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Students gather to receive free ice cream and cookies during President Barron’s Ice Cream Social on April 14.

Barron hosts ice cream social to meet students President’s annual event draws large crowd on Landis Green CHAD SQUITIERI Contributing Writer The annual President’s Ice Cream Social took place Thursday, April 14, on Landis Green. The event, hosted by Florida State University President Eric Barron and other administrators, offered free ice cream and cookies to students, and also included a DJ, inflatable games, and a performance from members of the Flying High Circus.

“I think [the ice cream social] represents some fun,” said Barron. “We are near the end of the semester and it is good to have a little relaxation and fun and a little bit of celebration for this great weather. It is also about making a big university feel a little bit smaller because we are all out here having a good time, and having a little ice cream.”

The event was highlighted by a speech by Barron thanking all of those who helped by donating either their time or money, including Askers Distributors Inc., Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, Coca-Cola and Classic Fare Catering as well as

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Over 20,000 students at Florida State University received Bright Futures financial aid in the 20092010 school year. According to state documents, Florida State University cost taxpayers and lottery players over $53 million.

Two schools received more money from Bright Futures: the University of Central Florida and University of Florida.

While there are proposed changes in the higher education appropriations committees in both the House and Senate, there are no bills on the full House or Senate floors yet.

“No one denies that Bright Futures needs to be merit-based,” said O’Toole. “No one denies that the standards need to be high.”

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Prime Minister of Kenya visits Tallahassee Leader encourages partnership between Tallahassee and Kenya RENEE JACQUES Contributing Writer Joseph La Belle/FSView

President Barron serves ice cream to students on Landis Green at the President’s annual Ice Cream Social. student groups such as the Flying High Circus and the Lady Spirithunters.

“The performers from the Flying High Circus were really entertaining,” said Sara Green, a sophomore and member of the Lady Spirithunters. “I want to go see the circus now.”

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Legislators in the Florida Congress are proposing changes to the popular Bright Futures scholarship. House Representative Marlene O’Toole (RLady Lake) and Sen. Evelyn Lynn (R-seventh district) have sponsored bills to restructure the scholarship.

Bright Futures has undergone many changes in recent years. The minimum SAT score for the commonly called “100 percent” scholarship—officially known as the Florida Academic Scholars— was raised from a 1270 to a 1280 last year. The legislation in the House would raise the minimum again, this time to 1290.

According to O’Toole, the “75 percent” Florida Medallion Scholars scholarship minimum SAT score would also rise; it would jump from 1020 to 1170.

Community service hour requirements also face an increase.

“Bright Futures was meant to be a hand-up, not a hand-out,” O’Toole said.

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Others in attendance said the cool treat provided the perfect excuse to get outside.

“I think the Ice Cream Social is a good thing and allows everyone to relax and to mingle and make good friends and enjoy the weather,” said

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The Honorable Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya, visited Tallahassee on Thursday, April 14, as part of an official visit through the United States to promote business relations and collaboration with the U.S. and to meet with Kenyans in the Diaspora among the different states. Odinga greeted fellow Kenyans and Africans at a reception hosted by the Kenyan and African Community

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Odinga has served as Prime Minister of Kenya since 2008, after a violently debated presidential election, where he was the disputed winner.

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Christine Province, a senior majoring in risk management and finance. “Sometimes we all get too wrapped up in school, especially toward the end of the year.”

While most felt that the Ice Cream Social was a good idea and a way to relax, there were some who felt otherwise.

A member of the group FSU Coalition for Education was present on Landis Green wearing a large sign that read “Education Cuts, Let Them Eat Ice Cream,” a play off the phrase “let them eat cake” often attributed to Marie Antoinette during a famine in France.

“These things being afforded to the students such as sugar and cream are insubstantial and only offer a temporary refrain from the actual suffering going on,” said Ralph Wilson, a thirdyear graduate student and member of the FSU Coalition for Education.

Wilson described the suffering he referred to as “the absurd budget cuts that are affecting education under the guise of a budget deficit.”

The overall mood of the event, however, was positive and, as President Barron said (who also noted that his favorite flavor of ice cream was chocolate), the environment on Landis Green was “more than festive.”

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Top: Nancy Moyers beats Keith Zoller in inflatable fighting games during President Barron’s Ice Cream Social on April 15.

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FSU student ‘Ride(s) 4 Relief’ Student bikes to fundraise for Japan’s tsunami victims EMILY OSTERMEYER Contributing Writer

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Before February, Florida State University Junior Chad Robin did not even own a road bike.

This May, he will be riding one 725 miles across the American South to raise funds for the American Red Cross Japan relief effort through an event he’s named “Ride 4 Relief.”

“Before about two months ago, I really didn’t really ride bikes at all,” Robin said.

Robin said Ride 4 Relief evolved from a desire for an adventure to a fundraiser.

“It didn’t start out as a charity idea at all,” Robin said.

Robin is a meteorology major, and will be interning for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) this summer in Norman, Okla. This past December, he realized he wanted to use his month off between the end of school and the start of his internship to do something adventurous. He planned a bike trip from his hometown of Luling, La., to the site of his internship in Norman.

When the tsunami hit Japan in March, Robin had the idea to turn his bike trip into a fundraiser.

“I was on a training ride one day, and it was a week after the tsunami happened,” Robin said. “On rides, you just kind of start thinking about things, because you’re all alone; it’s really quiet. So, I kind of realized at that point that that could be a really good purpose and a really good incentive for the trip. It will be something interesting that people could grab onto and it would be a really good fundraising idea.”

Having lived in both Louisiana and Pensacola,

There are issues that everybody can be personally attached to, and then that way, you can feel like you’re making a difference because you’re helping somebody else get through the same situation that you’ve been through.

Chad Robin Robin is no stranger to the devastating effects natural disasters can have on coastal communities. He said that the tragedy in Japan resonates with Floridians.

“There are issues that everybody can be personally attached to, and then that way, you can feel like you’re making a difference because you’re helping somebody else get through the same situation that you’ve been through,” Robin said.

All of the money raised will go to the American Red Cross, which will be used in the tsunami relief fund for first aid, emotional support services, and shelter supplies for victims of the disaster in Japan.

“After the tsunami, I kind of realized, OK, I can do this for my own benefit, or I can turn this into something bigger and make it benefit other people,” Robin said.

He said that he realized this effort could be as big as the amount of time that he could put into it.

“So then I started putting more time into it,” Robin said.

Much of the time has been invested in learning. He made a website in the span of two days at Strozier, teaching himself along the way, and started telling his friends about it.

To design the logo for Ride 4 Relief, Robin taught himself the basics of Adobe Illustrator.

Last week, Robin said he invested over 25 hours to organize and plan for Ride 4 Relief.

“I’ve just fallen more in love with the idea as I get further into it, and it just makes me want to invest more time in it,” Robin said.

Robin utilized social networking and the Internet to help fundraise, making a Facebook event and page to promote and fundraise for Ride 4 Relief.

Donors can contribute to his fundraising effort through one-time donations on his website using PayPal, or by pledging a certain amount of money

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In the past week-and-ahalf, he has already raised over $700.

“It’s definitely taken off a little bit more than I thought, but it’s really exciting,” Robin said.

Robin said developing the idea into what is today has been an adventure in itself.

“That’s what’s been so fun about it, because I’ve had so much creative license with it, to have the logos, to the flyers that I made, to the website,” Robin said.

Robin’s been training extensively to prepare for the 10-day trip he’ll take in May that will include riding up to 100 miles a day.

“Last weekend, I did two back-to-back 40-mile rides,” Robin said.

The distance does not intimidate Robin, a selfproclaimed endurance sport fan.

“I like the idea of pushing yourself past the point where you think you can go,” Robin said.

During the trip, Robin will put himself up in local bed-and-breakfasts and motels.

“I figured if I stayed in local places, I’d not only being doing good by supporting the local places, but also, I could email them before I got there, and since they’re local, they know the area, they can kind of help get the word out before I got there,” Robin said.

This way, he hopes to create a buzz before he gets to each location. He’s contacting press outlets in all of the local cities he’ll be stopping in.

“I’m trying to make it as big as I can and I’m hoping, through that, it will

expand beyond my circle of friends, and have more of a universal thing that people kind of connect with,” Robin said.

Weather permitting, Robin will begin his trip on May 15 in the company of his friend Ross Reahard, who will join him on the ride.

Robin consulted friends for feedback on the project along the way. Jaime Bayo is a close friend of Robin’s and a graduate student at FSU studying nonprofit management. Robin sought out Bayo’s advice on different aspects of organizing his project.

Bayo said he was excited when Robin approached him with his idea.

“It’s something that he really cares a lot about, especially being a meteorology major,” Bayo said.

“So being able to connect that with making a difference, I think, is really commendable and I think a lot of students could do the same thing. They could really connect their passion, their major, what they’re interested in, with a cause that they can rally for.”

Bayo said that, in addition to raising money, Robin is helping remind people about the still pressing crisis Japan is facing.

“He’s really doing it because he feels like we need to continue to look at this issue and say these people still need our help, they still need a lot of help and it’s far from over for the Japanese people, and so that’s what I hope he’ll accomplish,” Bayo said.

Robin said if anybody wants to join him on the ride, or just donate to his cause, they’re welcome to Facebook him or email him.

“If anybody wants to ride, go ahead,” Robin said. “Come along.”

To find out more about Ride 4 Relief, visit www. ride4relief.com.

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KENYA from 1 Since serving as prime minister, Odinga has focused on restructuring the economic and political configuration of Kenya and was recently appointed by the African Union as a mediator for the Ivory Coast presidential turmoil.

The event began with different members of African organizations, such as the Kenya-America Society of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee East African Community and Friends, introducing and expressing their gratitude to the prime minister.

One notable organization that helped bring the reception to the Tallahassee community is The Tallahassee African Coalition, an organization aimed at creating a lasting connection between members of the African community in Tallahassee and Africa.

Claudius Mondoma, an FSU professor and the Chair for the Africa Focus Speaker Series for the Tallahassee African Coalition, said that it is important that Africans get detailed news about their home countries from experts, such as Odinga, who actually experience the events firsthand in their countries.

“It is good for us to provide a platform here where we can actually bring the experts in to talk about topics that we feel are sometimes not covered in depth,” Mondoma said. “We can get a good analysis of what exactly is going on beyond the news snippets that we get. I think that it adds to the greater dialogue in Tallahassee.”

Barack Abonyo, a professor at Florida A&M University, then addressed Odinga and expressed his appreciation for Odinga’s participation in the signing of a memorandum of understanding that day. The memorandum launches a partnership between FAMU and the Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology (RIAT) in Kenya. The agreement focuses on creating a curriculum where students from both universities can interact and research together. Because Kenya cannot currently successfully educate its population, this collaboration

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Above: Raila Amolo Odinga, the prime minister of Kenya, jokes with one of his delegates in a private moment between the two on April 14.

Odinga was in Tallahassee to speak to a crowd about a number of internal affairs and the country’s progress in recent years.

Left: Members of the crowd smile and listen to the prime minister.

is extremely important in benefiting the Kenyan society.

“What we are trying to do today is not for you,” Abonyo said at the reception. “The reason why it’s not for you is because you have achieved something. There are a lot of people this occasion is for: the people we left at home—the people who do not have money to pay for their education and yet they are very smart people.”

Benjamin Mwashote said he also hopes that another collaboration will take place between his research project and Odinga.

Mwashote is an environmental chemist with a Ph.D. in oceanography from FSU working on preparing a research project with fellow chemist, Bill Landing, to study the effects of groundwa-

ter discharge in the Great Lakes in Kenya. This research project would form a partnership with Kenyan university, Pwani University College. He presented a report with his project proposition to Odinga at the reception.

“I realized that we don’t have much capacity for funding for such projects in Kenya and the only funding we can rely on is when we have collaboration with other partners,” Mwashote said. “While I am working here, I am going to try my best to try and work together with the smaller institutions in Kenya and here.”

At the reception, Odinga and his delegates addressed the audience by informing them about the progress of Kenya as a country.

They reassured the audience that Kenya was getting better, and, be-

cause of the work of the prime minister, Kenya is transforming into a different and improved country.

“Tell your brothers that Kenya is a different country,” Elkanah Odembo, the Kenyan ambassador, said to the audience.”

Odembo also said that the country’s new constitution would allow for Kenyans in the Diaspora to obtain dual-citizenship in Kenya, which would allow for them to vote in the next presidential election.

“There will be no elections in Kenya without the participation and the help of the Diaspora,” Odembo said. “I want to believe that in the year 2012, you will be voting to determine the next president.”

Once Odinga took the podium, the crowd was already optimistic about

the future of Kenya. Odinga offered more words of encouragement when he said he thought that the signing of the memorandum was “the beginning of bigger things.”

Referring to the violent presidential election in 2008, where 1,500 people were killed and another 500,000 people were displaced, Odinga said he remains optimistic.

“I really want to give you assurance that we are making a lot of progress.”

Odinga also expressed his hopes for the future.

“Three and a half years ago, our country was in a state of turmoil,” Odinga said. “We went to the precipice, looked down at this, and said we do not like what we see. So we took a step back, and decided that we are better off working together as one people.”

He expressed praise for Kenya’s new constitution and claimed that it “has

been hailed as one of the best.”

The new constitution created provinces, and called for a reformation of the judicial system and the police force, among other changes. Odinga said he was very proud of an addition to the constitution that required onethird of the members of parliament to be women, as this will allow for every county to have at least one woman in parliament.

Addressing concerns about Kenya’s economic status, Odinga assured the crowd that Kenya is “promoting business and outsourcing,” as he gave details of Kenya’s “Vision 2030,” the country’s development blueprint that hopes to transform Kenya into a profitable nation. Odinga stated that the country is building roads and cities, creating more employment for the youth, and is working on being fully green by the year 2017.

Odinga ended his speech with optimistic parting words.

“There is light now at the end of the tunnel: the new democratic order,” Odinga said. “Africa is going to reclaim its place in the society of nations, where Africa rightly belongs. We are ready to make the 21st century truly the African century.”

The event concluded with a short question panel in which Kenyans were able to ask the prime minister personal questions about Kenya’s recovery. He gave hopeful answers to questions relating to land appropriation and improving Kenya’s branding.

Tallahassee marks the third place on Odinga’s five-stop visit in the United States. The prime minister has already visited New York City, where he hosted an open-investment event and engaged with the New York Times and CNN. He then traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Vice President Joe Biden and to address the Kenyan Diaspora. He continued by visiting MIT and Harvard on Friday, then finalizing the visit on Sunday to Los Angeles for more talks with U.S. business leaders.

FSU professor receives prestigious Chair Schlenoff awarded Gutenburg Chair at the Université de Strasbourg KENDAL KALISH Staff Writer The Université de Strasbourg’s highly selective Gutenburg Chair has been awarded to Joseph B. Schlenoff, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University.

Schlenoff is one of three scientists to be selected by the French university from applicants all over the world.

“These chairs are designed to encourage international researchers to visit the university and bring with them their new discoveries to hopefully generate more collaborative research and expand the portfolio of science and discoveries going on at the university,” said Schelnoff, according to an online video interview.

Gutenberg Chairs, created three years ago by the French organization Cercle Gutenberg, are awarded annually to promote research with scientists at the Université de Strasbourg, the largest university in France with 43,000 students and 4,000 researchers. Schlenoff, who holds the title of Leo Mandelkern Professor of Polymer Science, is a leading scientist in the field of water-soluble

polymers and biocompatible polymer composites and blends.

Along with FSU postdoctoral associate Andreas Reisch and Strasbourg graduate student Patricia Tirado, the team of three will be working over the summer to develop a type of biomaterial discovered by Schlenoff’s group at FSU that can be used in surgical implants designed for the extended release Joseph of certain Schlenoff medications.

Schlenoff currently holds 20 patents and many more are pending.

“Working with Strasbourg is a chance to work with some of the greatest minds in Europe,” said Schlenoff.

“Stasbourg has hosted several Nobel Laureates, three of whom are chemists. They are well known in this particular field, so having a look at what our technology will do with their drug delivery and pharmacy experiments are going to be particularly beneficial for the whole field.”

The duration of the

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BRIGHT from 1 posals in the House differ significantly from those in the Senate, because the Senate seeks need-based language to be included in any newly restructured scholarship system. Senator Oscar Braynon II (DMiami Gardens) said that it’s hard to concretely state any changes, because the propositions are so fluid while in committee.

Braynon acknowledged that the bills in the House and Senate committees are “relatively” similar.

“The biggest change would be putting a needbased component into the Bright Futures scholarship,” Braynon said.

“I think that’s going to change the whole way that Bright Futures works and may change the amount that people get paid and changes the amount of people [who] receive it. It almost changes it overall as a scholarship; right now ,it has no need-based component.”

This need-based language is nowhere to be found in the House version of the restructuring.

When asked about Bright Futures becoming a needbased scholarship, O’Toole denied that it was her goal.

“I have no intention of that,” said O’Toole. “At this point in time, might it lead to that? It could. But we have need-based aid.”

She said that it is hard to determine the future of the scholarship because there is relatively little information on who receives the majority of it or how those students do academically after receiving the funds.

“If it involves a taxpayer dollar, we’re going to ask for a FAFSA,” O’Toole said.

“If we can get that passed within a year, we should have some idea of what we’re dealing with. Right now, the data is weak.

Taxpayers are suffering back in my district. They just want to know that if they give it, they give it to the right student who can achieve and will stay in the state of Florida. Until we can show them those outcomes, there’s a human cry that says, ‘Don’t tax me anymore; I can’t take any more taxes of any kind.’ ”

O’Toole said she wants to be able to “look a taxpayer in the eye” and be able to tell them that the scholarship is fulfilling its goal of educating the “best and brightest” of Florida’s youth.

Braynon said that this is not a partisan idea.

“I haven’t seen it along party lines,” said Braynon.

“There has been a broadranging support for restructuring Bright Futures.”

Florida has one of the country’s lowest tuition rates, which benefits students but makes it difficult to attract highly qualified professors.

“Florida is number 48 in 49 states with the lowest tuition,” O’Toole said.

“You appreciate it unless you want to be a professor, you wouldn’t want to be in Florida.”

Braynon fully expects to see this issue to make it to the House and Senate floors before the end of this legislative session, May 8.

Combined with the four impending annual 15 percent tuition increases, this possible decrease in Bright

Futures funds has the potential to affect accessibility to higher education.

FSU President Eric Barron has said on multiple occasions that FSU is a great bargain. Many students receive so much financial aid that they pay nothing outof-pocket.

“Our students are very bright—the top of their class, and so they get Bright Futures awards as well as many private and university scholarships,” Barron said. “So, when we look at the data for all in-state students (more than 27,000 students), 40 percent pay no tuition and fees, 71 percent pay less than $750 a year, and only 19 [percent of] in-state students last year paid more than $3,000.

That puts FSU within $30 a month of being the lowest out-of-pocket costs for a public education of any state in the U.S.” Barron added that the rise in tuition would only benefit FSU and its students.

“We need to make sure that Florida State University students get the best

College of Education hosts annual conference IS Mini provides networking opportunities for students COURTNEY ROLLE Staff Writer On Friday, April 15, the College of Education at Florida State University hosted its annual Instructional System (IS) Mini Conference at the Stone Building. The IS Mini Conference has taken place on campus for a period of eight years and has reportedly proven to be very successful both on a nationwide scale, and globally as well. Robert Gagne and Robert Morgan started the program in the 1960s.

The program lasted for

four hours that morning, from 8 a.m. to noon, where over 30 Ph.D. students, alumni, faculty and community members mingled together and networked, sharing stories of past and current job experiences and future career aspirations and goals. The morning portion of the agenda for the program was aimed at the students in attendance, as they were given valuable skills on how to conduct a successful job search and how to be productive in a job interview. The program for the rest of the morning

included several panel discussions from known and esteemed alumni and professors about their respective careers.

Boon Lim, a Ph.D. student, research assistant and teaching assistant at FSU, said that this program is one of the top two of its kind in the nation.

“Some 15 to 20 alumni will return to FSU each year to share, update and network with students,” Lim said. “We have students from the U.S. military, Singapore military, Korea universities, Indonesia Open University,

K-12, high education and business corporations.”

According to Lim, the main and underlying point of hosting this program each year is to bring together the alumni, faculty and students in one place for support and development.

The event continued later on into the evening with a reception for the alumni, faculty and students.

It took place on the rooftop of Doak Campbell Stadium, where hors d’oeuvres were served and more networking and socializing took place.

that we can deliver,” Barron said.

The cost per credit hour for the 2010-2011 school year was $173.26. For 20112012 the cost will increase to $187.61 per credit hour (all fees included). If Bright Futures were to stay at $126 per credit hour, recipients of the “100 percent” scholarship would be required to pay over $60 per credit-hour. An average 12-credit-hour semester would cost $2251.33 and Bright Futures would only pay for $1,512. That leaves students paying just under $740 out of pocket for the 2011-2012 school year.

It is, however, highly unlikely that Bright Futures will stay at current levels.

Legislators are likely to

pass legislation that would decrease the “per credit hour” dollar amount yet again.

A local group focusing on study skills is holding an informational session about Bright Futures next week. Solution Skills has “provided North Florida with comprehensive, private education services,” according to a press release. The session will be held on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at Leon High School.

Some of the questions that the session will hope to answer are: “Will Bright Futures be safe? Is the program sustainable? How long can we count on Bright Futures? How exactly does the program work?”

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‘Jumping the Broom’ actors chat with ‘FSView’ Meagan Good and Pooch Hall talk film, life and workout routines ERIC JAFFE Staff Writer FSView & Florida Flambeau: What inspired you to take on the roles that you did in Jumping the Broom?

Meagan Good: I was excited about the film in general, just because it seemed like such a fresh take on a romantic story. I really like the spiritual undertones in it and I really enjoyed the character that [was] brought to me. I basically was excited to play someone [who] has an interesting arc. My character starts out one way thinking about how they perceive love and as the film progresses she starts to pan out and sees that maybe her idea is not the right one.

Pooch Hall: For me, first of all, I was just looking for job. I got the script, I read it, then I heard who was behind it and I ju just st h had ad that much th hat a m uch more e eexxcitement citeme ment to ha have ve ea part The part r iin n it iit.. Th he film touches on touc to uche hess ba base se o n religion, which rel giion re reli n, whic wh hich ich is a value val alue ue I really rrea eall lly ll y feel needs el sstill tiill n till eeds ds to b bee brought brou br ough ou gh g ht to o [the] forefront. [tthe] [the he] fo he fore re efrront on nt. t. I play play a ccharacter pl hara ha ara ract ctterr who’s wingman, who’ wh ho’ o s the th he wi w n ma ng an, n, the go-to play th he go go-t -tto gu gguy. uy y. I p y. pla lay Ricky, character Riick Rick cky y,, a ccha h ra acter cter ct e who’s best who’s wh o’s be o’ est st friends w i t h Jason, J aso Ja a on, b u t didn’t didn di didn n’tt come co o me m from f r om fr om

where Jason is from. In a sense, I grew up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I wasn’t too familiar with the street or the edge that some brothers might be accustomed to.

FFF: One of the themes in Jumping the Broom was the different lifestyles between the “uptown” and the “downtown.” Growing up, which of those groups did you feel like you could relate the most to?

PH: Wow, that’s a good question.

MG: I’d say my family started out middle class, but then, somewhere around my teenage years, we kind of lost everything.

We had this whole situation where we lost our house, we lost our cars, and were pretty much just out on the street, but we got back on our feet.

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Thinking back, I was probably more middle class. But to me, it felt like royalty.

My dad was legit and my mom was awesome, my sister and I used to just get it in and have fun, but I do remember washing clothes in a tub and not having hot water—all the other kids were eating pizza and stuff while I’m eating beans and hot dogs. It wasn’t until my father really got established and started working construction that things started to kind of get a little more pleasant in the sense that we were able to move into a single family home—which we lost. When my parents got divorced, I stayed with ggo ot d di ivvo orc rc dad my d my ad d aand n he did everytthing thi th hin ing he ing he ccould o to make sure we sstayed we taye ta yed in that middle bracket, so I’d have cclass cl las ass br b raac c was always in that tto o ssay ayy I w middle-class mi m idd ddle le-cclaa or low-middle class cla cl laasss ss ar aarea, reeaa, but in my heart, was rich.

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ERIC JAFFE Staff Writer Starring Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Tasha Smith, Valarie Pettiford, Romeo, DeRay Davis, Meagan Good and Mike Epps, Jumping the Broom is a classic example of why, sometimes, less is more. Despite surprisingly strong supporting performances and some interesting plot twists, the movie suffers, however, under the weight of its sheer magnitude of characters.

Still, in spite of its flaws, the film remains a minor step beyond the conventional rom-com and it’s demographic has plenty to enjoy.

Before I get started on breaking down the aesthetics of Jumping the Broom, I should probably explain what exactly I mean by the plot suffering under sheer magnitude of its characters. Rather than try to conjure up some clever

the wedding. Sabrina and Laz’s families are getting together for the rehearsal dinner and, like all of these “meet the parents” films, things don’t go according to plan. Laz’s mom brings up Laz’s uncle, Laz’s best friend Malcolm, and her best friend Shonda (we’ve got six arc characters now; count them if you must). Meanwhile, Sabina’s mother and father are having marital problems, Sabrina’s aunt comes unexpectedly and causes some minor chaos, a wedding planner loses control of the party, two side relationships begin to develop, Shonda’s cousin, Blythe, starts hooking up with the chef, and basically everything goes to hell.

When a film critic has to dedicate more than a fifth of his review to laying out a plotline (and that is, trust me, the most basic form I

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Ron Paul brings revolution to FSU Congressman’s visit to include a book signing and presentation

J. MICHAEL OSBORNE Managing Editor

REBEKAH SUWAK Blue Valentine— April 18-20 at 7:30 and 10:15 p.m.

The film that became known far and wide for being so relentlessly depressing that it made people never want to start a relationship again, and also incidentally ended up disappointing a lot of audiences when they found they didn’t want to kill themselves or their significant others by the credits (Internet-era hype tends to do that), Blue Valentine is an honest, sometimes brutal portrayal of a doomed-fromthe-start relationship and marriage from its almost unbearably cute beginning to gloomy end, but thankfully, cuts out all the parts where they assumedly fill out divorce proceedings and bicker over who gets the patio furniture. The film boasts SEE GET A LIFE 7

Staff Writer U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who presents a libertarian taste for democracy, will be visiting Tallahas-

see and speaking at Ruby Diamond Auditorium on Thursday, April 21, as part of the Spring Campus Tour, sponsored by FSU’s chapter of Young Americans for Liberty and Florida Campaign for Liberty.

Born Ronald Ernest Paul, the politician has become well known throughout his political career, which spans five decades and a dozen dif-

ferent occupations. Paul first served his country as a doctor in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard in the ’60s, traveling to Texas and opening his own practice where he delivered more than 4,000 babies.

What followed was an active career in politics, as Paul first became a Texas representative in 1976. In the ’80s, Paul withdrew from the Republican Par-

ty ticket, which landed him a spot as presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in 1988, which garnered him a thirdplace finish with close to 500,000 votes in the election. In 1997, Paul was again elected to serve as a congressman for the state of Texas, and has held that position to this day.

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The masked murderer made meta

ADAM CLEMENT Editor-in-Chief Where does postmodern horror go to die?

In the morgue of bloodied bodies that is Scream 4, surely somewhere between the killer’s razorsharp blade and the film’s

with iPhones, and where one’s worth is ostensibly determined by their blog’s traffic, the fourth installment in the groundbreaking horror-satire sharpens its knife on themes of film reboots, the cost of celebrity, and those incessantly pesky “rules” that seem to dictate who lives and who dies in a horror movie (or, rather, what has become a satire of satire).

Suffice to say, horror hasn’t seen anything this meta since Jada Pinkett Smith’s charac-

Assistant Arts & Life Editor Dayglo with beats

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ter in Scream 2 was gutted while watching a film remake inspired by the events of the first Scream.

While you reread that sentence back over, I’ll come right out and say that this exhaustingly self-aware fourth entry comes just as comically close, if not more so, to collapsing in on itself.

Only now it’s aware of its self-awareness.

Series scribe Kevin Williamson and director Wes

With finals approaching and the spring semester coming to an end, Floyd’s Music Store will once again host Tallahassee’s favorite paint party, DayGlo, with DJ Gummy Bear and DJ Scar. Now known as “America’s Largest Paint Party,” Dayglo originally debuted in Tallahassee in 2005 and has since grown into a full spring tour with stops all across Florida, including Gainesville, Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale in addition to Miami for

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‘Scream 4’ is too smart for scares even sharper irony.

As if a trilogy ever truly stayed that way, the timecapsule slasher franchise of the Clinton era returns with as strong a social commentary as ever before.

If that last part sounds ludicrous to you, it shouldn’t.

After all, Scream is to pop culture as YouTube is to fame these days—an analogy I do not make arbitrarily.

Set against the backdrop of a society that’s all but replaced landlines

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Not-for-profit puts tweeters to work for charity AndroMedia uses what college students do best to make positive changes RYAN RABAC Staff Writer Tampa not-for-profit AndroMedia was recently founded by Florida State University alumnus Nick Kypriotakis. The group’s main goal is to put the social networking skills of students to charitable use.

Because students are motivated to help, but often aren’t available during normal hours, Kypriotakis believes they can make a difference on Facebook and Twitter. After all, most students already spend hours a day on these websites.

Those who get involved are called “VolunTweeters,” and are matched with a charitable organization in order to post updates and interact on the

group’s behalf.

“One of our first clients is Quantum Leap Farm in Tampa,” Kyporiotakis said. “We have been collaborating on their Women of Warriors @ E.A.S.E. program, which was designed to help the wives of military men who were injured in combat cope with the functional, behavioral and psychological changes that result.”

To volunteer with AndroMedia, students need only fill out a form on www.andromedianetwork.com and answer some questions about his or her goals and skills.

The site also features helpful blog posts about volunteering skills.

Because AndroMedia provides its services to not-for-profits free of charge, students shouldn’t

have any hesitations about giving it a try.

“Social media campaigns are very inexpensive to set up but expensive to maintain,” Kypriotakis said.

“Labor is the greatest expenditure not-for-profits have. We outsource that to volunteers and all we have to pay are administrative costs. We’re also looking to go for a couple grants in the future.”

Kypriotakis is looking

to keep his services free for as long as possible, and expressed interest in listening to input from potential VolunTweeters about which organizations AndroMedia should partner with. Anyone interested should feel free to get in touch.

Perhaps one day in the future, Charlie Sheen will be tweeting about saving tigers instead of tigers’ blood. One can only hope.

up (the pieces) where the lackluster third installment left off, Dewey (David Arquette) is now a sheriff, tabloid tattler Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) is an analog reporter in a digital age with writer’s block and everyone’s dropping like flies, as usual. Thankfully, there’s more than enough new blood to go around in Hayden Panettiere, Alison Brie, Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts (who portrays Sidney’s cousin).

Lest anyone take a film about a prank-calling peeping tom dressed in a Halloween costume too seriously, the series standbys in its three main stars and tongue-in-cheek humor remind audiences of what set it apart in the ’90s, and keep what could have been a hammy reiteration a real Scream.

Puns aside, one might say this is neither strictly sequel nor remake, but a marriage of the two—territory to which Craven is no stranger, as evidenced with a “real world” Freddy Krueger à la 1994’s New Nightmare.

Not lost on the inspired series, fortunately, is its sideshow of playful cameos and Easter egg hunt of genre winks. While they

consequently offset the horror, these tips of the hat nevertheless remain a sizeable source of the film’s fun and keep the picture from becoming a wholly masturbatory experience on behalf of the filmmakers, for what it lacks in suspense it makes up for by keeping viewers in on the joke, scary movie buffs or not.

Be that as it may, this latest addition is another love letter to genre fans that—in spite of however much it refuses to believe otherwise—keeps from breaking too many rules in polarizing its following.

What keeps Scream 4 from realizing its full potential, then, is its slavish devotion to its selfassigned rulebook, a prerogative made loud and clear as one character quips, “Don’t f**k with the original.”

With the only real facelift being Cox’s, what initially defines “meta” does little, sadly, to defy it, leaving self-referential conventions and character types holding up a few too many mirrors against a dozen other too many, creating the spectacle of a dizzying funhouse—one that, despite its namesake, turns

into anything but once the reflections become so skewed one can barely see straight.

For a franchise that began as cult and has since been made culture, now too do we have all-knowing characters waxing Jamie Kennedy in their infinite film savvy, which, in turn, begs the question: A clever cut above the rest in terms of sequel quality Scream 4 may be, but does this mark a cut above the chest for the chance of another sequel?

Silly me for even asking.

Social media campaigns are very inexpensive to set up but expensive to maintain.

Nick Kypriotakis Founder of AndroMedia

LIBERTY from 5 known for, however, is his stance against the Patriot Act, the Iraq War and farm subsidies, on which he kept in sync with his desire to reduce government spending and federal government involvement. Paul has expressed his desire to relieve the nation from strict government but also conveyed his opposition to the war on drugs.

From 1988 until the most recent elections, Paul earned a reputation for promoting vital issues to the government as he pursued the presidential ticket, notably through his expressed criticism of America’s financial and economic systems while standing strong against abortion.

Paul made his mark in the literary world, as his titles End the Fed (2009) and The Revolution

Manifesto (2008) rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

On April 19, Liberty Defined, a comprehensive guide to Paul’s stance on 50 of what he sees as the most important issues of the present day, including topics like Zionism, abortion and individual liberty, will be hitting the shelves.

A book signing will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, located at 2415 North Monroe Street on Thursday, April 21. As space is limited, tickets for the signing order will be distributed starting at 10:30 a.m. Following the signing, Paul will speak at the Ruby Diamond Auditorium at 7 p.m. Tickets will be dispersed on a first-come, first-served basis from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Westcott Building and are free with a valid FSUID.

SCREAM 4 from 5 Craven make this hilariously evident with a toosmart-for-its-own-good opener (think the layers of Inception, with less dreaming and more dying). Simply put, it’s no longer outrageous to halfexpect the auditorium’s projector to freeze-frame, thereby prompting the killer to lunge out of the screen in 3D. These fourth-wall-shattering flirtations do not, however, make this sequel any scarier.

Not surprisingly, what’s old is new again as far as premises go. Carrying the torch as the perennial “final girl” is none other than Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), but when two teens are found murdered in the wake of Sidney’s return to Woodsboro for a book tour, everyone’s a suspect all over again in this melodramatic whodunit whose body count is dwarfed only by its overkill of sentience.

It wouldn’t be déjà vu, though, without the “Ghostface” killer, whose updated M.O. is made topical by Facebook stalking, textual harassment and filming his/her/their/its hacked-up handiwork for all the Web to see. Picking

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Entertainment will be provided by Floyd’s Music Store’s resident DJ, Gummy Bear, who also deejays at Lower Lounge and The Irish Pub along with DJ Scar.

First-time attendees should prepare to deck out in white attire for the full effect of the body painting extravaganza. Drink specials will also be offered for patrons over 21.

Menace Beach: Sex Cult Records Party with Your Dirty Habit, Team Jaguar, Mustache FL, Ben Danner and Truewill—Friday, April 22, doors 9 p.m. at The Engine Room.

Admission: Ladies FREE until 11 p.m., $5, $7 under 21, $10 after midnight

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BROOM from 5 Surprisingly strong in Jumping the Broom are the supporting performances. Mike Epps, in particular, was consistently funny throughout, easily stealing every scene he is featured in. The comedian does his usual quick jabs and snappy comebacks, but his character also has a dramatic side to him,

giving the actor in Epps an opportunity to show that he can do more than just make you laugh. Kudos are also due to Meagan Good, Pooch Hall, Loretta Devine and Angela Bassett, who play each of their roles to the best of their ability.

The direction and cinematography are equally as impressive as the acting.

Television director Salim Akil handles the cast and crew surprisingly well.

Notwithstanding some rough pacing at the start (a given, considering how many characters needed to be introduced), the film eventually establishes all of its characters and sets a steady pace and tone.

Overall, Jumping the

Broom is a definite crowdpleaser. Despite some very apparent problems in scripting, the film is relatively funny and engaging when compared to others in its genre.

If you don’t set your sights too high when jumping the broom, the landing should be softer than expected.

After signing to Designer Drugs’ label, Sex Cult Records, Your Dirty Habit recently released their latest EP, How Hard, on April 12. Known for their “house and bass” movement, the duo has been credited with redefining bass music, as they merge straight beats with DNB (drum and bass) and dubstep soundscapes.

Special to The Engine Room, Your Dirty Habit was the first musical guest booked at the then upand-coming dance party Menace Beach when it first debuted. Joining

Your Dirty Habits are Menace Beach resident DJs Team Jaguar, Mustache FL and Ben Danner while Truewill spins on the outdoor patio.

Peelander-Z with Anamanaguchi, Linus and other special g u e s t s — S a t u r d a y, April 23, doors 8:30 p.m. at The Engine Room.

Admission: $10 Originally hailing from Japan, Peelander-Z is a New York City-based punk four-piece consisting of Kengo Hioki (Peelander Yellow – lead vocals, guitar), Kotaro Tsukada (Peelander Red – bass, backing vocals), Akihiko Naruse (Peelander Green – drums) and Peelander Black (lead guitar). The selfproclaimed “Japanese Action Comic Punk band” is known for their onstage costumes which include sentai-style suits, kimonos and rubber wigs as well as tiger and squid costumes.

The band, who often invites audience members to join them onstage, also partakes in “human bowling” in which the members dive head-first into bowling pins and piggyback rides midsong. Joining this highenergy band is Anamanaguchi, who made the entire soundtrack for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and Linus, among others.

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JUMPING from 5 like I could be a great coach for football or boxing.

FFF: I was actually going to ask you, because you both have pretty minor roles in the movie, but the loudest applause I think in the entire theater when I saw the movie on Tuesday was when Pooch came on the screen. I just want to ask, what’s your workout routine?

PH: [laughing] FFF: I’m like a skinny white guy. I’m determined to get in shape, but it’s just not working out for me.

Considering you want to be a coach and all…

PH: [laughing] That’s one of the things my parents taught me. My dad was a boxer, he was in the military, he was a sports guy and he

just gave me certain quotes that just stick with me to this day: “Whatever you do, be the best at [it]. Don’t halfass anything.” I used to box when I was young and, as a kid working out all of the time, it’s kind of genetic. My body got used to routine at a young age. As far as my routine, I would just saying keeping a positive state of mind, eating healthy and being happy. Just being in the gym with my dad, him teaching me how to fight and catch a football—those are just part of my blueprint.

If I could take my image to the screen and be an action hero or take my shirt off for the women, you know, I’m a team player [laughs].

FFF: The other thing was, for Meagan, the differ-

ence between guys and girls in a movie theater is that girls tend to get a little crazy when good-looking guys are on screen, while guys tend to just stop talking altogether when a good-looking girl is on screen. There was a guy sitting next to me, talking the entire time to his girlfriend, and then the second Meagan comes on screen, he stops talking.

MG: [laughs] FFF: I want to ask, for all of those infatuated fans out there, what do you both look for in a partner?

PH: Well, me, being in a relationship, I think as you get older you get better.

Communication is very important. Even if you come from different sides of the track [like the characters in

Jumping the Broom], you have to be able to laugh and joke with each other. Being able to disagree without getting into an argument is also important.

MG: Definitely has to believe in God. He has to be kind toward other people. I don’t like people who aren’t kind to others.

PH: I concur.

MG: He has to be mature enough to understand that people are going to be who they are. Also, I’d like someone who doesn’t treat me like his girlfriend or his wife. I want someone who treats me more like his partner, where we can help each other become better people.

FFF: You’re both relatively young actors. Do you

have any long-term career goals that you have yet to accomplish?

MG: An Oscar, directing, and running a fully functioning distribution company.

PH: All of what Meagan said: times two for Pooch.

I’d also like to give back.

My oldest daughter is handicapped. A lot of people don’t necessarily know the world of a disabled person.

In some respect, it’s kind of kept a secret. I want to make it a point to give my daughter a life that’s as normal as possible.

As hard as it is, I’d like her to be looked at in the community as a regular person.

People with disabilities don’t ask to be like that. I don’t talk about this much because, in my mind, when I start, I want to come out

with the tools and the power to make change. My daughter is my life and I want the best for her.

conscious, then-nameless protagonist, “My name is Buck, and I’m here to— party.” (The icing on the cake is when you find out his bright yellow truck’s moniker has been poorly photoshopped into “Party Wagon.”) If you can’t catch

it every other day on TBS or TNT or Spike, come see the next best thing— a midnight showing of all the blood-spewing fight sequences set to music you can humanly handle, for the last time this academic year.

FFF: Any upcoming projects you want to let the public in on?

MG: I have a film that I produced called Video Girl that starts circling the independent circuit at the end of the month. It’s very much like Gia, but it’s about a video vixen.

Another film that I produced is available online now at www.milesfromhomemovie.com, which is sort of like Precious but before there was Precious.

It’s about a teenage boy who gets into the world of prostitution. As far as upcoming projects go, that’s really it for me.

GET A LIFE from 5 an incredible Oscar-nominated performance by Michelle Williams and another, should-havebeen-nominated turn from Ryan Gosling, the latter of whom horrified housewives everywhere by playing the total douchebag they didn’t remember climbing Ferris wheels in The Notebook.

But, hey, according to the one sitting in the row in front of me when I saw this in theaters, “at least he’s got a cute butt.”

True Grit—April 21 and 23 at 7:15 and 10:15 p.m., and April 22 at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.

I feel bad that one of the best actors working, Jeff Bridges (even now with an Oscar under his belt), can’t escape his image as The Dude from The Big Lebowski. I really do.

That said, the Coen brothers’ awesome remake of the classic 1969 western True Grit is a whole lot more fun if you imagine Bridges’ hard-

drinking, one-liner-spitting U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn as the pandimensional Old Western Dude who has replaced his White Russians with whiskey straight from the bottle and his bowling ball for a six-shot revolver.

True Grit was one of my favorite movies of the past year, but imagine how much better it would have been if, when instant superstar Hailee Steinfeld asks him to help her find (read: kill) her father’s murderer (Josh Brolin) and dramatically declares she heard he has “true grit,” Old West Dude responds with, “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, pardner.”

Or imagine if, when Matt Damon’s Texas Ranger LaBoeuf joins Old West Dude and Steinfeld on their odyssey through dangerous Indian territory, His Dudeness asks him to block the wind so he can “do a J.”

night) The ASLC’s final midnight movie of the year is Kill Bill: Vol. 1, although I’m of the opinion that this generation-defining movie is best viewed on basic, hilariously edited cable.

Besides the censors trying their absolute damndest to reduce the incredible amount of blood geysers and decapitated limbs that punctuate Kill Bill, it’s pure TV gold when resident hospital rapist Buck tells Uma Thurman’s un-

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Time for the finale: ranking playoff systems in sports

NICK SELLERS Assistant Sports Editor The sun is shining, the occasional storm wipes out all the pollen for a couple of glorious days, everything has a new glow under a cloudless spring sky and April is once again making a push for its candidacy as the best month in sports.

Don’t believe me? Consider the following: the conclusion of the NCAA men’s and women’s tournament (kudos to the ladies: their final was better than the men’s this year), the start of the MLB season, the beginning of both the NBA and NHL playoffs, college football spring games, the NFL Draft, and Champions League and European soccer competitions are drawing to a close.

There’s literally something for everyone in the month of April, but most notably the playoffs for two of the “Big Four” American sports: basketball and hockey, both of which distinguish themselves as two of the better playoff systems in the realm of sports.

Where do they rank among the other sports of the world? Without further ado, here’s the rundown of the best championship competitions: Outside looking in The BCS is an abomination and should be abolished ASAP. The sport with probably the most ravenous fanbase is treated with the worst postseason resolution. I’m among a handful of folks rooting hard for the Dallas Mavericks to make a deep run in the NBA Playoffs so owner Mark Cuban can fund his proposed playoff system. I’m stepping off my soapbox now.

Honorable mention By merit of sheer drama, the men’s NCAA tournament earns an honorable mention. Upsets abound every year, busting brackets and giving mid-major schools their day in the sun.

The only thing keeping the Tourney this low on the list is the quality of play in the final, which often dips to submarine depths. As a competition, the Tournament is exciting, but any tournament worth its salt has to have a great final. This year’s National Championship was a damned shame, and it’s not the first time the final has fallen flat on its face.

5) NFL Playoffs The NFL sneaks its way onto the list based solely on the strength of its championship game.

The Super Bowl stands uncontested at the top as the single greatest event in sports. Nothing can quite match the pageantry and the weeklong build up to the most hyped annual sports event.

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Defense dominates at Doak Hopkins scores half of total points in low-scoring spring game as Garnet defeats Gold, 19-17 HARRIS NEWMAN Contributing Writer It was a day of base football in the Seminoles’ annual Spring Game, as a banged-up offensive line limited the Florida State firepower to five field goals from Dustin Hopkins in the Garnet’s 19-17 win over the Gold team.

“We were very vanilla on both sides of the ball,” said head coach Jimbo Fisher. “When you’re as beat up as we are, you just want to try and create as much execution as possible... But the kids played hard.

And we made a few plays out there.”

The Seminoles were without three starters on the offensive line as well as a key backup in Rhonne Sanderson.

That, coupled with anyone left standing to be split amongst two teams, led to twelve total sacks from the defensive line, which is considered to be among the deepest in FSU history.

That lack of a pocket forced quicker decisions and thus led to more ill-advised throws.

Gold quarterback EJ Manuel, who finished 17 of 36 for 204 yards, was rushed into throwing one of his two interceptions to cornerback

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Clint Trickett scrambles to escape the pursuit of the defense, which proved to be a strength for both teams Saturday.

Greg Reid, who returned Manuel’s errant throw for a touchdown to tie the game at 10-10.

Reid seemed to pick up from where he left off last season, as he recorded five tackles and forced a fumble for the Garnet team.

The Garnet team then got the ball back with 16 seconds in the half, in which Dustin Hopkins

capped an 11-yard drive by making a 60-yard field goal that many think could have gone 70.

“To be honest, my legs were not even feeling all that great today,” Hopkins said, who made all five of his field goals and added three extra points. “With the wind blowing as hard as it was, I didn’t know.

It’s definitely good going into summer to know I

made that kick... It will be a good memory for me.”

Memorable afternoons were abounding for the players of the Seminole defense, which held the total offense to a net 19 rushing yards.

The majority of those yards were picked up by freshman Devonta Freeman, an early enrollee from Miami. Freeman helped the Garnet team

with 25 yards on seven carries and caught two passes for eight yards.

A spring game is a huge benefit for an early enrollee, and coach Fisher was “very pleased” with Freeman’s performance.

Fisher also lauded the linebacker play, which was stout for Florida State. After losing Kendal SEE SPRING 10

Seminoles sink Hokies on Sunday Baseball scores 33 runs in two days to secure win in wild series against Virginia Tech NICK SELLERS Assistant Sports Editor Fresh off a season series win against the No. 4 Florida Gators on Tuesday, the No. 8 Florida State Seminoles took to the road for an ACC series against conference rival Virginia Tech on Friday.

After arriving in Blacksburg, Va., the Seminoles (26-10, 11-7 ACC) sent their staff ace Sean Gilmartin to the mound Friday night.

Gilmartin, who has been in excellent form all season, turned in another outstanding performance, allowing just two runs and throwing his first complete game since 2009.

But despite Gilmartin’s shining performance, the Hokies (19-19, 4-14) still prevailed 2-1, scoring on a

two-out triple by Virginia Tech’s Jake Atwell in the third and a wild pitch by Gilmartin. Gilmartin still managed to fan seven Hokie batters Friday night, but was still handed the loss, his first of the season.

But the story of Friday night was the Seminoles’ inability to push runs across the plate, despite out-hitting the Hokies six to four. Florida State stranded 11 runners on the base path, loading the

bases in the fifth and seventh innings and their lone run came in fifth when Rafael Lopez fought off 12 pitches to force a bases loaded walk.

Although offense was hard to come by for the

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Hunter Scantling was roughed up a bit in his start on Sunday, but Scantling had the full support of his teammates, who scored 12 runs in the final three frames.

’Noles on Friday, such was not the case on Saturday when the Seminole bats came to life and scored 15 runs to defeat the Hokies 15-11 in a game that was postponed six hours due to severe weather in the area.

In the wake of the afternoon storm, winds were gusting at nearly 30 mph at English Field, turning every fly ball into an adventure for the fielders for both teams. With the wind blowing out, Virginia Tech added to their ACC-leading home run total with three more homers Saturday night.

After taking a 7-2 lead into the bottom of the fourth, the Hokies roughed up starter Mack Waugh and reliever Robert Benincasa, erasing the Seminole lead and putting the ’Noles in an 11-7 hole.

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Women’s tennis records historic weekend FSU upsets both No. 3 UNC and No. 4 Duke in three-day span HARRIS NEWMAN Contributing Writer To say the FSU women’s tennis team is feeling “good” right now would be an understatement of immeasurable proportions; one would see a jubilant coach Jennifer Hyde and say, with conviction, they are feeling nothing short of sublime.

The No. 27 Seminoles (12-7, 7-4 Atlantic Coast

Conference) picked up their most prestigious win of the season—and arguably in the program’s history—on Friday against the fourth-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels.

Remarkably, the Seminoles upstaged themselves just two days later, remaking history by beating the third-ranked Duke Blue Devils.

The Seminoles spent the majority of the season

searching for stability, as they had trouble stringing together consecutive wins and finding a general groove in the competitive ACC. They entered this weekend with three straight wins, but had a daunting task in the ACC’s top two teams.

Florida State stormed out to an early lead on Friday against the No. 4 Tar Heels (20-5, 9-2), picking

up the doubles point and then winning four of six opening sets in the singles portion.

Highlighting the doubles portion was Francesca Segarelli and Ruth Seaborne’s 8-2 clobbering of the No. 47 team of Zoe De Bruycker and Lauren McHale. Katie Rybakova and Amy Sargeant clinched the point in a tiebreaker with a 9-8 (108) win.

Segarelli continued to show maturity beyond her years as a sophomore, as she beat No. 100 Jelena Durisic 6-0, 6-1.

Amy Sargeant’s 6-1, 6-3 victory put the Seminoles ahead 3-0 and in need of just one more singles win to clinch the match. The Tar Heels won on courts one and five shortly thereafter, tightening the score SEE HISTORIC 9

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’Noles dominate Eagles Softball sweeps weather-shortened series at Boston College ERIC TODOROFF Contributing Writer The Seminoles (2521, 7-7 ACC) capitalized this weekend in Chestnut Hill, Mass., against a struggling Boston College Golden Eagles team (4-24, 5-8). FSU swept the series, taking both games of Saturday’s double-header 7-1 and 11-4.

In game one, Sarah Hamilton tossed a complete game, surrendering only three hits, and striking out 14. With 14 strikeouts, Hamilton broke the FSU career strikeout record, surpassing Tiffany McDonald for first all-time.

The record-breaking 940th career strikeout came in the fourth inning of game one on a

1-2 pitch to Alisha Kooistra. The pitch drifted low and into the dirt, fanning Kooistra to break the record.

The FSU offense came to life in the top of the second inning, when Celeste Gomez got things going with a seeing eye single through the left side of the field. After two quick outs, Morgan Bullock singled and Tiffani Brown followed by reaching on an error to load the bases.

Shayla Jackson then singled to bring in Gomez. Boston College pitchers helped out the ’Noles by walking two consecutive batters to push across two more runs, extending the lead to 3-0.

Boston College answered with an RBI

groundout from Nicole D’Argento in the bottom of the second, but the Seminoles answered right back, scoring again in the fourth. With the bases loaded, Jackson lined a home run over the center field fence, putting the ’Noles on top for good, 7-1.

FSU’s offense stayed hot in game two, banging out 11 runs on 14 hits. The scoring started for the ’Noles in the third with an RBI groundout from Jackson and another run was able to score on an error by Boston College shortstop Alana Dimaso.

The Seminoles put the game away with a five-run fourth inning.

Bullock and Brown each had an RBI single. Jackson came through again

with a two-run single and scored later in the inning. Courtney Senas hit her third homer of the year and Jessica Nori had another strong performance in the circle.

During Saturday’s doubleheader, Jackson shouldered much of the load for the Seminoles offense.

Over the weekend, Jackson had seven hits, including four in game two, a season high for any Seminole batter.

Sunday’s series finale was cancelled due to inclement weather in the Boston area.

The Seminoles return to action this coming weekend at home in a three-game set against the Maryland Terrapins that starts April 23 at 1 p.m.

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BASEBALL from 8 Florida State was not to be outdone, however, posting a total of eight runs in the final four innings to secure a 15-11 victory, and even the series at a victory apiece.

The Seminole rally was capped by a two-run home run by shortstop Justin Gonzalez in the top of the ninth. The home run was Gonzalez’s fourth of the year.

Despite the rough start for the pitching staff, the rocking boat was steadied by the likes of David Trexler, who earned his second win, and Daniel Bennett, who earned his third save of the season.

“It was undoubtedly a good win for us,” FSU coach Mike Martin said.

“When you have a couple of bad innings, you stay tough and you’re able to get it done at the end [....]

It’s a clear indication of the kind of young men that you have. I’m very proud to get a win like this on the road.”

With the series tied up, Sunday proved to be just as exciting as Saturday’s

late-night slugfest.

In Sunday’s contest, the Seminoles sent Hunter Scantling to the mound, fresh off his dominating performance in Tuesday’s win over Florida.

Scantling lasted just 2.2 innings and gave up five runs before being yanked.

The Hokies scored five more runs in the fourth and the Seminoles found themselves in an early hole, down 10-3 after four innings.

After battling back to get within five runs entering the top of the seventh. It was here that the Seminole bats absolutely exploded and the ’Noles scored 12 runs over the final three frames to secure the victory.

Sherman Johnson, Jayce Boyd and Taiwan Easterling all homered on Sunday and Tyler Everett recorded the win.

The Seminoles begin a short two-game series against Florida Gulf Coast Tuesday night at 6 p.m. before a home ACC series against Duke, which begins Friday night.

Seminoles’ momentum halted by Blue Devils Men’s tennis loses contested match to Duke, ends two-match win streak

BRETT JULA Sports Editor After winning a pair of matches over Boston College and Maryland last weekend, Florida State appeared to be on its way to easing the pain of a frustrating season filled with close losses.

Unfortunately for the Seminoles, they experienced the bitter taste of defeat yet again, in nailbiting fashion.

The tandem of Vahid Mirzadeh and Connor Smith upset Duke’s seventh-ranked team of Reid Carleton and Henrique Cunha in doubles action, but it turned out

to be for naught, as the ’Noles (9-12, 4-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) fell 4-3 to the No. 10 Blue Devils Friday afternoon in Durham, N.C. It was the seventh time this season the Seminoles were part of a match that was decided by one point, and they have found themselves on the wrong end of them more often than they would like, having won just one of them.

“Overall, we played a pretty good match, and [I] thought it was a very good tennis match,” FSU head coach Dwayne Hultquist said. “We were just a match short. I thought playing against a top-10 team on the road, the competitive nature of it was very good.”

Mirzadeh and Smith got the ’Noles off to a promising start with

their aforementioned victory over Carleton and Cunha. FSU’s No. 13 doubles team continued to be one of the few bright spots on the team throughout the difficult season, as they prevailed with a 9-8 (5) win, giving Mirzadeh and Smith their 19th doubles victory on the year.

The win was sweet redemption for Mirzadeh and Smith, as they came awfully close to upsetting Carleton and Cunha last season, who were ranked No. 1 at the time, before falling in that match 9-8 (11).

“Vahid and Connor were down two match points and came back to win it against a top-ten ranked team who was ranked No. 1 in the country last year the whole year,” Hultquist said. “I thought it was great ten-

nis, and they did a good job [Friday] in stepping forward and winning.”

Smith would add on to his big doubles win, as he defeated Duke’s Fred Saba 6-3, 6-3 in singles play. The win was Smith’s third straight in singles, which puts him second on the team in singles victories.

Also earning a point for FSU was sophomore Jordan Kelly-Houston, who battled back after a poor first set to defeat Torsten Wietoska 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Like Smith, the win was Kelly-Houston’s third in a row.

Earning the third and final point for the Seminoles was sophomore Anderson Reed, who grabbed a 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 win over Luka Marchese in the final match of the

trophy. Hockey is a highly under-watched sport and the Stanley Cup Finals are a chance for these guys to showcase their sport.

The history of the tournament adds to the draw of the event and the level of competition is always consistently high. Original Six matchups, overtime series-clinching goals and some of the rowdiest arenas in the nation make for a deep, entertaining com-

petition.

3) World Series Baseball’s final series edges out the hockey boys because of its deep American roots and simply the very nature of baseball.

No sport builds the anticipation of a moment quite like baseball; with each pitch, each swing, so much weighs on that splitsecond of time.

The other strength of baseball is the quirkiness

of its cast of characters.

Take a look at the reigning world champion San Francisco Giants.

Characters like Tim “The Freak” Lincecum and the “Fear the Beard” campaign that spawned around closer Brian Wilson and added flair to an already wonderfully historic competition.

2) NBA Playoffs Hands-down the strongest competition among

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Anderson Reed returns the ball during the Florida State versus Texas match held on on Feb. 12.

FINALE from 8 The earlier rounds produce iconic games like “The Drive” and “The Tuck Rule” game in snowy New England. The weather definitely adds to the drama of the earlier rounds, but the NFL has smartly chosen to relocate the championship to a warm weather city every year.

4) Stanley Cup Finals Wonderful for two reasons: playoff beards and that glorious, giant silver

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Junior Noemie Scharle extinguished any doubts, though, beating No. 88 Shinann Featherston with a score of 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 to clinch the biggest win of the season for the Seminoles with a score of 4-2.

“I’m speechless,” said Scharle. “I was about to cry at the end of the match. This was probably my biggest win individually and the biggest win we’ve had as a team, and it’s just an incredible feeling.”

The Seminoles did not let off the gas one bit, as they won with the same score of 4-2 on Sunday against the No. 3 Duke Blue Devils (21-3, 10-1 ACC).

Florida State, a team developing an “upstart” identity, fell behind Sunday as they lost the doubles point.

For the second straight match, the Seminoles came out strongly in singles as they won four of the six opening sets yet again, including two that went into tiebreakers.

It was especially re-

markable, considering all six of Duke’s players are ranked in singles.

In her last home match as a Seminole, No. 34 Katie Rybakova picked up the first point for the Seminoles with a dominant 6-2, 6-4 win against No. 38 Nadine Fahoum. The win was extra momentous for Rybakova, as it was her 100th career victory at Florida State.

Florida State did not lose a match after that, and it was sophomore Amy Sargeant who clinched the match on court six with a 7-6 (7-1), 6-7 (4-7), 6-3 win.

It was Duke’s first conference loss of the season and just their third overall loss all season.

“There is definitely a lot of emotion that comes from wins like these,” said head coach Jennifer Hyde. “We have had a lot of adversity this semester, people coming back with injuries and having family issues, so it’s really nice to have a big win like this.”

“It was the best feeling,” concluded Hyde. “It’s why we do what we do.”

the American sports leagues right now, partly because the NBA has such a great product and there are so many great players in the league at this moment, fans have no choice but to firmly entrench themselves on either side of the fence.

Watching Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard go to work this April is sure to be a sports fan’s

delight.

1) World Cup Although all the previously mentioned competitions are great in their own right, no other tournament builds the drama like the World Cup. Occurring over four years, the World Cup unites nations and brings entire countries to its knees.

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SPRING from 8 Smith and Mister Alexander, the Seminoles have several players vying for starting positions, with Junior Vince Williams and especially sophomore Telvin Smith making the strongest cases. Williams finished with five tackles and broke up two passes.

Smith recorded an interception, a sack and four tackles. “[Telvin Smith] always makes good plays,” said Fisher. “He’s instinctive and reads the ball. Linebackers to me are easy to evaluate. They’re either at the bottom of the pile or standing around the pile. I want the ones at the bottom.”

The Seminoles have two big-time recruits joining the receiving corps this summer in Kelvin Benjamin and Rashad Greene,

which made competi- who caught the Gold’s tion tight among the 2010 first touchdown—brought a Manuel pass to the twosignees.

Greg Dent was a favor- yard line but was stopped ite target for EJ Manuel, as by Terrence Parks to end he led the pack with seven the game.

It was a satisfying finish catches for 72 yards.

Kenny Shaw had the for Manuel, who lost premost momentous play, sumably because Fisher though, as he scored the opted to go for the touchGold team’s second touch- down instead of the obvidown off a 20-yard pass ous field goal.

“EJ always finds a from Ethan Gilbert, giving them a 17-16 lead with way to win,” said Fisher.

“That’s what great play8:37 left in the game.

This made for an in- ers do. They can play bad teresting ending, as the all day, but when they get Garnet responded with the ball at the end of the a 33-yard field goal from game, they’re ready to Dustin Hopkins to go up make a play.” by two points with 2:48 remaining.

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“I was pleased with how well Connor, Jordan and Anderson played for them to get wins,” Hultquist said. “I thought it was a good effort on their part, but unfortunately, we were one match short. They have been playing very good the last couple of weeks.”

Florida State concluded its regular season with a match Sunday against the North Carolina Tar Heels, but due to the late concluding time of the match, final results could not be printed.

A full recap of the Seminoles’ regular season finale can be found on fsunews.com.

On Thursday of this week, FSU will travel to Cary, N.C., to participate in the 2011 ACC tournament. As of press time, the Seminoles sat in ninth place in the competitive ACC. Duke and UNC both sit within the top five and Virginia leads the ACC.

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Tapping into our resources Hope Will Never Be Silent

CAMERON GAUTHIER Staff Writer “Going green” has become a very popular movement recently. Those of us with foresight and more than just a feigned concern for the future are constantly trying to find ways to protect and preserve the earth’s delicate environment. Those who can afford to are deciding to purchase electric or hybrid cars and recycling— though not at all at the levels they should be—which

is becoming more and more common especially on college campuses. Additionally, many people are buying organic foods and even cutting back on the amount of meats they eat. But many people don’t realize how great of an impact doing something as simple as using tap water instead of bottled water can have. On top of that, it can save a lot of money over the course of a year.

Take Back the Tap is a program aimed at educating people about “why choosing tap water over bottled water is better for your health, your pocketbook and the environment.” Recently, a Take Back the Tap program has taken off at FSU and, after reviewing some of the literature given to me by a fellow meteorology student, the negative effects

of bottled water and the companies that produce it are far greater than I had imagined.

I’ll start off by pointing out some of the financial benefits of using tap water, and then I’ll move into the scientific/health-related ones. According to the Take Back the Tap literature, a gallon of tap water costs about $0.002, whereas a gallon of bottled water costs anywhere from about $0.90 to around $8.25 (for the “designer” brands). If a person drinks the recommended eight cups of water a day (I know very few who do), the annual cost of drinking tap water would be about $0.37 per year versus between $165 and $1,510 for bottled water.

I think it’s fair to say that $1,510 is the equivalent of around three months’ rent for most college students.

With certain tools such as carbon water filters (Brita, for example) and a huge selection of reusable water bottles, there’s no reason to not make the change.

Now I will share some the environmental effects of bottled water brought to light by Take Back the Tap. Due to the limitations of this article, I will not go into inequality of water access around the world, but it is an equally severe issue that I recommend everyone read up on. Nearly three gallons of water are required for every gallon of water bottled (not counting the gallon that is actually bottled).

In 2008, 8.7 billion gallons of bottled water were sold in the United States alone, which required the use of 26 billion gallons of water in production. When one considers that 1.5 million

children die every year (about one child every 20 seconds) due to lack of access to clean water or that one in eight people globally do not have access to clean water, this is quite disgusting. The website water.org points out that people living in slums around the world have a maximum of about 10 gallons of water per day to meet all of their needs including cooking, bathing and drinking. This means that the 26 billion gallons used to produce plastic bottles and fill them with water could provide 10 gallons of water to over 7 million people every day.

The biggest “corporate giant” contributing to the problem is Nestlé according to Food & Water Watch, the group associated with the Take Back the Tap program. Nestlé is banking an

enormous profit by pumping water from the same sources and springs many Americans get their tap water for a much smaller price and then marketing it as cleaner or more stylish. The water depletion is so extensive that the flow of springs, lakes and rivers are altered and private drinking water wells are depleted. Out of just over 30 billion water bottles disposed of by U.S. consumers in 2006, 86 percent of them ended up in landfills unrecycled.

The benefits of using tap water as opposed to bottled water are clear. FSU has even installed reusable water bottle filling stations at many water fountains to make it even easier. As someone concerned with the environment, I am pledging to take back the tap.

Empty pockets and lackluster ‘Futures’ Retracing Our Steps ERIK EMBREY Staff Writer The end of spring is quickly approaching, which means that there are bunches of good video games that will start coming out to look forward to.

Portal 2 is the one that I’m particularly keen on; the Weighted Companion Cube has managed to tie with Sonic as my favorite video game mascot. There’s also the 3DS that recently came out that I’ve been keeping my eye on. Is there room in my budget to acquire these

wonderfully distracting things anytime soon?

Not really. I’m graduating at the end of the month, which means two things. First, the job market is still mostly terrible.

(That’s a subject for another day.) Second, I have a fairly significant amount of student loans that need to be paid. That brings me to the topic today that I’m sure most of you take significant interest in: Bright Futures. There has been the threat of it being scaled back again recently, with proposals of raising the required SAT score or decreasing the benefit by $1,000.

The actual tuition rates in Florida have already

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been rising drastically, with percentage increases as high as 15 percent the last couple of years. This, in turn, works out so that college costs have been rapidly outpacing inflation.

Florida is one of the cheapest states across the entire U.S. to gain a college education, which is a part of the reason for the tuition spikes. It’s an effort to normalize with the rest of the nation and take some of the financial burden off the state government.

And yet, reducing Bright Future award amounts on top will only magnify the effect of tuition increases.

The point has been raised that Bright Futures is need-blind—those who

qualify get it, regardless of income or income of parents. A student coming from a high class background receives the same benefit as one from a working class background. A possible solution suggested to award decreases would be to create a sliding scale, so that those who come from the higher tiers pay more out of pocket than those in the lower tiers. This really isn’t the best solution, as a merit-based program should remain blind to need. There is already need-based federal financial aid available to those who qualify for it.

The idea of the program was to keep bright stu-

dents within Florida by offering a huge cost reduction to anyone who put in the effort in high school.

As it is now, higher education in Florida is extremely affordable to anyone who put in that effort, and this program is a large part of that. Reducing the benefit reduces the incentive for students to remain in Florida; more students would seek elsewhere, as costs become a moot point and the idea of trying somewhere new becomes appealing.

I graduated from an outof-state in high school, so I didn’t get to enjoy the reduced (or free) tuition benefits that the award provides. There simply

isn’t anything equivalent from where I come from, and college is expensive there. I looked out of state because the cost was no longer a real factor in my decision—it was a wash to come to Florida against attending back home financially. In comparison to that, Bright Futures is an amazing program for students to remain in Florida who do work for it. Most undergraduates who do have the award will end up with much lower student debt than the national average. It shouldn’t be subject to cuts in funding because it is ensuring that the future employees of Florida are starting off on the right foot after graduation.

Finally, about a month later, the U.N. agreed to impose sanctions, including a no-fly zone around Libya and coalition missiles and planes attacked Gadhafi’s military forces.

They were able to halt

Gadhafi’s drive to retake Bengazi and eastern Libya. Gadhafi’s forces had penetrated many cities and had the opposition on the run.

The dithering and dathering by the U.N.,

including the U.S., inhibited the momentum of the rebel forces, and it has resulted in a potentially long drawn-out stalemate in Libya.

It is our duty to provide leadership to countries

and populations in the world who cry out for help when they are threatened by the dark forces of totalitarianism.

—Donald A. Moskowitz, Londonderry, NH

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Horoscopes

Crossword Puzzle

’Nole Trivia

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Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Today is a 9 -- Changes necessitate budget revisions.

Don’t let a windfall slip through your fingers. Take some time to express yourself creatively today.

Your business life may overpower your personal life. Be aware.

MORI

This week’s prize is a gift certificate Japanese Steak House from

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

& Sushi Bar

Today is a 7 -- You may find yourself in conflict between love and career. Use your imagination and choose wisely. Sometimes there are more choices than those visible. Think outside of the box.

What year did the medical school graduate its first class?

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

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Today is a 9 -- A time of intense productivity begins today. Keep your eye on the ball, and stay light on your feet because the game goes fast. Keep a trusted coach nearby for strategy and support.

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 an 8 -- Finish up a big project, and then celebrate with loved ones. The odds are in your favor regarding romance, so don’t wait! Practice compassion and imagine a loving future.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Today is a 7 -- The rumors may not match the facts, so don’t just take it blindly on faith. Move forward slowly and carefully. Dispel confusion and don’t be intimidated. Do your own research.

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Today in History

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Today is a 9 -- Your ability to concentrate will be enhanced marvelously for the next two days. You’re smart and getting smarter. Take advantage to really study for a challenge.

On April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.

On this date: In 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.

In 1910, suffragists showed up at the U.S. Capitol with half a million signatures on petitions demanding that women receive the right to vote.

In 1934, the first laundromat (called a “washateria”) opened in Fort Worth, Texas.

In 1942, during World War II, an air squadron from the USS

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Today is a 7 -- Use your imagination to make something better. Don’t question everything so much. It’s not worth arguing now. Enjoy peaceful moments instead. This is worth gold.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Today is a 9 -You’re more powerful than you think, so stay out of somebody else’s argument. Use that persuasion for more important things.

You’re here for a reason.

Today’s Birthdays

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Today is a 6 -- Your curiosity makes you quite attractive. You move the idea outside the box. Pay extra on bills instead of wasting money. No more procrastination for the next few days.

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Today is a 6 -- Lean on a friend, and provide a steady shoulder in turn. Let yourself get romantic. Extra paperwork leads to extra profits. Leave time for a wish to come true.

Today is an 8 -- Put off lazing around.

You’ve got the energy to make things happen.

Mark things off your list. Crazy dreams seem possible, and the road seems visible.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Today is a 7 -- Visit as many loved ones as you can without getting frazzled. Changes must be made. Let your imagination loose. Everything’s done for love.

Learn from a recent loss.

Nancy Black and Stephanie Clement, Tribune Media Services

Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

In 1945, famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima (ee-EH’ shee-MAH’), off Okinawa.

In 1949, the Republic of Ireland was proclaimed.

In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power, becoming prime minister of Egypt.

In 1978, the Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.

In 1983, 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.

Xanthomata Xenobiotic Xenoblasts Xenocrysts Xenogamies Xenogeneic

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Actress Barbara Hale is 90. Actor James Woods is 64. Actressdirector Dorothy Lyman is 64.

Country musician Jim Scholten (Sawyer Brown) is 59. Actor Rick Moranis is 58. Actor Eric Roberts is 55. Actor John James is 55. Rock musician Les Pattinson (Echo and the Bunnymen) is 53. Author-journalist Susan Faludi is 52. Talk show host Conan O’Brien is 48. Bluegrass singer-musician Terry Eldredge

is 48. Actor Eric McCormack is 48. Actress Maria Bello is 44. Actress Mary Birdsong is 43. Actor David Tennant is 40. Rhythmand-blues singer Trina (Trina and Tamara) is 37. Actress Melissa Joan Hart is 35. Actor Sean Maguire is 35. Actress America Ferrera is 27. Actress Alia Shawkat is 22. Actress Britt Robertson (TV: “Life Unexpected”) is 21. Actor Moises Arias (“Hannah Montana”) is 17.

Thought for Today “War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”

—Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (1900-1945).

— The Associated Press

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