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Sexual misconduct task force created to educate students Rebekah Duntz Editor-in-Chief New federal laws have been mandated by the Department of Education to confront the issue of sexual violence on college campuses and address how college campuses are handling reported cases. Under Title IX, colleges and universities are required to investigate any reported cases of sexual violence. Title IX was created to make sure there is no sex discrimination in education. Changes have also been made to the Clery Act, which is a law that makes colleges and universities responsible for reporting crimes on an annual basis. Under the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, a revision in the Clery Act now requires a breakdown of sexual assaults to include statistics on dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. New proposed laws, such as the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, are asking campuses to go a step further and provide training to faculty and staff, conduct a climate survey, and raise awareness within the campus community. To help Florida Tech adequately comply with these laws, a sexual misconduct task force was created in April 2014 to address the issue, educate students, raise awareness on campus and focus on prevention of sexual violence. The task force includes
representatives from students, Residence Life, Campus Security, CAPS, ROTC, and other departments on campus. “Nothing has really changed, except now it’s just a little more
As of right now, these programs are optional, not required. “If the Campus SaVE Act gets approved, what we’ll be required to do is offer it to new students and new faculty and staff
semester, sexual misconduct is any sexual activity without consent. This includes sexual and genderbased harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking.
in-depth,” said Kevin Graham, director of security. “When it comes down to it: it’s nothing that we haven’t already been doing.” As a part of education, Florida Tech has launched a poster campaign, stressing the importance of consent and listing phone numbers in case of an emergency. The posters can be seen on the back of bathroom stalls and on the side of buildings like the Student Union Building. Information on sexual misconduct is now included in orientation, University Experience courses and campus safety presentations. Several events designed to educate students are planned for this fall, including “Sex Ed Bootcamp.”
on an annual basis. So anyone that comes in new will be required to go through an educational program,” said Rodney Bowers, Dean of Students. The task force will also be conducting a climate survey to find out whether sexual violence is happening more frequently than it is being reported. “The whole purpose of the climate survey is so students can anonymously tell us whether they are victims of sexual assault on campus and they’re just simply not reporting it,” said Bowers. Sexual misconduct: what is it? According to the Student Handbook, which is sent out to all students at the beginning of every
It all comes down to consent. If a student attempts to coerce another unwilling student into sexual activity, it is a violation. If a student is incapacitated in any way with alcohol or drugs, that student is unable to give consent. Joni Oglesby, the Title IX Coordinator on the task force, said, “You need to check, and it needs to be a yes that a reasonable person would say. If that person is incapacitated, just walk away. Don’t do it. It’s so not worth it to the person who is committing the crime. And we know it’s not worth it for the person who is being assaulted.” Kendra Bartel, a pre-doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, thinks that it’s important to not let things escalate.
“The scary thing is that people let it get to that point, or they don’t realize that it’s more than that. Just someone bothering you can count as harassment, and harassment can lead to something more serious. Prevention is really important because then you don’t have to wait until it gets to that point,” said Bartel. Telling someone: how it works If a student has suffered from sexual violence, he or she has many options. The student will need emotional and psychological support, and so CAPS is a helpful resource. CAPS offers free counseling services, and all information is confidential. When CAPS reports an occurrence to Security, all patient information is redacted. If you live on campus, you have the option of telling a Residence Assistant what happened. ResLife spends a lot of time training and educating themselves on what to do and where to direct a student. “By the point when they’re coming to us, they kind of want to do something about it,” said Greg Connell, assistant director of Residence Life. From there, the complainant can choose to go through a formal or an informal process when reporting the incident.
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Thunderstorms test Florida Tech’s drainage system Noemi Redak Staff Writer The weather Florida Tech has experienced lately has put the campus drainage system to the test. On Tuesday, Sept. 23, the campus experienced one of the worst floods in the past few years. Many students were late to class because of the heavy storm and a few classes were canceled. Some got caught with their bikes in the middle of the flood. A car was towed away on University Boulevard because they got stuck in the water, and fish were swimming along the pathways in the Academic Quad. As usual, the
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Academic Quad and the Botanical Gardens were flooded with over one foot of water. Greg Tsark, the director of facilities gave an inside opinion regarding the situation of the flood: “FIT performed very well. The site with the lowest performance is the Academic Quad. It was built over 60 years ago, so we cannot expect it to perform as well as the rest of the campus. We do have projects to work on the drainage system there. The main issue is to keep the water out of the buildings.” The drainage system is designed to take all the water from the first day. This way, the earth becomes saturated and the drainage system truly is put to work from the second day only. Tsark mentioned that the drainage sys-
tem is not designed to perform perfectly after a situation like the one from a week ago, but that it will perform efficiently. Many students took advantage of the newly improvised pools of Florida Tech by taking a trip after the storm was over to see the results. When random students were asked about their opinions on the flooding, most of the students responded that it was fun, that they were late a few times, that the Botanical Gardens were interesting to walk into during the flood, and one student said, “I never saw it this bad!” How could the draining system be improved? Maybe a civil engineering Senior Design project photo property of The crimson can help in the future. v
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CAPS PSA: Feeling Down? We’ve all had those days where we just feel down in the dumps. Maybe you didn’t do so great on a test, or you forgot an assignment in the printer at home. It could be you got into a fight with your best friend, significant other, or family member. Or maybe you’ve just had a bad week in general, where it seems nothing went how you wanted. All of these things can be really frustrating and can make us feel pretty bad. So, what may be a few things you can do to lift yourself out of this so called “funk?” What can you do to make yourself feel a little better? These may seem like silly questions and you may be saying that you know exactly what to do when you’re feeling sad or down. You’re right; most of us do know how to pick ourselves back up when we are feeling down. However, sometimes in the moment we forget all of these things! Just like when you forget the answer to a question you know on a test. Sometimes we blank on what we can do to make ourselves feel better when we are feeling down. When we are feeling down, it is likely we may feel like it is the worse thing ever or will never end. We think to ourselves, that fight was the worst one yet! Or I’m going to fail because I forgot that assignment! Then, by the end of the day, we totally forget what to do to feel better.
Listen to music. We all have a few, or a million, favorite songs. If you’ve had a bad day, turn on your favorite music and jam out. Don’t be afraid to dance around and be silly. You’ll feel much better after you dance or sing out all that sadness into a hairbrush. You can listen to sad music and cry, or angry music and yell. Either way, let your emotions out and let the music wash away the bad day. Get moving. take a walk, go for a run, ride your bike or go to the gym. Getting out and moving will help get your adrenaline up. The endorphins that are released when you get moving will often make you feel much happier. Staying inside and constantly thinking about what is bugging you will only make you feel worse. If you get out and moving, you’ll find other things to look at, think about, and do rather than only thinking about what is wrong. Sweat out the sadness, or bang out those blues. Eat something yummy. While eating junk food is not a good or healthy thing to do, sometimes when we’ve had a bad day, a cookie won’t hurt. A scoop of ice cream, piece of cake, pizza or your favorite latte will be okay for that one bad day you had! So don’t sweat it, eat something you enjoy, or something that will pick you up. Shower and take care of yourself. Even if you don’t feel like doing anything, remember this is important. When you tackle this, you’ll feel better about yourself, and that will make you much happier
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Many students received the Ebola health advisory email from Rodney Bowers, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and dean of students. Most students read it and even replied and thanked him for informing us. But do we really know what Ebola is? Do we really understand how serious and deadly it can be? I have to be honest, I had no idea it was this horrible. I knew it was bad, and I knew West Africa was being affected by it, but what else could I tell someone about it? Did I really care for it? It was when I began my research that I realized how horrible the Ebola virus really is. What is Ebola? The Ebola virus, or Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. Giant fruit bats are natural Ebola virus carriers. Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals such as chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest. It then spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials contaminated with these fluids. After reading what Ebola is, we should now get familiar with the symptoms associated with the virus. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention listed the symptoms for the Ebola virus: fever greater than 38.6 degrees C, severe headache, muscle pain, diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal/ stomach pain. These symptoms may appear 2 – 21 days after ex-
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posure to the virus. It is possible for people sick with the Ebola virus to recover, but those who do not survive have not developed significant immune response to the virus at the time of death. The countries mainly affected by the Ebola virus are Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. Since Florida Tech has a large amount of international students, including students from the areas affected by the virus, it is the concern of the student health center to protect the health and safety of all students. Therefore, as soon as CDC sent out the warning to Dean Rodney Bowers, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, he contacted the department for international students and individual emails were sent to the 66 students associated with that area. However, no one has been in contact with the virus within the 21 days span. The director of the health center on campus was also contacted and has been on the lookout for even the slightest sight of the virus. So far there have been no reports in the United States of an Ebola outbreak. There are two nurses that were in Africa who caught the virus and then were immediately brought back to the States, where they got treatment and recovered. Dean Bowers and the health center have safety precautions in place in case there is the slightest sight of the virus here on campus. There is a room on campus to keep the infected persons to control the spreading of the virus. Deborah Marino, ARNP, the director at the health center has reached out to the epidemiologist, Barry Inman at the Broward Community Health Department and they have an open eye out for the virus. Although the Ebola pandemic has not reached the United States, we should keep praying for our brothers and sisters in West Africa.
we take time for ourselves to think through what’s going on. Having all of the crazy social media disappear for a while can also really help relax you. Talk it out. When in doubt, talk it out. Find someone you can confide in and talk about what’s bothering you. Letting it all out and talking can be the number one best way to make you feel better. Whether the person gives you advice, helps you see the situation differently, or simply just listens, it can be a big help. When we feel down, holding it all in will only let it stay in. When you talk it out it can be as if you are talking the sadness out and away. While all of these things are nice and easy, sometimes we need extra help. If you feel like you may need extra help about your sadness, or a professional to talk to, reach out! CAPS is here on campus to offer assistance for many challenges college students face. To make an appointment with a mental health counselor, call CAPS at 321-6748050, or walk into the center. We are located beside the Health Center, at the corner of Country Club Road and University Boulevard. We realize it can be uncomfortable to reach out for help, but we hope you do contact us when you need us. CAPS is just one of many resources at Florida Tech that supports maintaining a happy and healthy you! v
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Get out of your room. Like I mentioned, sitting in your bed all day won’t make you feel better. It’s important to get out of your room and do something. This could be window shopping, going to the cafeteria, or going to the nearby place on campus where people hang out. Staying in can really get you down. So get up and out! Hey, you can do one of your favorite things while you’re at it! Find a friend. Find one of your friends and spend time with them. Watch a movie, play a video game, sport or take a walk together. Regardless of what you do, sitting and being with someone else will make you feel much better than being alone in silence. Social contact is important to have and utilize. Turn off social media. So often we are bombarded with Facebook comments, messages, or tags. We have Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Flikr, Vine, Timehop, Snapchat, Kik, and Pinterest constantly notifying us. We are constantly receiving phone calls, emails, or text messages as well! Sometimes these things are not positive or fun. People can say really mean things on social media, or try to start fights. It can also be really overwhelming to have all of these notifications. When you’re feeling down, shutting down all of these things for an hour or two can give you time to sit and collect your thoughts. You won’t have any interruptions or annoying people, just you and yourself. While it’s important to be social, it’s also important when we feel sad that
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Here are just a few things you can do to pick yourself back up! If you think maybe your sadness may be more serious, or you want to learn more about how to help a friend with sadness or depression check out CAPS’ next event, Do I “Got the Blues” on Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. in Evans Hall, room 202. Here you can learn the difference between depression and sadness, as well as the symptoms. You can also learn about suicide prevention and more ways to cope for when you’re feeling down. Make a to-do list. Sometimes when we are feeling down, it’s because we are stressed. Making a to-do list will help organize everything you need to do in one place. You may realize you have a lot less to do once you write it all down. You’ll also feel much better when you get to cross stuff off! You’ll feel awesome when you see that you’ve finally checked off that last item. When you have, reward yourself for a job well done! Make a list of your favorite things. Our favorite things are often things that have a meaning to us. It can be favorite things to do, eat, listen to, or watch. Whatever you want! Almost always, our favorite things are linked to things that make you happy. I mean, who hates their favorite movies, songs, or video games? Not me! By simply thinking about what makes you happy, you will actually feel a bit happier and remember there are definitely happy things in your life. It can also remind you of things to do that make you happy, so you can get out of the funk.
Genuine Grief This event is held on Mondays from 1-2 p.m. in the Crawford Building, seventh floor. Here you can learn about coping with loss, reactions and ways to take care of yourself, and also join others who are experiencing the loss of a loved one.
“Real Relationships” Season 5! This event is held on Thursdays from 1-2 p.m., at The Scott Center, second floor group room. Call CAPS 321-674-8050 to register for this event! Here you can learn many techniques on how to improve all the relationships in your life.
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Sexual misconduct task force created to educate students
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CAB event gives away stamped rings at SUB
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The complainant can report it with Campus Security, and Kevin Graham will conduct an investigation. “I will be the lead investigator,and I will have two special investigators who will do follow-up investigations,” said Graham. If the complainant chooses to go through the formal process and bring charges against the respondent, he or she will go through the University Disciplinary Process. Respondents will sit
before a committee and, based on the evidence, will be issued anywhere from a sanction to expulsion, depending on the nature of the incident. The process has been updated to make sure that both parties are cared for. “You have to make sure that you not only take care of the complainant, but the respondent, because he/she may have been intoxicated and not known what he was doing, said Oglesby. “It’s never okay, but I have to make sure that both sides get counseling.” Complainants are always encouraged to see a healthcare practitioner and get checked out.
Of course, students also have the option of reporting a sexual assault to police or the State Attorney’s office and pursuing the case legally. In this case, complainants will often be issued a victim’s advocate to help the complainant cope with the legal process. The task force ultimately wants to create a conversation about sexual violence on campus, and works toward preventing it. Instead of learning how to protect ourselves from sexual violence, the task force is educating students on how to prevent it from happening in the first place. v
Photos by the Crimson Noemi Redak Staff Writer On Thursday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., students could get a personalized ring at the SUB, courtesy of the Campus Activities Board. Bruce Courville spent four hours stamping rings for everyone who wanted to have a tangible piece of memory. When asked for how long he’s been doing this, he simply answered, “Feels like for-
ever. I started at 16 as a blacksmith and it went from there.” Although no official numbers were recorded, during the four hours, approximately 135 rings were stamped. Every ring could have seven characters on it, varying from letters, numbers and Greek letters to symbols. The available colors were blue, black and multicolor. Many students participated in this event last year, and when asked, everyone wanted to see something similar happening next semester as well. v
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Fast Fact Blue lighted phones You might be asking yourself, what is a “blue phone” and why do I care if they’re broken? “Blue phone” is the unofficial name for the 73 security phones located on campus property, and you may care if they’re all working properly as you take a nighttime stroll through the botanical garden. The phones, which are installed by the campus telecommunications department, are actually various models of Ramtell 700 series phones. The phones are programmed to reveal the location of the device activated, alerting security to your location if you cannot speak, and to open up a direct line of communication to campus security; not the police. According to Hilary Schrey, Telecommunications Operations Manager, all 73 of the security
phones are in working order, and every morning, an electronic diagnostics system generates a report that alerts the Telecommunications Department to malfunctions in the “blue phones.” When a malfunction is detected, a technician is dispatched to replace the phone completely. Campus facilities department is responsible for maintenance on the phone’s poles, bluelights, and enclosures. According to Robert Ghiotto, Associate Director of Facilities Operations, this maintenance is carried out annually or upon reception of a service request. You can help keep campus safe by reporting to security or facilities the location of a malfunctioning phone. v
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Game Review: The Forest
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Fumiko Shinkawa Staff Writer You wake with smoke in your lungs, the smell of charred flesh hanging over everything. Your vision swims as you try to sit up, but at the end of the ragged tear in the plane, something stands lean and pale, human but somehow not. It’s carrying your son. The Forest is an openworld horror survival game, released in alpha on Steam and it truly lives up to its name. The open world seems to go on forever and is alive with different tribes of enemies going about their lives and exploring the surrounding area; raccoons, tortoises, rabbits, birds and lizards all scurry at your feet; and plants grow and die with changes in weather. At the game’s beginning, you’re free to search the wreckage of the plane, but the natives are never far off looking on with fear, at first, but quickly becoming
bolder. Armed with only your survival guide, containing blueprints for shelters and tools, and your trusty emergency axe, you flee into the forest. Expect death on your first attempt — the game gives you very little to start with and only offers you the advice: build a fire and a shelter. Whether a quick lean-to or a mighty log cabin, shelter provides you a place to save, sleep and hide; fire offers a way to cook, warm yourself or dry off, but attracts the attention of the natives who, at first, shy away from fire, but are never afraid for long. My biggest complaint is the way the game sets you up for failure. It tells you to build a fire, but doesn’t tell you that fire will attract the cannibals. It tells you that you can take refuge in a shelter, but not that enemies will still rush you if they think you’re hiding. And then, with such a dense AI, it becomes difficult to tell what is and is not supposed to happen — for example, I killed a scout that stumbled onto my campsite, but thirty were still waiting for me when I returned from washing off his blood. Or when an unseemly
cannibal approached me and punched me so hard that I flew several hundred yards and cracked my skull in a riverbed. And, of course, the game is buggy. If you burn food on a fire by letting it overcook, you will no longer be able to use that fire, though it will sit on the edge of your campsite for all of eternity. When you look at the ground, your shadow is nothing more than an eyeless mask and an axe. Or, and this one is my personal favorite, if you try to build on a rock at cliff’s edge, your blueprint seems to have a chance of falling through the rock, and disappearing into the rubble beneath, resulting in your game forever telling you where it is and what materials are needed to finish its construction. These are all difficult things to look past, but
I’m willing to for the sake of the one thing The Forest truly does well: atmosphere. Scrounging for food when your health and energy are low, when it’s raining and you’re cold, truly does feel desperate. I remember hastily throwing sticks into a fire and trying to cook a rabbit while flashlights pilfered by the cannibals flooded the area around me, searching. Or wandering into an abandoned native camp, with limbs stripped of flesh hanging
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around it, as if to ward me off. Seeing everyday objects, tennis balls or suitcases strewn about and displayed with an almost religious reverence. An excellent addition to the genre that lately has seemed so uninspired, The Forest has a lot of kinks to work out, granted that it’s still in development, but it’s worth your time. This game will force you to reevaluate what you’re capable of and what you’re willing to do to stay alive. v
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Florida Tech hosts FIRST Robotics competition
Drones may be the delivery service of the future
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A sci-fi world of robots performing all of our tasks for us may not be far off. A growing number of companies have been planning the use of drones for automated delivery service. These drones are unmanned aerial vehicles; most look like small helicopters and they can carry a single package. In many cases, the packages can be dropped via retractable wires without the drone ever touching the ground. Amazon was one of the first companies to plan the use of drones with their Prime Air service. According to Amazon.com, they hope to use this service to deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less. Amazon hopes to have the service up and running in 2015, but has been held up by the Federal Aviation Administration granting approval and ruling on the safety regulations. Google has similarly
been working on a drone delivery service under Project Wing. According to The Guardian news this was publicly announced on Thursday, Sept. 25; though according to TheAtlantic.com, Google’s research division “Google X” has been working on this for two years already. Unfortunately, both companies have already been beaten to the punch by DHL, a German logistics company that has announced the first official drone delivery service. According to the New York Times, DHL expects to make its first delivery on Friday, Sept. 26 to deliver medicine to an island off the coast of Germany. Amazon has already run tests in Canada, while Google has run tests in Australia. But the main thing holding up American companies is the FAA approval. Congress has ordered to complete a set of rules and regulation for drones by Sept. 2015. According to the FAA, while unmanned aircrafts are used for research, weather and various other purposes, they are currently not authorized in Class B airspace,
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which is the area over major urban areas. Much of their concerns stems from risk of collision with piloted aircraft and risk to individuals and property below. According to USA Today, on Thursday, Sept. 25, the FAA did give some leeway approving six movie companies to fly remote drones in the production of films and television. While drones have already been used in the production of American films, this previously required the scenes to be shot overseas. The FAA may have a good point in limiting the use of drones after all. According to The Washington Post, a man in Brooklyn was killed when his drone hit him, while there have also been other reports of drones falling out of the sky and crashing near pedestrians. In addition, there are concerns of privacy and what rights residents have to the airspace over their property. According to Bloomberg.com, a town in Colorado was considering issuing residents licenses and a bounty to shoot down drones with US government markings, though the proposal was ultimately turned down. v
Noemi Redak Staff Writer Florida Tech hosted the fourth year of the Panther Prowl Competition on Saturday, Sept. 20. Panther Prowl is a FIRST Robotics off-season competition started by Cody Harris in 2010. This year, 648 high school students participated in 28 teams. Thirty-six robots were in alliance of three teams working together to win the champion title. In every match, two alliances competed in order to score as many goal points as possible. A goal consists of shooting a 2-ft. diameter ball 10 feet in the air through the borders.
The competition lasted from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event accommodated roughly 1,200 visitors, competitors and possible future Florida Tech students. This year’s winning alliance consists of S.P.A.M. team 180 from Martian County, 12 VOLT BOLT team 1557 from Eustis and EXPLODING BACON team 1902 from Orlando. As a closing remark, the executive council representative of FIRST at FIT gave a final impression on the event: “It was a great turnout for this year’s event and we hope that it continues to grow in the years to come. We would like to thank our sponsors and all the volunteers that helped make this all possible.”
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This gadget is dedicated to all of you annoying channel flipper people out there who think you can multitask watching every television show under the sun; denial gets you nowhere in life. For those of you who are tired of someone in your household doing this, hopefully this gadget will bring some peace, especially if there is a constant struggle for who has control over the TV remote. Known as the 4SeTV, this gadget gives you the ability to watch four different TV shows at once, which would hopefully detour channel flippers from annoying everyone else, since now all
they have to do is move their eyes from one quadrant to the next. The 4SeTV was more geared towards sports fans to enable them to watch multiple live-aired sports games at once, but the developers also saw this as a possible way to bring television harmony into the household. If you’re like me, you could probably care less about watching four different TV shows at once, but the 4SeTV actually has one major redeeming factor for it; it can stream up to four live shows individually to four different wireless devices at the same time. In addition to the streaming,
you may also use the 4SeTV app on a tablet to seamlessly view and change different channels at once without having to bother trying to get your TV remote to work with the 4SeTV device. If you’d like an attempt to watch four TV shows at once, and possibly give yourself a brain hemorrhage, you can pledge $99 to the 4SeTV kick-starter fund, located on the 4SeTV home website, to ensure receiving your very own unit. Multiple different pledge packages are available. v
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Softball helps rebuild home with Habitat Panthers make a difference in the lives of one Brevard family Ashley Montion Sports Writer Press Release Florida Tech softball partnered with Habitat for Humanity to help construct a home this month. The team arrived to the site at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20 and were introduced to the future homeowner and her family. She expressed sincere appreciation and described the experience as a blessing. They broke up into smaller groups consisting tasks of painting, constructing a wall, nailing boards, cutting wood, fixing soffit and restructuring a door frame. Slowly every nail, screw, paint brush stroke and 2x4 was making a difference in the general appearance of the house.
experience to see how grateful the future home owners were that we were there, and how hard our team worked to help remodel the house.” The Panthers were proud of their efforts, but humbled by the opportunity. “I think these experiences help us realize not everything comes easy,” said Pence. “I think we take a lot of things for granted, and taking part in the physical labor of building a house goes to show things don’t come easy.” Sophomore Ember Wells said, “It was positive knowing that you’re proving shelter for someone, it’s not something you can just throw away.” -Rachel Pence The day concluded around 12 p.m. after the organization Head Coach Val Silvestrini provided the team with lunch and viewed the day with Habitat as a thanked everyone for contributing to the program and the home‘great opportunity.’ “Our athletes made a differ- owner. v ence in the lives of the family that we helped. It was a very rewarding “I feel like giving back to the community and giving back to one person in particular is so special,” said sophomore Rachel Pence. “Seeing the smile on their face, how much it truly means to them and how it genuinely affects their lives is touching. Getting together as a team and helping them achieve one of their goals and dreams is something we’re happy to do. “
“I think we take a lot of things for granted, and taking part in the physical labor of building a house goes to show things don’t come easy.”
Nicole Miller and Jessica Callahan are installing a door frame after tearing out the old one.
Game e schedul Thursday, Oct. 2
Football - #14 Delta State * -7:00 p.m.
friday, Oct. 3
Women’s Tennis @ Georgia College & St. Univ. Volleyball -Rollins * - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 4
Women’s Tennis @ Georgia College & St. Univ. Volleyball- @ Tampa * - 4:00 p.m. Women’s Soccer - Saint Leo * - 4:30 p.m. Men’s Soccer- Saint Leo * - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 5
Women’s Tennis @ Georgia College & St. Univ.
Monday, Oct. 6
Women’s Golf @ Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate- 8:00 a.m. Men’s Golf @ Guy Harvey Invitational -8:00 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 7
Men’s Golf @ Guy Harvey Invitational - 8:00 a.m. Women’s Golf @ Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate -8:00 a.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 8
Men’s Soccer @ Tampa *- 7:00 p.m. Women’s Soccer @ #19 Tampa * - 7:00 p.m. Volleyball - Lynn * - 7:00 p.m.
friday, Oct. 10
Men’s Tennis @ GCSU Invitational W CC @ Florida State Invitational - 6:20 p.m. M CC @ Florida State Invitational - 6:45 p.m. Volleyball @ Eckerd * - 7:00 p.m.
saturday, Oct. 11
Men’s Tennis @CSU Invitational Volleyball @ Webber International -1:00 p.m. Volleyball @ Warner - 4:00 p.m. Women’s Soccer @ Eckerd * -4:30 p.m. Men’s Soccer @ Eckerd *- 7:00 p.m. Football @ #17 West Alabama * - 7:00 p.m.
sunday, Oct. 8
Men’s Tennis @ GCSU Invitational
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