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When Shenika Bourne argues with her boyfriend, she gets her way. The arguments often take text form. Heated cyber exchanges last well into the night, even when Bourne sleeps— the only time she lets up. On a recent night, Bourne and her boyfriend debated the legitimacy of the TLC show, “Extreme Couponing,” where crazed shoppers plot their way to extreme savings. Bourne’s boyfriend doubted a teenage boy would purchase maxi pads just because coupons made it free. Bourne believes every word of the show, and her rhetoric backed it up. Until, later that night, Bourne claimed to send a text in her sleep. “Me and my boyfriend were going back-and-forth, and I somehow managed to let him get his way,” Bourne said. “I usually fight to the end of it. I woke up to a text from him that said, ‘You agreed with me last night.’ I was like, ‘No I didn’t.’ Then he forwarded me the message and I was like, ‘Damn.’” Bourne, a senior majoring in social work, is one of many students who claim to wake up in the morning shocked to find they have sent text messages, yet don’t remember doing so. Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, an assistant professor in the department of social and behavioral sciences who specializes in memory, says “sleep texters” are actually not asleep.

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“Sleep texting is kind of a misnomer,” Salapska-Gelleri said. “These students who claim to do it are not asleep. You are in a light and shallow sleep. You are so in tune with the beep of your phone that it becomes an automatic response to look at it when it beeps. The beep brings you to a non-sleep level of consciousness, where you respond, but don’t remember what you said.” Salapska-Gelleri compares it to driving on the highway, nearly missing the exit, and forgetting how you got there at all. Kristin Milligan, a senior majoring in journalism, texts in and out of sleep. She falls asleep, wakes up to the buzz of her phone, sends a text, and goes back under again. “I wake up for good in the

morning and I see a half-sent text and I don’t remember texting at all that late at night,” Milligan said. “I feel really dumb. It’s not even garbage or mangled words. I wake up to see that I formed grammatically correct sentences.” After the sent text, the brain falls quickly back to sleep, and it has no time to retain the activity. “These kids grab their phones, respond and go back very quickly into sleep mode,” SalapskaGelleri said. “When you sleep, information you learn through the day consolidates. You need time for that to happen. Here, the action doesn’t get consolidated. It just goes away and is forgotten. So, it isn’t stored in long-term memory.” Bourne didn’t mean to let her boyfriend have his way. But, maybe, deep in her subconscious, she felt sympathy. “Depending on what the person is thinking about or dreaming about leading up to the text, the responses might be nonsensical,” Salapska-Gelleri said. “You are in control, but the inhibitory part of your brain, which relates to your ability to sensor yourself, might be asleep. You may disclose something you wouldn’t say when you are fully awake and conscious.” Experts won’t label sleep texting as an official disorder, not until it’s proven to be so disruptive that it limits every day means to survival.

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Year-round, FGCU students will travel all over the world to voice their support on a variety of causes. Members of the Newman Club, FGCU’s student Catholic organization, are one of the latest to do just that. For three days in January, nine members from the Newman Club traveled to Washington, D.C., with the Diocese of Venice, to take part in the March for Life, an annual prolife rally held on the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, the 1973

Supreme Court case that ultimately led to the legalization of abortion. The rally traces its roots to the backlash from pro-life proponents aganst Roe vs. Wade. They felt there was a need to memorialize the decision, and thus the March for Life was born. The first march was held Jan. 22, 1974, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with 20,000 in attendance. The March for Life has been held every year since then. This year, it was estimated that half a million people were in attendance, according to rally organizers, including the nine FGCU Newman Club members. During their three-day trip,

the students toured a variety of Washington landmarks, including the White House, the Washington and Lincoln monuments and Arlington National Cemetery. The group also took part in several Masses: one at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and another at the D.C. Armory. They also took part in a Youth Rally before marching at the main march. For FGCU Newman Club president Victoria Massimo, what was perhaps the most striking experience for her at the March for Life was the sheer amount of people

who turned out to protest abortion. “We saw mothers, fathers, babies, religious life, brothers and sisters, priests, bishops, students from schools all over the country. And people of all religious and ethnic backgrounds:; Catholics, Baptists, atheists, blacks, whites, Hispanics, the list goes on.” For those interested in joining FGCU’s Newman Club, Massimo says you are free to attend any of their weekly events, including Sunday Mass at 9 p.m. and “Devodinner,” their free dinner and devotional discussion at 6:30 p.m. Mondays in Eagle’s Landing.

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<m\ekj United Way: Help out this nonprofit with Bonita Bay Group on Feb. 11 at “The Real Deal: Tastes, Tours & Tunes.” Students are required to wear khaki pants, a polo shirt and comfortable shoes. Contact Angela Bell at abell@ gravinasmith.com or 239-2755758. Susan G. Komen for the Cure SWFL: Needs volunteers to table at the Coconut Point Art Fest Feb. 11-12. Need help with tabling and registering for an upcoming race. Have muscles? Need lots of guys to move artwork! Email info@komenswfl. org or call 239-498-0016. Coalition of Immokalee Workers: Join the large picket at Trader Joe’s grand opening in Naples on Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Help the scores of tomato pickers with the Fair Food accord to increase pay and protect human rights. Contact Julia Shindel at julia.shindel@gmail.com or call 215-715-0717. FUN-damental Fitness 4 Kidz: This nonprofit fights childhood obesity. Help them build or decorate a float for the Edison Festival Junior Parade held on Feb. 12. Contact Mr. Deke at mr.deke@yahoo.com or call 239-470-3269. CCMI: FGCU students, Andrew Green and Kate Dupre, are holding the Pureheart Clothing 1st Annual Event on Feb. 14 from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. to help the soup kitchen. Bring your FGCU student ID to receive a free shirt! For more information, go to www.facebook.com/ PureheartClothing. Children Cancer Foundation: Enjoy an event on campus at Alico Arena! Help with setup, registration, and cleanup at the Zumbathon event on Feb. 25. The event is from noon-3 p.m. Meet 32 Zumba instructors! Get a free T-shirt! In Florida, there are 750 new cases of childhood cancer diagnosed each year. Although the survival rate is 80 percent, cancer is still the leading cause of death in disease among children. Volunteers are appreciated! Contact Klaudia Balogh at klaudia.balogh@ childrencancerfoundation.org. Radiating Hope: Want to help out the 5k Run/Walk for Cancer race with advertising and publicizing or identifying race sponsors? Radiating Hope is an organization founded by radiation oncologists and mountain climbers wanting to help cancer patients around the world. To volunteer, contact Dr. Jared Robbins at jrobbin1@hfhs. org.

The Edge: Help organize Riding to Break the Cycle held at Lakes Park on Feb. 26. This event helps to break the cycle of abuse, addictions, bullying, and homelessness. Email aedwards@edgeofnaples.com or 239-745-1638. The Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples: Help out at the newly opened museum in Naples. Contact Lindsay Flanagan Huban at lflanagan@ cmon.org or 239-514-0084.

:fccfhl`ld FGCU Food Forest: This student-run botanical garden highlights tropical/subtropical edible species that grow well in South Florida and is right here on campus! They need students to help on Friday 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. Any messages can be sent to http://fgcufoodforest.weebly. com/send-us-a-message.html. Pinewoods Elementary School: This school is unique in its passion for sustainability and environmental education. Help facilitate, plan, and organize the club meetings, as well as plan educational presentations and activities for the students. Contact Laura Layton at lelayton@eagle.fgcu.edu. Sustainable Living and Interconnected Education (SLIE): This new nonprofit’s first goal is making the property more green. They have gardens planned, compost sections, rain barrels and hopefully some tilapia fish farming. This is just the beginning; so much of what needs to be done will be decently challenging labor, digging, building raised garden beds, constructing water capturing vessels and their gutters. They welcome any and all people with what they like to call a “green brain,” which is anyone with thoughts of doing something to positively improve the world we live in rather than feed off of and destroy it. Contact Hunter Preston at slieinc@yahoo.com or 239-245-3250. Heartland Gardens: Did you know that FGCU alums started this nonprofit? They have a 1,700 square-foot raised labyrinth and they’re landscaping the entire acre with edible plants. Help with your financial expertise, business background, economic background, bookkeeping and data entry skills, public relations or communications background, or assist with newsletters, e-blasts, or grant writing. Contact Andrea at andrea@heartlandgardens.org or call 239-689-4249. CREW Land & Water Trust: Organize/lead CREW hikes. Contact Deb Dorsett Hanson at eecrew@earthlink.net or 239657-2253 or cell 239-229-1088.

Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium: Numerous opportunities! Contact info@ calusanature.org or call 2753435. Rookery Bay: The Estuary Explorers 4th Grade Program needs volunteers to teach either the oyster or plankton lab section of the class every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Please pack your lunch. The dates are Feb. 14-15; March 27 and April 12. Call 239-417-6310. Naples Botanical Garden: Horticulture gardening starts at 8 a.m. Monday through Friday and includes weeding, potting, moving plants, digging, raking, sweeping, clearing debris, etc. Wear closed-toe shoes. No shorts or tank tops. Bring water. Wear sunscreen. Bring work gloves if you have them. Looking especially for groups of students on Fridays. No last minute requests. Give 4-5 day lead time. If you commit and then can’t make it, give notice. Be on time. Email Sally Richardson at srichardson@naplesgarden.org. ECHO: Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian organization that exists for one major reason, to help those working internationally with the poor be more effective, especially in the area of agriculture! To help, send an email to echo@echonet. org.

Fe^f`e^ Fggfikle`k`\j Uncommon Friends Foundation: Are you a history buff? Become a tour guide in a Georgian Revival-style home located on the bank of the Caloosahatchee River in Downtown Fort Myers. Contact Christine Forbes at Christine@ BurroughtsHome.com or 239337-0706. FGCU Contemporary World Religions: Professor Ehman needs two students to assist him in his large class REL 2306, Contemporary World Religions, which meets MW at 9:30–10:45 a.m. in AB5, Room 112. Contact Amanda Parke at aparke@fgcu. edu or call 239-590-7833. Grace Community Center: Has a multitude of opportunities! Help with an after-school program for at-risk high school students, tutor to GED seekers, thrift store assistance, or serve food to neighbors in need. Contact Cheryl Wilcox at cwilcox@egracechurch.com or 239-656-1320. FGCU Athletics: Numerous opportunities with game day operations. Serve as usher for basketball, baseball, softball, and timer for swimming and

diving. Contact Will Pitt at wpitt@fgcu.edu or 239-5907055. Dress for Success: Do you love posting on Facebook, have a passion for marketing, send email blasts, or want to update a website? Dress for Success promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women to thrive in work and in life. Contact Barbara Dell at swflorida@dressforsuccess.org. The Quality Life Center: Want to help kids with their homework? Contact Angela Pena at 239-334-2797. FGCU Center for Academic Achievement: Need tutors in math, Biology, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Statistics, and Intro. to Psychology. Applicants must have earned a B+ or higher in the course they desire to tutor and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Paid students are not eligible to earn service-learning hours. Contact Frank Graceffo at 239-590-7992 or by email at fgraceff@fgcu.edu. Abuse Counseling & Treatment (ACT): Second Act Thrift store needs help. The benefit of volunteering is a 50 percent discount! Also need someone to help this nonprofit agency with a marketing plan for two to three months. Contact Honara Jacobus at hjacobus@ actabuse.com or 239-939-2553. YMCA: Help coach basketball, soccer, flag football or assist with events. Contact Lisa at lisaw@leecountyymca. org. SWFL Youth Basketball: Help coach basketball to children ages 5-17 with running score books and clocks on Saturday and Sunday. Contact Dave Smith at swflyouthbasketball@yahoo. com or 239-267-7922. M.C. Library Education Center Corp (MCCLECC): Assist with library, food bank, after school program, internet radio and adult services. Contact info@mclecc.org or call 239-288-5349 x200 or x217. Take Stock in Children: Become A Mentor! Few bonds in life are more influential than those between a young person and an adult. Take Stock in Children needs mentors for Caloosa Middle School, Dunbar High School, East Lee County High School, Fort Myers High School, Ida Baker High School, Lehigh Senior High School. Call 239-337-0433. Information is provided by the Service Learning department. All opportunities are pre-approved. You can find more opportunities on Facebook at “FGCU Service Learning.”

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POLICE BEAT Sunday Jan. 29 at 9:57 p.m.: A UPD officer witnessed three males enter a vehicle and begin smoking marijuana outside of Everglades Hall. The men were confronted by officers and a search of the car was conducted but nothing was found inside. One of the men is a student and was turned over to Judicial. The other two were escorted off campus. Tuesday Jan. 31 at 3:36 p.m.: UPD was advised by a female

student that her ex-boyfriend had just been released from jail and she was afraid that he might come on campus to make contact with her. She told officers that he had been arrested for stealing a gun and money from her. Wednesday Feb. 1 at 12:51 p.m.: The manager of SoVi notified UPD that an individual was taking food from the dining line and stuffing items into a backpack. By the time UPD

arrived on scene, the individual had already left the area. Friday Feb. 3 at 12:50 a.m.: While on patrol a UPD officers observed three individuals standing in the Everglades Hall parking lot acting in a suspicious manner. Officers said when they made contact with the individuals they smelled heavily of marijuana. Drug paraphernalia and less than 20 grams of marijuana was found in their possession and the

individuals were escorted to UPD.

The Police Beat is compiled by Eagle News staff from public logs available at the University Police Department. Police Beat is not associated with the UPD. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

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The concept of sustainability is simple, yet complex. Sustainability has been at the core of FGCU’s guiding principles since the beginning. But what does it really mean? It depends on who you ask because sustainability means different things to different people. To Michael Sanchez, a junior majoring in management, sustainability is “living our lives using the least amount of resources as possible.� Lauren Blair, a sophomore majoring in elementary education, simply called it “being able to sustain yourself.� Some dictionaries, such as the online version of Merriam-Webster, don’t

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contain a definition for the word. Instead, sustainability is listed as a form of the word sustainable. Dictionary.com defines sustainability as “the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance.� But sustainability applies to more than the environment. This is evident in FGCU’s updated definition of environmental sustainability, which includes the concepts of culture, nature, human rights, peace and “economic justice.� Logan Johnson, a junior majoring in communications, agreed calling sustainability a “forward thinking way of life� that takes into account the well-being of future generations. “It applies to ecology, economics, everything,� Johnson added. Morgan Paine, an associate professor

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and chair for the department of visual and performing arts, likened sustainability to a “three-dimensional spiral� where the cycles of life and renewal do not return to their beginning, but instead, build upon one another. Paine used the terra cotta warriors found in Lutgert Hall to illustrate his definition of sustainability — a “fundamental ability to persist.� The clay used to make terra cotta warriors today is from the same reserve used 2,500 years ago. This weekly series of stories is designed to take the complexity out of sustainability. The series will provide information on sustainable events happening on and around campus and the people who work to make them happen. It will highlight unique ways

sustainability shapes decisions in the FGCU community. It will also look at how departments, not traditionally thought of as “environmental,� incorporate sustainability into their processes and policies. Most important of all, this series is about how the concept and practice of sustainability affects you — as a student, as an individual and as a member of the world community. So if you have questions, topics you’d like to learn more about, or if you see an opportunity to improve sustainability somewhere on campus or in the community, write in and your idea might become the focus of a Sustainable U article. Send ideas to news@eaglenews.org and put “Sustainable U� in the subject line.

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=\YilXip Yi`e^j =i\eZ_ Ă”cd ]\jk 9p BXk`\ <^Xe JkX]] ni`k\i Students and members of the community will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in French culture this month during FGCU’s first TournĂŠes French film festival. “I think it will be a good way to learn about a culture,â€? said Michael Pollard, a senior majoring in accounting. Five recent French-speaking films with English subtitles will be shown throughout the month of February. The Departments of Language and Literature; Communication and Philosophy; the College of Arts and Sciences; Multicultural Student Services; The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies; and Amnesty International have all collaborated to put on the event. “My goal is to promote diversity and cultural awareness on campus and throughout Southwest Florida,â€? said Delphine Gras,

director and organizer of the event and a professor in language and literature. “Anyone is welcome.� Gras is very excited to be able to put on the event this year after receiving a grant from FACE, the French American Cultural Exchange. “It is because of them that we are able to offer the event,� Gras said. If the event is successful, Gras will have to reapply for a grant, but may be able to get the grant renewed for another five years. “That will depend on the advertising and the amount of people that show up,� Gras said. �I think it would be a good opportunity to learn a new language,� said Leroy Campbell, a senior majoring in civil engineering. The free festival kicked off last Thursday, Feb. 2, with hors d’oeuvres and cold drinks for guests and with the showing of the 2007 film, “La Vie En Rose,� by Oliver Dahan. “La Vie En Rose� portrays the life of Edith Piaf, a 20th century French singing icon. The 2007 film, “Paris� by Cedric Klapisch,

will follow at 6 p.m. Thursday. According to the event flier, “Paris� gives viewers a sense of the multitudes and complexities contained within one of the world’s greatest cities. The following Thursday, Feb. 16, the 2009 film “Copie Conforme� by Abbas Kiarostami will begin at 7 p.m. after an introductory lecture by Dr. Farshad Aminian, assistant professor in the department of communication and philosophy. In “Copie Conforme,� the Iranian director, Kiarostami, plays with the concept of authenticity vs. fabrication when an English writer meets an anonymous woman. Another 2007 film, “Le Chant Des Mariees (The Wedding Song),� by Karin Albou, will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, after an introductory lecture by John Cox. Cox is an associate professor of Holocaust and comparative genocide studies in the department of global, international and area studies at the University of North CarolinaCharlotte.

The film is set in Nazi-occupied Tunis in 1942. “The Wedding Songâ€? focuses on the friendship between teenagers Nour, a devout Muslim celebrating her engagement to Khaled; and her neighbor, Myriam, a secular Jew living with her widowed mother. The last film of the event, “Persepolisâ€? by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, is also a 2007 film and will start at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23. “Persepolisâ€? is a story of a young girl coming of age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Gras hopes the event will provide the cultural awareness she thinks is so important for students’ futures. “In this global world, we can’t do anything if we don’t open our eyes and ears to different cultures,â€? Gras said. “It brings us better job opportunities and helps us score higher on our tests ‌ not to mention so much personal growth.â€? All the movies will be shown in the Sudgen Welcome Theater, room108.

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55 K<OK@E> However, the constant interruptions during sleep bring severe consequences. Salapska-Gelleri says that when you awaken throughout the night, you never enter REM, the most important sleep stage. A routine lack of REM sleep can lead to hallucinations and delusions. When she winds down before bed, Bourne scrolls through her texts from the day and scans her Facebook feed. Milligan nervously braces for the latest Twitter updates, afraid sleep will leave her left out of the loop. Both won’t admit to an addiction, and neither see their behavior as a problem. Still, Salapska-Gellerri offers a cure: Turn the phone off. Bourne will have none of it. In fact, by refusing to turn her phone off at night, Bourne acts as a hero. “It boils down to not wanting to say, ‘I’ll talk to you later,’� Bourne said. “My friend might go out and I want to know

a couple grand within a week’s time. The scam can range anywhere from what seems to be a high-demand and high-paying job offer to as innocent as an offer to buy a student’s textbook. But no matter the scam, the process is always the same: The scammer will mail a check to a potential victim, higher than the price asked. The scammer will then ask the student to deposit the check and send back the excess funds, via wire service, such as Western Union. Little does the victim know, but the check is fraudulent, and will be bounced by the bank. And the excess funds sent by the victim? Forever lost to the criminal. FGCU police Chief Steven Moore knows

of several instances in which FGCU students were victimized by such scams. One instance involved a student who was selling textbooks. An interested buyer sent the student a check for more than the asking price. However, after noticing the check was in a different name than the original buyer, the student called the company issuing the check, who then informed him/her it was a counterfeit. Another student who was offered cash to buy several items for an anonymous buyer went through a similar process. However, after following through with the scammer’s requests to wire the excess funds, the student lost several hundred dollars. The student was then referred to the Lee County

Sheriff’s Office Fraud Unit by the bank. UPD became so concerned with the flux of victimized students that they sent out a campus-wide email highlighting the dangers of the virtual crimes. “Remember,� Moore said, “you are not a bank. Why would someone who offers to buy something from you for $500 send you a check for $1,300? The simple answer is they wouldn’t. But people are so eager to make money that they fall for this and send money back.� If you are a victim of such a scam, or think you are, contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Office Fraud Line at 239-477-1242, or contact FGCU PD at 590-1900.

she is okay. I want that final, ‘I’m good. I’m safe’ text. If something happens, I’m there.� Milligan’s phone will have to let her down before she turns it off. “The only way I’ll turn it off is if I had a bad battery,� Milligan said.

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of the FGCU community have come out in support of the CIW. Anne Hartley, an associate professor in the department of marine and ecological sciences, has made students in her class aware of the issue. “Two years ago, FGCU signed on as an affiliate to the Earth Charter. The CIW’s efforts to lift up their community by enabling workers to support their families and improving working conditions, including an end to slavery, is perfectly aligned with Earth Charter principles,” Hartley said. Hartley has had both the CIW and the Student Farm worker Alliance, a studentled allied group, come into her Foundations of Civic Engagement class several times to present. Hartley said she invited the CIW and SFA to give students broader sense of community and describes the CIW as “local heroes.” Dr. Kristine De Welde, associate professor of sociology, has also had the CIW present in several of her classes and has found that students enjoy the presentations. “Students are very receptive to CIW & SFA,” De Welde said. “(As) someone concerned about labor rights,

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human rights and women’s rights, I would support (the CIW’s) important actions.” The CIW’s landmark agreement is being hailed by the New York Times as “possibly the most successful labor action in the U.S. in 20 years.” “It is worth teaching about,” De Welde said. Neither professor is a stranger to being active with the CIW in their local community. De Welde has always had an interest in social and environmental justice movements and has spoken out on behalf of the CIW in the past. Hartley says she felt obligated to help and set an example for her students.

“I felt as though I couldn’t require my students to engage in the community unless I did the same,” she said. “I’ve worked to support the CIW through outreach in my church and will march with the CIW and SFA on Feb. 12.” Both professors value the example the CIW sets for students. For Hartley, that’s what FGCU’s mission statement is all about. “The university’s mission engages us all — educators and students alike — in community service, to be receptive to societal needs, to use our skills, passions and interests to identify a need. ... Essentially, the course is about democracy in action.”

FGCU will be hosting the Promising Pathways National Conference on Autism on April 14. This year’s keynote speakers are Temple Grandin and Tristam Smith. Grandin, an animal research scientist, has high-functioning autism. She is a bestselling author and is listed in TIME magazine’s 2010 top 100 most influential people in the world in the “Heroes” category. In 2010, HBO created the movie “Temple Grandin,” which shows the effect her research has had in the world of autism. Smith works at the University of Rochester Medical Center as a behavior specialist in the Community Consultation Program in the Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities. As a researcher, Smith conducts studies toward identifying effective treatments and interventions for children with autism. This is the fifth year FGCU has organized the Promising Pathways conference. “I think we are such a great resource here. We have a lot of community support, so we thought FGCU would be a good place to organize a conference,” said Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, an assistant professor and one of the founders of the conference. Salapska-Gelleri hopes the conference, which is free for students and the public, will give parents a renewed sense of hope. “The reason we wanted to make it free for attendees is because parents are extremely burdened. This is a lifelong care scenario so they are extremely burdened by the financial costs of it,” Salapska-Gelleri said. “Also, you can imagine that a parent with a child on the (autism) spectrum will try anything.” The conference begins at 8 a.m. and takes place in Alico Arena. Online registration is required to attend and is currently open. To register, visit http://www.fgcu.edu/ events/promisingpathways.

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and delicious food. With Valentine’s Day so popular, whether the celebrants are young or old, rich or poor, in sickness or in health, February emerges the month of marking unity and passion, with men and women alike professing mutual emotions.

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10 Things I Hate About You: New guy at Padua High School, Cameron, is shown around the school by Michael when he first sees Bianca Stratford. She is a sophomore who wants to date, but isn’t allowed to until her stubborn, older sister, Katarina, has a boyfriend. The two guys pay Joey Donner (Heath Ledger) to date Kat and that’s when the trouble begins. 10 Things I Hate About You is adapted from William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.”

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Love & Basketball: Quincy McCall and Monica Wright grew up together always fighting but sharing a love for basketball. As they move into adulthood they fall in love and struggle to make the relationship work through college basketball and big-league stardom.

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A Walk to Remember: Landon Carter is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until he’s forced to be a member in his school’s drama club. There he falls in love with sweet religious Jamie Sullivan, the minister’s daughter.

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50 First Dates: Henry Roth is happy living a life full of one-night stand, until he falls in love with Lucy. Problem is, Lucy has no short-term memory and Henry has to win her love every single day

of. They have St. Patrick’s Day in March, so they said, ‘Hmm, we need something in February.’ So they chose Valentine’s Day.” Whether you believe that Valentine’s Day now only serves to line business’ pockets, or to practice the art of romance and courtship with your significant other, Valentine’s Day presents a legend of unconditional love, faith, and perseverance.

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According to one legend, the Romans founded the practice of celebrating romance on a February 15 festival, Lupercalia, a celebration dedicated to the goddess Juno centering on spring, marriage, and fertility. Rising to prominence, however, Christianity began to overtake the older traditions, redesignating Roman holidays to honor early Christian martyrs or other important events, including St. Valentine’s Day. Beginning in 496 AD, Pope Gelasius repackaged the festival of Lupercalia and renamed it St. Valentine’s Day, moving back the observance to February 14 to honor Valentine, who died for his Christian beliefs under Emperor Claudius II in 260 A.D. Holding illegal marriage ceremonies despite the Emperor’s decree that no Roman soldier could marry, Valentine, a Christian bishop, defied the law, and paid with his life. While awaiting his execution, St. Valentine, a close friend of

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his jailer’s daughter, wrote a farewell letter titled “From Your Valentine” to her, and thus began the tradition of Valentine’s Day cards. Since Valentine’s death, lovers far and wide came to honor the fallen hero on St. Valentine’s Day, carrying out the saint’s legacy by marking their love through cards, gifts, and more. According to the Greeting Card Association, Valentine’s Day cards make up 25 percent of all cards sent every year, and many companies, including Hallmark, Walmart, and others, rely heavily on Valentine’s Day for revenue. Introduced in the 1800s, commercial valentines play a key role in today’s Valentine’s Day, and, due to this, some FGCU students give the corporations credit for transforming the holiday into a major observance. This article is reprinted from an earlier edition of Eagle News.

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P.S. I Love You: Holly Kennedy, played by Hilary Swank, and married to her soul mate, Gerry (played by Gerard Butler). Her life is perfect until her husband suddenly dies. After his death she begins to receive letters that he has left her. These letters send her on tasks to help her overcome her grief and move on with her life.

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Brown Sugar: Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) have been best friends and in love with hip-hop since they were 10 years old. They both have grown up to have successful careers in the music industry. Dre proposes to his girlfriend and Sidney begins to wonder if their friendship is something more.

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 days: Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive who makes a bet with his colleagues that he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andi Anderson, a writer for “Composure” magazine, is writing an article on how to lose a guy in 10 days. They meet in a bar later that night and the venture to make one fall in love while chasing the other one away begins.

Valentine’s Day is coming up and there’s no better way to get in the mood than with some romantic movies. There’s a love story for everyone, so if you like to laugh, cry or just watch a good heartfelt movie, we’ve got the list of films for you.

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The Notebook: Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. Noah is a poor young man who falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom; however, Allie’s parents force them to separate. Years later they meet again and Allie has to choose between her first love and her fiancé.

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Sleepless in Seattle: Sam is a widower and a single father, when his son Jonah calls into a radio talk show looking for a woman to date his father. Annie hears the program a thousand miles away and falls in love; problem is she’s already engaged.

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Titanic: Jack and Kate come from complete different social backgrounds and meet during the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic and fall madly in love. Rose DeWitt Bukater tells her story of Titanic’s first and last voyage.

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County Soup Kitchen. The CCMI is a nonprofit organization that fights to end homelessness and hunger in the community. The event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Feb. 14 at CCMI, which is located at 3429 Dr. Martin Luther Blvd., Fort Myers. Volunteering at this event will provide an opportunity for students to earn service-learning hours. Some of the tasks are preparing, cleaning and distributing food to the homeless community. FGCU students who help at the event will also receive a free T-shirt — limited in sizes and designs — and lunch at the CCMI. Eagle ID is required. To participate, students must send an email to pureheartclothing@ yahoo.com and confirm attendance. To see pictures of Pureheart’s T-shirts, check their Facebook page or follow them on Twitter @ PureheartClthing.

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It’s somewhat of an odd genre that “Chronicle� finds itself in. Found footage is really the domain of horror, while DIY Superheroes (“Kick-Ass,� “Super,� “Defendor�) lack powers. It best fits with “Unbreakable� and “Watchmen,� in the deconstruction mold. Like those films, “Chronicle� manages to fix some flaws found in a lot of the movies that have come before it. No one is ever angst about their powers; yes, there’s a little talk about boundaries and rules of use, but they’re based on common sense, not “pity poor me, I can toss around buses with my mind.� The characterization is great, even if fans of the superheroes can foresee where a lot of the plot points will end up within the first five minutes. The stuff that “Chronicle� shows has been done in comics a lot, but for some reason never in film.

Actions have consequences and all of the actions feel real. Speaking of action, this movie has a lot of it, and it’s all very well done. “Chronicle� is easily the most uniquely action-packed superhero movie ever: the characters fly, they crash through buildings, and people die when they use their powers in a crowd. For as realistic as Marvel movies claim to be, “Chronicle� puts them to shame. It also offers a level of action we’d like to see from a Superman movie, rather than him lifting a giant mountain out of the ocean. Oh, and it does all this with a marketable PG-13 rating, and only a $12 million budget. It’s mind-boggling how other movies can throw 10 to 20 times that amount of money at a project, and still end up with crap. “Chronicle� manages to set a new bar for all movies with super powers.

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competition show, is in its second season, and kicked off better than ever with the biggest non sports rating NBC has seen in six years. Judges include famed songstress Christina Aguilera, soul singer Cee Lo Green, Maroon 5 heart throb Adam Levine, and country crooner Blake Shelton, and they are back and have a higher thirst to beat out the others, especially Adam Levine, who won with one of his own team members, Javier Colon. For those who don’t know, the judges have to form their own team based on voices alone; no one can see who they choose or who has chosen them until one or more of the judges has pushed the button to turn around and see who they have selected. If more than one judge pushes the button, they have

to argue why they are the better choice than the other, and then the contestant has to choose. As the season goes on, each team goes through eliminations and battles. The show has brought in more controversy lately; Randy Jackson has called it “a place for those who ‘American Idol’ denied.� However, with “Idol� ratings going down, it seems to be that The Voice will soon be more popular than this overtired and played out show. This show is really all about talent, no bias based on looks, age, or race. “Smash� is a new show on NBC with old dreams and a somewhat older plot. Katherine McPhee stars as Karen Cartwright, a young girl trying to start a career in musical theater, and she lands a job working on a play inspired by Marilyn

Monroe. This show is bringing stars such as Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston together to help lift it out of obscurity. The show has lots of drama and shows the fierce competition of up and coming actors and actresses. The speculative buzz surrounding it has given it more attention than necessary, however. Though “Smash� had a good first episode, no one knows exactly how far it will go, and it really is in the hands of the viewer to keep it out there and keep it going. All in all, it has been a great time for musically based shows. It will definitely show in the future that competition among peers will overpower drama-based plots, and people are likely to get hooked on what they see.

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9p AXZfY Jk\`e\i JkX]] ni`k\i In 2007, Sony released “Warhawk” by Santa Monica Studios as their newest multiplayer title, to coincide with the release of their latest console, the Playstation 3. In the eyes of the gaming giant, “Warhawk” was a success because in its first week it sold 100,000 copies. Now in 2012, Sony is eager to give the gift that keeps on giving by releasing its newest title and spiritual successor, “Starhawk.” The beta opens up with the main protagonist Emmett Graves, leaning on a truck in the middle of a desert, while a Starhawk flies overhead. The start button is pressed and Emmet pulls out a tablet, which serves as the player’s main menu. The only options available to the player at this time are to create a game or start Matchmaking. In Matchmaking, there are four available options: Capture The Flag (CTF), Zones (ZNS), Team Death Match (TDM) and Death Match (DM). In Capture The Flag, the team’s objective is just as the title states: to capture the enemy flag and bring it back to your home base to score points for your team. In Zones, you try to capture as many zones as you can with the help of your teammates, and whoever has the most zones accrued at the end of the match wins. In Team Death Match, you and your

team’s objective is to slay as many foes as possible until reaching the 50-person kill limit. Death Match’s objective is the same as Team Death Match’s with the exception that it is every man for himself. The beta has been lightly packed with only two levels, Acid Sea and Space; both of the levels are outstandingly gorgeous of their own merits. Acid Sea takes place on an industrialized crater that is surrounded by an acid sea. The level is occupied with tubing, an extremely rocky terrain and an orange sky that is bathed in lightning. Space, on the other hand, is a metallic space station suspended above a vivid planet. What makes this level so special is its pinkish hues, lively color and close attention to detail. For example, every action that the player takes is muffled, ranging from a gunshot to a grenade being thrown; it truly feels authentic to the theme that is space. As soon as the match begins, the game gives the player the option to choose their entry point on the map; the player then marks the chosen entrance, and deploys the character onto the battlefield with a pod that can be maneuvered. Once the pod has landed, the player is given the opportunity to wait 10 seconds inside for safety purposes, or to hit the square button, which rips the pod apart in a fiery explosion. Now that the player is on the ground, they have three options: to tackle the objective, attack the enemy or build the base. When building the base, it is mandatory that the player has a substantial amount of credits; the credits must be obtained through killing enemy players or from a machine on the base itself. Once enough currency has been acquired, the player, with the press of a button, gains the ability to build defense walls, car garages, turrets, sniper towers, supply bunkers, jet pack dispensers, laser turrets and Starhawks. “Starhawk” the demo is a beta that handles extremely well for an online game. Its graphics are impressive and its frame rate is buttery smooth. Hopefully, these notable characteristics carry on into the full game. Look for “Starhawk” to be released June 1.

9p AXZfY Jk\`e\i JkX]] ni`k\i In the year 2007, a game was born as a new IP and a chance for 2K Games to show gamers that it could generate something much more substantial than their yearly sports titles. This brutal, vicious, magnificent little monster of a game was called “The Darkness,” which was released on Feb. 7. The demo for this game starts out with a bang just as any demo should, with the protagonist Jackie Estacado nailed to a cross in an abandoned basement while being interrogated and tortured by Victor Vale, the leader of the game’s antagonist group, The Brotherhood. Jackie passes out and the demo introduces the player to its first stage, the “restaurant shoot out.” The first thing that pops out while playing this stage of the demo is 2K’s splendid use of cell shading, which provides the game with a comic-esque look and a genuinely vivid world, which its predecessor seemed to lack. While Jackie is walking through the restaurant, its color vibrates throughout the television screen, the people glisten as they talk among themselves. Clearly, this restaurant is the place to be. The voice acting is exquisite as well, as it provides a sense of realism and draws the player further into the world. The soundtrack serves a similar purpose. Another aspect of the game that needs acknowledgment is the impressively smooth frame rate. Throughout the entire demo, never does a hiccup present itself. As Jackie finally takes his seat in front of two beautiful women, a sniper round drills a hole through the left socket of the girl to his right and an explosion liquefies

the girl to his left subsequently rendering him unconscious. Upon awakening, he finds that the flesh from his right thigh down is gone. His partner drags him by the collar, gives him a gun and the game play begins. The gunplay is tight — RT is to shoot and X is to reload — and the killing is satisfactory as blood spurts everywhere. Later in the level, dual wielding is introduced. At the end of this section, Jackie is once again burnt to a crisp and The Darkness finally unleashes itself, viciously ripping henchmen limb from limb Having The Darkness as an asset changes up the game play immensely and gives the player more options to play the game any way the player sees fit. “The Darkness” is controlled with the shoulder buttons LB and RB to open up new areas, impale your foes with sharp objects, grab weapons, use car doors as riot shields and regenerate your health. One of the coolest new features added to “The Darkness” is the option to execute your foes. The best one so far is the anaconda, a move where The Darkness wraps itself around the enemy and rips a hole through its chest cavity. In the second part of the demo the player is introduced to Jackie’s old friend, TheDarkling, a naughty little spawn of Satan; and a new addition to the game, the Skill Shrine. The shrine consists of four talent trees weapon upgrades, health upgrades, attacks and mystical talents. The demo leads into a subway fight and ends with Jackie breaking free from the cross, while Vale is scolding him for not giving up his power. If a demo’s job is to get the player excited for the full retail game, then this demo has most certainly done its job.

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1) Protein isolate, in whey form, is fast acting, easy to digest. 2) Casein form, which is slower in digesting. The supplements help because protein is the basic building block of repairing muscle. Many people underestimate the amount of protein they need. If your goal is to gain size and strength, then your requirements are even higher, roughly about 1 gram for each pound you weigh. These proteins can be mixed with any beverage of choice, and can help meet your protein needs.

Fat loss is a category of supplementation that gets used and “abused” the most in the fitness industry. The best way to reach lower levels of body fat are simply eating more nutrient dense foods, and to begin to integrate two or three interval cardio sessions. The reason fat burners don’t work on their own is because people neglect the other aspects of getting leaner which is primarily diet and exercise. Fat burners will only assist if the equation is fully mastered.

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1) Branch Chain Amino acids. These are transporters of protein to your muscles. We get BCAAs naturally from food. By taking this supplement during the time of a workout or intense aerobic activity, one can help maintain muscle mass and reduce post-workout

1) Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA). Many studies show this product can help retain muscle, while reducing body fat. 2) Proper diet/ Hydration.

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soreness. 2) Creatine Monohydrate. This supplement is also found in natural foods. Many studies have shown that this will increase endurance, reduce muscle fatigue, and help improve athletes searching to gain strength. Although we have a variety of options when looking into the world of supplementation, we must remember they are only here to “assist” and “supplement” hard work and proper nutrition. Some products that anyone just seeking to be healthier can take are multivitamins and fish oils. Of course, establishing and maintaining a proper diet is the best way to be healthier. Work toward a goal, research any supplement you are considering using, and work out hard to get the best results.

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8Yfik ZfdgXi`jfe kf ^\efZ`[\ Yp >\efZ`[\ 8nXi\e\jj Gifa\Zk 9p 8j_c\p JZfkk :feki`Ylk`e^ ni`k\i Ah, Valentine’s Day. They say when you fall in love that birds sing, bells ring and photos of dead fetuses are on the library lawn? On Feb. 13 and 14, the Genocide Awareness Project will be coming to Florida Gulf Coast University. The Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) is like the lovely traveling preachers you see on campus, but with pictures. Essentially, it is a photo mural exhibit that compares the act of abortion to the victims of the Holocaust and other historical cases of genocide. I don’t know about you, but I certainly cannot compare a woman controlling her own body to some closet case with bad facial hair killing millions of people. After I heard about GAP, I was confused. The group’s mission is to show what abortion does to unborn children and get others to think about it on a historical level, but how are women’s rights even related to genocide? When reading about the women’s suffrage movement in the 1920s, North Korean prisoners in gas chambers did not occur to me. When reading about the wage gap in my gender studies class with Dr. Dewelde last semester, I did not see the thousands of Native Americans who lost their lives to European diseases. However, when I read about female sexuality, I did think of Iraq and Iran, two of the several countries that try to suppress women’s sexual desires from making them wear veils to complete obstruction of the clitoris. I think countries that try to control women’s sexuality are so sad and, quite frankly, disrespectful. Men in Africa are so disrespectful and afraid of women that midwives sew up young girls’

vaginas to ensure premarital virginity and cleanliness. Meanwhile, a decade ago in America, our own president, George W. Bush, was trying to ban the morning-after contraceptive pill because it would “promote promiscuity.” This impertinent idea that if women were given the choice they would be out humping everything from the next door neighbor to fire hydrants can be seen today in the great abortion debate. Has keeping abortion legal increased promiscuity? No, Four Loko has increased promiscuity. Keeping abortion legal has saved lives from back alley witch doctors, and prevented an unwanted child from disappearing in an already overpopulated foster care system and from a lifetime of feeling depressed and unloved. Abortion is not murder. It is not the sound of a woman’s scream as she burns alive. If you could compare an abortion to an historical incident, I would compare it to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to some little bald man who had interrupted her in the midst of her travels. As a pro-choice, liberal, queer woman, I say we don’t need pictures of dead babies dampening our Valentine’s Day (all of the happy couples and candy have us feeling irritable and bloated enough). We need condoms, safe sex brochures, dental dams and free testing. If you want to prevent an abortion or are against one, don’t have one. You have the right to decide. Anne Frank didn’t.

Ashley is a sophomore majoring in journalism, with a minor in gender studies.

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[`m`[\j Xggc\ g`\ \m\ecp 9p 8c\o Kfnej\e[ JkX]] ni`k\i As I watched the State of the Union address on Jan. 24 with the FGCU College Democrats and other Democrats of Southwest Florida gathered for a viewing party, I had already made a mental list of what I expected to hear from President Obama in the most important speech of the year. I knew that education and jobs would be in my top three list of issues I wanted addressed, not just for that night but for the whole year. A few hours before I drove to Fort Myers, I learned that Debbie Bosanek, Warren Buffett’s secretary, was invited to the SOTU speech by the president, and I knew then the issue rounding out the top three would be our broken tax code. The Buffett Rule, as it was originally titled, was first proposed by President Obama in the SOTU speech and was later introduced into legislation in the Senate as The Paying a Fair Share Act by Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island last week. The bill states that citizens who make more than $1 million a year will pay a minimum tax rate of 30 percent. “Mr. Buffett has called for a correction of this tax anomaly and I agree with him. We should celebrate the success of those earning millions a year but we really don’t need to subsidize that,” Whitehouse said. Common sense was the term President Obama used in the SOTU speech to describe the idea for this bill and you can see why this bill is a great idea by comparing two important numbers in this situation: Buffett’s tax rate is 17.4 percent while his secretary’s tax rate is 35.8 percent. “I just feel like an average citizen. I represent the average citizen who needs a voice. Everybody in our office is paying a higher tax rate than Warren.” Bosanek said in a interview with Buffett to ABC News. Like a decent boss, Buffett defended his secretary of 19 years in this interview, saying it is about time he and every wealthy person begin paying more in taxes. “If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street, we have Wall Street; Debbie doesn’t have

anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.” To those of you who want to call me a socialist, I want to pose this question to you: How would you like to go back in time to the 1950s when tax on the top marginal rate was 91 percent, or to the 1970s when the rate was 70 percent? We know people such as Buffett, Chris Matthews, Sen. Bernie Sanders (a proud socialist) and Michael Moore have been right the whole time when they said America has been excused from shared sacrifice that we once did as a country when we really cared about one another. The apple pie has been divided unevenly and the rich have gotten too many tax breaks while the poor and the middle class like Bosanek, who have played by the rules their whole lives, have gotten little to no respect. I am very proud that President Obama and the Senate Democrats are taking the advice of someone who didn’t let wealth turn him into a greedy and heartless bastard like it has done to some people who become a member of the 1 percent. Once this bill is argued over by both parties, gets passed by Congress, and the president signs it, the wealthy in this country will finally see what it is like to pay taxes like the 99 percent do, and that will be the start of a brand new America that I want to see in the 21st century. Alex is a junior majoring in communication. He enjoys going to concerts, going to Starbucks, listening to his Sirius Satellite Radio, going to the movies, swimming and playing games like UNO and Monopoly. His favorite musicians are R.E.M., Bon Jovi, Elton John and Kenny G. His favorite magazines are Mother Jones, Newsweek and Rolling Stone, which he loves to pick up at the campus bookstore.

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services offered, according to the federation’s 2010 annual report. Some 14.5 percent of their services are cancer screenings and preventions. The bulk of their services are for contraception and STD testing services. PP officials adamantly deny ever using federal and nonfederal grant monies to provide abortions. They have shown the tax records of income from grants and spending of that money to prove it. The naysayers such as Americans United for Life, the Susan B. Anthony List Political Action committee and other pro-life groups have accused PP of creative accounting practices and that they provide abortions in conflict with parents-rightto-know laws (telling moms and dads about unwanted pregnancies of their daughters) and hiding sex trafficking by partnering with pimps and traffickers to keep the women and girls involved healthy. Americans United for Life stated on the first page of their report that “the burden of proof lies on Planned Parenthood. It must demonstrate that it consistently complies with federal and state laws.” 501(c) 3 nonprofits such as Planned Parenthood cannot spend the money awarded to them through grants for purposes other than what the money is for. They can not take money given to them by SGK allocated for breast cancer screenings and spend it on abortions. It must, by law, go to the screenings. PP would never risk losing its tax status, respect in the communities it serves, or the trust of its clients by doing that. The women of America stood up over the next few days after the decision to defund PP became

national news and donated more than $3 million directly to PP and many have vowed to not give any more money to SGK. SGK CEO Nancy Brinker, former foreign ambassador for the George W. Bush administration, told Sarah Kilff of the Washington Post on Thursday that “We have decided not to fund, wherever possible, pass-through grants. We were giving (Planned Parenthood) money, they were sending women out for mammograms. What we would like to have are clinics where we can directly fund mammograms.” After three days of receiving bashings in the media and on social media sites, SGK said it will continue to fund PP and amend the new policy about the investigations to read “that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political.” In a letter published on the SGK website, Brinker asked everyone “to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue.” This is not the first time SGK has been accused of using its monstrous clout to affect women’s health rights. The Institute of Southern Studies published a very extensive article written by Mary Ann Swissler that points out that with all of the education that the SGK foundation does and policies it lobbies for in Washington, they ignore the environmental factors that lead to the cancers in the first place.

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The SGK lobbyist pushed against a consumer-friendly version of a patients bill of rights in 19 99, 2000, and 2001, but supported the Bush version of a bill of rights that would later be dubbed the “HMO bill of rights.” The article then goes on to say that many of the drug companies that manufacture medications make not only breast cancer drugs, but other medications approved by Medicare programs that also fall into the SGK investment portfolio. There comes a point that a nonprofit can become too big, where the politics and money involved take on a vital role within the organization and leave it vulnerable to outside influences. I think that SGK and PP both have reached that point. Each organization has affiliates that handle the more localized operations and can raise millions of dollars a year. They spend vast swaths of cash on upper level salaries, advertising campaigns, air fares, and consultants. But both organizations, because they can accumulate such large amounts of money, can contribute to their missions. SGK can fund research to find a cure for cancer, something that the federal government can’t afford to do. PP can screen for STDs, provide protection against STDs and pregnancy and help a woman choose. That is good work. I don’t believe that PP pushes women into abortions they don’t want. I went to a Planned Parenthood office for a pregnancy test. When they told me I was pregnant, they asked what I was thinking. They never showed me to the chair; they offered to help me find prenatal care. When my grandmother died of breast cancer in 1982, I

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wish SGK had been as big as it was now. There might have been some drug that could have kept her alive. Letting the politics of a woman’s right to choose everything about her body and reproduction figure into a decision on whether or not to collaborate may have been the trust-breaking straw that breaks American women’s backs. I, for one, know that I will not be supporting anything else that SGK does. I will seek out smaller organizations that will not use my money to invest in stocks or lobbying, but who will help women in need. I will, on the other hand, continue to support Planned Parenthood, because they do not follow what is politically popular. They want what is best for every woman who visits their clinics, regardless of ability to pay. They don’t hold fancy walks, sell lots of swagger to have supporters promote their slogans, or make themselves out to be better than those who have differing opinions. They see me as a person, not a billboard, and everything that may affect my health as something to evaluate, including my boobs.

Mandie is a junior majoring in secondary social science education. She is married with two children and serves on the Board of Directors of C.A.R.E.S. Suicide Prevention. Note to readers: On Tuesday, Karen Handel of Susan G. Komen Foundation resigned from her position as vice president for public policy in an apparent fallout from the Planned Parenthood debacle.

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Evans said. “I think there’s always room for improvement though, in my game, and everyone else’s.� Botha and her freshman teammate Sarah Means had an (8-2) win over FAU. Botha also went on to win her singles match in two sets (6-1, 6-2). The next day, Botha won her singles match over BethuneCookman in three sets (6-2, 7-6, 7-2). Then,

Botha and Means followed up with another win in doubles. Botha hopes the weekend prepares the Eagles for Atlantic Sun play. “I’m really happy about the weekend,� Botha said. “I won all four of my matches. I think the weekend was great for the team and it built some confidence for our conference matches to come.�

Confidence is something that will be needed as FGCU will play UCF on Feb. 18 at home and USF on the road Feb. 26 before beginning conference play on March 1 against Kennesaw State. “UCF is a very strong team; they’re always solid every year,� Gabou said. “USF is nationally ranked, so it’s a great opportunity to see some high level players.� Evans added, “I think that they’re both tough teams, but we are very hard working, and I think that we can give them a run for their money and win.� No matter the results, these next two matches will help the Eagles continue to improve, and one area coach Gabou hopes to see improvement is in finishing matches. “I would like to see everybody fighting until the last point a little more, and executing the things that they can control,� Gabou said. “Attitude, footwork, and things like that.� As for A-Sun play, the Eagles are hoping to start out on the right foot with a win. Last season, the Eagles lost to Kennesaw State 5-2. “I’m excited to get into conference play and hopefully be more competitive with Kennesaw than we were last year,� Gabou said. Evans expects her team to put a stamp on the A-Sun early on. “Through this month we are going to work very hard with Kennesaw in mind, especially since they’re in conference, and they’re our first conference match,� Evans said. “I think we’re ready to bring it to them. I think we’re going to work very hard over these next couple weeks to beat them.�

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play.� Green also notes that the team has had a rigorous training schedule. “The first day of school was January 9th and that is the first day that we stepped out on the field. We have been doing our lifting and conditioning every day since then, so I think we are really prepared.� Green also notes that the coach has set a specific game plan. “The coach has made things as simple as possible. We have simple objectives that help us go out and play as a team. That way we are not confused and everything goes smoothly.� Green realizes that this team is a bit different than the 2011 team. “Last season we were a young team but I think that we have all matured a lot. We have more experience to bring to the table, and with the sophomores and juniors on the team it is important that we lead by experience.� Sophomore Brittney Garabedian, who batted .236 in 56 games at shortstop and

second base, topped the team with 10 home runs, which was second among freshmen in the conference, and had nine multi-hit games and seven multi-RBI games. Like Green, she is excited about the team this season. “We have a great team and we’re pretty young, but we are all talented. We have great hitters, pitchers and fielding so everything is going great.� Garabedian said. She also notes an improvement in the team’s work ethic. “Everybody comes to practice early and does extra running and we are just meshing better.� Even though the team is predicted to finish third in the conference Garabedian looks at this not only as a motivator, but also a challenge. “No one expects us to do great so we’re the underdogs. We didn’t have anyone on the preseason list so it gives us a chance to show everybody that we are better than they think.� Garabedian acknowledges that the team is very excited for the season to start and

that the team is well prepared. “We have been working in the batting cages and doing live hitting. We have been doing more running so we are a lot quicker and more in shape.� She also feels that the two opening games this weekend against USF and the University of Florida will be a good test to start the season. Garabedian has specific goals that she would like to accomplish this season. “I would like to hit another 10 home runs, or maybe even 15. I think that I am more mentally strong from last season and I feel like I’ve gotten into my own groove.� The season will start this weekend at the USF-Best Western Tournament in Tampa Feb. 10-12. In their first year of postseason eligibility, the FGCU softball team hosts two tournaments and 22 home games at the FGCU Softball Complex. Included are two opponents that made NCAA regionals last season in Maryland and A-Sun champion Jacksonville.

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When freshman Whitney Knight made her decision to come to Florida Gulf Coast, it shocked many in the women’s college basketball world, and 23 games into the season she’s made it clear why she was one of the highest-rated recruits in FGCU history. The 6-foot-2 guard, who played for R.J. Reynolds High in Winston-Salem, N.C., said she received more than 120 scholarship offers. She averaged 18.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 4.0 steals and 3.6 blocks per game and led the Demons to an 18-8 overall record as a senior. “When I came here on my visit, Coach (Karl) Smesko really impressed me with his coaching and his record over the last couple years in the conference,” Knight said. “The school itself was a lot better than the other schools I visited. I just felt right here.” So far this season Knight leads the team in blocked shots with 1.9 blocks a game which ranks second in the Atlantic Sun. “She’s a tremendous athlete,” Smesko said. “She’s really skilled for her size,

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she’s really fast with the ball in her hand and I believe she’s best with the ball in conversion. She reads the floor really well and she’s very unselfish.” Despite her size, Knight doesn’t just play one position. She is listed as a guard but she can play any position on the floor at any time. “She’s very versatile. She can guard inside, she can guard outside,” Smesko said. “She’s a tough matchup for opposing teams because they have to be a little nervous putting a little kid on her because she’ll shoot over. If there’s a big kid guarding her she can just drive around them. “She causes matchup problems for the other teams and she gives us versatility and can basically play any position on the floor.” Despite only starting three games, Knight has helped lead FGCU to a 21-2, 13-0 A-Sun record. She has led the team in rebounds five times this season and scoring once. “Being able to play different positions and creating mismatches is going to be really important for us going into the A-Sun tournament,” Knight said. In the A-Sun she ranks 25th in

scoring (9 ppg) and she’s 12th in field goal percentage (43 percent). She was named the A-Sun Newcomer of the Week Jan. 31 after she helped the Eagles clinch the first spot in the A-Sun tournament after scoring 13 points and grabbing seven rebounds against Kennesaw State, then scoring 12 points in a 92-55 win over Mercer. “She isn’t like any players in the A-Sun,” Smesko said. “There’s not another kid with her size that can do as many things as she can do. When she gets physically stronger. she’ll put up huge numbers. There is just some things that she can do that you can’t teach.” With Knight being only a freshman she is expected to assume a bigger role after this season when seniors Kelsey Jacobson, Lerrin Cook, Sarah Whitfield, Courtney Chihil, Nicoya Jackson and Eglah Griffin graduate. “I’m just trying to see what the seniors are doing now and take everything in so I can eventually do that for future players when I’m a senior,” Knight said. “Coach always talks about leadership and that’s something very important that I need to learn to do in the future.”

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Despite 23 points from junior Sherwood Brown, the FGCU men’s basketball team couldn’t overcome 11 North Florida three-pointers in a 68-62 Atlantic Sun loss Monday night at UNF Arena. The Eagles now sit in a tie for fourth place in the A-Sun with UNF at 7-6 in league play. FGCU’s overall mark now stands at 12-12 heading into a three-game A-Sun homestand.

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The Atlantic Sun Conference announced the 2012 Baseball Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Picking up one first place vote, the FGCU baseball team was picked to finish sixth among the 10 league schools.

Women’s soccer FGCU women’s soccer head coach Jim Blankenship announced the signing of eight student athletes to National Letters of Intent from the 2012 class. The Eagles also welcome two transfers in Julia Roddar (Falun, Sweden/ Shattuck-St.Mary’s Academy/Wisconsin) and Tamarah Stewart (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif./Los Osos HS/Kansas), who will join the team in the spring of 2012.

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<X^c\j [\]p Zi`k`Zj 9p DXeep EXmXiif JkX]] ni`k\i Inheriting a roster with little turnover from last year, first-year Florida Gulf Coast men’s tennis coach C.J. Weber is preaching the worth of a great work ethic and his team has responded. FGCU swept last weekend’s home stand against Georgia Southern and Bethune-Cookman, Feb. 4 and Feb. 5, respectively. The Eagles defeated both schools 5-2. “I’m really proud of the guys this weekend,” Weber said after the win over Bethune-Cookman. “We really didn’t know what to expect going into this weekend. Coming out with a record of 2-2 on the year is a big accomplishment and we are looking to continue to improve as the year continues.”

Last season, the FGCU Eagles had three wins overall. In 2010-11, the Eagles didn’t reach two wins until March 7, compared to this year’s team that got to two wins a month earlier. “The team’s confidence is good right now, and I think it doesn’t all have to do with getting wins,” Weber said. “I see the guys working hard and hard work breeds confidence. Wins help, but hard work breeds confidence.” Weber’s team plays with a chip on its shoulder. “They’ve earned it this weekend through their discipline and hard work,” Weber said. “Nobody has given us anything, so my guys are doing great.” Sophomore Dean Tsamas (Lexington, Ky.) had a stellar weekend going undefeated in

singles and doubles matches. Tsamas showed resilience in his singles match vs. Georgia Southern when he came back from losing his first set to win two straight sets to win the match. In doubles, Tsamas teamed with Junior Colin Brown (Victoria, Texas) all weekend and the duo won both of its doubles matches (8-2, 8-5) convincingly. “It was really satisfying this weekend,” Tsamas said. “I didn’t necessarily play my best tennis, but I competed and did what I needed to do to win.” Freshman Tianyu Bao (Tianjin, China) used his big serve to win both his singles matches and split his doubles matches versus Georgia Southern and Bethune Cookman alongside his doubles partner, freshman Michael Beiler (Palm Harbor).

“Bao is playing really good tennis right now; he’s really making a statement as a freshman,” Weber said. “To do some of the things he’s doing is great for the team.” Weber also added about freshman Michael Beiler, “I’m really proud of Beiler for getting his first dual match win today (Sunday vs. Bethune Cookman).” The Eagles’ next match is Saturday in Boca Raton versus Florida Atlantic University at 2 p.m. It is FGCU’s last match before a two and half week break, when it returns home to host Atlantic Sun conference foe Kennesaw State on March 1. “I don’t know what the rest of the season holds, but I know it holds good things because the team is willing to get better every day,” Weber said.”

C`feËj ;\e _\cgj ni\jkc\ij ^\k X ^i`g 9p IpXe Kff_\p :feki`Ylk`e^ ni`k\i A wrestler needs to conquer all fear before stepping on the mat. Florida Gulf Coast University’s wrestling club members conquer their fear in the Lion’s Den. The Lion’s Den is a practice facility located on Daniels Parkway. It was rented last October by 23year-old sophomore Daniel Weiner for $10,000. “He (Weiner) sleeps on mats,” said Sam Garfunkel, the FGCU wrestling club president. “He literally lives at the facility; that’s his house.” The vice president of the wrestling club, 19-year-old sophomore Kenny Hird, says he considers this year to be the

wrestling club’s first real season. The FGCU Campus Recreation webpage dates the club’s existence back to August 2007. The wrestling club was not as organized as Hird expected when he enrolled at FGCU. Hird said he thought about transferring, but he decided to stay in order to help build the program. Weiner’s love for wrestling is what he says drove him to rent the Lion’s Den. Weiner says he is obsessed about becoming a champion. “If it wasn’t for Danny being as dedicated as he is, I wouldn’t be wrestling,” Hird said. Hird used his own money to buy the club’s website, http://www. fgcuwrestling.com. The club has to design their

own singles, arrange their own travel plans, and order everything they wear. “With being a club, you feel like you earn it more than an actual sports team,” said 20-year-old sophomore Garfunkel. “When you get out onto the mat, you feel like you earned that match.” With the recent addition of the Lion’s Den and Coach Pat Milkovich, a former two-time NCAA wrestling champion, the FGCU wrestling club is gaining recognition. High school wrestlers are contacting the club about attending FGCU in order to be a part of the wrestling team, said Garfunkel. The wrestling club is reaching

out to the community by allowing Gateway Charter High School’s wrestling team to use the Lion’s Den. FGCU is currently ranked No. 23 in the nation in points for the National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA.) FGCU will be competing in the Southeast Conference Finals on Feb. 25. The tournament will be at the University of Central Florida, and it will consist of 16 clubs. The wrestlers who place in the top six will move on to National Collegiate Wrestling Championships. In March, meanwhile, Hird and Weiner will be participating in the 2012 Pan American Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament in Kissimmee.

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The FGCU men’s soccer team recently volunteered at the Immokalee Youth Soccer Clinic, helping develop the soccer skills of boys and girls ages 4-12. The clinic is a six-week series for local youth soccer players in the Immokalee area. The Eagles were the featured guests at the clinic, and volunteered to assist the youth players in their training.

Usually, when one of your college peers has a job, it’s something parttime like working at a restaurant or clothing store. But, how would you react if you found out they were a professional football player instead? Preston Higdon can make that claim. Higdon, a 26-year-old FGCU student majoring in pre-human performance and working toward his second bachelor’s degree, signed a contract as wide receiver with the Florida Tarpons of the United Indoor Football League this past September. The Florida Tarpons, whose roster includes players who graduated from Northwestern, Auburn, Indiana and Ohio State, among other big schools, play at Germain Arena.

The UIFL played its inaugural season last year. So how did the former wide receiver from Southeast High School in Bradenton, and current FGCU intramural flag football player, make it to the point that most athletes spend years dreaming of? “A buddy of mine that I went to the University of Charleston with — he actually went to a tryout — and I noticed that he was with teams down in Florida,” Higdon said. “I pretty much know all of the pro teams that are in Florida, and he helped me put a good word in with the coach. So pretty much, I kept communicating with the coach and kept my film. And they were interested through my film. Then they offered me a contract.” Higdon won’t know the specifics of the contract until the team makes the final cuts from its camp roster before its first game on March 9. He

is currently preparing for the season and refers to it as an “everyday thing” at this point. “I’ve been working out since September,” Higdon said. “I’m just anxious for the season to start. This is actually my second season. I was able to play in a league up in West Virginia. Just getting used to arena (a different style of play from traditional football) is a different experience. It’s fast and I like it because it’s fun.” His family and friends couldn’t be any more ecstatic for him throughout this entire process. “They’re just happy for me and proud,” Higdon said. “We work hard all the time, so seeing all of this paying off is a stepping-stone. I eventually want to move up. Canadian (Canadian Football League), the whole NFL thing — I’ve got a good chance as far as people I know — whether it’s agents or just training

in general. It’s just about me and maintaining my end of the bargain. Once the season rolls around, I’ll just go from there.” Higdon’s hometown of Bradenton has a history of producing NFL talent, and he hopes to continue the trend. Dallas Cowboys cornerback Mike Jenkins is one of 15 players that have come out of Southeast High. And if this doesn’t happen to work out the way that Higdon hopes, he’s got plenty to fall back on. “My first passion was athletic administration, the business aspect of sports,” Higdon said. “I have a passion for fitness and training. That’s why I wanted to do pre-human performance; pretty much get everything as a whole, the business aspect and the hands-on stuff. That’s the direction I choose because you can’t play football forever. But I pretty much want to stay in sports, even if I’m not playing.”

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