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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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SOAR: Student Services, Outreach, Advocacy and Representation. Free printing cards, revamp the Cohen Center, improve campus WiFi, parking safety and efficiency, work with athletics to develop a more student-centered experience,, continue to grow community partnerships, mental health, advocate for better professor and class selection, sustainability, advocate for more LGBTQ resources, host a Veterans appreciation event, ensuring Senate represents the majority of the Student Body, , student surveys to inform Student Government on how student want their $11.50 credit hour spent.
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FGCU Student Government met on Tuesday, Feb. 27 for their weekly Senate meeting. In the meeting, Senators discussed senate availability, with two new students elected into the Senate. Student Government also passed a bill to send up to 53 students to Washington D.C. for the March for Our Lives rally. However, some Senate members and members of FGCU’s College Republicans opposed the bill. Although Student Government did not discuss the elections, students can now vote until Thursday, March 1. AVAILABLE SEATS
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Student Government cuts hazing-prevention budget The group received $7,000 as compared last year’s $12,600
By Sarajane Sullivan Managing Editor @xosarajane Florida Gulf Coast University’s university-wide hazing prevention team faces a 45 percent budget cut implemented by Student Government’s Senate Appropriations Committee. In 2017, Florida Gulf Coast University lost $8 million in funding because of low performance scores, according to the Fort Myers New Press. As a result, FGCU’s student government budget reflects the loss of funds. Over all, $3,839,169 were allocated for the 2018/2019 fiscal year, out of a total budget of $4,019,788. Among a number of large cuts, the university-wide hazing prevention team received $7,000 compared to the $12,600 the team received in the previous fiscal year and the $21,950 they requested. This particular cut comes off the heels of the Greek life bans that occurred last year around the country, including the Greek life ban that resulted from a pledge’s death at Florida State University in November of 2017. Shea Van Alstyne, the vice president of chapter relations and
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EN Photo by Alexandra Figares standards for Alpha Chi Omega at FGCU said that she believes Greek life makes a notable effort to ensure members are educated in hazing prevention. She also said that the education against hazing should extend to all organizations, as she believes Greek life is not the only area of FGCU that participates in hazing. “With the events that have taken place at FSU, this is the time to step up and make sure that all hazing is abolished at FGCU,” Van Alstyne said. “Our student government should be taking every precaution to prevent any hazing and to educate all students at FGCU about how to stop these horrible acts.” In 2014, an FGCU sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and an FGCU
fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, were both suspended after having written hazing complaints filed against them. Since then, no major hazing incidents have occurred. FGCU’s vice president of student affairs, J. Michael Rollo, attributes FGCU’s ability to control hazing to the lack of Greek housing on campus. Most of the Greek life punishments comes from within the organizations or from their national councils, according to the News Press. “It’s an advantage for us. It’s been successful thus far,” Rollo told the News Press. Each student pays $11.50 per credit hour for an activity and service fee that funds university departments, university sponsored
student organizations and registered student organizations. Organizations present their budget requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee, who then create the budget by allocating funds as needed. The total requested funds for the 2018/2019 fiscal year was $5,000,951, that’s $1,161,782 more than the allocated funds and $981,163 more than the total funds that were available. In the 2016/2017 fiscal year, only $3,931,360 were available for allocation by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the budget it granted to the universitywide hazing prevention team was $12,750.
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The Russian government has mandated daily five hour ceasefires in Syria in order to allow humanitarian workers to bring food and medical supplies to besieged civilians. According to the BBC, Russia is working with Syria’s president to implement a 30 day truce to allow civilians the chance to leave the country.
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President Xi Jinping may be allowed to run for another term if the Chinese governing party passes a resolution to the constitution which would remove the two five-year term limit. According to the BBC, Jinping is “the most powerful leader since the late Mao Zedong.”
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Student Government passes bill to send students to March for Our Lives rally Despite opposition from the FGCU College Republicans, the legislation passed unanimously By Alex Figares News Editor @fgcueaglenews Student Government passed Senate Bill #1718-052 during its weekly Senate meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 27., which will send students to Washington D.C. for the March for Our Lives campaign. Senate Bill #1718-052, titled, FGCU Students to Washington D.C., would allocate about $26,000 to send 53 students and 3 staff members to attend the march – which rallies against mass shootings in schools – on March 24. About 15 members of FGCU’s College Republicans attended the meeting in opposition of the bill, and expressed concern with
the university taking a political stance. Members also challenged the way Student Government communicated the legislation. “We thought it was a little bit not transparent of Student Government to do it (the bill) in this manner,” Pilkington said. “So, we decided to release a statement because it seemed really shady.” The College Republicans initially released a statement on Monday, Feb. 26, stating that although the organization supports the opportunity to “engage with diverse ideas in a civil manner”, passing the bill could “disenfranchise a large portion of the student body” and should be “considered partisan political lobbying.” Pilkington said he first heard about the bill last Tuesday
when he attended a Student Government meeting on an unrelated matter. Pilkington, along with other College Republican members, challenged Student Government on how the requested funds for the rally. In the statement, the College GOP offered alternate solutions to the bill, suggesting Student Government remove their name from it and have a registered student organization go through the travel budget request process, to avoid political the potential for political lobbying. However, Assistant Dean of Students and Student Government advisor Julie Gleason said that Student Government is following procedures in accordance to the
finance code. “Student Government is not an RSO, it’s a department,” Julie Gleason said. “So, they are not funded for travel the same way that student organizations are. In order for student government to get money to travel, this is the process that they have to follow.” Senate President Garrette Parsons declined to comment when asked about of the catalyst of the legislation. To read more, visit Eaglenews. org.
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FGCU professor hosts workshop on school and workplace violence By Caylee Weintraub Contributing Writer @fgcueaglenews In the weeks following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which claimed the lives of fourteen students and three teachers, there has been national debate on gun reform, resources for the mentally ill, and school violence. The shooting at Stoneman Douglas, located one hundred twenty-five miles due east of FGCU, has had a strong ripple effect on campus, especially for Dr. Terrence Leary, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at FGCU, who decided he wanted to do something about the shooting right away. “In light of the horrific tragedy in Parkland, as part of my [Industrial and Organizational] Psychology class, I [decided] to conduct a workplace violence workshop from the perspective of identification of at risk individuals,” Leary said. Leary’s workshop focused on the definition of workplace and school violence, as well as the warning signs troubled employees and students may display. Students taking his Industrial and Organizational Psychology class often take jobs in the Human Resources department of a business, and often will be responsible for identifying at-
risk individuals. Leary believes teaching his students about how to prevent mass shootings at work or at schools is crucial. “It’s horrible,” Leary said about the Parkland shooting. “If you know the signs, though, [shootings] like this can be stopped.” The workshop opened with a film that followed the main character, Carl, as he evolved from a disgruntled employee into a violent workplace shooter. Carl displays many of the symptoms Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter, displayed, including violent outbursts, a fascination with weapons and idealization of former mass shooters. “Violence, whether it’s in the workplace or at a school, rarely starts out with physical violence,” Leary said. “It starts out much smaller.” Leary says those who become violent often first display subtle psychological warning signs, like negative comments and paranoia towards authority. When one person displays several of these warning signs, it may be an indication that immediate action is necessary. “Take action,” Leary said. “Get a group together and report someone if they show warning signs and you feel they pose a threat.” The information in the workshop wasn’t new to students
in Leary’s class, but the recent events at Stoneman Douglas made the information feel more pressing than it has previously. “Violence in the workplace and at schools is kind of an underlying theme in the class,” Victoria Pereira, a psychology major, said. “But we’ve never talked about it this intensely and it hasn’t felt this important until now.” During the second half of the workshop, Leary divided students in his class to discuss the information in the video and about workplace and school violence in general. “Most people don’t take a class like this,” said Samantha Dreier, also a psychology major. “They don’t talk about the warning signs and [what to look for]. Some people may see the signs but not recognize them.” At the end of the workshop, Leary discussed how talking to the disgruntled employee or student, addressing their problems with them face-to-face, and not ignoring their actions, whether subtle or not, can all be ways his students, as psychologists, can help prevent violence. “Never wait to report someone who makes you suspicious,” Leary said. “Even if the first person you report [the person] doesn’t listen or doesn’t take you seriously, keep trying. Go to as many people as you need to in order to feel heard.”
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I was 6 years old when I decided I wanted to be a teacher. Not once in the years since have I ever even considered a different career path. Education is my passion. I have an intense desire to create an atmosphere for students that allows them to walk through the door of the classroom not worried about stressors at home or fear about their day. I have done lots of research into specific types of classrooms that create less anxiety and the factors that I can add and subtract from the learning environment. These classrooms can look very different, but some of my favorite include those without desks, giving off a more relaxed feeling, and even inclusion classrooms, where children work with other students who are considered “special needs.” Cre-
ating environments where children can succeed and grow get me so excited to become a teacher. Now, though, as a sophomore in college, I am thinking less about how beanbag chairs will improve test scores, and more about how I would protect my students from an active shooter. I remember where I was when I heard about Sandy Hook. Surely, I thought, things would change. Too many young children had been killed for this to continue, but then the next school shooting happened, and the next one, and the next one, and 290 school shootings later we now have the Parkland. Yet still, I am asking myself the same thing. This has to be enough for people to realize now, isn’t it? It has to be time for something to change, although we still don’t see
much, if any, movement. Think about what it used to feel like going to school. It was a bummer, you had to press pause on your playtime and do some math problems. You got to see your friends, but usually you just couldn’t wait for the dismissal bell so you could return home. Now think about waiting for that dismissal bell, not to return home and play, but to feel safe. This is a reality for so many students across the country today. School is no longer a safe place. Even law enforcement has been quoted speaking about being scared to send their own children to school. Even if you think the younger students don’t know what is going on, you are wrong. They hear our whispers and they feel our fear. They are scared too.
The time is now. The time is not after the next one, or the next one, it is now. We cannot let this feeling of devastation pass. We must continue this fight until there is action and improvement. I will not rest until I am no longer worried about the safety of my future students and I am able to continue designing my utopian classroom. I want to be a teacher so that I can help mold little minds and hang out with a bunch of fun, innocent kid and hear what they’re thinking. I’m furious that being a teacher now involves a debate about being armed or not. After I graduate in 2020, I would like to be able to stand in front of a classroom of sixyear-olds and inspire them like my teachers had stood in front of me. I have no interest in carrying a gun or pretending that any of that appeals to
me. I can promise you though, that after years of internships and early childhood teaching experience, I know that I would not hesitate for a second to protect the kids in my classroom with anything I have in front of me. Instead of arming teachers with guns, arm them with school psychiatrists who are equipped to handle mental illness. Our discussions that place blame on everything except the system are leading us nowhere closer to a solution. What if our discussion was about ways to create smaller class sizes and less standardized testing, allowing teachers to focus a little bit more on what their specific students need help with? Could we make classrooms a place where children feel important rather than a place full of enemies? Let’s
address why school are being targeted specifically, and if investing in our students more might change that. I want to be a teacher so that I can love a group of students so much that they can forget about their worries at home and just focus on learning what’s in front of them. If one that day includes taking a bullet for them I will not hesitate, and I know most in the profession would do the same. I hope change is in the near future, because it needs to be. All politics aside, too many students of all ages have died for this to continue. Do not be silent. Things cannot continue the way that they are going.
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Gun reform: bad parenting is a lame excuse By Leah Sankey Contributing Writer @fgcueaglenews The U.S. has a gun problem. We have more gun-related deaths than any other developed nation, and far more guns than any other country, according to The New York Times. After the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, the debate on how to regulate them continues. Some gun control critics are claiming that it is a discipline problem rather than a gun problem.
Kelly Guthrie Raley, a Florida middle school teacher, posted to Facebook about gun violence. The post was shared over 600,000 times and picked up by Fox News. “I grew up with guns. Everyone knows that. But you know what? My parents NEVER supported any bad behavior from me. I was terrified of doing something bad at school, as I would have not had a life until I corrected the problem and straightened my ass out. My parents invaded my life. They knew where I was all the time. They made me have a curfew. They made
me wake them up when I got home. They made me respect their rules. They had full control of their house, and at any time could and would go through every inch of my bedroom, backpack, pockets, anything! Parents: it’s time to STEP UP!” Here is another similar argument, this one from a twitter account, @Ryan_Harness12: “Guns have always been around and you never heard about school shootings. Now school shootings are becoming the norm. This isn’t a gun issue; it’s a parental and
society issue. God taken out of schools, parents failing to discipline their children, and creating entitled kids.” These arguments are devoid of evidence. The authoritarian style of parenting that emphasizes heavy disciplining and was popular in past generations is linked to juvenile delinquency and mental illness, according to a 2016 study published by The US National Library of Medicine. In contrast, authoritative parents who are warm yet set limits, tend to have happier and more well-adjusted children. Moreover, parenting
styles cannot be legislated. The Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, doesn’t appear to have lacked parental discipline either. Neighbors of the Cruz family told The New York Times that his adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, called sheriff’s deputies to the house on more than one occasion to attempt to keep her son in line. He was also taken to a mental health clinic to receive treatment. Despite this, Cruz was able to purchase an assault weapon legally. Older generations have historically thought that the
world’s problems were caused by younger generations and their lack of discipline. “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. (...) They contradict their parents, (...) and tyrannize their teachers,” Socrates once said. This argument is as old as time, and to say that it is the reason for our country’s school shooting epidemic is simply without merit.
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In the Eagles 20-point win over USC Upstate in the ASUN Tournament semifinals, ASUN First Team selection Zach Johnson led the team with 26 points, shooting 11-17 from the floor.
By Matt Rothman Assistant Sports Editor @MattRothman3 Men’s basketball With the Eagles dressing all 12 scholarship athletes for the first time this season, the FGCU men’s basketball team advanced to the semifinals of the ASUN tournament with a 96-76 win over USC Upstate in its final game in the ASUN conference. “I thought once we got our defensive balance going, I thought we did a little better and wore them down,” said head coach Joe Dooley. “The big thing
was rebounding the ball. We didn’t rebound the ball great, but we’ll work on that.” The Eagles led by seven midway through the second half and after a Mike Cunningham three-pointer, he would get a technical for taunting the crowd right by FGCU’s bench. USC Upstate would pick up another threepointer right after from head coach Kyle Perry, and Dinero Mercurius would hit all four free throws which would spark the Eagles to a 57-point second half. “I probably made a mistake getting the
technical, but I didn’t like what the [referee] said to me,” Perry said. “I felt like it was a ridiculous thing he said. If I could take it back, I would. I felt like I hurt my team.” Zach Johnson led FGCU with 26 points, one shy of his career high of 27. Christian Terrell had 18 and a career high of eight assists. Johnson and Terrell combined for 8 of the 11 three-pointers from the Eagles. “Always a sense of urgency in a game like this,” Johnson said. “You want to make sure you’re making
the right plays, making the right decisions, playing the right way. Luckily for me, I was hitting a couple of shots and trying to find my teammates open and make the right basketball play.” Antravious Simmons also had 18 points, as he helped FGCU have a 40-20 advantage. The bench also outscored Upstate 29-5. Cunningham did have a career-high 28 for Upstate to lead all scorers. The Eagles trailed by as many as four in the first half and led by nine at one point, but only took a three-point lead into halftime.
Upstate shot 53 percent from the field and hit six three-pointers with Malik Moore scoring 14 in the opening quarter. FGCU did shoot 52 percent from the field as well, and were able to get a huge bucket thanks to RaySean Scott right before the half expired. After their struggles from behind the arc recently, the Eagles did have five three-pointers and scored 13 points off 10 Spartans turnovers. Goodwin was held to three points in the first half, but that would not last as he finished with nine.
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FGCU would go five for seven from deep in the second half and cruise from there and win by 20 in front of many students and fans. “They were really into it,” Terrell said. “They were chanting things out at different players that did something, and they were really just great.” Up next, the Eagles will face No. 5 UNF in the semifinals of the tournament on Thursday at 7 p.m. The Eagles defeated the Ospreys twice this season.
Goodwin, Johnson and Dooley win ASUN awards
EN Photo / Brrad Young For a second straight season, Brandon Goodwin was named the ASUN Player of the Year finishing second in the league in scoring. He led the Eagles in assists and rebounds, along with scoring 20 or more points in 14 games this season.
By Matt Rothman Assistant Sports Editor @MattRothman3 Men’s basketball After an incredible 11-game win streak to start conference play and a regular season championship for a second straight year, the FGCU men’s basketball team received three ASUN awards, led by Brandon Goodwin. For a second straight season, Goodwin was named the ASUN Player of the Year. Zach Johnson also appeared on the first team All-Conference team with head coach Joe Dooley being named ASUN Coach of the year for a second straight season. “Brandon has put together, once again, one of
the best seasons in program history,” Dooley said. “Zach has been arguably our most consistent player all year, and combined with Brandon their honors are certainly well deserved. They have a great group of teammates around them as well, and hopefully we’re able to reach our ultimate goal in one week with another ASUN Championship.” Goodwin finished second in the league in scoring behind fellow ASUN team member Garrison Matthews at 18.4 points per game. He also led the team with 4.8 assists per game and was tied with Michael Gilmore for the team lead in rebounds. He had 14 games scoring 20 or more points, including six of them in conference play. The senior has scored
83 points in his last three games heading into the ASUN Tournament. Johnson was second on the team in scoring at just under 15 points per game and had 65 steals to lead the conference. He had a steal in all but two games this season and scored as many as 27 points in the opening game of the season versus Illinois. He shot 46 percent from the field and 34 percent from behind the arc. Dooley led his team with a 21-10 record and a 12-2 conference record in route to his ASUN Coach of the Year. He led FGCU to a quality 75-68 win over UT Arlington while leading the Eagles to five straight 20 or more wins in his tenure as coach.
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Eagles win two of three against ETSU
EN Photo / Brad Young Freshman Bryan Wilcox provided long relief for the Eagles in his second appearance during the ETSU series. Wilcox earned his first career win after striking out six over his 4.1 innings of work, allowing just one hit.
By Matt Rothman Assistant Sports Editor @MattRothman3 Baseball In its second series of the season, the FGCU baseball team earned the win over ETSU following wins on both Saturday and Sunday. The Eagles lost the opening game of the series but outscored the Buccaneers 17-3 in the final two games to earn the
series win. “Anytime you win the series, it is always good,” said head coach Dave Tollett. “It’s Division I baseball and everyone is pretty good. I thought we played really well on Saturday and really well on Sunday.” In game one, Mario Leon got the ball and the Eagles took a 6-4 lead into the eighth inning but allowed six runs in the final two innings and fell 10-8 despite
a rally in the ninth. FGCU loaded the bases and brought the tying run to the plate and scored two runs on bases loaded walks, but both Spencer Levine and Marc Coffers struck out as the Eagles dropped their first game of the season. There were five home runs hit in the game between the two teams with FGCU hitting three with two coming off the bat of Kohl Gilmore. Coffers went deep as well with the wind
blowing out to left. Kenton Herring came into the game in the eighth and wound up with both the blown save and the loss. “We had the game 6-4, and we should have put the game away,” Tollett said. “There were a couple of crazy plays that I have not seen in a long time. We had a chance to win it and at least tie it, but I think the magic fell a little short tonight.” In game two, both Josh Dye of FGCU and Ryan Simpler of ETSU were locked in a pitcher’s duel with the game scoreless heading into the bottom of the seventh, when the Eagles were able to break through. Freshman Christian Proffitt drove in three runs in the final two innings.
FGCU played long ball with both Gilmore and Richie Garcia both clearing the fences in route to a 6-1 win. Dye went seven scoreless innings and Peyton Grey finished off his first collegiate save with his two innings out of the bullpen. “I’m happy today because we got the win today,” Gilmore said. “It was a heartbreaking loss last night after a four-game sweep last week. I’m just really happy for the guys and happy we got the win.” In the final game of the series, it was all FGCU right from the start as the Eagles totaled nine runs and walked 11 times for a win. Evan Lumbert made the start, but did not qualify for a win after only going 3.1
innings. Brian Wilcox came in relief and pitched 4.1 to get his first collegiate win. Both Alex Brait and Jay Hayes homered as FGCU walked 11 times, with nine of them coming in the first three innings in the win. “Later down the road in May, we’re going to need these wins, so we can get into the regionals,” Wilcox said. “I can’t really describe the feeling of getting the win for my team.” FGCU is heading on the road for its first series starting Friday, March 2 at 4 p.m. when the Eagles face Bethune-Cookman in a three-game series.
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After a dominant opening week of season, Kohl Gilmore followed that up with an even better second week of the season for FGCU baseball. Gilmore hit two home runs on Friday night and hit another one on Saturday for his fifth of the season. The junior currently leads the team with on base percentage, home runs, runs and total bases. He currently has a .462 batting average and 1.115 slugging percentage. Gilmore has had at least one but in every game this season and an RBI in all but one game. Gilmore has led his team to a 6-1 start to the season despite suffering from minor setbacks the first seven games.
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Softball remains unbeaten following sweep at FGCU Invitational
EN Photo / Brad Young The FGCU softball team remains undefeated as they beat U-Conn, Stony Brook, Wright State and Southern Illinois in the FGCU Four Points by Sheraton Invitational. Next, the Eagles will travel to Tallahassee to compete in the FSU Unconquered Invitational from Friday, March 2 to Sunday, March 4 where the Eagles will take on No. 9 FSU, No. 5 Oregon and Hofstra.
By Patrick Clines Staff Writer @PatClines Softball The FGCU softball team remained undefeated as they beat U-Conn, Stony Brook, Wright State and Southern Illinois in the FGCU Four Points by Sheraton Invitational. Game One: Head Coach David Deiros sent junior Riley Randolph in to pitch the first game of the tournament against U-Conn. After Randolph gave up a Huskie lead-off home run at the top of the first inning, the Eagles countered with a five-run second inning beginning with a bases-loaded tworun single from senior Erica Ward. After a sacrifice fly from senior Brianne Innamorato, junior Racquel Fournet would hit a bases-loaded two-run single of her own to make it 5-1 for the Eagles. The runs kept adding as senior Ashley Swiderski hit her third home run of the season in the third inning. After Riley gave up an RBI single and another Huskies home run, Fournet would add another two-run
single at the bottom of the sixth to make it 8-3 for the final score. Fournet was the only Eagle with more than one hit as she went 2-4 in game one with four RBIs while Ward went 1-3 with two RBIs. Randolph threw six innings while giving up three runs on seven hits while striking out seven batters. Game Two: Deiros then sent in sophomore Morgan White to pitch against Stony Brook. The Eagles would score first in the second inning after sophomore Kate Kelly stole second base and senior Brittany McGuire scored on a fielding error. White kept the Seawolves scoreless until an RBI single in the fourth inning tied the game. Freshman Marissa Mesiemore, who pitched a scoreless inning in game one, entered the game to finish the sixth inning. The Eagles would then take the lead in the bottom of the sixth. After back-to-back singles from McGuire and fellow senior Lulu Newmark, junior Bri Bennett would come in to be
the pinch hitter. Successfully, the transfer from NJCAA Lake Sumter College, gave the Eagles a 2-1 lead with an RBI single that drove in freshman Ahnie Jumper who pinch ran for McGuire. In the seventh inning, Mesiemore struggled and loaded the bases, which signaled Deiros to send fellow freshman Taylor Bauman in for another save opportunity, and after two-thirds of an inning, the Jacksonville native finished the inning. McGuire was the only Eagle that had a multi-hit game as she went 2-3. White was credited with a no-decision after throwing 5.2 innings, giving up the one run on five hits, and struck out five batters while Mesiemore was credited with the win after throwing two-thirds of an inning, giving up one hit, walking one batter and striking out one. Bauman was credited with her seventh save of the season after throwing twothirds of an inning. With her seventh save, Bauman set the singleseason record for most saves, which passed former FGCU player Rachel
Endiger. Bauman is only three saves away from passing former FGCU player Dana Frantz’s record for the most career saves. Game Three: In game three against Wright State, Deiros would have Mesiemore pitch in the starting lineup. The Eagles would once again strike first. In the bottom of the first, Fournet would start with an RBI single that drove in senior Kelsey Huff, who was hit by a pitch, before Swiderski drove in Fournet with an RBI single of her own. After McGuire was hit by a pitch to load the bases, freshman Farley Callaghan would drive a bases-loaded two run double that brought in Clemens and Swiderski. The Eagles would add two more runs in the fourth and fifth as Fournet would hit an RBI single in the fourth while Bennett, who came in to pinch hit, hit a sacrifice fly to make it 6-0. Mesiemore would end up throwing a complete game shutout giving up three hits while walking one batter and striking out one. Game Four: Deiros would have
Randolph on the mound to pitch against Southern Illinois. In a neck-and-neck battle between Randolph and SIU’s Savanna Dover, the Eagles managed to get the Salukis to buckle at the bottom. After the bases were loaded from Kelly, Huff and Lopez, who was then replaced by senior Emily Demurius, Clemens would bring in Kelly on a fielder’s choice which would be the decider and only run. Randolph would get the win after throwing a twohit complete game shutout while walking one batter and striking out four. Game Five: Deiros then sent White in to pitch against U-Conn’s Jill Stockley for the last game. The Eagles would strike first at the bottom of the second. McGuire would start with a two out single before Bennett drove in McGuire with an RBI triple to left center. At the fourth inning, White was pulled after loading the bases with two and Bauman would enter the game in relief. Bauman kept the Huskies from scoring until
the top of the sixth when a sacrifice occurred and the Huskies tied the game. Both teams did not score in the seventh inning and the game went into extra innings with the Texas Tiebreaker rule in effect. The Huskies had a chance to have the runner on third, but the runner was caught trying to go back to third and the Huskies failed to take the lead. The Eagles would then get their chance in the eighth inning to seal the deal. With Jumper pinch running for McGuire, who was the last batter that was out, the Clewiston native was able to steal third with Bennett up to the plate. With a 2-2 count, Bennett would hit a ground ball to the pitcher and Jumper, who saw the ball go through the pitcher’s legs, scored the game-winning run for the Eagles. This was the first walk-off win of the season for the Eagles. Up next, the Eagles travel to Tallahassee to play Hofstra, No. 5 Oregon, and No. 9 Florida State in the FSU Unconquered Invitational from Friday, March 2 to Sunday, March 4.
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This week in athletics Men’s basketball vs. UNF - Semifinals By Matt Rothman Assistant Sports Editor @MattRothman3 The No. 1 FGCU men’s basketball team is set to host No. 5 UNF on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the semifinals of the ASUN Tournament.
The Eagles are coming off an impressive 20-point win over No. 8 USC Upstate in the quarterfinals where Zach Johnson finished the game with 26 points. FGCU defeated UNF in the ASUN final and twice this year by an average of 21 points. The
Ospreys defeated No. 4 NJIT in their first game of the conference tournament 80-76. The winner of this game will play in the ASUN finals on Sunday at 3 p.m. playing the winner of No. 2 Lipscomb and No. 3 Jacksonville game.
Women’s basketball vs. NJIT - Quarterfinals By Matt Rothman Assistant Sports Editor @MattRothman3 The FGCU’s women’s basketball team will be competing in the ASUN Women’s Basketball quarterfinal on Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m. in Alico Arena. The Eagles will play NJIT for a chance to advance to the ASUN
semifinals. FGCU will be going into this game with an overall record of 27-4, while NJIT has an overall record of 4-25. The Eagles have a current ASUN conference record of 13-1, while the Highlanders are 2-12 in the conference. The Eagles have faced the Highlanders twice in the 2016-17
season, where FGCU prevailed by a margin of at least 20 points each game. Should they win this game, the Eagles will compete in the semifinals on Wednesday, March 7 for a chance to move on to the ASUN conference championship.
Men’s tennis at UNF By Jordyn Matez Staff Writer @jordynmatez The FGCU men’s tennis is set to play its first conference game in Jacksonville against UNF this Friday, March 2 at 6 p.m. The Eagles will be coming off a 4-2 win against Arlington,
making their overall record 3-5. The Ospreys will be going into this game with a record of 4-6. UNF will be coming off a match against the College of Charleston prior to facing the Eagles. UNF recently took a close 4-3 victory over Charlotte. The last time these two teams
went head-to-head was in the 2017 ASUN championship where the Eagles took the Ospreys 4-3. Next, FGCU will then be returning home to face the College of William and Mary on Thursday, March 8 at 5 p.m.
Baseball series at Bethune-Cookman By Jordyn Matez Staff Writer @jordynmatez The FGCU baseball team will be traveling to Daytona Beach to compete in a series against Bethune-Cookman University the weekend of March 2. The first game will be held
Friday March 2 at 4 p.m., with a game the following day Saturday, March 3 at 3 p.m.. The series will close with a 2 p.m. game on Sunday, March 4. FGCU is coming off of a series win against ETSU, making its overall record 6-1. Bethune-Cookman will be entering the series with an overall
record of 3-5. The last time the Eagles and the Wildcats met in 2017, FGCU took the series with a 2-1 sweep. Next, the Eagles will travel to Tallahassee to face Florida A&M on Tuesday, March 6 at 4 p.m.
Softball at FSU Unconquered Invitational By Jordyn Matez Staff Writer @jordynmatez The undefeated FGCU softball team will travel to Tallahassee for the FSU Unconquered Invitational this weekend. The Eagles will play five games
throughout the weekend, battling against Florida State, University of Oregon and Hofstra University. The Eagles are coming off a 2-1 win against UConn at the FGCU Four Points Invitational, where Bri Bennett had a walk-off hit to move to 13-0. Hofstra will be entering the
tournament with an 8-4 record, FSU with a 10-4 record and Oregon with a 12-3 record. Next, the Eagles will travel to Santa Barbara, California to face UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday, March 7.
Men’s golf at Fort Lauderdale Intercollegiate By Jordyn Matez Staff Writer @jordynmatez The FGCU’s men’s golf team will travel to Fort Lauderdale next week to battle in the Fort Lauderdale Intercollegiate. The Eagles will play 36 holes on Monday, March 5, and then take on the final round the next
Women’s tennis vs. Western Michigan By Jordyn Matez Staff Writer @jordynmatez The FGCU women’s tennis team will be hosting Western Michigan at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 5.
FGCU has a current 2-4 overall record, while Western Michigan will be coming into the game with a 6-4 record overall. This is the first time FGCU will meet up with Western Michigan, making for an interesting match.
The Eagles are coming off a tough loss against Georgia state, where they went 1-6 and then fell two days later against No. 18 Tennessee. Next, FGCU will host Michigan State University on Friday, March 9 at 1 p.m.
day, Tuesday, March 6. FGCU recently took home the gold in the inaugural Randy Grimes memorial shootout, the Eagles first match since the fall season. FGCU finished the two rounds with an overall score of 602- which was five shots clear of the second place teams, FAU and Jacksonville.
Both FAU and Jacksonville were ranked ahead of FGCU in the Golf Stat national rankings entering the tournament, making an Eagles win all the more better. Next, FGCU will be traveling to Tampa on Monday, March 12 for the USF classic, which will conclude on Tuesday, March 13.
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EN Photo/Ryan Smith Spaceship Earth is a symbol for Epcot’s message of progress.
By Sarajane Sullivan Managing Editor @xosarajane Disney’s got abandonment issues, just not in the traditional sense. They’re not worried about being abandoned, on the contrary, according to a 2016 global attractions attendance report by the Themed Entertainment Association and AECOM, attendance across the board at Walt Disney World has been steadily rising since 2012, other than a small dip in 2016. Really the problem is that Disney’s executives are abandoning their Orlando parks piece by piece. I may sound contradictory. After all, Disney has spent the last few years designing and implementing massive additions to their Walt Disney World properties,
including Pandora: The World of Avatar at Animal Kingdom and the soon-to be-opened Toy Story Land and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Hollywood Studios. But here’s the thing: Disney is a haven for abandoned-structures enthusiasts. Search “abandoned Disney” on YouTube and you’ll see what I mean. There are at least four abandoned structures at Walt Disney World that I can think of off the top of my head including an abandoned waterpark, an abandoned island that was once an animal sanctuary, and two (more or less) abandoned pavilions in Epcot, all easily accessible if you know 1.) that they exist and 2.) how to get to them. While the first two of these abandoned properties are truly abandoned and decrepit, the second two have been abandoned in a more foreboding way.
These pavilions have been stripped down from the technological marvels they once were, and have been molded to fit a park that no longer knows what it is. Epcot started out as a love child to Walt Disney’s original intention for the Florida project, an experimental prototype community of tomorrow. The community was supposed to be a hub for progress, a place where companies could come to test out their newest technologies and designs, all spearheaded by Disney himself. Disney, however, died suddenly of lung cancer before construction began. The Disney company was left with the bizarre idea of a semi-socialistic mini community and very few details on how it was supposed to work. So, naturally, they built a castle instead. In 1971, the Disney
company opened the Magic Kingdom and 11 years later, in 1982, they opened Epcot. It was faithful to the original concept – without all the weird city-of-thefuture stuff. Epcot became a center of technology and progress. Investors came to Epcot to showcase their new designs and sponsor attractions that housed new technologies. Disney’s imagineers worked with experts all around the world to use new urban farming techniques. To this day, most of the food in any given Epcot restaurant was grown right there in the park. It was half a world’s fair and half a preview of the future. Author Ray Bradbury wrapped up Epcot’s concept perfectly in a quote he gave to Disney’s official fan club, D23. “The whole of Epcot teaches us how miraculous we are,” Bradbury said. “We are very special people. We are part of something that began millions of years ago. So, all the time, on every side, Epcot points to you and says, ‘You are individual. You are creative. I hand you the future; step into it. Believe and go forth.’” The Epcot of today passes on the belief that progress and learning don’t really matter, mostly because Disney has decided that only one thing matters: making money as quickly as possible with little thought on the longevity a project may have. There are many examples of this going on
in Walt Disney World right now, but we’ll stay focused on Epcot. In August of 2017, Disney closed the Universe of Energy, a 45-minute ride that taught guests all about new energy technologies and featured Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ellen Degeneres (I mean, come on, that’s just cool), to make way for a “Guardians of the Galaxy” themed roller coaster. Awesome, I love roller coasters; I love Marvel movies, but I still have a problem. What exactly does this roller coaster have to do with handing the future to the next generation? And, aside from that, “Guardians of the Galaxy” isn’t even one of the most profitable Marvel films. The first “Guardians of the Galaxy” is 12th on the list while “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is seventh, according to boxofficemojo.com. Is this attraction something that will last? Does it fit with Epcot’s theme? My answer is no. To be clear, I don’t have a problem with bringing in new attractions. The whole point of this park is progress, and the Universe of Education needed updating. However, I do have a problem with poor stewardship. While Disney is spending millions of dollars on new roller coasters, it has infrastructure that urgently needs attending to. In January of this year, guests got a big surprise when the monorail doors opened on their way to Epcot. In the video posted
on Instagram, guests warily eye the door as they’re speeding along at about 40 miles per hour. Luckily, no one was hurt. \The monorails often break down, and last time I went to Disney, I timed stepping out of my car to stepping foot on Magic Kingdom property at about an hour. Talk about magic. That being said, I’m not a Disney preservationist. I don’t think attractions should stay in the park simply because they have nostalgic value. There are a lot of changes I like. However, from a longobservant fan’s perspective, Disney’s money-making solution these days has been ‘let’s slap a character on it and call it a day.’ The other day, someone suggested to me that Future World in Epcot should be turned into Marvel-Land and I nearly had a full-on heart attack. In the world we live in today, progress and innovation matter more than ever. Bringing people joy matters. We look to our world leaders to bring us hope, but what we’re learning is that hope is the product of progress. Teenagers are marching, people are rising up, they need industries to progress ethically and rise up with them. Disney, do what you are supposed to do. Create joy, and hand the future to the next generation. Maybe we have some ideas for you. Don’t abandon us.
DIY: Vegan options for popular snacks Have the treat without the guilt By Deanna Simmons E&L Editor @lvnarvinam Being vegan doesn’t have to mean that you have to miss out on old favorites. In my own journey of eating cleaner and trying out some vegan options, I’ve found some really great recipes for some classic foods that all just so happen to be vegan. The first recipe that I’m going to share with you is the best recipe for vegan chocolate chip cookies. What you’ll need is onehalf cup of solid coconut oil, one and one-fourth cups of packed light brown sugar, two teaspoons of vanilla extract, one-fourth cup of coconut milk, onefourth cup of unsweetened applesauce, two and onefourth cups of all-purpose
flour, one teaspoon of baking soda, one-half teaspoon of salt, two cups of vegan chocolate chips, and flaky sea salt. First, preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set that aside. In a bowl, whisk together the coconut oil, brown sugar and vanilla, making sure that they’re combined. Once done, add in the coconut milk and applesauce. Mix that until fully combined and set the mix aside. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix well. Add together the dry and wet ingredients and stir until combined together. Fold in the chocolate chips and scoop the dough onto the cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. Cool on
a baking sheet for fifteen minutes before putting on a cooling rack and serve. The second recipe is an alternative to chicken nuggets, veggie nuggets. What you’ll need is one half cup of panko or gluten free breadcrumbs, one-half cup of rolled oats, one can of garbanzo beans,(make sure you don’t drain them), one teaspoon of kosher salt, one-half teaspoon of garlic powder, and one-half teaspoon of onion powder. Place your oven rack in the middle of the oven and heat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Put the panko on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until toasted for about five minutes. Transfer that to a bowl and set it aside. Once done, line the sheet with parchment paper. Put the oats in a blender and
process them as best as you can, transferring to a large bowl afterwards. Drain the chickpeas over a measuring cup, then save them and one-fourth of the liquid. Put the chickpeas in the blender and add the salt, garlic and onion powder. Pulse blend until it’s crumbly. Keep the mixture inside the blender for now. Whisk the chickpea liquid until it’s foamy and add that to one-half cup of oat flour and put it into the blender. Pulse until the mixture is a ball. Divide the mixture into twelve portions and shape into a nugget. Coat each in the toasted panko and place on the baking sheet. Bake what’s there until crispy, which should be 15 to 20 minutes and serve warm. EN illustration / Audrey Mobley
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