere is such abundant mis-information going around.

No wonder theDemocrats are puttingtheir money on the femalepopulation to help pull thiscountry out of this ridicu-lous situation. Look outmen, the mommy party isup and coming for the nextround of elections. That isright. The mommy party.But hey, although I don'tlike the name, I am goingwith it. Women are goingto be running in nearly halfof the two dozen Houseraces, where Democrats arehoping to pick up the seatsand turn the tide on theRepublican domination ofthe House, according toRaw.

The Democrats are hop-

ing that the unrest that canbe seen in polls throughoutthe country reflect the needfor change, and now is theperfect opportunity forwomen to rise up in theranks.

I have been waiting forthe 2008 elections since2004, and unfortunately Iwas waiting for 2004 since2000. So it essentially hasbeen 6 extremely long andpainful years, with only 2more to go, until Bush isout of office. And I will cel-ebrate with the rest of mySeattlites when he is. Butuntil then, I have to wait.

Kelsey Field is a JuniorInternational Relations andSpanish major in the School ofArts and Sciences

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Topic: The Bush Administration

MORGEN CULVERRYAN WALLS

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Kelsey Fieldthe sandspur

Bothered by Bush’s Big BlundersA thread of hope lies ahead for the U.S. in 2008; all we need is to wait out the rest of the Bush years.

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With sagging approvalratings and a White Houseand Party surrounded bysuch controversies and polit-ical problems, George W.Bush needs to come up withan exit strategy so that hecan leave office on somekind of good terms with theAmerican people.

There has been a lot oftalk lately about shaking upthe Administration. Bushhas taken a few steps alreadymaking slight changes, but Iagree with some analystswho say he needs to makesome major changes.

One change that hasbeen suggested to which Iagree is naming his heir so tospeak. Some have suggestedthat Bush ask Vice PresidentDick Cheney to resign andplace Secretary of State Con-doleeza Rice in that position.This could be an effectivepolitical move on Bush’s partto back his choice for the2008 elections.

Secretary of State Ricehas said she does not plan on

continuing in politics, butthe lure of becoming the firstfemale and the first AfricanAmerican President couldsway her to take Bush’s en-dorsement.

Cheney has been noth-ing but problematic for thispresidency. A New York Uni-versity’s presidential histori-an, Paul Light, said, “Cheneyis the de facto chief of staff.He's two steps down thehall. He's like a barnacle; he'snot going anywhere.”

The public image of Ch-eney is that he is a shady andsecretive individual whomakes deals in the back-al-leys of the White House. Hisyears of experience haveplaced him in a somewhatmentoring role for the Presi-dent, and this has translateditself into the larger opinionof the Bush Administrationin general keeping to theback-alleys.

I do not think Cheney issolely to blame for this, buthe has been a major influ-ence on how George W. hasrun this country. Cheneymay be a good man at heart,but as a political figure hehas always been seen as coldand distant.

Ridding himself of Ch-eney and bringing on boardCondoleeza Rice as VP canonly help alleviate the pres-sure that is being placed onthe President by the GOP,Democrats, and the nation asa whole.

Changes should not stopat naming his preferred suc-cessor. Bush should try, inhis last two years as presi-dent, to create an air of open-ness and honesty that hasbeen lacking throughout his

presidency.The Bush White House

has done a lot of good thing,and has made a lot of mis-takes. Bush is not our worstpresident, and is not, by far,our greatest. He needs to putforth the effort to show theAmerican people that hetruly considers what we sayand will be open about mis-takes, blunders, and evenmiscommunications.

To save Bush’s presiden-cy he needs to change the

culture of his Administrationto create the image and sub-stance of a caring Executivethat is trying to run a coun-try to the best of its ability.Bush must openly embracehis critics and his fellowAmericans, own up to hismistakes, and take responsi-bility for his actions and theactions of his Administra-tion. A more open WhiteHouse with better personnelcan only help to improve theBush’s last years in office.

How easily we forget.In this country, it does notseem to take long. A year,maybe. Sometimes, noteven. We forget thingsthat should not be forgot-ten. But we rememberthings that should be for-given.

Our memories of theBush Administration areperhaps skewed becauseof this nation's strangememory. We rememberthings the way they werenot. We remember thingsthe way we want to re-member them, though Icannot imagine why any-one would want to re-member the last six yearsin the way that this coun-try has chosen to remem-ber them. But it goessomething like this.

We remember a disas-ter when September 11occurred. We remember apresident who sat idly byreading to children as in-

nocent people were dyingin New York and Wash-ington. We remember notknowing where our presi-dent was or what he wasdoing in a time when wewere terrified.

But on that day nearlyfive years ago, the storywas painted much differ-ently. We praised ourpresident. We understoodthat his main objectivewas to not allow the coun-try to panic. He landed allplanes immediately toavoid further attacks. Hemade his decisions fromhis own plane flyingsomewhere unknownhigh in the air to makesure the terrorists couldnot get to our head ofstate and commander inchief. He took action im-mediately and intensely.We saw a strong leader.His approval rating in theensuing months wasthrough the roof becausecitizens of all partiesagreed that the situationwas handled well.

How easily we forget.

We remember the 2000election. We rememberthe crisis of it. We remem-ber how close it was. Weremember that George W.Bush "stole" the presiden-cy from the saintly VicePresident Al Gore. We re-member chads and re-counts and the SupremeCourt. We rememberwondering whether or notwe would decide on apresident before inaugu-ration day. Here in Flori-da, we remember beinghumiliated. We rememberthat slightly more thanhalf the country was ex-tremely disappointedwith the outcome.

We remember 6 yearsago, but a year and a halfago is fuzzy. We have for-gotten that there has beenanother election sincethen. We have forgottenthat we have, no matterhow one chooses to lookat it, a controversial pres-ident in office with lowapproval ratings. We for-

get that the DemocraticParty had every chance inthe world to oust the manthey detest so much. Weforget that they couldhave chosen practicallyanybody, and they wouldhave one. But they chosean elitist from Massachu-setts who had nothingconcrete to say. Now, wehardly remember hisname. But we rememberevery detail of the elec-tion from four years be-fore.

How easily we forget.

We remember howmany soldiers have diedin Iraq, but we forget thatboth men and women areparticipating in demo-cratic elections as a resultof their battles.

We remember the 9/11Commission Report thatstated that they found noweapons of mass destruc-tion in Iraq, but we forgetthat Saddam Husseinused them on his ownpeople.

We remember howafraid we were on Sep-tember 11, 2001, but weforget who it was thattook action so we did nothave to continue to fear.

How easily we forget.

The Bush Administra-tion is not perfect by anystretch of the imagina-tion. George W. Bush isnot even close to beingthe best president that wehave ever had.

But he is far betterthan we remember him.Our memories are bothshort and long. We re-member the mistakes, butwe quickly forget the tri-umphs.

I wonder what we willforget next.

Jami Furo is a Music Majorin the School of Arts andSciences.

We augment our memories by remembering all of George Bush’s mistakes but no positives.

Next Week’s Topic: Humanity

Jami Furothe sandspur

How Easily We Forget: Our Memories Run Amuck

An Exit Strategy toSave Bush’s Last YearsBrett Heineythe sandspur

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How Bush RuinedU.S. Conservatism

The year 2000 seemsso far away. Not only hassix years passed, but theevents and the concernsof 2000 seem to be a dis-tant land, a fairy tale pastthat existed between theCold War and the War onTerror. It is important torecall the troubled elec-tion of 2000 and to re-member precisely, whyand how, George W. Bushwas elected.

Many at the timequestioned whether ornot Bush was a true con-servative; after all he wastrying to move awayfrom the angry and reac-tionary image the partyhad crafted for itself dur-ing the two presidentialelections of the 1990s. Hewas different because hewas a “compassionateconservative” which hasbecome a euphemism fornot believing in smallgovernment. He woulduse his compassion in-crease the size of the De-partment of Education, togive federal support tofaith based initiative andhas never used his vetopen to slash a spendingbill. In 2000 George W.Bush said he was fed upwith nation building, andthat he would never usethe American military toundertake the creation ofa state from the groundup.

It is also imperativeto recall what the nationwas looking for in 2000.No one was worriedabout national security.Terrorism was not one ofthe hot button issues of2000; the nation waslooking for a peace timepresident. The nationyearned for an honestand competent presidentwho would restore honorand dignity to the WhiteHouse and the rowdyyears of the Clinton ad-ministration. George W.Bush was a man preparedfor the challenges of2000, to deal with domes-tic concerns and Ameri-ca’s changing role inworld. He was going toattempt an approxima-tion to Latin Americancountries so desperatelyin need of strong Ameri-can leadership.

September 11

changed the challengesthat the president had toface, and today in 2006 Iam able to say with un-equivocal certainty thatGeorge W. Bush hasfailed in meeting thosechallenges and that hewas never prepared todeal them. We cannotblame those who electedhim, because after all hewas the right man in2000, he is not the rightman in 2006. With Re-publican gains in con-gress and the Senate,Bush’s abrasive style andlack of conservative forti-tude has led to a split inthe Republican Party.

I have written in thispublication before how Ifeel, after much reading,that neoconservatism isnothing more than a hi-jacking of conservativeprinciples. Neocons areDorian Gray, who believethat their mirror image isaging and failed but it isactually within theirideals that they are forg-ing the demise of Ameri-ca.

The neocon exercisein Iraq has fragmentedAmerica and balloonedthe federal deficit to as-tronomic proportions.George W. Bush is theonly president in historyto pass tax cuts whilebeing at war, a move thathas never made anysense. The president tookthe great victory inAfghanistan, and squan-dered it by diverting at-tention away from AlQaeda and focusing onIraq, a nation that hadneither weapons of massdestruction or a signifi-cant Al Qaeda presence.

So now we are leftwith no friends in theworld and a Republicanparty at home that isbeing torn apart by neo-conservative follies.George W. Bush is noconservative, and nowwe all anxiously wait for2008, but until then wecan only hope that dam-age is not worse.

John Ferreira is a JuniorHistory and Political Sci-ence major in the School ofArts and Sciences. Ferreirais also Managing Editor ofThe Sandspur.

John Ferreirathe sandspur

Dear Editor,

Please inform Mr.Richard M. Spalding Jr.that I look forward to see-ing his name in the pa-pers one day, mentionedin similar vein as was Mr.Kenneth Lay, Mr. BernieEbbers, Mr. Randy "Duke"Cunningham, Mr. NiccoloMachiavelli, Mr. BenedictArnold, and Mr. S. Lu-cifer.

Also, please remindyour readers that "real-world" employers (suchas myself ) do occasional-ly read your paper andquite enjoy when larce-nous liabilities self-iden-tify even before discoveryof the fabrications ontheir resume. Mr. Spauld-ing Jr. just made a veryselective list that we "realworld" employers circu-late amongst ourselves.

For Rollins sake, I hopefew other of your stu-dents make that same list;nevertheless, I[‘ll] be sureto double-check their em-ployment history–just incase.

Regards,

Allan Burgess Jr.

L e t t e r t o t h e E d i t o r

The Panhellenic Coun-cil wishes to highlightsome of the great thingsthat the sororities on cam-pus are doing.

While NCM partici-pants in several differentphilanthropies, Relay forLife is one event that wetake part in every year.Since so many people weknow have been affectedby cancer, Relay for Lifeis something that is closeto NCM’s heart. We as anorganization won a spe-cial community serviceaward through the schoolfor our dedication to find-ing a cure. This year wasno exception. NCM set upa tropical themed tentwhere we sold punch and

fruit cups. We even pro-vided hoola hoops and alimbo pole for kids toplay with. We raised a lotof money to donate to theAmerican Cancer Society.We had a lot of fun thisyear and are looking forto next year ’s Relay forLife!

Megan HessionVice PresidentNon Compis Mentis

During sorority re-cruitment the potentialnew members, along withthe members of KappaKappa Gamma, madebookmarks to bring to thechildren at Fern Creek El-ementary school to sup-port our main charity;

Reading Is Fundamental.Also, in celebration ofValentine's Day,membersgot together and decorat-ed home-made valentineswith candy, stickers, andglitter to bring to the chil-dren at Fern Creek Ele-mentary. In the upcomingweeks we will taking do-nations for our clothingdrive, any donationswould be greatly appreci-ated!

Alyssa PorrelloPhilanthropy ChairKappa Kappa Gamma

Louise Hill,Public Relations ChairPanhellenic Council

C o n t r i b u t i n g V o i c e

Dear Editor,

I wanted to expressmy extreme dismay at theutter lack of journalisticprofessionalism dis-played in the April Fool’sedition of this paper.

“The Slantspur” was atravesty that managed tofool many people intothinking that the staff ofthe paper had lost theirminds. What is wrongwith all of you? I knowseveral people who weretaken aback by the articleabout a student contract-

ing avian flu from a milk-shake purchased from theCornell Campus Center.

Avian flu is a seriousproblem that our countrymay face very soon, andto make light of the situa-tion is unacceptable.

Also, Rollins puts in alot of time, effort, andmoney to make and keepthis campus beautiful. Itis offensive to see suchdisregard for all Rollinsdoes for its students byinsulting the effort thecollege puts forth tomaintain a beautiful at-mosphere.

What makes thisworse is that the two arti-cles I have cited werewritten by Section Edi-tors. These are the peopleresponsible for makingsure the newspaper ispublished every week andthat journalistic integrityis maintained. I urge thenewspaper to maintaintheir journalistic profes-sionalism and integrity toensure the paper does notbecome trashy tabloids.

Anonymous

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TARS SPORTS SCHEDULE

Softball @ Ft ValleyState Tourney - 8am

Baseball @ St. Leo -7pm

FRI 7Rowing @ FIRA - 8am

Sailing @ SAISA Champs - 8amSoftball @ Ft Valley State Tourney - 8am

W. Tennis vs Eckerd - 12:30pmBaseball @ St. Leo(DH) - 1pm

SAT 8W. Golf @ SSC Championships - 8am

MON 10 W.Golf @ SSC Championships - 8amM.Tennis @ Eckerd - 3pm

W. Tennis vs FL Southern - 3:30pmBaseball vs Embry-Riddle - 7pm

TUES 11

Baseball vs FL Southern - 7pm

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Sailing @ SAISA Champs - 8amM. Tennis @ Valdosta State - 10am

Softball @ Albany State (DH) - 1pm

SUN 9

The Gators, known for football, takethe NCAA title

Before the season, theFlorida Gators were pickedto finish fourth in the SECEast. The Gators had losttheir three top scorers, DavidLee, Matt Walsh and Antho-ny Roberson, two of who arein the NBA right now. Now,the Gators are nationalchampions, after defeatingGeorge Mason and UCLA inthe Final Four.

The Gators were on tapfor the first of Saturday’s twosemifinal games on Satur-day. The Gators were domi-nant from wire to wire, andGeorge Mason had only onelead in the entire game, 2-0.The story of the game wasfrom the three point line.Lee Humphrey, who was 5for 7 from the three pointline in the 2nd half and fin-ished with 19 points. GeorgeMason shot two for 11 fromthe line and did not makethe three until five minutesleft in the game. JoakimNoah who was the MVP ofthe Final Four also paced theGators with 12 points, 8 re-bounds and four blocks.Florida won 73-58. Theywould face UCLA, who wasin making their 13th appear-ance in a national champi-

onship game.UCLA, who was the

champion of the Oakland re-gion played LSU, winner ofthe Atlanta region, in theother semifinal. The gamewas an ugly defensive battle,with the Bruins holding theirthird opponent in this tour-nament to 45 points or less.The held LSU standout for-wards Glen ”Big Baby”Davis and Tyrus Thomas to7-21 and the Tigers shot 32%from the floor. UCLA wasnot that much better offen-sively, shooting 42% fromthe field. However, theyoutrebounded the Tigers 39-32 and got 10 assists to LSU’sfour. The Bruins coasted to a59-45 victory in a game inwhich the score did not real-ly signify the outset asUCLA held a comfortable 20point advantage throughoutthe second half. UCLA wasled by forward Luc RichardMbah A Moute who had 17points and nine rebounds.

Monday night it was theUCLA Bruins and the Flori-da Gators for the nationaltitle. They picked a goodtime to play their most flaw-less game of the season.Florida raced out to an 11-6lead and would lead by asmany as 11 in the first half.In the second half it was

more ofthe samewas moref r o mFlorida, asthe Bruinscould notd i s p l a ythe defen-s i v ep r o w e s sthat hadput themin the na-t i o n a lc h a m p i -o n s h i p .T h e ycould notget goingon the of-f e n s i v ee n d ,s h o o t i n g3 6 . 1 %from thef i e l d .F l o r i d ascored anyway theywanted toin the second half breakingUCLA’s full court pressesand traps. They would leadby as many as 20 and go onto win 73-57.

Florida’s whole run tothe national final was as im-probable as the Final Four it-self. For only the secondtime in since 1987, the FinalFour was without a numberone seed as Duke was oustedin the Sweet 16 by LSU. Vil-lanova, Connecticut andMemphis were all ousted intheir respective regional fi-nals.

Four Gators were namedto the All Tournament Teamfor their efforts. LeeHumphrey hit ten threepointers in the tournament.Forward Al Horford aver-aged a double-double, 10points and 10 rebounds inthe Final Four. Corey Brew-er made showed his versatil-ity in the tournament aver-aging 15 points, and puttinghis shutdown defense onGeorge Mason guard Lamar

Butler and UCLA guardAaron Afflalo. UCLA’s Jor-dan Farmar was the onlyBruin to make the All FinalFour team as he averaged 15points, four assists and threerebounds and was the keyinstrument to the Bruinssucessful tournament run.The MVP, Joakim Noah dis-played his dominationthroughout the whole tour-nament as he averaged 14points, 8.5 rebounds and fiveblocks during both of thegames. It was truly an im-pressive performance by thesophomore who grew up inParis and moved to Harlemin the seventh grade.

George Mason was a del-egate in the ConstitutionalConvention, and was a bigtime advocate in the abolish-ment of slavery. The schoolof 27,000 students from Fair-fax, Virginia played the roleof Cinderella this tourna-ment. They defeated Michi-gan State, North Carolina,Wichita State and Connecti-cut, schools that have won a

combined nine national titlesin order to reach the FinalFour. Their were many peo-ple that embraced theGeorge Mason style as theywent on their run. Headcoach Jim Larranaga was afun first coach, that ran hisprogram the right way. Itwas evident when he sus-pended star guard TonySkinn for the first game ofthe tournament because heslugged a player in the groinduring the Colonial AthleticAssociation conference tour-nament. At first, critics weresaying that the Patriots hadno business in the tourna-ment, but George Masonwill clearly serve as an inspi-ration for all tournamentteams in years to come. ThePatriots run ended with a 73-58 loss to Florida. As forFlorida, the football gods atthat school must be grumpy,because the basketball teamhas now caught up with thefootball team in the numberof championships won.One.

Juan Bernalthe sandspur

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O MY NOAH: UF's Joakim Noah celebrates as the Florida Gators win the champi-onship game of the Final Four.

MARK CORNELISON/KRT CAMPUS

THE FARMAR STANDS ALONE: UCLA's Jordan Farmergoes up for two as Florida's Lee Humphrey guards

The baseball team tookon Florida Tech in a threegame series over the week-end. On Friday, junior start-ing pitcher DavidNathanson collected hisfourth win of the season.The Tars had previously lostto Florida Tech in the non-conference season openergame by a devastating scoreof 8-0.

There was no scoringuntil the fourth inning,when Florida Tech collectedone run off an RBI fromStone. Then in the bottom ofthe fourth, Rollins landedfive runs, the first comingwhen junior Ryan McKenziedoubled to left center, send-ing freshman Anthony Sotohome. McKenzie wasbrought home by sopho-more Steve Mannenbach'sball to right field. Mannen-bach, sophomore StefanoFoggi, and freshman EugeneMartinez all made it home

before the close of the fourthinning.

The Tars kept the Pan-thers from scoring in thefifth and went on to scoretwo more runs in the bottomof the inning. The scorestayed at 7-1 with Rollins upuntil the bottom of the sev-enth. Soto scored on a hit byMcKenzie down the rightfield line. The Panthers triedto come back in the eighth,but only managed to securethree runs. Rollins collectedone more run the bottom ofthe inning. The Pantherswere unsuccessful in theninth, ending the game witha score of 9-4.

On Saturday, the Tarstook on the Panthers againin a double-header. The firstgame followed in the spiritof the previous game. Therewas no scoring early on inthe match. Then in the fifthinning, Jesse More camehome after Soto hit a singleup the middle. Before the in-ning was up, Gene Howardhit a right field homerun

that sent Anthony Sotohome and put Rollins up 3-0. Scoring again came to ahalt until the Tars half of theseventh. This time Soto hit ahomerun to right field.Howard again scored a runfor the Tars after Mannen-bach hit out to right field.The Panthers missed out onscoring in the eighth inning.Rollins half saw runs collect-ed by Jesse More and Tyler

Hartman, sealing the win forthe Tars by a score of 7-0.

But the Tars lost their of-fensive momentum in thesecond game of the day. Ju-nior starting pitcher MarioLombardo gave up someearly runs. Florida Tech tookdown two runs straightaway in the first, and scor-ing halted until senior BrentMagnuson came home on aground ball to third base in

the fourth. But the Panthersclosed out the scoring in thegame in the fifth inningwhen they took down threeruns, making the score 5-1,where it remained until theend.

The Tars will be back inaction on Friday April 7,when they begin a threegame series against SaintLeo in Saint Leo, Fla. Firstpitch is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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In anticipation of themost exciting baseball sea-son ever, the Chicago WhiteSox opened up by beatingtheir AL Central Divisionrival, the Cleveland Indians10-4 on Sunday night. Canthe White Sox defend theirtitle? That is one of themany questions that will beanswered during the 2006MLB season.

In the winter meetingsthat followed the conclusionthe 2005 season, one thingthe owners unanimouslydecided to do was tightenthe steroid policy. Elevenplayers were caught duringrandom steroid testing lastseason. They were all sus-pended from ten games,and there were no secondtime offenders. This season,the new policy calls for a 50game ban for the first of-fense, a 100 game ban forthe second transgressionand the third ban results ina player receiving a lifetimeban.

Barry Bonds comes intothe season with 708 homeruns. He needs seven homeruns to pass Babe Ruth, and48 more home runs to passHank Aaron. However, do

not look for it to be thebiggest home run chasesince Sammy Sosa and MarkMcGwire in 1998. Manybaseball fans say that theywill not support Bonds'chase of the all time homerun record because of his al-leged steroid use. Bondsclaims that he will retire atthe end of the season,whether or not he breaksany home run records.Bonds missed most of lastseason with a bum knee,and at the beginning of theseason he claimed that hewas just trying to "staysane" with all the stress andsteroid allegations that hisname has been associatedwith since the end of lastseason.

Another streak on theline is Philadelphia Philliesshortstop Jimmy Rollins,who has a 36 game hitstreak coming into this sea-son. He needs to get a hit in21 consecutive games tobreak the legendary JoeDiMaggio's streak of 56 con-secutive games with a hit.Rollins goes into the seasonas the best non-steroid storyin baseball, and his highlyanticipated debut comesagainst the St. Louis Cardi-nals.

The American League's

Eastern division undergoesits second major overhaul inas many years. The TorontoBlue Jays spent $107 millionin picking up high profilefree agents pitchers A.J Bur-nett (from the Marlins) andB.J Ryan (Orioles), catcherBengie Molina (Angels) andTroy Glaus (Diamondbacks)in order to contend with theRed Sox and Yankees. Themost regarded move of theoff season came when John-ny Damon turned his backon the Red Sox and signed afour year $52 million dealwith the rival New YorkYankees. Damon will patrolcenter field for the Yankees,and every starter for theYankees has been an All Starat least once. As for the RedSox, they filled the hole leftin center field with formerCleveland Indians outfield-er Coco Crisp. The Red Soxalso added second basemanMark Loretta and recentlyagreed to a four year con-tract extension with desig-nated hitter David Ortiz,who is arguably the best hit-ter in baseball.

In the AL Central, theWhite Sox made a couple ofchanges that improved theirpitching and hitting. Theyadded Jim Thome, who has430 career home runs, to be-

come their designated hit-ter. They also added JavierVazquez as their numberfive starter. This is Vazquez'fourth team in four years,but this is clearly his bestchance to win a champi-onship. The Cleveland Indi-ans serve as the most vehe-ment threat to the White Soxin terms of winning the di-vision. The Indians nearlyovercame a 15 game lead intwo months, but fell apartlate in the season and endedup missing the playoffs alltogether.

In the AL West, theMariners added catcherKenji Jojhima, an All Star inJapan for the last elevenyears to become their newcatcher. The Mariners havehad recent success in pluck-ing talent from Japan, asthey have made All Starsout of outfielder Ichiro andpitcher Kaz Sasaki. The An-gels are expected to win thedivision with the A's, whoadded former White Soxslugger Frank Thomas, ex-pected to contend.

In the National LeagueEast, Mets general managerOmar Minaya has onceagain spent a chunk ofchange in order for the Metsto try to dethrone theBraves' 15 year run of divi-

sion champions. Minayatraded for Carlos Delgado(Marlins) and closer BillyWagner (Phillies) to comple-ment the Mets' nucleus ofyouth and veterans. TheMets have as good a chanceof any team in the NL Eastin the last 15 years to de-throne Atlanta. The Braves,meanwhile, will look to An-druw Jones and their nucle-us of young talent to wintheir 16 consecutive divisiontitle. The Nationals made ahigh profile, free agentmove by signing AlfonsoSoriano from the Rangers.The Marlins suffered a com-plete roster overhaul onceagain, as they cut at least$50 million in salary for thesecond time in the last tenyears.

The Cubs are the trendypick to win the World Se-ries, as well as the NL Cen-tral, but the Cardinals looklike the obvious favorite.Last year's NL championHouston Astros added out-fielder Preston Wilson, butlost Jeff Bagwell, whose in-juries forced him to retire.

The NL West is the mostwide open division in base-ball, with the Dodgers,Padres and Giants all ex-pected to vie for the divisiontitle.

Juan Bernalthe sandspur

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