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Women rally for health rights Planned Parenthood protests to reject 18 proposed bills ANA REBECCA RODRIGUEZ Assistant News Editor Close to 200 individuals gathered in Tallahassee on Tuesday, April 12, to voice their support of women’s reproductive rights and to reject proposed changes to health services specific to women. Members and supporters of Planned Parenthood organizations converged outside the Senate Portico as part of the Birth Control Matters Day rally after word spread of the 18 proposed bills sitting before the legislature. The debate surrounding the proposed bills threatened to temporarily shut down the national government after unresolved debates circulated around legislation that would deny milJoseph La Belle/FSView lions of women annual During a Planned Parenthood rally at the Capitol on Tuesday, April 12, participants take part in an interpretive protest, PAP tests, breast exams where almost 200 women and men gather to reject 18 proposed bills that would limit the availability of women’s and birth control options.

The debate, which has health services. posed bills. Some of the addressed the crowd and who simply support their been overlooked by many in the nation.

Several of the top indi- attendees included Sen. expressed her concern beliefs, were also in atin the midst of the federal budget war, centers over viduals heavily involved Nan Rich Minority (Dem- about the current and tendance at the event, a reported $75 million in in women’s care were in ocratic) Leader, Rep. future state of women’s lending their voices to funding for Planned Par- attendance at the event, Scott Randolph (D-Or- health should the bills the cause.

“We are down here for enthood, a national orga- traveling from around lando) and Rep. Dwight pass into law. Hundreds nization responsible for the state in order to share Bullard (D-Miami). Also of other women, who the day supporting womproviding contraception, their support for the rally in attendance was Nova grew up volunteering en’s health issues with medical care and abor- and demonstrate an out- University medical stu- and working for Planned tions at over 800 clinics right rejection of the pro- dent Emily Young, who Parenthood services, or SEE RALLY 2

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Faculty luncheon series presents interdisciplinary perspectives EMILY OSTERMEYER Contributing Writer David Cooper, Brim Eminent Scholar in Economics at Florida State University and economic theorist, spoke at the last of a four-part spring 2011 Faculty Luncheon Series this past Tuesday, April 12.

Faculty Luncheon series run every year and have been operating for nearly 25 years.

Professor Dennis Moore, Associate Professor of English, and Professor James Smith, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, organized this spring’s luncheon series.

“This spring, what we’re doing is bringing together some people who are doing some really impressive and cutting-edge work in a number of different academic areas,” Moore said.

Each speaker in this spring semester’s miniseries has been a participant of FSU’s new interdisciplinary cluster-hiring initiative, which entails three or four faculty members who have been hired all at one time, all in academic fields related to

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play strategically for quite some time.

“So, in situations where they can do something that’s not obvious, in order to play a game a little bit better, how do they gain that insight they need, in order to anticipate how others are going to respond and take advantage of it?” Cooper said.

Cooper discussed his own work, which looks at how teams differed from individuals in this context.

“And doing this, it turns out that teams are systematically much faster than you would expect given individual performance,” Cooper said.

Cooper said these findings regarding team decision making apply in many different settings, such as the competition between firms.

In this context, strategic decisions, such as pricing or entry into an industry, are most often made by groups of people rather than by individuals.

“It’s studying how these firms are going to behave strategically,” Cooper said. “It’s important to understand how decision

making by a group differs than decision making by an individual.”

The other speakers of this spring’s luncheon series included Professor Pamela Keel of the Psychology and Neurobiology of Dysregulated Behavior cluster, Professor Elaine Treharne, of the History of Text Technologies cluster and Professor Steve Lenhert of the Integrative NanoScience Institute cluster.

Robert Ross, a member of the Faculty Luncheon Series planning committee, said this diverse group of academia promotes an inter-disciplinary awareness of the scholarship and research going on within the FSU community.

“It’s to educate all of us as to what’s going on [around] campus,” said Ross, a research associate in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science at FSU. “There’s a lot of really interesting research going on and sometimes we don’t know about it if it’s not happening in our own immediate area.”

The luncheons are open

to faculty, staff, students and people in the community.

Ross said he’s been very pleased with the increased attendance in recent lectures, with nearly 40-70 faculty members from different departments in attendance.

“That’s one of the really nice things about the luncheon: There’s a real collegiality there, where people from different departments come together and talk with each other and get to know each other,” Ross said. “There are not really that many venues on campus where people from different departments can come together that way.”

Moore said anyone can contribute to the planning of future Faculty Luncheon series. An open planning meeting will be held on Monday, May 9, at 12:15 p.m., where anybody with ideas or questions can attend.

For more details and information about the series, or how students can get involved with the planning of the event, contact Ross at rross@ fsu.edu.

RALLY from 1 Planned Parenthood, the Democratic Party and other women’s groups,” said Ellen Floriani, a longtime Planned Parenthood volunteer. “What we are trying to do is impress upon the legislature that their priorities are misplaced.”

Floriani, who traveled from Tarpon Springs, said that although there is in fact a national debt crisis, no good can come of cutting funding from organizations like Planned Parenthood, which help disadvantaged individuals.

“We have a lot of bills on the books right now regarding women’s health, and what seems to be happening is that the most conservative block of the legislature is trying to make it even tougher for women to obtain health services,” said Floriani.

“The women who have the most difficulty are the women who are poor or young, or have no insurance. What they seem to be targeting, they think, is only abortion, but what they are really targeting is women’s overall health.”

Some of the most controversial bills include HB 1127, sponsored by Rep. Elizabeth Porter, which would require by law that doctors perform ultrasounds prior to any abortion. HB 415, sponsored

by Rep. Charles Van Zant, would ban all abortions in the state of Florida, including in cases of rape and incest, while HB 1247, sponsored by Rep. Kelli Stargel, would amend the current Parental Notice of Abortion Act by adding

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A group of Planned Parenthood members gather after their protest of bills that would limit women’s health care at the Capitol on Tuesday, April 12. tive of lawmakers who about them.

“Women’s rights are un- might not agree with aborder attack in Congress and tions or pro-abortion beright here in Florida,” said liefs, so as to make them CEO of Planned Parent- realize the importance of measures hood of North Florida Sta- preventative ci Fox as she addressed that could be affected by the crowd. “We must stand the proposed bills.

“We challenge any lawup for women’s health by opposing the anti-choice maker who wants to rebills in the Florida Legis- duce the number of aborlature. We must continue tions to join with us to to fight against the na- ensure that women and tional campaign to defund men have access to birth control and medically acJoseph La Belle/FSView Planned Parenthood.” curate sex education,” Other speakers remindDuring a Planned Parenthood rally at the capitol, an intersaid Kunkel. ed the crowd of what they pretive protest takes place showing Uncle Sam forcing the The sentiment remained believe is the true goal beLady Liberty into shackles by forcing governmental control the same among the othhind Planned Parenthood over women’s bodies. The rally took place on Tuesday, er women at the event, organizations.

April 12.

“Planned Parenthood including Floriani, who additional requirements a now,” said Floriani. “I is a trusted provider of said that the goal of the judge must follow when had never heard of such women’s health care,” event was to spread their determining whether a mi- a thing. We are desper- said Florida Association message in the hope that nor is sufficiently mature ate; our economy is falling of Planned Parenthood someone would listen.

“We sure made our to be granted a waiver apart, and yet we are fo- Affiliates Executive Difrom parental notification. cusing on ideology instead rector Stephanie Kunkel. views known,” said FloIt was the amount of of the economy. They’re “Most of our services— riani. “I don’t know how bills, said Floriani, that sticking it to women. That fully 97 percent—provide many minds are going to preventative care like PAP change, but we are going drew her to the rally. Al- makes no sense to me.”

According to the event’s smears, birth control, can- to be broadcasting our though she had never been involved in a rally speakers, the proposed cer screenings and testing pictures and our views as of this magnitude before, bills don’t make sense to for sexually transmitted far as we can. There are thousands of women who she said she knew it was them, either. Each speak- infections.”

Kunkel, who was in look at our Facebook pagtime to let her own voice er touched on several concerns regarding the charge of coordinating es in Florida and they are be heard.

“There are 18 bills be- bills, as well as what they the day’s lobbying efforts, going to see what we have fore the legislature right believe should be done aimed to shift the perspec- to say.”

FSU students take a refreshing ‘stand’ Organization raises awareness about Bright Futures cuts with lemonade RENEE JACQUES Contributing Writer

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each other.

Cooper is a participant of the “Experimental Social Science” academic cluster, referred to as xs/ fs. FSU is considered a center for experimental social sciences, meaning that it is made up of professionals including faculty and graduate students who use experimental methods to study social sciences, largely in the disciplines of political science and economics.

Whereas traditional methods of economic study use mathematical theories and field data analysis, experimental economics looks at people’s behavior in laboratory settings with the perception that theory relies on assumptions about how people make decisions.

“We’re looking at how people make decisions in various environments, both together and to gain some insights into their decision making and how that decision making affects the design of institutions,” Cooper said.

Cooper said he has been doing this work on how people learn how to

Members of the newly formed FSU Coalition for Education asked students, “Do you have $1,000 for a cup of lemonade?” Monday, April 11, at their lemonade stand event aimed at raising awareness for the proposed cuts to the Bright Futures program and the 15-30 percent tuition hikes for the state of Florida.

The lemonade stand was placed in front of the HCB building at 11 a.m. and, needless to say, not many students purchased a cup of lemonade.

“We are out here today because we feel we

have a responsibility to educate our peers about the proposed cuts to the Bright Futures program, as well as the tuition hikes for our state,” said Anna Spencer, an active member of the FSU Coalition for Education. “We cannot afford a $1,000 cut for each semester and we want everyone who has a Bright Futures scholarship to know about these proposed cuts and see them as an assault to our education.”

The proposal calls for about $1,000 to be reduced from each student’s Bright Future scholarship. With the additional proposed plan to raise tuition costs, this

will present a problem to many struggling college students. Spencer said that one of the coalition’s goals is to urge students to express their anger and opposition to the proposal by writing directly to Sen. Evelyn Lynn, chairwoman of the Budget Subcommittee on Higher Education Appropriations.

“We want people to email her or write a letter directly to her stating their anger and stating why they think that it’s wrong and why we feel like we’re being attacked,” Spencer said.

Cecelia O’Brien, an organizer with the coalition, said that she is fight-

ing against the budget cuts because she knows that there are other ways the state can adjust the budget.

“If our state really wanted to fix this budget crisis, there are plenty of corporate loopholes they could examine,” O’Brien said.

“For example, with our sales tax, they don’t tax yachts, private skyboxes or jets. There are plenty of ways they could fund Bright Futures without cutting the money from us, the working class— the people who really can’t afford it. I think it’s an injustice and I’m going to fight to keep education accessible for the people who deserve it, because

Bright Futures is earned by people who got good grades, and who put in the community service.

They’re the people who deserve to be coming to school and they’re being blocked from doing that.”

The FSU Coalition for Education is planning on having a teach-in on Thursday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in the Pride Student Research Center to educate students about the legislature’s proposed education cuts.

“I think we need to attack it right now before it gets even worse,” Spencer said. “If we don’t take a stand right now, there’s no saying what could happen in the future.”

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Capitol invites FSU students to participate in FSU Day

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The tradition of FSU Day at the Capitol draws to a close as the Pep Band plays the Seminole War Chant and attendees Visit fsunews.com for more pay homage to the university.

Middle: Florida House Represenphotos from FSU Day. tative, Clay Ingram, displays his FSU class ring to the crowd during the recognition ceremony in the Capitol Courtyard on Tuesday, April 12. Right: Florida State representative, Frank Artiles, is recognized among other legislature alumni at FSU Day at the Capitol, held Tuesday, April 12.

FSU student to study in Scotland on Fulbright William Boyce awarded scholarship to obtain Master’s of Literature KARLANNA LEWIS Staff Writer William Boyce, a Florida State University senior, is one of the 2011-2012 recipients of the Fulbright scholarship, a national fellowship to conduct research or teach English in another country. William, a triple major in history, creative writing and religious studies, has a strong academic background.

To his brothers in the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, it did not come as a surprise Boyce won the award.

“He’s a very good student, probably [has] the No. 1 GPA in our fraternity,” said Rafael Batista, public relations chair for Pi Kappa Phi. “He’s very smart, very well respected amongst our brotherhood, and he’s always very dedicated to his studies. It’s impressive, but it’s not something unexpected coming from him.”

Boyce began the application process together with FSU’s Office of National Fellowships last March. In addition to Fulbright, he applied to Marshall, Mitchell and Gates-Cambridge, but the Fulbright was the one that panned out.

“The Fulbright is a particularly exciting experience, because it will allow me to spend a year doing something I love, to research and to study, at the University of Glasgow in Scotland,” said Boyce.

“Also, it is very much invested in the process of cultural exchange and having cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural expressions, and that’s something that was very appealing to me as well.”

To apply, Boyce wrote and rewrote the two required essays, requested the necessary letters of recommendation from professors and established an affiliation with the host university to write in support of Boyce.

While the award speaks to Boyce’s accomplishments, both past and potential, he realizes it would not have been possible without the support of his family and the university as a whole.

“It’s not just for me,” said Boyce. “I feel like I carry alongside me all the professors who invested so much time and energy in me. To win this is really a testament to my professors, and to my family, who’s been

very supportive.”

Boyce’s interest in research has already manifested itself in some of his undergraduate work, including a honors in the major thesis in poetry and a mentored research project uniting poetry and theology.

Like a true scholar, his ambitions for his year in Scotland are already set high.

“I will be doing a Master’s of Literature for the year, but I would like to be working on a side project, which is an extension of what I did for my mentored research award,” said Boyce. “Again, I would like to look at in what ways religious convictions inspire or justify the creative impulse.”

The Office of National Fellowships has been open for six years, and in that time, about 36 FSU students have been awarded Fulbrights. Boyce was the first ’Nole to be announced as an awardee this year.

Dr. Craig Filar, director of the Office of National Fellowships, wants students to understand the distinction between national fellowships and other scholarships.

“We work with awards programs, the Fulbright, the Truman, the Rhodes, that match up with longterm goals, not immediate financial need,” said Filar.

“While a lot of the awards that we work with are called scholarships, they’re really fellowships in the sense that they’re meant to bring together people that share a common vision or a common interest or a common skill as they work toward a long-term goal.”

The Fulbright, funded through the State Department, has programs in 110 countries worldwide and awards around 900 fellowships each year. Both the Fulbright Full Grants and English Teaching Assistantships are also designed to foster international relationships.

“With the Fulbright, the Fulbright commission awards students who are committed to building strong relationships with countries around the world on a one-to-one basis, from student-tostudent or from studentto-community member,” said Filar. “It’s not a scholarship in the sense of this will help me pay for this tuition, but it’s a scholar-

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ship in the sense of awarding students who show potential to go overseas and either do research or take classes in another country.”

Boyce is already developing some post-Fulbright goals: “When I come back I would like to pursue a career as a university professor. I’m really excited to have this stepping stone opportunity that will really allow me to move on in my career.”

For the next potential

Fulbright scholar, Filar’s advice is to visit the Office of National Fellowships immediately. It’s never too early to begin applying.

“The most difficult thing is a student will come talk to us and say, ‘Oh, I read about this student in the paper or on Blackboard and was really interested in this award,’ ” said Filar.

“These awards are all on very lengthy timelines, so if you don’t come in sooner, you might miss the opportunity to apply.”

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Robert Eklund receives Mode L. Stone award COURTNEY ROLLE Staff Writer Florida State University professor Robert Eklund is the recent recipient of the College of Education’s Mode L. Stone Distinguished Professorship award. The Mode L. Stone Distinguished Professorship is one given annually to a faculty member who is nominated by a colleague. The purpose of the award is to recognize faculty scholarship and celebrate their commitment to excellence. Eklund is the third professor to receive this award.

Eklund has been a professor in sports psychology at FSU since 2005.

Previously, he taught for seven years at the University of Western Australia. He specializes in exercise psychology, where counseling is used to improve an athlete’s sports performance and aid them in any sports related issues.

Aside from his sports psychology professorial work, Eklund has also contributed to research on heart stress, dehydration and fatigue in underground and surface miners in the western Australia area. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief

of the Journal of Sports & Exercise Psychology and was the recipient of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education back in 2008.

“I was unaware that I had been nominated and was being considered for the Mode L. Stone Distinguished Professorship, and I was surprised to find that I had been selected as a consequence,” said Eklund. “It is a great honor and a very satisfying recognition.”

Eklund said he enjoys the work that he does, and did not set out to win an award—only to immerse himself in doing what he loves to do;

working with students, conducting research and providing service for his profession.

“In some ways, it serves as a formal validation that I’ve been doing the right things in my efforts at FSU and there is a great deal to appreciate about that,” Eklund said of the award. “I’ve also found out enough about Mode L. Stone to believe that he was a good man who contributed significantly to Florida State University on a variety of accounts, including [his position] as the dean of the College of Education, and to the larger community as a whole in Florida.

His name certainly gives

meaning to the title of “distinguished professor.”

Eklund displays a considerable passion for his line of work and said that he’s fortunate enough to have his line of work be of interest and passion to him.

“I am passionate about what I do because I’m in the fortunate position to have my career focused on an area that I’m deeply interested in, going all the way back to when I was a competitive athlete,” Eklund said. “My teaching, research and service revolve around doing what I like to do, and it is really hard not to be passionate about that.”

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FSU’s ABC awarded Spring Break grant Liberty Mutual grants 10 students a chance to volunteer at Tennessee hospital KARLANNA LEWIS Staff Writer In addition to lounging on the Panama City beaches, another kind of Spring Break is gaining popularity: this year, one of Florida State University’s Alternative Break Corps’ (ABC) trips to a Tennessee Children’s Hospital attracted the attention Liberty Mutual Grant, who selected the students for a grant.

The program, now in its third year, is part of the company’s larger efforts to recognize “responsible scholars.”

“We recognized that students are doing more and more responsible things on their campuses and in their communities every day,” said Liberty Mutual Director Maura

Quinn. “The program was established as a way to reward that extraordinary work that they were doing not only to improve their campuses but the world around them.”

Although ABC is comprised of over 50 members, only 10 girls went on this service mission.

Based in part on the number of people impacted, Liberty Mutual made a decision to award them a grant.

“They were going to help a large group of children, so the number of people impacted could be huge,” said Quinn. “But not only for that one week, the goal was to gain knowledge to implement and impact members of their own community. That’s an important and useful tool that we certainly value,

along the lines of, ‘If you give a man a fish he eats for a day. If you teach a man to fish he eats for life.’ ” Out of over 80 applicants, nine other groups were selected to receive the grants. FSU, though, was the only school chosen in Florida. This year also marks the first time a Florida State group has been selected since the inception of the program.

“The FSU group travelled to a children’s hospital in Tennessee, which we thought was a unique opportunity because, as an insurance company, we work to improve the health and welfare of humans, so children seemed to be a great cause,” said Quinn. “The project they worked on was to improve the health care experience

for children in this less fortunate neighborhood.

They looked at the details that are relevant to low-income families so that they could gain knowledge to take back to Tallahassee to improve the health care experience for folks in their own community.”

For FSU Site Leader Jessica Womack, who went on her first ABC trip two years ago, the project was also a chance to gain invaluable experience in the medical field.

“I’m a pre-med student, so it was really something I personally was interested in,” said Womack.

“Having already been on a trip to a children’s hospital, I wanted to do it again, because I really enjoy working with kids.

Any chance to be in the medical field is a really

great experience. The fact that this particular children’s hospital is a [notfor-profit] made me really want to go—the fact that they don’t turn away any patient whether they have health insurance or are able to pay or not.”

After working at the Lebonnheur Children’s hospital in Tennessee, the FSU students were primed to serve the Tallahassee community.

“We had the same consensus that seeing all the families there who were impoverished—a lot of them didn’t have health care—made us want to contribute more to similar things in Tallahassee,” said Womack. “I had been a volunteer with Big Bend Hospice, but I had gone inactive with school, but it made me want to reac-

tivate my volunteer status and to continue to give back to the underserved.

A lot of other girls on the trip had the same feeling and they’re all looking to do more work like that here locally.”

When asked as to whether their grant programs will continue in the future, Liberty Mutual Public Relations Representative Adrianne Kaufman had a simple answer.

“Yes,” said Kaufman.

“That’s the plan.”

More than anything, the experience of working with seriously ill children made the FSU students reflect.

“It was really touching,” said Womack.

“It makes you think about your life in comparison to that, and things aren’t that bad.”

FSU Reverb hosts free springtime concert for students FSU’s all-male a cappella group wraps up the semester with recruitment event BRAZOS BARBER Contributing Writer Reverb, Florida State University’s all-male a cappella group, is in full swing this Spring. On April 10, the group completed their spring concert and fundraiser, and will be gearing up to host a free concert and recruitment event this

Sunday, April 17, at 5:30 p.m. in Cawthon Hall.

An a cappella ensemble is defined as solo or group vocal or singing without instrumental sound. A littleknown fact about the practice is that it was invented during the Italian Renaissance. Today, many contemporary a cappella vocal groups add vocal percussion

and beatboxing to their performances that mimic traditional instrumental sounds.

FSU’s all-male team mainly belts pop tunes from today and decades past, performing all year round.

“We have to major concerts every year, one in the fall and one in the spring,” said outgoing PR and Advertising Chair Spencer

Frankeberger. “Throughout the rest of the year, we sing all over the Tallahassee community spreading a cappella and really just having fun.”

One is likely to see Reverb at many community service and fundraising events, Homecoming events, in the Union on random days and several other locations.

They also typically compete in national events representing FSU. The group typically ranges from 12-15 members who hold auditions every fall semester. There are a number of seniors leaving, so spaces will be opening up when school begins next year.

Their website, reverb-

fsu.com, is currently under construction, but to keep up with the group for upcoming concerts, auditions and news, search “Reverb FSU” on Facebook.

For females interested, FSU also boasts an all-female a cappella group, the AcaBelles. To learn more about the AcaBelles, visit theacabelles.com.

First lady joins forces to Celebrate Your Graduate support military families FSU among frontrunner institutions in Michelle Obama’s new intiative WASHINGTON (AP)— Drawing in everyone from Best Buy’s Geek Squad to the Afghan war commander whom her husband fired, Michelle Obama ramped up her campaign to support military families on Tuesday and prodded everybody else in the country to get in on the act.

Florida State University is one of the flagship institutions taking part in this initiative.

The first lady, joined in the East Room by the president and the Bidens, launched “Joining Forces,” an initiative to help military families who face a long list of unique challenges, such as moving around a lot and having a parent or spouse facing wartime perils far away.

Mrs. Obama didn’t dangle federal grants or incentives, rather a call to be civic-minded.

“This is a challenge to every segment of American society not to simply say thank you but to mobilize, take action and make a real commitment to supporting our military families,” Mrs. Obama said.

President Obama, for his part, said it was time to do more to support “the force behind the force.”

“They, too, are the reason we’ve got the finest military in the world,” he said.

Over the past year, Mrs. Obama’s primary focus was an ambitious campaign against childhood obesity, in which she urged businesses, nonprofits, school and others to get involved in fighting the problem. Now Mrs. Obama, working closely with Jill Biden, the wife of the vice president, wants to use that same model to tackle military family issue.

As a down payment, the White House released a list of companies and groups that already have signed on to the effort. For example, Best Buy’s Geek Squad

will help military families use technology to connect with loved ones who are deployed, Sears and WalMart will offer transfers to military spouses who have to move, and the national PTA will expand efforts to help military children adjust to new schools.

With the presidential campaign getting under way, military families are a motherhood-and-apple pie issue that can only help burnish the image of a first lady whose patriotism was called into question by critics on the right during the last campaign.

The effort was welcomed by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“These families have been sacrificing for almost 10 years,” said Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff. “It’s time for the rest of America to help shoulder their load.”

The White House has announced that retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired by the president, will be part of a three-person advisory panel that oversees the effort from the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan think tank.

McChrystal was ousted

by Obama last summer after he and his aides were quoted making dismissive comments about their civilian bosses in a Rolling Stone magazine article.

Patty Shinseki, wife of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, also will be part of the advisory panel, along with a third person yet to be named.

White House aides said the Obama administration already had taken a number of steps to ensure the government does more to support military families, such as setting up an Office of Service Member Affairs in the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help military families with special financial

challenges.

The first lady and Jill Biden plan a two-day, fourstate tour to promote the initiative starting Wednesday in North Carolina and including stops in Texas, Ohio and Colorado. At various stops along the way, they will bring in celebrities including Jessica Simpson, Nick Jonas, Martha Stewart, Sesame Street’s Elmo, and the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters to generate interest in the effort.

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COLLIN MIRANDA Staff Writer If you’re anything like me, there have been plenty of times where you’ve had a catchy video game song stuck in your head for a while and maybe even wished it was as socially acceptable to listen to in public as any other form of music.

If you’re even more like me, you’ve found yourself saying “to blazes!” with the social norm, downloaded some of your favorite game soundtracks onto your MP3 player and have occasionally blasted this music from your car as you nerd-cruise around campus looking for parking in the most epic way possible. And, yes, everyone within hearing range gets totally jealous and finds you more attractive. See for yourself.

Eventually, after having played Bit.Trip RUNNER and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, I discovered New York-based chiptune punk band Anamanaguchi, who made the title song and the entire soundtrack, respectively, for those games. Until I found Anamanaguchi, I had no idea that there were bands out there that made video gamestyle music without the intent of basing them off particular games or for the games themselves.

Combining an old, hacked Nintendo and a standard two-guitar, bass and drum rock band, Anamanaguchi has released several singles, an EP, and a fulllength LP of chiptune music made solely for the purpose of making music. The geek in me went wild, as I found a perfect mixture of my two loves in life: video games and music.

Recently, I learned that a documentary called Reformat the Planet was being streamed for free off Hulu, which helped open my ears to this exciting genre even more. This documentary focuses on bringing awareness to the chiptune culture, which has apparently been making waves underground for several years now, and specifically revolves around New York’s first annual Blip Festival in 2006, as well as the scene that chiptunes have cultivated. Featuring over 30 chiptune artists from the United States, Europe and Japan, the four-day Blip Festival marks the first time artists from around the world have come together in celebration of chiptune culture.

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ERIC JAFFE Staff Writer A little over two years since they wrote an elec-

tronic-drenched letter to science, critical darlings TV on the Radio returned this Tuesday with the release of their new LP, Nine Types of Light.

TVOTR has been many things since their Radiohead-inspired OK Calculator was released in 2002; this is a band that has never done the same

thing twice.

Over the course of their nine years in the industry, they have experimented with countless genres and an evergrowing topical range.

Nine Types of Light continues this trend with what might be the band’s most unexpected sound yet: lovers’ rock.

Don’t get me wrong; TV on the Radio isn’t entirely unfamiliar with love.

The band has definitely had their fair share of sex jams, but never before have their lyrics been as downright intimate as they are here.

“If the world falls apart, I’m gonna keep

your heart,” sings guitarist Kyp Malone on the aptly-titled “Keep Your Heart.” To be sure, the lyrics on songs like “Will Do” wouldn’t sound out of the place on a Taylor Swift album. Fans of TVOTR’s more experimental records are SEE RADIO 6

Clothing line with a cause debuts Percentage of proceeds from Project Iris apparel to benefit World Food GRACE NORBERG Senior Staff Writer The Project Iris clothing line is made up of soft, fun and floral Tshirts that are made in the USA. The clothing line was launched in last

October on World Food Day and five percent of the money generated from Project Iris will go to the United Nations World Food Program.

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Atmosphere holds up ‘The Family Sign’ Hip-hop’s most popular indie duo proves their talent on new LP ERIC JAFFE Staff Writer Collectively known as Atmosphere, Slug and Ant may just be the biggest independent rap act in the country. Comparable in record sales to underground superstar Tech N9ne, Atmosphere has sold nearly 1 million albums without the help of a major label. In 2008, they became one of the few independent hiphop acts to break the top 10 on the Billboard 200 without a hit single. If having a fanbase dedicated enough to pull those kind of numbers isn’t a testament to just how talented Atmosphere is, I don’t know what is.

When Atmosphere’s last album, When Life Gives You Lemons came out, critics heralded it as a lyrical and musical masterpiece. After listening to their latest, The Family Sign, I have no doubt it will be equally well-received.

Produced entirely by Ant, The Family Sign contains some of the finest beats the producer has ever compiled—a substantial compliment, considering this is a guy who is consistently ranked at the top of his genre. With luscious acoustic guitars, somber piano keys and lively trumpets generously dispersed throughout the LP, the instrumen-

tals on The Family Sign put most rock bands to shame. From the Old West-themed opener “My Key” to the piano-driven closer “My Notes,” beautiful instrumentals come by the handful. Ant makes beautiful music, plain and simple.

Slug, Atmosphere’s rapper, puts in an equally noteworthy effort as a lyricist. What separates Slug from his peers is that he never raps about himself. Where the majority of hip-hop artists spend their time talking about their money, their cars and their b****es, Slug is more comfortable rapping about others.

One of the finest storytellers in music, At-

Out of the 14 tracks that made the official album release, only three (highlight “My Notes,” “She’s Enough” and “Something So”) could be considered even remotely happy or inspiring.

Atmosphere has always made “emorap,” but never before has it been so overwhelmingly depressing as it is here. Not every album has to be sunshine and rainbows—some of the greatest albums of all time came out of anger and sadness—but sprinkling a little bit of hope here and there would have made the lows all the more affecting. Clocking in at over 50 minutes, the album also remains a tad too

monotonous to reach its full potential.

Overall, The Family Sign is a monumental achievement for hiphop’s most popular independent act. Wonderful storytelling and unbelievably strong production make the album a must-hear for listeners who can handle heavy subject matters. Despite the gloom and doom, though, Atmosphere remains at the top of their game.

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mosphere’s leading man methodically breaks down the lives of everyday people. “The Last to Say” tells the story of a child destroyed by domestic abuse; “Became” brings the listener to the middle of an isolated forest where an unknown protagonist discovers his partner has gone missing; and “Just For Show” takes a look at a couple with abandonment issues. No one else in hiphop is doing what Slug is right now, and the man bleeds talent over every track.

Unfortunately, Slug’s “bleeding” is a gift and curse. The Family Sign is an overwhelmingly dark and hopeless album.

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The aggravated “Repetition” and the somber “Forgotten” provide insight into darker places not seen on the rest of the tracklist. The dinnerfrom-hell storytelling on “Forgotten” is particularly bleak.

What pushes Nine Types of Light above its peers is TVOTR’s incredible ability to express the vast amount of a track’s emotion directly from its landscape. (The intimate keyboard work on “Forgotten” is just as telling as the lyrics are.)

In a market filled with cookie-cutter pop music aimed at preteens, it’s always a pleasure to see a band actually putting some thought into its collective sound.

Simply put, TV on the Radio is a master of the craft and Nine Types of Light is one of the best works of the band’s career. If you only get to purchase one album this month, make it this one.

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Nine Types of Light may be the band’s most accessible album to date, but one listen to the album opener “Second Song” and it becomes apparent that this is a band that has been and remains light-years ahead of its peers.

The tone and subject matter of “Second Song” is pretty consistent with the remainder of the album, as the track focuses on our narrator trying to block out all of the world’s distractions (“appetites and impulses confuse me”) to focus on what matters most: love.

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Billy Penn and the raiders of comic art FSU alumnus takes on teaching and comic books DAVID J. CROSS

super solider with a resemblance to Jimi Hendrix.

Humorous and violent, the comic revels in absurdity.

(One example: a bored assassin with a day job as a children’s entertainer.)

The more recent Bacon and Eggs ($4) is a collection of three short stories copenned by Penn and his wife. The stories follow a pig and chicken as they attempt to solve small mysteries on their farm. “I gave [my wife] my sketchbook and said this is what we got,� Penn said.

After seeing a sketch of the duo, Betsy Penn coined them F.B.I., the Farm and Barnyard Investigators. The farm animals tackle familiar concepts, such as “A Needle in a Haystack� and “A Fox in the Hen House.�

Penn said Bacon and Eggs’ genesis was that of a children’s book, but after the project became

Staff Writer Florida State University graduate Billy Penn likes to think of himself as an adventurer. For nine months of the year, he teaches elementary art, but the rest of his year is devoted to discovering where his imagination can take him. “I’m still obsessing over Indiana Jones,�

Penn said. “I still feel like I’m Professor Jones, August through June— and then I get to be the Indy they make movies about. And that was always the plan.�

In the past month, Penn has printed two comic books. In mid-March, Penn released the mature title VooDoo Chyl, while last week saw the release of the all-ages book Bacon and Eggs.

These two comics are the second and third release from Penn’s Graphic Cereals imprint.

VooDoo Chyl ($3) tracks a Vietnam-era

derailed, he turned it into a comic.

A lifelong comic fan, Penn’s earliest memories of the medium is their use to placate. As a child, his mother used comics to keep him from complaining while she grocery shopped. “From third to fifth grade, that’s how mothers get their kids to shut up,� Penn said.

One of those trips yielded one of Penn’s most vivid comic memories. He recalled the cover of a G.I. Joe comic where a character was parachuting while firing a gun at an oncoming plane.

“I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen, but I don’t think I read it,� he said. “From there, it was X-Men and Spider-Man.�

He realized he wanted to be a comic book artist after seeing a writer and artist tour, and thought the industry was filled with superstars. “In middle school, I thought, ‘I can draw Spider-Man really well.

I don’t even need to go to high school,’ � Penn said.

As an artist, Penn’s career has been a series of small successes and near-misses. In the early 2000s, Penn took part in

Comic Book Idol 2, an event put on by the popular comic book website Comic Book Resources.

In the contest, amateur artists competed in a five-week-long competition modeled after American Idol. Penn made his way to the top 10, but flubbed; while drawing a Green Lantern story, he placed the character’s ring on the wrong finger. While this might not be sacrilege to a general public, it didn’t endear him to the comic crowd. “I don’t read Green Lantern, so of course I put the ring on the wrong finger,� he said. “I made all kinds of little errors.�

His time with Comic Book Idol, however, lead to a backup feature in Savage Dragon, his first published work, and paved the way for subsequent projects with Platinum Studios.

Penn has one book to his name. In 2008, Platinum Studios released Hot Shot and Might

than it is about honoring their sense of nostalgia.

Surprisingly, some chiptune musicians, such as GLOMAG’s Chris Burke, an individual who is at least 40 years of age, have never even played a video game before.

Also surprising is the amount of musical variety amongst the diverse

artists. Before watching Reformat the Planet, I had figured that chiptune music was more or less limited to electronic and techno-esque music, with maybe a little bit of rock thrown in as with Anamanaguchi.

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Girl, which Penn drew.

He said he’s completed a second book, Meet the Haunteds, but that the economic downturn has prevented its publication.

Perhaps one of his favorite creations, Penn is staunchly attached to Flash Trotter, a globetrotting photographer in the vein of Indiana Jones.

As the first comic Penn printed, Flash Trotter remains the story he’d like to tell; one where the lead character can jump genres.

As the school year starts to come to a close, Penn is considering his next project. Perhaps it’ll be another Flash Trotter book. He has the second and third issues ready to go and three months to decide. If only Indiana Jones could be so lucky.

Both of Penn’s comics are available at Cosmic Cat Comics, 625A Industrial Drive in Railroad Square.

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The rundown on roommates A few words of advice for surviving life with strangers GRACE NORBERG Senior Staff Writer Whether living with a friend or random roommate, cohabiting a small dorm room can be difficult.

FSU students who have survived resident halls share their tips for getting along with roommates.

1) Don’t be afraid to lay down the law.

“My No. 1 tip is to set guidelines right from the start,” said FSU senior Jessica Burkel. “Get all of the awkward pet peeves out in the open from the get-go, so toes don’t get stepped on during times when you’re stressed out.”

Even when living with a friend, sometimes it can be hard to speak up. If rules are set early in the game, however, it will stop you from

blowing up on your roommate later.

2) Communication is key.

Being passive-aggressive will never lead to a good outcome.

“When problems arise, talk them out calmly, and before they get so bad you are unable to quietly and peacefully discuss them,” said FSU senior Karalyn Aronow. “Your roommate cannot read your mind and may not realize leaving dirty dishes in your face-washing sink or putting dirty socks on your study desk is an issue to you.”

3) Respect personal space.

Unfortunately, in the resident halls there is not much personal space to be had and the little that you do get may be very dear to you or

your roommate.

“I think you really just have to respect each other’s privacy, including over their stuff,” said FSU junior Shannon Steuart. “That is the first step in getting along. I have known so many people who start off trying to be best friends immediately with their roommates and then get pissed off when they start using all their stuff and wearing their clothes without them asking.”

Another way to make sure what’s yours remains untouched by your roommate is to put labels on belongings or food. Get a sharpie and some masking tape and go to work.

4) Make a chore list.

If one roommate is a neat freak and the other is not, someone is going to get irked. Things to put on the

list are trash duty, vacuuming or Swiffering, wiping of counters, dishes and cleaning the sink, toilet and shower. Alternate duties each week.

5) Know your roommate’s schedule.

“The best advice ever is to know you’re roomie’s class schedule backwards and forwards and have an idea of when they actually come back from class,” said FSU alumnus John McLaughlin.

“This comes in handy when trying to avoid being walked in on all the time.”

Whenever your roommate has class, you know that will be “you-time” (unless they skip class a lot).

Print out your class schedules and post them on the wall.

6) Use your RA. Their job is to help resi-

dents by mediating or giving advice when they have roommate problems, answer questions about activities and policies on campus or just need someone to talk to.

“Your RA is a great resource,” said FSU senior and Resident Assistant (RA) Taylor Hase. “And if you have bad luck and your RA is incompetent, talk to another RA in your dorm. It’s not fair to pay money to live someplace that you absolutely hate.”

7) Be open-minded.

FSU is an incredibly diverse school, and you’re not going to understand the motives or views of everyone you meet.

“You may encounter people with different upbringings, and you have to be available to adapt to their

way of living and if there is something that you cannot accept, it’s important to be able to have that open line of communication so that you can tell them how you feel without coming off as rude,” said FSU junior Kyle Alonso. It’s not what you say—it’s how you say it.

8) Make the best of your situation. College is a place to grow up and learn about the world and who you are.

“I think the experience really taught me that everyone comes into the situation with different ideas and experiences and it can sometimes be a challenge to overcome them,” said Aronow.

“However, I believe my year in Landis helped me make some great connections and made me really appreciate my own room later.”

Abstinence on the rise among young adults BRITTANY STEVENS Kansas State Collegian, Kansas State U. via UWIRE On her left hand, Kelby Burton, a sophomore in architectural engineering, wears a sterling silver ring inscribed with a delicate heart and a superimposed cross.

Some might guess she is married, but instead of representing a lifelong commitment to another person, Burton’s ring symbolizes a vow to God. “I have a promise between God and I that I will remain pure, abstinent until marriage,” she said. “The ring is there to remind me of it.”

And, according to new data released in March by the National Center for Health Statistics, Burton is not alone.

The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) showed an uptick in abstinence among 15- to24-year-olds. It revealed 29.9 percent of men had not had any sexual contact ever, while 28.3 percent of women had abstained.

In the 2002 NSFG, only 22.7 percent of women and 22.6 percent of men reported they were abstinent. The survey defines “sexual contact” as

engaging in vaginal, oral or anal sex with an opposite sex or same-sex partner.

“They can choose,” Joy Bullock, executive director for the Manhattan Pregnancy Testing Center, said. “Young people are very bright.

They can have control over their own bodies.

They’re not wild animals who don’t have any ability to make decisions or be in control.”

Luke Werhan, a freshman in communication studies, decided to wait until marriage as well, despite societal pressures.

In what he called being a part of “Generation Sex,” of “test drives” and sexual recreation, Werhan said he geared up before coming to KState by telling himself that abstinence was the “only way to avoid the consequences of sex.”

“I needed to make a commitment to it,” Werhan said. “I’m really proud of the fact. I’m not embarrassed by it.”

The NSFG, which aims to assess the overall sexual behavior, sexual attraction and sexual identity of 15- to-44year-old Americans, polled 13,495 men and women over a two-year

period from 2006 to 2008 using a random sample from the U.S. household population. The interviewing technique used allowed those surveyed to enter in their answers without the knowledge of the interviewer.

Beginning in 1973, this was the seventh time the NSFG had been conducted. However, only those from 2002 and the 2006to-2008 polls included both male and female responses.

“I don’t doubt that abstinence is on the rise because it’s a very effective method,” said Bullock, who has been with the center for 20 years.

“It works 100 percent of the time.”

The testing center sponsors a class taught in Riley County ninth grade classrooms called Freedom for Healthy Relationships. Manhattan High School is among four schools in the county participating in the abstinence-only program.

Although Bullock did not offer any hard numbers, she said in the four years of the program’s existence, more and more students are bubbling in the option of not having engaged in sexual activity on ques-

Wilson, Green has experienced great success in country music.

His 2003 release Wave on Wave, which featured a song by the same name, climbed to no. 2 on the Billboard Music Charts and Green has since been nominated for a Country Music Award as well as a Grammy. On What I’m For, Green worked with well-known producer Dann Huff whose previous credits include Keith Ur-

ban and the Dixie Chicks.

“I loved the sound of Dan’s records, especially with Keith Urban because they didn’t sound like every country record necessarily,” said Green on his official website. “Plus, Dan’s a real guitar god, and that’s what I want now—someone who can make guitar records sound amazing. In my humble opinion, walking into the studio with Dan was the right next step. For me, at

tionnaires.

So why, in a culture saturated with sex, as Werhan said, are teenagers and young adults deciding to delay sexual activity?

Well, it is a “mixed bag” of reasons, Bullock said. As a supporter of abstinence-only sex education, she attributed the rise of abstinence to programs like the center’s and a fear of sexually transmitted diseases.

Werhan shared these concerns. He said he took this step because of his parents and faith, but “ultimately because when you look at the statistics and when you look at all the consequences that come along: STDs, unplanned pregnancy and most of all emotional baggage.”

And his concern might not be unwarranted, according to data in the NSFG. The CDC found 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted disease each year with nearly 50 percent of those diagnosed among 15-to-24-year-olds. The cost to this age group alone, the CDC said, was estimated at $6.5 billion in 2000.

A comprehensive sex education supporter, Tracey Allen-Ehrhart,

a grant writer and onetime prevention manager for the Kansas City Free Health Clinic in Kansas City, Mo., attributed the increase to technology, the recession and sex education in general.

“Anything that helps them to be better informed would help in decision making that is positive,” she said.

Allen-Ehrhart took the abstinence trend a step further based on her five years of experience working at Planned Parenthood as the education director.

“There have been trends toward teen pregnancy rates lowering […] attributing it to both young people delaying sexual activity longer and to using contraceptives effectively,” AllenEhrhart said.

In the U.S., according to the CDC, the teenage birth rate declined 8 percent between 2007 and 2009 with a record low 39.1 births per 1,000 teens between the ages of 15 and 19, the lowest in seven decades.

For Kansas, the percentage change within these years was insignificant.

Meghan Finnegan, the administrative coordinator for the Flint Hills Community Clinic, has

experienced the reality of these numbers with teens and young adults coming in for pregnancy testing.

“I most certainly have not seen a decrease,” Finnegan said. “In fact, it almost seems as if it has picked up.”

On average the clinic receives two to three calls per week for pregnancy testing not including calls for sexually transmitted disease testing or requests for the morning after pill.

According to statistics from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, in Riley County between 2008 and 2009 there was a 2 percent increase in teen births among women within the “under 18 age bracket and women 18- to-19years-old combined.

Allen-Ehrhart said there is not one answer to this assortment of somewhat contradictory statistics, but she said education in general is key in looking to the future.

The plea she has consistently heard from young people through her work is, “No one gives us the right information. We want the information, but yet adults don’t want to give that.’’

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NICK SELLERS Assistant Sports Editor With the advent of channels like ESPNU and the near-suffocating presence of year-round media coverage for every sport, it’s no surprise that fans turn out in mass quantities every spring to what is basically a glorified scrimmage: the spring game.

With ESPN and regional sports channels broadcasting these games, what was once used more by the coaches to evaluate talent and position battles has now become the earmark for an elite program. The more fans that turn out for your spring game, the more elite your college football status is.

When looking at the upper echelon of college football, the programs that are regularly in the national title race are just as likely post huge numbers every spring for their school’s intrasquad scrimmage. When Alabama had their first “A-Day” after Nick Saban was named head coach, 92,138 fans showed up to Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa to watch the Crimson Tide on the gridiron for the first time in the Saban Era. Programs like Ohio State and Alabama consistently register in the 90,000 range every spring (in 2009, Ohio State crammed 95,722 into Ohio Stadium) and institutions like Texas, Penn State and others are not far behind, providing fans the rare opportunity to boost their team’s status.

Since his arrival, Jimbo Fisher has changed the program in ways that have been well documented in our publication. He changed the players’ diets, their workouts and, one of the first changes he instituted, the format of the spring game.

Instead of the old, complicated offense versus defense points system of the Bobby Bowden era, Fisher simply had the senior captains pick teams and let the boys play from there, drawing the largest crowd in Florida State spring game history last year with 51,000 turning out.

More importantly, Fisher’s a winner, and he wants championships as soon as he can get them.

He understands the process, and he’s willing to put in the hours it takes to instill a winning tradition in Tallahassee yet again.

And here is where you, the fan, come in.

Look, I know it’s a scrimmage, but in the world of college football, these things matter. In the aforementioned world of 24/7 coverage, every story has the potential to boost or blemish your program, SEE SPRING 10

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Centers and quarterbacks, along with the rest of the team, have been preparing extensively for Saturday’s spring game at Doak Campbell Stadium.

Florida State football to give fans first glance of 2011 team in annual Garnet and Gold game

BRETT JULA Sports Editor Football is back in Tallahassee.

It may not be the football that counts in the standings, but nonetheless, Florida State fans

will get to see their Seminoles play in live action at Doak Campbell Stadium for the first time since November when the 2011 team puts the pads on for the annual Garnet and Gold game Saturday at 4 p.m.

Led by head coach Jimbo Fisher, the Seminoles’ spring game last season drew a lot of interest from fans and media, mostly because it was Fisher’s first year as coach. Fish-

er helped draw in more than 51,000 fans at last season’s game—a spring game attendance record.

The attendance for this year’s game is expected to eclipse that record-setting mark, but the hype of the event will shift from Fisher to a talented group of players that could potentially make a national championship run this season.

Florida State is coming off its first 10-win season

since 2003 and an appearance in the ACC Championship Game. The Seminoles return 17 starters from that team and added the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class. With a steady balance of veteran experience and young talent, fans are excited to see what the upcoming season will bring for the Seminoles, and the Garnet and Gold game will give them a small taste of what to expect in the

fall.

Of all the players participating in Saturday’s action, new starting quarterback EJ Manuel should receive most of the attention.

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FSU takes season series from Gators Scantling’s dominant performance powers Seminoles past Florida ERIC ZERKEL Staff Writer

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Hunter Scantling delivered a dominating performance when the Seminoles needed it most, as Florida State clinched their season series against Florida Tuesday night.

It took four games in four different cities, but in the end, eighth-ranked Florida State staked its claim as the top team in Florida.

The Seminoles (24-9) rode the hot arm of junior pitcher Hunter Scantling to a 3-1 victory over No. 4 Florida Tuesday night at Dick Howser Stadium, giving FSU the season series victory over the archrival Gators, as they responded admirably to a disappointing Sunday defeat against ninth-ranked North Carolina.

“I don’t even remember who we played Sunday,” Florida State head coach Mike Martin said. “It was a typical Florida StateFlorida game. We were fortunate to take advantage of the opportunities and we got a great pitch-

ing performance out of Hunter Scantling.”

The Seminoles have now won seven of the last nine games against Florida dating back to last season. Earlier this season, Florida State topped thenNo. 1 Florida 5-3 in Tampa, then lost the second game of the series 5-4 in extra innings in Gainesville before taking the third game in Jacksonville by a score of 5-2.

Scantling made the most of his third consecutive start against the Gators, pitching seven innings while allowing just three hits, and striking out seven batters en route to his second win of the season.

With Scantling dealing—and the Gators’ bats struggling—all the Seminoles needed was a little James Ramsey magic at SEE SERIES 10

Seminoles unveil new indoor facility 10-year project becomes reality, gateway for FSU tennis programs HARRIS NEWMAN Contributing Writer The relief from walking through the gray and humid Florida morning and into the cool, illuminated confines of air-conditioned shelter is notably refreshing, to say the least.

This feeling represents one of the many benefits offered by Florida State’s brand new indoor tennis facility.

“It opens all kinds of

doors for us,” said women’s head coach Jennifer Hyde, whose team got to practice inside last week for the first time. “We can host indoor championships, ACC championships, regional events and hopefully NCAA events down the road.”

Florida State was one of two ACC schools—with Miami being the other— without an indoor facility. The Seminoles now own the only facility that is completely indoors in

Florida, as well as one of the few indoor facilities in the Southeast.

“It’s going to help us a lot with recruiting, as well,” added Hyde. “The people we’re competing against don’t have facilities like this.”

The facility was a factor in sophomore Francesca Segarelli’s enrolling at Florida State.

Segarelli, who was last year’s ACC Freshman of the Year, likes the mental

reassurance of being used to indoor courts as much as she is to outdoor ones.

“When we travel now, we won’t have that one day or game where we don’t feel acclimated,” Segarelli said.

“Instead, you can prepare a week before. My freshman year, we had weeks of missing practice, so it makes a huge difference to know you will always have time to train.”

Spring weather is a heavy factor in the Atlantic

Coast Conference, which is composed of more northern-based universities. Men’s head coach Dwayne Hultquist was excited about his practices not getting rained out anymore, as the Seminoles had to cancel 12 practices in January and February due to weather.

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FSU Offense: 3 players to watch The annual Garnet and Gold Spring Game has arrived, and the Seminole fanbase has a lot to be excited about heading into the 2011 season.

For the first time in three years, a quarterback not named Christian Ponder will lead the ’Noles’ offensive attack. EJ Manuel has taken the reigns, and his 4-2 career record as a starter (5-2 if you count the 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl, in which he played almost the entire game) along with his impressive showing thus far in spring ball indicate that the offense may not miss a beat come September.

While Manuel will certainly be in the limelight this weekend, here are three more players to keep an eye on this Saturday offensively.

Bert Reed, WR One of eight returning starters on the offensive side of the ball, Reed led the Seminoles in receiving in 2010 with 58 catches for 614 yards. Although

he only caught two touchdown passes, Reed proved to be the team’s most dependable receiver on a game-to-game basis.

Now a senior, Reed has become one of the leaders of this offensive unit and has received recognition from Manuel for leading by example on and off the field.

Fellow wide-out Willie Haulstead, who led the team with six touchdown grabs last season, is not participating in spring drills due to injury. His absence on the outside puts the focus squarely on Reed this Saturday.

Reed has been Manuel’s favorite target this spring, as evidenced by the two touchdown passes the duo connected on in the Seminoles’ first scrimmage last week. You can expect No. 83 to be a primary target once again in Saturday’s spring game.

Jacob Fahrenkrug, OL Fahrenkrug, one of the marquee signees in the

Seminoles’ top-ranked recruiting class this year, has already made a splash during his short time on campus. After enrolling in January, Fahrenkrug has been thrown into the fire immediately. Fahrenkrug, who was recruited as a tackle, has filled in as the team’s starting center after the offensive line was decimated by injuries this spring, and he managed to earn rave reviews from notoriously tough offensive line coach Rick Trickett in the process.

“He’s got the best knee bend and ankle flexion that I’ve ever coached,” Trickett said. “Hopefully, if I don’t mess him up, he’ll be a pretty good player.”

Fahrenkrug has been anchoring the O-line this spring after several injuries forced the ’Noles to create a patchwork front wall. Starting tackles Zebrie Sanders and Andrew Datko have both missed the entire spring, while Bryan Stork and David Spurlock went down early with injuries.

It has been tough sledding for the hogs this spring, but the 6-foot-7, 307-pound Fahrenkrug has looked every bit as good as advertised out of junior college.

Devonta Freeman, RB Another newcomer, Freeman has been turning heads in the backfield all spring. An early enrollee out of Miami Central High, Freeman passed on senior prom and elected to trade in the tuxedo for Garnet and Gold practice gear.

The decision has proven to be a good one so far, as Freeman has used this spring to catch the eyes of his coaches while getting a grasp of Jimbo Fisher’s complex offensive system. The would-be high school senior has a solid 5-foot-8, 200-pound frame and does not have the appearance of an 18-yearold from a physical standpoint.

Freeman’s attention to detail and desire to learn has not only impressed

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Reed the coaching staff, but it has caught the eye of his teammates as well.

“He obviously has a lot of talent,” Manuel said of Freeman. “I think he’s going to contribute a lot to our offense.”

Freeman will get his share of carries this week, and if his nearly 700 yards and six rushing touchdowns in the final two games of the 2010 state playoffs are any indication, he will make the most of them.

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— Scott Crumbly

FSU Defense: 3 players to watch After a disappointing 2009, the defense bounced back in a huge way in 2010, distinguishing themselves as perhaps the most improved unit in all of college football, leading the nation in sacks for the majority of the year.

Defensive coordinator Mark Stoops utilized plenty of underclassmen in his rotation last year and this should yield huge dividends this coming season with the departure of just handful of seniors on the defense.

There are plenty of familiar names returning to the defense: Jaccobi McDaniel, Brandon Jenkins, Greg Reid, Lamarcus Joyner and Xavier Rhodes, to name a few.

Here are some players that could make an immediate impact with more time on the field this season: Telvin Smith, LB Relegated mostly to the second team on defense because of the depth at linebacker last

season, Smith still managed to snag 18 tackles and one sack in fourteen games as a freshman.

Where Smith showed his true colors was, of all places, on special teams. Watch any replay of a Florida State game last year, and Smith is legitimately the most excited player on the field during Seminole kickoffs, which is what makes me so excited to see him at the linebacker position this season.

If Smith brings half the enthusiasm to linebacker that he brought to special teams last year, he has the physical gifts to be a true menace on the defensive side of the ball.

at 6’4’’, 273 pounds on Seminoles.com, Werner recorded 3.5 sacks as a true freshman, and I can tell you by having watched him last year, the stout German could have gotten a whole lot more than that.

With the departure of Markus White, look for Werner to wreak havoc from the right defensive end position. The only thing he is lacking is a catchy nickname, but we’ve got all summer to come up with that (I’m looking at you, German majors).

Bjoern Werner, DE Although he is relatively new to football (he only played two years of high school football after moving to the United States from Germany), Werner has the physical gifts that make coaches salivate and opposing quarterbacks quake in their cleats. Listed

Mike Harris, CB Harris finished tied for first on the team with four interceptions last season and forced two fumbles as well. The senior out of Miami who converted from quarterback to cornerback when he came to Florida State has a nose for the ball, and one would guess that, with an extra year working with defensive coordinator Mark Stoops, Harris is primed to have an even

But that’s the beauty of the spring—hope abounds and the sky is the limit. The atmosphere is more loose and jovial. The coaches want to see crisp execution, and the players want to show off for the fans a bit. Coming off 10 wins, this is a good team that has a chance to be great.

An ACC Championship and 12 wins are certainly in play. Heck, it’s April, a national championship is even in play (why not?).

Doak Campbell Stadium seats roughly 83,000.

If we can fill roughly twothirds of that, that will

break last season’s record by a good 2,000 people, and there is absolutely no reason this shouldn’t happen, seeing as how the spring game is free of charge—including parking around the stadium.

If you want Florida State to fully return to national prominence, if you want to see FSU on the ticker on Sportscenter, if you want to show the team that you’re behind them 100 percent, even now in the relatively sports-absent days of April, then head down to Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday at 4 p.m.

Johnson to advance to second and third base, respectively. Florida pitcher Greg Larson would lose control of a pitch, allowing Johnson to score from third and give the Seminoles a 2-0 lead. Another wild pitch would eventually bring home Gonzalez from third, solidifying a 3-0 lead for the ’Noles.

The Gators (26-8) had zero runs and just three hits through eight innings of play. In the ninth inning, with Florida State pitcher Daniel Bennett on the mound to close out the game, Florida’s Brian Johnson finally got the Gators on the scoreboard with a single to left field, bringing home Pres-

ton Tucker.

That would be as close as the Gators would come, as Bennett would shut the door on the game and the season series, leaving the potential gametying Gator base-runners stranded on base.

The series victory marked the second consecutive year the Seminoles have trumped their in-state rivals in a fourgame series.

The Seminoles now turn their focus back to Atlantic Coast Conference play, where they will travel to Blacksburg, Va., to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies. The weekend series will open this Friday, April 15, at 5:30 p.m.

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bigger impact for the Seminoles in the upcoming season. Harris has already flashed brilliance

this spring, recording six tackles in Florida State’s first scrimmage, and look for Harris to put his ball-

hawking skills on display come Saturday.

—Nick Sellers

SPRING from 9 and the spring game is a free pass to good publicity.

There’s a reason the Alabamas, Ohio States and Penn States of the world fill the stands every April.

It’s because there’s a tradition of winning in these places and the fans understand that winning starts in the spring.

In recent years, admittedly, there have been disappointing seasons for the Seminoles, and hope for the coming year has dwindled with each successive year that passes without a conference or national championship.

SERIES from 9 the plate to get the ’Noles on the board.

Ramsey extended his hitting streak to 11 games when he singled off Florida starter Alex Panteliodis in the fourth inning. Ramsey would score the first run of the game when Stuart Tapley hit a single through the hole at short, giving the ’Noles a 1-0 lead.

The Seminoles would build on that lead in the seventh inning with a bit of sloppy play on the part of the Gators. After Sherman Johnson led off the inning with a single, Justin Gonzalez hit a ground ball to third base, but a throwing error by Gator third baseman Zack Powers allowed Gonzalez and

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Singleton to enter NBA Draft After three years at FSU, junior decides to turn pro

NICK SELLERS Assistant Sports Editor At 3 p.m. on Wednesday, junior forward Chris Singleton declared his intention to enter the NBA Draft.

Singleton began his brief press conference by thanking his friends, fellow players and coaches at Florida State before announcing his decision.

During his collegiate career, Singleton was a critical cog for a Florida State team that reached the NCAA Tournament all three years while Singleton was on campus. The Canton, Ga., native made his presence felt most on the defensive end, earning ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors each of the last two seasons.

In 28 games this season, Singleton led the team in points per game (13.1), rebounds per game (6.8), and was tied for first on the team in 3-point field goal percentage, shooting just over 36 percent from beyond the arc.

In a 63-56 win against Virginia on Feb. 12, Singleton fractured his right foot and

missed six games, with his first game back being Florida State’s second round NCAA Tournament victory over Texas A&M. After the Seminoles defeated No. 2 seed Notre Dame, Singleton stepped on the floor for FSU for the final time against the tournament’s dark horse, the VCU Rams.

In his final collegiate game, Singleton looked in form for the first time since his injury, scoring 16 points and nearly notching a double-double, grabbing nine rebounds. It was Singleton’s 3-point shot with 46 seconds remaining that sent the game into overtime, where the Seminoles fell 72-71.

The NBA Draft will be held in Newark, N.J., on June 23.

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Let ‘amazing’ ring A look into one of the most hyped postseasons in NBA history HARRIS NEWMAN Contributing Writer I have no qualms with deeming this past year as the best NBA period of my life. Since the Lakers won the title and Ron Artest’s psychiatrist got snubbed as Finals MVP, we have seen the relocation of five superstars, countless exciting regular season games, four other playoffimpacting trades and the Blake Griffin takeover of YouTube. All of this, combined with the fact that the general balance of power makes six different teams legitimate contenders, makes for one of the most hyped postseasons in league history, which begins Saturday.

So, in an effort to orchestrate the chaos, I have used all the insight I possibly possess in order to give, what I hope to be, a prudent prediction of what’s to come.

Afterthoughts West: Dallas Mavericks Poor Dirk Nowitzki.

He’s one of the most tenacious players in the game (with the flu, he returned from getting a tooth knocked out to win a 2001 playoff game against the Spurs), and he’s one of the

as he is capable of dropping 30 points, (B) doesn’t touch the ball in crunch time and (C) boasts to the press after dunking on a 6-foot-4 point guard in Jrue Holiday.

biggest assets to an NBA franchise—the Mavericks were 53-15 with him this season and 3-10 without.

Yet, even after Dirk wins an MVP award and leads Dallas to 11 straight 50win seasons, Mark Cuban still can’t give him a formidable running mate to make the Mavs a genuine contender.

Truth is, Dirk isn’t a legitimate No. 1. If he was, Dallas would have won a ring in 2006 when they had both the right pieces and a two-game lead in the Finals. Dirk needs to play second fiddle, but that will never happen under Cuban. Cross them out in the first round.

East: Orlando Magic The once-Eastern Conference power is now a by-gone threat. They’ll blow by Atlanta—who, judging by their postbreak burnout, can possibly outdo last postseason’s meltdown—and then lose to Chicago in a quick second-round.

That’s what happens when you can’t play defense, rely too heavily on 3-pointers, have a coach who puts too much pressure on his players, and are highlighted by an underachieving center who: (A) is just as liable of picking up more fouls than points in a playoff game

Darkhorses West: Denver Nuggets This Nuggets team represents everything good in basketball: vastly improved play after they trade their bratty superstar, a coach who just recovered from cancer (he couldn’t even talk last year), and a lineup featuring the two craziest, most unpredictable lunatics in Chris Andersen and J.R. Smith. And, for how briefly they’ve been together, this team runs George Karl’s complex system remarkably well, averaging a league-best 107.5 points per game. They unfortunately drew the worst possible matchup in getting Oklahoma City in the first round. This Nuggets offense is so well balanced and finely tuned, though, that an Oklahoma City upset is still very possible. If that happens, it will be a wild run.

East: Philadelphia 76ers Aside from Andre Iguodala finding enlighten-

volleys, the new facility enables the Seminoles to familiarize with this quicker, more aggressive style and makes them a more complete team.

“I’m a grind-it-out player, so I have to adapt my style to indoor conditions,” freshman Blake Davis said.

“I have to move up on the baseline and get to the net more, but I don’t want to over-adapt and play poorly because of it. It’s a pretty fine balance.”

The new facility took over 10 years to complete.

Patience paid off, though, as the Seminoles now boast one of the more luxurious

facilities in the conference.

Sophomore Connor Smith had more than enough praise for the topnotch amenities, citing other facilities he’s played in that had dimmer lighting and less courts, as well as lower roofs, which make for lower lobs.

The men’s team will travel this weekend to play their final conference matches against Duke and North Carolina. The weekend’s forecast predicts overcast skies and a high possibility of rain. The Seminoles, after 10 years and $4 million, should be more than prepared.

ment in his refined role and the overall resurrection of Elton Brand, it was franchise-revivalist Doug Collins who righted this ship and made this team gel. Look at Collins’ career: He jumpstarted the Pippen-Jordan era with their first conference finals appearance in 1986, then improved the records of the 1995 Pistons, 2001 Wizards and this year’s 76ers by 15 wins in his first season.

Philadelphia could be this year’s Milwaukee Bucks—they match up surprisingly well against their first round opponent, Miami (Philadelphia finished second-lowest in turnovers committed and are quick in transition defense; the Heat thrive off turnovers and score almost exclusively in transition), Iguodala’s destructive defense can badger LeBron James, and a “Fear the Deer”-like movement would enrapture the hearts of Heat-haters everywhere.

Not saying an upset is likely, but there’s always a chance.

Favorites West: Oklahoma City Thunder The Andrew Bynum injury for the Lakers is

as catastrophic as advertised, and an upset by Portland over L.A. is entirely realistic—the Blazers are lengthy, and the Lakers’ bench is altogether unreliable.

San Antonio has a shot at beating the Thunder, only by default of their collective experience over Oklahoma City and Greg Popovich’s coaching. But they don’t seem either durable or fast enough to hang with OKC if the series goes seven games, nor are they fortified enough in the paint to keep Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant from attacking at will. A Nuggets-overThunder upset is the only way the Spurs make the Finals.

Sure, the expectations are sky-high, and they’ll have to win on the road.

But after acquiring Kendrick Perkins from Boston, who’s to say a title isn’t possible? Sunday’s win in the Staples Center was a declaration of fortitude.

This team is ferocious, and they believe they can beat anybody. They play angry, up-tempo basketball, and for some reason think they have something to prove.

Durant and Westbrook can score on anybody, evidenced by their combining

for 57 points in Sunday’s playoff-like atmosphere against a healthy Lakers defense. Add the length of Serge Ibaka on the block and Thabo Sefalosha on the perimeter, along with the general prowess of Perkins, and you have yourself the new bedtime story for the majority of NBA GM’s: a small-market franchise that built through the draft, added some missing pieces and then won a Western Conference championship.

East: Chicago Bulls When the Miami Heat are dialed in, they are the best team in basketball.

Simply put. Miami just can’t figure out a way to sustain their momentum.

They’ve yet to put in 48 minutes of consistent basketball and still cannot run offense in the halfcourt.

The Bulls, on the other hand, have their foot on the gas for four quarters every game. Tom Thibodeau’s defense is too stifling for Miami’s “three-onfive” basketball. Add the fact that nobody outside of Dwyane Wade or James can guard Derrick Rose, augmented by Miami’s perimeter defense being too slow to match Chicago’s shooting efficiency, and Chicago gets the slight edge.

TENNIS from 9 in college tennis. Furthermore, an increasing amount of tournaments are being played indoors.

“We can acclimate more fluidly for road matches, as well as National Indoors,” Hultquist said of the prestigious college tournament.

“We always struggle the first day or two getting adjusted, but now we’ll be far better prepared.”

A different approach is required in preparing for indoor matches, as the ball moves faster and thus the pace of the game quickens.

While Florida State is a more baseline-minded team that thrives off long

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Bad weather is no longer an issue for the FSU tennis teams with their new indoor facility.

ACTION from 9 season with the departure of Christian Ponder.

Additionally, this will be Manuel’s first experience in the Garnet and Gold game, as the rising redshirt junior missed the last two due to injury.

While Manuel is healthy for this year’s game, a number of notable Seminoles are not.

Players who will not be participating Saturday include 2010 Freshman All-American cornerback Xavier Rhodes, safety Nick Moody, defensive tackle Jacobbi McDaniel and offensive tackles Andrew Datko and Zebrie Sanders. Each of the aforementioned players was a starter on last year’s

team and has been going through rehab work to get back onto the field.

These injuries opened the door for players like Jacob Fahrenkrug, Garrett Faircloth and Lamarcus Joiner to see snaps with the first team during spring practice.

The Garnet and Gold game is only a small part of the action for a weekend full of activities revolving around the event.

The weekend kicks off Thursday with the Capitol City Brewfest sponsored by the Dedman School of Hospitality at the University Center Club from 5-9 p.m.

Friday will include performances through-

out the day by the FSU Flying High Circus, ’80s rock icon Eli and former Seminole and 2009 ACM Top New Male Vocalist Jake Owen. These performances will take place between 5 and 10 p.m. in the downtown area with a fireworks show over the

downtown streets beginning at 9 p.m.

The current Seminoles won’t be the only men playing football on Saturday, either, as 48 former Seminole greats will reunite for the second annual alumni flag football game taking place at

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Let near shutdown be wakeup call to Congress CHAD SQUITIERI Staff Writer This past Saturday was almost the start of something that hasn’t happened in America since the Clinton administration. A government shutdown was avoided as clocks struck midnight on Friday evening, avoiding what would have made an already aggravating circumstance even bleaker.

The cause of the near shutdown was due to the fact that Republicans and Democrats in Congress could not come to agreement on the budget for the rest of the fiscal year.

Over the past few weeks, a debate has been raging, with both sides

threatening a government shutdown if they did not got their way, and several temporary budgets being passed in order to keep our government afloat for that much longer.

Thankfully, in the final moments before the potential shutdown, Congress was able to do what we sent them to Washington to do when they voted on a budget allowing thousands of federal workers to continue to go to work and get paid, allowing our troops to continue to receive paychecks on time and allowing federal parks and museums to stay open for us all to enjoy.

The fact that we came this close to a government shutdown is unacceptable. We send and

pay our congressmen to go to Washington and represent us to ensure the greatness of our country. The fact that, even for the sake of the American people, they were almost unable to agree on something that would have brought our government to a grinding halt is something nobody in Washington should be proud of.

To now oversimplify the budget crisis would be a misrepresentation as to what went on, and many other courses of action were attempted before the near shutdown took place. It is also important to point out that in the midst of the partisan bickering there were many members of Congress truly attempt-

ing to solve the problem, but thousands of Americans were almost unable to work in an economic climate such as the one we are in because an agreement could not be made in Congress, which seems ridiculous.

With one crisis successfully avoided, another appears around the corner.

Congress now must decide on a budget for 2012, an election year, as well as determine whether or not to raise the nation’s debt limit.

After seeing a polarized Congress bicker back and forth over deciding on a budget to last a few months, deciding on one for 2012, as well as the debt limit, will come with even more at stake.

What we need are lead-

What we need are leaders who can put their differences aside and do what is best for the country […] leaders with the right mindset to understand that, if they are unable to correct the economic problems in our country, we all will suffer due to their lack of action. ers who can put their differences aside and do what is best for the country. What we need are leaders with the right mindset to understand that, if they are unable to correct the economic problems in our country, we all will suffer due to their lack of action. I hope the case is that this

averted shutdown taught Congress that the stakes are real if they do not perform. What I hope is that this now allows members of Congress to step up to the plate and perform as expected.

Let this near miss be the warning call Congress needed to come together, and better America.

Look at It This Way by Daniel Ackerman

Media overhyped improbable government shutdown MATT TELLAM Oregon Daily Emerald, U. Oregon via UWIRE A crisis was “averted” Friday evening when leaders of Congress and President Obama compromised on an agreement to shave roughly $38.5 billion off the 2011 budget—a whopping 1 percent.

Included with the agreement was a spending bill that will fund the government for about the next week. Both the compromise and the spending bill still have to be approved by the House and Senate.

The reason for the quotations above is that the shutdown was extremely unlikely to happen, despite what the media was saying.

It probably isn’t shocking to anyone that the media used the vague possibility of the government “shutting down” to attract viewers.

News agencies played off the fear and uncertainty to keep the American public glued to their

laptops and television screens. A veritable buffet of hypothetical situations were served a la carte, allowing us to chose whichever situations frightened us the most or simply load our plates with all of them.

To the media’s credit, if the government had shut down, it would indeed have been a crisis. It would have been unthinkable if military families or federal employees hadn’t been paid.

But what the media really should have focused on was how likely a governmental shutdown actually was. The likelihood was less than the percentage cut of the budget.

Regardless of how much posturing was going on by politicians prior to a deal being brokered, a governmental shutdown would have been so politically damaging for everyone involved that it simply would not have happened.

Yes, there was fiery rhetoric from Republicans, trying to appeal to their base by making

bombastic claims about shredding government spending.

There were aggressive statements made by Democrats, claiming Republicans were attempting to turn the debate into a social policy issue over Planned Parenthood. In the end, politicians did what was politically necessary: They compromised.

It is simply basic bargaining strategy. The NBA is going through a similar process right now.

If a new collective bargaining agreement is not reached by the end of the summer, it is likely there won’t be a season next year (i.e., shutdown).

There are reports that the players’ union and the owners are separated by large gulfs, particularly over the players’ salaries.

Many teams are operating at heavy losses (i.e., deficits) because of the inflated salaries. Right now it would appear there won’t be an NBA season next year.

That will change as the summer approaches.

When individuals come to the bargaining table, they start with their most extreme demands. You don’t go to a Saturday market offering a thousand bucks for a leather wallet.

Two opposite positions are laid out, and through negotiating you come to at least an acceptable, if not completely agreeable, outcome.

News agencies either failed to acknowledge this or simply chose not to.

They chose instead to focus on the visible players of the process, mainly President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House John Boehner.

They noted down what these individuals were saying and how far apart their opinions and goals were. According to their statements, a deal was not likely.

But the easiest way for politicians to come to an agreement is to shirk responsibility in order to not appear to be kowtowing. It was not these indi-

viduals who formed the compromise. Rather, it was their underlings. The deal was really brokered

by Reid’s chief of staff, David Krone; Obama’s legislative director, Rob Nabors; and Boehner’s chief of staff, Barry Jackson.

The media should have spent more time focusing on these individuals if they wanted to forecast how likely a shutdown was.

The deal did seem to come at the last possible moment—what the media dubbed “the eleventh hour.” And many people were rightfully upset that it took so long to develop.

If my paycheck were predicated on a funded government, I would probably be more upset about the politicians bickering when my family’s livelihood depended on their decision. But again, these types of situations always tend to unfold this way.

It’s like a game of “chicken,” seeing which politician will break away

first. What almost always happens in the end is both swerve their cars away at the last second to avoid a head-on collision. This is exactly what happened Friday night.

Following the agreement, pundits eagerly looked to see who the “winners” and the “losers” of the agreement were.

The sad reality is there really were no winners.

Some people just didn’t lose as much as others.

The government will continue to be funded for another week. Families dependent on the government will continue to be paid. Boehner looks like he won concessions from the Democrats. Obama and Reid look like flexible leaders.

The only real “loser” was the media itself, which devoted its time to predicting what would happen if a shutdown were to happen.

They would have been more useful examining what would happen if an asteroid collided with earth.

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Horoscopes

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Today is a 9 -- More work is coming over the next two days. Gain more than expected. Break through the barriers. Charm customers or clients. Use your most persuasive appeal. Drive carefully over the bumps in your love relationships.

This week’s prize is a gift certificate from

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Today is a 7 -- The next two days bring romantic activity.

Receive a new challenge from a loved one, then listen to your heart and accept or decline. Go for substance over symbolism.

Who wrote the FSU fight song?

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Today is an 8 -Stay close to home.

Get lost in organization and chores that brighten the place with clean space. Clean your closet or do some other task that contributes only to you.

(850) 561-1605 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)

Sudoku

Today is a 9 -There’s a surprise at work that favors you. More money’s coming your way, if you do the work. You’re retaining what you focus on, so it’s a good time for study.

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 9 -- Work now and play in a few days. Avoid distractions that pull you from your core focus. Make hay while the sun is shining. Something new comes from a distant communication.

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Today in History

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Today is a 9 -It feels right, and that hunch could be quite profitable. The whole idea empowers you. Ignore a pessimist, but read the fine print.

Invest for the benefit of all.

On April 14, 1866, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington; the president died nine hours later.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Today is a 6 -- It’s easy to get sidetracked today and to find distractions to your goals. Do what you really need to do. Learning new tricks attracts new friendships.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Today is a 7 -Stay out of a controversy, if possible. Question your own judgment ... you don’t have the full picture.

Your friends are really there for you. The resources you need are near.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Today is a 7 -- It’s not all about you now. Dream big about a project that will benefit your community and leave a mark. Future generations will appreciate it.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Today is a 7 -- After you have fulfilled your responsibilities, take that trip that you’ve been considering. It doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. It all works out in the end.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Today is a 7 -- Paying attention to detail works today.

It’s a good time for financial planning, today and tomorrow.

Opposites attract even more now. Stay on your toes.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Today is a 6 -- You find it easier to delegate, and your body really appreciates it. Sudden changes may want to push you back. Keep pushing forward.

Review the instructions again.

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On this date: In 1776, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia.

In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Language” was published.In 1917, the United States took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark.

In 1910, President William Howard Taft became the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.

In 1912 the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.

In 1931, King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile, and the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed.

In 1949, at the conclusion of the so-called “Wilhelmstrasse Trial,” 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials were sentenced by an American tribunal in Nuremberg to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.

In 1956, Ampex Corp. demonstrated the first successful videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Televi-

sion Broadcasters Convention in Chicago.

In 1960, the musical “Bye Bye Birdie” opened on Broadway.

In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Ten years ago: The 24 crew members of the U.S. spy plane who’d been held in China for 11 days landed at their home base, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington, where they were greeted by thousands of friends, family members and other well-wishers.

Five years ago: President George W. Bush rebuffed recommendations from a growing number of retired generals that he replace Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, saying, “He has my full support.” Kobe Bryant broke the Los Angeles Lakers’ single-season scoring record, getting 50 points to eclipse Elgin Baylor’s longstanding total of 2,719 points in a 110-99 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.

One year ago: A magnitude-7 earthquake in a remote Tibetan region of China killed some 2,700 people and injured more than 10,000. The Eyjafjallajokul (ay-yah-FYAH’-lahyer-kuhl) volcano in Iceland erupted, sending out an ash plume that led most northern European countries to close their airspace between April 15 and 20.

Today’s Birthdays Today’s Birthdays: Actor Bradford Dillman is 81. Actor Jay Robinson is 81. Country singer Loretta Lynn is 76. Actress Julie Christie is 71. Retired MLB All-Star Pete Rose is 70. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 66. Actor John Shea is 62.

Actor-race car driver Brian Forster is 51. Actor Brad Garrett is 51. Actor Robert Carlyle is 50.

Rock singer-musician John Bell (Widespread Panic) is 49. Actor Robert Clendenin is 47. Actress

Catherine Dent is 46. Actor Lloyd Owen is 45. Retired MLB All-Star Greg Maddux is 45.

Rock musician Barrett Martin is 44. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 43. Actor Adrien Brody is 38. Classical singer David Miller is 38. Rapper DaBrat is 37. Actor Antwon Tanner is 36.

Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 34. Actor-producer Rob McElhenney is 34. Actress Vivien Cardone is 18. Actress Abigail Breslin is 15.

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