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Men's lacrosse showcases program in new documentary Jesse Villaverde \\ Copy Editor
The Florida Tech men’s lacrosse team released a new documentary last month showcasing their fall season. “On The Prowl” is a 28-minute documentary that shows the different aspects in the sport, including practices, games and scrimmages. The documentary was released on YouTube on Feb. 14, with a screening open to the public at Gleason Performing Arts Center the day before. Nick Bailey, a communications alumni, edited the video as a side project while he worked at the Florida Tech athletics department. “It was something I wanted to do, even though I had no experience in working a documentary by myself
before,” Bailey said. “Pretty much I would leave my job at Florida Tech and go film the lacrosse team.” Bailey transferred to Florida Tech in the fall of 2015 and played lacrosse in the spring 2018 semester, and graduated in the previous fall semester. Addison Abramson, construction management senior, and Tyler Oblong, business administration seniors, were the producers of the documentary and planned the idea with Bailey last summer. “It made me really excited to get involved,” said Abramson. “We finished it the exact way we hoped about it.” Bailey said that the whole team, including Coach Mark Penn, was on board with the idea at the start of the
season. “I wanted to showcase the program and expose the name of Florida Tech men’s lacrosse in the area,” said Bailey, describing the idea for the documentary. “I wanted to do something like that in the past, though I was busy with lacrosse and classes. I talked to the coach and [Addison and Tyler] and we started planning in July for the video.” Penn became head coach in the fall 2018 season after serving as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator for five seasons from 2014 to 2018. “I loved the idea from the start, having a former past with the television industry. I got excited,” Penn said. Before coaching, Penn worked in the television industry for 11 years for
a sports network in Washington. The idea was inspired by a documentary done by Tufts University in 2015, according to Abramson. “They wanted to make something more artsy flavored, more music drive with different camera tech,” Penn said. “And they knocked it out of the park.” As the season went on, Bailey filmed most of the footage with additional help from Charlie Morissette for drone footage, as well as Ryan Land and Will Eredeck, all of them lacrosse members. “From day one, being out there on the field, everyone was like ‘Wow, this is different, there’s a camera on my face,’” Bailey said. “People were
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Foosaner Art Museum Celebrates Local Artist Christian Martinez & Jamour Jiang \\ Staff Writers
The Foosaner Art Museum’s current main exhibit is a highlight of a local artist’s 10-year career in collage art. “Derek Gores: Local Edition” highlights the an artist whose intricate work making collage pieces is on display for visitors to the Foosaner Museum Pieces he’s displaying focus primarily on women, but other pieces include a hammerhead shark titled “Hammerhead Hijinx” and a perspective piece depicting an eye in frame. The perspective piece titled “The View From Here aka Periodical
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Peripheral Vision” was made specifically for the museum. Additionally, it was Gores’ first time making a 3-D installation. There is also an interactive piece called “What Are You Doing Here?” The piece is a wall of sticky notes where guests can add sticky notes of their own as to why they are at the museum written on it. “I like a sensory experience,” Gores said. “I want to have my senses alive like a kid. Experience things for the first time. I try to make that happen in my pieces.” Gores pulls inspiration for his work from various figurative art throughout history, and he mainly draws upon the works of German expressionist,
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Hammerhead Hijinx Gustav Klimt. “I’ve tried all kinds of art forms, starting with drawing and painting,” Gores said. “Collage allows me to bring new info into artwork.” With a modern pop-culture element from the fashion magazines he uses to make his work, Gores said, “You see something, but it falls apart when you get there.” Using fashion magazines “Vogue”, along with other random papers like engine schematics and song lyrics, Gores gives his work an extra depth to transport people into the work. The exhibit was the idea of Carla Funk, executive director of the Foosaner Art Museum and chief curator of university museums for Florida Tech. “I’ve known him [Gores] for about 10 years,” Funk said. “I’ve watched him grow as an artist and get awards and commissions all over the world. He’s one of the most well-known artists in the area.” Along with this year being the 40-year anniversary of the museum, Funk got into contact with Gores, who had not done an art show like this before, and started production on the showcase.
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Crimson // Christian Martinez She brought in a guest curator, Serene Kawas McGroarty, and got the pieces on loan from different collectors and from Gores’ private collection. Funk’s favorite piece was “Hammerhead Hijinx.” “I think it’s his most ambitious piece,” Funk said. “[It’s] so hard making so much depth with just black pages.” Gores and Funk’s hard work left an impression on Lavanya Kumar, a first-time attendee to the museum and a first-year graduate student at Florida Tech. “I think the artwork was fantastic,” Kumar said. “To see something so beautiful made from cutouts of magazines, construction blueprints, newspapers, wallpapers and so many other paper materials we normally discard as waste was so amazing.” “Going into the building without any prior knowledge,” Kumar said, “I could’ve spent all day there.” She also said that she’d come back for future exhibits.
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A Casual Review Xiao Liang
Devil May Cry 5 : The sequel worth waiting 11 years for Capcom has unleashed yet another great work of art into the world. Just two months after the release of Resident Evil 2 remastered, Devil May Cry 5 has arrived and brought joy to fans of the series. For people who aren’t familiar with the DMC franchise, it is an action game developed and published by Capcom, which tells the story of Dante the devil hunter and his companions. The story of DMC 5 takes place a few years after the events of DMC 4, Nero, one of the protagonist of the game encounters a mysterious demon who rips off his demonic arm “Devil Bringer” and escaped with it. A few days later, a mysterious man named “V” comes to Dante’s office and hired him and his companions to kill a certain returning demon, who happens to be the one that took Nero’s arm. The plot of DMC 5 is a bit hard to understand without information from the previous games, luckily the game has included a video that quickly summarizes the history of the DMC universe. However, it is recommended for the player to watch other related videos online or actually play the previous games, the
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experience of playing Devil May Cry 5 afterwards would be much better. The gameplay of the franchise primarily focuses on fast-paced, stylish combat and is mostly well-known for this reason. Visually, the game looks good, the character designs looked absolutely stunning, but there wasn’t anything else worth noting or mentioning. The game’s soundtracks are probably one of the most memorable parts of the game, especially the character battle songs. Not only are they great to listen to while hacking down demons, but they are also catchy and get stuck in your head. In DMC 5, the player gets the chance to play three different characters within the story: Dante, the legendary devil hunter who focuses on multiple combat styles; Nero, who is outfitted with different types of "Devil Breaker" prosthetic arm; and
V, a mysterious man who summons demons to aid him during fights. Each playable character has a very distinctive style of combat and characteristics, which are all very fun to play. The weapons that the game has to offer are crazy fun, from Dante’s motorcycle power-saw and akimbo rocket launcher to Nero’s prosthetic arm that acts as a homing missile fist. The developers were very creative with the weapon designs of the game; there is even a DLC item in the game that gives Nero a spinning pasta fork for his prosthetic arm. Gameplay-wise, Devil May Cry 5 feels just like its prequels: It is over-the-top, flashy and amazing. Almost every aspect of the game is cool to look at. The cutscenes have the same style of direction as the previous games, but they just never get old. Even the simplest things
such as calling the van (which serves as the in-game shop) have ridiculously actionpacked cutscenes, and each of them are very different from each other. Like the previous games within the series, Devil May Cry 5 focuses a lot on stylish combat. While constant button mashing is completely viable, the game encourages players to try out new combos and weapons by showing Stylish Rankings ranging from D to SSS during every battle. It’s very satisfying to hear the in-game announcer go from saying “Dismal” to shouting out “Smokin' Sexy Style!” when the player has reached SSS ranking. The difficulty of the game is pretty balanced. It took me around 10 hours to finish my first play through on Devil Hunter Mode (regular difficulty). The level design is pretty straightforward with hidden secrets here and there, and the
enemy variety and design were very interesting. The boss fights of the game are quite memorable as well. There aren’t any “filler” bosses in the game: Each boss encounter is unique and pretty challenging. While Devil May Cry 5 is a fairly linear game, it has decent replayability. After beating the game on normal, the player will unlock New Game Plus and a harder difficulty for a skilled player to play through. If the player managed to beat that as well, an even harder difficulty will be unlocked until all the regular and special difficulty levels have been unlocked. The game will also be receiving an update for Bloody Palace in April, which will give the players the opportunity to fight against endless waves of enemies and bosses and earn rewards. To conclude, Devil May Cry 5 is probably the best action-hack and slash-style game that’s been released in recent years, and very much like it's prequels, the game’s stylish actions and energizing music have created an extremely enjoyable experience for its players. The game is currently available on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
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Captain Marvel delivered action, humor and heartfelt storytelling that can be enjoyed by hardcore Marvel fans, as well as people new to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Something Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Captain Marvel’s directors and screenwriters, achieved better than previous Marvel creators was the balance between humor and seriousness. While this certainly wasn’t the most serious Marvel movie ever created, it also wasn’t as lighthearted as movies such as Ant-Man or Thor: Ragnarok. The balance of tension and humor made it a funny and emotional watch without it feeling too heavy. Additionally, the events in Captain Marvel tied in perfectly with last spring’s blockbuster, Avengers: Infinity War, filling in some of the gaps and setting things up for the next Avengers movie.
However, it never felt like the movie was made just to explain Infinity War or the upcoming movie, Avengers: Endgame; it could stand on its own as a great movie. As the movie was set in 1995, directors brought in a mix of new and old characters. Brie Larson played Carol Danvers, otherwise known throughout the film as Vers and Captain Marvel. As both a no-nonsense and quick-witted character, Larson’s character was a refreshing take on superheros and was more balanced than others have been in the past. Her training taught her to be tough and efficient during fights, but her sarcastic personality came through in everyday situations. While Larson’s character was definitely the central focus, the supporting characters were dynamic and added both humor and emotion. Samuel L. Jackson reprised his role as a Shield
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Agent, Nick Fury. There was a younger, dorky quality to his character that made him more relatable than in previous movies and broke the tension in serious moments. His relationship with Goose, a cat that joins him and Danvers for most of the movie, was unexpected and hilarious. Maria Rambeau (Lashana
Lynch), Danvers’ best friend from the Air Force, added emotional interest to Danvers’ backstory and stood on her own as a dynamic character. The bond she shared with Danvers was strong and connected the viewer to her immediately. Additionally, Rambeau’s relationship with her daughter was sweet and help round out her character. A character with an interesting arc was Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), the leader of a group of aliens called Skrulls who invaded Earth. His character development was unexpected and a refreshing twist on typical villains. Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) was a tough mentor for Danvers. While his character arc wasn’t particularly original, it fit the story well and led to an exciting conclusion. The music throughout the film added to the story. The score, composed by
Pinar Toprak, helped add tension and emotion without becoming a distraction. Additionally, the use of songs from the 90’s helped make the movie feel more realistic and added a fun element to certain scenes. The visuals were fairly good. Most of the movie takes place on Earth, although a portion of it takes place in outer space and on another planet. There weren’t any moments where the CGI was glaringly obvious, though if you paid attention, you might have noticed it a few times. The costuming for the Skrulls could have been slightly more well-polished; there were several times when the costume was distracting when it should have fitted seamlessly with the character. Overall, Captain Marvel was a fresh spin on typical Marvel tropes and created a great original movie with the MCU's first female lead.
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Geneva show highlights electric vehicles Kevin Boodoosingh \\ Design Editor
The Geneva International Motor Show is one of the world’s most important auto shows in the first half of every year. This year’s event, which began March 7, kicked off with an arrangement of new model launches and the latest concept cars. The 2019 GIMS theme seemed to be electric, hybrid and high horsepower automobiles. The event debuted some of the world’s most powerful and expensive production vehicles. Beyond the outrageous cars for the ultra-affluent, the show also displayed mainstream cars aimed the global market, although many of the cars may not make their way to North America anytime soon. Boasting the world’s most expensive production car
is the The Bugatti Voiture Noire, for which the buyer paid $18.5 million. It’s a one-off luxury touring car with an 8-liter quad turbo W16 engine with 1,600 hp (100 hp more than the $3 million Bugatti Chiron). That should be good for driving it well past the Chiron’s 261 mph (420 km/h) top speed. Bentley also represented well, regaining the title of World’s Fastest SUV, according to a Bentley press release. After achieving this with the 2016 Bentayga reaching a top speed of 187 MPH the Lamborghini Urus then achieved a top speed of 189.5 MPH. The British automaker says its new all-wheel-drive Bentayga Speed SUV can reach a top speed of 190 miles per hour, which just barely edges out the Lamborghini Urus.
Foosner continued This current exhibit is running until March 23. The next exhibit is titled “Vision 2019”, a juried exhibition of works by members of the local Strawbridge Art League. It will run from April 6 – May 25. The following exhibit is “Clyde Butcher: Florida’s Photographer”, featuring the titular environmentalist’s photos of Florida, running from June 8 – May 25.
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From Nov. 2 – March 14, 2020 is “Cuban Contemporary Paintings from the Rodriguez Collection”, an exhibition of works by a variety of Cuban artists from the late twentieth-century. “For Florida Tech, we want the museum to be theirs,” Funk said. “It’s free. Bring your friends and have a great experience.”
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Both SUV’s start around $200,000. Mazda has revealed the CX-30 SUV. Sizewise, it fits midway between the CX-3 and the CX-5 that, on their own, were 50 percent of Mazda’s 2018 US sales. The CX-30 could reach the US in late 2019 or 2020. The Honda Urban EV has now been revealed under the new name “E Prototype.” The E Prototype sits on a new, dedicated platform for electric vehicles. Honda claims the car will be capable of 120 miles on a single charge but hasn’t confirmed the size of the on-board battery. A single electric motor on the rear axle drives the car, but Honda has yet to issue any performance figures. Project leader Kohei Hitomi indicated the E Prototype will not be a budget vehicle. In an interview with
AutoExpress, he said, “Cost is an important factor. Look at the iPhone: They are not cheap products but still everybody wants them.” “The high cost has a justification,” Hitomi said. “It is full of practicality and performance – we believe the same of our electric vehicle. We do not want to provide a low-cost product.” With the majority of the world’s premier automotive manufacturers representing themselves with many new releases, there were a few manufactures missing from the line up: Ford, Jaguar-Land Rover and Volvo were a few of the absent. A Ford spokesperson explained to Autocar that they “looked at all the things we had to do in 2019, and we’ve got a lot of stuff coming.” The spokesperson said the Geneva showcase timing didn’t “meet their requirements.” “Rather than go to Geneva
with relatively small news, we would rather do something later that would give us more bang for our buck,” the spokesperson said. “I don’t anticipate this will be a regular thing, though.” As for Jaguar-Land Rover, they are going through a bit of a stagnant period due to the tariffs in China. A spokesperson explained to Autocar, “We are implementing a turnaround plan and taking all the necessary steps to rejuvenate our business especially in China. This involves working closely with our sales network and balancing production with demand in the present market conditions to achieve healthy development for our future that is not unduly dependent on incentives.” The 88th GIMS will continue until March 17, with auto enthusiasts anticipating a successful year for powerful electric vehicles.
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Women’s lacrosse cruises past Fighting Scots David Thompson \\ Managing Editor
Florida Tech’s Women Lacrosse team easily defeated Edinboro University, 19-6 on March 8. The Panthers outscored the Fighting Scots 11-2 in the second half, vaulting them to the victory. Senior attacker, Leah Dunn, led Florida Tech’s offense with three goals and four assists. Junior midfielder, Mollie Kaplan, tallied a team-high five goals. She contributed an
assist for the game. Senior defender, Brittney Embree, finished the game with a new program singlegame record. Embree caused seven caused turnovers against Edinboro, the previous record held at six. Senior Sam Schiano tacked on four of her own goals, along with two goals each from freshman Kailee O'Brien and freshman Lexi Woviotis. At the start of the game
Edinboro scored the first goal, just 42 seconds into the match. Florida Tech rallied back with two straight goals, taking a 2-1 lead with 25:34 left in the first half. The Fighting Scots tied the game at two a piece just a little over a minute later. The Panthers had a strong retaliation though, scoring four consecutive goals, making the score 6-2. Edinboro did added two more goals before halftime,
but Dunn and Woviotis also found the back of the net, making the score 8-4 after the first half. O'Brien got the second half going for the Panthers with her first goal of the match. 28 seconds later the Fighting Scots answered with a goal to make it 9-5. Quickly, O'Brien scored her second goal less than a minute later. Kaplan shortly after made her third goal to make it a six
point game, 11-5 with less then 22 minutes remaining. This offensive momentum continued from theretheir for the Panthers, outscoring Edinboro 8-1 for the remainder of the game. This explosive second have solidified Florida Tech’s second straight win and makes their season record 4-3. They played Slippery Rock University March 11 and will visit Florida Southern University to take on the Mocs on Saturday, March 16.
showcased Penn’s coach ethics and training in the program, as well being the opening interview. “It’s really cool to see something that’s unique and can capsulize the moments of the team being enthusiastic of lacrosse,” Penn said. “It’s a great tool as a coach to reflect on that enthusiasm and didn’t realize how much I would be in it.” Alongside Bailey and his equipment, the lacrosse team reached out to Florida Tech Video Productions to record the interviews in their studio and borrowed their
equipment. Bailey says that the contribution of FITV was a tremendous help in filming the interview scenes for the film. “They were super awesome and the documentary wouldn’t have been possible without them,” Bailey said. “There were three or four guys that took their time out of their days to help us out without wanting to get paid.” After posting the documentary online, Penn received a lot of feedback from alumni and other coaches in
the lacrosse sport around the country, as well as recruiters interested in Florida Tech. “I was overwhelmed by the amount of feedback and got recruiting interest immediately,” Penn said. “I hope the school sees this as a good way to represent ourselves in the variety of athletics.” When discussing about plans for future media content, Abramson hopes for more media content for the lacrosse team’s social media. “Nick was the best filmer that the team ever had,” Abramson said. “Replacing him is gonna be a hard challenge for us.” With the boost publicity
from the documentary, the team became the second most followed team on Twitter and Instagram in division II. Penn is open to the idea of creating another documentary about the games of the Spring 2019 season. “I think you can make a different, unique perspective every season; though ours inspires people to do other types of things,” Penn said. “I hope somebody else would something like it because it was the student-driven style that gave it the unique spin.” The documentary was featured on Florida Tech Sports and can be viewed on YouTube under the Florida Tech Men’s Lacrosse channel.
Lacrosse continued weirded out and the best thing I told them was to ignore me and go along. As they got more comfortable around the camera, we got to see more of their personalities and excitement while playing lacrosse.” The men’s lacrosse team was the first team in Division II that filmed a documentary. “It was made by a bunch of people considered as amateurs, but it turned out to be professional work,” Abramson said. “Everyone was blown away by it.” As his first season as head coach, the documentary
Promotional material for "On the Prowl." The lacrosse team documentary had input from their alumni, players and coaches, the team effort resulting in a 28 minute documentary. Photo // Florida Tech Men's Lacrosse
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Two athletes break major career records Marquise Lewis \\ staff writer
Derek Murphy and Melanie Murphy are not related but they do share a commonality: setting first time career college goals in their athletic experiences. On Feb. 23, women’s softball senior pitcher Melanie Murphy pitched her first career perfect game against No. 3 North Georgia. On Feb. 27, men’s basketball junior forward Derek Murphy scored a career high 40 points against Lynn University on senior night. “[Getting 40 points] is definitely something that I wanted to say I’ve done,” Derek Murphy said. “There’s not too many people that have done that in college basketball period.” “After seeing him score 36 points two times the way he did within like two weeks, I knew he was bound to score 40 sooner or later,” said Trey Schaneville, freshman guard for Florida Tech men’s basketball. Derek Murphy’s previous career high was 36 points, which he made twice this
year, first against Barry University on Feb. 2 and then Saint Leo University on Feb. 13. Due to his success on the court, Derek Murphy is the Sunshine State Conference scoring champion, averaging 23.1 points per game. He was third in the conference in rebounds per game (8.2), second in total defensive rebounds (160), selected as a two-time Sunshine State Player of the Week and three-time Erdman Automotive Male Athlete of the Week. Derek Murphy was selected to the All-SSC second team on March 7. Players that are selected are voted on by the league’s coaches. Melanie Murphy has made accomplishments this semester as well. “Pitching a perfect game feels amazing and to know I did it against a ranked three team makes this that much sweeter,” Melanie Murphy said. Melanie Murphy said that she only made five of the outs on her own. The other 16 outs were executed by the help of
her teammates. Her perfect pitched game is the first time for Florida Tech women’s softball since Feb. 1, 2014. Due to her perfect pitched game and her performances throughout the DII Florida Tech Invitational, Melanie Murphy was announced as the SSC Pitcher of the Week. This is her first honor of this award this year. However, it is the second time in her career. “Being recognized as SSC Pitcher of the Week is great and I hope there’s more to come, but I’m more focused on just winning games we play because that’s ultimately the number one goal,” Melanie Murphy said. “The rest that follows those wins is just icing on the cake.” Melanie Murphy’s teammates are also feeling the rush of her accomplishments. “As a catcher, it was an amazing experience to be behind the plate to catch Melanie’s perfect game,” said Vanessa Rubio, junior catcher/in fielder for Florida Tech women’s softball. “The entire game it was on my mind, and as the game
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Junior forward Derek Murphy (left), Senior pitcher Melanie Murphy (right) Photo // Florida Tech Athletics started to wind down, I just kept thinking it was going to happen and it did.” Rubio explained how the connection she and Melanie share as a pitcher/catcher duo is very key. They have to always be on the same page with everything that goes on and she said that they’ve done a pretty good job of that this
far into the season and that they’ll only get better. Although Derek Murphy and the men’s basketball season is over, Melanie Murphy and the women’s softball season is still going. Softball has their next game against Embry-Riddle on March 15 at 4 p.m. in Daytona.
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