Learn where you live By Melissa Garcia Staff writer Wouldn’t it be nice to roll out of bed in your pajamas and only have to walk up a flight of stairs to see your academic adviser? Or for a tutoring session? An incoming freshman might not know how great that could be, but anybody who’s ever had to hop on the shuttle from South Village (SoVi) to campus just to meet an adviser for a few minutes probably thinks that sounds pretty great. This fall, that scenario will become a reality. Eagle Hall, the newest addition to the
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SoVi residence buildings, will house more than 500 incoming freshmen. It will also include a brand new six-office suite on the 4th floor with four new first year academic advisers, a Center for Academic Achievement (CAA) coordinator, and an assistant director. Michael Rollo, Vice President of Student Affairs said that a big focus of the University is to find ways to, “support the learning community intellectually and academically.” Having advisers more readily and conveniently available for first-year students is one way of doing this. The reason for this new office and new staff is due to an increase in the budget. Currently there are four advisers in the first-year advising office in McTarnaghan Hall. The budget increase allows for three new positions: an assistant director of advising and two more advisers. There will now be three advisers and two directors in McTarnaghan, and four advisers and one director in Eagle Hall. Brian Fisher, director of housing at the Florida Gulf Coast University, says “we’re really excited about the first year advising being right there … freshmen won’t even have to go to campus … that’s huge.” Aside from just having a
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FGCU uses summer months to remodel the library lawn By Tiara Brown Staff writer
Florida Gulf Coast University has gone green, or at least its fences have. On May 1, Tom Mayo, the Director of Facilities Planning, announced that the Library Lawn would undergo extensive remodeling. Big green fences were put into place the next day, blocking all entry to the grassy area between the Library, Howard Hall and the Wellness Center. Construction began the day after spring finals ended. The project was influenced by a committee of Student Government Photo courtesy IMDB members, the staff advisory council, faculty members and Movie time? Check Michael Rollo, the vice president of out reviews for ‘22 student affairs. The construction Jump Street’ and work will add expanded plazas and outdoor gathering areas, including ‘Palo Alto’
classroom-like features such as tables and chairs, wider paved walkways and sod replacement. Plans also include the addition of native pants and gardens to enhance landscaping. “All paving, landscaping and sod will be done by the start of the fall semester,” Mayo said. “There may be some lingering things like light poles or furniture that may not make it in time, but they will be implemented before the year ends. The Veteran’s Pavilion will have not changed, although there may be a change in landscaping to make sure water flows around it properly.” Mayo inherited his position to oversee this project a year and a half ago. The main goal for the new layout is to find an easy way to connect the academic core with the dirt lot near the intramural
fields, which will eventually occupy more academic buildings in the future. According to Mayo, the transformation will greatly enhance the exterior environment of the most prominent open space on campus. “The committee was trying to accomplish a way to alleviate pedestrian congestion that usually builds up in the plaza and the library lawn during the fall semesters,” Mayo said. “There really isn’t enough space to accommodate that need so we are adding on some paved area so that we might encourage faculty and student engagement.” The design was created with the University’s mission statement and dedication to sustainability in mind. The majority of the plants that existed prior to the construction will be uprooted and
replanted near the completion of the project. Senior legal studies major Angelique Bonner is working on campus throughout the summer and has seen a lot of the construction changes as they’re being made. She sees the construction as both positive and negative. “I definitely am excited to see the campus,” Bonner said. “I’m just kind of worried they are going to be doing it when tour groups and orientation students are taking tours so they can’t see the library or the lawn. “They just see a bunch of blocked off land. It’ll be cool in the long run, but it makes new students have to guess and imagine what everything is going to look like at the school they’re going to attend.”
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Looking for a shuttle? There’s an app for that By Madison Hampton Contributing writer
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After years of promises and pushbacks, Florida Gulf Coast University is finally releasing an addition to its current app, which will allow students to track where the school’s shuttles are. Originally proposed by Student Government in the 2012-2013 school year, the service, available to both Apple and Android users, is finally making its debut this fall. With tracking devices on each shuttle, the location of any one at any time will be able to be seen with this application. Previous administration
wasn’t able to deliver on this proposed idea due to out-of-reach costs. Student Government Vice President Cory Mentzer said “the original price proposed was not reasonable, and was turned down by Senate twice.” Originally coming with a considerable estimated price tag with a range from $20,000 to $30,000, the promised app had to be set aside. However, once student President Domenic Volpi and Vice President Cory Mentzer took office this 2013-2014 school year, they took the initiative back to the financial office and pushed for its development. After working with VP
of finance Steve Magiera, the finances were finally adjusted. Dividing the budget and costs, Student government and the Business Operations office, together, have successfully been able to deliver the much anticipated app. After prolonged work with the FGCU Business Operations office, which will assume the responsibility for the service because it would be added to the app which they currently run, the price was conclusively reduced to about $12,000. This cost was split between SG and the FGCU Finance office. If the app sees success and positive feedback from the
student body, parking services will absorb the costs from SG and will continue to pay for this service and its maintenance. This means that SG will only be putting up an initial $6,000 to launch the development and release of the service. “We will be marketing it this summer to all incoming freshman as they go through orientation,” Mentzer said. He anticipates its success and students look forward to its release. The service will be added to the FGCU app as an extension available this fall. It will track all FGCU shuttles from on campus, West Lake Village, and Gulf Coast Town Center.
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Events Naples Botanical Garden is looking for Summer Camp Mentors to work with students age 5-12 in their weeklong science, art, and environmental summer camps. Commitment is for 8am-3pm M-F for one, two, or all three weeks. Program began June 9th. For complete information please contact education@naplesgarden.org and include “Summer Camp Mentor” in subject line. Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center in Naples is looking for volunteers every Friday from June 13-August 1st to help with our Kids Free Fridays. Filling this need could open the door to the many other Reserve-wide volunteer opportunities. Please contact Volunteer Coordinator, Donna Young at donna.young@dep.state.fl.us to reserve your spot. Phone: 239-5305974.
Colloquium Join the Straw Hat Brigade to earn service-learning hours by becoming a “Petri Dish Participant” and conducting usability test sessions of online learning modules, assisting with video production and editing, facilitating communication between students, faculty, and regional environmental partners, and assisting with other tasks as needed. In addition to service-learning hours, you will gain valuable leadership and supervisory skills while enhancing digital communication and networking abilities. For more information, please contact David Green at dgreen@fgcu.edu or (239) 590-7657. Charlotte Harbor Preserve is partnering with The Nature Conservancy to launch an oyster reef restoration project adjacent to the City of Punta Gorda’s Trabue Harborwalk. Volunteers are needed to: prepare mat material, make oyster mats and fill bags with shells, and deploy the materials in the water. If you are interested in participating, please contact Katherine Aug at (941) 575-5861 ext. 117 or via email Katherine.Aug@dep.state. fl.us. FGCU Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park in Naples is accepting additional student volunteers to assist with our beach survey and beach counts which take place 7 days a week. Contact Michael Odom at michael.odom@dep.state.fl.us or call 239-597-6196. Barefoot Beach is looking for volunteers to come out and help with removal of invasive species. Interested students should contact Jan at jjbchrch@comcast.net. ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization) Help out with agricultural development. Fill out a volunteer application at www. echonet.org. For questions, contact Ruth at rmay@echonet.org. Koreshan State Park Historic Site is ALWAYS looking for students to help around the park! If you are interested in partnering with Koreshan, please email Mike Heare at michale.heare@dep.state.fl.us. Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium Numerous opportunities! Contact info@calusanature.org or call 239-275-3435. Naples Botanical Garden Horticulture gardening starts at 8:00 am Monday thru Friday and includes
Photo Courtesy of Jessica Rhea Students in FGCU’s Global Medical Brigade organization recently returned from their service trip to Nicaragua where they treated over 800 patients at a local clinic.
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Committee & Long Term Opportunities Lee County Homeless Coalition needs assistance with their social media and online presence. There is a three month commitment for 4-5 hours per week. You will help develop strategy, post various information to different media outlets, help with research, and assist Executive Director in creating online updates. If you are interested please contact Janet Bartos at (239) 322-6600 or email her at leehomeless@gmail.com. Collier-Seminole State Park is offering an amazing opportunity for an interested student as Park Promotions Specialist. If you want to gain real world experience doing special event planning, public relations, learning about park operations & more, this could be the opportunity for you. Don’t miss out! Email Darren Flickinger at Darren.Flickinger@dep.state.fl.us or call (239) 394-3397.
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The second program is essentially an enhancement of the already existing Major Selection Workshop. “We want to provide more services, resources, and be more intentional in our advising, working specifically with undeclared majors,” Cinoman said. Lastly, the first-year advising team is working on coming up with something along the lines of “new student meetings” where students would be invited – or perhaps required – to meet with 15-20 of their peers in their major/college, to get to know their counselors a bit better and be reminded of the importance and usefulness of first year advising. The meetings would be scheduled to take place within the first month of school, so that any students that are already having trouble can be identified early and helped as soon as possible. This particular problem is scheduled to begin in fall 2015. Another unique part of Eagle Hall is a faculty apartment that was built inside of it. This two-bedroom apartment is intended for a faculty member to live in
eventually. This faculty member would not pay any rent, but he or she would have added responsibilities, being part of what is considered a “living learning community,” where those living in that community have something academic in common. There are several campuses in the country that have faculty apartments. This would be FGCU’s first. The apartment will likely be rented out this fall until a faculty member is chosen to live there. Eagle Hall is currently under construction, but will be ready for faculty members to move into their brand new offices on Aug. 1, and for students shortly thereafter. With its almost one year-old swimming pool and all of the new amenities of Eagle Hall, why would anybody want or need to leave SoVi other than for classes?
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Model becomes inspiration to autistic community By Dylan Schmittler Staff writer
Autism or ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. The diagnostic criteria require that symptoms usually become apparent before a child reaches three years old. Autism often affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize. There is often nothing about how people with ASD look that sets them apart from other everyone else. People with autism may communicate, interact, behave and learn in ways that are different from most other people. The learning, thinking and problem-solving abilities of people with autism can range from gifted to severely challenged. Some people with ASD may need a lot of help in their daily lives, while others need less assistance. Parents usually notice the signs of autism occurring during the first two years of their child’s life. The signs may develop gradually over a period of time, but some autistic children first develop more normally and then regress. Early behavioral, cognitive, or speech interventions can help autistic children gain self-care, social, and communication skills. Early behavioral, cognitive, or speech interventions can help autistic children gain self-care, social, and communication skills. Although there is no known cure for autism, there have been reported cases of children who have recovered. Not many children with autism live independently after reaching adulthood, though some have become successful. Signs of ASD begin during early childhood and can last throughout a person’s life. People with autism often have trouble relating to others or not have an interest in other people at all. These people will also have trouble understanding other people’s feelings or talking about their own feelings. It often is difficult for someone with autism to look and have eye
contact with someone. Diagnosing someone with autism can also be difficult. To diagnose possible disorders, doctors look at the child’s recent behavior and development to make a diagnosis. ASD can sometimes be detected at 18 months or younger. By age two, a diagnosis by a doctor is often very reliable. Some children do not receive a final diagnosis until much later in life. One special person who has managed to overcome her autism and succeed is Alexis Wineman. She was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder and borderline Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 11. She later won the Miss Montana pageant in 2012. In 2013, she represented her state in the Miss America pageant. She was the youngest contestant in the 2013 Miss America pageant. She won the “America’s Choice” award at the pageant. “The Miss America pageant was my own personal Everest,” Wineman said. Autism is affecting more and more people. Autism now affects one in every 68 children and one in every 42 boys. Autism is also the fastest-growing serious developmental disability in the U.S. Also, males are about five times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than females. There are several different reasons why a person develops autism. Genes are one of the major risk factors that can make a person more likely to develop ASD. Children who have a sibling with ASD are at a higher risk of also having ASD. The prescription drugs Valproic Acid and Thalidomide have been linked to a higher risk of ASD in children when they are taken during pregnancy. Children born to older parents are at higher risk for developing autism in the future. Autism can be very costly for families. A study published in JAMA Pediatrics this week found the average lifetime cost of supporting an individual with an autism spectrum disorder is around $2.4 million. A newly released Harvard study has found that caring for an individual with autism can cost more than $3 million in their lifetime. The total bill to U.S. society could reach up to $35 billion a year.
Student Bill Porter trains for the MMA tournament
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Excuse me, is this seat taken? Bill Porter fights for a role in the Power Rangers TV series
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He can kick, punch and act. Bill Porter is a student at Florida Gulf Coast University and is training for the Mixed Martial Arts World Championship and auditioned for the Power Rangers series. Since he was 5, Porter has been involved in gymnastics and mixed martial arts. His interest in MMA comes from watching television shows such as “Power Rangers.” In fact, one of his first instructors was Jason David Frank, an actor from the show. Porter considers himself a mixed martial arts artist who practices taekwondo, a Korean martial art, which involves kicking and blocking moves. This is similar to his karate and the Filipino martial arts, eskrima. But eskrima is a technique using wooden sticks, his hands and samurai swords. Whenever he is fighting someone in a competition, Porter uses a combination of the techniques. “I’m comfortable with whatever works,” he said. “As a martial artist, you have to know different styles.” Porter said schoolwork takes a lot of his time but he spends three to four days a week doing cardio, lightweight lifting and practicing his moves. He plans to spend the next eight to 10 weeks training alone. He hopes to earn his
title as the world champion for the fourth time. With so much training, Porter is still uncertain about one thing. I don’t know who am I going to fight or how many people I will fight. It depends. I might fight two people or 10 people.” The three-day tournament takes place in Italy in mid-July. Before the tournament, Porter auditioned for a role in California as a Power Ranger back in May. He hopes to be the green ranger. “I fit the profile better,” he said. “I am good with swords. He is a picky eater. I am a vegetarian. Obviously I am a picky eater. And he is very disciplined, very respectful.” Porter has done light training to avoid looking too bulky for the auditions. His training involved acting too. He met with FGCU assistant professor and theatre program leader Taylor Layton for helpful tips. “It’s been a while since I auditioned. I want to be on my game,” he said. “ I did modeling and acting as a boy, and (I am) getting back into it now.” Porter’s agent Gerald Rizzo has known Porter for 12 years. “We have our fingers crossed,” Rizzo said. Rizzo explains that there are five auditioning rounds. The first round requires Porter’s resume, headshot and audition video, which 20,000 other
candidates have done. The next three rounds involve acting based on a script the agency officials provide. A skill presentation follows the audition to show his MMA knowledge to a panel of judges, including the casting director. Finally, Porter will present in front of three judges: the producer, a former power ranger and the casting director. Porter has gone through all five rounds. Porter did not want to share his audition video; however, he explained his script. He finds and joins two chairs side by side as the school-bus seat. He comes close and pretends to speak with a female who sits on the seat. He asks if he could sit next to her then begins a conversation. Porter said that the audition would not have happened if it weren’t for his mother who made some phone calls and received 10 letters of recommendations and the audition for his son. Porter and Rizzo wait for the decision and do not know when it will be.
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Too pool for school Aquatics center reopens
EN Photo Credit/Kelli Krebs The FGCU Aquatics Center has re-opened
Photo Courtesy of Emily Aron Members of the Sports Club Council after a meeting. Back row (L-R): Intern Chris Heil, Armando Grez,Emily Aron, Tommy Twyford, Wes Kirk,/Front: Amanda Pennino, Jessica Yoo, Sport Club Coordinator Julia Stulock, Demi Gainey
New budget? No problem Sports Club Council creates new budget process
By Rebecca VanEtten Staff writer The Sport Club Council (SCC) will control its own budget for the 2015-2016 academic year. According to Emily Aron, the SCC president, this will help the Council better accommodate the different sport clubs at FGCU. “We are looking forward to being able to help out our organizations and better benefit them,” Aron said. Currently, each of the 27 registered sport clubs must submit an individual budget application to Student Government and meet with the Appropriations Committee in a 15-minute hearing. However, with the new process, the SCC executive board will propose a single budget to the Appropriations Committee on behalf of all sport clubs in one hearing and then continue to monitor the spending of each registered sport club throughout the year. “We were really pushing for this because we thought it would better recognize what our clubs need because sometimes student government glances over something that might be vital to an organization,” Aron said.
SG Appropriations Chair Thieldens Elneus thinks the change in the budget process will not only make the process easier for the sport clubs but for the Appropriations Committee as well. “On the appropriations end, it will be a single hearing for all the sport clubs that are involved and the SCC will have a chance to effectively represent the clubs that take part in the SCC,” Elneus said. “I would say that it is a benefit for them as well as us.” The idea for the new budget has been floating around in the minds of the Sport Club Council for a while, according to Aron. The budget was created to help each sport club reach its full potential. “We realized how hard a club works during the year from how much fundraising and community service they do, to their involvement,” Aron said. “It just makes sense to better monitor their spending.” The budget for the 2014-15 academic year was already determined last spring. The SCC executive board hopes the new budget process for the coming year will be a positive change for each sport club.
By Tiara Brown Staff writer The Aquatics Center, located in North Lake Village, has re-opened on June 1 after being closed for the last eight months. Vice President of Administrative Services and Finance, Steve Magiera, cautiously announced the date to Eagle News, explaining that “it won’t be done until it’s done.” However, Magiera was optimistic that it will be open on time. “We spent a little more money on the pools than was originally planned,” he said. “We wanted to make it as clean as possible and to make everything last for a number of years. We made numerous decisions, repairs and cosmetic changes.” In the past six months, the Aquatics Center has undergone comprehensive procedures resulting in many replacements. The pools now have two renovated main pipes, new water vacuums and brand new linings that cost the university a total of $275 thousand . The most noticeable modification that students will find upon the pool’s re-opening will be the change in the 50-meter pool’s orientation. To create more lanes, the pool was rebuilt to face the opposite direction, allowing more swimmers to do laps at once. The majority of the remaining modifications that have not been completed yet are cosmetic. New starting blocks need to be ordered now that more lanes have been added to the lap pool. The pool deck itself will be cleaned and repainted. The Center was closed this past October, forcing the Florida Gulf Coast University Women’s swim team to practice at LA Fitness and the Women’s Water Polo Club to cancel its season. The swim team is now able to hold practices on FGCU’s campus again and students are be able to use the facilities for free upon presentation of the Eagle ID card.
Photos courtesy of Lehighacresgazette.info and Florida Gulf Coast University This will be the last year of the Community Health Association’s existence. An aerial view of the 40 acres recently donated to FGCU.
FGCU receives healthy donation Local organization makes $2 million donation to nursing program
By Nina Barbero News editor Money can’t buy happiness, but it can certainly buy some nursing degrees. Thanks to a $2 million donation by the Community Health Association of Lehigh Acres, Florida Gulf Coast University will now be able to grant several scholarships to students pursuing a health professions or education degree. Chris Simoneau is the executive director of the FGCU Foundation, as well as the vice president of University advancement. “The CHA has an existing scholarship with us,” Simoneau said. “This year, the Association elected to put themselves out of business, and distribute their assets to other nonprofits and entities.” One of those entities is FGCU. The CHA provided several guidelines for the donation. The Association members would like the money to be provided to students from Lehigh Acres pursuing a degree
in health professions or education. They requested that each scholarship is large enough to cover tuition, fees and books. Belinda Celestin is a student who received a scholarship from the CHA last year. In a letter to the CHA that was released in an FGCU press release, Celestin said: “In my wildest dreams I never really thought I would get to become an actual nurse in my future.” Thanks to the scholarship, Celestin could “finally get to start the process of becoming what I want to be for the rest of my life.” Simoneau has seen a lot of large donations to FGCU this year. “This was the third donation of $2 million or more made to the University this year,” Simoneau said. “There’s the David Lucas donation, the CHA donation, and the 40 acres from the Private Equity Group. That land is actually valued at $7.7 million.” The 40 acres from PEG is located north of the University, and it was promised to FGCU by the Alico Group, which used to own the land. The land never transferred while
Alico owned it, but it was included in the deed when PEG purchased it. While no plans have been made for the land yet, Simoneau knows what will not be built there -- athletic facilities and dorms. “The land is ours to use as we see fit, but those kinds of facilities are not congruent with where the land sits with Miromar Lakes,” Simoneau said. “You don’t want to put athletic facilities in the backyard of those beautiful homes.” Instead, the University may build administrative offices, classrooms, or research space on the land. Simoneau believes that these donations demonstrate the support that FGCU receives from the Southwest Florida community. “These validate that FGCU is a great place to invest,” Simoneau said.
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L.A. Mayor Drops the F-Bomb JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mayor Eric Garcetti used the F-bomb in declaring it a big day for LA, bringing 19,000 hockey fans to their feet, lighting up the Twitterverse in delight and, oh yeah, leaving some folks scratching their heads, wondering just what the heck the normally soft-spoken elected official was thinking. Having shed his pinstriped suit of choice for a hockey jersey Monday, Garcetti stepped in front of the TV cameras and a full house at Staples Center, where the Los Angeles Kings had won hockey’s Stanley Cup championship just three days before. “There are two rules in politics,” Garcetti told those celebrating the victory. “They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand. And never ever swear. Then he added dramatically: “But this is a big f---ing day. Way to go, guys.” Within minutes, Garcetti’s remarks were trending on Twitter and appearing uncensored on YouTube, just as Fox Sports West was apologizing for letting them get on the air. “He said that?” Thomas Hollihan, an expert on political discourse, civil society and contemporary rhetorical criticism at the University of Southern California, asked incredulously. This was, after all, not some drunken musician accepting an award somewhere. Nor was it a celebrity caught up in a silly dispute captured by the cameras for TMZ. This was the mayor of the nation’s secondlargest city, gleefully shouting it to the masses. “When you’re an elected official, people have a higher expectation for your speech, your conduct and context than they would if you’re an entertainer,” said Hollihan. He added he hoped Garcetti, whose public persona is normally about as mild as his city’s weather, wasn’t trying to boost his hipness cred. Although the F-word’s shock value is declining, Hollihan said, it is never smart for a politician to toss it around in public, even
in front of a crowd of screaming hockey fans. “The little old ladies in the valley are going to hear this too,” he said, referring to the city’s more conservative San Fernando Valley, where Garcetti grew up before moving to the hipper Silver Lake area. “As are the church people in neighborhoods where they are not hockey fans, but they care a lot about conduct and character.” But where putting the word out over the airwaves once would have prompted a federal investigation, that’s not so much the case anymore. When David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox let it slip last year during a televised event honoring first-responders to the Boston Marathon bombings, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission himself tweeted that it was no big deal. “David Ortiz spoke from the heart at today’s Red Sox game. I stand with Big Papi and the people of Boston,” said Julius Genachowski And when, thanks to a bank of TV microphones, the world heard Vice President Joe Biden›s whisper to President Barack Obama, «This is a big f--ing deal,” as Obama was about to sign the Affordable Health Care Act, the slip was quickly forgotten. Of course Biden didn’t mean for anyone but Obama to hear him. And Ortiz said afterward he got caught up in the moment and never meant to say what he said. But the mayor’s official Twitter account did repeat much of what he said — with the hashtag BFD. Appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” later Monday, Garcetti got a loud round of cheers when Kimmel told him “I enjoyed your performance at the rally today.” Garcetti replied, “I got a little ahead of myself. But you’ve got to remember, we didn’t win at lawn bowling, we won in hockey.” The mayor added, “Kids out there do not say what your mayor said today.”
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Corporate giant to create phone MAE ANDERSON, RYAN NAKASHIMA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, a company of seemingly boundless ambition, appears to be venturing into yet another market: smartphones. The corporate juggernaut that started out with books and soon moved into music, video, cloud computing and Kindle e-readers is hosting a launch event Wednesday in Seattle, and media reports indicate the product will be an Amazon phone — perhaps one with multiple cameras that can produce 3-D photos. Amazon declined to comment, but analysts said the goal is almost certainly a device designed to get customers to buy more things from Amazon. It might include an Amazon shopping app or other features tied in tightly to the products the company sells. “It’s Amazon. That says to me the core value proposition is going to be about shopping,” said Ramon Llamas of the research firm International Data Corp. Amazon’s phone comes at a time when the nation’s largest e-commerce company is at a crossroads. Its stock, which surged for years despite narrow profits, has dropped 18 percent in 2014 to about $326, in part because investors have been losing patience with its habit of plowing revenue back into new ventures. Analysts said the move into smartphones is a bit of a head-scratcher, since the company is a late entrant into the highly competitive market. For all its success with other products, Amazon will be hard-pressed to compete with Samsung and Apple, the No. 1 and 2 mobile phone companies in the world. Globally, Samsung led mobile phone manufacturers with 31 percent of the 288 million units shipped in the first quarter, followed by Apple at 15 percent. In the U.S., Apple dominates with more than 37 percent of the 34 million units shipped, with Samsung at close to 29 percent. Some analysts have speculated that the 3-D feature might tie into an Amazon shopping app. Shoppers might be able to use the phone to take a 3-D picture of a product in a store, then search for the object on Amazon and buy it online. Analysts said the phone could also come with a data plan that could let owners use
Amazon services without using up any data. “Anything that generates more repeat orders and more frequent purchases is probably part of what they intend to do with this,” said R.W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian. To compete, Amazon needs more than an expected 3-D viewing feature, which has been tried before by smartphone makers like HTC and LG, Llamas said. Competing on price won’t help if it leaves people with the impression that the device is cheaply built, and getting customers to buy a phone without being about to touch it first could prove difficult, he said. “If they sell it only online, as Amazon sells many of its goods and products, that could be a challenge,” Llamas said. Here’s a look at the impact Amazon has had in music, video and other markets it has entered: BOOKS Amazon.com Inc. started as an online bookstore in 1995 in CEO Jeff Bezos’ garage in Bellevue, Washington. As more and more bookstores have closed, Amazon is now believed to be the nation’s largest bookseller, with an estimated 30 percent of a total book market that PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates hit $34.9 billion last year, and 60 percent of an e-book market that PwC pegged at $7.9 billion. Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of book industry consultancy The Idea Logical Co., said book publishers view Amazon with “a mixture of dependence and fear.” “They can’t live without Amazon’s sales, and they can’t live with Amazon’s market power,” he said. MUSIC Amazon is a major player in music. It has sold compact discs by mail since 1998 and digital downloads since 2007. Russ Crupnick, managing partner of consulting company MusicWatch, pegs Amazon’s share at 18 percent of the $2.8 billion digital download market in the U.S. last year and 23 percent of the $2.1 billion market for CDs. In comparison, Apple’s iTunes commands about 67 percent of digital downloads and doesn’t sell CDs. Amazon is the only competitor to Apple of any real size. Amazon last week launched a music streaming service that makes more than 1 million tracks available to members of its
$99-a-year Amazon Prime subscription plan. TABLETS Amazon took over the e-book market soon after its first Kindle was launched in 2007. It took a big step by introducing its full-color Kindle Fire tablet in 2011, with a price starting at $199 and a screen just 7 inches diagonally. “At the time, none of the other vendors had something similar,” said Jitesh Ubrani, an IDC analyst. But since then, others have matched the size and price, especially Samsung, which has made big gains. Amazon’s share of global shipments has slid from more than 7 percent in 2012 to 2 percent in the first quarter of the year. “Other vendors have cheaper, better products,” Ubrani said. MOVIES AND TV SHOWS Amazon is a large retailer of DVDs and Blu-ray discs and also offers online rentals and purchases of digital video products. Amazon has 15 percent of the $1.8 billion U.S. market for movie and TV show rentals and downloads, trailing Apple’s 58 percent, according to Dan Cryan, an analyst with market research firm IHS. As for subscription video streaming, Cryan estimates Amazon accounted for 15 percent of the 43.6 million active U.S. subscribers of streaming video plans through its Prime Instant Video service. Netflix accounted for 73 percent of active
Photo courtsey AP streaming subscribers, while Hulu Plus had 12 percent. CLOUD SERVICES Amazon essentially created the marketplace for what is known as cloud infrastructure as a service in 2006 with Amazon Web Services. That is where it allows its servers to be used by third parties to host the data and applications they need to run mobile apps, websites and other services. As the overwhelming market leader, Amazon maintains five times the computing capacity of the next 14 service providers combined, according to Gartner analyst Lydia Leong. Amazon is aggressive with price cuts and innovation, which will probably keep competitors like Microsoft from catching up for years, Leong said. OVERALL RETAIL Amazon sold $40.8 billion worth of goods in North America last year. That’s 17 percent of all e-commerce, according to Anne Zybowski, vice president of retail insights at research firm Kantar Retail.
Linkin Park back with hardest album yet By Justin Kane Editor-in-chief Linkin Park is back. Well, technically they’ve always been here but their old style is back. On June 17 Linkin Park released “The Hunting Party,” their sixth studio album. A follow up to their 2012 release of LIVING THINGS. In the two years Linkin Park decided to go back to their original nu-metal roots and focus on shredding guitar riffs and hardcore drumming instead of the electronic influence the previous two albums had. They stuck to 12 songs, which is a normality for Linkin Park albums, and including guest appearances from Page Hamilton of Helmet, rapper Rakim, Daron Malakian of System of a Down and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.
Keys to the Kingdom Well if you had any doubt that Linkin Park was shying away from their electronic roots and back to their screaming and shredding then Keys to the Kingdom will make you a believer. With no introduction Chester Bennington angrily tells us, “No control, no surprise! /Toss the keys to the kingdom down that hole in my eye.” Bennington’s ear pounding screams mixed with some rapping from Mike Shinoda makes this arguably the hardest song on the album.
All for Nothing feat. Page Hamilton In my opinion, this is the best song on the album. Shinoda starts off my laying down one of his famous raps mixed with a very catchy drumbeat in the background. This song should’ve of been Linkin Park’s first single of the album. It’s the most complete. With Shinoda’s smooth verses mixed with Hamilton’s voice on the
chorus this song will be a hit and would be an amazing song to hear live.
Guilty All The Same feat. Rakim This was the first song released to the fans back on March 7 and it gave a good indication on what direction Linkin Park was going. For the first 1:39 of the song all you hear is Brad Delson on guitar and Rob Bourdon on drums pounding away as if their life depended on it. Bennington’s clean vocals create a flow throughout the song and mashes perfectly with Rakim and his rap.
The Summoning Anyone who has listened to a Linkin Park album knows they tend to include some instrumental interludes to break up songs. The Summoning is the first of two on the album and sounds a lot like ‘Foreward’ on Meteora at only one minute long it sets up War perfectly.
War War starts off like a pissed off 90’s grunge band that just found out they’ve gone mainstream. This is the perfect festival song and will be sure to get the crowd to form circle pits from front to back. “There’s no peace/Only war/ Victory decides who’s wrong or right/It will not cease/Only grow/ You better be prepared to fight!”
Wastelands After a brief intro Shinoda lays down his best lines of the album, “Roll credits you get it/The show is done/They’re talking for just talking/But meaning, they got none.” This flow that he creates mix with Bennington on the chorus most resembles the Linkin Park of the past.
Until It’s Gone
Linkin Park decided to slow it down some on this song. Starting it off with a synth that resembles ‘Numb’, Bennington’s soft voice mixed with the turn into a loud rock song make’s the cliché of, “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” sound badass.
Rebellion Malakain
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Daron
Any rock fan can recognize the sound at the beginning of ‘Rebellion’ as Malakain lays down one of his famous guitar riffs that brings his System of a Down sound to this track. A very upbeat song that features Shinoda and Bennington both signing softly until Malakain lays down a very Toxicityesque guitar solo into a Bennington scream.
Final Masquerade This is Bennington at his finest. ‘Final Masquerade’ shows just how beautiful his voice is. This is more of a melody song that could easily be a hit on the radio and one of the rare songs that doesn’t need the help of Shinoda to make it catchy.
A Line in the Sand The longest song on the album starts with Shinoda creepily singing, “Today, we stood on the wall/We laughed at the sun, we laughed at the guns/We laughed at it all/And when they, they told us to go/We paid them no mind, like every other time/But little did we
know,” then busts into riffs similar to ‘VICTIMIZED’ and changes the mood of the song completely. From the beginning non-stop action from raps to energetic guitar riffs until the end where it goes back to Shinoda signing what he said at the beginning. Overall the album is top to bottom very good. They really stuck to their word when they said they wanted to go back to their old style and it didn’t disappoint. I wish they didn’t have two instrumental interludes and had two more songs. Overall 9/10.
Mark the Graves Like ‘Guilty all the Same’ this song leads in with a long intro, 1:28 to be exact, that goes from soft to hard just like that and leads into a quiet Bennington gently singing the first verse. The two verses are spaced by heavy guitar riffs that give the song the edginess it needs. The ending has a ‘From the Inside’ feel where Bennington is soft and gentle then lays down a scream that will send you running for the hills.
Drawbar Tom Morello
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The second musical interlude of the album does a nice job of setting up ‘Final Masquerade’ and Morello on the guitar mixed with Shinoda on the piano was a nice combination.
Album art via Linkinpark.com “The Hunting Party,” the sixth studio album from Linkin Park, is available worldwide.
Don’t sit at home this summer; go out and travel By Aubrie Gerber E&L Editor Summer: a long awaited four month break students use to catch up on sleep, go to the beach repeatedly until golden, drink way too many 7-Eleven Slurpees, get a summer job, watch endless amounts of Netflix and attempt to fulfill nine-credits worth of summer courses. All of these things aren’t necessarily bad, but they’re also not memorable. The saying “the world is your oyster,” has become a cliché statement in today’s society, but it couldn’t be truer for college students. The majorities of college students have reached the age of adulthood, yet they don’t have the priories of a full-time job, marriage or children. And while lying in bed for endless amounts of hours may feel wonderful, (and lets be real, we all can use a pajama day every now and then) is it shaping you into the person you want to be? Odds are no. The answer to that question is to travel. Not your yearly family vacay, but do-it-yourself (or with a friend) travel. There’s something gratifying about planning, booking and experiencing your own trip that shifts your perspective on life. It’s easy to get caught up in the dramas and worries within your own personal bubble, that a world beyond your social walls seems minute. And while money and time are usually major factors that come to play when wanting to take a trip, consider these helpful tips next
time you’re wanting to breakaway from the chains of day-to-day conformity. 1. Request time off from work months in advance. 2. Start saving now! 3. Pack your lunch and stash that money away. 4. Have your friends join you on the trip to make it cheaper. (Split hotel rooms/gas money/meals) 5. Book your hotel room way in advance and save. 6. Don’t travel during peak holiday seasons. i.e. fourth of July 7. Take a road trip instead of flying. Plane tickets are typically the most expensive part of a trip. If flying is a must, look up tickets on Tuesday and Wednesday when they are at the lowest. 8. Book your hotel outside of a major city in an effort to save more. Look for a place to stay at Hotels.com or Airbnb.com. 9. Plan to bring your own breakfast while on vacation. 10. Look up free excursions where you’re traveling to and discounts at Groupon.
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‘22 Jump Street’ a repeat? By Josefina Figueroa Staff writer Some more Tatum and Hill? Why not! The legendary co-stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are back again in ‘22 Jump Street.’ Yes, the sequel to ‘21 Jump Street’ remade from the television show in 1987. As the film starts out, there is a recap of the main characters Schmidt and Jenko’s relationship from the first movie- being a bully and a loner, reuniting in the police academy, becoming partners/friends, and their adventure back at high school. They may be done with high school, again, but now they are sent to college at MC State. Why? For a drug bust, again. ‘22 Jump Street’s’ Captain Dickson found another synthetic drug that was involved in a student’s death on campus. Schmidt and Jenko’s mission is to find the possible dealer. They quickly get caught up in the “college life” and forget their mission and seek out help from Molson (Dave Franco) and Mr. Walters (Rob Riggle). Now, all they have to look for is a specific tattoo. Jenko finds himself a new friend, Zook (Wyatt Russel), which happens to be the football team’s quarterback. They instantaneously become inseparable. Schmidt feels hopeless and alone without his partner and friend. The bromance was bound to fall, just like the first movie. Jenko decides to stay in college and take football seriously and Schmidt went back to being a bike cop. The moment Schmidt gets a lead, he and Jenko are back at it, causing a mess. They just can’t get a break. If you are worrying about the comedy, it was laughs from beginning to end. By the time the second joke came around, you would still be laughing from the previous one. Even the short soppy scene was
a chuckle here and there. The story line was pretty much the same as the first with finding a drug bust, not being partners anymore, reuniting, and taking down the dealer. Whether you need to laugh, hear Hill being a smart ass, or of course see Tatum just because, then it’s a must see now!
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‘Palo Alto’ a good start for new director By Isaac Espinosa Staff writer Gia Coppola, granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola and niece of Sofia Coppola, is here to make her film debut. That’s right, third generation Coppola…goodness? Actually, yeah. Scream nepotism all you want, Gia Coppola earns some cred with this adaptation of James Franco’s short story collection. “Palo Alto,” follows a couple of teenagers, and a handful of sidecharacters, through their not-always-flattering high school life. April (Emma Roberts) is ostensibly the main character, a senior struggling that solipsistic struggle: trying to get through school, worrying about college, and harboring a crush on her soccer coach Mr. B (James Franco), who seems uncomfortably interested in reciprocating those feelings. A crisis of purpose has never stopped a teenager from going out, though, and she winds up bonding with Teddy (Jack Kilmer) at a friend’s party. Teddy proceeds to hook up with Emily (Zoe Levin) later on that evening and drama...does not ensue. Teddy drives home drunk and gets into an accident. A judge (voiced off-screen by Francis Ford Coppola), sentences him to community service. He begins to re-evaluate his friendship with troublemaker Fred
(Nat Wolff). That all does seem rather dramatic, actually. A bit of rephrasing: melodrama does not ensue. Gia manages to do here what Sofia has done in her best movies. These aren’t people facing some huge crisis. Solving the problems they face here won’t even change their own lives radically. They’re kids, eliciting the same sympathy and frustration that you feel looking back on your teenage years. (Apologies to those of you who still are in your teenage years. Some of us have grown old here.) Coppola avoids both judging and coddling, and the film is better for it. Body language appears to have been the focus acting-wise. The creepiness of the interactions between Roberts and Franco have less to do with what is being said than with how they look at, and move around, each other. Wolff’s character is as unstable in presence as he is in dialogue, which Levin matches with eagerness, confusion, and vulnerability. Kilmer’s performance is just as nuanced as the rest of the cast, made more impressive by the fact that this is his first role. “Palo Alto,” is a lot of things, but it was clearly no “gimme.” Coppola has talent to match her famous name, and that goes for Roberts and Kilmer as well. Like many of the best films this summer it refines rather than reinvents. It’s a welcome dose of quiet counterprogramming, and, hopefully, a sign of great things to come.
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iOS 8 includes much-needed features
Apple announced iOS 8 June 2 in San Francisco at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Here you can see some of the new features that will be available on iOS 8 coming this fall to iOS devices.
By Justin Kane Editor-in-chief On June 2 at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple previewed their new iOS operating system, iOS 8. It’s a tease because even though they show you all these new features, iOS 8 isn’t available for download until sometime this fall (probably when the iPhone 6 comes out). But developers, like myself, have been able to preview iOS 8 and I’m here to give first impressions on what everyone will be enjoying this fall (unless you have a phone before the 4s or original iPad then you’re SOL). Here are the three biggest improvements in iOS8. Interface When you first download and install iOS 8 the user interface (UI) is identical to its predecessor iOS 7. The lock screen, home screen and everything look the same. Apple
didn’t do much changing in this department. The fonts and font sizes are the same, and the apps on the home screen aren’t much different in terms of size and how they look. However Apple did some changes to the multitasking. Now when you double click your home button the last eight contacts you talked too are now shown on the top with the ability to quickly call, text, or FaceTime them. This is perfect for people who need to quickly call or text someone back and not have to go into messages or through the phone to do it. Messages This is what Apple spent the most time on improving. The messages app has been bland throughout each update and now Apple has revved it up. The first thing they added was the ability to add voice to conversations. If there is something you need to explain and you don’t want to type it
all out, just hit the microphone and talk. They also improved video sharing. Just like the voice, all you do is hold down the camera and you can instantly send videos or an instant picture without opening the camera app. Now the biggest update in the history of messages. You can now take control of group messages. In a group chat you don’t want to be in? Now you can leave. In a chat that sends way too many texts? Now you can mute it. Ever get confused on what group message is which? Now you can name them. This is a huge update that will be wildly popular. Multitasking When Apple first introduced multitasking it was mediocre compared to what Android was doing. They’ve slowly improved it over the years but now they finally got it right. You can now answer texts and mark messages as read without leaving
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your current app. You can even do it on the lock screen and in the notification center. This is huge for Apple. They now have a product that can seriously compete with what Androids does. That was a big flaw in their operating systems and with their multitasking and now it’s much better. There are a few things missing from iOS 8. The first is the control center, where you swipe up on the screen, should be customizable. Second is Siri needs to be integrated with third party apps. I use Spotify instead of music on my phone and it’s annoying that I can’t ask to play a song on Spotify and it won’t let me. Apple made a huge splash when they announced iOS8. The operating system took a huge step forward and it will be exciting when everyone gets it this fall.
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The United States beats Ghana in first group match at the World Cup
Clint Dempsey celebrates his goal 30 seconds into game against Ghana.
NATAL, Brazil (AP) — After 90 brutal minutes of end-to-end action, the Americans emerged with a thrilling 2-1 win over Ghana. U.S. fans were screaming for revenge Monday after the Black Stars eliminated the Americans from the last two Cups. They got it. At a price. Clint Dempsey scored a shocking goal just 32 seconds in, but the U.S. couldn’t make it stand up. Andre Ayew tied the score in the 82nd minute after a brilliant back-heel pass from Asamoah Gyan, who had eliminated the U.S. four years ago. And then, just four minutes later, 20-year-old John Brooks rose to head in Graham Zusi’s corner kick from 8 yards — the first substitute to ever score for the United States in 30 World Cup games over 84 years. The defender, an unexpected addition to the American roster, was so overcome he fell to the field and was unable to move even after teammates climbed off the dog pile. He had made his national team debut only last August, and Brooks hadn’t scored in four appearances. United States’ John Brooks celebrates scoring his side’s second goal during the U.S. players ran onto the field to celebrate at the final whistle, jumping as supporters chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” Now the Americans are in good position in Group G, where Germany opened with a 4-0 rout of Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal. Dempsey went down on a balmy late-autumn night but stayed in the game. The U.S. captain ended the first half with a tissue up his nose to stop the bleeding after John Boye’s kick to his face during a battle for a header in the 31st minute, and he was struggling for breath in the second. The news was far worse for the American’s other starting forward, Jozy Altidore, who was taken off on a stretcher in the 21st minute with an apparent left hamstring injury. He was replaced by Aron Johannsson.
The 24-year-old forward was running down a ball with Boye on Monday night when he lowered his head to attempt to control it, grabbed the back of his left leg and fell to the ground. Wincing in pain, Altidore was taken off on a stretcher and replaced two minutes later by Aron Johannsson. Matt Besler came out at the start of the second half after feeling tightness in his right hamstring. It was his replacement, Brooks, who scored the winning goal. Zusi was also a sub, coming on for the hobbling Alejandro Bedoya in the second half. By the time of the final whistle, the U.S. lineup had Brooks in central defense and a virtually invisible 23-year-old Aron Johannsson at forward. Now the odds favor advancement. But that might depend on which players are able to make it on the field for Sunday’s game against Portugal in the hot and humid Amazon rain forest capital of Manaus. Dempsey’s goal was the fastest World Cup goal in his country’s history and the sixth fastest goal in World Cup history. The only faster goals were by Turkey’s Hakan Suker (11 seconds against South Korea in 2002), Czechoslovakia’s Vaclav Masek (16 seconds against Mexico in 1962), Germany’s Ernst Lehner (25 seconds against Austria in 1934) and England’s Bryan Robson (27 seconds against France in 1982). U.S. strikers in general had failed to find the net in the previous two tournaments: The last goal came from Brian McBride against Mexico in the second round in 2002 in South Korea. The U.S. held a 1-0 lead at halftime. With this win, the Americans are now 7-11 when leading at halftime of World Cup games. Up next: U.S. vs. Portugal When: Sunday, June 22 at 3 p.m. TV: ESPN.
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Los Angeles Kings win Stanley Cup championship
The Los Angeles Kings celebrate with the Stanley Cup after beating the New York Rangers in double overtime
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By Jill Himmelfarb Sports Editor For the third consecutive year, the NHL western conference has brought Lord Stanley’s Cup home. The Los Angeles Kings missed the cup last season when they were defeated in the Western Conference finals by the Chicago Blackhawks, who ultimately won the Stanley Cup for 2013. Clearly, these are the two most dominant teams in the western conference, and arguably, in the league. In 2012, the Phoenix Coyotes eliminated the Chicago Blackhawks early in the playoffs and would go onto the Western Conference finals against the Kings. The then No. 8-seeded Kings won the Stanley Cup Finals against the No. 6-seeded New Jersey Devils from the east. While Chicago fans anticipated a chance for a back-to-back championship in this year’s playoffs, they were disappointed when LA edged the Blackhawks out through seven games. LA went on to dominate the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Rangers battled for their chance to bring the cup back to New York. However, the fight wasn’t enough to match up against LA. The finals this year was a showing of probably the best two goaltenders in the NHL today. Swedish national Henrik Lundqvist has been with the NY Rangers since he was drafted by the team in 2000. He’s come to be known as “King Henrik” by the NY fans. However, the King met his match during this year’s finals with American-born Jonathan Quick between the pipes for LA. Quick was drafted 72nd overall in 2005 and joined the Kings’ roster in 2007.
defenseman Alec Martinez buried the game-winning, cup-winning, goal for LA. Mike Emrick, “the voice of hockey,” stopped talking for a total of 1 minute 50 seconds when the goal was scored. Emrick said in a previous statement that the clarity of the goal was one that would not be reviewed. It was clean and behind Lundqvist. For Emrick to announce that the Kings had just won the Stanley Cup would not have been nearly as powerful as the media silence. The fans watching on TV could hear crowd horns, fans cheering, players yelling excitedly and even the crisp sound of blades on the ice as the Kings dogpiled one another in celebration of their win. The excited fans and players of LA get to celebrate another year with the cup. Hockey fans all over love the Stanley Cup playoffs when the best of the best face off in brutal, ruthless games. As excited as fans get when the cup is brought out and each player hoists it above his head, we awaken the next morning thinking, “Oh no! There isn’t anymore hockey to watch this season!” Fans all over will have to wait another three months before getting close to another season where we watch the greatest of the NHL battle it out for more than six months until the league’s best 16 teams face off in the playoffs again. So, fellow hockey fans batten down the hatches and remain prepared. As the summer ends, we will get to enjoy another season. If you feel yourself begin to experience withdraw symptoms from being hockey-less over the summer, look to YouTube to watch replays and compilation videos of your favorite hockey moments.
During the playoff series for 2014, Lundqvist started in 24 out of 25 games, including four overtime games. He ended with a record of 13-11, a 2.14 GAA and .927 save percentage. During the 2011-2012 season Quick gained much attention from hockey people all over the world. He led the league in shutouts with a total of 10 during the regular season. He also had the second lowest goals against average with 1.95. Quick was even more impressive in the playoffs that year than during the regular season. He helped the Kings win the cup going 16-4 in the four sets of series with a 1.41 GAA and .946 save percentage. He’s maintained his amazing play throughout the last two years, including an appearance for the U.S. in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Quick had an impressive playoff series in 2014. Quick struggled a bit more during this year’s playoffs than he had during the 2012 championship season. He started every game in the playoff series. He ended with the championship and a record of 16-10 including two overtime games. His GAA wasn’t as impressive in his 2012 appearance. He finished with a 2.58 GAA and a .911 save percentage. Even though this Stanley Cup series was the battle of the goaltenders, players on both teams played pivotal roles in the playoffs. Kings’ players Anze Kopitar registered five goals and 21 assists; Jeff Carter had 10 goals and 15 assists; Marian Gaborik earned 14 goals and eight assists; Drew Doughty buried five goals and had 13 assists. For the NY Rangers, their top five players in the series registered a combined 27 goals and 36 assists. Ryan McDonagh scored four goals and earned 13 assists. Martin St. Louis, acquired from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the NY Rangers this year, earned eight goals and seven assists. Derek Stepan buried five goals and gained 10 assists. Mats Zuccarello and Chris Kreider each earned five goals and eight assists. The Stanley Cup Finals 2014 were a showing of exactly what championship hockey is supposed to look like. The first game of the series went to overtime with the Kings winning 3-2. The Kings would take the next two games of the series. Game two went into double overtime before LA scored the winning goal for a 5-4 win over NY. Game three was as ugly as the playoffs would get for the Rangers when the Kings shut them out 3-0. A defeated NY Rangers team went to sleep on the night of June 9 with heavy hearts knowing that they would be facing elimination every time they stepped onto the ice. During game four on June 11 the Rangers weren’t going to allow their season to end. They earned their only win of the series 2-1 leaving them to play at least one more day. Friday June 14 the Kings and the Rangers stepped onto the ice in Los Angeles. The Kings brought everything they had. This ultimate determination brought the cup to their hands in front of their fans in their home arena. During the second overtime period of game five at the Staples Center, Kings’
Kings’ goalie Jonathan Quick hoists the cup after win.
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Spurs capture fifth NBA title by dispatching Heat
The San Antonio Spurs celebrate their championship win over Miami. By Dylan Schmittler Staff Writer The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Miami Heat 10487 on Sunday night. This victory gives the Spurs the NBA World Championship with a convincing 4-1 series win over the Heat. The Spurs finished off the Heat’s two-year title reign with this win. Painfully denied 12 months ago by the Miami Heat, this victory party was worth the wait for the Spurs. “It makes last year OK,� Tim Duncan said in the postgame press conference on ABC. The Spurs routed Miami for the fourth time in the series, denying the Heat’s quest for a third straight championship. A year after the Spurs suffered their only loss in six previous NBA Finals appearance. The painful conclusion to last year’s NBA Finals served as the fuel for this run for the Spurs, This season, the Spurs won a league-best 62 games and earned a rematch with Miami. This was the first in the NBA Finals since the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz in 1998. San Antonio erased a 16-point deficit early in the first quarter. The Heat led the Spurs 29-22 at the end of the first quarter. The Spurs went on to outscore the Heat 25-11 and 30-18 to take control of the game. The Spurs also have won four titles in the last nine years, but their first title since defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007. That team was led by current Heat
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starter LeBron James. James led the Heat with 31 points and 10 rebounds. “We had a great first quarter, but from that point on they were the better team, and that’s why they’re the champions in 2014,� James said in the post-game press conference. Chris Bosh finished with 13 points and Dwyane Wade went 4-of-12 shooting for the Heat. Wade only managed 11 points in the loss for the Heat. This marked the fifth championship for Tim Duncan and Greg Popovich. Popovich has coached the Spurs since 1996. Duncan was drafted first overall by the Spurs in 1997. They won the NBA title in 1999. It was also the fourth title for Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, who along with Duncan are once again the reigning Big Three in the NBA. A decade and a half after winning their first title in 1999, when Duncan was in his second season, the Spurs remain the NBA’s model franchise. They are a smallmarket team that simply wins big and hardly ever does it with a high draft pick. Instead, they find players overseas or in other organizations who would fit the Spurs’ way of doing things and mesh with Duncan, Parker and Ginobili, who have now teamed for 117 postseason victories. This includes Kawai Leonard, acquired in a draft-night
trade with the Indiana Pacers after playing at San Diego State, and Patty Mills, an Australian national who scored 17 points off the bench. Leonard was named the 2014 NBA Finals MVP. He is now the third youngest player to ever receive the award. Magic Johnson won a Finals MVP at age 20 and 22. Leonard took over the third-youngest spot from Tim Duncan, who won NBA Finals MVP at age 23 in 1999. Before the series Tim Duncan had guaranteed that the Spurs would win this series. “It’s unbelievable to regain that focus after that devastating loss that we had last year,� Duncan said in a statement before the series began. “But we’re back here. We’re excited about it. We’ve got four more to win. We’ll do it this time.� In the end, the Spurs made winning their fifth title look surprisingly easy. After a slow start, they had their fans standing, chanting and dancing during much of the second half. It was the Spurs’ 12th win by 15 or more points, most ever in a single postseason. The Spurs outscored opponents by 214 points in the postseason. Miami had won 11 straight series prior to this series. This was tied for the fifth-longest streak in NBA history.
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FGCU has big showing in Major League Baseball draft
Photos Courtesy FGCU Athletics By Matt Shipley Assistant Sports Editor For some Florida Gulf Coast University baseball players, life has gotten better since the disappointing end to their 2014 season. Five Eagles have been drafted into the Major League Baseball and will head for the minor leagues this summer. The first Eagle off the board was offensive spark Michael Suchy, who went in the fifth round with the 161st pick to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This selection is FGCU’s 20th player drafted into the big leagues and the second-highest in program history, only behind arguably the best player to wear green and blue, Chris Sale. Sale, the National Collegiate Player of the Year in 2010, was selected in the first round with the 13th pick to the Chicago White Sox. Since then, Sale has been named to the MLB American League All-Star team and was named Most Valuable Player after picking up the win in that game. Suchy comes off his best season as an Eagle with a .318 batting average, eight home runs, a career-best and team-high 49 RBI and being named to the Atlantic Sun AllConference First Team. Suchy was FGCU’s most productive player playing in all games but one this season. Following Suchy a few rounds was Zack Tillery, junior third basemen and pitcher for the Eagles. Tillery came off the board in the 13th round, 380th pick by the Minnesota Twins. A Naples native, Tillery hit .314 with six home runs, 39 RBI, a .476 slugging percentage and a .388 on-base percentage this season. From the mound, Tillery had a 4.04 ERA with a 2-2 record and 5 saves in 16 appearances and 35.2 innings. The Eagles had two players off the board in the late rounds to the San Diego Padres. The first was redshirt-junior relief pitcher Ryan Atwood. Atwood put up a 3.38 ERA
this season in six appearances on the mound during his first season with the Eagles. He allowed just five walks in 5.1 innings this season along with just four hits, two earned runs and took part in one combined shutout. FGCU also saw two recruits taken in the MLB draft before ever playing an inning of college ball. Dash Winningham, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound first basemen out of Ocala, Florida signed his National Letter of Intent (NLI) to attend Florida Gulf Coast, but was taken by the New York Mets in the 8th round with the 235th pick. This makes him the sixth highest player to be drafted out of FGCU. Devin Smeltzer was selected in the 33rd round by the San Diego Padres with the 987th pick rounding out the 2014 draft class for the Eagles. Smeltzer is a hard-throwing left-handed pitcher out of Voorhees, NJ. He verbally committed to the Eagles last season but will head for the minor leagues this summer. After their disappointing loss to Lipscomb in the post-season, ending their championship hopes, the Eagles will look to improve on their already strong 39-22 record. With two incoming recruits already taken out of the picture, the Eagles hope to find another diamond in the rough like this year’s Louisville Slugger National Freshman Player of the Year Jake Noll. Noll hit .367 for the Eagles with 29 RBI. Noll also played in all 61 games, a single-season program record for FGCU. Young talent is important in building a strong baseball program, and the Eagles have found a way to do just that. The defending A-Sun regular season champions will continue to strive with strong recruiting and will only improve as the young athletes entering the team continue to play at a high level. FGCU baseball has now had 20 players drafted into the MLB and look to keep producing highly scouted athletes as the years progress.
FGCU Pitcher Murray named to the 2014 NCBWA All-America Third Team
Photo Courtesy FGCU Athletics By Dylan Schmittler Staff Writer The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association 19th annual Division I AllAmerica baseball squads (first, second and third teams) again features a cavalcade of the nation’s elite players in 2014. FGCU star right-hander Mike Murray has been named to the Third Team, adding to his already impressive list of accomplishments for his 2014 season. “Mike’s record setting year is continuing to get well-deserved recognition,” head coach Dave Tollett said in a press release. “He is one of three All-Americans that we have ever had and to continue to be put in the same categories as Chris Sale says a lot about how great he was this year and how great he could become.” Murray had arguably the greatest season any FGCU pitcher has ever had with a school record 13 wins and an A-Sun best 1.85 ERA to go with 79 strikeouts which also led the conference. Murray became the fourth A-Sun Pitcher of the Year for the Eagles. He joined Richard Bleier (2008), Chris Sale (2010) and Ricky Knapp (2012), all of whom are now playing professional baseball. He was also tabbed to the A-Sun First Team. In 2013, Murray finished his freshman season 5-1 and a 2.93 ERA in 86 innings of work for the Eagles. Murray was also a Freshman All-American and a member of the Atlantic Sun All-Freshmen team last season. Murray became one of just nine pitchers in the A-Sun over the last 10 years to win double-digit games in a season. The sophomore was a semifinalist for the USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award which names college baseball’s best player. He has also been named to the 18-Man College Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher of the Year watch list and is a Louisville Slugger Second Team All-American in recognition of the stellar season he put together. His name is routinely mentioned alongside players from all of the power conferences, including in-state rivals and perennial college baseball powers, Florida State, University of Miami and University of Florida. He is the only player on the College Baseball Hall of Fame watch list that comes from the A-Sun. Earlier this year, Murray became only the second pitcher in FGCU history to throw back-to-back complete games. Ricky Knapp did so in March of 2012 when he went the distance against North Florida and East Tennessee State in consecutive outings. During his streak of 43.1 innings without allowing an earned run, which led the nation this season, Murray’s ERA dropped as low as 0.18 at one point.
Murray also tossed 7.1 innings against the nationally ranked Florida Gators on Feb. 27. He surrendered just one run and struck out four to guide the Eagles to a 2-1 victory. He would allow just three hits through the first seven innings and for the second-consecutive start would not give up an earned run. The balance in talent on each of these three teams again indicates the close competition among 302 Division I schools for the coveted eight places in the June 14-25 NCAA World Series starting Saturday at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. In fact, the All-America team is represented by 39 different teams and 17 conferences. There are 23 Division I circuit players or pitchers of the year on the three units, and 10 standouts who led their teams to NCAA Super Regionals and/or the 2014 NCAA World Series. The Eagles finished the season with a 39-22 record and their 19-8 mark in the A-Sun earned them their fourth A-Sun Regular Season Championship in school history. Next year, Murray will be eligible for the 2015 MLB Draft.
Mike Murray throws another outstanding pitch.
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FGCU Athletes Continue To Soar In The Classroom Post 3.24 Spring GPA Via Press Release Florida Gulf Coast University Athletics continues to epitomize what embodies a student-athlete as the Eagles – who won five Atlantic Sun Conference regular-season championships in 2013-14 – extended their outstanding performance in the classroom with a 3.24 semester GPA and near record-breaking 3.32 cumulative GPA for the spring of 2014. FGCU student-athletes exceeded the FGCU undergraduate semester mark (3.02) for the 11th consecutive semester and 15 of the past 16 semesters. Leading yet another extremely impressive term was the women’s golf team as the seven-member squad posted an astonishing 3.92 GPA for the semester – the highest ever recorded in FGCU’s Division-I history, which dates back to 2007-08. Individually, 26 of FGCU’s student-athletes finished with a 4.0 GPA for the semester, representing more than 10 percent of the entire student-athlete body with perfect grades for the term. Among the overall population of 245 student-athletes, 97 (39 percent) achieved a 3.5 or higher term GPA. “We are exceptionally proud of our student-athletes for the stellar effort they continue to put forth in the classroom, while also succeeding in their athletic competitions and serving as role models throughout Southwest Florida,” said Director of Athletics Ken Kavanagh. “Their devotion to excellence is a source of pride for not only FGCU Athletics, but for the entire University. “In particular, I would like to recognize Athletics Academic Coordinator Brian Boveington and the rest of our exemplary athletic academic advising staff,” Kavanagh continued. “These stout results remain a byproduct of the collective diligent efforts of the fine young men and women in our programs, as well as the daily contributions by our coaches, academic advising units and quality faculty.” The 3.32 cumulative GPA for the spring was just .01 shy of tying the all-time mark of 3.33 set in the fall semester. Furthermore, a record 181 of FGCU’s student-athletes garnered A-Sun or CCSA (Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association) all-academic honors (minimum 3.0 GPA), representing nearly 74 percent of the overall population and surpassing the previous D-I record of 175 set in 2012-13. “The continued academic success is a true testament to the kind of student-athlete our coaches recruit and the expectations they create for them on and off the playing fields,” said Kelly Jean Brock, who began her tenure as Director of the Student-Athlete Learning Center in late May. “With support from Undergraduate Studies and the Athletics Department, our student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom and set the bar high for future Eagles.” Perfectly embodying the essence of an FGCU student-athlete, highly-decorated women’s basketball standout Sarah Hansen was named the 2014 Eagle Scholar-Athlete recipient – the highest honor FGCU bestows upon a graduating senior student-athlete – at the department’s annual Senior Send-Off and Awards Ceremony in April. On the men’s side, rising senior tennis player Jordi Vives was named as the Southeast’s recipient of the 2014 ITA Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership & Sportsmanship Award in May. One of just 12 regional winners throughout the country, the award was earned by Vives for his outstanding sportsmanship and leadership as well as scholastic, extracurricular and tennis achievements.
Specific team GPAs will be announced in August as part of FGCU’s “Welcome Back Picnic” to commence the 2014-15 school year, but the following are highlights and benchmarks achieved by each team over the course of the semester or full academic year: BASEBALL: 18 student-athletes earned a 3.0 or higher during the 2013-14 academic year. MEN’S BASKETBALL: Seven student-athletes improved their GPA from fall 2013 to spring 2014. MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY: 10 of 14 student-athletes earned a 3.0 or higher for the spring semester, and seven earned a 3.5 GPA or higher. MEN’S GOLF: Posted its highest term GPA in team history. MEN’S SOCCER: Had 11 A-Sun all-academic honorees and four conference scholars. MEN’S TENNIS: All nine student-athletes earned A-Sun all-academic honors, five were league scholars and the team finished with its highest term GPA in club history. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: 13 of 16 student-athletes earned A-Sun all-academic honors, nine were conference scholars and Hansen earned A-Sun President’s Scholar honors. WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY: Finished with its highest overall GPA in nine semesters, while eight student-athletes were all-academic honorees. WOMEN’S GOLF: Currently holds the highest overall GPA in FGCU history with a 3.82. WOMEN’S SOCCER: Recorded its second-highest term GPA in 14 semesters. SOFTBALL: Five student-athletes earned a perfect 4.0 GPA for the spring term, while 15 were tabbed A-Sun all-academic honorees and 10 were conference scholars. SWIMMING & DIVING: 15 student-athletes improved their GPA from fall 2013 to spring 2014, and 17 student-athletes hold a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher. WOMEN’S TENNIS: Six student-athletes hold a 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA. VOLLEYBALL/SAND VOLLEYBALL: 11 out of 14 student-athletes hold a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, and the team(s) boast one conference scholar.
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Wardrobe Wars: Who Wears it Better? By Jill Himmelfarb Sports Editor The debate regarding the wardrobe of Eagle News Editor-in-chief Justin Kane and Managing Editor Manny Navarro has begun. We’re coming to you, the students of Florida Gulf Coast University, to help us decide and criticize. Kane and Navarro’s friendship dates back to their days in middle school. They have grown and stayed close throughout the years. They both have changed their styles over the years, each choosing a wardrobe that screams, “This is MY personality!” Kane can often be seen in sports gear such as jerseys and basketball shorts. His familiar Polo shirts can be seen at games or in the classroom. The Hawaiian shirt getup keeps Kane looking like he just walked out of an episode of Magnum, P.I., but it works. And when Kane goes formal, he handles the bowtie much better than most.
Navarro has maintained a style familiar with that of an athlete. He knows how to wear clothing appropriate for the golf course and other casual wear. He can rock a t-shirt, headband and aviator sunglasses like we’ve never seen before. Best of all is “Tie Tuesdays,” when Navarro will always wear a button down shirt and tie. Thanks to the advancement of camera phones, capturing the images of these men in their personal style has increased and will continue to do so. Last year, Eagle News brought you the many faces of Marc-Eddy. This year, we’re starting with the wardrobe styles of Eagle News. So who wears their style of wardrobe best for his personality? To help us decide on the winner, please vote. Please tweet @eaglenews and vote stating you like @ByJustinKane or @mnavarroFGCU and using the hashtag #WardrobeWars.
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Love yourself — and each other — through thick and thin By Julian Montalvo Staff Writer We’ve all done it. Used someone’s weight as the butt of a joke. Judged someone negatively because of their weight. It’s been done by almost every single one of us. On the other side of the issue there are those whose skinniness can be used to their advantage. Fashion designers from New York City to Shanghai creating fall and summer lines filled with dresses, skirts and pants in a very strict selection of only the smallest sizes. Major department stores showcasing the latest in clothing, but only the smaller sizes to the front, and we have any size bigger than a two relegated to that dark back corner of the store where you’re not visible to the masses shopping for a gown that actually fits you. All of these things enforcing a positive feedback loop made of fat shaming, skinny privilege, and the often unseen and rarely spoken of ‘skinny shaming’ (it’s real and we all need to be aware of it) that ultimately just creates a negative body image across every person regardless of their weight that’s used to line the pockets of greedy beauty and fashion corporations across the globe. But what exactly is “fat shaming?” Fat shaming is the act of negatively judging a person and/or ostracizing them because of their weight. Fat jokes are a great example of a very common type of fat
shaming. It also comes in the institutional form that is particularly nasty. Remember that fashion example I mentioned? Well you take the lack of available trendy, stylish, or just down right well fitting clothing in plus sizes and factor that into the ridiculously high image standards set by most employers and wham blam! You’ve now created a perpetual system of oppression and marginalization of a demographic of people because of something as simple as their weight. This is an issue that transcends any gender identity and sexual identity, but maintains trends that lean towards significant expectations placed on female bodies while the male bodies are left alone. This isn’t just an issue that only affects white cis-gendered lower class white women, or only brown cis-gendered lower class men. It affects everyone. This fat vs. skinny battle is one that affects everyone. It’s even created a new type of privilege; skinny privilege. Just like fat shaming, skinny privilege is one that exists at every level of our social hierarchy framework. Any person with it is afforded the systematic gratification; always being able to find a pair of cute pants at the store for a cheaper price in comparison with the blah plus size clothing that’s almost always way overpriced. Or at the institutional level where a skinnier person is almost always awarded a visible job over a person
of plus size (a ‘visible job’ being one where the clientele of that company is directly interacting with. So your front desk jobs, secretary, PR, recruiter, etc.). Everywhere we look there’s that skinny privilege which always affords the owner a grander set of options and opportunities. But we need to always remain conscious of those who have this ‘skinny privilege’ can still get mocked and marginalized because of it. Now, it almost certainly isn’t in the same way as a person of larger size and its not nearly as visible but it is there. Comments at the family reunion like “you need to put some weight on, you’re skin and bones!” Or the all too popular ‘this is what a real woman’ collages, where we’ve pit women of plus size against women of petite size in a battle to the death of body positivity and no one comes out on top. Emblazoned in every possible place across every popular magazine is the latest diet trend where women can lose “10 lbs in 10 days” and be beautiful for their husbands. It’s disgustingly patriarchial and fallaciously heteronormative assuming. Today we have created a culture of purge for beautification that tells people they can be beautiful (GASP) but only if they fit into a certain size range (Damn’t), but once they’ve found themselves in that dress size they get questions and comments thrown at them about their skinny-ness. It’s ridiculous! No one can win! But guess what, that’s our ever loving patriarchy at
work. As long as that patriarchial greed can keep its consumers unsure and unhappy about themselves then they can keep selling products that promise the self-assurance we all desire. Instead of teaching love of self we’ve created this state of being that remains perpetually unhappy until they receive the superfluous reassurance from the thirdparty in a range of varying forms. It’s an issue that for women enforces the age old myth of fulfillment through femininity where we’ve told our plus size women they can only be beautiful if we make their appearance palatable to the masses in some twisted 50s housewife heroine creation where beauty is only achievable with perfectly done makeup, generic dress and ridiculously high stilettos instead of something comfortable. Granted, if those high-heels make you feel empowered then work it! But we need to remember that it’s not an aesthetic everyone wants to fulfill. If we can teach at a young age that beauty can be found within instead of manifested on the outside, then everyone can have their own style and feel empowered and gorgeous like they are without fear of judgement. When we do that then this disgusting cycle of distorted body image will be disrupted and everyone can begin feeling comfortable in the body they have.
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Brazil not ready for the 2016 Olympics By Kelli Krebs Photo/media editor They’re just not. Last summer, Brazil hosted the 2013 Confederations Cup in preparation for this summer’s World Cup. They weren’t ready. Just two months before last year’s Confederations Cup, which is considered a sort of “dress-rehearsal” for the following year’s World Cup, Brazil could only deliver four out of the six stadiums on time. This year, Brazil continued construction on stadiums until the very last day, nixing previous plans for a retractable roof and even adding another death to the rising toll just three days before the first game. Brazil wasn’t ready. Missed deadlines, collapsing roofs, several deaths, strikes, protests, cost overruns and destructive fires all came just within the last few years in preparation to host soccer’s biggest stage. How can Brazil even begin to handle hosting the summer Olympics?
In 2007, when Brazil won the World Cup bid, the economy was booming. Soon after, the South American country soon put in a bid for the 2016 Olympics and won. One year later, the economy collapsed. Since then, Brazil has been throwing money it didn’t have into two events it couldn’t afford. According to the World Bank, that’s $11.2 billion to be exact. Meanwhile, the economy continues to collapse, violent protests rage on and nearly 16 percent of Brazilians live below the country’s poverty line, according the World Bank. That means nearly 31 million people are living on less than $1.25 a day. So there’s that. So Brazil spends billions of dollars to host the World Cup, an event that no one really wants, or needs… and won’t get to see a dime. FIFA, otherwise known as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, an organization that claims to be a humble, nonprofit, collects all the cash. Yeah. Most of FIFA’s income comes from
events like the World Cup. Not to mention licensing. FIFA even manages to dodge taxes in every country the World Cup is hosted in , also. Again, Brazil won’t see a dime. So how does Brazil plan to host the Olympics? If Brazil’s national soccer team doesn’t win this year’s world cup (and by the looks of its first two games, a World Cup title does not seem likely) will there be a Brazil left to even host the Olympics? As John Oliver once said we put up with the controversies because to the rest of the world, outside of the U.S., football (soccer) is a religion: an organized religion. “FIFA is its church,” Oliver said last week on his weekly talk show, “Its leader is infallible, it compels South American countries spend money they don’t have on opulent cathedrals, and it may ultimately be responsible for the deaths of shocking numbers of people in the Middle East. But, for millions of people around the world, it is also the guardian for the only thing that gives our lives any meaning. If that
comparison doesn’t make Americans love soccer, than frankly, nothing will.”
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Girl gamers deserve more respect By Jessica Webber Staff Writer With this year’s E3 only just behind us and my wallet in its death throes following the string of pre-orders I’ve just had to make, I have come to a harrowing realization: I have been gaming longer than most of our incoming freshmen have been alive. The very first gaming device I ever owned was a Nintendo Game Boy Pocket. Released just two months after my seventh birthday, the clear variant that I had was, to me, as fascinating to look at as it was to actually play. I had begun playing Duck Hunt on the NES long before that (as it was not terribly complicated for your garden-variety kindergartener) and progressed to Super Mario Bros. from there like every other redblooded American gamer of my generation – I was no stranger to virtual reality. The idea that I could now take this self-contained world wherever I went instead of stealing time at my neighbor or babysitter’s house was mind-blowing. It wasn’t until a year later, with the purchase of my family’s very first home console — the original Sony PlayStation — that I truly understood the breadth and depth of what gaming had to offer. If my parents had let me (they didn’t), I would have spent all day playing Tomb Raider or Crash Bandicoot. When our memory card fried itself (that’s our story and we’re sticking to it), my brother and I spent whole summers trying to marathon-run through Final Fantasy VII. It was an entirely different creature than my Game Boy Pocket (or any of the iterations I was gifted thereafter). It was more tangible, more immersive. I was addicted. I knew I’d never grow out of it. With this comes an even more harrowing realization, fresh on the heels of three days’ worth of pervasive sexism in media coverage for E3 and the live screen-side chats in which Aisha Tyler’s gaming street cred was all but categorically called a lie simply because she wore heels on stage: I am turning 25 at the end of June, and I have been gaming — and loving it, mind you — for longer than most of our incoming freshmen have been alive … but I would be willing to bet that if one of those freshmen happens to identify as male or sounds male while talking on a microphone to players during live gameplay, they’re able to talk about that publicly without ridicule, whereas I can’t turn my microphone on during a round of Search and Destroy without getting a rape threat, a demand for a sandwich or description of a lewd act. I complain to my male gaming friends, and I get told I shouldn’t play if I can’t handle trash-talk. (An aside: threats aren’t trash-talk. If you threaten people with any of that, you’re a jerk. Don’t be a jerk.) Event organizers on the competitive circuit and LAN party organizers “avoid” the harassment by banning women from their events (I’m looking at you, Powers Gaming) instead of addressing the issue and making it known that this behavior won’t be tolerated … you know, like a good human being would do. This is the norm. That is terrifying. For me, a long-time gamer, former competitive gamer and even video game retail worker for many years – someone you would think could manage to navigate
online gaming without coming away with too many bruises – logging into my PlayStation Network account can be a walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death (and Really Uncreative Insults). The thing that might shock you most is that this didn’t start there. Oh, no, on the contrary – my experience with gaming obviously far predates the advent of online multiplayer, and even in the early stages of my socialization as a self-identified “gamer” I was never taken seriously. I was experiencing sexism in the gaming world before I even had any idea what sexism was. In the days of my adolescence where I was trying to talk to people – boys – with my interest in games like Dino Crisis or Tekken I was repeatedly told to “play games for girls,” or accused of just watching my brother play and not knowing how to play for myself. These were middle school kids in the early days of the Internet, folks, where dial-up reigned supreme, people were actually using Parental Controls, most of my peers were trapped in the purgatory of AOL: Kids Only and unless you were sitting in the living room together gaming was a solitary experience – there was no such thing as Xbox Live. These were things boys my age were saying to my face on the school bus, in the cafeteria, on the playground and elsewhere. And they were brazen about it. Perhaps not on the same level – to the best of my recollection, I can’t remember anyone ever telling me they were going to murder me for my intense skill at Mario Kart (or lack thereof, depending on what they were mad about or accusing me of at the time) back then. But they were very forthcoming about what they thought of girls who identified as someone who played video games. Xbox Live, rather predictably, changed that. I was admittedly not a member of the Xbox consumer base until the Xbox 360 came out, and Xbox Live was already an institution. I can’t tell you if things were any better or worse at the service’s inception. But I can tell you that affording sexist, misogynistic gamers the opportunity to be mostly faceless has made it exponentially worse than I experienced when I was younger. From the first night that I logged in and started actively participating in online gaming I have spent many an afternoon sifting through voice messages from frustrated, angry, disturbed players telling me everything from what to shove where, to how I should end my own life. Many just contained a long string of misogynistic slurs. I vividly remember one person sending me a message telling me he was going to slit my throat and leave me in a retention pond. He sounded very sincere. I reported him. Nothing was done. If I wanted peace while playing online, I was forced to present as male and keep my microphone off. Let me break that one down for you again: In order to safely avoid harassment while engaging in a hobby I have enjoyed since I was all of five years old, I have to trick people into thinking I’m not female. When I was a competitor, I would show up to competitions to very un-subtle shock when they matched my Live or PSN handle to my name. The shift in treatment would be immediate. A group of people with whom I had played for nearly two years without incident (or the revelation of my
gender) suddenly turned on me like a pack of wild dogs. My first kill in the competition – what was supposed to be a fairly friendly event – was met with a slew of slurs and suddenly very gendered threats of violence. “[expletive deleted] you, you better run! I’m coming for you!” suddenly became a rape threat. I kept competing because I loved gaming and I loved the rush of competing, but the community was not exactly welcoming. As a competitor, I found three types of people: 1. The perpetuator – the people who agree that there is sexism and outright targeting of women in gaming but argue that it’s our fault for “flaunting” (read: not denying) our womanhood. They like to talk about how women are predisposed to be terrible players for any reason from “poor reflexes” to “women just aren’t aggressive enough.” This is probably half of the people I met on the competitive circuit and still meet in gaming clubs, forums, conventions and other meccas of gaming culture. 2. The denier – the people who will flatout shut you down and deny that there is any mistreatment of women in gaming. They always say they don’t treat women any differently, but they always do. When I’m not running into perpetuators, the people I’m talking to are usually this. 3. The righteously indignant – the ones who recognize the issues facing women in the gaming industry and think it’s wrong, and tell people that it’s not acceptable. It is not en vogue to like or defend women in gaming culture. These are few and far between, and I tend not to trust anyone who labels themselves this way that I don’t witness actually doing what they say they do. I endured that for about five years of fighting and first-person shooter events, and then decided I had enough. I quit gaming entirely for a while. I quit something I loved because it wasn’t worth the abuse. I was sad for a long time – these misogynistic jerks took something away from me that meant so much and had been such a huge part of my life, naturally I was devastated – but then I rather abruptly stopped being sad and got really, really angry. It became less that they had done it and more that they had dared to do it. That I had let them. It seemed silly that I should have to leave something I was enthusiastic about behind because of someone else’s behavior, so I made the decision to refuse to hide out and let my love of something fizzle because people can’t be respectful. I went through the motions of having my Live and PSN handles destroyed, created new ones. I’m told my handle is pretty neutral (it’s something you won’t get unless you already know the reference), but it wasn’t chosen deliberately to be neutral – it was chosen because I wanted it to be my handle. I refuse to get pushed around by sexist jerks online. I keep my microphone on. I name and shame gamers I meet who do ridiculous things like threaten to rape or kill me when I outperform them; I report and block them afterwards. I stopped playing shooters online when it became evident that I would have to report and block 90% of players I came into contact with (but kept the remaining 10% as friends, who are glad to play other games with me). I don’t run around shouting about how I’m a girl in every lobby (because you wouldn’t catch a
guy doing that – which seems odd, as much attention as they seem to want, but that’s another article entirely). If people ask, I say “yes, I am.” The line of inquiry ends there, because I don’t allow it to go any further. I don’t compete anymore, but I haven’t left the community completely – I go with my friends who are competitors (some of which are women!) and any time I do meet a female competitor, I spend a lot of time keeping her buoyed in the sea of ridiculousness that she’s usually drowning in. I’m much happier for all of this, and I’ve learned a lot from my experience, but this isn’t the answer to the problem at hand. The community needs to change. More than half of the people playing video games regularly are women, now – and those are just the ones who feel comfortable saying that they do. The competitive circuit has female-identifying participants sitting at about 40% these days. It’s not like we’re not here, not part of the conversation or the culture. There is really no good reason for anyone to otherize us. You shouldn’t be slinging gendered insults at anyone in the middle of the game or threatening them with rape; you shouldn’t act as if a girl’s dedication to Halo (a franchise, by the way, now helmed by a woman!) is all for show and attracting men. When I lay into you during a Deathmatch round online, your first assumptions should not be that my boyfriend is playing or that you can flood my inbox with lewd messages. I play for me – women play for themselves. We deserve respect the same as anyone else, and we deserve better than to have to hide to keep from being harassed. The community as a whole needs to deal with the fact that we’re here, we’re staying, and no amount of justification makes any of this behavior okay. We need people to stand up and say “dude, that is decidedly not on, if you keep doing that we’re going to vote to ban you.” We need gaming men to do that, not just other women. You all follow each other’s leads whether you like it or not, and nothing is going to change until you explicitly define this as unacceptable. I want to be explicit about two things. The first is that not everyone can do what I have, and that’s fine – I’m sad for every girl who’s ever had to give up gaming because of their harassment, but there is no part of me that blames them at all. There comes a moment where you have to make a choice – sometimes a very hard one – about what will make you feel safe and if leaving a community you otherwise love will do that, and that is what is right for you, that’s the decision you should make. No one should shame you for staying or going. The second is that, for all the poor experience I’ve had as a woman participating in gaming culture, I still love the community. I love the energy, the connection that gaming gives me to other people (even if some of those people are enormous clattering buttocks). After that brief absence from gaming, I don’t think I will ever give it up again. But until the community changes, until people call sexism in gaming culture out for what it is and label it explicitly as unacceptable, I’m always going to dread opening my inbox. Right now, I feel like we’re a long way off from being there. … and there is something really wrong with that.