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VIEWS | 15 From left: Deividas Dulkys, Jon Kreft, Rafeal Portuondo and Bernard James prepare to board their flight to San Antonio, Texas, as the Florida State men’s basketball team prepares to travel to San Antonio, Texas, to play Virginia Commonwealth University in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Cutout: Derwin Kitchen plays during a game at the Leon County Civic Center. Top right: The team huddles before a game at the Civic Center. Bottom right: Fans pose at the airport to send off the team.
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Per game avgerage Points Rebounds Assists Blocks Opponent FG % Opponent 3-pt. FG %
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VCU 71.5 32.0 14.2 3.6 44.9 34.3
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FSU 64.0 33.5 14.5 9.5 31.0 29.7
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Left: The until-recently benched Chris Singleton walks past fans at the airport. Right: Derwin Kitchen stops to pose with a fan for a photo.
“I think it’s awesome! It’s really inspiriting for the school and it’s just a great thing.” —Alexa Meeras, sophomore
“I am glad we are here and on par with this university, and obviously very excited. —Christine Allen, junior
“I think it’s a great honor to have our basketball team represent FSU and really helped put FSU on the map.” —Carline Smith, sophomore
“I think a lot of people did not expect it; I think they played really hard and deserve every bit of it.” —Tyler Poban, junior
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“Really excited, because we haven’t done it in 18 years, I think.” —Leigh Anne Thompson, junior
Red Bull ‘Tum Tum Pa!’ comes to FSU Students compete in a contest using only school supplies
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EMILY OSTERMEYER Contributing Writer FSU students gathered in room 101 of the Rovetta Business Building on Monday night for the Red Bull “Tum Tum Pa!” freestyle drumming contest. Students competed against each other in a beat-making competition using only school supplies to create the sounds, no vocals or actual instruments allowed. The idea for the competition originated in Brazil, and after its success, Red Bull invested in the idea to hold the competition at approximately 300 major uniJoseph La Belle/FSView versities in the United States. Husband and wife beatboxing team Tiffany and Anthony Ashfield, known FSU is among the first univercollectively as Luckey Monkey Fat Tony, performed at the competition sities in the nation to bring the during halftime. competition to its campus. Four teams competed in two C.Y.P.H.E.R. (Cultivate Your creativity, rhythm and audience 60-second rounds. In the first Pure Hip-Hop Elements Re- response. Elijah Gee is a jazz studies round, competitors were asked spectfully), DJ Maniac Magee to perform a famous song of and producers Double A and major at FSU who competed their choice. Guest judges from Draydel scored contestants on with three of his friends from FSU’s hip-hop culture club a scale of one to 10 based on the FSU College of Music as the
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Online Video Visit fsunews.com for video from Red Bull Tum Tum Pa! team “The Tallahassee Rulers.” “I remember in high school, like back in the day, I would just be making beats on the desk and stuff like that and my friends would grab some pencils and, you know, freestyled it, and for them to make it into a competition,” Gee said. “It’s kind of dope.” For the first round, the Tallahassee Rulers performed “Drop it Like It’s Hot,” by Snoop Dogg. In the second round, each team was asked to perform an original beat. “The second one, we kind of SEE TUM TUM 2
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FSVIEW & FLORIDA FLAMBEAU | MARCH 24, 2011
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FSU debate team beats Harvard and other top schools KENDAL KALISH Staff Writer At the University of California-Berkeley Model United Nations Conference, held on March 3-7, the World Affairs Program (WAP), a studentrun international crisis debate team at FSU, took first place in the small university division, outstripping Harvard University, the University of Chicago, George Washington University and other colleges across the country. Twelve students were chosen to attend the fourday conference in San Francisco. Of this group, 11 out of 12 students won awards in their respective committees, consisting of two first place winners, two second places, five third places and two
fourth places. “It was exciting because we were the only school from the entire Southeast that went to the conference,” said Jordan Raupp, FSU graduate student and director of WAP. “It’s our first overall win this year against these types of schools.” Once they arrived, the team debated every day, totaling 20 hours of debate for each member over the course of the conference. A different worldwide topic was assigned to the committees held at UC-Berkeley, and most FSU delegates debated individually at each session. “I wasn’t really surprised about winning first,” said Sarah Dejam, FSU sophomore and WAP assistant director of Internal Affairs. “We
brought one of the most competitive and allaround best teams we’ve ever been able to put together, so it wasn’t too shocking when we did so well.” Ian Grossman and Forat Lusti won first place in the Syrian and Israeli cabinet, Robby White and Alex Garcia dual delegated second place as Germany in the UN jury council, Jordan Raupp, Melissa Giddings, John Reyes, Christopher Hansford, Haley Gentile took third in their individual committees and Amanda Fidalgo and Zach Kermitz took fourth. “The conference that UC-Berkley puts on every year is one that we always look forward to,” said Forat Lufti, FSU senior and WAP member. “It allows us
TUM TUM from 1 improved, we really did,” Gee said. “I was like, alright you just make a beat, and then we all just come together and you know we’ll just keep time and we’re good to go.” The Tallhassee Rulers competed against teams Going Ham, Big 8 Drumline and solo participant Brian Stanton. Big 8 Drumline, made up of Marching Chief Drumline members Michael Brown, Tyler Spaulding and Seth Housman, won first place with their rendition of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice, Ice Baby” and their own original song. “Making up beats is what I do on a daily basis, on accident,” said Spaulding, a sophomore business management major at FSU. “It’s just the thing I do. Why not enter a competition which does something we love?” As first place winners, Big 8 Drumline now will enter a video on YouTube of their performance that will be voted on by the online community. The top-rated videos will be reviewed by a panel of judges who will select five national finalists to compete at the Red Bull Tum Tum Pa! World Finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In addition to winning a chance to compete in
Florida State University’s College of Education and College of Law have not been strangers to the U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of graduate programs, and 2012 is no exception. The College of Education placed 43rd in the nation and the College of Law ranked 50th, breaking the top 50 schools for the first time. The College of Law jumped four places in the rankings to achieve their new ranking, a feat they are more than familiar with; the College of Law has moved up 17 places overall in the last seven years. FSU also boasts the sixth highestranking Environmental Law program in the nation.
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Groups participate in a beat-making competition using school supplies during the Red Bull ‘Tum Tum Pa!’ competition held at Florida State University on March 21. Brazil, Big 8 Drumline received their choice of LiveNation concert tickets. Second place winners, the Tallahassee Rulers, won a Red Bull-supported party. Third place winners Going Ham won a night out on the town, courtesy of Red Bull. The event was co-organized by Red Bull and C.Y.P.H.E.R. The president of C.Y.P.H.E.R., FSU senior and biology major Jorge Gallo, emceed the event. “I think it went really good,” Gallo said. “In the beginning, it was a slow start, then I feel
like as the performances started going in and then we started getting to the second round, I think everybody was having a lot of fun.” The event was DJed by DJ AtotheL. At a halftime performance, married couple Tiffany and Anthony Ashfield, known as beatboxers Luckey Monkey Fat Tony, performed. Stephanie Shumate, a spectator, was impressed by the performances. “It was really exciting,” said Shumate. “I thought they put it really well together.”
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good or competitive as the Ivy League schools, but it’s simply not true,” said Dejam. “It shouldn’t matter how much money you pay in tuition or what the name of your school is. It should only matter how well each individual person competes, and I think we do that incredibly well.” WAP will be holding tryouts for their next conference at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., April 1 through 3.
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the opportunity to interact with students from all over the country and to show them the talents and capabilities that FSU students bring to the table.” WAP likes to point out that while FSU students pay a tenth of the tuition price of some of their competing schools, FSU continually ranks in the upper echelons of these academic debates. “Many people assume that, since we’re a public university, we’re not as
“[The jump in rankings] reflects an increasing national recognition of the quality of our program,” said Donald Weinder, dean of the College of Law. Much of FSU’s ranking increase this year was in the reputational category, which is determined by surveys of legal professionals and academics nationwide. The ranking increase is also a result of the higher credentials of incoming students—FSU has the highest average LSAT score of any entering law school class in the state. “The rankings help enhance opportunities for our students,” said Weinder. “They can tempt the influence of law schools and agencies when deciding where to interview.” Despite retaining a spot in the top 50
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Frank Brogan, chancellor of the state university system of Florida, addresses a crowd of students and supporters at the ‘Rally in Tally’ from the steps of the Capitol on March 22. The ‘Rally in Tally’ event strives to bring awareness, support and investments directed toward Florida’s public higher education.
FSU demands funding for universities CHAD SQUITIERI Contributing Writer In order to show support for increased investment in state universities, students and higher education advocates came together in front of the steps of the Florida Capitol on Tuesday, March 22. The “Rally in Tally� event, which was organized by the Florida Student Association, opened dialogue for increasing state funding to the 11 publicly funded universities in Florida. According to a press release issued by the organizers of the event, the Florida Student Association is not “looking for a handout,� but asking the governor and state legislature to follow the lead of the Florida Student Association and to invest more in higher education in Florida. The Florida Student Association has played a key role in the creation of a tuition differential fee where university trustee boards may receive approval
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FSVIEW & FLORIDA FLAMBEAU | MARCH 24, 2011
TOMS Shoes sheds light on sharing
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Students gather on March 21 to watch the TOMS documentary at FSU to learn more about the organization and how they can get involved.
Students get a taste of company’s start, current mission and future plans JOSEPH LA BELLE Assistant Photo Editor TOMS Shoes screened a documentary for Florida State University students to show how the company started, March 21 at 8 p.m. in the University Ballrooms at the Oglesby Union. TOMS’ mission is to provide shoes for needy individuals, and for every pair of shoes purchased, the company will donate one pair of shoes to a child or person in another nation in need. After the screening, the representatives spoke about the different events
they will be holding on campus in the future. One of those, “One Day Without Shoes,” will be held April 5, and seeks to raise awareness about the TOMS mission by having students walk barefoot one mile around campus. “It was not until I participated in ‘One Day Without Shoes’ that it really opened my eyes and I had to get more involved and be a part of a bigger movement,” TOMS Campus Representative Brian Varela said. For more information, visit tomscampusclubs. com/group/FLSU.
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NICKI KARIMIPOUR Assistant Arts & Life Editor In the early hours of March 23, at approximately 1 a.m., a pedestrian was struck and subsequently killed by a Star Metro bus around the 400 block of Appleyard Drive. The Night Nole is a bus that provides transportation for students who are going to bars and clubs around Tallahassee. It runs Tuesday through Saturday from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. The route begins in off-campus housing complex Heritage Grove and runs from Apple-
yard to Stadium Drive. The pedestrian who was hit was victim Nickolas Quintin Williams, aged 20. He was pronounced dead on the scene of the crime around 1 a.m. The Night Nole was traveling south on Appleyard Drive when it switched lanes in order to head east on Pensacola Street. According to TPD Officer Susan Newhouse, the pedestrian was in the southbound lane when he “appeared without notice and was struck.” Check back on fsunews.com for any further developments on this story.
Jury to deliberate in fatal Coast Guard crash case ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP)—Jurors were set to resume deliberations Wednesday in the sentencing phase for a Coast Guard petty officer who piloted a boat involved in a San Diego Bay collision that killed an 8-year-old boy. After a court-martial at Coast Guard headquarters in Alameda, a sevenmember jury on Tuesday acquitted Petty Officer 3rd Class Paul Ramos of involuntary manslaughter
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Cinderella visits San Antonio
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Sophomore guard Michael Snaer (left) and the Seminoles meet their fellow underdogs, the Virginia Commonwealth Rams and Joey Rodriguez (right), in San Antonio on Friday night. The winner of Friday’s contest will move on to Sunday’s Southwest Regional final.
FSU, VCU meet in tournament’s first-ever 10 vs. 11 matchup in Sweet 16 SCOTT CRUMBLY Staff Writer After beating No. 7 seed Texas A&M in a defensive struggle last Friday and blowing out No. 2 seed Notre Dame on Sunday night, the Florida State men’s basketball team finds itself in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the first time since the 1993 season.
FSU (23-10), the 10seed in the Southwest Region, will face another team that has been ruining brackets across the country in 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Interestingly enough, it will be the first time in tournament history that a No.10 seed will face off with an 11 seed.
After beating USC handily in the first round—formerly known as the play-in round— the Rams (26-11) went on a tear in two dominating victories over perennial powers Georgetown and Purdue to reach the Round of 16 for the first time in school history and eliminate any doubt that they did not belong in this year’s field, which
is how many felt immediately after the brackets were announced on March 13. So far in the tournament, the Rams have been riding the strength of their offense. After shooting a solid 40 percent from the field against Georgetown in the second round, VCU went off on the Purdue to the tune of 56.9 per-
cent shooting en route to a 94-76 thumping. Forward Jamie Skeen has been VCU’s top scorer this year, averaging just over 15 points per game to go along with a teamleading 7.3 rebounds per game. Guard Bradford Burgess has also been a factor for the Rams, contributing 14 points and 6.4 rebounds per game on
the season while shooting a solid 40 percent from 3-point range. Burgess led the way in the Rams’ third-round win, dropping 23 points on Purdue while grabbing eight boards. After returning from a monthlong layoff due to a broken right foot, FSU forward and two-time SEE CINDERELLA 8
Clock ticks for Seminole tennis Men’s, women’s teams in need of conference victories HARRIS NEWMAN Contributing Writer
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Senior Courtney Ward and the Seminoles saw their season end in dramatic fashion Tuesday night against Georgia.
Georgia dashes FSU’s tourney hopes
Halfway through the season, and with both teams among the bottom echelon of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the men’s and women’s tennis teams of FSU have the opportunity to pick up conference wins this weekend and regain relevance in the competitive ACC. Both of the teams’ tracks lie all too similarly—high preseason rankings and upstart
Staff Writer In the end, Florida State fell victim to March Madness. Poor shooting from both the free throw line and the field down the stretch left the No. 3 seed Seminoles wondering what could have been this season, as sixth-seeded Georgia earned a 61-59 victory on a tip-in by Jasmine James
with 2.9 seconds left. The Seminoles (24-8) opened the game shooting blanks, going 0-for-7 from the field to start the game and allowing Georgia to open up an early 9-2 advantage. FSU would respond, however, rattling off a 16-2 run which propelled them to a 33-27 lead at the half. For the better part of SEE DASHED 6
a slow start, the Hokies have won seven of their last eight matches. They boast the No. 45 doubles team of Will Beck and Pedro Graber, who are 8-3 on court one this season, as well as the No. 52 tandem in Luka Somen and Corrado Tocci, who are 8-2 on court two. In singles, the Hokies’ No. 45 Luka Somen is their lone ranked player and boasts a 12-2 record. The two teams faced off exactly one year ago, when the Hokies beat the Seminoles 6-1 for the
first time since they entered the ACC in 2005. Two days after the Hokies, the ’Noles will face the top-ranked Virginia Cavaliers (18-0, 3-0). Of the Cavaliers’ 18 wins, seven of those matches have been shutouts and four have come against teams ranked eighth or higher. The Cavaliers have the third-ranked doubles team in the nation in Michael Shabaz and Drew Courtney. All six SEE CLOCK 6
James the X-factor in ’Noles’ Final Four hunt
Women’s basketball season ends in drama ERIC ZERKEL
beginnings, followed by close losses to provide records not quite indicative of each team’s caliber. The No. 45-ranked men’s team (6-8, 1-2 ACC) started the season off at 5-1. Facing one of the toughest schedules in the country, the Seminoles lost seven of eight matches and are in need of a conference win in a hurry. Their first opponent, the No. 30 Virginia Tech Hokies (10-5, 2-1 ACC) are on the flipside. After
BRETT JULA Sports Editor Florida State’s run to the Sweet 16 has been considered improbable by many prognosticators. Perhaps the only thing more improbable is the man who’s most responsible for lifting the Seminoles to their fourth regional semifinal in school history. We should all be famil-
iar by now of Bernard James’ incredible story, where prior to his arrival at FSU, he spent two years at Tallahassee Community College and before then, served six years in the U.S. Air Force, where he did tours in Qatar and Iraq. To say James has come a long way is an understatement, and while he’s worked hard to put himself and his teammates into their current position—just two victories from an unimaginable trip to Houston for the Final Four—he’ll have to work a little harder to make that happen.
Not like that should be anything new for James, given his military history. Playing off his military background, James has been the lead officer of the Seminole army in their first two tournament games, dominating the interior while averaging 12 points, eight rebounds and three blocks per game this tournament. If the ’Noles can rattle off two more wins and advance to that aforementioned Final Four, it would be shocking to see anyone other than James receive Most Outstanding Player honors for the Southwest Region, because without
James’ imposing presence, FSU can throw any hope they have of returning to the Lone Star State the following weekend out the window. James may not have the numbers of your typical tournament standout, but should anyone have expected them to be? If the Seminoles were going to make it this far in the tournament, anyone who’s kept a remotely close eye on this team throughout the season knew they had to turn to turn their games against
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Road-weary Seminoles return home Baseball starts weekend series with Wake Forest on Friday
NICK SELLERS Assistant Sports Editor After four straight games on the road against some of the country’s elite competition in No. 1 Florida and No. 3 Virginia, the No. 5 Florida State baseball team returned home for a quick matchup with Stetson Wednesday night and will resume Atlantic Coast Conference play Friday night with a threegame series against Wake Forest. While the proper amount of respect is given to any opponent—Virginia or Florida— Wake Forest is certainly not on that level. The Demon Deacons (7-13, 2-4 ACC) rank near the bottom in virtually every offensive category in the confer-
ence. In the ACC, Wake Forest has the worst batting average (.222), on-base percentage (.317), the lowest runs scored (83), the least amount of hits (138), the least amount of triples (1), and the most strikeouts (194). While the Wake Forest offense generally struggles, they are third in the conference in home runs, putting 17 pitches to rest outside of the park this season. If the Seminoles should be wary of any Wake Forest bats, it should be those of Matt Conway, Carlos Lopez and Charlie Morgan, who account for 10 of those 17 home runs. The story doesn’t get much better for the Demon Deacons on defense, as Wake Forest brings up the rear in pitching stats as well. The Demon Deacons are 10th in opponent’s batting average (.275), first in losses (12), last in saves (2), 10th in
hits allowed (177), tied for last in runs allowed (106) and doubles allowed (47) and first in balks (6). All of this should have the eyes of Seminole batters as big as saucers. While Florida State (164, 4-2) doesn’t have the best batting average in the conference, they do boast the secondbest on-base percentage (.420) and tend to make the most of their plate opportunities, as they are second in the conference in runs scored, first in doubles and second in home runs. Seminole batters walk more than any other hitters in the conference, a mistake that plays right into the hands of the ’Noles. This year, more than ever, the Seminoles have employed a small-ball style of baseball, and thanks in large part to the speed of guys like
their way back into the game, capitalizing on the poor shooting of Florida State from both the court and the free throw line. The Seminoles went 3-for7 from the charity stripe over the final two and a half minutes of the game. After the Seminoles’ Alexa Deluzio only managed to hit 1-of-2 from the line with 34 seconds left to give the ’Noles a one point advantage at 59-58, controversy struck. Georgia’s Porsha Phillips missed a layup, and Cierra Bravard grabbed the rebound for the ’Noles. Bravard, seemingly fouled by a team of Georgia players, was not in the eyes of the official, and a held-ball was whistled, which gave possession to the Bulldogs. Again, Georgia’s Phillips fired up a shot that rimmed in and out, but James followed for the tip and the foul, giving the Bulldogs a berth in the Sweet 16. James, one of the smaller players on the court, followed easily after multiple Florida State players stopped when they appeared to hear a whistle. Still, the play was upheld
and the victory went to the Bulldogs. Georgia (23-10) improved their record to 8-0 all-time against Florida State due in part to a balanced scoring effort led by Anne Marie Armstrong. Armstrong came off the bench to lead all Bulldogs with 15 points, hitting clutch baskets down the stretch. Three other Georgia players scored in double figures. James had 14 points, Khaalidah Miller 11 and Meredith Mitchell 10 points to round out the scoring for the Southeastern Conference powerhouse. Bravard led all scorers with 19 points and 10 rebounds—her 21st consecutive game scoring in double figures. Deluzio polished off the scoring for Florida State with 11 points. For the first time this season, Florida State lost a game that it led entering halftime. Before the loss, Florida State was a perfect 22-0 when leading at halftime, including their victory in the first round of the tournament against Samford.
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Sean Gilmartin and FSU look to rebound at home after a tough road trip.
DASHED from 5 the second half, Florida State looked poised to put away the Bulldogs behind the hot hand of senior guard Courtney Ward. Ward stepped up to nail a 3-pointer with 9:58 left in the game, stretching the Seminole lead to double-digits for the first time all night at 51-41. Ward had 12 points, all of which came from behind the 3-point line. Yet, for the third time this season, Florida State went cold at the worst possible time. The ’Noles would not make a basket from the field after Ward’s 3-pointer, scoring their final eight points from the free throw line. Late in the regular season, Florida State went scoreless for the final four minutes against Miami, allowing the Hurricanes to go on an 18-0 run and earn an 84-68 victory. Again, this time in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Florida State went cold for the final 10:52 against North Carolina, allowing the Tar Heels to pull away for a 78-65 victory. It came as no surprise that Georgia would creep
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After leading for most of the contest, the Seminoles couldn’t hold off a late-game run by Georgia, exiting the women’s tournament in the second round.
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CLOCK from 5 of their singles players are ranked (five in the top 40), including 6-foot7 freshman Alex Domijan, who is ranked No. 2. A player of that caliber is no surprise to FSU’s Vahid Mirzadeh, who lost to top-ranked Steve Johnson (USC) last week and beat fourth-ranked Alexander Lecroix (Florida) in February. Like the match against the Hokies, FSU will see the Cavaliers exactly one year from their last match. Virginia won 5-2,
with FSU winning their two points in singles. Mirzadeh beat thenranked No. 3 Sanam Singh (now No. 22) in straight sets, and Clint Bowles beat Drew Courtney in three sets. The schedule for the No. 35 women’s team (6-5, 1-2) is the same, except the women will have to hit the road. They travel to Blacksburg, Va., on Saturday to face 46th-ranked Virginia Tech (9-7, 1-2), who lost to No. 45 William &
Mary last Friday to snap a four-match winning streak. The Hokies feature a balanced attack of performers. Although they do not have any ranked players, they are a combined 31-17 on courts 4-6 in the dual-match season. In the two schools’ previous match, FSU topped Virginia Tech 6-1 in Tallahassee. The schedule gets heavier as No. 11 Virginia comes into town,
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Connor Smith and his fellow Seminoles face a big weekend that could decide their conference fate as FSU takes on Virginia and Virginia Tech.
boasting a 13-3 record with six of those being shutouts. They are 2-1 in ACC play and currently sit in fourth place in the conference. Virginia’s lone ranked doubles team is ranked 20th, consisting of junior Emily Fraser and sophomore Hana Tomljanovic. Tomljanovic, who is No. 96 in singles, broke the school’s all-time single season wins record in her freshman year with 31 victories. Joining Tomljanovic are No. 55 Fraser, No. 71 Lindsay Hardenbough and No. 80 Erin Vierra. The Seminoles beat the Cavaliers last year as well. When Virginia went up 2-1, the Seminoles snatched four straight singles wins to top the Cavaliers 5-2, with Federica Suess earning the clinching point. The women’s team faces Virginia Tech at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday and Virginia at 11 a.m. on Sunday. The FSU men’s team faces Virginia Tech at 3 p.m. on Friday and Virginia at noon on Sunday—both matches being played in Tallahassee.
Texas A&M and Notre Dame into defensive battles, and that’s exactly what they did. One could argue, however, that their win over Notre Dame was their most complete game of the season, and it’s not a coincidence that it was James’ most complete game this season as well. James, who was suffering from an illness earlier in the day, fought through adversity and contributed 14 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks for his fourth double-double of the season. His play against the Irish was a clear indication that this team will go as far in this tournament as the 25-year-old junior takes them—especially considering ACC Defensive Player of the Year Chris Singleton is still getting his playing legs back after missing the last six regular season games with a foot injury. In their game against Notre Dame, FSU shot the proverbial lights out, connecting on nine 3-pointers—seven of which came in the first half. Given the inconsistencies this team has had on offense throughout the season, it’s a near-guarantee that points will be at a premium for the ’Noles in San Antonio. This makes James’
presence even more important, as his ability to alter shots and rebound will be key to FSU’s success this weekend. The 6-foot-10 James couldn’t have asked for a better opponent to potentially continue his strong play in this tournament, as Virginia Commonwealth’s starting frontcourt has an average height of only 6’7’’, and the Rams rank 301st in the nation in rebounding. This also bodes well for fellow big men Xavier Gibson and Jon Kreft, who are both 6’10’’. It will be a potential matchup with No. 1 seed Kansas in the regional final where James will have to earn his basketball stripes—we all know he’s earned more than his share away from the court. The Jayhawks have arguably the most dynamic frontcourt in the nation in twin brothers Marcus and Markieff Morris, and they are the top-two scorers and rebounders on the Kansas roster. Both of the Morris brothers average more than 13 points and seven rebounds per game. But let’s not look too far ahead—let’s keep the focus on Virginia Commonwealth. I’m sure that’s the only thing on James’ mind.
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It’s real, Seminole fans—the Florida State men’s basketball team is in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 18 years.That’s a lifetime for some of the freshmen population here on the FSU campus. With this result comes genuine excitement, and perhaps people across the country are now starting to realize this university does indeed play a sport besides football. Given it has been nearly two decades since the ’Noles danced this far into March, it’s safe to say they are entering uncharted waters. Fortunately for FSU, so is their Sweet 16 opponent, as No. 11 seed Virginia Commonwealth will be making the program’s first-ever regional semifinal appearance when they take the court Friday night at the Alamodome in San Antonio,Texas. Do the ’Noles have what it takes to continue their Cinderella run through March while ending another Cinderella’s hopes in the process? What about a potential matchup with top-seeded Kansas or No. 12 seed Richmond in the Elite Eight? Can FSU do the unthinkable and earn a spot in next weekend’s Final Four in Houston? Members of the FSView & Florida Flambeau sports staff weigh in with their opinions.
ROUNDTABLE: How will the Seminoles fare in San Antonio?
BRETT JULA Sports Editor
If you told me six years ago I would see more NCAA Tournament victories than BCS bowl appearances in my time as an undergraduate/graduate student at Florida State, I wouldn’t have called you insane—I simply would have punched you for having such ignorant thoughts.
Yet, here we are on March 24, 2011, and Leonard Hamilton’s boys proved me wrong— they got more tournament wins than the football team got BCS bids, and they needed only this tournament to accomplish that. Am I proud of this basketball team? “Proud” would be
an understatement. This team has overcome everything from an injury to their best player (Chris Singleton) to a hose job from the NCAA in the seeding department (they deserved higher than a 10 seed). After exposing the Big East for being the overrated conference that it was this season with
a 14-point beating of Notre Dame, all eyes are on the Seminoles heading into their Sweet 16 matchup with upstart Virginia Commonwealth. Given the Rams have taken teams such as Georgetown and Purdue to the woodshed SEE ROUNDTABLE 8
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ROUNDTABLE from 7 in the previous two rounds, they should have gotten FSU’s attention and should not be taken lightly. While VCU may be playing its best basketball of the season, so are the Seminoles. The nation’s best defensive team has gotten even better in tournament play, as the ’Noles have limited their first two tourney opponents to 30.9 percent shooting and an average of 53.5 points per game. FSU won’t shoot as well as they did against Notre Dame, but their stout defense should keep them dancing on to the Southwest Regional final: FSU 59, VCU 52. Barring a major upset by Richmond, FSU should face top-seeded Kansas in that regional final. Writers and analysts have all but written the Jayhawks into the Final Four in permanent marker since they saw how the opening weekend played out, but the Seminoles have beaten the odds once just by reaching San Antonio, so why can’t they do it again? I could go on and on about how well I think FSU matches
up with Kansas, but I’ll save it since I’m running low on printspace. Let’s be bold and book our reservations for Houston: FSU 68, Kansas 66.
NICK SELLERS Assitant Sports Editor After upsetting the proverbial applecart and downing two higher seeds, the Florida State Seminoles move on to take on the tournament’s media darling, the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. VCU’s calling card thus far in the tournament has been timely shooting and a generally scrappy style of play. They’re not a particularly athletic team, and their tallest player is a 7-foot freshman, D. J. Haley, who isn’t seeing a sizeable amount of minutes. Apart from him, nobody on
the Rams’ team is over 6’9’’. Partly due to this size deficiency, the Rams are one of the worst rebounding teams in the nation, averaging 32.0 rebounds a game—good for 301st in the country—and have only out-rebounded one of their three opponents thus far in the tournament. That being said, this matchup suits FSU very well. The Seminoles thrive on controlling the boards, out-hustling and out-muscling their opponents, something I anticipate they should do with ease against VCU. Bernard James and the Seminole defense are taking no prisoners on the defensive side of the ball, something that has been their trademark all season. Six different Seminoles recorded blocks against Notre Dame, and James had three blocks for the second straight game. FSU enjoyed so much success against Notre Dame due in large part to their excellent shooting night, and really, that’s where the Achilles heel lies with this team: their
ability to shoot the ball. Their excellence on defense is well documented, and if they can get shots to fall, they’re a force to be reckoned with. Florida State should certainly overpower a smaller, less-athletic VCU team and then would face the winner of Kansas-Richmond for a shot at making the Final Four for the first time since 1972. It stands to reason that Kansas should defeat the Spiders of Richmond (although, how much of college basketball operates on reason?), so count on the Seminoles meeting the Jayhawks in the Elite 8. Where they go from there is limited only by their shooting. If they can get that rolling, it should be quite a run.
SCOTT CRUMBLY Staff Writer Florida State has been impressive thus far in their two NCAA tournament games, but how far can they really go? Defense, as was the case all season, has been the key to
FSU’s wins over Texas A&M and Notre Dame thus far in the tourney. I believe that FSU’s stifling ‘D’ will again prevail against No. 11 seed Virginia Commonwealth in the Sweet 16. VCU is an offensive team, and the ’Noles showed their ability to shut down a high-octane offense against Notre Dame. I see FSU beating VCU in a closely contested game this Friday. Once FSU reaches the Elite 8, however, Kansas will be too strong for them to overcome. Led by the one-two punch of the Morris brothers, Marcus and Markeiff, I believe the Jayhawks possess too much firepower for this FSU team to beat. Florida State’s elite defense will keep them in the game, but at the end of the day, Kansas will prove to be too tough for the Seminoles’ inconsistent offense. They may prove me wrong (and I hope they do) but I see FSU’s tournament run ending with an Elite 8 loss to No.1 seed Kansas.
BASEBALL from 6 Seth Miller, Rafael Lopez, Taiwan Easterling, Sherman Johnson and James Ramsey, FSU has 26 stolen bases. Seven different Seminoles have laid down sacrifice bunts this season, further exhibit-
ing a team-wide willingness to advance runners into scoring position. The Seminole pitching staff has been solid this season, despite recent hiccups against stiff competition. Sean Gilmartin
leads the charge for the ’Noles, and already has four wins on the season while leading the team in strikeouts with 40. Gilmartin will likely take the mound on Friday as the Seminoles’
No. 1 starter, and look for him to be lights-out against Wake Forest. As if they didn’t have enough going for them, at press time, the Seminoles had yet to lose at home this season, hav-
ing previously swept another ACC foe at Dick Howser: Boston College, where they outscored the Eagles 22-10 over three games. Look for Florida State to continue this home success against a
lesser Wake Forest opponent this weekend. The action gets started Friday, March 25 at 6 p.m., and continues the following day at 6 p.m. The action wraps up Sunday at 1 p.m.
As a team, the ’Noles have been playing the best defense in the country to this point in the tournament. After holding Texas A&M to just 31 percent shooting in their first victory of the tourney, the ’Noles held the highoctane Fighting Irish to an equally dismal 31 per-
cent. Florida State’s aggressive defense has a tendency to make good offensive teams look very bad, and the ’Noles will be in attack-mode as usual on Friday night. Prior to their beatdown at the hands of the Seminoles, Notre Dame was one of the
best offensive teams in the country, shooting 46 percent and scoring 76 points per game. Against FSU, the Irish were held to 23 first-half points and only mustered 57 for the game. If Florida State has had any struggles this season, they have come on the offensive end of the floor.
The ’Noles rank 154th in the country in points per game, but looked like a completely different team in their win over the Irish. For the game, FSU shot 45.8 percent— including nine 3-pointers—that helped build a 23-point cushion in the second half. Florida State will look
to continue their hot shooting from the third round in an attempt to reach the Elite Eight, where they would take on the winner of the No.12 seed Richmond or top-seeded Kansas on Sunday afternoon. Tip-off is set for 9:57 p.m. on Friday and can be seen on TBS.
CINDERELLA from 5 ACC Defensive Player of the Year Chris Singleton figures to be the perfect defensive matchup for Skeen. Both players stand at 6-foot-9, and Singleton’s length and athleticism have made him a defensive nightmare for opposing scorers since his arrival in Tallahassee three years ago.
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TotalBummerFestisnobummer Three-day, multi-genred music festival to take place from March 25-27
Jessica Militare Staff Writer
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In conjunction with the arrival of spring, the festival circuit unleashes its most prized weekend wonders, attracting thousands to see an array of artists in cities across the country. It’s especially exciting when fans live in or around the festival areas, because seeing so many acts in one place is a rarity in itself. Better still is when a community-assembled music festival arises in a modest town, with a relatively small fee to attend—which is quite a generous offer for music-hungry college kids. The second annual Total Bummer Music Festival will make its way to Tallahassee this weekend, March 25-27. Despite its humorous, lighthearted title, its name is not intended to reflect reality: The idea originates from a smaller electronic festival called Skeletron Ball, which took place a couple years ago in Gainesville during Halloween weekend. It offered an alternative to The Fest, a punk festival landing on the
The Strokes make up for lost time
New York band releases first album in five years David J. Cross Staff Writer
Ruse ($2.99) Marvel has continued its relaunch of the CrossGen titles the company purchased several years ago with last week’s Ruse #1, a police procedural in the vein of Sherlock Holmes. Witty and eccentric London detective Simon Archard is the world’s greatest sleuth. He’s pompous, elitist and selfconfident. It’s up to his partner (or is it assistant?) Emma Bishop to make sense of it all. As the cover accurately proclaims: “Struggling day and night to keep the world’s most brilliant detective mind focused on the problems of others is hardly a part-time dalliance.” Writer Mark Waid returns to the series he helped start and does so with an excellent story with little, if any, superfluous scenes or dialogue. The issue moves along quickly to catch new readers, but leaves seasoned readers unsure as to how Ruse will move forward. One of the major plot points in the previous series (which ended midsee comics 11
Eric Sarrantonio Staff Writer
The Strokes hit the scene 10 years ago with an album most music lovers of any form have heard of: Is This It. The album is an undeni-
able masterpiece. If it was the only album the band ever released, they would certainly have an impeccable image in the pantheon of rock ’n’ roll. Sadly, the two albums that followed came nowhere near delivering on the band’s early promise: Room on Fire is something of a cheap imitation of their debut album, and First Impressions of Earth was an unsuccessful experimentation with that
go-to sound. The band’s newest album, Angles, comes five years after their last, and is bound to please their fans, and for good reason. It’s admittedly hard to be original with rock
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’n’ roll, so it is refreshing enough just to see The Strokes escaping their old, overdone sound. Although lead singer Julian Casablancas sees himself as the core of the band, the lead guitar work of Albert Hammond Jr. and Nick Valensi has always been what makes The Strokes so great. Both guitarists shine on this album with some of their best see strokes 10
Study guides for sale Student-run ‘Moolaguides.com’ buys and sells notes and study guides
Grace Norberg Senior Staff Writer
Buying and selling notes and study guides can be a real hassle, and the three founders of Moolaguides.com know better than anyone else. That is why FSU sophomore David Russell suggested, when
prompted to come up with a business idea in his entrepreneurship class last semester, conceiving a website that makes it a piece of cake to both sell and buy study guides. FSU sophomores Thomas Brady and Alex Wolniewitz quickly jumped on board, and thus, Moolaguides.com was born. “Last year, David was selling study guides, and realized the hassle of having to meet up with people and the stresses behind it, and he kind
of figured: ‘Why don’t I just sell my study guides online?’ ” said Brady. “We revolutionized the idea to create the sort of eBay of study guides.” This is to say that Moolaguides is purely seller-based, as users can create an account and post their own study guides and name their price. What makes Moola different from other sites that sell study guides is that they are highly specialized and only focus on notes and study
guides, whereas other sites like Koofers.com try to offer much more, shifting the focus away from strict study guides. Furthermore, the founders of Moola insist they want their sellers to make as much money as possible. For this very reason, the business only takes 20 percent of the profit per transaction, whereas other websites take upward of 50 percent or more. “For the sellers, it’s see study guides 13
same weekend. JT Bringardner, mastermind of Total Bummer, wanted to mirror the idea for the springtime, eventually heading a new festival—its name this year Total Bummer 2.0—under the collective record label, Spirit Cat. The message of Spirit Cat is to host free music along with art based out of Florida and the Southeast, creating an extended familial relationship through artistic expression, which is implanted in Total Bummer’s cause as well. “With Total Bummer, we wanted to highlight and support the music and art being made in Florida,” said co-host James Folker. “The spread of local music is important because of the camaraderie built when you meet people who invest in something they care about, and being able to give them a place to play, and a place to eat and sleep.” Combining the spirit of Florida talent, the festival will also house touring bands, spreading other local and underground music. All from different realms, a spectrum of sounds from hardcore to experimental electronic prohibits aural barriers in the festival. “I think it is important see fest 12
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NEStalgia is by no means a great game, per se. Almost everything from the plot to the gameplay is extremely simple and feels stale within this day and age. Having said that, I urge anyone out there to at least try this game, especially with a good friend or two joining you. Despite the shortcomings of the game, it’s the concept itself that really deserves recognition. Besides, the game is absolutely free, so players have nothing to lose except for some invaluable free time. The gimmick of NEStalgia is simple: combine a traditional Japanese role-playing game with a massive multiplayer online game, which Silk Games accurately describes as “Dragon Warrior 3 [aka Dragon Quest] meets World of Warcraft.” For the most part, this 8-bit game is your basic RPG that fans of series like Final Fantasy will be completely at home see extra life 13
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Art and technology merge in Circuits MFA seniors explore the use of technology for their thesis concert Reid Compton
Digital & Multimedia Editor Nicole Roerick, Monique Roberts, and Mary Love Ward have each taken a unique path to FSU, but this weekend they will reach the culmination of their MFA dance careers together in their thesis concert, Circuits. The three graduating MFA seniors are exploring the use of technology in various ways through their pieces. “The three of us tried to form a title that was relating to our works in some way,” said Nicole Roerick. “A lot of [our pieces] have different themes happening, but we all are using technology in some format, so ‘Circuits’ has that implied.” Among the technological mediums being explored is Facebook and
social media. “One of the things that I think is most interesting about Facebook is its opportunity to be a really unique performance space,” Mary Love Ward said. “If you think about it, it’s like choreography. You’re selecting what pictures you put up, you’re selecting the comments your’re putting, so it’s not like you’re really out there. It’s a selective view of yourself.” The group has created a fan page for the concert, and are posting pictures and videos to reinforce this idea of a “selective view of yourself.” Audience members are invited to particpate in a live Facebook interaction with the artists starting at 7:30 p.m., and the fan page will be projected onto a screen during the concert. Audience members will be able to engage with the
dancers backstage in real time by commenting on the page. Contrary Divestment, choreographed by Monique Roberts, is set inside of a complex video projection environment. The projections mirror the the themes of the onstage action. The piece explores themes of self-identity in the modern age, and video filters alter the projection as the dancer progresses through the piece. The show will be on Friday and Saturday evening at 8 p.m. in the Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre. Tickets are free for students with an FSU ID, and $6 for general admission. “I’m getting really excited for it, being able to have my own work put out there for people to see,” said Nicole Roerick.
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Dancers perform in a piece choreographed by Monique Roberts for her MFA thesis concert ‘Circuits.’
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A dancer performs in a piece choreographed by Monique Roberts for her MFA thesis concert ‘Circuits.’
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Nicole Roerick (right) performs in a piece for her MFA thesis concert ‘Circuits.’
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Dancers perform in a piece choreographed by Nicole Roerick for her MFA thesis concert ‘Circuits.’
Feel the spirit of Suwannee at Springfest 15th annual Springfest Festival starts March 24 in Live Oak
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The 15th annual Suwannee Springfest will take place at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Fla., starting on Thursday, March
24, and lasting through Sunday, March 27. Popular with students across the state, the festival features four days of live music by artists such as the Avett Brothers, the David Grisman Sextet and Jesse McReynolds to name a few. Though the opportuity to order tickets online has passed, tickets are still available at the festival gates with many dif-
ferent ticket options for festival goers. Single day tickets will be available with prices ranging from $50-$75, Saturday and Sunday passes will be available for $115 and student passes for all four days will be available at the gate for $150 with valid student identification. For those traveling to the festival and planning on staying overnight, note that single day
tickets include access to musical perfomances only, while weekend and four day passes will also include access to campgrounds. Suwannee Springfest has grown from 1,000 attendees initially to well over 7,000 and growing. The festival is known for featuring Americana music, which includes a variety of genres such as roots rock, bluegrass, singer/songwriter and
acoustic blues. The festival’s influence in Americana music was chronicled in the 2007 documentary Music Farmers: Sowing the Seeds of Americana, which was broadcast nationwide on PBS and featured at the 2007 Jacksonville Film Festival. For more information on the festival and for a full lineup of performers, visit suwanneespringfest.com.
the album, while “You’re So Right” sounds like an extra from the First Impressions sessions, but still manages to improve on most of that album’s songs. The album title, Angles, hints that this album might be in the vein of math rock, but it’s mostly a misnomer. A few songs (“Taken For
a Fool” and “Gratisfaction”) play along with an angled theme, but The Strokes are too cautious and aware of their popularity to head in an entirely mathy direction. “Games” and “Call Me Back” are the greatest departures on the album, with the former including some beautiful synth parts. Before too long,
however, “Life Is Simple in the Moonlight” closes the album and leaves a sour taste for all those hopefuls who wanted an entirely new direction for Angles. Be that as it may, we may never see an album that follows Is This It the way we expect The Strokes to, but maybe those expectations never
should have existed. The band’s claim to fame is one made on making guitar-based music popular again and starting the garage rock and post-punk revivals of the early ’00s. Neither of those accomplishments required the band to have an original sound; instead, they relied on the innovations of bands
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from the ’60s and ’70s to build their own sound. With Angles, the band escapes their old methods on a number of songs, but falls back enough to prove that, after more than a decade in the business, The Strokes do not have the creativity needed to stand out as truly unique and pioneering with music.
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Head north, young man
Shopping and dining make Thomasville, Ga., a fun, daylong getaway
Ryan Rabac Staff Writer
Every so often, students need to take a moment and get away from the hustle and bustle of school and work in Tallahassee. For a quick and hassle-free day trip, just head north of town to
Thomasville, Ga., where you can find unique local shops and restaurants that make the almost hour-long drive worth it. The first thing you’ll see on the way in is an iconic water tower with the town’s logo painted across it. Some of the outer development appears a little rundown, but downtown is still welcoming and thriving with business and a friendly attitude in the air. A good first stop is the Sweet Grass Dairy on
Broad Street. There, they offer local homemade cow and goat cheeses, as well as wine selections and other snacks. Also on Broad Street is Kevin’s, an outdoor apparel and sporting goods store. Have fun browsing but be careful not to damage any of the fancy glassware also on display. The Bookshelf offers a small but tasteful collection of new books and an art gallery upstairs. Book lovers should also stop in at the Bookworm
on West Jackson Street to peruse a used collection. The store shares a space with New Voyager Trading, specialists in spinning and weaving tools. Thomasville also has plenty of stops for antique hunters. More adventurous folks should wander into Harden’s Taxidermy on East Jackson Street. If all the frozen creatures staring at you inside or the giant moose guarding the front door aren’t enough, you can
practically peer right into the workshop from the small gallery in front. Anyone interested in the Cigar Shop next-door may be forced to take a behind-the-scenes tour to get there. Thomasville has marked the first Friday of every month as Downtown Night, when stores and restaurants stay open later and feature entertainment and shopping specials. Starting back up in the spring will be Downtown
Markets every Thursday and first Saturday of the month. Markets make it convenient to pick up local produce and custom crafts. From April 21-23, the town will host its 90th Annual Rose Show and Festival. It was voted one of the Top 20 events in the Southeast in 2008. It will include parades, vendors, street dances and more. For more information about Thomasville, visit www.thomasville.com.
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comics from 9 story due to a bankruptcy) was whether Bishop had otherworldly powers. Waid tactfully ignores this question in the first issue, but it will likely be confronted in the future. If you’re a fan of the recent take on Sherlock Holmes, Ruse is up your alley. Use your detective skills to weed out lesser comics and add this to your pull list. Neko Ramen Vol. 3: A Cat After All! ($10.99) Kenji Sonishi’s Neko Ramen manga series isn’t
for everyone. His art is crude and the story is told more like a newspaper comic strip than a magazine stand comic. The first two volumes of the series, however, are two of the funniest collections of short stories written in the last year. The third, unfortunately, is a misstep for Sonishi, as his concept appears to running dry. The Neko Ramen series follows a cat who runs a ramen store and a man who is likely the cat’s only customer. Most of the humor arises from the cat’s
complete lack of understanding on how to make ramen, or any dish for that matter. The first two volumes follow the cat as his scheming and attempts at creating new recipes go afoul. By the third volume, sadly, this bit has gotten stale, leaving A Cat After All! to read as if Sonishi began recycling old plots and gags. The result is a volume—which, like bad ramen—isn’t worth digesting. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
#5 ($2.99) Nick Spencer knows how to tell a story. It’s unfortunate he isn’t on one of DC Comics’ more noteworthy titles. What’s more unfortunate is the likelihood of Spencer tackling Superman or Batman, as he recently signed an exclusive deal with Marvel Comics. Too bad for DC: Spencer’s a hot property. Fans of both DC Comics and Spencer will have to continue purchasing T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and pray the com-
right amount of exposition to keep readers interested without bogging the story down with melodrama. As with the rest of the issues in the series, it’s difficult to say where the next issue will take the low-rent superhero force, or what twist Spencer will toss in. As it is, the klaxon that is T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents is more than worth the read.
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It’s not just about the music. That is the medium we use to relate, but it’s also about investing in one another to build a sustainable network for people to have their music heard and to feel a part of something. James Folker Co-host of Total Bummer Music Festival
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to be exposed to different types of music in order to broaden one’s perspective on how diverse the art form can be,” said participating local artist Arnold Francisco. “It seems as though the event is a mere showcase of the current musical spirit in Tallahassee, allowing the touring bands on the package to experience the organic and genuine tenacity of our music community.” With cooperating venues The Farside, Bookmine and The Warehouse, the community effort to steer the festival was a deciding factor in its move to Tallahassee since the beginning. “It’s not just about the music,” said Folker. “That is the medium we use to relate, but it’s also about investing in one another to build a sustainable network for people to have their music heard and to feel a part of something.” The bulk of the fest’s headliners hail from Tallahassee, both veterans and newer acts. Little League, D***kicker, Holiday Shores, Woset, Black Cloud, Jane Jane Pollock and Woodthrush are just a few of the locals participating. Traveling bands range from all over, with groups like Brooklyn’s Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, a 15-piece rambunctious pop band clothed in psychedelic costumes to set the mood, technopop project GOBBLE GOBBLE, hailing from Canada, post-punk trio Diet Cokeheads from Gainesville and weird-pop group Quiet Hooves, from nearby Athens, Ga. “We are psyched on all the bands that are playing this year,” said Folker. “Every time I look at the flyer I get all giddy like it’s Christmas morning or something.” Bearing attractions besides music, the weekend will also include a full-service milk bar at The Farside, with flavors such as bubblegum, banana and hemp, face painting and various intramural games. Next year, Total Bummer 3 is set to be a traveling festival, featuring a two-day show in multiple cities, but this year, its intent is celebrating music and culture with a local drive, making for a weekend that is sure to be anything but a bummer. Pre-sale tickets are available at totalbummer.com.
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study guides from 9 actually a huge way to generate some kind of income per month compared to having a job; that way, you can only focus on your studies,� said Brady. “For example, one of our better sellers, she’s actually made well over $1,000 this semester. We’ve had people make over $400 off one study guide.� There are advantages aplenty for buyers, as well. Anyone who has
missed class for health, family or other reasons and needs notes can turn to Moola. Prospective buyers can go online, view some sample pages of the study guide they want, and then click the “I need this� button to purchase the guide through PayPal. A link to download the study guide will then be emailed to the buyer within a few seconds. “It’s convenient for the buyers; they can buy it at
any time,� said Brady. “If they need a study guide at 3 a.m., they can go on our website and purchase it.� Some may wonder if transactions involving class notes are ethical or even allowed here at FSU. Because the university funds Moolaguides, students can breathe a sigh of relief, as it won’t put you at odds with the school’s policies. The only issue Moola has ever run into is a stu-
dent selling notes for an open-note test, which is prohibited. “All study guides are meant to be one’s own way of studying,� said Brady. “You record information in the way that you study the best, so technically it’s your information, and it’s completely fine to sell your own information.� Moolaguides.com got its first big boost during finals week of last semester, selling its first
study guide right after Thanksgiving, and then accumulating 15,000 hits during finals week, averaging over 2,000 hits per day. The founding trio made enough money to actually buy the business back from the university, and now plan to donate all their profits from the 2010-2011 academic year to the Jim Moran Institute, which funds the entrepreneurship major at FSU. After this semester,
they will be working for a profit, and hope to expand their business to not only other schools in Florida, but eventually other states. “We’re FSU students; we understand the hassle of being a college student,� said Brady. “So we’re trying to make everyone’s lives a little bit easier, a little bit better while also focusing on the true point of college, which is getting good grades and succeeding.�
observation, “Grinding is a lot more fun with friends, especially with the great fighting dialogue.� That’s when it hit me; I actually was having fun doing one of gaming’s most inherently tedious tasks. And then I wondered why, in this age where online gaming has been forced into nearly every genre regardless of results, this has never really been done before. Imagine playing Final Fantasy VII where, in-
stead of just recruiting Barret into your party, you’re also recruiting your own dated, racial stereotype of a friend to help you take down Sephiroth. Imagine having a buddy help you grasp the true form of Giygas’ attack in Earthbound. Gamers who prefer to face RPGs alone will certainly have the option to, but why not have the option for online multiplayer co-op available? Playing through NEStalgia seemed like the next, logical step that RPGs
should have taken years ago. The whole system is very organic in execution. Upon arriving at a town after successfully defeating a boss, my party would split up in order to explore the village, gather supplies and information, and then agree to rendezvous at the inn to rest up before the next journey. Little moments like this helped to make an admittedly dull, stale retro RPG feel fresh and strangely more natural. I
mean, why would a ragtag group of three people be travelling strictly in a single file line from the moment they meet each other? Party members can drop out of the game on a whim, and can promptly be replaced by a nearly endless selection of willing recruits. Players with higher levels can help those less fortunate in tackling difficult segments. Playing NEStalgia has made me sincerely wish that I could play all of
my favorite party-based RPGs using this system. Sure, if I were playing NEStalgia alone, I would probably not have made it past the first town due to boredom and frustration. The battle system is as shallow as they come, the game has the pacing of a sloth, the controls are unnecessarily awkward, and overall, it just plain sucks. Adding something as simple as MMO mechanics has allowed myself and an entire community of gamers to have a genuinely great time playing, and only makes me wonder how much more fun it would be if it were implemented into an actually good RPG. I implore anyone reading this to give NEStalgia the old college try. Even if you don’t have any friends willing to join you, I assure you the ingame community is surprisingly friendly, and are more than willing to help out anyone, including n00bs, without so much as a snarky remark. Once again, it’s absolutely free (although a subscription is offered that allows for the choice of four extra classes), and, with any luck, could change the way RPGs are developed in the future.
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Look at It This Way by Daniel Ackerman
Swift action needed in Libya CHAD SQUITIERI Staff Writer Last weekend, U.S. and European forces joined together, rallying behind a United Nations Resolution, to begin airstrikes against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces in Libya. In what appears to be an eerily similar situation, President Obama gave the go-ahead for U.S. airstrikes to begin in Libya exactly eight years to the day that President Bush ordered bombing to begin
in Iraq. Both presidents, at precisely the same point in the presidency, ordered bombing of a Middle Eastern country. It seems, however, according to the mainstream media coverage, that the similarities end there. President Bush was intensely criticized for using force to bring down a dictator, who virtually all of the world saw as an evil murderer, Sadam Hussein. President Obama finds himself in a similar position with Gadhafi killing his own citizens and starting a civil war. The difference, however, is how the media seems to be handling it. As U.S. airstrikes began with President Obama still
on tour in South America, the media seems reluctant to attack their president with the same type of unnecessary rhetoric they attacked their president with eight years ago. While the optimist in me hopes that the media is acting differently toward President Obama because they now know better, and know that unfairly covering a president’s decision from a slanted angle is wrong, a part of me worries otherwise. Part of me worries because I fear that the only reason the media is acting differently toward President Obama is because the mainstream media is biased, and have to be dragged kicking and
screaming to criticize a decision made by a Democratic president, when they would have easily criticized a Republican president just a few years ago. President Obama has made it clear that no U.S. ground forces will be used in defending the citizens of Libya from their own leader, and that the U.S. will soon end airstrikes within the country. Who will take the lead after the United States, however, seems to be still up for debate. As of now, it is not clear which European country will take charge of the airstrikes after an anxious-to-leave United States ends their involvement in the mat-
ter. All of this uncertainty is occurring at the same time that the U.S. military acknowledges that one of their jets crash-landed in Libya while taking part in enforcing the no-fly zone over the country. Both pilots from the downed plane were rescued. If Moammar Gadhafi and his forces are not defeated soon, Libya could become the next major issue the United States finds itself dealing with. China and Russia, both of whom opted to not support the U.N. resolution, have criticized the United States for its involvement in Libya, and have recently had their criticisms amplified by The Arab League,
who initially supported the resolution, but now is expressing reservations. With recovery and nuclear problems occurring in Japan, and North Korea and Iran still remaining potential nuclear threats, the Obama administration already has a lot to deal with. The problems in Libya, however, should remain a top priority for the administration, and the people of Libya should be freed from the oppression and bloodshed they are currently facing swiftly and justly before the United States finds themselves in yet another long-term military commitment in the Middle East.
The energy problem and the nuclear cycle Retracing Our Steps ERIK EMBREY Staff Writer The controversy of nuclear power is one of those subjects that seems to cycle fairly predictably in public opinion. It makes sense; people approve of it in good times as an alternative energy source and quickly shrink away if anything goes wrong. I feel like I have a fair amount of perspective on the matter: I’ve lived less than 2.5 miles from Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant for a large chunk of my life. The tsunami and earthquake disaster
Letter to the Editor The college student’s case for health reform A year ago this week, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. The law enacts significant health insurance reforms that will take effect over the next several years. But one very important piece of that law is already in place. And it may directly benefit you. The Affordable Care
in Japan have caused the issue to come back into vogue with the nuclear problems currently being faced at the Fukushima Plant. Because of the disaster, questions are being raised as to the safety and tradeoffs using it as a power source. Is it really worth the risks inherent with nuclear reactions? I never really gave living so close to a plant a second thought because I grew up with it being there, and I’m not too worried for the future of that specific plant. (It helps that Maryland isn’t known for earthquakes.) Yet, after observing what has been happening in a worst-case scenario with the earthquake and
tsunami at Fukushima, nuclear plants built near fault lines in the U.S. do warrant a bit more trepidation. There are two nuclear plants in particular on the west coast that would be of concern should there be a tsunami hitting the area, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. While the radiation levels that have been experienced by the general public in Japan thus far are not lethal, it is disconcerting to learn that Tokyo water has recently been deemed as “unsafe for children.” That shouldn’t be necessarily taken as alarmist; it’s specifically in reference to babies, and adults shouldn’t suffer any ill effects. It’s the distance the
contamination has spread that is unsettling. I do think nuclear power is fairly safe in most cases—I would rather have a properly safeguarded nuclear plant than the cleanest burning coal plant in an area that wasn’t prone to seismic activity. To borrow something I read from the web comic XKCD, I have gotten more radiation from eating a banana than from living in close proximity to the plant. There also isn’t an air pollution problem; I didn’t take notice that I lived right near the plant most of the time, and I drove by it on a weekly basis. Functioning properly and in a low-risk area, I think it’s a great option for energy needs.
There are certainly problems with nuclear plants; they are not the end-all solution to energy problems by any means. The necessity for a place to store the waste created is commonly identified as one of the biggest obstacles to overcome. While it isn’t much in terms of physical space consumed, the leftover waste will remain radioactive for thousands of years and finding a safe and cost-effective way to safely store those used fuel rods has yet to be fully solved. There is also that tiny risk for a catastrophic meltdown, no matter how good the safeguards. Some important component could critically fail at some point due to man-made
errors or natural causes, no matter how many redundant safety systems are put into place. The problems at Fukushima are certainly proof that some things cannot be predicted in advance. While it seems as if the plant is coming under control within the last few days, it is chilling that there has been a real possibility of a severe radioactive leak. The whole world needs to keep a heedful perspective of what has already occurred in Japan and evaluate the safety of their domestic plants. Nuclear power shouldn’t be tossed aside as too risky, but it should also be carefully considered where and how these plants are constructed.
Act ensures that college students and young adults can stay on their parents’ employer-provided health care plans until age 26. Before, many health plans and issuers dropped young adults from their parents’ policies because of their age. That left countless college students, recent college graduates and other young people with little recourse, and worse: no health insurance. Historically, some 30 percent of young adults have been uninsured, a rate far higher than that of any other
age group. But young people don’t need health insurance, right? The statistics say otherwise: One-in-six young adults today is faced with a chronic illness such as cancer, diabetes or asthma. And nearly half of uninsured young adults report problems paying medical bills. The new law ensures you have an option when it comes to your health care. This is important as you continue through school, and as you transition into the job market, since you may find
that health care coverage is not immediately available through your employer. Or you may work part time. You may choose to continue your education and go to graduate school, or take time off to travel and pursue volunteer opportunities. It allows you to remain on your parents’ plan, or rejoin it until age 26, even if you no longer live with your parents, are not a dependent on their tax return or are no longer a student. The new flexibility even applies if you
are married. You are guaranteed the same benefits and at the same price that is available to other dependents. More health care improvements are on the way—and many may also directly benefit you. Already, coverage cannot be denied for those under age 19 because of a preexisting condition. By 2014, denying coverage to anyone based on a preexisting condition will be banned. Annual dollar caps on care, which are already limited, will be prohibited;
and state-based health insurance exchanges will create a new marketplace, giving more employers and millions of Americans the ability to purchase affordable coverage. The Affordable Care Act is based on the simple belief that every American— and that includes college students—deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care. One year after it has become law, that belief is becoming reality. —Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of Labor
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Horoscopes
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Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5 -Finances are not your strength today. Not a good day to take risks. Distractions show up. Perhaps it’s a good day for procrastination. Your luck will eventually shift. Remember who your true friends are.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6 -- Heed a friend’s warning. Work out bugs before taking action. A barrier dissolves. Finances take a turn for the better. It’s easier to express yourself. Your savings grow naturally.
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Today is a 7 -- Indulge a fantasy, and instigate changes. Stand up for yourself and others. Launch a new voyage or endeavor, and ask advice of an older, wealthier person.
Just be the first caller between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. tonight and leave a voicemail with your name, number and answer.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
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Today is a 7 -- Keep practicing to see improvement. It’s awkward at first, and some of the things you try don’t work, but keep at it. This builds the skills you need. Seek buried treasure.
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7 -- Delegate to increase your effectiveness. A team is far more powerful than a lone ranger. Let another take the lead. Share the load to get there faster, and share the rewards.
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8 -- Focus on your work, and prioritize in order to handle your greatest urgencies first. Put in corrections. Amp up the energy level, and you can have it all.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6 -- It’s not a good day to travel, but a great day for romance. Do what you promised first. There will be time after for fun. Be open to change in the future.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7 -Home feels good today. There’s no need to go out. Time to complete home improvement projects and to make your nest more comfortable. Then invite company to share a feast.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7 -Question authority. Watch out for laziness and for distractions. Time to make a list and start checking things off so nothing falls between the cracks.
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Today is a 5 -If you’re going to think so much, you might as well get out of the box. You may be more comfortable then, even if it’s different. Ask insightful questions. Nancy Black and Stephanie Clement, Tribune Media Services
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